Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Bill Johnson.

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Several months ago, I mentioned to you, I wanted to take time to review subjects and I'm going to do a review again probably the way it feels to be honest with it's going to be for the next several months whenever I'm here I'm only here every once or two or three weeks because of taking care of my wife which by the, she had a little surgery on her lung because of

a fluid issue, but she's doing really well, and regaining strength. Very appreciative, appreciative of

your prayers for her, for us, and I'm very thankful for just the increasing strength in her body.

But what I want to talk to you about today is the renewed mind.

A very, very familiar subject,

but I'm hoping to hit it at an angle that will refresh at least,

if not give us new insight and instruction.

If the mind wasn't important, it wouldn't be worth renewing.

God values the mind, the intellect of the individual, so profoundly so,

that Jesus went through great extent of suffering to protect that mind,

knowing that the unrenewed mind is hostile towards him and is at war with God, according to Romans 8.

So he takes the risk to protect something something to keep people independent in their thinking

so that they can be instruments if you will instruments of God of hearing what he's saying

doing what he's doing to illustrate heaven on earth to illustrate the actual will of God

through their yielded imagination.

A yielded imagination becomes the sanctified imagination. A sanctified imagination is positioned for vision

and dreams. It's the sanctified imagination that becomes postured to hear and to see from God.

I believe that there's a whole new release of creativity that's about to take place through the church for the sake of the world,

for the nations, for, in medicine, science, technology, all these areas. I believe very strongly.

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