Mind Maze - The Double Mind

JUNE- MIND MAZE (Mastering Mental Health, Imagination, and Intelligence)

In this study, we will journey through the mind.  Romans 7:25 tells us that we serve the Lord with the mind; therefore, Satan seeks to disrupt our mental health.  Many feel trapped in their minds, and we have to learn how to journey through the maze of thoughts, memories, opinions, traumas, pressures, and emotions.  The Mind Maze can be overwhelming, and some never find their way through it.  The good news, though, is that Jesus Himself is the way through and the way over.  We will realize that when we focus on Christ, peace and victory will fill our hearts and guide us through The Mind Maze!

James 1:5-8

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Well, bless God.

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Welcome to Refresh Night, everybody.

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God is doing some amazing things,

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and I know that you are in

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the right place.

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to receive everything that

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God wants to do in your life.

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Come on,

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you ought to lift up both your

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holy hands right now and just say, Lord,

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have your way in my life

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today in the name of Jesus.

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God bless you, everybody.

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Welcome to Refresh Night.

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I am Adrian Taylor Jr.,

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your favorite apostle and

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the senior pastor for Lighthouse United.

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Oh, man, I tell you,

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this has been just a full, full day.

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Man, it has been a day.

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We got up this morning, as usual.

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5 a.m.

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for prayer.

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Praise the Lord.

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Glory to God.

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We had a great time this morning.

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And man, listen,

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it's so great to see all of

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you that keep joining us in

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person at 5 a.m.

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on Thursdays.

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Listen, I know you say, boy, that's early.

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But look,

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you can get up early at least

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once a week for the Lord.

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Come on, somebody.

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Hallelujah.

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And getting up to church on

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Sunday is not early because

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that's 1030 in the morning.

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Help me, somebody.

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But Thursday morning.

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is a powerful time we had a

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great great time today and

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uh god even got some

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testimonies uh on the phone

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of uh just how god healed

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and moved supernaturally by

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his spirit this morning in

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prayer listen prayer does

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indeed change things the

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environment of god the move

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of the spirit is undeniable

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And I want to encourage as

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many of you to continue to

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build and to develop a life of prayer,

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a life of faith and just, you know,

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discipline and diligence in

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the word of God.

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Becoming a more faithful

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student in the word is

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going to help you to be able to, you know,

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stay connected to God,

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but also shine the light

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and allow other people to

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see the glory of God through your life.

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Hallelujah.

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So again,

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if you're able to join us on

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Thursday mornings in person,

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get over to 710 Southern Expressway.

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You will not be disappointed.

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It'll encourage you.

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It'll empower you.

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It'll help you to be just

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spiritually ready to get up

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and do whatever you got to do.

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Get there 5 a.m.

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You know, check out whenever you need to.

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But, you know,

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we typically are there just about an hour,

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just a little under, you know, and,

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you know,

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both get up and go do all kinds of stuff.

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I think a whole bunch of

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them went and exercised afterwards,

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you know, so I mean,

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just all kinds of great

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things that you can do and

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the type of energy you'll

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have to get up and go forth

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after you've been laid with

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God in prayer with like-minded believers.

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There's nothing like it in the world.

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Glory to the Lord.

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And so, yes, we thank the Lord.

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And of course, tomorrow morning, 7 a.m.,

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Friday morning,

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as well as Monday mornings,

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we are in prayer online.

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We want to encourage you

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wherever you are around the

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world to just click in at

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7 a.m.

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Central Standard Time.

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And mute your phones if it's

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not already muted when you get on.

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And we just give God praise

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and give Him glory.

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And, you know,

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we worship together and pray

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for just literally 20 minutes of power,

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just 20 powerful moments of prayer.

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We'll bless you.

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And, you know, so join us in prayer.

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339-207-7982.

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And we'll be praying and

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having just a high time in

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Glory to God.

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So encourage some others to

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come and join us.

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And I think you'll be

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excited and blessed that you did.

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Oh, my.

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Look at that.

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Let's see.

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Minister Roselle's in the house.

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We see the great prophetess.

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Lord, have mercy.

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Corinda's in the house.

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Deaconess Kim Dockery is in the house.

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Amen.

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Listen, so many of you.

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Oh, let me see.

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Let me see if any of y'all over here.

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Oh, there goes Sister Danielle.

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Praise God.

