Renewed Mind | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

Patter. We thank you for the word. Today. We asked you will

help the preacher he needs. Help, help him greatly in Jesus' name,

And everybody said, amen, I want to talk to you about I want

to get to eventually, I want to get to a renewed mind. But

before we get to a renewed mind, I want to talk a little bit

about the bad mind that we had before we came to the Lord. So

this mind that we had was so bad that if we would have come before

the King right with the mind that we had, we you know, the

scepter would have fallen, but it would have fallen right across our neck,

and so you know, we would have been taken out. You don't appear

before the king if you don't have a right relationship with the king. So

the first thing that God does, you know, when we come to Jesus

and we accept him and we welcome what Father has done through Jesus. The

Bible says the Holy Spirit moves within our spirit. And I got the big

s here, that's the super on your chest. That is your spirit man.

The core of your heart is your spirit man, and that's where Holy

Spirit moves in. Holy Spirit comes to dwell in your spirit. And actually

what happens is you are remade in the likeness of first Adam. So before

Adam fell, and we know it really wasn't much of a fall, was

it. It was more of a choice, don't you think somebody? But

before Adam Afel, we know that he was unified with God. He had

all this stuff going on. He's living in the garden of Eden. He's

got more provision than you could ever imagine. He's got a divine purpose to

heavenize the earth. He has a partner, and that partner is bone of

his bone, flesh of his flesh. There's no in between the enmity between

the two of them, no fighting, no rivalry, no strife, no

competition, no jealousy, no anger, no selfish ambition. And the two

of them are about to produce a munch of offspring that love each other and

root for each other and care for each other. And they're in covenant with

one another. And all this stuff is going on, divine provision, divine

purpose. He's got power over the entire earth. And not only is he

going to heavenize the earth, but he's going to dominate all of the darkness

he's going to dominate the enemy. He's going to dominate every that creepeth.

He's going to dominate the serpent. The serpent's present, but he's going to

dominate the serpent. Do you think he didn't know the serpent was present?

The serpent, by the way, we could get into a bunch of stuff

we don't have time for. But you know, the etymology of that word

for the serpent is shining one enchantment. Do you think he wasn't aware of

that one in the garden before the day they chose he was supposed to dominate

that one. He was supposed to dominate that one. And so he's in

this crazy situation where he's alive in the spirit because he could connect and commune

with God. And then he falls, he chooses, then he's separated from

God. And I've got this picture up here of kind of what happens.

This is his position on the day that he falls. His position on the

day that he falls is suddenly he's condemned, he's alienated, he's separated.

He also inherits inferiority and shame. So this is his position. Now he's

separated from God. And in this separation from God, this effects. And

what I've drawn here is a foundation to a house. You know, we're

supposed to build our house on a foundation, and so the house that we

build, I've got to picture it over here. It's kind of my restored

lifehouse out of the heart of man. It's the tin trees. We're supposed

to build this house on a good foundation. But if we build on a

foundation of sand, what happens The house collapses, And so we're trying to

build a house over here. Adam is trying to build a house. But

what happened is that when the cornerstone of his life was destroyed through his choice,

then his purpose cornerstone was destroyed. His power over the enemy was destroyed,

his partnership with humanity was destroyed. The other cornerstones of his life were

destroyed. And so he's waken up the next day and now his purpose will

he even fulfill it? He's banished from the garden. No, he's not

going to fulfill his purpose. He's not going to heavenize the earth. His

purpose is now cursed, and he's going to only labor and fulfill anything through

the sweat of self effort and the provision and the blessing that was supposed to

flow out of his son, out of his righteousness, has been cut off.

He's no longer empowered over darkness. He's under the power of darkness.

So instead of dominating over Satan, he is dominated. So this means that

fear death, the curse, the curse meaning everything to do with sickness,

disease, defeat, darkness, everything to do with death and the demonic realm.

