Be Careful What You Feed Your Mind

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And I'd like to start 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.160 with something funny. And I heard about this wealthy man. 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.280 He was known for being eccentric. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.800 He's having a big party at his house and in 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.520 his backyard he had a huge pool filled with alligators 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.800 and sharks. He said to the guests, anyone that'll swim 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.000 across my pool, I'll give you anything you want. In 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.560 a few minutes, there was a splash and a man 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.320 was in there going ninety to nothing, dodging alligators, maneuvering 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.240 around the sharks. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.120 He made it to the other side, just in the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:08.600 nick of. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.680 Time and God out as frantic as convened. The wealthy 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.320 man said, I can't believe it. You're the bravest person 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.519 I've ever met. Now, what is it that you would want? 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.240 The man said, what I want more than anything else 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.440 is the name of the person that pushed me in. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.400 Hold up your bibles and say it like you mean it. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.720 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.520 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.880 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.200 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.880 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.360 to talk to you today about being selective with what 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:51.560 you feed yourself. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.600 Our ears and our eyes are the gates to our soul. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.399 What we watch, what we listen. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.799 To, who we associate with that's constantly feeding us. You've 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.120 heard the saying you are what you eat. If you 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:10.079 eat junk food all the time, twinkies, SODA's, candy bars, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.240 you're not going to be very healthy. Why you're feeding 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.399 yourself the wrong things In the same way, if you're 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.920 watching things that are unwholesome, listening to things that are 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.239 dragging you down, hanging around people that gossip. Then, because 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.560 you're feeding your inner man junk food, you're not going 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.240 to be as strong and become all that God's created 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.080 you to be. You have to be extremely careful as 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.800 to what you take in. Today, more than ever, we 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.600 have opportunity to feed on wrong things. There are over 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:48.720 five hundred channels on television, We have the Internet, smartphones, magazines, billboards. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:53.040 Every place we turn there's information trying to influence us. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.120 It's not all bad, there's nothing wrong with being entertained, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.920 but you have to stay on guard. With the good, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.920 wholesome entertainment comes a bunch of trash programs now have 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.640 people airing out their dirty laundry, showing you all the conflict, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.640 the backstabbing, the jealousy, the dysfunction. With so many outlets, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.839 the shock value keeps getting turned up higher and higher. 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.960 What we thought was far out and bizarre twenty years 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.480 ago is no big deal now. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.960 It's just totally normal, that shock value. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.280 Yes it can get your attention, Yes it can be 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.960 entertaining in a sense, but it's also filling your mind 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.120 with trash. It's also poisoning your spirit. If you put 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.840 trash in, you're going to get trash out. If you're 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:49.320 watching programs where people are constantly compromising, being unfaithful in relationships, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.839 don't be surprised if you find yourself in that situation. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.719 If you're watching people being dishonest, stabbing people in the back, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.640 doing whatever they can to get ahead, that's all going 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.159 into your subconscious mind. Little by little is becoming more 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:11.240 and more acceptable. What's happening is it's desensitizing you. The 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.039 shock value is wearing off. Before long, you may think, hey, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.680 that's really no big deal. A few years ago, a 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.680 young man walked into his high school and shot and 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.920 killed three of his classmates. He was a model student, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.679 had no history of violence, from a well to do family. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.359 The authorities were puzzled. They asked him, how could you 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.760 kill so easily? He said, it's no big deal. I 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.280 kill every day. He was talking about the video games 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.800 he had been playing for years. He had become desensitized 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.880 to killing. He'd watched it on the screen happen so 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.880 long that the line between make believe and. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.640 Reality had become blurred. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.880 The scripture says don't give the enemy a foothold. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.320 Notice he can't take it. We have to open the door. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.800 One of the biggest doors we open is through our 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:08.560 eyes watching things that are unwholesome. Proverbs fifteen says only 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.600 a fool feeds on trash. Friends, You're going to become 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.039 what you eat. Take inventory of what you're feeding yourself. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.479 What are you watching, what are you listening to? What 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.559 kind of values is that portraying? Is it building you up? 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:26.040 Is it wholesome? 