Now, scientists have been telling us for years that the left side hemisphere of the brain

is the side that is associated with logical analysis, rational judgments.

The right side of the brain hemisphere is associated with visual imagery, word pictures, creativity, and emotional response.

Some have left-side hemisphere dominance. Some have right-side hemisphere dominance.

Probably some of you are saying, Michael, what has this got to do with loving Jesus?

And growing in your love for Jesus a great deal.

Understanding ourselves and understanding our differences from others,

it helps us a great deal to know that different people respond differently to the gospel.

There are some people respond to the love of God.

Some people respond to the judgment of God.

The different people respond to the gospel differently.

Some people express their love for God differently. Some people express their love for God differently. Some people express

the love for one another differently. In this series, we began with the mind. Love God with all your

mind, the seat of the intellect. That's the left side dominance. They love God with all your heart. That is your

personality, your emotion. That's the right side dominance. And today, I want to talk to you about

loving God with your soul. Remember the Bible talks about in the days of no one, the days of lot?

The imagination of all their soul is evil.

Now, we want to talk about the imagination of your soul to be all holy today. Amen?

Loving Jesus must capture our imagination. Loving Jesus must also capture our emotion. Loving Jesus must capture our visualization.

Listen, I'm painfully aware of the fact that because of abuses, I'm aware of that, even in

the Christian, the abuses of imagination and visualization concept. There's some people, my side of the gang,

the reformed tradition. Those folks in the reformed tradition like me, because of the abuses,

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