The Art of Thinking [THINK!] Dr. Cindy Trimm — Transcript
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- 0:00[Music]
- 0:05hey there everyone
- 0:07a lot of people think that they're
- 0:09thinking but they're actually
- 0:10rearranging their ignorance
- 0:12think about that for a moment one of the
- 0:14greatest skills of the 21st century
- 0:16is the skill of critical thinking
- 0:18critical thinking has nothing to do with
- 0:20emotions
- 0:20which are biochemical and primal in
- 0:23nature
- 0:24it'll surprise you that even if you have
- 0:28a phd or master's degree
- 0:31it's almost like you were dropped out of
- 0:34life and what i mean by that is this
- 0:36that education teaches you what to
- 0:40think but it doesn't teach you how to
- 0:43think
- 0:44and this is why the message of the
- 0:46kingdom is so
- 0:47powerful in this day and age
- 0:50unfortunately that primal state that i
- 0:52mentioned earlier
- 0:54is where most people are living so in
- 0:56this message the art of thinking
- 0:58i'm exploring the parables of jesus in
- 1:01order to
- 1:02challenge you how to
- 1:05think think about that the parables
- 1:08taught by jesus was not
- 1:10just so that you can have a basis for
- 1:12your theology it's really to allow the
- 1:14holy spirit
- 1:15to be like a tour guide to help you to
- 1:18navigate the landscape of your potential
- 1:21and to take you to a place inside
- 1:23yourself
- 1:24that you cannot go by yourself god wants
- 1:27to take you
- 1:28from primal to powerful and through the
- 1:30understanding of these parables
- 1:32you will have the ability to move into
- 1:34new realms of abundance to rethink life
- 1:37and to influence change let's dig in
- 1:41[Music]
- 1:48good evening everyone i'm excited about
- 1:51this series
- 1:52and tonight today this afternoon
- 1:56whenever you're viewing this series i
- 1:57want you
- 1:58to get in a comfortable place if you're
- 2:01driving i want you to really listen but
- 2:04pay attention to
- 2:06what's going on in front of you on the
- 2:07road um
- 2:09those of you that have the opportunity
- 2:11to take copious notes i want you to
- 2:13really take copious notes
- 2:15and don't let anything or anyone
- 2:16distract you at this moment
- 2:19this message really is going to be a
- 2:21message that's going to revolutionize
- 2:23your life
- 2:24i'm taking my message today out of
- 2:26matthew 13
- 2:273 to 13. we're looking at all the
- 2:30parables
- 2:32and today i want to do a simple
- 2:34treatment on why these parables
- 2:36are important the book of matthew
- 2:38chapter 13
- 2:393-13 says and he spake many things unto
- 2:43them in parables saying
- 2:45behold the sower went forth to sow and
- 2:47when he
- 2:48sowed some seed fell by the wayside
- 2:51and the fowls came and devolved them up
- 2:54some fell
- 2:54on stoney places where they had not much
- 2:57earth and forth which
- 2:59they sprung up because they had no
- 3:01dappness
- 3:02in them or in no darkness of the earth
- 3:05and when the sun was up they were
- 3:07scourged and because
- 3:09they had no root they would withered
- 3:11away
- 3:12some fell among the thorns and the
- 3:15thorns sprung up
- 3:16and choked but others fell on good
- 3:18ground
- 3:19and brought forth fruit some 100 full
- 3:22some 60 fold some 30-fold
- 3:24and i know a lot of people think that
- 3:27that has to do with
- 3:29whether some people are going to get a
- 3:32hundredfold or going to get
- 3:3460-fold or going to get 30-fold
- 3:38that is a terminology that simply says
- 3:41whatever the potential is in that
- 3:44particular seed
- 3:46whether that seed is a hundredfold
- 3:49that seed will produce a hundredfold
- 3:52if there's a seed that has the invisible
- 3:55programming within its dna
- 3:57to produce 60 fold that's what it's
- 4:00going to produce so every seed
- 4:02has within itself a hidden um
- 4:07programming that determines the kind of
- 4:10harvest
- 4:11and this is why the type of seed is
- 4:13important
- 4:15but it goes on to say verse number nine
- 4:17whoever has an ear let him hear
- 4:20and uh the disciples came and said unto
- 4:23him why speaketh thou to them
- 4:27in parables and he answered and said
- 4:29unto them because it is given
- 4:31unto you to know the mysteries of the
- 4:33kingdom but
- 4:34to them it is not given for whosoever
- 4:36hath
- 4:37to him shall be given and he shall have
- 4:40abundance
- 4:41but whosoever hath not from him shall be
- 4:43taken away
- 4:44even that which you've had even that
- 4:47which that he hath
- 4:48you've heard of the saying the rich get
- 4:50richer and the poor get poorer
- 4:52so this is a great example of it
- 4:56what you receive is determined by what
- 4:59you
- 5:00have and we're not talking about
- 5:02something that is temporal we're not
- 5:03talking about
- 5:04money we're not talking about houses and
- 5:07land
- 5:07we're talking about whoever has the
- 5:11ability to understand these teaching
- 5:13whoever has the revelation
- 5:16that um christ is preaching preaching
- 5:18about
- 5:19then he'll put his increase on autopilot
- 5:22now i know
- 5:23personally that i love my increase to be
- 5:26on autopilot
- 5:27i love my success to be on autopilot i
- 5:30would
- 5:30absolutely love my wealth to be on
- 5:33autopilot i would love my blessings to
- 5:36be an
- 5:37auto pilot and this is important so
- 5:40as he begins to teach on the message of
- 5:42the kingdom
- 5:44he wants them to understand how valuable
- 5:47this message
- 5:48is the scripture says therefore spake i
- 5:51to them in parables here it is he wants
- 5:54you
- 5:55to be to have full understanding full
- 5:58comprehension
- 5:59he wants you to have a kingdom mentality
- 6:02because your success depends on it your
- 6:05your
- 6:06progress depends on it your wealth
- 6:09depends on it
- 6:10your growth depends on it everything is
- 6:12going to rise and fall
- 6:14on your understanding of the kingdom the
- 6:17bible said i spoke to them
- 6:19in parables because they seeing not
- 6:22and they seeing see not and hearing they
- 6:26hear not
- 6:26neither do they understand so how can
- 6:28someone see
- 6:30and not see and how good how can someone
- 6:32hear not hear
- 6:33well it's very simple to me uh when we
- 6:35talk to someone
- 6:37and we really want them to understand we
- 6:39usually say
- 6:40do you see what i'm saying so to see
- 6:43means do you fully comprehend
- 6:45and this is not just comprehension it's
- 6:48comprehension
- 6:49of a revelation that you receive as a
- 6:52rhema word
- 6:54so that you have immediate application a
- 6:57person who really understands
- 6:59truth usually applies it and you'll see
- 7:01the proof in their life
- 7:03but it's a difference when you
- 7:05understand a word but not the context
- 7:08and this is where a lot of arguments
- 7:09happen a lot of debates
- 7:11where you might be in a conversation and
- 7:13you're talking to someone
- 7:15and you're debating and you're arguing
- 7:17arguing back and forward
- 7:19about the words and you're you're
- 7:21arguing about the semantics
- 7:24and the person would say well that's not
- 7:25what i meant and you're going to argue
- 7:27that's what i
- 7:28said so that means that your context is
- 7:31going to be
- 7:32important and this is the dividing
- 7:35factor between religious
- 7:38christians and those that are kingdom
