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Sermon Guide: How To Change Your Mind

This sermon guide discusses how to change your mind by rebuilding the sanctuary in your thoughts. It explains that Satan works to dismantle the temple in our minds through abominations like pride, bitterness, unbelief, lack of prayer, and lovelessness. These vessels represent spiritual truths meant to dwell in our minds. The sermon outlines how Ezra and Nehemiah helped free the Jewish people from Babylon by starting to rebuild the physical temple through humility, forgiveness, focus on truth, vision, and love. It encourages writing down and practicing these principles to change our thinking and protect our minds.

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Sermon Guide: How To Change Your Mind

This sermon guide discusses how to change your mind by rebuilding the sanctuary in your thoughts. It explains that Satan works to dismantle the temple in our minds through abominations like pride, bitterness, unbelief, lack of prayer, and lovelessness. These vessels represent spiritual truths meant to dwell in our minds. The sermon outlines how Ezra and Nehemiah helped free the Jewish people from Babylon by starting to rebuild the physical temple through humility, forgiveness, focus on truth, vision, and love. It encourages writing down and practicing these principles to change our thinking and protect our minds.

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SERMON GUIDE

How to Change Your Mind


Your Instructor:
Pastor Ivor Myers

Change Your Mind

Daniel 1:1-2…607 BC
2 Chronicles 36:9-10 597 BC
2 Chronicles 36:11-19 586 BC

Significance of being taken little by little.

Ezekiel 8:5-6 Because of abominations, the temple was dismantled little by little until
it was completely owned by Babylon! Practicing abominations that led the temple
being taken little by little to Babylon. What were those abominations?

Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in
running to mischief,
Pro 6:19  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among
brethren. 

Eye
Tongue
Hands
Heart
Feet
Discord

Human Body…1 Cor.3:16-17!!


All controlled by the mind!

Little by little, Satan works to break down the temple.

Exodus 25:8 Why?

The purpose of the Sanctuary? At-one-ment---Isa.59:2

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Sin...Romans 8:7

These vessels were a reflection of spiritual truths meant to be written in the mind so
that God could dwell with us instead of being separated from us by sin.

They were a reflection of the mind, mentality, God wanted his people to have. But
these articles are captive in Babylon. We think Babylonian.
Our thoughts processes are captivated by Babylon.

Strong man armed: Mt.12:29

Bound by sin, and he spoils our goods.

Sanctuary: 6 avenues to the captured soul.


Pride: Altar of Sacrifice: Humbled himself

Pride: Proverbs 16:18 Pro 16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
before a fall. 

Bitterness: Laver
Bitterness: Hebrews 12:14-15: Follow peace with all men, and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail
of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and
thereby many be defiled;

Unbelief: Word of God


Doubt: Hebrews 3:12 Heb 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 

Lack of Prayer: Incense


Prayerlessness: 2Ch 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 

Dwelling of Darkness: Candlestick


Darkness:
Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved. 

Lovelessness: Ark of the Covenant


1Jn 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that
loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not
seen? 

Jer 51:11  Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the
spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it;
because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 


Isa 45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of
kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be
shut;
Isa 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Isa 44:26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited;
and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed
places thereof:
Isa 44:27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isa 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,
Thy foundation shall be laid.

Cyrus…
Ezr 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the
spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezr 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given
me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an
house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezr 1:3  Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go
up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he
is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. 

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Ezr 1:7  Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which
Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house
of his gods;

Ezra: Begin the reformation: rebuilding the temple: setting free of the mind…
Ezra reforms the temple…Started with the altar…Ezra 3:1-2,

Ezra 4:4-5…build in troublous times

Thought Navigation

Humility: Altar of Sacrifice: 1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty
hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 

Forgiveness: Laver
Mat 18:35  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your
hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. 

Truth: Table
Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 

Focus:
Isa 26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee. 

Vision:
Pro 29:18  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law,
happy is he.

Love:
Rom 13:10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law. 

Ends the reformation: Nehemiah 1:3…Walls and gates broken down still.

Walls protected the Temple:

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Pro 25:28  He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down,
and without walls. 

No Control…
Control over your mind. 

Pro 16:32  He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his
spirit than he that taketh a city. 

Protect the mind.

Writing it: Changing Your Mind

Write these principles: Take time to Humility, Forgiveness, Truth, Focus, Vision, Love:
Practice them. Think on them.

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