He's now under it instead of over it. He woke up the next

day, he's under it instead of over it. Now, I want you

to think about how this affects his thinking and how it affects the thinking of

the lineage. Because condemnation came to all men Romans five twelve, Death came

to all. Condemnation came to all we actually were of this lineage and sin,

iniquity, darkness and all of these dimensions. This is what we're born

into, and this is what's normal for us. This is what's common for

us, and so we learn to think out of this terminology. We don't

see people as our partners. We see them through the eyes through the lens

of strife, contention, separation, enmity, jealousy. When we're in the

endemic nature. When we're under the lineage of atom first atom, which is

where we've all come from. Then we're fighting with one another. We think

people have our stuff. We're frustrated with one another. We come into agreement

with all of this negativity instead of seeing that people are actually my partners to

heavenize the earth. They're actually my partners. I actually need them, I

needs you in my life. You're actually a part of the fulfillment of my

purpose. We actually are meant to work together so that both of us see

the fulfillment of our purposes. This is the old life over here, and

the old life. As long as we have this mindset, then we find

ourselves fruitless in bearing or we find ourselves striving or laboring or sweating to bear

fruit in these ten trees of which we've talked about before. But we're not

going to talk about today over here, in this position, while we're dead

in our sins and our transgressions. That's Romans chapter five eight. Right.

While we were dead in our sins in our transgressions, while we were unworthy,

Christ died for us. We just read through the Romans this morning and

have a great time reading through the Romans. Let's go to Romans chapter three,

twenty one through twenty four. We've got that one. But now apart

excuse me, now, apart, thank you. Now, apart from the

law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law

and the prophets. Keep going, keep going, even the righteousness of God

through faith in Jesus, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory

of God being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is

in Christ Jesus. So he's touching on a few things there. One he

says that we're justified as a gift. We know that justified means just as

if we never sin. So some of this came forward this morning. We

were acknowledging that we wanted to know the Lord, that we wanted salvation,

that we wanted forgiveness of sin. Part of what I want you to see

this morning is that forgiveness of sin is where Holy Spirit moves into your spirit.

Man, and that's just the beginning of a brand new life. That's

just the beginning of a brand new life. What's happening is that when you

open up your heart in that way that Holy Spirit stamps your bank account.

See we come. You know we're bankrupt. But what happens is Holy Spirit,

is this a money bag? How we doing? Holy Spirit stamps your

bank account with this thing called justify. When you believe in Jesus, then

everything that Jesus did in payment for you is imputed to your bankrupt account,

and so you receive the riches of not only his forgiveness, but you receive

the riches of his righteousness. You receive the riches of his righteousness. So

this is crazy. You couldn't appear before a king if you weren't in right

relationship with him, Like if you had stolen from the kingdom, if you

had harmed somebody in the kingdom, if you had done something wrong in the

kingdom. You don't dare go before that king. You can have no relationship

because you are not right with that king. But when you are stamped with

the righteousness of Jesus, not because you earn it, not because you deserve

it, but because of what Jesus did on your behalf, so because you

believe, only because you believe and confess him as your savior, as your

Lord, as your king, as the one who's given you life. Because

you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, then Heaven stamps your

bankrupt bank account with justified and righteous. Justified and righteous justified means that from

that moment forward, God looks at you as if you've never sinned. Now

you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning and probably look at yourself as if you've sinned,

But God is not looking at you as if you've sinned. When you

woke up this morning, you were aware of some shortcomings. You were aware

of some things you'd done wrong. You were aware of things you'd confessed and

even for gotten forgiveness of. And yet there was something about you that might

have thought of yourself as maybe not one who has never sinned, and maybe

not one who is righteous or standing in righteousness. But this is how God

sees you. And God is pleading with you to see yourself the way he

sees you. He's pleading with you see yourself the way He sees you.

So let's go back to that passage real quick. Because you can't earn this.