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I see.

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Dick and Greg Johnson is

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over there as well.

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He probably got the

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basketball game up trying

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to watch it and me at the same time.

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I'm sure that's what he's trying to do.

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But hey, listen, you know,

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I ain't gonna say that

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because he liked him on the

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teams that don't nobody like.

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But anyway, but God's good.

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We're having a great time in the Lord.

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Join us in the morning for 7 a.m.

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prayer, of course.

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We've got the U5 gathering,

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praise the Lord,

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August the 21st through the 23rd.

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Make sure you get registered

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for that $75 registration.

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It will bless and transform you.

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We're looking forward to

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just being able to get

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together and have a

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wonderful time of fellowship.

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It will be the sixth annual

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U5 gathering this year,

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so be in the house as we're

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just going to continue to

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go higher and higher in

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in the name of Jesus.

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If you need prayer,

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make sure you send your

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prayer request to plug in

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at lighthouseunited.org and

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we will be happy to pray with you.

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That's where all official

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prayer requests go.

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Praise God.

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So if you don't get a

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response in any other place,

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don't be upset because we

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are only really receiving prayer requests

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through this particular

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official email address.

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It is our time to go ahead

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and receive our offering

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for Thursday night.

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We ask everybody on

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Thursdays to give a $10 gift.

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If you're able to share $10,

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give in the name of Jesus.

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It is a wonderful thing.

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You know,

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giving to God is a beautiful and

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powerful thing that you can do.

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Just building and

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cultivating a heart of generosity and

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to invest in and to sow into

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what blesses you.

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Bless what blesses you.

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Invest in what invests in you.

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So pour your gifts

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financially into the work of the Lord.

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In Jesus' name,

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we encourage everyone to

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give on Thursday nights.

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I'd like to get that out of

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the way so we can focus.

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in the scriptures.

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Praise the Lord.

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The giving information is

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there at the bottom of the screen.

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It's already been up once.

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So I want to focus on a

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recap of what we talked about on Sunday.

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So now look,

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I told you last week I was

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going to be beginning a

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brand new teaching series this month,

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month of June, powerful time in God.

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I'm excited.

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Not only is it my birthday month,

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but it is an opportunity for us.

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to start a new teaching.

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We do new teachings

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typically every single month.

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And this month's teaching series,

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I'm super excited about it,

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is called The Mind Maze.

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The Mind Maze.

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Hallelujah.

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Glory to God.

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If you were with us in

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service Sunday or even online,

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then you know this

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particular teaching was transformative to

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and it's not just because uh

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I taught it no the

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information is just

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absolutely phenomenal I've

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been preparing uh quite

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some time to be able to

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talk about it I was just

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like oh yeah this is this

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is awesome you know I'll

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put it back up it says you

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know it says mastering

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mental health imagination

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and intelligence a lot of

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us get lost in the mind

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maze we get we get stuck

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We get stuck in our heads.

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We get stuck in our emotions.

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We get lost in our head, that maze.

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You just think you know where you're going,

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and then full speed ahead, and boom,

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you run into a dead end.

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Then you forgot how you got there,

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and then you're trying to backtrack,

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and next thing you know,

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you're just somewhere.

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Stuck trying to figure out

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your way through.

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Well,

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your mind can be like a maze at times.

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And it's important that we

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understand how to deal with that.

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So I want to do the overview

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for the entire study.

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The June study, Mind Maze.

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In this study,

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we would journey through the mind.

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Romans 7.25 tells us that we

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serve the Lord with the mind.

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Therefore,

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Satan seeks to disrupt our mental health.

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Many feel trapped in their minds.

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And we have to learn how to

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journey through the maze of thoughts,

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memories, opinions, traumas, pressures,

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and emotions.

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The mind maze can be overwhelming.

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And some never find their way through it.

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The good news, though,

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is that Jesus himself is

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the way through and the way over.

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We will realize that when we

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focus on Christ,

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peace and victory will fill

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our hearts and guide us

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through the mind maze.

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OK, that's our that's our study overview.

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This past Sunday,

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the lesson subject was the

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double-minded syndrome.

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So we're going to focus

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tonight on James chapter 1,

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verses 5 through 8.

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And I'm not going to reteach every point.

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I'm not going to

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rearticulate those elements.

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But I am going to expound a little bit,

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just review,

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introduce this to some of you

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who may not have been a part of it.

