The key to successful Christian living is never realized through trying harder.

When striving for goodness becomes our method, the results are maddening.

Along the way, we get stuck in an endless cycle of failure, followed by

over-analyzing our mistakes and confessing our shortcomings. Well, today, on Insight for Living,

Chuck Swindall reveals a shocking truth. We've been wrongly programmed. Like an eagle raised

among prairie chickens, we're scratching in the dirt when we're designed

to soar.

God's counterintuitive plan is beautifully laid out in Romans chapter 8 in the Bible.

Chuck called today's message, cultivating a spirit-controlled life. It's a weird world in which we're living, folks.

You've got to be really discerning.

You have to cut through all the pizzazz, all the jazz, all the stuff that you get from the media, from books you read, from stuff you see on the tube,

from things you hear, from the majority opinion, from folks around the office. You've got to be

discerning. Listen, pay close attention and then square it with the scriptures and if what you heard

doesn't, it's wrong. Otherwise you're going to be terribly confused you're going to be wrongly

programmed if Jesus Christ picked up the complete payment for our sin and paid for it all at the cross

doesn't it make sense that he's going to now enable us, empower us to

live the life? He would have us live knowing that the only thing we bring to it is an old

nature. So the Lord God gives us, places in residence within us, the third member of the

Trinity, the Holy Spirit, to live inside our lives.

Our lives become His address.

Our mind becomes His mind.

Our will can become His will.

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