You don't deserve this, none of us do. There's nothing we can

do to earn this except to believe upon Jesus. Now, apart from the

Law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, seen, clearly made known,

witnessed by the Law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God through

faith in Jesus Christ for all of those who believe. For there is no

distinction, meaning, it doesn't matter if you're a Greek. That's what he

goes on to say. No matter if you're a Greek or a Jew,

if you're tall, slender, short, if you're from Europe, if you're

from Africa, if you're from Asia, it doesn't matter. There's no distinction.

If you're a human, if you've got red blood, if you were

born into the lineage of Adam with this broken, fractured mindset, then this

is for you. All you have to do is believe, trust and believe.

Believe with your heart what God has done through Jesus. Confess with your

mouth. Come into agreement. There's always the come into agreement part. Everybody

say, come into agreement. Now, this is why we need a renewed

mind. By the way, this is why we need a renewed mind.

Let's see, I want to read another scripture or two, and then we'll

get onto the renewed mind. Part is that all right? But to the

one who does not work, this is Romans chapter four. I think we

have this one. But to the one who does not work but believes in

him who justifies the ungodly, why in the world would you justify the ungodly?

Isn't that amazing? God justifies the ungodly. But to the one who

does not work, Hello, somebody, we don't work to get righteous.

We work because we are righteous. We don't work to become a son of

God. We work because we are a son of God. We don't work

so that we can somehow measure up. We measure up in Him. So

therefore we work. We're hidden in him. We're hidden in the Beloved.

We're hidden in the Redeemer. We're hidden in the Restorer. So to him

who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith

is credited to him as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing

on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. Is there a

believer in the building this morning? Is there a believer in the building this

morning? Now what happens is when you believe first. Then God begins.

He has the power, the grace, the enablement because of the indwelling spirit,

to begin to rework your mind and reframe your mind and tell you the

truth about the new creation, instead of you listening to the lies about who

you were, as if who you were is still who you are? Did

you know who you were is not who you are? Did you know who

you were is not who you are? You got to know this twenty four

to seven, twenty four seven. You have to know that who you were

is not who you are. And it doesn't matter if you fall short,

It doesn't matter if you falter, if it doesn't have anybody in the room

ever fallen short, Has anybody in the room ever faltered? I kind of

look back at that stuff and say, well, that's a bummer, but

that isn't who I am. So I'm not going to get underneath that.

The Lord rebuke that stuff, Well, I'm done with that. I don't

even have to listen to that, obey that follow that. I don't have

to get under condemnation over that. Praise the Lord. That isn't even the

nature that I have. I have a new nature. I just want you

to see how this stuff talks to you, because this was essentially the sum

total. This was your house, and this was the foundation of your house,

and this was the sum total of your identity. This was the sum

total of your identity. It's no longer your identity. If you've come to

Christ today, if today you gave your life to the Lord, then you

have a new identity. You already have a new identity. Let's go to

Second Corinthians, chapter five. Second Corinthians, chapter five, starting at verse

sixteen. Let's read that together. Therefore, from now on we recognize no

one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the

flesh. Yet no longer yet now, no longer you got to go back.

You went too fast. Yet now we know him in this way,

no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new

creature. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come.

What's he saying. He's saying that, you know, when he was here,

we kind of we didn't know for sure if he was the Christ,

like that's not his last name, and so we suspected he was the Christ.

And some of us believed he was the Christ. But then when we

met with him afterwards. Pretty much all of us except for Thomas, knew

he was the Christ, even though he just walked through the wall to come

visit us. Thomas was still doubting that he was the Christ. Thomas,

he's a fellow, But we thought he was Mary and Joseph's son. But

then we discovered after the resurrection he wasn't just Marry and Joseph's son. He

actually was the Christ, the Anointed, the Redeemer, the scent One,

the supreme One, the one after the manner of Melkezedic, the one who

was the last Adam. Christ is the last Adam. Oh, what in

the world is an atom? In atom? Adam was the genesis of a

specie of humans. So the first atom was the genesis of us previously.

But now I've put that individual to death. Has anybody died to Adam?