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and encourage you to go back

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and watch and study with us.

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Go back.

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Go to our YouTube channel,

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Lighthouse United,

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and watch Sunday's message

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from 1030 at 1030 on this past Sunday.

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June, was it June 4th, I believe it was?

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No, no, June 3rd.

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I think that's right.

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So on June 3rd,

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1030 service Sunday,

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we were able to have that

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available for you there.

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And so go back and watch it.

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This was a great teaching.

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I've heard from so many of

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you how you just were

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enlightened by a lot of different things,

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different points,

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stuff I said about Judas,

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the mental health

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perspectives and all of

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these different things.

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Because it's important that

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we understand that, yes,

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mental health is a real situation.

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the mind can be sick and the mind,

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you know, can be like your arm.

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You can, it can be broken.

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You know,

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you can have fractures in bones

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in your body and still be

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operating and never even

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know that you have, you know, when you,

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when you bumped your leg, you know,

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you had actually fractured

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something in your toe or in your,

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you know,

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in your knee or whatever it was.

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And you walking around and

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you just think you got a little ache,

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but that thing had been

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messed up for years and

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years and years and years and years.

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And eventually it becomes a

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huge problem that you got to deal with,

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you know, later in life, you know,

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but they can trace it all

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the way back to one moment

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where you accidentally did

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something or something happened to you.

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And, you know, on the surface,

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it was fine and you didn't

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feel anything at the moment, but later on,

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it just really was disruptive.

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And so a lot of times our

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mind can be just like that.

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We can have situations that

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occur and it happened to us

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over the course of time.

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or should I say happens in the past,

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and over the course of time,

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problems are just arising

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and getting larger and larger,

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and we don't realize that it's not

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This is actually the root of

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something that happened a long time ago.

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See,

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and so the mind is an interesting

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situation.

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A lot of people in the world

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struggling and suffering

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from various mental illnesses and things.

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Now, let me lay this out real clear, okay?

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I am not a therapist nor clinician.

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You understand?

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I am a doctor of theology.

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Okay.

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My doctorate is not in psychology.

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It's not in medicine.

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My doctorate is in theology,

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which means to be more specific,

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it's a biblical theology to,

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to frames my muscle.

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My framework of spirituality

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is rooted in based in the Bible.

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And when we, when we approach life and,

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We approach it from the scriptures,

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from the standpoint of the

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word of the Lord.

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God has a way of dealing

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with every situation that

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you're dealing with.

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But the way God deals with

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it is totally different

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than the way man deals with it.

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So God has a way of dealing

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with marital problems.

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Totally different than the

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way the world would want to

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deal with marital problems.

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Right.

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The world says, hey, get divorced,

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you know, forget it.

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I ain't gonna let nobody do this.

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Right.

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God says, hey, here's another option.

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Here's another way.

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Right.

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The world says, you know,

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somebody do you like that?

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You got to cut them off and

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you don't let nobody walk

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over top of you.

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And God says, forgive people.

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Hmm.

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Interesting.

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It's very interesting that

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the way that God deals with

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things is completely

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different than the way that

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the world does,

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which is why second first

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Corinthians chapter two says, no,

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actually first Corinthians

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one Bible says that the

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world has called the wisdom

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of God foolishness and God calls,

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you know,

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the wisdom of the world foolishness.

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See, and so you got people that look at,

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especially now,

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The way that God wants things to be done,

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they look at it as foolishness.

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And if you're not paying attention,

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You're not going to

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understand that what's

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happened now is that

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there's a lot of things

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that are being presented as godly.

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That's really not godly.

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It's a doctrine of devils

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that has been strategically

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introduced into the

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theological framework and

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into the denominational

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structure and into the

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religious context of lots of people.

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So we're taking carnal ideas,

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fleshly ideas.

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We're taking worldly concepts.

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We're taking.

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uh, man's wisdom.

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Matter of fact,

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get first Corinthians

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chapter two really quickly.

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And let's explore this for a minute.

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And then we'll try to get to James.

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Y'all just pray with me.

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We just, we just roll it.

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Okay.

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Uh, let me see what y'all saying.

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Y'all saying stuff.

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Grig laughing.

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Cause you know, I told the truth.

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Praise the Lord.

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Uh, there go Deacon, uh, Dockery.

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Praise the Lord.

