Core Values for Kingdom Mentality: Kris Vallotton's Message on Belief | Bethel Church

Awesome. How are you guys doing? >> Is this exciting time to be alive? Much better than being dead right now. So, that's good. I'm going to pray. Father, thank you for this day. We pray for our spirit to be open to your word today, God, and for it to have a uh the impact that you designed for it to have in our lives.

Amen. >> Well, I'm glad we're, you know, past the pruning words. If you have a pruning word, there's other churches that need that word. We're we are done with the pruning word. And now we are in multiple growing mode right now. So that's what I'm that's what I'm praying into right now.

Well, um I've been doing this about three months or so uh this series on uh developing a wealth culture and a wealth mentality. And the last two times I spoke on the story of Joseph in the Old Testament. And I'm going to recount some of that story uh this morning and then take it to a different place.

Um I actually wrote a few pages of that I'm going to actually read to you. So we'll see how that goes. It went really good for the first two services. So if it doesn't go well here, it won't it won't be my fault. But um talking to you about the the story of Joseph. uh if you don't know that story, Joseph uh had a dream when he was a young man that he was going to be a great ruler and that he would be the leader and his even his brothers and father would bow down to him and then you you may know the story that his father made him a multicolored tunic which becomes a part of the theme of that of actually the book of Genesis is this multicolored tunics mentioned several times and um his he he is so favored by his father that his brothers.

It actually says his brothers hated him. They grew to hate him. And and Joseph didn't do himself any favors. He taunted them with his multicolored tunic. And finally the brothers got tired of it and they said, "Let's kill Joseph." So they throw him in a pit and then they said, the oldest brother, Reuben, says, "No, we can't kill him.

Let's sell him into slavery." So they sell Joseph into slavery. And obviously this is the very Reader's Digest version of the story. Joseph ends up in Pterer's house, who's one of the officials of Pharaoh, and he does great there, and he prospers there, but he's falsely accused. He ends up going to prison, and he's in prison.

And in prison, he interprets a couple of dreams for the Pharaoh's uh servants. And consequently, a few years later, two years later, the Pharaoh has a dream of fat calves and skinny calves. He has to have a couple of dreams. Joseph. They bring Joseph in to interpret the dreams.

Joseph interprets the dreams. Tells the king, "Hey, these dreams, seven years of famine. The first fat calfs, seven years of famine. This the very skinny calfs are seven, I'm sorry, seven years of prosperity and the second seven the skinny fat, sorry, the skinny calfs are seven years of famine."

And if I were you, I would uh do this plan. Here's a plan for you. store 20% of the grain and sell it back to the people. And so that became the plan in the midst of this. There's a there's another narrative happening. And Joseph becomes uh if you will, he's kind of a a parable of the coming Christ.

He becomes like a model of Jesus in in in the in the Bible in that this in in this way. Remember that Jacob his father his his Jacob's name's changed to Israel and his father gives him this multicolored tunic. And again, I told you it's a part of a theme.

It seems to be a theme in the in the story. And then his brothers when they sell him into slavery, uh, instead of kill him, they say, "Well, what are we going to do? What are we going to tell our father?" So, they take this tunic, this multicolored tunic, and they put it in, uh, and they dip it in goat's blood.

And then they take it to his father and say, "Look, Joseph was eaten by wild animals." And that becomes the story. But I'd like to point out that Joseph is actually a Abraham several years earlier, Abraham, Joseph's greatgrandfather, has an encounter with God. And in that encounter, God says to him, "I'm changing your name from Abram to Abraham and your wife's name from Sarai to Sarah because you shall be a mother and father, not of a nation, but of nations."

And you and and and God goes on to say to Sarah, "And kings will come from you." And so there's this prophetic declaration. How is this connect to Joseph? Because Joseph has a dream about being a great leader. And Joseph goes down into Egypt and he becomes the leader of Egypt.

Can I point out the first gentile nation? And and and now we begin to see that this multicolored coat is actually like a prophetic act that that coat, it's multicolored because God is the God of all colors. He's the God of all nations. It's dipped in blood because Jesus is redeeming all the nations.

And Joseph becomes, if you will, a sign that God is saving the world. And then he becomes, if you will, the savior of Egypt from famine. >> Wow. >> It's this powerful statement. And so, Joseph, because Joseph is a uh leader in Egypt, he becomes the leader of the first gentile nation.

I'd like to propose he's the first fulfillment of Abraham's vision, dream, encounter with God, that God is the God of nations, not the God of a nation. So Abraham is not the father of Israel, just Israel. He's the father of nations. So Joseph becomes the first fulfillment in the multicolored coat.

You get the idea that he becomes the first leader of a gentile nation. Well, here's the challenge. The prophecy over Jacob who becomes Israel. Same guy is that your 12 sons will become 12 tribes and those 12 tribes will become one nation, Israel. And J uh Joseph is the 11th son of Jacob.