- 7:41citizens no one said that one person is
- 7:44not more saved than the other
- 7:46but one person is going to have more
- 7:50manifestations of the promises that god
- 7:52has
- 7:53because they not only have the
- 7:55understanding and conceptualization
- 7:58of a word but they understand it based
- 8:01on the context
- 8:02so everywhere jesus went he preached the
- 8:05message of the kingdom and
- 8:07i tell you when it comes to the message
- 8:09of the kingdom
- 8:10a lot of people don't understand the
- 8:13word kingdom and i'm going to be
- 8:14breaking it down
- 8:16as we introduce you to the parables but
- 8:18for all
- 8:19intents and purposes when we talk about
- 8:22the preaching of the message of the
- 8:23kingdom
- 8:24the message of the kingdom is a message
- 8:27that christ
- 8:28preached and it is a message of
- 8:31empowerment
- 8:32that gives meaning hope dignity and
- 8:34purpose not just for christians but for
- 8:36all humanity
- 8:37it would be interesting if governments
- 8:40embrace the teachings of christ
- 8:43and it'll be interesting if other
- 8:45religions
- 8:46embrace the christians of christ in fact
- 8:49it was a statement
- 8:50that um uh
- 8:53mahatma gandhi had made back in the day
- 8:57um he loved the message of christ
- 9:00but he didn't really care for the
- 9:03christians why
- 9:04because we were preaching one thing but
- 9:07we were not living it
- 9:08and if we can just bridge the gap
- 9:11between
- 9:12what we say and what we do i believe
- 9:14that we would be
- 9:15great influencers influences in the
- 9:18world
- 9:19influencers amongst our friends
- 9:21influence
- 9:22influencers in our business influencers
- 9:26in the business arena and the
- 9:27professional arena
- 9:29you would see that we would become more
- 9:31influential
- 9:32if we understood that we should walk the
- 9:35walk
- 9:36and talk the talk not only talk the talk
- 9:38but
- 9:39uh walk the walk as well he said well
- 9:43the reason why they're not able to live
- 9:46in this realm of abundance and abundance
- 9:48is yours is because
- 9:50there is the hearing
- 9:54without comprehension and a lot of
- 9:57people
- 9:57live a life that is frustrated and
- 9:59frustration
- 10:01because they are doing everything they
- 10:03believe
- 10:04that the bible is telling them to do but
- 10:06yet they don't see the manifestation
- 10:09and i've conclude i've made this one
- 10:10conclusion based on where i
- 10:13was at the beginning stages of my
- 10:15christianity
- 10:16and where i am now the difference is me
- 10:20not only believing but applying so the
- 10:23greatest
- 10:23challenge of the church today is not the
- 10:26conversion of
- 10:28sinners to be christians but christians
- 10:31to become believers
- 10:32the bible said that there's going to be
- 10:34a performance of those things that are
- 10:37believed
- 10:38and so uh if you want to see your life
- 10:41in alignment
- 10:43with those promises that he has and
- 10:45there's approximately
- 10:4675 categories of promises
- 10:49and within those promises there are
- 10:51hundreds that that
- 10:52that god has left for uh the
- 10:56uh humanity period and those of us that
- 11:00are believers we should see the
- 11:02manifestation
- 11:03and we should see it in rapid fashion
- 11:06and so the message that jesus preached
- 11:08was a message of empowerment
- 11:10and that message of empowerment was
- 11:13taught to his disciples
- 11:15and all that was listening we all know
- 11:18him going up in the mountain and
- 11:21teaching or preaching the beatitudes we
- 11:24all know about that
- 11:26but did everyone who heard
- 11:30him teach on these things did they leave
- 11:33the mountaintop experience
- 11:35go back down in the valley or go back to
- 11:37their usual life
- 11:38did they apply it did they live it and
- 11:41the proof is
- 11:42always in the pudding and so from
- 11:45that time in matthew chapter 4 17
- 11:49after the temptation of christ
- 11:52the bible said that he was he he was
- 11:55tempted
- 11:56by malevolent forces which who we called
- 11:59the devil
- 12:00and he was tempted at the level of his
- 12:03thoughts and i want you to write that
- 12:04down
- 12:05because the highest form of spiritual
- 12:08warfare
- 12:09is the counsel of the human mind by any
- 12:12other spirit
- 12:12other than the spirit of the lord and
- 12:14this is going to be very important
- 12:17because a lot of people live at the
- 12:19level of their
- 12:20emotions and if you are being attacked
- 12:23at the level of your mind
- 12:25that means one is spiritual and the
- 12:28other
- 12:28is biochemical and bioelectrical
- 12:32so your emotions you the reason why you
- 12:35feel emotions or you have feelings
- 12:37is because of the biochemical reaction
- 12:41to something that you have interpreted
- 12:44so that means that
- 12:46when jesus was preaching the message of
- 12:49the kingdom
- 12:50he wanted to give them context so that
- 12:52they can live an empowered life
- 12:54so that they can interpret what it was
- 12:57going on in the world
- 12:59not from the lenses of culture or the
- 13:02prevailing culture
- 13:04uh but from the lenses of the kingdom
- 13:07which had its own culture
- 13:09and so it means that there was a
- 13:10revolution that had to go on
- 13:13and it was the revolution of our
- 13:14thinking and so as i
- 13:16set this up and from out of matthew 4 17
- 13:20from that time jesus began to preach and
- 13:22to say repent
- 13:24for the kingdom of heaven is at hand as
- 13:27i
- 13:27set this up i want to uh address you
- 13:30today
- 13:32um and in this this particular
- 13:35uh message on a crash a
- 13:38crash course in thinking a crash
- 13:42course in thinking a lot of people that
- 13:45they're
- 13:45think that they're thinking when in fact
- 13:47they're not they're being controlled by
- 13:49the prevailing culture
- 13:50that is characterized by uh conspiracy
- 13:53theories propaganda
- 13:55ideologies that are contrary to humanity
- 13:58when jesus came he wanted to restore our
- 14:02humanity the scripture says he came to
- 14:05seek
- 14:05and to save that which was lost not who
- 14:08was
- 14:08lost but that which was lost and i want
- 14:11to float that as a balloon i'm going to
- 14:13come and come back
- 14:14because our series is really going to
- 14:16challenge challenge you
- 14:18at the level of your thinking and i want
- 14:20to go line by line
- 14:21precept upon pre-set as we introduce you
- 14:25to kingdom thinking in this series or
- 14:28this particular section of our teaching
- 14:32which is a crash course
- 14:35in thinking a lot of people think
- 14:38they're thinking
- 14:39but they're actually just rearranging
- 14:41their ignorance
- 14:43and we have to be careful even as
- 14:46believers
- 14:47that we are not rearranging our
- 14:50ignorance
- 14:51that we are not being controlled by a
- 14:53prevailing culture
- 14:55at the expense of our intellect
- 14:58at the expense of our intelligence as at
- 15:01at the expense of our god-likeness
- 15:04and our god-likeness is demonstrated
- 15:07many ways but primarily
- 15:09in our thought life how we think when
- 15:12god created humanity
- 15:14he gave him the ability to think there
- 15:17was no box
- 15:18he was the innovator of boxes
- 15:22and so if you think outside of a box
- 15:25that means that the box
