Change Series - Part 2: No More Stinking Thinking (Change: Your Mind) | Andy Yeoh

Hey, you welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We pray you will be

blessed by this message. Today I made a word of God both encouraged and

challenge you to be all God purpose you to be. Now, let's dive

right in today's title is no more stinking thinking. We're talking about change,

but we're talking about your mind. Change, but change your mind, Amen,

Romans twelve, verse two. I think we touched on this last week.

Do not be conformed to this world. We said last week. If

you're not transforming, you are then just conforming. You're just becoming like everybody

else or what the world wants you to be. But God wants us to

transform by how, by the renewing of our mind. God actually told us

the secret how to do this, how to become a new person by renewing

your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect

will of God. Amen. We all want to grow. Anyone here doesn't

want to grow, and I don't mean sideways. I mean grow in knowledge,

grow in heart, growing spirit, because all of us automatically grow older.

You are now two seconds older than before. You have no choice.

Growing oh is automatic. Growing up is optional. We want to grow up.

You know, you look around the world, there are forty year olds

who still behave like it's fourteen year olds because they've grown, oh, but

not grown up. But we want to grow up. Amen. So growth

that's like growth is about change. Somebody say change, growth is about change.

If you don't change, you're not growing. So stop changing, you

actually stop growing. There's no way you can grow without changing. Amen.

And to change your life, you must change the way you think. The

Bible says. You want to transform, You want to change change your mind,

ringing your mind because behind everything you do, behind every behavior is a

thought, is a thought. Whether the thought is active or is subconscious,

there is a thought behind every action. Amen. So if you change the

thought, you change the action. You change your to change your life,

change the thinking, because every behavior is motivated by a belief, and every

action is prompted by an attitude. Amen. The Bible says in Proverbs twenty

three, verse seven, for as he thinks in his heart, so is

he. So we become like what we think. The Bible says, for

as he thinks it is hard, so is he. As you think in

the inner man, is you think in your heart? That's who you become.

You are what you think your life. My life is shaped by our

thoughts, everybody. Okay, so the Bible has given a secret to transform,

to become a new better person. Change your mind, change the way

you think. It's kind of like an autopilot imagining a speedboat. Okay,

everybody, imagine a speedboart Okay, the speedboat, and imagine this speed boat

is set to autopilot to go east. Whereas is okay? Wherever is okay?

One way. So let's just say easy is over there. Your boat

is set to go to autopilot to go east. Themes a hands free it

will just go over there right now to make the boat go west instead.

When the boat has been autopiloted to go east. There's two ways you can

do it. One he could, by sheer strength and greet just push the

steirring west and make it go west. Right, And it could work,

right, It could work until his muscles get sore and he gets really tired

and he lets go for a while, and then what would the boat do?

Just go back east again, because it's said to the old pilot,

right, that's kind of like how most of us try to change our life,

right, our life is set to autopilot to go one way because our

thinking has not been renewed, so we go one way. But we share

determination shure, like just brute strength. We try to change our life.

And when our gods are down, usually when we are stressed out, our

gods are down, we just go back to the same ord, same old

habits. Because you know, this kind of determination is short term change.

It's good for short term change, but not long term. In fact,

the long term is a better, easier way change. The autopilot set it

to go west, and you'll go that way. That is like our mind.

Amen, Our mind is like that. When you change the way you

think, you think west, or you think is when you change the way

you think, then it goes that way. The actions and the behavior follows

the thought follow me so far? Okay? Great? So Romans twelve us

do says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by

the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and

acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans telve us to in a new living

translation, this is really this way because it sounds simpler. Don't copy the

behavior and customs of this world. But let God transform you into a new

person. God wants you to be a new person. Remember last week about

new wine into new wine skins. You are the wine skin, God's spirit.

God's work is the new wine. Amen. God wants to transform you

into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know

what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing

and perfect his will really is. Amen. So change often starts where starts

in your mind, because the way you think determines the way you feel,

and the way you feel influences the way you act the way you think.

So, for example, let's just say you think, simple simple example.

