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All right, welcome to day four as we unpack the shama as an evaluative

tool on how we are living our life. Jesus, quoting the shama, says that we should love the

Lord of God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. I want to look at what it means to love

the Lord of your God with your mind.

Romans chapter 12, verse 2 says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God and what is good

and acceptable and perfect. You see, that word conform, that is a, it's a building term. If you've ever poured concrete,

then you built a form, you pour the concrete in it, and the concrete takes the shape of the form.

And so we live in a world that lies to us every single day. It wants us to feed our flesh.

It wants us to make much of ourself. It wants us to think that the temporary

things of this world will satisfy. And so Paul says this is a mind problem. You see, the moment

you got saved, you got a brand new heart, the eternal trajectory of your soul change, but you still

have the same mind. And it has been conformed to the pattern that you've lived in, which is this

world. But what he is telling us to do is that our mind has to be transformed and it needs to be

renewed. And the way you renew something is you take off the old and you put on the new.

So one of the things I would highly encourage you to do is identify the lives of this world

that you've been buying into, Like, more stuff will make me

happy, or the more popular I am, the bigger deal I am. You deny the lies of the enemy, and you replace

them with the word of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. That is the word of God.

You see, when the enemy himself came before Jesus to tempt him three times in the

desert, the way that Jesus responded all three times was, it is written, it is written, it is

written, it is written. And so a part of the way that we renew our mind is we quit filling it

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