- 15:27is still your reference and this is why
- 15:29a lot of people
- 15:30are going through life as christians and
- 15:33they're really really frustrated
- 15:35because they're thinking outside of a
- 15:37box
- 15:38and they are not knowing that that box
- 15:40is still their reference
- 15:42so they really have not been liberated
- 15:44in their mind
- 15:45philippians 4 8 and 9 says finally
- 15:48brethren whatsoever things
- 15:50are true whatsoever things are honest
- 15:53whatsoever things are just
- 15:54whatever things are pure whatsoever
- 15:56things are lovely whatsoever things are
- 15:58of a good report
- 15:59if there be any virtue if there be any
- 16:02praise think on these things
- 16:04those things which you have learned and
- 16:06received
- 16:08and heard and seen of me seen in me
- 16:11do and the god of peace shall be with
- 16:14you
- 16:14so this is very important because jesus
- 16:16going back to our text was able to say
- 16:20in seeing they don't see and in the
- 16:22hearing
- 16:23they don't hear in other words they're
- 16:25able to hear words which the average
- 16:27person
- 16:28does but they have no critical thinking
- 16:32a crash course in thinking the parables
- 16:36were preached or taught to the disciples
- 16:40to open up their mind to remove
- 16:42restrictions from offer their mind
- 16:44so that they can think like god so you
- 16:46and i we could think like god
- 16:49we can think creatively we could think
- 16:52innovatively
- 16:53and we no longer are thinking outside of
- 16:55the box what we're doing is creating
- 16:57new boxes new new paradigms new
- 17:00methodologies new philosophies new
- 17:02ideologies the scripture says in
- 17:04philippians 2 and
- 17:065 let this mind be in you which is also
- 17:08in christ jesus
- 17:10and so if you want to know the mentality
- 17:13of an individual if you want to
- 17:15understand the psychology
- 17:17of a person listen to their speech
- 17:20listen to their words why
- 17:22because their speech and words will
- 17:24betray them
- 17:26and it's interesting because a lot of
- 17:28times we get disappointed especially if
- 17:30people make promises we get disappointed
- 17:32if they
- 17:33uh don't make good in their promise or
- 17:35if someone lies to us
- 17:37or someone betrays us we get all upset
- 17:40last night when i was preparing for that
- 17:42i was listening to an interview
- 17:44dmx and dmx says look uh uh
- 17:47you know a lot of people say they don't
- 17:49trust anymore
- 17:51but that's too much energy to say
- 17:54oh i don't trust this person or i don't
- 17:56trust that person it's too much negative
- 17:58energy
- 17:58you need to trust everyone and so the
- 18:01interviewer was interviewing him
- 18:03and you know kind of confused how could
- 18:06you say you trust everyone if
- 18:08people are not trustworthy and he'd
- 18:09begin to break it down
- 18:11he said look think of it this way if you
- 18:14saw a snake
- 18:15you can trust that snake you're going to
- 18:17trust that that snake is going to bite
- 18:19you
- 18:20and if you see a lion you're going to
- 18:22trust that that lion
- 18:24is going to destroy you eat you kill you
- 18:28and so when a person shows you who they
- 18:31are
- 18:31trust them and i thought that's so
- 18:34brilliant because
- 18:36now it puts a different kind of spin on
- 18:39the word
- 18:40trust and a lot of us as christians
- 18:43we don't even trust the process that god
- 18:47brings us through because we we we are
- 18:50so
- 18:50our mindsets and our thoughts actually
- 18:54have been pre-programmed
- 18:57by a counter culture
- 19:00it is the kingdom of darkness it is not
- 19:02the kingdom of light
- 19:04the kingdom of light is a kingdom of
- 19:06empowerment
- 19:07it's a kingdom of wisdom is a kingdom of
- 19:09strategy
- 19:10it's a kingdom of wealth it's a kingdom
- 19:12of empowerment the kingdom of darkness
- 19:15will hold you in ignorance to be
- 19:18in the dark is to be ignorant
- 19:21concerning something and my concern is
- 19:24this
- 19:25that today we have so many people that
- 19:27are educated
- 19:28but they are non-thinkers again we think
- 19:31that we're thinking but we're just
- 19:33moving around
- 19:34our ignorance we're rearranging our
- 19:36ignorance to fit
- 19:38some propaganda or to to to fit
- 19:41something that um is being used to
- 19:44control us
- 19:46and there's so much so much conspiracy
- 19:48theory that is running around
- 19:50this weekend someone said send something
- 19:53to me
- 19:53that was supposed to be from someone
- 19:56that was
- 19:56in authority and i ripped straight
- 19:59through
- 20:00their um thesis their thesis was built
- 20:04on fallacy and
- 20:06you know everyone was afraid and this is
- 20:08an authority an authority on what
- 20:11and i began to realize how important
- 20:13this message is
- 20:14because we have lost our ability to
- 20:17think
- 20:18critically we have not only lost our
- 20:20ability to
- 20:22think critically and let me backtrack
- 20:24for a moment what do you mean
- 20:25well a critical think thinker is not
- 20:28going to take anything
- 20:30at face value they're going to raise
- 20:32questions
- 20:33and this is why i love the teachings of
- 20:36the parables
- 20:38because the parables were structured in
- 20:41such a way
- 20:42that it didn't give you answers it built
- 20:45capacity
- 20:46in your thinking process so that you can
- 20:49ask
- 20:49questions the parables were ponderables
- 20:53it was something that was meant for you
- 20:55to walk away
- 20:57ask questions and ponder on it
- 21:00and the thing about the living in the
- 21:03kingdom is this
- 21:04that we are encouraged to ask questions
- 21:09and asking questions helps uh
- 21:12us to be restored in uh god's
- 21:16original way or restore it back
- 21:19to god's original way of of crea
- 21:23of uh or original original
- 21:26um idea
- 21:30to create man as thinking beings so
- 21:33we're restored
- 21:34back to a mindset and a psychology
- 21:37that we are not victims of circumstances
- 21:41life is not happening to any of us we
- 21:43are happening to life as a man
- 21:46think it in his heart so is he
- 21:49so uh if i were to observe the average
- 21:52person's life
- 21:53i could basically tell you what they're
- 21:55thinking
- 21:56because everything that we think
- 21:59eventually manifests in our lives
- 22:02but no one wants to take responsibility
- 22:04so we blame it on the devil we blame it
- 22:06on our ex-wife
- 22:07we blame it on government we blame it on
- 22:09our boss
- 22:10it's this whole big blame game going on
- 22:13because people quite frankly are afraid
- 22:16to think
- 22:17for themselves the thing about slavery
- 22:21is not the physical bondage
- 22:24the travesty about slavery is the mental
- 22:28bondage
- 22:29you see you could throw a man in prison
- 22:32and he still be free
- 22:33why because he's free in his mind
- 22:36and that is a nelson mandela
- 22:40story 27 years in prison
- 22:44and he decided that he was going to come
- 22:46out release everyone
- 22:49and forgive everyone that had had ever
- 22:53uh released propaganda about him that he
- 22:56was
- 22:56uh he was a terrorist
- 23:00and everything else they said about him
- 23:02and he came out
- 23:03and forgave them and the rest is history
- 23:06the same
