I Need A Change (Part 2) | Ron Carpenter

And then I'm going to jump right in to what I believe God would have me to say today. I'll tell you what, I might just read it on the screen. James 1 and 21. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and all that craziness and all that stuff that clogs the pipes and locks you out of your future. He said, put that stuff to the side and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls. Receive with meekness the implanted word. The Bible is the word. So when you hear terminology, the word, we're talking about the Bible, the word of God. So receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your soul. God saves you in three dimensions. And we're going to talk about that. Amen. Father, bless the reading of your word. We thank you for it in Jesus name. And everybody said Amen. It's our custom. Tell your neighbor on both sides, say, here we go, neighbor, here we go. Hallelujah. God is three in one. We live in a zip code where some of the smartest people in the world reside. I read where 78% of Silicon Valley has a college degree or greater. That's amazing. And none of those people will three ever equal one. But in God's math. I did a sermon series one time called Messed Up Math. God's math is not like man's math. 3 equals 1 and 1 equals 3. God is a trinity. Trinity is not a biblical word. Trinity is a word we made up to try to accommodate our understanding of God. That's a man made word. It's not in the Bible. You won't find it. Trinity meaning three in one. God is Father, God is Son, and God is Spirit. He's Father, He's Son and he is Spirit. Okay, so he is one God. He told Israel back in the Old Testament, he said, behold Israel, the Lord your God is one God. It's not three gods. It's one God that I have three relationships with. He is God and I know him as my heavenly Father. He is God. He's also the God that I know is Jesus, my Lord and Savior. He's also God, the Holy Spirit, who lives inside of me right now and is my teacher and my guide and helps me with every decision that I make. And he'll never leave me or forsake me. And he's my peace giver. And it's really no different from me.

I'm run.

I'm one. Run. I think that's all the world could take. I'm just one run. But my wife knows me as husband. My son knows me as father. My grandkids know me as man. Man, I like that one. You can't have it, man. Man. You know me as pastor. One person, but different relationships with me. I function in different capacity with different people. And so I am made in God's image and so are you. We are a trinity. God is Father, Son and spirit. And man being made in his likeness and by man. I'm not talking about maleness. I'm talking about a kind, a species, humankind. So humans being made in God's likeness. We are a spirit, we are a soul, and we are a body. There's about 20, maybe 22 of you that raised your hand to accept Jesus. John 3:16. How many of you have ever heard John 3:16? For God so loved the world, he gave his own. Okay, have you ever read the context of that? Jesus is having a conversation with a guy named Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a religious teacher and they didn't believe in Jesus, but he did. But he didn't want all of his counterparts and all of his peers to know. So he left temple and went to see Jesus in the night. And he said, I believe you. He said, I need to know what must I do to be saved. Jesus said, you must be born again. He was confused. He said, what do you mean? How do I enter again a second time into my mother's womb? He said, no.

He said, you must be born of.

Water, meaning being baptized. And we offer that. He said, and born of the spirit.

So when you just accepted Jesus Christ.

As Lord and Savior, you are a trinity born. But one of them had been deactivated by sin. That was your spirit, man.

And the moment you just accepted Jesus Christ, guess what? Now you're going to have a God.

Awareness the rest of your life.

Because God goes to your spirit and.

He just blows on it.

And all of a sudden you become alive unto God.

Can I keep breaking it down? Amen. Can I keep break? I'll preach in a minute. Just let me keep breaking it down.

So God gave me a body. Why do I have a body? Have a body?

Because God gives me world consciousness through my body. Okay, I knew. I know whether or not to wear long sleeves or short sleeves because I have a body, not because the spirit of God told me. I love those people that are super spiritual. You know, God told me to wear red today. No, he didn't. God don't care. You tell yourself those things. Okay. So I know whether or not to touch that stove because I have a body. My body tells me that stove is hot. Don't touch it. My body tells me the temperature. My body. This right here, this top is metal. Right here where the seam comes together, if I run my finger down it, it would probably cut it. My finger tells me, don't touch it, it's sharp. Okay. My body tells me, do not step out in the road because there's a bus coming. I don't say spirit of God. The spirit of God says no, if you step out in the road, you get hit by the bus. Ok? So I have world consciousness because I have a body now that I've gotten saved and God has breathed in my spirit. Now I'm fully functioning. All three tanks are full now because I am born of my spirit, I have God consciousness. Oh my. See, some of you have been comfortable walking around in those atmospheres and now you're going to go in them and God's going to say, think you need to be here? Yep, that's what's going to happen. Some of you have been hanging around with no good and now you're going to go back into that same circle and you're going to hear something inside you say, these people aren't going where I'm taking you. See, you didn't have that voice, but you're going to have that voice in you now.

