Sermon Tone Analysis

*At the beginning of the* new *year,* *I* was *asking* the *Lord* *what to minister on*.

I *felt* so *impressed* to *minister* on the *subject* of *renewing the mind* to the Word of God.

I want to *make* that *very clear*, *we* are to *renew* our *minds* *to* *God’s Word*.

I have heard the *New Age people* say, “*/We need to renew our minds/*.”

*They* are *talking about* *renewing* the *mind* to a *new way of thinking*.

This is a total *counterfeit to God’s way*.

(*Really it’s Satan’s way*.)

The *Bible says* that *we are to renew our minds to God’s way*, *to the Word of God*.

*As we get our minds renewed* to the Word, *we will begin to walk in the super natural* *and* we’ll *receive the blessings of God* upon our life.

*Our minds need to be renewed to God’s Word in order for us to receive the promises of God*.

*We need to begin to think the way God thinks*, for us *to receive* *and keep* our *Healing*, *Prosperity*, *Deliverance*, *Safety*.

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I.

Turn with me to /ROM 8:6-7/

        *A.

*The word *“**/CARNAL/**”* *means* “*/flesh/* or */fleshly./*”

“*This Carnal or the fleshly minded person is* */prone to sin and opposed to God/*.”

              *1.

*What this */V/* is telling us is that the *“**/carnal mind/**”* is the *“**/natural mind/**,”* the *“**/unrenewed mind/**” and the unrenewed mind is “**/fleshly/**.”

“**/It is prone to sin and oppose God/**.”

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                    *a. *This *unrenewed mind seeks* to fulfill the *lusts of the flesh.

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               *2.

*It’s *no wonder* that the *natural mind* is *enmity against God*.

*a. **Sometimes*, *without even knowing it*, *our minds are in opposition to God*.

                          *i.

**We can even say**/, “I would never be in opposition to any thing of God/*.”

*ii.

**But if* *our minds are not renewed* *to the Word* of God like they should be, *we’re thinking as natural men*.

*iii.

*The *natural*, *carnal mind* is *opposed to God*.

                    *b. **1 definition* of the *word* “*/Enmity/*” in (*/ROM 8:7/*) means *“**/a reason for opposition./**”

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                          *i.

/1/* *reason* we are *not receiving God’s best* is that our *natural* *mind*, the *unrenewed mind* is the *hindrance*.

*II.

*In *(**/1CO 2:15-16/**) *Paul tells us that those which are *spiritual *and *walking in the spirit* *“/have the mind of Christ/.”

*(KJV)

        *A.

*The *truly Spiritual person* *is someone* that *not only* is “*/Walking in the Spirit/**/, /**/following/**/ the things of the /**/Lord/**/, and /**/seeking/**/ the /**/Lord/**/, but it is /**/also/**/ the /**/person the has their mind renewed to the Word of God/*.”

*1.

*You *can’t be truly spiritual unless we are thinking the way* that *God thinks*, and *God thinks in line with His Word*.

*a. *The *spiritual* *person* will always have their *mind renewed to the Word* of God.

    *III.

**/ROM 12:2/*

        *A.

**How* are you going to *know* the *Will of God? *

              *1.

/1st/* of all this */V/* says that there *has to be a transformation, a change.

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                    *a. *A *transformation from* the *world’s way* *of thinking* or you could say *“/from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind/.”*

*b. *The *only way *that you *get* a *spiritual mind and know* the *Will of God* is to *renew* your *mind *with the Word of God.

              *2.

**/Eph 4:22/*

                    *a. *The word “*/conversation/*” means “*/manner of life/*, */the way of life/* */or/* */conduct/*.”

*b. *We have to put *off the old way of Life, the old way of Thinking*.

*3.

*Let’s go on reading */EPH 4:23/*

                    *a. /1/* */definition/* of the word “*/Spirit/*” means “*/The power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides the Soul/*.”

*b. *The */NIV/* says, “*/To be made new in the attitude of your minds/*.”

*(**/EPH 4:23 NIV/*)

                          *i.

*We are *told* *to change our way of thinking*, to *begin thinking the way God thinks*, or to *renew our minds to the Word* of God.

        *B.

**/PRO 23:7/*

              *1.

**Thinking comes from your mind*.

*2.

*The way you *think *of *yourself* is what *you* will *become.*

*a. *Do you want to *think of yourself* *according* to the *Devil’s standards* *or* do you want to think of yourself *the way God sees you.*

*b. **He sees you as blessed*, *the head not t tail*...

                    *c. *That’s */1/* *reason* why we *need our mind renewed* with the Word, *so* that *we can see ourselves like God does*, and so that we can be the people that that God wants us to be.

                          *i.

*“*/As he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he/*.”

(*/Proverbs 23:7 KJV/*)

        *C.

*Look at* **/COL 3:10/*

              *1.

*The */NIV/* says it this way, “*/And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator/*.”

(*/Colossians 3:10 NIV/*)

                    *a. *I like the */Barclay’s translation/* says, “*/And you have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is progressively renewed, until it reaches fuller and fuller knowledge of God/*.”

Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.[1]

NLT

                          *i.

*That *new nature* that we have is *renewed* *by the Word* of God.

                          *ii.

**Without renewing our minds* to the Word, *we* can *fall back to* that *old nature*, that *carnal*, *fleshly nature*.

*2.

**The **/1st/* thing that *we need to do* is to pick up the Word of God and read it.

*a. **I think* the *best way* is *in the morning* *take* a */V/*, a *paragraph*, a *chapter* and */meditate/* on it *throughout* the *day*.

*b. *Then *later* on in the day, maybe in the *evening*, */study/* out *the Word*.

*i.