- 23:06culture that oppressed him he eventually
- 23:09shifted that culture
- 23:10because he became the first man of color
- 23:14to be the president of south africa and
- 23:16it's
- 23:17interesting because when we when we
- 23:19think about the mind
- 23:21we don't think about how powerful the
- 23:23mind is
- 23:24your mind is not your brain we have this
- 23:27saying mind over matter
- 23:29and that means that you don't have to
- 23:33be an individual
- 23:36that knee jerks at life you can be a
- 23:39vict
- 23:40victor you don't have to be a victim you
- 23:43can live the life of your dreams
- 23:45because every single day you get a
- 23:48chance to choose what you think on
- 23:51again as a man as a woman thinketh in
- 23:53her heart so
- 23:54is he or she the bible says in first
- 23:57corinthians 2 16
- 23:59for who have the mind of the lord that
- 24:02he may instruct him
- 24:04but we have the mind of christ one
- 24:06scripture says let this mind be in you
- 24:08which is also in christ jesus
- 24:10we have the mind of christ and so how do
- 24:13we
- 24:13set this up today how do we communicate
- 24:17to you
- 24:17that these parables are important for
- 24:20you to understand
- 24:22because each parable gives you
- 24:25a crash course in the art of thinking
- 24:29because if you can think you can think
- 24:32your way out of anything
- 24:33and into anything as long as you have
- 24:36control of your thoughts
- 24:38nothing externally will control you the
- 24:42government
- 24:42can't the economy can't that means
- 24:46that you consent to participate
- 24:50or you can decide not to participate
- 24:53i remember a couple of weeks ago
- 24:56we had the gas shortage and everyone was
- 24:59running around
- 25:00and i was saying to my husband listen we
- 25:03always have gas shortages
- 25:05shortest shortages and i don't care
- 25:08why they say there's a gas shortage uh
- 25:12they need to get uh spending so they're
- 25:15gonna get you spending
- 25:16it's a part of propaganda isn't it to
- 25:19create
- 25:20a feeling that there's a lack so that
- 25:23everyone can rush
- 25:25and buy it's a pr part of propaganda
- 25:28and then a couple of days later all of a
- 25:30sudden
- 25:31we have all the gas available i remember
- 25:35with the economic
- 25:36downturn in 2008 where the bubble busted
- 25:40and everybody was running around and
- 25:42they were afraid
- 25:44and i decided not to participate
- 25:47and that is because i have the ability
- 25:49to think
- 25:50for my self so in any kind of
- 25:53conversation
- 25:55you don't have to be controlled by
- 25:58someone's opinion
- 25:59and it's a problem that we're having
- 26:01today because of social media
- 26:03people sit on other people's timeline
- 26:05they sit on social media
- 26:07trying to figure out what people think
- 26:09about them but what do you think about
- 26:11yourself
- 26:12what people feel about them what what do
- 26:14you feel about yourself
- 26:16one of jesus christ's go-to
- 26:20teaching tools was parables one of the
- 26:23things that james
- 26:24l fowler said he called them
- 26:27uh pictorial ponderables
- 26:30and i was pondering on pictorial
- 26:32ponderos
- 26:34and i understood what it meant you do
- 26:36not
- 26:37think in words most people think that
- 26:39they think in words
- 26:40but they don't think in words you don't
- 26:41think in words
- 26:43you think in images and then if you want
- 26:46to communicate
- 26:48your thoughts you try to communicate it
- 26:51with words
- 26:53and this is why word smithing is
- 26:54important this is why you have to
- 26:56understand
- 26:57what advertisers are doing and marketing
- 27:00our marketers are doing what they're
- 27:03doing is they want to paint a
- 27:05picture in your mind especially when it
- 27:08comes to
- 27:09uh spending they want to paint a picture
- 27:11in your mind
- 27:12so that that image that comes up
- 27:16is attached to a the driving force the
- 27:20psychology of you but
- 27:21you're buying and that picture comes up
- 27:24so that you can see yourself
- 27:26living in it you could see yourself
- 27:28driving it
- 27:29you could see yourself wearing it you
- 27:31could see yourself
- 27:32running in it and it's all based on
- 27:35words
- 27:36now if i communicate with you there are
- 27:39pictures that go
- 27:39are going on in my mind images that are
- 27:42going on in my mind
- 27:43and what i do is use the secondary
- 27:46conduit and that is words and so if i'm
- 27:50using
- 27:51the this conduit now i've got to paint a
- 27:54picture in your mind
- 27:56and so this is why stories a picture is
- 27:59worth a thousand words
- 28:00this is why we are storytellers and
- 28:03jesus
- 28:04was a master at storytelling
- 28:07because they were designed to give
- 28:09deeper understanding
- 28:11to those that were hearing and listening
- 28:14of what this
- 28:14kingdom was all about what the benefits
- 28:17of the kingdom was
- 28:18how to understand the kingdom and quite
- 28:21frankly
- 28:22it is still a mystery today the average
- 28:25person of you i
- 28:25asked them what is the kingdom of heaven
- 28:28they're going to give you
- 28:29i don't know what they're going to give
- 28:31you but oftentimes people
- 28:32hear it they they speak it but they
- 28:36don't have
- 28:36an understanding of it because if your
- 28:38concept is wrong
- 28:40your conclusion is going to be wrong
- 28:42whenever he taught he talked with
- 28:43authority he
- 28:45proclaimed the truth and he just wanted
- 28:48his disciples and the people that were
- 28:49listening
- 28:50to really get it and so all of the
- 28:53parables that he spoke it
- 28:54they're diverse um but they were
- 28:57formulated to give
- 28:59a clear definition of each of the
- 29:02parables which were sometimes very
- 29:04complex
- 29:06and very difficult now jesus used the
- 29:09arist
- 29:10aristolean and the um socratic
- 29:14method of teaching and the
- 29:17socratic method of teaching is a
- 29:19brilliant way
- 29:20of of building intellectual muscles
- 29:24in in his teachers and what he would do
- 29:27he would pose different kinds of
- 29:31scenarios
- 29:32and then ask them uh
- 29:36to uh come to a conclusion
- 29:40and uh he would present it in such a way
- 29:43this is the teachings of socrates
- 29:45he would present it in such a way that
- 29:48they left with more questions than
- 29:50answers and as long as people are giving
- 29:54you
- 29:54all the answers you will never
- 29:58become an intellect you will never
- 30:00understand how to think for yourself
- 30:04and why is this important it is
- 30:06important
- 30:07because the educational system the
- 30:10current
- 30:10educational system has done a disservice
- 30:14to humanity it doesn't matter whether
- 30:17you have a ba
- 30:18a masters a phd or
- 30:22you're a dropout if you have been
- 30:24through
- 30:25the typical educational institution
- 30:28which is
- 30:28all of us all of us have been through
- 30:30the educational institution
- 30:33all of us have been taught what to
- 30:37think but not how to think
- 30:41and hearing that lies the problem
- 30:44because if you are in an environment
- 30:47that makes you
- 30:48think it's easy to be frustrated because
- 30:51we
- 30:52we are trained to have other people
- 30:55thinking for us
- 30:56and if you're in an environment that
