the inability of buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress

people we don't like and thinking we can.

it this way most of your unhappiness in life most of your unhappiness in life is
because you listen to you instead of God and when you do that you you you tell
yourself stuff all the time that isn't true just because you have a thought doesn't
mean it's accurate doesn't mean it's true doesn't mean it's correct a lot of things
you think of are not right they're not correct a lot of things I think of aren't
right aren't correct in fact a lot of things I think are actually lying to myself
rationalizing where we tell rational lies to ourselves
Seven weaopons of self destruction

1. shame- the first weapon of self-destruction is shame shame you cannot be happy
and feel
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ashamed at the same time when you feel ashamed when you feel guilty when you
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feel regrets that just robs all your happiness God doesn't want you to walk around
feeling guilty God doesn't want
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you walking around feeling exchanged God once you walk around with regrets in fact
that's why I sent Jesus on on the
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cross to die for all of your sins

2. Uncontrolled thoughts- uncontrolled

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thoughts if you don't learn how to control your thoughts your thoughts will
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ruin your life because you say to stuff to yourself that causes unhappiness
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causes grief causes pressure you must learn how to control your thoughts

3.compulsions compulsions are those inner drives inner desires you can call them
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lust you can call them habits you can call them impulses but they're those things
in your life you feel like I fell
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I just had to do it even though you knew it was wrong I just had to do it and those
compulsions you got to learn how
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to deal with those and how to fight that weapon of self-destruction because if you
do things by your compulsions you'll
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mess up your life

4.fear is an
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enormous destroyer of happiness of potential of God's purpose for your life
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it will limit your life you've got to learn how to master your fears

5.hopelessness hopelessness keeps you from

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keeping on when you start to feel hopeless about anything you get discouraged and
want to give up if you
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feel hopeless about your marriage if you feel hopeless about ever getting married
if you feel hopeless about your
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finances or you feel hopeless about your health hopelessness is a self destructive
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weapon that you use on you and when you turn it inward it robs you of God's plan
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for your life

6.bitterness is a huge weapon

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of self-destruction because life is unfair and we don't all
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get the same thing and life is broken and we're stuck and and some people get
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better than you and you get jealous and you get envious and some people hurt you
you can either get better or bitter and
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bitterness is a cancer that will eat you alive and it will it will it's a poison
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that'll eat you on the inside you never hurt other people with your bitterness like
you hurt yourself you always hurt
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you the most it is a self destructive emotion there is no value to bitterness
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in your life there's no value to holding on to a grudge all it does is make you
miserable

7insecurity you got to deal with this one because if you

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don't learn how to deal with insecurity in your life it's gonna cause you to do
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foolish things when you're insecure and you're trying to show everybody else that
you're very confident you'll say
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stupid things you'll do stupid things you'll pose and the only people
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impressed by posers are other posers okay everybody sees through it
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the only people are impressed by fakes are other fakes so you know when you're
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insecure you can't hide it you have to deal with it now

Roman 7 and Roman 8 - Rmn 8 very impt.

7 mental habits.
1. I must remind myself daily of what Jesus did for me.
we have a lot
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of people who saved you don't act like it they run around all the time filled with
shame and uncontrolled thoughts and
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compulsions and fear and bitterness and insecurity and they're believers but
they're not set free from me and the
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first step is you've got to remind yourself what Jesus actually did for you and
this is how the Holy Spirit sets me
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free from shame let's look at these verses Romans 8:1 2:4 first he says so
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now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Jesus Christ and let me
God doesn't judge you
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for all the things you've done wrong if you've trusted Christ because Jesus took
all that judgment on the cross he
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doesn't have to judge you because Jesus was judged he doesn't have to condemn you
because Jesus took your condemnationthis whole passage is
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talking about people who've given their life to Jesus this doesn't apply to you if
you haven't made that decision yet
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but if you've received Christ into your life the Bible says you're under no
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condemnation that means God doesn't get mad at you when you sin did you hear
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that God does not get mad at you when you said if you belong to Jesus Christ
because he's already taken the payment
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now notice it doesn't say that after I become a Christian I won't sin you're still
gonna sin it
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doesn't say I'm not gonna make mistakes you're still gonna make mistakes it doesn't
say I'm not gonna fail and look
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stupid you're gonna fail and look stupid it just says you're under no condemnation
in other words you don't
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have to walk around with shame you don't have to walk around with guilt because
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when Jesus Christ died on the cross he not only paid for all of the sins you
committed last week
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last year and your entire life he's committed he's already paid for the sins that
you're gonna commit tomorrow next
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week and the rest of your life they're already paid for that's good news that
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is good news no condemnation that means there is no reason for a Christian to
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walk around in shame because I stop and I remind myself Jesus paid for all of my
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sins he already knew before I was born every sin I was gonna do and he paid for
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it now