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:31.239 Inspiring you to be better? If not, make the necessary changes, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.039 don't feed on trash. When you watch something on television, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.039 you watch a movie, it's just like you're inviting those 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.880 people into your house. You need to ask yourself, do 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.600 I want them in my home? Do I want to 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.160 hear all their secrets? Do I want to see all 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.240 their dirty laundry? Some of what's on TV today is 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.919 to appeal to the lowest common denominator. People fighting with 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.640 family members, all kinds of bizarre situations. It's kind of 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.160 like a wreck out on the freeway where everybody wants 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:03.760 to stop and just see what happened. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.560 That bar keeps getting set lower and lower. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.800 Do yourself a favor, stay far away from that, no 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.840 matter how off the wall it gets. I was at 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.600 a grocery store a few months ago, at the checkout 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.120 line and one of the magazine headlines read two headed 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.800 men in a love triangle with an alien from. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:25.440 Out of space. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.040 Details Inside, I thought, no thanks, I am not a 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.360 garbage can. I'm not going to fill my mind with poison. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.040 Only a fool feeds on trash. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:37.720 Listen. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.720 Life is too short, your time is too valuable to 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.080 feed on anything other than what's building you up. So 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.800 one nineteen says, God keep me from paying attention to 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.200 what's worthless every time we turn on the television. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:55.239 We should pray that prayer. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.040 God keep me from what's worthless every time we get 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.560 on the internet, walk by the magazine. God help me 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.320 not to waste my time getting hooked on something that's 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.480 not adding any value to my life. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:09.280 Here's what I've learned. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.520 If you're not selective in what you watch, the television 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.600 will determine your character. The television will determine who you are. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.560 Statistics tell us the average person will spend more time 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.600 watching television than anything else other than working and sleeping. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.800 When it's all added up, ten years of our life 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.000 will have been spent watching TV. By the time a 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.760 child graduates from high school, he will have watched eighteen 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.000 thousand hours of television compared to twelve thousand hours spent 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.600 in school. Parents, don't let the television be a babysitter 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:47.360 for your children. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.760 Don't put your five year old in there. Let them 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:50.880 watch whatever they want. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.360 You choose something wholesome, something that's going to strengthen their value, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.440 not something that will erode what you're teaching them. Where 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.280 the number of violent acts during prime time is twelve 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.080 per hour, the number of violent acts during cartoons is 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.760 forty two per hour. If you plant your children in 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.440 front of the television, they may grow into something that 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:20.040 you don't like. Very often, television glamorizes the wrong things. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.719 Most marriages portrayed on TV are not healthy, loyal, faithful. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.120 TV Guide said ninety one percent of intimacy shown on 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.800 television is outside of marriage. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.080 Nine times out of ten. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.880 What's glamorized is the affair, that's the fun, that's the passion, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.760 being unfaithful running around. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.720 You only live once. If you watch that long enough, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.640 it's going to chip away at what you know is right. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.480 If you're not careful. It'll cause you to lower your. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.800 Standard and think, hey, everybody else is doing it. That's 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.880 television determining your character. Be selective wh comes on that 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.600 you know is not good. Be disciplined to change the channel. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.320 That's why God created the remote control. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.880 You don't even have to get up, just push the button. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.719 Swifched on by. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.280 If not, you're feeding the flesh. Anytime you feed the flesh, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.840 it's going to lead you away from God's best. The 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.520 scripture says, it is the thought life that pollutes us. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.120 If we watch the wrong images, the wrong thoughts will follow. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.360 Before long, you'll find yourself in temptation that could have 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.520 been avoided if you'd have just been disciplined in what 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.000 you watch. I like to watch television, especially sports, but 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.160 I've learned sometimes when a questionable commercial comes on, even 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.000 during the ball game, I gotta switch off for thirty 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.880 seconds and come back when it's over. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.760 I'm not going to let that pollute me. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.120 The other day, I was at a hotel gym working out, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.040 and every TV in this little gem was tuned into 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.160 the making of the sports illustration Swimsuit Edition. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:02.800 I asked the young. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.600 Man working there, would he please switch it over to 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:05.480 the football game. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.960 I know he probably thought, I'm stiff, old fashioned, strange. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.760 But you got to come to the point where you 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.240 realize your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.680 your future is too bright to let something pollute your life. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.679 We have enough to overcome that we can't get away from. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.400 Let's not make it harder by putting on wholesome things in. Well, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:31.720 you say, Joe, it's not hurting me. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.840 I'm strong. It's just entertainment. Yes, it may be entertaining. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.600 You, but it's filling you with all kinds of wrong values. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.880 And sooner or later, if you put trash in, somehow, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.000 some way, the trash is going to come out. Years ago, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.080 there was a very popular cable television show where every 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.680 other word was a curse word and had to be 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.480 bleeped out. It was the furthest thing from wholesome and 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.200 uplifting that you could possible fine. And this person I 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.480 knew he was hooked. He loved watching it, and he 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.280 was trying to convince me why it was okay. He said, Joel, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.520 if you can just get past all the cursing and 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.240 pasted all the cheating, and pasted all the dysfunction. You'll 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:21.400 find that really they're a loving, caring family, and I 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:22.839 don't even doubt that that's true. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.240 But here's the point I'm making. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.440 You could go out to the garbage dumpster today, and 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.720 if you dig around long enough, you could probably find 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:32.719 a little piece of. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.760 A biscuit that's halfway edible. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.160 But you know as well as I do, it's not 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.880 worth digging in the trash trying to find one. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.599 Little morsel of something good. You're better than that. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:50.080 You are a temple of the most high golf called chosen, appointed, approved. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.320 Now do your best to keep your temple pure. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.920 When I was younger, I had a sports car that 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.520 I loved so much. I took great care of it. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.199 It was a performance car, had a big engine. I 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.680 would wash that car practically every other day, and I 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.280 would only put the very best in the engine. Every 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.360 three months. I would change the oil whether it needed 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.520 it or not. I put the high performance oil in it, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.160 not regular oil. But this oil cost about twice as 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.480 much as regular oil. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:20.600 Back then. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.760 If you wanted to, you could put regular gasoline, but 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.000 I always put the highest octane gasoline. I wanted that 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.319 car to perform at the highest possible level. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.240 Well, that's the way you need to see yourself. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:40.959 You are a high performance, extremely valuable, incredibly talented, uniquely 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.160 gifted person. How much better will you run? How much 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.680 faster will you go? How much fuller will your life be? 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.040 If you will be selective as to what you put 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.280 into your engine. Sure you can get by with watching 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.880 things that are questionable, listening to things that drag. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.360 You down, hanging around people that erode your values. Your 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:04.480 car will run. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.199 But I'm talking about reaching your highest potential. I'm talking 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.360 about becoming everything that God's created you to be when 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.480 we put the right things in. Not only that, how 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.640 many problems will we avoid? How much temptation will we 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.840 not have to deal with? This is where David missed it. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.520 David was a great leader, He loved God, He wrote 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.040 beautiful psalms. But David let his guard down and wasn't 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.360 disciplined in what he watched. One night, he was on 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.480 the top of his house and he looked out and 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:40.400 saw a beautiful woman taking a bath. All David had 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.800 to do, in modern day terms, was changed the channel. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.960 Turn away, don't even go there. God will always give 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.000 you a chance. You will never be tempted beyond what 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.200 you can handle. The scripture says, God will make. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.440 A way of escape. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.560 On the inside, You'll hear an alarm going off. You'll 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.720 feel an unrest, a little voice telling. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:02.800 You this is not good. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.120 Change the channel, don't hang out with these people. Get 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.560 out of this environment. We will never make a mistake 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.600 without God first warning us. In fact, if you look 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.320 back over your life the bad choices you've made, most 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.080 likely you can remember again and. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.120 Again you heard the alarm. God was dealing with you. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.240 You knew it wasn't right, but you ignored that voice 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.120 and did it anyway. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.680 That's what David did. He ignored the warning. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.280 And instead of going away, he did just the opposite. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.160 He went and got the binoculars. Thought, wow, the favor 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.000 of God, the right place, the right time. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:39.600 Not hardly. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.840 He had an affair. He ended up having her husband killed. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.880 One bad thing after another. It could have all been 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.440 avoided if he would have been disciplined in what he watched. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.520 The good news is David learned from his mistake. Psalm 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.000 one O one, verse three. He made a vow to God. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.000 He said, God, I will set no evil thing before 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:04.560 my eyes. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.440 He was saying in effect. God, I've blown it in 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.960 the past. I've asked for your forgiveness. But God, I'm 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.720 making a decision. I am not going to look at 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:17.280 anything that's unwholesome and impure. We should all make that 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.280 same vow. God, I'm gonna change the channel when I 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.040 know it's not good. God, I'm gonna listen to the alarm. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.080 I'm gonna be sensitive. I'm gonna keep my mind, my thought, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.920 life pure. See, I've learned God's not trying to keep 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.200 us from something. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.360 He's trying to get us to something. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.160 In other words, God's not just trying to make our 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.000 life miserable. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:38.520 Just be super. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.400 Strict, and you can't watch that. You can't hang out 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:41.600 with them, you can't have any fun. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.400 It's just the opposite. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.960 If you will do it God's way, you will have 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.040 more fun than you've ever had before. God will take 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.239 you places greater than you've ever imagined. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.600 God is trying to get you to. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.600 An abundant, fulfilled, amazing life. Now let's do our part 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.800 and be selective. All through the scripture, our life is 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.639 compared to the life of an eagle, And if you 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.960 study the eagle, you'll find that its strength is found 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.720 in its diet. What's interesting is the eagle will not 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.359 eat anything dead unless he's in captivity. The eagle only 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.480 feeds off of live food. Other birds, like the buzzard, 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:26.080 the vulture, the crow, they feed off of dead carcasses. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.600 They'll eat anything they can not the eagle, he doesn't 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.840 take the easy way out. He flies over the stream 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.920 and looks for fish, and he'll swoop down and get 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.600 a fresh salmon for dinner. The scripture tells us that 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.200 we should mount up with wings, not as the buzzard, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.440 not as the vulture, not as the chicken, with wings, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:51.159 as eagles, and just like the eagle, our strength is 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.040 going to be in our diet. Our strength is going 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.199 to be what we're taking in. You can't go around 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.840 all day eating dead food and expect to be and healthy. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.119 If you're hanging around people that gossip all the time, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.399 recognize what they're feeding you is dead. If you're watching 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.919 things that are questionable and unwholesome, you're eating dead food. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.600 And yes, the eagle can survive eating with the chickens, 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.560 the buzzards, the crows, but the problem is he's never 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.680 going to soar. He's never going to become all God 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:24.679 has created him to be. 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.679 Some of you today. If you would just change your. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.520 Diet, you would go to a new level. If you 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.879 would make the decision to quit watching the programs that 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.040 are polluting your mind and causing you to compromise, If 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.040 you quit hanging out with the people that are always 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.680 gossiping and keeping your stirred up, if you'd quit eating 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.560 so many dead things, you would see God's favor in 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.280 a greater way. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.080 You're going to become what you eat. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.520 Maybe you've gone to lunch with the same people at 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.480 work year after year. They're negative, they complain, they talk 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.200 bad about other people. You don't have to hurt their feelings. 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:04.200 You don't have to go in there tomorrow and make 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.639 some big announcement. Man, I heard something at church. I'm 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.959 getting away from you. If you do, don't tell them 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.359 it was me. Now, just very suddenly, you need to 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.520 start spending less and less time with them, gradually, start 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:23.040 breaking away by little. You are an eagle. You were 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.719 never meant to feed off of dead food. If they 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.879 want to be a crow, a chicken, a buzzard, that's 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.120 up to them. That's their choice. But that's not who 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:35.680 you are. Psalone says, do not sit inactive in the 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.119 path of the ungodly. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.200 You want to be blessed. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.560 You can't sit there passively and let that gossip poison you. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.600 It's not up to God, it's up to you. He's saying, 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.240 find somewhere else to eat lunch. When a program comes 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.280 on it's not wholesome and you feel the alarm going off, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.480 you cannot sit inactive. You got to pick up the 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.840 remote control and change the channel. God's not going to 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:04.600 do do it for you. Be proactive, not inactive. Or 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.040 maybe all your friends are going to see a movie 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.080 you don't feel good about it. There's an alarm going 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.679 off down in here. Well, you can't just go with 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.080 the flow and think, well, they may get upset, they 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.840 may not understand. They may make fun of me, they 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:19.160 may think I'm old fashioned. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:20.840 You have to ask. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.680 Yourself, am I going to live to please people? Or 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.040 am I going to live to please God? Am I 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.360 going to be a buzzard and stay on the ground, 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.240 or am I. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:34.000 Going to be an egle and soil? Don't sit inactive. Listen. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.159 If you're going to be an eagle, it's going to 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.440 take more work. It's going to take being disciplined. Some 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.200 of your friends may not understand. They may get upset. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.440 Here's what I've learned. Not everyone is willing to pay 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.320 the price to be an ego. Yes, everyone wants to soar, 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.320 but not everyone is willing to deny their flesh and 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.320 not feed off a dead food. Bottom line is this, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.280 If you gonna soar with the eagles, you can't hang 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.399 out with the chickens. You cannot sit inactive when you 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.120 know something is not God's best. You got to be bold, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.560 rise up and make that change. Years ago, Victoria and 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.440 I were at a Broadway plane. It was a top 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.000 rated show, and somebody had given us very expensive tickets 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.280 right up front. And we got there, but every other 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.280 word was a curse word for the first fifteen minutes, 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.359 and some of the scenes were very risky, and I 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.679 kept thinking that it was going to get better, but 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.240 it never did. Finally, I whispered to Victoria, I don't 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.640 want to feed myself this junk. I value who I am, 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.760 and we just very quietly and discreetly stepped out. 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.680 Yes the tickets were expensive, Yes. 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.440 It was valuable, But do you know what's more valuable? 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:47.240 The temple that God has given me. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.560 I'm not gonna sit inactive and let somebody jump trash 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.919 into me. Friends, we are not garbage cans. Our ears 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:01.000 and eyes are not trash. Receptors have every right to 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.560 make the play, make the movie, make the program, but 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:04.400 we have every. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:05.280 Right not to watch. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.720 If someone's telling off colored jokes around you, you don't 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.919 have to try to straighten them out. You don't have 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.440 to go read the Bible to them, but you should 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.879 care enough about your temple to quietly step away. Don't 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.720 sit inactive. I was driving home years ago in my 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.040 car and it had a long day and lot had 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.320 come against me. And turned the radio on. The first 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.600 thing I heard was You're no good. You're no good, 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.600 You're no good. I thought it was over. Then she said, baby, 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:41.480 you're no good. I thought I've got enough to deal with. 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.040 Then having this lady that I don't even know tell 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:49.879 me four times that I'm no good, I didn't sit inactive. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.800 I pushed the button turned on the Lakewood CD, and 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.120 I heard, I am a friend of God Lord. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.119 You are good all the time. You are good. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:03.720 It's amazing the difference between dead food and live food. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.679 It's in a restaurant Once guy was up there, playing 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.040 his guitar and singing, and he announced that he had 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.600 just written a new song. We all turned around to listen, 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.400 and I'm sure he meant well, but this was the saddest, 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.160 most depressing song. He started singing about how his wife 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:23.080 had left him and he was broken, hard and lonely 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.160 and had nowhere to go, no friends. 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.120 He's just gonna ride off into the. 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:30.840 Sunset, fade away, depressed and defeated. And about halfway through 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:32.920 the song, I thought, man, I'm coming with you. I'm 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:36.720 depressed too. I didn't want to eat the rest of 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:42.040 my dinner. All that's doing is feeding your death. I 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.240 like what somebody said, if you play a country Western 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:49.240 song backwards, the man gets his wife back, his horseback. 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:49.520 And his dog back. 