- 30:58demands that you think
- 31:00it can be the most frustrating thing
- 31:02when you want
- 31:03people to tell you what to think it
- 31:05could be frustrating
- 31:07but when jesus taught the parables he
- 31:10wasn't teaching them
- 31:11what to think he was teaching them how
- 31:14to think
- 31:16and so in the simplest understanding
- 31:20that i received as i begin to study the
- 31:23importance of the parables
- 31:24parables are the usage of metaphors
- 31:28and similes that are drawn from nature
- 31:31from everyday common life uh that
- 31:34arrests
- 31:34the intellect of the hera
- 31:38because it's such a strange parallel
- 31:42here you're teaching about the kingdom
- 31:44and then you throw in
- 31:46an example about a woman making bread
- 31:50or you're teaching about the kingdom and
- 31:52you're talking about
- 31:53seed in the ground or you're teaching
- 31:56about the kingdom
- 31:57and you're you throw in an example or a
- 32:00parable
- 32:01about someone fishing and what does
- 32:03fishing have to do with the kingdom
- 32:04and what does uh making bread have to do
- 32:07with the kingdom and
- 32:08what does uh seed have to do with the
- 32:11kingdom and
- 32:12all this agrarian uh parables the
- 32:15parable of the wheat and the tears and
- 32:18the parable of a light under the bushel
- 32:21and the
- 32:21parable of the man who gave money to
- 32:25people and
- 32:26all of these parables can you just tell
- 32:29us and the answer is no why because if
- 32:32someone thinks
- 32:33for you they insult your intelligence
- 32:36and the moment your intelligence is
- 32:38insulted
- 32:39the moment they strip you of the thing
- 32:42that makes you
- 32:42like god and that's your ability not to
- 32:45think outside of the box
- 32:47the ability to create a box so that you
- 32:50bring to the table
- 32:52problem solving strategies
- 32:55so he wanted them to be problem solvers
- 32:58not just preachers not just people that
- 33:00hung out in the temple
- 33:02he wanted them to go into all the world
- 33:05and preach the gospel
- 33:06again the gospel is not just jesus saved
- 33:10the gospel is a message that gives
- 33:12meaning and hope
- 33:13dignity and purpose to all humanity and
- 33:16i believe
- 33:17that every one of us could use an extra
- 33:20dose
- 33:20of meaning an extra dose a purpose an
- 33:23extra dose
- 33:24of dignity we can all use an extra dose
- 33:27of it
- 33:27because if you have that you will live
- 33:30in the realm
- 33:31of abundance you will know no lack
- 33:34and if you can understand this if i if
- 33:37you don't understand
- 33:38anything else that i'm saying as i lay
- 33:40the foundation to teach about
- 33:42the parables to teach about the parables
- 33:45it means that you have the ability to
- 33:47move into new realms
- 33:49of greatness that this could technically
- 33:52be the ending of you living in obscurity
- 33:56and the back in the back in the dark in
- 33:59the corner in the booth
- 34:01you can come out you can come out strong
- 34:04and you
- 34:05can influence change within your family
- 34:07within your community within your
- 34:09industry wherever you are
- 34:11you can be an influencer and you know i
- 34:15i think of all the people that lived as
- 34:17individuals but
- 34:18died as an institution i think a prada
- 34:21gucci all of these uh individuals that
- 34:24that made the world
- 34:25a different place and a better place and
- 34:28they lived as
- 34:29individuals but they died as
- 34:31institutions and i believe that
- 34:33that's what god wants for you he wants
- 34:36you yes
- 34:37live as an individual but another
- 34:39generation should know that you lived
- 34:41history should not be allowed
- 34:45to uh uh erase you
- 34:49out of the annals of time
- 34:52where greatness and great acts were
- 34:55recorded
- 34:56by man who had the uncommon ability
- 35:00to think differently and so these
- 35:04parables were spoken firstly
- 35:06why parables firstly i believe it was a
- 35:09tool that jesus used to take
- 35:11people into a place within themselves
- 35:15that they could not go by themselves and
- 35:17i'm gonna say it again
- 35:20when jesus spoke the parables
- 35:23it gave the holy spirit an opportunity
- 35:27to be a tour guide not for them to tour
- 35:30the landscape
- 35:31outside of them but to to to
- 35:35tour the landscape inside of them why is
- 35:37it important
- 35:38it is important to understand this
- 35:40because the kingdom of heaven
- 35:42is not outside of you the kingdom of
- 35:45heaven
- 35:46is within you it is a way of life it is
- 35:49a paradigm
- 35:50it's the way that you it's your motives
- 35:52operandi
- 35:53it's inside of you so when he spoke the
- 35:56parables
- 35:58it gave god it gave the holy spirit
- 36:02to become a tour guide to
- 36:05to take them within themselves
- 36:10to a place where they could not go by
- 36:14themselves
- 36:15so let me break it down even further why
- 36:18would jesus preach the peril why
- 36:20would he teach the parable why is it
- 36:24important for all believers to
- 36:26understand
- 36:27the importance of the parable the
- 36:29parables once you read them
- 36:32allows the holy spirit to take you
- 36:36into a place within yourself
- 36:39that you cannot go by yourself
- 36:41philippians 2 and 5 says let this mind
- 36:43be in you
- 36:44which is also in christ jesus so jesus
- 36:47preached the message of the kingdom
- 36:49and he preached it in such a way that it
- 36:51assisted
- 36:52in helping the hearers to understand
- 36:56the complexity of who they were
- 36:59as kingdom citizens solomon says
- 37:02something he said i saw something
- 37:03incredible
- 37:05he said i saw princes walking and i saw
- 37:08servants riding on horses and this is
- 37:10what's happening there is something
- 37:12in you that is telling you every single
- 37:15day
- 37:15that you're bigger you're better you
- 37:17deserve to have more
- 37:18and you feel it sometimes you're afraid
- 37:21to speak
- 37:22it but when a person treats you
- 37:25in a way that is incongruent with how
- 37:28you feel about yourself
- 37:30you become offended and instead of
- 37:32allowing that
- 37:33negative energy to to um
- 37:37roll in your body and in your mind and
- 37:40turn it into
- 37:41bitterness people get offended and if
- 37:43the offense
- 37:44is not um it is not dealt with it turns
- 37:48into bitterness
- 37:49and bitterness turns into arthritis is
- 37:52one of the
- 37:52contributing factors of on of of
- 37:54arthritis
- 37:56and um it's it's it's not the
- 37:59it's not the uh medical but
- 38:02it is an emotional contributing factor
- 38:05and
- 38:06a lot of people end up offended and
- 38:09and without the strategy for dealing
- 38:12with the offense
- 38:14so i i want to teach you something and
- 38:16this mindset
- 38:18if you would just take the offense which
- 38:20is just a feeling
- 38:22and the reason why the average person
- 38:25never succeeds
- 38:26is because every decision that they make
- 38:28is driven by
- 38:29feelings it's driven by emotions
- 38:34a crash course in thinking
- 38:37thinking has nothing to do with your
- 38:39emotions
- 38:40and as long as you are allowing uh your
- 38:43emotions to dictate
- 38:46to a decision that you're making you
- 38:48will always be a victim of circumstance
- 38:50you will have no control over your life