You're going to be able to walk.

In a church and all of a sudden you're going to begin to feel a pull to praise and worship God whether the song is good or not. Why? Because you have an awareness that God's in the building and you can't let God walk in the building. And you stand there like he's never done nothing for you.

You've got to respond and give him your clap and give him your song and give him your uplifted hands because you now have a God awareness.

Amen. And that's a wonderful, wonderful thing to have.

But then I have a soul or.

A mind, will, emotions, intellect, experience. That's my soulless realm and that is my self consciousness. So I have world consciousness, I have God consciousness, but in my mind I have self consciousness. That's usually based on all of my experiences that I determine my value. My self consciousness is where I'm aware of me, the me I'm not pleased with, the me that don't have it all together. The me that's made mistakes, the me that has failed more times than he wants to remember. The Me that was raised in that certain environment, the me that didn't do good in school, the me that heard that word spoke over me. Those are where that stuff hides. And so James comes and says he's not just the God that breathes on your spirit, but now he wants to take you to the second dimension. He's the God that wants to save your soul.

He's the God now that we have.

Been born of our spirit, he wants to move to your head because your spirit has been made perfect before God. But you know what we spend most.

Of our life doing?

Trying to get our head to catch up. We're trying to get our head to catch up with how valuable we really are. Trying to get our head to catch up with how much potential we really do have.

Trying to get our head to catch up with the greatness of the God.

That lives on the inside of us.

Trying to get our head to catch up that we don't have to live like that. But God has a whole new future for us. Have to catch our head up that I'm not shackled by my mistakes, but I have the whole potential of a brand new future to walk in faith in God. Our head is always playing catch up. And he says it's the implanted word that is able to save your soul. The word of God is able to catch up with what's already happened in your spirit now. So my spirit has been saved. My mind is being saved.

I'm sorry, but the Bible says we don't get a new body till we get to heaven. So your body shall be saved. Hopefully God will have them on assembly line and just pick it out. I want about a 32 waist. Want about 46 shoulders. Come on somebody. I want to. Yeah. I hope you get to pick out your weight and your height and everything. No, I don't want them size ears. Make them a little smaller.

A little smaller.

Put the hair back. I don't know what it's going to be like, but I get that one there. So I have been saved. I am being saved. I shall be. I want to talk about the am being. He said it's the implanted word. The implanted word. That word implanted is kind of odd actually. I wish I could be deep, but it's not. It says the word that sticks. I'm going to talk for about 35 minutes. I used to teach for an hour but I've whittled that thing way down. I'm going to Talk for about 35 minutes. How much of that will you Take home, because that's the one that saves you. The word that sticks is the word that changes you. It's not the word that sticks in me. It's the word that sticks in you.

It's the implanted word of God that.

Is able to bring about the change in your mind that has already happened in your spirit.

It is the word of God that is able to catch your thinking up with what God's already done deep down inside of your heart. So I have to understand that this word.

Ah, let me get us out of religion.

This is not a code of conduct by which I earn God's good graces and salvation. This is a book that God gave me for my soul. God gave me this book for my soul. Why? Because he understands that as a man.

Thinketh in his heart, Proverbs 24:3, so is he.

So I've been talking about that a lot. You got to understand, your is is defined by your think.

All right, I got you all the way up to there. Now I can go switch gears.

If my reality is defined by my fault life, then if I want to bring change to my life, I don't need to put my hands on it. I need to change my mind. Because if I change my mind, my mind will change the thing that I don't like. My mind will change the undesirable thing in my life. Because if whatever a man thinks in his heart, so is the man. I understand that my thought life has a direct bearing on the reality that defines me. So a lot of times, if we don't like our wife or our husband, we want to change the wife or the husband. If we don't like our job, we want to change the job. If we want to change, we want to just move to another state. None of those things are sometime. Every one of those things sometime are necessary. But it's not the starting place for change. Because if you leave your mind the same, you will find another man or another woman, but it'll be the same scenery. You'll be in another state, but the same old problem. You'll have another job, but be getting fired for the same old. So real change does not begin around me.

It starts right here. So if. Can I just talk. If I want my economy to change, it doesn't start at the bank. It starts in my head. Okay, we're not going to like this, but like I said, I'm going to push the envelope anyway.

You can take a billionaire.

