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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

Well, it's so great to be at church today and to have our hearts and our minds focused on the reality

that God is with us. He's in the story with us today because he is in the story.

We are a part of a story of victory.

And as we come to the conclusion of this journey we've been on around these messages of victory,

I just want to say one last time that God wants you to take control of the garden of your mind,

by the power of the Spirit, because the battle for your life, the battle for my life,

that battle is one in the mind.

So it's not all about doing something to change our lives.

It starts with thinking something to change our lives.

And today we're talking about, I believe, probably the most important aspect of this journey

in terms of winning the battle that starts here, so that our lives end up on the course that God has for us.

We were in Romans 8 last week and we're picking back up here again.

And I want you to notice, verse 6, because this is the summary, if you will, of everything God wants to deposit in our lives today.

It says, the mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.

Now, for a long time was in a translation called the New American Standard Bible.

I don't know if anybody remembers that translation or not.

And I knew I had this in my mind in some form that I could grab onto to get this phrase out,

and then I went back, searched it, sure enough, it's the New American Standard that was in there for many, many years in the past.

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