- 38:53if you want to take
- 38:54the person of your personal power back
- 38:56you need to you need to learn how to
- 38:58manage your emotions feel your emotions
- 39:00that's fine
- 39:01but never do anything with your emotions
- 39:04is like
- 39:05uh dating to me how many of you have
- 39:08ever been medly in love and then you
- 39:10ended up marrying this person that you
- 39:12were
- 39:13madly in love with and after a couple of
- 39:15weeks or a
- 39:16couple of months they got on your last
- 39:18nerve and you asked this question
- 39:20what was i thinking well well maybe you
- 39:23weren't
- 39:24maybe it was just emotions there's a
- 39:27song that says
- 39:28it's just my emotions slipping away from
- 39:31me
- 39:32if you don't want to uh
- 39:36go through life responding from a
- 39:40primal state write this down
- 39:43god wants to take you from primal to
- 39:46powerful
- 39:48he is not giving you power
- 39:52just so that you can feel the power
- 39:56he's giving you power over your emotions
- 39:58power to create
- 39:59wealth he's giving you power over the
- 40:02enemy
- 40:03he's giving you power and you can live
- 40:06in a state of power power for the rest
- 40:09of your life as
- 40:10long as you understand that if you
- 40:12respond
- 40:13from your primal state you are going to
- 40:15always be controlled
- 40:17by external um forces of control
- 40:20and people when you see something
- 40:24how do you how do you think about an
- 40:25offense how do you think about offense
- 40:27firstly
- 40:27you recognize that when you feel
- 40:30offended
- 40:31it's attached to your core values
- 40:34so what you need to do is to go all the
- 40:36way back
- 40:37scale back think about your core values
- 40:41and rather than being offended by
- 40:44something that a person did or didn't do
- 40:46or being offended by something that a
- 40:48person said or didn't say
- 40:50rather than be offended i i what i want
- 40:53you to do is go all the way back
- 40:56and what you do is values clarification
- 40:59it was your responsibility to
- 41:02clearly communicate your values
- 41:06nobody around you should have to play a
- 41:09guessing game
- 41:11so as long as you understand this
- 41:14that you are not a victim of
- 41:15circumstances stuff is not happening to
- 41:17you
- 41:18and the reason why there are adversities
- 41:21and problems there are
- 41:23um disappointments it has nothing to do
- 41:27with the emotions what god is doing
- 41:31is allowing you to go in
- 41:34to yourself and allow the holy spirit
- 41:38to take you in to yourself and places
- 41:42in yourself that you do not have the
- 41:45ability
- 41:46to go by yourself and i'm hoping that
- 41:48you get this
- 41:50so the next time someone hurts you the
- 41:52next
- 41:53time someone rejects you the next time
- 41:56someone betrays you the next time
- 41:59someone lies
- 42:00on you what i want you to do is take a
- 42:02deep breath i want you to
- 42:04stop you
- 42:07are no longer going to be controlled by
- 42:10your emotions
- 42:12your emotions is an internal thing
- 42:16i can't feel them for you but a lot of
- 42:18times
- 42:19they are processed through what i call
- 42:22the
- 42:23fatal flaw of humanity and the fatal
- 42:26flaw happened in the garden of eden
- 42:29when adam gave his power away to satan
- 42:33and he lost his ability to think
- 42:38he lost his ability to think and when
- 42:40you look at that story
- 42:42you see this big blame gate game
- 42:45well adam why did you because the woman
- 42:48and all of us are guilty of projecting
- 42:52we project our uh
- 42:56our maladaptive sets
- 42:59of behavioral behavior and responses
- 43:02we project that onto others
- 43:07and i i i've seen it so many times where
- 43:11people don't want to take 100
- 43:13responsibility because i i've been
- 43:16in um settings where someone makes a
- 43:20joke
- 43:20and everybody's laughing and one person
- 43:22is offended
- 43:24and i thought the other day why would
- 43:26they be offended
- 43:27everybody else is laughing it is because
- 43:30of what's going on
- 43:32on the inside of them the bible says
- 43:34that it's
- 43:35not what comes into a man
- 43:38it's what goes out of a man it's the
- 43:42state of a person's
- 43:43heart and so if we
- 43:46begin to deal with our thought life and
- 43:49and our mindset
- 43:50and begin to understand that every
- 43:52single day
- 43:53things occur to us because they first
- 43:57flow
- 43:57through us and then they come to us
- 44:01as a man thinketh in his heart so if you
- 44:04run around and think that everybody
- 44:06doesn't like you and everybody's not
- 44:07going to like
- 44:08you guess what that's your perception of
- 44:10it but if you can
- 44:11just if you can just harness your
- 44:13thought life
- 44:15and understand how much of your creative
- 44:18genius is going to waste and your
- 44:20intelligence is going to
- 44:22wait waste because you become an
- 44:25emotional mess
- 44:26everything that happens to you you are
- 44:29trying to interpret it through your
- 44:31emotions
- 44:32well i feel well feelings come and go
- 44:35i didn't feel like getting up this
- 44:38morning
- 44:38because i was i stayed up late last
- 44:41night but that was a decision that i
- 44:43made and did i get up
- 44:46absolutely why because i'm not subject
- 44:50to be controlled by my feelings
- 44:53i have to think through things i have to
- 44:56process things
- 44:57at a higher level so many people think
- 45:00that they're thinking
- 45:01but unfortunately they are merely
- 45:04rearranging their ignorance and i want
- 45:06you to write that down
- 45:07we are told that we must think outside
- 45:10of the box and again
- 45:11as long as you're thinking outside of
- 45:13the box and the box in this
- 45:15in this in this series is culture then
- 45:18culture always becomes your reference
- 45:20point
- 45:20but if we can get you to think outside
- 45:24of the kingdom or use the kingdom
- 45:26as a reference point if we can get you
- 45:28to pivot in this season if we can get
- 45:30you to change the way that you
- 45:32think you will begin to see some amazing
- 45:35things happening in your life when adam
- 45:37fell
- 45:38the first man he didn't lose his ability
- 45:40to think
- 45:43what he lost was his ability to think
- 45:45like god
- 45:47he lost his ability to think
- 45:50about the opportunities and to
- 45:54think differently about opportunities
- 45:57he lost his ability to think differently
- 46:00about failure
- 46:01most people if they fail they consider
- 46:03themselves a failure
- 46:04but that's not your identity and what
- 46:07god is doing is restoring
- 46:09our ability to think so that you think
- 46:11about opportunities differently
- 46:13you think about failure differently you
- 46:15think about betrayal differently
- 46:17you think about the kingdom differently
- 46:19success
- 46:20prosperity mentorship purpose legacy all
- 46:24those things
- 46:25you want to think differently and that's
- 46:27what understanding the kingdom is going
- 46:29to do for you
- 46:30you're going to think about god
- 46:31differently you're going to think about
- 46:33salvation
- 46:34your worship you're going to think about
- 46:36your disappointments
- 46:37everything you're going to think
- 46:39differently because