That's why we get baptized in water. Why in the world do we get

baptized in water. Well, the water represents the surface of the earth,

and you're actually putting this person, the old atom, to death, and

the water and the baptism is a burial service. It's not symbolic of a

burial service. It is a burial service. It's not just symbolism. It's

a real deal. When you go under the waters of baptism, all of

the spirit realm, all of Heaven, and all of the spirit realm is

going to recognize that this old person is dead. Now, if you live

like the old person is still alive, then you're being dumb and all of

the demons can't figure it out. But they're glad to help you because you

are now hidden in a new atom. He is the genesis of a brand

new specie. So when you're born of the spirit and the spirit moves in,

actually what's happened is you just didn't get forgiveness of sins. You actually

got transferred out of the old atom, who was dominated by darkness, who

was in strife and ignmusty with humans who had no guarantee to fulfill their purpose,

and was no longer living as a son of God. You are taken

out of that completely through what Jesus has do. You're brought over here,

you're made a son or a daughter of God. You're accepted, you're covered,

you're righteous, you're justified. Hello, somebody that makes you royalty.

The code of many colors that Joseph wore it was symbolic of what you've come

into. You are now highly favored. You have an audience with God.

You can show up and the scepter will be given to you instead of come

across your neck. You have the scepter to rule. The scepter does not

depart from Judah. It's given to you, the sons and daughters of God.

You are accepted in the Beloved, and this is the chief cornerstone.

Acts Chapter four says Jesus has become the chief cornerstone to the building of your

house and the rebuilding of your life, as Adam was before the fall.

You have purpose, and you have a guaranteed purpose. It's unique in your

generation. You are set apart, you are blessed, and you have provision

for that purpose. God has all ready ordained. He's already put in your

bank account, your monetary bank account, everything you need to fulfill your purpose,

everything you need, every relationship you need, has already been given to

you. All the favor you need, every person you need, every partnership

you need, all of the harmony you need, all of the kindness you

need. It's all ready part of this new creation life. I don't need

to compete with anybody. They don't have my stuff. God's got me.

God can bless you and bless me at the same time. I can't bankrupt

God when I'm away from him, I need your stuff, so I'm going

to steal from you. When I come to him, suddenly, I don't

need your stuff. I've got a complete inheritance he carved out for me.

The fact is He's giving me so much. I can be generous and give

you some of what I have and be a blessing to you, so that

together in harmony, we can see our purpose is fulfilled. And I dominate

darkness. I'm not under it. I dominate darkness. I dominate the curse.

I dominate everything to do with the curse. It is all under my

feet. It's not going to be under my feet. It is now under

my feet. And I will see all of it put under my feet as

I continue to believe that this is all because of righteousness. He's imputed righteousness

to our account. Listen to Romans chapter twelve verse two. You know Romans

chapter twelve one and two. You're familiar with those really well, Romans chapter

twelve one and two, And do not be conformed to this world. Now

we have to die to Adam. We have to die to Adam where we

can't live in the last atom. And to the degree that you die to

Adam, to that degree you can flourish in the last atom. This is

important. So that's why he starts Revelation Romans chapter twelve in verse one by

saying, present your body as a living sacrifice. He's talking about this whole

All of Romans is talking about this new creation life and talking about death,

and I mean, it's just it's beautiful stuff. I wish we could read

the whole thing. I want you to go home and read Romans this week.

Read it two, three, four times. It's just so powerful.