Are you think money is to be spent? I have money is to be

spent. Some people think money is to be saved. Some people think money

is to be spent. Right, So how you think we effact the way

you feel about money? Right? Oh, I have money. Money is

to be spent. So when I see something I want to buy, my

impulse will be to buy it because money is to be spent, not saved.

So you end up buying the thing whether you need it or not.

You see how our thinking is the root of it. And then in fact,

the way you feel I must I must have this iPhone fifteen my work.

Your current food works perfectly fine, but I gotta have this one because

I need it when you really just want it. You see how our thinking

does that. Yep, if it's in four verse seventeen to twenty four,

this is a neutral living translation version, right, So it's okay with the

Lord's authority, Paul says. Let me say this, leave no longer as

the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their closed minds are full

of darkness. They are far away from the life of God because they have

shut their minds and hidden their hearts against Him. They don't care any more

about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immorl ways.

Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed. But that isn't

what you were taught when you learned about Christ. Since you have heard all

about Him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your

old eble nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and

through full of lust and deception. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal

of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are

a new person created in God's likeness, righteous, holy, and true.

Amen. Cool. So the Bible says, don't be like the ungodly.

If you all claim that you're in crime, and your Christians and the followers

of Christ, we shouldn't be behaving like the world anymore. Right, we

should and the way we should not behave the way anymore is to have a

renewed mind in your mind. Amen. So discipleship is which is what we

we say we want to do in church. The great commission, the command

of God to us Exchristian is to make disciples. So discipleship is the process

where we're all going through the rest of our Christian life. Disciplosh it in

summary is described as to be like Christ. That's what we're being discipled to

be. We're not discipling you to look like the pastor or disapple you to

look like the church brand, or disciple you to look like I don't know

what. Okay, but there's no discipleship. Discipleship is let's become like Christ.

But to become like Christ is to develop the mind of Christ. Because

the way God thinks affects the way he feels, and it influences the way

he acts. Right Like for example, when Jesus saw the five thousand hungry

people, the way he thought about people intros the way he act, he

said, let's feed them. Was he gonna be a big problem feeding seven

thousand, eight thousand people? Joshua does k thing? Hey, five thousand

people, No joker. Imagine all the place you have to watch somebody chicken

you to cook, all the rubbish after that. See, that's what the

disciples saw. They're not bad people, they're practical people. Phelix said,

no money, I can do this job. The rest say, Jesus,

I have a batter idea. Why don't we just send them home? Let

them buy their own food. No, people nowadays are very fussy. You

know, someone k told someone you know, Vegan lah someone how to everybody,

but had to let them choose. You See, if I, if

I were one of the disciples, I would do the same thing like Jesus,

paciously, like let's just let's just let them go, like get us

some money, let him buy himself. Because I would I would have thought

three steps a hit, Oh the rubbish later, Oh the requests you have

to deal with it. Can you please give me chicken breas I don't want

you can tie the chicken tag, yeah, kind of have the left one

good left with a bit more more muscular or more linear, can because a

left like chicken? So like you and all the requests, no, eight

thousand people, all the children want to like, Oh I can I have?

I did want to do now bro, so send them back. See

the discappoos. We have thought of all the work and Jesus thought about.

Just know they need to be fed. Let's just feed them. See thinking

your mind is everything, Amen, it's really. If you don't like the

way your life is, right now, try changing the way you think.

I know it's easier sat than done, but it can be done. Otherwise

the Bible won't say it right. So discipleship is to be like Christ.

To be like Christ is to develop the minor Christ. Think like Christ and

you will act like Christ. That's why the word repentance. When you say

repent, he's not asking you to feel sorry about this thing you did last

night, So you, guys, you not ask you to feel sorry.

He's asking you to change your mind. The word repentance in the gree is

meta noah, which means change your mind. That's repentance, because if you

no longer think the same way about pawn. I know, I'm looking at

you porn. It's like, okay, you okay, you wouldn't do the

same thing we did anymore because you've changed the way you think about it.

You look at it. It's disgusting. This is exploiting somebody's cousin's sister,

brother. Yeah, okay, this is bad the way you think. Meta.

