-Christ is going to defeat this whole
deal and one of the ways he’s defeating
it is through his children that he came
to save in their minds one of the ways
this thing is being defeated is by him
working through his spirit in the mines
bringing our mind more into the
conformity of the mind of Christ so that
these mindsets are broken when he makes
all things new that’s what he’s doing in
his people he’s making the mindsets new
this this is so important because so
often we get hung up on the externals
it’s the heart of the matter it’s the
mindset people act and live and do
according to their mindsets so what are
some of these mindsets of the world I
give you one one of the mindsets of the
world is that life here is forever
that’s the way they think I mean you
know what I can remember walking into my
house when I actually I wasn’t living
there at the time Ruby and I were
visiting I walk in to my stepdads so I
could just remember being there in the
living room my stepdad had been told he
had liver cancer and he had three months
to live I can remember looking at him
and there is reading the evening paper
with the TV on I’m looking at my dad
reading the newspaper he’s been given
three months to live II read in the
paper the mindset of this world oh if
you ask if you ask the people of this
world are you gonna die well factually
they know factually they’ll tell you
yeah I’m gonna die but you know there’s
a mindset why was it when I was lost I
would ride my motorcycle like like a
madman just barely
on the edge of death because I thought
it was immortal I really did I did not
think I was gonna die that’s how the
world is my dad sitting there even
though he’s been told he’s a dead man
he doesn’t really believe he’s gonna die
that night or tomorrow he believes he’s
got time that’s the mindset of the world
they don’t want to think about eternity
they don’t want to think about the fact
that life comes to an end but what do we
find when we come to the Scriptures what
is the mindset God would have us to have
you are but a vapor you are a little
mist that is here you’re like these
flowers today they’re there tomorrow
they are thrown away you know what the
psalmist did teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom psalm
39 4 O Lord make me know my end and what
is the measure of my days let me know
how fleeting I am folks you know what
that mindset does the mindset of the world
listen Rumi and I just went off to st.
Louis we went over there and we stayed
in a motel for four days hotel my family
was telling me the difference between
hotel motel oh yeah we stayed in a hotel
we went in look we were in that room for
four nights if we would have gone in
there the first night we had a busted
out paint we start painting walls put
new wallpaper up buy a new home
entertainment system put a new carpet in
we’re just decking it out lighters come
down there and say what are you guys
doing oh you know we’re staying here
we’re we wanted to be comfortable buy a
new refrigerator buy a new Posturepedic
mattress we’re putting it off they think
you guys are crazy you’re only here for
four nights do you think say somebody
was crazy if they did that but step back
in light of eternity and look what your
life here is it’s nothing it’s not what
we read in the scriptures about the ages
to come
you tell me in all the millions of ages
to come what is 70 years
what is 80 years it’s like a state and a
motele and you watch the way people
groom their yards the way people buff
their cars the way people decorate their
houses they have a mindset that it is
forever
may God teach us to number our days
life is short brethren you don’t want to
go investing in this world it’s passing
away you