Started chapter three and read all the way through to chapter ten and just meditate

on what's in there, because it's so beautiful for this season that we're in,

and so beautiful for this coming into Resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday, and

just everything that's going to be transpiring as we think about it, and God

redoing it in us. He's re reawakening, getting at us. So we

present ourselves dead over here, We're dead to Adam. But then listen and

do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of

your mind. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on. I

already did a John three three through five thing. I already opened up my

heart, and I already welcomed the spirit to live within me, and I

already trusted in Jesus. I thought I was already transformed. The transformation that

he's talking about, the metamorphois here is actually a transformation of manifestation, not

a transformation of legalities. There's a legality that it is real. We open

up our hearts to Jesus. Jesus comes to dwell in our spirit. Man

and Holy Spirit is there bearing witness to the truth. But our external manifestation

doesn't change much until we begin to come into agreement. That's what renew your

mind means. It means come into agreement with what He's who He's made you

to be, Come into agreement with who He's made you to be. And

so, you know, you get up on Monday morning and you start,

you know, meditating what you're going to do this week, and then you

start thinking that you know, I don't even know if if what I do

is important. You let that thought rattle around a little bit. Uh,

that's not a renewed thought. I wonder if I have sufficiency to even get

done what it is that's on my heart to do well, that's not a

renewed thought. I wonder if I'm even important. I wonder if is my

purpose even unique or important. That's not every new thought, you know,

I don't know if it's ever going to get come to pass what it is

God's put on my heart. See what happens is oftentimes we come over here

and we think it's all about forgiveness of sin and born of the spirit.

But it's not. It's about you taking off your old dead's skin and the

old ugly caterpillar that you were, and putting on the butterfly that you are.

It's about the metamorphois of you living in this life, in the glory

of God and manifesting His glory every single day. Otherwise, as I told

you a week or two ago, we would just shoot you right after you

come to the Lord just or the Lord just you know, he could have

a dip tank. We could just have a hot dip tank, and just

you know, as you walk out of the sanctuary, those of you that

are newly in the Lord, we'd fun you through a spot and you know,

and it just be like a hot pool there you just dive in and

just you know you we'd never see you again. You know, there's a

lake of fire. You know, it's a kind of a why do you

have a lake of fire in the Fia, Well, because they go directly

to heaven. Now, God has so much more in mind for us.

The mandate of first atom has been restored to us. Go heavenize the earth.

Now, you can't heavenize the earth if you haven't come into agreement with

the Heaven that's living in you by the big ass on your chest, the

Holy Spirit dwelling in you. You can't heavenize the earth if you haven't come

into agreement yourself. You have to come into agreement with it. And so

he says, don't be conformed to this world any longer and the world way

of thinking, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that

you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good,

acceptable and perfect. Come on, somebody, now, I think renewing of

the mind. Yes, you need to know the word of God. You

need to know the promises of God. You need to know the word of

God, you need to know the prophetic word of your own life. That's

all super important. It's really true. But you know, if you know

these four cornerstones, as you know that, renewing your mind oftentimes just comes

into it. It's just coming into agreement with that stuff and then taking the

time to reflect on it. Satan is after your mind. Satan is constantly

after your mind through amusement, through through over a thousand television choices on your

cable TV. You have a thousand choices on your cable TV. And if

that weren't enough, you have a million choices on your phone. The enemy

doesn't want you thinking, and if he does allow you to think, he

just wants you thinking more about Yes, I'm forgiven. Yes I'm going to

heaven, but life is hell. Only once in a while will I cuss

in church, and it's hard to squeeze those words out. I apologize in

advance. But this is the perspective of so many of us who have come

to a religious experience in Jesus or in the church. We're seeing Jesus as

Yes, it's a born again experience. Yes my sins are forgiven. Yes,

I'm going to heaven. But that's the fullness of it, that's the

extent of it. It's not it's only the beginning of heaven on earth,

on earth as it is in heaven. So many times it's these we're making

this choice. We have to make the choice right. And as we think

about people, Oh my goodness, people are my friend. I have favor.

Wherever I go, God favors me, and I am somebody else's favor.

I need to be used of God to bless them, not used of

the enemy to take from them. As I'm used of God to bless them.

God blesses me because I'm coming into harmony with a house that's built on

a sure foundation. My purpose is guaranteed. I have dominion over it.

So it's sad with me this morning. Then I'm gonna try to close.

Somebody said, hello, loluj When I said that, what was that?

My wife? My world? I know, honey, I know, honey.