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.960 If you're going to be an eagle, you got to 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:58.200 learn to tune things like that out. Can't always get away, 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.800 you may not have a choice, but you can tune 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.439 it out, not dwell on it. In other words, you 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.960 may work around people that are negative and sour. You're 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.240 in an environment where there's dead food and you have 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:10.280 no control over it. 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:11.320 Here's the key. 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.720 Before you get there, you need to put in extra 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:18.200 amounts of live food to get your inner man built 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:21.840 up and strong. Listen to good praise music, put on 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:25.320 good faith building messages, things that are going to combat 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.399 that negative I know a gentleman that for many years 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:31.800 he struggled with depression. He got my CDs on not 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.960 Losing your Joy, and every day on the way to work, 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:37.840 he listened to them over and over, month after month, 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.400 even year after year. He said, Joel, I've heard them 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:44.880 probably a thousand times. I practically have them memorized. But 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:46.880 that's what helps me to stay. 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:48.080 Strong and overcome. 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.760 See, he understands the importance of feeding himself live food. 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:57.159 Sometimes what your thoughts will feed you is dead. You 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:00.760 cannot sit inactive. Put something in you that will feed 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:03.560 you victory. It doesn't have to be my messages. It 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:06.120 can be somebody else's. They're not as good as mine. 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:10.000 But feeds you something life. I'm only kidding. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:15.160 I read where the average American spends four hundred hours 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.760 a year in their car driving back and forth to work. 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:23.120 Many people use that time to feed themselves the wrong things. 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.000 And I like to listen to the news. 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:28.120 I like to stay informed, but I've learned the news 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.520 doesn't keep you built up. Once you hear what you 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.280 need to know, you need to move on and use 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:38.320 that time to feed yourself life. Listen to something that's 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:41.520 going to help you grow, something that's going to inspire 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:45.000 you to be better. One study showed that if you'd 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:49.280 take that same drive time and listen to good teaching CDs, 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:53.240 then after three years, it's the equivalent of spending two 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:56.880 years in college. People tell me all the time, Joel, 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:59.520 I listen to your messages while I run each day 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.600 i'm at the gym. One lady said, Joel, I listen 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:04.679 to you every night before I go to bed. You 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:06.360 always put me right to sleep. 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:08.680 I thought, thanks a lot, But. 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:15.000 I love the new technology with these podcasts. You can 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:18.359 have them downloaded to your computer and listen to the 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:22.000 messages anytime you want. This year, we will give away 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:24.560 nearly sixty million of my messages. 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:26.200 It's all free of charge. 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.280 All you've got to do is sign up and it'll 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.159 come every week to your computer and it's a brand 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:33.520 new message that will feed you life. You should take 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:38.840 advantage of it. This week, I heard Victoria's cell phone 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:41.320 going off on the kitchen table. It was buzzing. Went 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.000 and picked it up and the message read I can 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:47.919 do all things through Christ. She has programmed her phone 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:51.520 every two hours to send her a scripture. You are 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:54.359 fearfully and wonderfully made. You are more than a conquer 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.280 She calls that her text message from God. All through 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:01.800 the day, she's feeding herself life or you said, Joel, 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:04.840 God's never sent me a text message. Faith without works 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:11.720 is dead. Program it yourself, friends, we are going to become. 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:12.840 What we eat. 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:16.760 Don't feed on trash, be an eagle, be disciplined. 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:18.320 And what you watch, what you listen to. 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:21.720 Make a decision to get rid of anything that's dead. 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.080 Don't let that poison you. You were created to sore 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:28.120 some of you today. If you just change your diet, 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:30.760 if you just get rid of the negative influences, you 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:34.640 would see God's favor in a new way. Take inventory 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:37.479 of what you're putting in, what are you watching, what 0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:39.760 are you listening to, who you're hanging out with, And 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:43.199 then ask yourself a very important question, what is this 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.880 feeding me? If it's not feeding your life, don't sit 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:48.800 in active, be bold, make. 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:49.920 The necessary changes. 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:53.240 If you will be selective with what you feed yourself, 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:56.440 I can promise you this you'll grow, you'll rise higher, 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.800 and I believe and declare you'll become everything God's created 0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:00.280 you to be. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:03.720 And you're gonna have everything God intended for you to have. Amen. 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:08.200 Do you receive it today? 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