Noah, there's repentance. Repent I feel so bad. I watched it

last night. It's no, it's I don't think the same way about it

anymore. Amen. So repentance is changing the way you think by adopting how

God thinks about everything? What does God think about money? We think the

same way. What does God think about relationships? We think? They say,

what does God think about spouse? What a God think about work?

What does God think about money? What does God think about anything? We

adopt the way He think about everything, and that becomes our mindset. It

changes our life. Amen. That's why in Philippines two five, he says,

in your lives you must think and act like Christ. Jesus must think

and act like Christ. Jesus everybody. Okay, you look too serious?

Ah, do I need to tell some jokes? Huh? Okay, cool,

you must think and act like Jesus Christ. Okay, So Christianity,

discipleship, this thing we're trying to do here and live out here is not

just a religion. It's not just a philosophy. I know I'm talking about

thinking, but it's not just a philosophy. It's not just a way of

thinking. It's a relationship and a lifestyle that is developed by the way God

thinks. So if is so much to do with our minds, if we

have to fix this mind in order to fix our life, Okay, let's

address the problems with our mind. What is the problem in our mind?

Next live? Please see If our mind had no problem, God would have

pointed it out right. God, God would not say something like, don't

worry about tomorrow. If we don't worry about tomorrow. The problem is we

all worry about tomorrow. We all worry about mostly things we have no control

off, like tomorrow, like what our kids will do when they go over

season, and yeah, without us and all these things. God knows.

That's why he says don't worry. He knows your fears, he says,

don't fear. He knows our minds are messed up. That's why he said,

we need our minds. So what's the problem in our mind? Okay?

There are many people in our world today who think that the problem with

our mind is that it doesn't have access to all the knowledge that he needs.

Our brains don't know enough. We don't have enough knowledge. If only

I know the Bible more, then O will be more spiritual. For example,

if only I knew the ways to be prosperous, you know, then

I will be a rich person. We think the problem of mind is that

it doesn't have enough access to information or knowledge, or maybe we think it's

therefore therefore, we think, maybe the is The solution is education. The

more we learn, the smarter we will be, the better we'll be at

life. We think that that's our problem with our mind, so therefore feed

it with more information. It can happen in church too. We think that

if we just listen to enough sermons, you know, the the the more,

the more American, the better, or I don't know what, the

more and more the better, and then we'll become better. We think that

we think the problem of mine is information knowledge, education, and so we

think to fix it is to learn more, hear more, listen more.

But the Bible has a more profound analysis of our problem. So Effesions four

twenty three says, be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Some say

spirit. What on earth is the spirit of your mind? Mine is mind?

Spirit? That one? What is it? But Paul talked about the

spirit of your mind, and then yeah, what the world is this the

spirit of mind? It means at least there's a at least this that the

human mind is not just some sophisticated AI or authentic intelligence or computer. There

is a supercomputer's managing data and then processes this data and then sends this data

to the heart and then the feels what he feels. No, it's not

just a machine. It means that our mind has a spirit. Somebody say

spirit. In other words, our mind has this thing called a mindset.

It has a spirit, It has a mindset. It means that our mind

doesn't just have a view It has a viewpoint. Demissa, we all can

look and see different. So Isaac and Aidan can look at the same girl.

Which guy you want to look at? Me? I'm not a girl.

This is your turns not to confess. Whicl you want to see Jeffrey

okay? Cool? So he made Isaac and Aidan can look at Jeffrey and

go Jeff, Jeff sorry Jeff, and go ada go Wow, he's good

looking. I want to grow up and be like him. I know this

perfect weight, perfect shape. I love it. I want to be like

Jeff is said my goal? Are you blind? You call that good looking?

Let me show you good looking? And you know, take a selfie

of himself or something. Right. They are both looking at the same person,

but they're seeing very different things. One seeing him as some wow,

some goal to reach, and another one is like whoa, whoa, whoa,

hands off? Right it happens. We all look, but don't see.

We all have the same where we have the same view. We're looking

at the same thing, we're listening to the same sumon, but we have

a different viewpoint. We see it from a different angle. The spirit of

our mind. So that means our mind doesn't just have the power to perceive

and detect, but our minds has a posture, a spirit, a demeanor,

a bearing, an attitude, a bent Because the spirit of our mind.

