Talk

A New Mindset for a Brand New Way of Life!

Louie Giglio

February, 18, 2024

Continuing in our Epicenter collection, Louie Giglio shares more on Romans 8, highlighting the importance of our minds being transformed by the power of the Word rather than the pattern of the world and emphasizing the importance of knowing and understanding our identity in Christ.

Key Takeaway

We are made new in Christ and it's up to us to believe that, ultimately making the decision to transform the pattern of our minds to align with God's instead of the world.

Are you in Christ? (Romans 8:1-4)

If not, be saved. You are a free-floating. You are 100% in charge of you. But when the end comes, and a holy, righteous, perfect God obliterates sin in the world and everything connected to it, you have nothing to mediate. It's just you. When the world caves in and when anxiety and darkness come, it's just you. But the Gospel is a story of a God who loves you and knows you can't on your own, but with Christ in you, you can.

If you are in Christ, do you see yourself that way? Do you understand who you are in Christ?

You are FREE...

In Christ.

Romans 6:5 says that we were united with Christ. When we're in Christ, we receive a new position and identity.

Not only are you in Christ, but Christ is in you. (Colossians 1:27, 3:1-4)

If God is for us, who could be against us? The enemy has tried to convince us that we can't.

But you are because you're in Christ, and Christ is in you.

Things that are now true of you/about you:

You are an heir and a coheir with Christ (Romans 8:17). Whatever Jesus has coming; you have coming. When Christ comes in glory, we will be with Him because we're in Him. (Colossians 3:4).

You are a child of God. You have been adopted into the family as a first-born son. We have been born again spiritually, and we were chosen as children through adoption. He chose us to be in Christ before the foundation of the world. (Romans 8:15-16 & Ephesians 1:3-4).

You have a Father. The Holy Spirit in us is connecting to the Son of God and the Father. The Spirit we receive keeps you from being a slave to fear. Whatever you worry about comes from the root of fear, and the antidote to fear isn't courage—it's faith that God is greater than what you're afraid of.

You are filled with the Spirit (Romans 8:11).

You can live free from the flesh and follow the Spirit (Romans 8:9-11).

How do we move into the reality that we can live free from the tyranny of the flesh in our lives?

A new mindset (Romans 8:5-9 & Romans 12:2). Not living according to the flesh and living according to the Spirit doesn't start with something you do—it starts with something you think. God is giving you the power the power, through Christ, to take control of your thinking. The battle for your life doesn't hinge on how strong you are, it's hinges on how good your thinking is.

We can't let anything live rent-free in our heads. We can't harbor lies, dwell on them, and expect to live out the power, freedom, and possibility that is ours in Christ.

You have a new identity, and you are no longer a slave to the thought patterns of this world. If your mind were to resemble a home in need of renovations, the sledgehammer symbolizes the good thoughts of the good Word of God, replacing the old thoughts and lies from the enemy. New countertops come from a new mindset.

Some of us have been thinking negative thoughts about ourselves for 20 years. We need to align our thoughts and actions with God's thoughts and build a new highway in our mind to replace roads we have made and believed about ourselves (Colossians 3:1-4).

You can be a child of God and still live like you're unwanted, forsaken, and left behind, afraid of everything despite having a Father greater than everything. But He says we are:

Loved

Chosen

Justified

Secure

Amply-supplied

Accomplished

Not forsaken

Healed

Whole

Victorious

Blessed

Able

Purposed

Royal

Spiritual

Cared about

Holy

Son/daughter

Destined

Seated

We are given a brand new life and have the choice to live like it.

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"God is giving you the power through Christ to take control of your thinking."

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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

Are you in Christ? How have you struggled with or embraced your new identity if you are in Christ? If you aren't in Christ, do you want to be saved?
Do you genuinely believe that you are free in Christ? Why or why not?
What lies has the enemy tried to get you to believe about yourself recently?
How has your father shaped how you perceive God as your father?
How has your perspective shifted knowing that worry comes from the root of fear and that the antidote to fear is faith in a God greater than your fear?
Read Romans 8:9-11. What stuck out to you in these verses?
How would you describe your current state of mind?
What negative thoughts have made roads in your mind that you want to work to change?
Which of the words above that God says about us do you struggle with most?
Which of the words above that God says about you do you believe about yourself?

Scripture References

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

5Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

6The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

7The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

8Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

9You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

10But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

12Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

14For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

15The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “

Abba,

Father.”

16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love

2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Louie Giglio

Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.