The Renewed Mind

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Part 2: Focus on the Renewed Mind

January 7, 2023

(Proverbs 29:18 MSG) If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

(Ephesians 4:22-24 NASB) In reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self.

“A Renewed Your Mind”

“Interprets life through the lens of God’s Word

and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”

3 Truths About the Renewed Mind

• I will never change until I change the

(Proverbs 23:7 NKJV) For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…

• I will never change the way I until I

(Romans 12:2 NIV) Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

(Romans 8:7 NIV) The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

• Only a can receive the and of Heaven.

(Ephesians 1:3 NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

The Revelation of Heaven

The Resources of Heaven

(Matthew 5:6 NIV) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

3 Enemies to the Renewed Mind

• The tries to you.

(James 3:13-18 NIV) Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

(Romans 12:2a NIV) Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

(Romans 12:2b) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

(Romans 8:7 MSG) Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God.

• The can you.

(Ephesians 4:17-18 NIV) So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God.

• Your will you.

(Psalm 10:1, 17 NIV) Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? …You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,

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7 Signs of a Renewed Mind

(One at a time on the right side of the LED wall)

• You live in .

• The seems reasonable.

• You live in and do not .

• Youand rejoice in your .

• You are

• You are and .
• You in others and give them
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Practices for a Renewed Mind

(Colossians 3:1 GW) Since you were brought back to life with Christ, focus on the things that are above—where Christ holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.