Our mind has a spirit, it has attitude. It's not just machine

ones and zeros. It's got an attitude. Amen, So we needs to

it's not just some ones and zeros and just code it and then it just

changes. It's got resistance. He's got attitude. It's got like I don't

want this. No, don't try to change me. Don't don't. It's

got attitude. And Paul says, we need to do not just renew the

mind. But we knew the spirit of your mind. Are you okay?

So far? And then we saw this. We see this in Romans one

eight. Romans one today says this. And since they did not see fit

to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debates mind to do what

not to be done? Kind of like God gave up on some people who

will not change their mind about God. Their mind is totally against God.

In rebelling against God, God's like, okay, La, just just I

will just leave it to you, okay. But this is who we are

by nature. We're all born into a nature of sin. By nature,

we are in rebellion against God. We don't think like God. We don't

naturally think like God. Amen. We don't. That's how we have to

be renewed. We do not see God as someone worthy of knowing well and

not someone we treasure above all things. If you're really honest with ourself.

And here's the elephant, right, we say, as Christians, we've been

trained and groomed to say all the right hallelujahs at the right time, all

the right amens at the right time. Right, see all the right things

right. Thursday Nights, Now we have devotion with the youth on discord thirty

minutes, nine thirty to ten. If your kids haven't told you yet,

now you know. Ten Thursday Nights we for a thirty minute devotion. We

just go straight into the word. No games, so nothing. You just

goes straight into one worship song. We talk about the word. Last Thursday,

we asked the question what do you value most in life? I mean,

you hear a question like that, the Christian, you go better say

God, my family, All these things we will say, but I challenge

them, Hey, let's not just give all the right answers. Let's give

real answers. What do you really mostly? For example, if there was

a fire in your house, okay, and you're just in time, to

be able to run in to grab something. Who would you grab first?

Because that would say something right, That will say something right? What you

value most harmony? If you were going there and grab your bible. Ah.

But then you're complete saying, oh I look got the most hard what

a god? But you grin there and grab your phone first or something,

you grab your golf bag, or going in there and grab your coach back

your Michael, cause I don't know. He will say something about us.

Right, there's a fire, you're run into the house. You can grab

one day, you get your rubber duck. No one, no do that,

your cattle? No man? What do you value most? So God

is telling us our natural minds, we don't value God most. We don't.

We don't naturally do that. We don't naturally get up and want to

pray. There's so most of the time it's called it discipline. Yeah,

and so God says, okay, there's this battle in the mind Romans one

twenty three, and they exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling

mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. See this is called idolatry.

We've replaced the real God with false gods, and the false gods can

be anything can be black, pink can be, pokemon can be tailors,

sweet, your Instagram will come, your job, someone's even our own children

can become bad if you're not careful women. This is what human being does.

We now fall in mind, we replace the immortal good with mortal images.

And for some of us, and for many of us, if we

care to be honest, the mortal image we worship most is the one we

see in the mirror. That's the one we worship most, right, I

mean, just think about the time you spend the last one week. What

do you do? Some of you did your hair, you went to salon,

some of you went shopping. You bought a new belt, I don't

know. So you went online and uh pick for robots. You bought a

game or you I don't know, you bought a book because you want to

fied your mind, study or so many things we did? How many of

those things? Actually it's invested into your spirit. Most of it, most

of it, if you're honest, even myself, right, most of it

is I of physical body because we worked out, or maybe our mind because

we read a book, or we did research and A lot of it is

got to do with just the self, right, And it's why God says,

hey, we have exchange real, the real God, with all these

other lesser gods and deaths idolatry. So see, that's what's wrong with our

minds. That's what our minds need to change, because already it's not naturally

wired to behold the glory of the immortal God, and we behold the glory

of something else, the one in the mirror or somewhere else. So we

need to be renewed. Amen, Now is it any wonder now we'd be

reading Romans twelve verse two, right, we haven't read twelve verse one.

You can see what telve on one says. I beseech you. Therefore,

how don't you use this language? I beseech you? Who police? I

b sees you jan lasaman okay, I b seich you. I urge you.

