We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

The problem with most folks' lives is that they have shaped it based on their words, on their own words and not God's words.

So you went out and did everything you wanted to do, based everything on what you thought, your philosophy of life,

everything, you went out and got all the way out there, and now you look up and say, oh, man,

God wasn't in none of this. What do I do? Do you keep it going like that? Or do you change everything?

Well, the problem with most folks is it's too much to change. They don't want to do it.

When we live based on our opinion, then we are really living based on whatever has shaped our opinion.

Isaiah 55 and 8.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, said God.

Neither are my ways, your ways, saith God.

So when you shape your life based on your opinion, you really shaped it on whatever shaped your opinion.

The definition of opinion is the belief or views of a large number or majority of people about a particular thing.

That's your opinion.

Your opinion ain't even your opinion. Your opinion

is everybody's what everybody thought before you. Somebody thought it before you and passed it down

and you grew up watching it and now that's your opinion. When we line our opinion up based on what

others are doing with their lives, then we live our lives based on others. Right? So the person whose life is

shaped by opinion got to always tell you what everybody else is doing. You ever gone to somebody

and talked to him and be like, say, man, you know, that ain't the right way. Well, I mean, look at

what's his name. What is he doing? Well, I ain't talking about him. I'm talking about you.

I'm talking about you. That's deflecting Because you know your life is based on your opinion,

so you want to bring everybody else in it.

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