- 46:40perspective is everything and when you
- 46:43understand that every every everything
- 46:46in life
- 46:46all of our life experiences is about
- 46:49perspective
- 46:50is your perspective if you put 10 people
- 46:53in a room
- 46:54everyone's going to have a different
- 46:56perspective so it is with the kingdom
- 46:59what what what god wants to do
- 47:02is to use these parables so that the
- 47:06holy spirit
- 47:07you allow the holy spirit to take you
- 47:10into a place in yourself that you cannot
- 47:14go
- 47:14by yourself this is what the parable is
- 47:17all about
- 47:18the parables is not for you to just run
- 47:21around
- 47:21as a theologian and teach it if
- 47:25if you have not allowed those parables
- 47:27to sink
- 47:28in to your subconscious mind to create a
- 47:31paradigm shift
- 47:32to remove limitations that are
- 47:35self-imposed or culturally imposed
- 47:38to enlarge your territory to help you to
- 47:41think bigger
- 47:42you have missed the purpose for teaching
- 47:45the parables perspectives are everything
- 47:48and i'm going to say it again i'm going
- 47:50to keep hammering it the
- 47:52parables were taught so that it would
- 47:56give
- 47:56god and the holy spirit an opportunity
- 48:00to become your tour guide so that
- 48:03they can take you in to
- 48:06yourself to a place where you cannot go
- 48:10by your self he's your creator
- 48:14and if culture has molded
- 48:17your mindset that means that you're not
- 48:20thinking like yourself god is going to
- 48:24take you
- 48:25to dimensions in yourself that you
- 48:27cannot go by yourself
- 48:29he's going to take you into dimensions
- 48:32in yourself
- 48:33that you cannot go by yourself how do i
- 48:36know it
- 48:37i know it because the average person
- 48:40thinks more about what other people are
- 48:42thinking and what government is doing
- 48:44and
- 48:45who's doing what and propaganda and this
- 48:48is what
- 48:48they talk about 24 7
- 48:52and when it comes down to asking people
- 48:55well what do you think about
- 48:56they're going to quote something that
- 48:58someone else is
- 49:00has thought and when i think about it
- 49:03i think about jabez jabez
- 49:06was rejected by his mother and his
- 49:09community
- 49:10and neither his family or community
- 49:13imagine him
- 49:14doing anything else but being a pain in
- 49:17the butt because that's what his name
- 49:19means the one that brings
- 49:21pain can you imagine people calling your
- 49:24name
- 49:25and they don't expect anything from you
- 49:29and somewhere in his prayer
- 49:32god took him in himself
- 49:36to a place that he could not go by
- 49:39himself
- 49:40and he prays this prayer in enlarge my
- 49:43territory
- 49:44give me the the ability to think bigger
- 49:48because we rise to the level of people's
- 49:51expectations
- 49:53and a lot of times if you're rising to
- 49:55people's expectations
- 49:57it's it's with frustration and if people
- 50:00are able to see potential in you that
- 50:04you cannot see
- 50:05your in yourself and when they put you
- 50:08in an
- 50:08environment and then they set the um
- 50:12measuring rod not to the level of your
- 50:15performance
- 50:17but to the level of your potential many
- 50:20of us have never had the opportunity
- 50:22because most people don't expect much
- 50:25from you and this is why you have
- 50:26supervisors
- 50:28when you go on a job and they give you a
- 50:30supervisor is because they
- 50:32already are saying to you i cannot trust
- 50:34you
- 50:35but if you are in a position where
- 50:38people are saying go for it
- 50:40here are the goals i know you have it in
- 50:42you and
- 50:43that frustrates you you
- 50:47know something is wrong you know
- 50:50that you are being controlled by the
- 50:52prevailing culture
- 50:54that accepts mediocrity
- 50:57as a performance level
- 51:00but if you can ever understand that
- 51:02living in this kingdom
- 51:04is about excellence and that if someone
- 51:07is raising the bar
- 51:09they're raising the bar because they
- 51:11believe in you
- 51:12when i think of god using parables
- 51:16to take us into a place
- 51:19in ourselves that we cannot go by
- 51:22ourselves i think of jacob
- 51:25jacob was a brilliant man he was
- 51:29he he was he was uh he was honorable
- 51:32he was a man of integrity but check this
- 51:35out his twin brother was jealous
- 51:37his trim brother encouraged people
- 51:41and convinced people that his brother
- 51:44was this manipulator
- 51:45but god saw something different god said
- 51:50uh esau have i hated jacob have a do i
- 51:53love in other words i prefer him why
- 51:56because man look on the outward
- 51:57appearance but god looks at the heart
- 52:00have you ever been in a place where
- 52:01people misunderstood
- 52:04you and where they called you one thing
- 52:06but you know you weren't that thing
- 52:08have you ever been to that place i say
- 52:11look
- 52:12don't argue with them that's their
- 52:14opinion of you
- 52:15what do you feel about yourself
- 52:18the parables are taught to take you
- 52:22into a place within yourself that you
- 52:25cannot go
- 52:26by yourself jacob had to wrestle the
- 52:28bible said that he wrestled
- 52:30with this angel and when he came out
- 52:33he came out with this angel actually
- 52:37introduced israel to
- 52:40jacob and said jacob this is who you
- 52:42really are
- 52:43you have rave you have risen to the
- 52:46standard you have been hitting your head
- 52:48on this invisible lid
- 52:52and people don't expect you to perform
- 52:56at any other level
- 52:57and it's like even if you tried to tell
- 53:00them well that's not me nobody believed
- 53:02because your brother has done a good job
- 53:05implanting negativity
- 53:07in the hearts of people that you're
- 53:08working with so that everywhere you go
- 53:11this bad reputation is following you and
- 53:13you know that that's not you
- 53:15and you're proven to your uncle listen
- 53:18uh you know i'm gonna prove to you that
- 53:20i'm this good person
- 53:21he had to prove to his father he's a
- 53:23good person everywhere he went
- 53:25and finally the holy spirit took him to
- 53:28a place
- 53:29in himself that he couldn't go by
- 53:32himself
- 53:32and when he came out he went in as jacob
- 53:35but he came out as
- 53:36israel and so this is the intent of the
- 53:39parables
- 53:40i could think about jabez i could think
- 53:42about jacob
- 53:43i could think how god changed sarai's
- 53:46name to sarah
- 53:48abram's name to abraham gideon was a
- 53:51general
- 53:51but he was hiding um within the culture
- 53:56and it was a culture of oppression and
- 53:58he was just getting by
- 54:01and he had this encounter and god took
- 54:04him
- 54:04into himself into a place that he
- 54:07couldn't go by himself
- 54:09and after god got through with him he
- 54:11was a general
- 54:12i could think about esther i could think
- 54:14about moses i could think about
- 54:16gideon i could think about jephthah jeff
- 54:19just
- 54:20ended up in gang banging because his
- 54:23brothers
- 54:24his half-brothers hated him i could
- 54:26think about
- 54:27david where he's this um
- 54:31child from an extramarital
- 54:34one-night stand and the mother says i
- 54:37don't want you
- 54:38so the father took him home and when he
- 54:40took him home
