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What We Dream We Do | FOUNDRYsermon 2.12.17
What are thing things in life you just simply won't budge on?
I refuse to eat any beans and I believe that sugar in cornbread is horrible. I believe Waylon Jennings is the single greatest country western singer to ever live. I will always pick the Stones over the Beatles.
But I am honest with myself, I also have very broken truths I refuse to budge on. I make assumptions about people and things. I will live completely in my own sinful state because of refusing to make decisions. I won't change my mind. My own hard-headedness will ultimately ruin me.
This week we are talking about the mind. Last week, we talked about the heart. The two are inextricably linked together because they help us to see and express what it means to truly be human. And as disciples of Jesus, our heart and our mind come together to tell a larger story about our lives and the way we live in the Kingdom of God.
We are spending time in Phillipians 2 with Paul's famous words about unity and reading an early hymn of the church.
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The interesting thing about our mind is that we think it is an absolute, never moving. But the way we read about the mind in scripture doesn't show immovability, it shows an insistence upon the mind moving from something we control to something we allow Jesus to control.
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What are thing things in life you just simply won't budge on?
I refuse to eat any beans and I believe that sugar in cornbread is horrible. I believe Waylon Jennings is the single greatest country western singer to ever live. I will always pick the Stones over the Beatles.
But I am honest with myself, I also have very broken truths I refuse to budge on. I make assumptions about people and things. I will live completely in my own sinful state because of refusing to make decisions. I won't change my mind. My own hard-headedness will ultimately ruin me.
This week we are talking about the mind. Last week, we talked about the heart. The two are inextricably linked together because they help us to see and express what it means to truly be human. And as disciples of Jesus, our heart and our mind come together to tell a larger story about our lives and the way we live in the Kingdom of God.
We are spending time in Phillipians 2 with Paul's famous words about unity and reading an early hymn of the church.
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The interesting thing about our mind is that we think it is an absolute, never moving. But the way we read about the mind in scripture doesn't show immovability, it shows an insistence upon the mind moving from something we control to something we allow Jesus to control.