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And Nikita's in the house,

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the world champ.

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Hallelujah.

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So, um,

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In, let's see, let's see, let's see.

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1 Corinthians chapter 2.

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Praise God.

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1 Corinthians chapter 2.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Bless God.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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God is so good.

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Okay.

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First Corinthians chapter two, verse one.

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And I, brethren, when I came to you,

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came not with excellency of

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speech or wisdom declaring

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unto you the testimony of God.

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For I determined not to know

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anything among you save

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Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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And I was with you in

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weakness and in fear and in

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much trembling.

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Listen,

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this is the part I want you to get

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verse four.

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And my speech and my

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preaching was not with

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enticing words of man's wisdom,

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but in the demonstration of

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the spirit and of power

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that your fate should not

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stand in the wisdom of men,

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but in the power of God.

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Now,

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I preface this to say, listen,

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I am not anti-therapy or

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counseling or any of that.

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I believe very much that

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there are individuals that

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are trained to walk people

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through certain mental

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traumas and things of this nature.

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Just like there's medical doctors,

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there's psychological

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doctors and individuals

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that focus and function in that.

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However,

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I also want you to understand that

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we don't dismiss the

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validity of the spirit just

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because there's other

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options and methods.

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You understand that the

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problem I have is that

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we've got people now that

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are trying to degrade the

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gospel and the word of God,

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as though if you rely on

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the Lord and the spirit of

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God to guide you and you

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focus in on the word that

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you're somehow being foolish.

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That is the trick of the enemy.

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OK,

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and that's what First Corinthians

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chapter one is saying,

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that there are individuals

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that are coming with

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enticing words of man's wisdom.

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And the problem is that we

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become so educated and

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smart and we become so, you know,

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impressed with the things

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that we can do now that we

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we feel like we don't need

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simple things like faith.

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Paul says, look, he says,

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I'm going to preach to you

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and I'm going to give you some speech,

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but it's not going to be

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something that's going to

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impress you in your flesh.

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It's not going to be

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enticing words of man's wisdom.

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Because God has basically

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said man's wisdom is foolishness.

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Man's wisdom is foolishness.

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But then man said God's

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wisdom is foolishness.

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And this is why you have to be very,

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very careful.

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1 John 3, beloved,

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believe not every spirit.

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Believe not every spirit.

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We have to recognize that

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there's speech and language

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and conversation that is

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being presented today that

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looks very closely related.

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It looks very much like the gospel.

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Jesus says that if it were

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possible that even the very

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elect would be deceived,

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meaning that there is such

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a counterfeit spirit that's out here.

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And that if you're not

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really moving and locked in

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with the spirit of God,

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you're going to think

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you're walking with God the

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whole time you got the devil on your arm.

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Now, I don't say that to frighten you.

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I just simply say, listen, saints,

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if we study, we'll get through this.

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If we study and we're filled

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with this spirit and we're

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yielding to the wisdom of

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God and not leaning to our

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knowledge on things,

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we're going to be able to

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power through all this, right?

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You'll be able to see the

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devil for who he is.

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You'll be able to recognize

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the patterns of iniquity.

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You'll be able to function

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like the apostle Paul, you know,

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when they were out

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traveling and all of a

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sudden that girl that, that,

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that had the spirit of divination,

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she had a divination spirit

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and she traveled with them

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for three days.

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And Paul was vexed by this

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woman for three days.

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And after the third day,

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eventually he turned and he

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rebuked and cast that spirit out.

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So the, the, the, the,

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the issue is that even Paul was

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you know,

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are willing to allow this demonic

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presence,

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it took him three days to discern this.

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So don't think that just

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because you didn't see what

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the devil was doing right

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away that that means you're somehow off.

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No, if you stick with God,

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he's going to reveal to you.

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He'll show you what's going on.

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He'll show you the nature of

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situations and people

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because some situations you

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think it's the devil, it's God.

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And in some stuff you think it's God,

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it's not God, it's your flesh.

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You're rocking with me.

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Okay.

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And so let's throw in there,

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if my mind then is overwhelmed,

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it affects my ability to be

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spiritually alert.

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Okay.

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So let's go to the verse.

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Let's go.

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Hopefully we'll get over to James.

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But again, if we don't,

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just go back and watch the

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teaching from Sunday.

