Well if you have a copy of the scriptures we're going to be in John 12 today and if you don't have a way to get into the Bible we have some verses for you to put up on the screen.

We are in a series of messages kicking off this new year called Make Up Your Mind.

And we're talking about how to win the battle of our minds so we can win the other battles

that God's calling us to win as well.

We began with this idea of intrusive thoughts and how common and how often it is that we deal

with levels of thinking, lines of thought that aren't going to take us to

where God wants us to go.

And the number is 500 per day, and 94% of us report having thoughts show up in our heads that we don't want

and that are moving us further away from God's best for us.

And so we're talking about how to deal with those things by setting our minds on things above, to make up our minds.

As Paul said, we've been raised, hello, raised

to walk in newness of life with Jesus Christ.

And if that's true, hello, live like it,

is what he's kind of saying.

If you've been raised, like when Jesus came out of that grade

that you came out of that grave, that you came out of that grave.

Spiritually speaking, you were raised to new life in Christ.

You died to your old life, and you are now born again, born a second time, born on the

inside.

And if that's your citizenship that's really true

then it should lead to a different kind of living and a different kind of thinking but you have to choose to do that again and again and

again and as often as I cross country I had to do it this morning set my watch back to

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