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SELF TALK: Renewing Your Mind in a Broken World
CH 3 – It’s a Crazy World Understand and take courageWe all expect living in this world to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, this is incorrect. It is a wild ride. This world is crazy, full of cracks, flaws, unsound, and way off. The Bible refers to the crazy world as the “World System.” The World System is judged by God and it has a ruler, the Devil. John 12:31 – You will have tribulation in this World System. John 16:33 – Satan has help in causing tribulation. These are fallen angels that were cast out of heaven with him when he rebelled. (Revelation 12:7–9) The…
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What Does It Mean to Be Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind?
The phrase “transformed by the renewing of the mind” is found in Romans 12:2. One of the first of Paul’s exhortations in this letter to the church in Rome was to be renewed in their minds: “ Do not be conformed to this world (any longer with its superficial values and customs), but be transformed and progressively changed (as you mature spiritually) by the renewing of your mind (focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes), so that you may prove (for yourselves) what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His plan and purpose for you). (AMP) Paul is using the word world…
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