I just want to encourage all of us today with the scripture that's found in Romans, Romans 12,

and this is Paul talking to the Romans, and he's encouraging them and urging them with great

fervor to change their minds, to be more like God, and he says this. He says, do not be conformed

to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds. See, he knew that God wanted to do

something in his people, but they couldn't keep thinking the whole way and have the new things that

God wants to do. You've heard it said like this, they couldn't put new wine in old wineskins. They

had to change their mind. And you know what, that's the same with us today. We can't be conformed

to this world's culture. We can't be conformed to the wrong types of thinking. We have to be

transformed by the renewing of our mind. You see, our salvation on this earth starts in our mind.

If you're born again today, if you've given Jesus your life, you're a new creature in Christ Jesus.

And so your spirit has been made new. It has come alive in Christ Jesus. The problem is our

mind needs to catch up with what's going on in our spirit. All right, but we can do that by not

conforming to our old thinking, but submitting ourselves to the Word of God, to the teachings of God.

You see, we are so blessed because we can get the Word of God at our fingertips. We can

Google the Word of God. We can take our phone and get our Bible apps. We can listen to podcasts.

We can turn on the internet. We can turn on the TV. Listen, we can put our music on our Christian

faith-filled music that declares the goodness of God. We are so blessed. We have to submit and stay

under this Word of God so that it can change our thinking. You see, some people may not have been

brought up in church. I was brought up in church, but you may not have been. So you may be you have

some things that are contrary to what God wants you to think today. Some of you have addictions.

It's contrary to what God has for you today. You see, God is saying, don't be conformed by a habit.

Don't be conformed by an addiction. Don't be conformed by the cultures of this world, the way

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