{"id":3971,"date":"2022-07-31T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=3971"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:40:38","slug":"fixing-a-broken-mind","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/sermons\/fixing-a-broken-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a Broken Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul begins chapter four of Ephesians by saying, <em>\u201cThis I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as <sup>[a]<\/sup>the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (Eph. 4:17). Powerful in that Paul is commanding that a person must stop acting like they have been all their lives. Stop being who you are now, and start being who God has made you to be. \u2022 Stop being like everyone else around you. \u2022 Stop being imitating your neighbors. \u2022 Stop imitating society.<\/p>\n<p>If we understand the real implication \u2013 Paul is saying, you have to stop being you! Paul goes on (v.19) saying,\u00a0<em>\u201chaving their understanding <strong>darkened<\/strong>, being <strong>alienated<\/strong> from the <strong>life<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong> <strong>God<\/strong>, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the <strong>blindness<\/strong> of their <strong>heart<\/strong>;\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>(Eph. 4:18). <span style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\">Left to our own thinking\u2014to our own way\u2014to our own natural minds\u2014we are in the dark, and ignorant of the way of God. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\">Until we move our minds up to the standard of God\u2019s word\u2014we will be walking in darkness, alienated from the life of God, blinded to what is right and good and true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three things that will shape our lives beginning with: (1)\u00a0<em>\u201cthat you <strong>put off<\/strong>, concerning your <strong>former<\/strong> <strong>conduct<\/strong>, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts\u201d <\/em>(v.22), (2) <em>\u201cand be <strong>renewed<\/strong> in the spirit of your <strong>mind<\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> (v.23) and (3) <em>\u201cand that you <strong>put<\/strong> <strong>on<\/strong> the <strong>new<\/strong> <strong>man<\/strong> which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness\u201d<\/em> (v.24).<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this lesson we must understand that \u00a0\u201cThe truth is in Jesus\u201d and if the truth is in Jesus, then it cannot be in the world. If the truth is in Jesus, then it is not in your mind. K<span style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\">eep in mind these two verses from <\/span>Isaiah <em style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\">\u201c8 \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,\u201d says the Lord. 9 \u201cFor as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.\u201d<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\"> (Isaiah 55:8-9). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.4px;\">Unless we conform our minds, our ways to the Spirit by the word of God\u2014our thinking is false\u2014futile, darkened and ignorant because of blindness. . .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this lesson we must understand that \u00a0\u201cThe truth is in Jesus\u201d and if the truth is in Jesus, then it cannot be in the world. If the truth is in Jesus, then it is not in your mind. Keep in mind these two verses from Isaiah \u201c8 \u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,\u201d says the Lord. 9 \u201cFor as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.\u201d (Isaiah 55:8-9). Unless we conform our minds, our ways to the Spirit by the word of God\u2014our thinking is false\u2014futile, darkened and ignorant because of blindness. Paul begins chapter four of Ephesians by saying, \u201cThis I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as [a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind\u201d\u00a0 (Eph. 4:17).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3971","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-david-scarpino","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3971\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordcoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}