I use everything within me to encourage you. Friends, brother and sisters,

please by the mercies of God, meaning because God has been so good

to you. Because he's been so good to you, he's given you his

mercy and grace, things you don't deserve. He's given you everything by virtue

of that please love, please wall say, please present your body's living sacrifice

holy acceptable to God. Which is your reasonable service. He's not even radical,

living wrong. We think live for good so radical. No, the

Bible says, what do you mean redical? It's the right thing to do.

He's like, if the bread is wanting to gain, you pay and

gain. Oh, you're so ridical. I paid money for bread. It's

not so, it's it's reasonable. God is saying, I've done so much

for your life. It's only reasonable. Reasonable you live for me. And

this whole thing, this whole ver was one I can summarize himTo this one

word, worship. All of life is about worship. Amen. And verse

two is telling us you can't do this if you don't change your mind.

You can't make all of your life into worship until God, if you don't

change the way you think. If some of your days in the week is

God cannot touch. And God can touch my Saturday. God can catch my

Sunday and maybe Thursday nights too. But God can't touch the other day because

that's mine. Then not all of life is worship. Worship is not the

twenty minutes before at the beginning of the service, there's four songs, two

songs, three songs, twenty songs. If you come from those churches,

I don't know. It's not that singing is part of expressional worship. But

worship is all of life. The Bible says presents your body as a living

sacrifice, living sacrifices on them. You put it on the althar, you

guts get you can crawl off. No, not today, God, maybe

tomorrow. I was sacrificed myself constantly happen. This is a self discipline to

put yourself on the altar every day. Okay, God, I'm yours at

work, I'm yours. In class, I'm yours. When nobody is looking,

I'm yours. How I spend my money is yours. How I don't

spend money is yours. How I treat people, it's yours. How I

treat the God that serves us every day is this worship. The aim of

life is worship, and we cannot do it if we don't change the way

we think. And seriously, if we are honest, we don't think like

we should think, because there are still areas we just do not want God

to touch. We're very protective over certain things. Amen. Again, I'm

not I'm not asking you to be to open yourself up to abuse. You

know, this is a lot of spiritual abuse in churches everywhere, right or

we usually scout like concepts to guilt trip you into serving and giving, and

I don't want to be like that. Get hold me, uncomfortable. This

is not what I'm trying to say. I'm not trying to say give your

life to the church where you know in just six days a week. Now

you're not holy enough. No, yeah, you know holy because you're not

the seven days a week. Uh, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying

everything's worship. Everything. How you talk to your grap driver, it's worship.

How to talk to your kids worship. Everything is worship. How do

you treat your employees? Worship Gods's do everything. Everything means what I'm sorry,

but everything. It's you. When you poop what you got, thiles

always worship you know how you poop poo? Holy? Amen? Everything means

everything. Amen. So we need God to renew our minds so that we

can worship Jesus through our very lives. This is my point today. Why

we need our minds renew and change is so that we can effectively worship Jesus

through everything, not just through songs. Until this is renewed, we can't

fully worship him, which is the point of life to worship Jesus. Amen,

we know what is important because how we think affects how we feel and

how we act, and how we act forms our lifestyle. All the sum

of your behavior becomes your lifestyle. Yeah, your lifestyle lif styf could be

like every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, I jog. That's your lifestyle because

every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, you get up and you put on your

shoes and you run your action. Some of your action becomes your lifestyle.

Every month, every morning you wrote, you do that consistently. It's your

lifestyle. So you want to change your lifestyle, you change the way you

act, You change the way you act. You have to change the way

you think. Now ultimately you get a you have healthy thinking, you have

healthy lifestyle. Follow me so far. So we need God to renew our

minds because that's how we can worship Jesus through our very life. Because how

we think affects, how we act, and how we act forms our lifestyle.

So if you want to live a lifestyle or worship, renew your minds.

Worship God in spirit and in truth. That is to say, worship

God both in your heart and in your mind. The hard part we can

understand because with most of the time worship we feel like, oh I'm so

touch God. Amen, hallelujah. Yes, now I'm challling. Just to

worship God with our mind too. Worship God to the way we think about

business, about family. Amen, Word God in spirit and in truth.

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