Bless you, honey, bless you, honey. I wrote a note

down to your worship. Mm hmmm, can you love? Can you hand

me that wader? The partial one, the partial one? Mm hmmm.

If Jesus is the genesis of a new creation. Not only do you bear

his image, but you you, your whole life is wrapped up in the

DNA of Jesus. He is the beginning of a new creation of superior people,

superior over darkness, superior in fulfillment, superior in fruitfulness, superior in

grace. I know the enemy wants to continue to convince us that this is

our reality, this is our identity, this is who we are. But

because you're dead to the genesis of First Adam, you don't have to listen

anymore. You don't have to cooperate anymore. You don't have to partner anymore.

You don't have to yield anymore. You don't have to agree anymore.

You don't have to let one of those thoughts have place within you. And

the truth is, the presence of those thoughts is the presence of a lie.

The presence of those thoughts is the presence of a lie. You know

where you discern spirits, you discern spirits, or you discern the spirit realm,

or you discern the word of a spirit in your inner men, in

your thought life. So Second Corinthians ten three through five says the weapons of

our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, taking every

thought captive to the obedience of Christ. I'm a new creation in Christ.

I don't see you as I did before, according to your flesh or your

lineage. I don't see him any longer according to his flesh or his lineage.

I don't see me any longer according to my flesh or my lineage.

I'm a brand new preacher. So for me to even entertain a thought that

contradicts what He's done in Christ for me and who he is, because who

he is is who I am. Who he is is who I am just

as sure as who Adam was I was, but who he is now I

am. So salvation is more than getting born of the spirit spirit moves in,

more than forgiveness of sins. It's becoming a brand new person who is

the same person as who he is. Hello, somebody. That's why John

said that right now we don't even know who we are. It doesn't yet

upp hear, but we're going to be blown away because when we see him,

we're going to realize we're just like him. When we see him,

we're going to realize we're just like him. And it all starts with righteousness.

It all starts with righteousness, justified and righteous. He's stamped your bank

account mass a prayer to him to come this morning. If you're here this

morning and you're just maybe the enemy has been accusing you. Maybe you've been

struggling in your purpose, feeling like you're under the curse, struggling with other

people, allowing thoughts, harmed with thoughts, hammered with thoughts, hit with

thoughts that contradict who God has made you in the New creation. Just come

and get some agreement on that. Allow the prayer team to pray with you.

Even even to cancel a lie is a powerful thing, right like just

to cancel a lie. There's been a lie. Thoughts, lying assignments,

lying words, harassing you. Come and let them be canceled. Come and

let them be canceled. Let those lives be canceled. You are who God

says you are. You are set apart, you are unique, You are

blessed, You are valuable, you are worthwhile, You have a guaranteed future,

You have all the provision that you need. What lie have you been

listening to? God has ordained that you would be healthy. God's ordained that

you would be strong, God's ordained that you would be restored. God's ordained,

He's ordained all of this in Christ, who is the beginning of a

brand new specie of humans, the Genesis, the genesis of a brand new

specie of humans. And you are in him. You by trusting in him,

you have hidden yourself in him. And now you are a new creation.

The old is gone, the old can no longer hold you, and

the new has come. Let's worship as we go, and as we do.

I just invite you, invites you, invites you. Come and cancel

alive. Come and put to death something that's been holding onto you. Come

and declare the dismissing of something that's been harassing you, worrying against your victory,

keeping you from the new creation, standing against your transformation, transformed metamorphosed

by the renewing of your mind. Or we choose a renewed mind this morning.

We choose a renewed mind this morning. We choose thoughts from above.

We choose thoughts like the thoughts of Jesus. We choose thoughts of victory.

We choose thoughts of grace. We choose thoughts of reigning. We choose thoughts

of power. We choose thoughts of dominion. We choose thoughts of health.

We choose thoughts of favor. We choose thoughts of friendship, we choose thoughts

of partnerships. We choose thoughts from above. We set our thoughts into agreement

with thoughts from above, in Jesus' name,