I've been in a room of billionaires. I have. I didn't say nothing because I wasn't one of them. But I was in the room. You could take everything they've got away and in 10 years they'd be being there again. They're not a being there because everybody gave them stuff. They're being there because of the way they think. Totally. I was amazed at how they think. I went to a convention one time and they stood at the door and they said, if you can't think billions, you can't enter the room. You couldn't even go in the room because they understood it's not a bank account. It's a mindset. It's a mindset, okay? Happy is a mindset. Happy people are not people where everything is going great. In fact, some of the happiest people I've ever seen are battling hell on every side.

But happiness is a choice you make in your mind. You choose to be happy. You don't wait for everybody and everything to make you happy.

You say, in the midst of the.

Winds and the waves and the storm, I make a choice that I am going to be happy despite what life throws out at me. I am going to be a joyful, happy person because I have made a choice in my head to live that way. It starts right here. It doesn't start because everything's great. There'd be no happy people. Happy is a choice.

It's a decision and it's made and.

It defines your reality. And other people sit back and stretch their hands, say, how is it they always have a smile? And how is it they always willing.

To pray for somebody?

And I know what's going on in their life. And she just got diagnosed with this and her husband left her last year. And they sit there and they're grinning and they're smiling and they're happy. It's not because everything's great. You see what's happening in their life. It's because they have made a decision. I will not have my attitude defined by my circumstances, but I will define my attitude by a choice I have made. I only get to live life one time, and I'm going to live it happy.

Hallelujah. So understand it happens in your mind and the word is able to change and to save your soul. Can I go a little bit deeper? So a lot of us think that we are stuck. I hear that a lot. If I go home today and I were to read through all my social media threads after this is aired on social media platforms and other platforms. You said my life is going nowhere. I feel like I'm stuck. There's no movement. You can see it over and over and over and over again. Your life is not stuck. Your mind is. And the way you move your life is to move your head. Because wherever you go, your head's got to go there first. Because you can't outlive what you know. I can't live beyond what I know. That's why I'm always a student, why I must be a student to always raise my capacity to live a greater life. And for my trajectory of my life to head in an upward direction, I have to keep growing.

Where did your life stop?

At the last thing you learned? I'm trying. The last thing you learn. Chase, help me out. Help me out, if you would. This is my oldest son. Any good looking thing. Can't believe how much he looks like me. Last night I used. I used one of your friends. Today I'm going to use you because you're the closest by. I'm going to spell some words and I need you to make the family name proud. Easy words. And when I spell the word, just tell me what I'm spelling. Okay? M A C D, O, N A L, D, S. MacDonald's. You did good. M A C I N T o S H McIntosh. Okay, this is a guy who worked for me. This is his last name. It's my typical. You were a little boy, but you might. M A C S H E R R Y Mac. Sherry. Okay. M A C H I N E. Mac. Hines Machine. Thank you, son. Why did I just humiliate my offspring? Okay, I set him up. It took me 30 seconds to get his mind in a rut. It took me all of 30 seconds to get him thinking down a certain path that once I got him going, it was hard to break. And how long were you raised in that house? It took me 30 seconds. How long have you been in that environment? How long were you in that community? How long were you told that? How long were you experiencing betrayal and abandonment? How long was you experiencing abuse? It took me 30 seconds to get his mind stuck.

And so we're sitting there saying, I'm dying for change.

But your mind's in a pattern.

And until you shake up that pattern.

The change is impossible because your reality is directly linked to your think. Are you seeing what I'm saying today, by the way? I'm saying one scripture after the other. Now let's move on. Right here. Let me hit you with this. Your brain, I told you last week, your mind has basically two functions. Don't care if You're a neurologist, don't care if you're a scientist, it still boils down to this. Your mind has the capacity to remember and recall, and it has the capacity to imagine. Your mind has filed away every experience in your life and you can relive it anytime you want to. Anytime you want to. Why? Because you are not where your body is. You are where your mind is. When David came to power and he entered the palace for the king, he had made a promise to Jonathan, his best friend, that anyone of his household that was left after the war that he would show them kindness. And he said, is there anyone left in Jonathan's house that I might show kindness to? And they said, yes, there's one named Mephibosheth. But he had been an outcast, cast from the family running. The Bible says he was crippled in his legs from birth and he sent a servant down to go get him and bring him and carry him back to the palace. And the Bible says that there was a banqueting table set before him, but he laid on the floor and said, why would you look on a dead dog such as I? They changed his geography, but he stayed on the floor. Why? Because he didn't see himself in a palace. He saw himself as a dead dog.

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