All right, well let's dig in. So open your Bible's please to Romans chapter 12.

Last week we talked about the sanctification of the body, presenting your bodies

to the Lord as an act of worship.

Today we're talking about a hugely important issue,

hugely important issue for us on a daily basis

and over the course of our lives,

and that is the mind.

Your mind, not your brain, your mind.

This is where the greatest spiritual battles of your life take place it takes place right in here if you think like say look at the book of Job Job Job was attacked physically so that he might be affected mentally

The stresses and the struggles we're going through on the outside aren't where the battle takes place.

It's where it hits us inside of ourselves or the inner person.

And that's where the battleground is and that also, according to the Bible, is where the transformation takes place for the disciple of Jesus.

The ongoing transformation of the work of God's spirit in us in our minds.

So hugely important,

hugely important. Anxiety, desires, beliefs, attitudes, hopes,

loves, obsessions, that all takes place inside here.

Inside this person, not just on the outside.

So last week we talked about offering our bodies to the Lord.

This week we're talking about being renewed in our minds.

Focusing inward tonight, but before we start focusing inward, I want to offer a disclaimer.

People often focus inward for therapeutic reasons.

You need to think about yourself, is the advice that we sometimes hear which not sure how if that's the right way to say it really

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