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I've had like five people

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tell me they've already

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gone back and watched it

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like four times because

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it's so rich and it is

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loaded with information.

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I mean,

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super loaded with a lot of information.

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Trust me, it is just weighty.

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OK, so I'm not just I'm not just hyping.

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I'm not just saying that.

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I'm not trying to listen.

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I'm not.

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I'm trying to encourage you.

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If you if you have a lot of

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weight on your mind, if you're really,

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really feeling overwhelmed in life,

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get over to that teaching.

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OK, just get there.

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OK,

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so let's let's look at Romans chapter

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seven.

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Romans seven.

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Verse twenty five.

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I thank God through Jesus Christ,

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our Lord.

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So then with the mind,

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I myself serve the law of God.

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But with the flesh, the law of sin.

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Okay?

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So in order for me to function in sin,

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I got to shift into my flesh.

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But in order to serve God's plan,

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I got to shift my mind

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into a spiritual place.

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See, you're a multifaceted being.

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You've got so many

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compartments and components

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that make up who you are.

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At any given moment, you can be spiritual,

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you can be carnal, you can be fleshly.

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See,

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you can function back and forth just

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like that.

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You can flip the switches on

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and off because you've got

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so many pieces and parts to

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who you are as an individual.

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That's why the verse said,

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it's with the mind I serve the law of God,

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but with the flesh, the law of sin.

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And if it's dealing with flesh,

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now we're in lust, right?

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The lust of the flesh,

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the appetites of the flesh.

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So I've yielded to the lower wisdom.

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Not the wisdom that is above.

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Right.

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Which James says the wisdom

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that is above is first peaceable.

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See that.

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But that that wisdom that's

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from from from beneath is

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is earthly and sensual and devilish.

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Right.

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So it plays off of emotion

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and feeling and how you feel.

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And, you know,

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and it pulls you off of

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these types of things.

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Right.

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See, you got to realize that's the trick.

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And that in order for us to stay spiritual,

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our mind needs to be

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functioning in to the word of God.

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Right.

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So.

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So.

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Jane, not James,

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but but Romans 725 is

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saying that you need your

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mind in order to do

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whatever God wants to serve

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the law of God.

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I'm looking up a.

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Another another important verse,

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Ephesians 4 and 23 says,

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and be renewed in the

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spirit of your mind.

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OK, so now.

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Spirits.

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OK, spirits influence the mind.

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And I told you, I told you, listen,

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mental health has spiritual roots to it.

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Mental illness has spiritual

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influences there.

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So you didn't just wake up

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and all of a sudden now you

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just bipolar or depressed.

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No,

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there's something spiritual that

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initiates that.

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There's something that takes

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place and spirits come to influence that.

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Trauma, post-traumatic stress,

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these demons.

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latch into the brokenness

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and the fragments and the

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fractures of our life.

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And they begin to expand and

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create openings and they

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pry open spaces within our

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soul to allow other things

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to have place inside of us.

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And this is why you can see a person.

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They're perfectly normal

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living their life.

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They're doing OK.

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And then some tragedy take place.

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Something bad happens to them.

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Right.

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And then all of a sudden

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they just go off the deep

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end and you're like, wow,

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they just doing this and they doing that.

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And they just totally out of character.

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And everybody's so shocked.

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Oh, my God, I can't believe what happened.

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Tell you what happened.

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What happened is some traumatic situation,

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some, you know,

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terrible thing took place

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or something occurred.

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Demons got latched into that

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pain because demons love pain and stand.

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So wherever there's pain and hurt in you,

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demons, though, they're there, right?

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They're right there.

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What are they doing?

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They're there trying to

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continue an infection.

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in that area,

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and then they want to create

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more space so that there

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can be other demonic influences,

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which is why you'll have

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people doing stuff that

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they never in their life

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would have ever agreed to

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do prior to that incident.

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And then the trick of the

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devil is to make you think

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that that's really who you are.

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I'm just being me.

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Me being you, these are demons.

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suggesting to you that all

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this abnormal behavior is

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now who you are.

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No, that's not you.

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Your flesh, all this flesh on display,

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that's not you.

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That's why the devil tricks

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all of these believers.

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You know, I want to be free.

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How are you going to be free?

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Pose naked on the Internet

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so everybody can see you,

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so you can be comfortable

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with who you are.

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Baby,

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you better be comfortable with who

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you are in Chr