- 54:41for the rest of his life all of his
- 54:43brothers reminded him
- 54:45that you are half brother and i want to
- 54:48use a word but i'm not going to
- 54:49use the word but he lived with that
- 54:53until one day god introduced him to
- 54:56himself
- 54:57anointed him and caused a
- 55:00goliath this this um
- 55:04uh giant caused this
- 55:08terrorist attack to show up just
- 55:11when he was in service and he was the
- 55:14only one
- 55:16that can solve the nation's terrorist
- 55:18attack why
- 55:20because he was called to be the
- 55:23king and this was an introduce
- 55:26introduction
- 55:27to his destiny a lot of times we're
- 55:29given opportunities to solve
- 55:31problems within the workplace to solve
- 55:34problems within our family and we end up
- 55:36being bitter we end up being
- 55:38you know we say dumb stuff like i'm
- 55:39getting paid for this
- 55:41but a lot of times what god is using
- 55:43these situations and circumstances
- 55:46disasters rejection all of that
- 55:49to take you to a place in yourself that
- 55:50you cannot go by yourself
- 55:52and so the parables
- 55:56were meant to expose the strongholds
- 56:00the faulty belief systems the
- 56:02self-imposed or the
- 56:04culturally imposed limitations
- 56:07and lids the defense mechanisms
- 56:10that prohibits us from becoming
- 56:13everything
- 56:14we have the potential of being and i'm
- 56:17hoping that you get that
- 56:19it's not about the betrayal of joseph
- 56:24but who he became as a result he was
- 56:26able to say look
- 56:29that betrayal took me to a place in
- 56:32myself that i could not go by myself
- 56:37and god used it as a refining process
- 56:40because it was never about his brothers
- 56:43it was about joseph it was about his
- 56:46destiny
- 56:47stop making everything about everybody
- 56:50else stop looking at what's wrong and
- 56:53what they said and
- 56:54what they how they hurt you stop
- 56:58if you are going to be great in this
- 57:00kingdom
- 57:02firstly you got to understand what comes
- 57:04to you
- 57:06first comes through you what comes
- 57:09to you first flows through you
- 57:12as a man thinketh in his hearts
- 57:16so is he thoughts of things
- 57:20and if you could just change your
- 57:22thoughts
- 57:23all this stuff that is going on outside
- 57:26of you
- 57:27is going to be altered this is an
- 57:30inside job stop blaming the whole world
- 57:35for something that you brought to the
- 57:37table
- 57:38i can go on and on but let me bring this
- 57:42to an end
- 57:44the first adam foul
- 57:47and when he fell he did not fall
- 57:51from a natural realm he fell from a
- 57:54spiritual realm
- 57:56where he is thinking he was thinking
- 57:58from this superior
- 58:00paradigm it was a paradigm of dominion
- 58:03it was a paradigm of creativity it was a
- 58:06paradigm of
- 58:07innovation and when he found
- 58:11he found and it caused the fatal
- 58:14flaw to happen
- 58:17to all humanity not just to some
- 58:21all humanity and so we've been thinking
- 58:24from an inferior
- 58:25level ever since then it doesn't matter
- 58:27how many degrees you have it's the fatal
- 58:29flaw
- 58:31and we're sinned at the bound grace
- 58:34that's much more bound
- 58:36adam did this took humanity into a
- 58:39different
- 58:39operating way of operating shifted uh
- 58:42humanity's operating system
- 58:44that was the first atom but when the
- 58:47second adam
- 58:48came he came to reset
- 58:51humanity's operating system at the
- 58:55level of thinking so the first atom fell
- 58:58and began to think from this inferior
- 59:00paradigm
- 59:02but through the paradox parabolic
- 59:04teaching
- 59:05the second adam gives us a hard
- 59:08reset gives us the ability to pivot
- 59:12gives the ability us the ability to have
- 59:14this paradigm shift
- 59:16to think differently to think from a
- 59:19superior realm
- 59:20of domin dominion that gives us critical
- 59:23thinking
- 59:24that gives us the ability to tap into
- 59:26listen to this
- 59:27the faculties of innovation and this is
- 59:31so
- 59:31important i call this revelation
- 59:35of elevation when adam found
- 59:38he lost touch with with
- 59:42everything that made him powerful
- 59:45he lost touch with his psychological
- 59:48congruency
- 59:49he had no congruency whatsoever
- 59:52he began to reject the monster that he
- 59:55thought was without
- 59:56outside of him but it was actually
- 59:58inside of him
- 1:00:00he made a decision and he blamed it on
- 1:00:02his wife
- 1:00:03number two he he lost touch with his
- 1:00:07individuation or his individuality
- 1:00:10he became enmashed in other people's
- 1:00:12opinion and other people's thoughts and
- 1:00:14other people's feelings
- 1:00:15he lost touch with his uniqueness he
- 1:00:18lost
- 1:00:18touch with his identity he lost touch
- 1:00:22with social healthiness he lost touch
- 1:00:25with physical and spiritual and economic
- 1:00:28and financial
- 1:00:29wholeness he lost touch with his
- 1:00:32intellectual capacity he lost
- 1:00:34touch with the ability to tap into the
- 1:00:37mind of god it was
- 1:00:38god that said i know the thoughts i
- 1:00:40think towards you thoughts of good
- 1:00:42good not of and not thoughts of good
- 1:00:45not of evil to bring you to the expected
- 1:00:48and he lost
- 1:00:49touch with the innovative uh
- 1:00:52cutting edge thinking that was made
- 1:00:55available
- 1:00:56he lost touch with his divine genius
- 1:00:59what he didn't know
- 1:01:00he had instant connection with the mind
- 1:01:03of
- 1:01:04with the mind of god who gave him
- 1:01:06downloads with
- 1:01:07witty inventions and with creative ideas
- 1:01:11and
- 1:01:11he lost touch with his spiritual
- 1:01:14connectivity
- 1:01:15and this is what happened why does jesus
- 1:01:19teach in parables he teaches in parables
- 1:01:23because it puts us back in touch with
- 1:01:26our humanity
- 1:01:27the more human you are the more
- 1:01:29intelligent you
- 1:01:30are the more human you are the more
- 1:01:33powerful you are
- 1:01:34what is man that thou art mindful of him
- 1:01:36the son of man that thou shalt visit
- 1:01:38him you made him a little lower than
- 1:01:39angels not a little lower than
- 1:01:42animals god does not use an orangutan or
- 1:01:45a monkey to compare you with
- 1:01:47he uses angels and if you then be risen
- 1:01:50with christ
- 1:01:51you've got to be able to seek those
- 1:01:52things which are above
- 1:01:54and seek those things which are not
- 1:01:56beneath
- 1:01:58he wants to put you back in touch with
- 1:02:01who you
- 1:02:01really are let's pray our father
- 1:02:05god even as we begin uh our teaching
- 1:02:08on the parables of christ i pray
- 1:02:11that you would bless us that you would
- 1:02:14anoint us
- 1:02:15that you would give us the ability to
- 1:02:16really think
- 1:02:18not to be controlled by propaganda not
- 1:02:21to be controlled by
- 1:02:22lies or deceit not to be controlled
- 1:02:26and by other people's opinion of you but
- 1:02:28truly
- 1:02:29we would have the mind of christ so that
- 1:02:32we
- 1:02:32can have the restoration of our thinking
- 1:02:35now
- 1:02:36unto him who is able to do the exceeding
- 1:02:38abundantly above all we can ask or think
- 1:02:40it's according to the power that works
- 1:02:42in us amen
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