So he would have been the tw he would have been the 11th uh patriarch which would have created and then Benjamin the younger would have went after he was born there would have been 12 tribes. Problem is Jacob I'm sorry Joseph is not the leader of Israel. He's a leader of Egypt. >> So Jose so Jacob name changed to Israel takes Joseph's two sons Manessa and Ephraim and he's and he actually adopts them.

He actually tells Joseph, "Those sons will be my sons, not your sons." And he takes the two sons, and remember, there can only be 12 tribes because the prophecy said 12 tribes. So, Jacob takes Ephraim and Manessa, he puts them over Joseph's tribes, but he makes them two half-tribe leaders.

So, the two make one. Are you with me? >> What's really interesting is that Joseph, so Joseph becomes the leader of Egypt. Manessa and Ephraim become the 11th of 12 sons that are actually over 12 tribes. Got me? So, the book of Revelation uh depicts the new Jerusalem coming down and uh out of heaven and there being 12 gates and and John says that the 12 gates each have a specific patriarch name on them.

John doesn't tell us what the name is. He just says one of each of the tribe members. But Ezekiel has the same vision. He sees the new Jerusalem coming down. He sees the, you know, the gold streets and all that. and he sees the names of the 12 tribes of Israel specifically on each gate.

And when he sees the eastern gate, he sees this he sees the the the name of the of one of the eastern gates is Joseph. Now you're like, what does that have to do with anything? There is no tribe of Joseph. >> That gate should have said Manessa/ Ephraim, but it says Joseph. >> Why does it say Joseph?

And why is it the eastern gate? When Jesus comes into Jerusalem, he comes in through what gate? The eastern gate, riding on a donkey. They they are you with me? They they put down palm branches and they and they shout, "Hosana to the king." >> But he's not the king of Israel.

He's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And so, and what I'd like to propose that Jesus comes through, it's a metaphor, right? He comes through the Joseph gate because God is not the God of Israel. He's the God of all nations. And Joseph, although Joseph's not a tribe, he becomes a gate into the new Jerusalem because God wants the Gentiles in and not just the Israelites. >> It's a beautiful story, right? >> Okay.

So, now I'm going to read you >> four or five pages. >> Let's see how you do. So, let's summarize Joseph's journey. Joseph had a couple of prophetic dreams about being a world leader. His brothers were jealous of him and sold him into slavery. The favor of God's on Joe, so he supernaturally rose to power, fulfilling his prophetic destiny.

Ultimately, he saved the known world through his prophetic insights and wisdom, and thus everyone lived happily ever after. Right? Wrong. What if I told you that the greatest insights into the wisdom of God in the life of Joseph aren't in the obvious narrative, but instead in the hidden riddles that lie between the lines of Joseph's story, his brokenness, his slave mentality, and his lack of generational perspectives.

Let's begin with a few questions to ponder. Why did Joseph require the citizens of Egypt to sell everything, no, sell themselves into slavery? Will he sustain his immigrant family without compensation? Why did Joseph withhold the revelation of the 14 years of per of the prophetic journey from from why did he withhold that information from the Egyptian citizens?

Consider the dramatic outcomes of Joseph's leadership decision. In 14 short years, Je Joseph reduced a f first world country to a third world country, elevating Pharaoh to the richest men in the known world at the expense of enslaving his entire country. >> Now, let's take an honest look at other options that were available to Joe and discuss why he didn't make different choices.

Probably the most troubling and confusing question is why did Joseph I'm sorry why Joseph didn't reveal to the Egyptians about the coming famine and allow everyone to prepare for the crisis by storing their own grain in the seven years of prosperity. This solution would have created a scenario in which the Egyptians would have prospered.

All the Egyptians would have prospered and they would have likely become the wealthiest nation in the known world. Yet instead, he chose to reveal the prophetic interpretation of Pharaoh's dream only to Pharaoh and develop a solution to the famine in isolation. Here's another option. Joseph knew the length of the famine, so he understood it wouldn't last for decades.

So, he could have loaned the Egyptians money to buy back their grain, maybe with some interest, and then allowed them to pay it back after the famine. Or better yet, why didn't he store the grain for them as he did in the years of the famine and just give it back to them with a reasonable administrative fee? >> Yeah. >> After all, the Egyptians did virtually all the work.

So, he could have taken it would have taken minimal effort to simply ration the grain back to them during the seven years of famine. And finally, why did he favor his immigrant family? Didn't he understand that the vast difference in the contrast between the wealth of his family and the poverty of the rest of Egypt would create a terrible conflict in society?

I proposed that Joseph's upbringing and his years of slavery that preceded him coming into power had a dramatic impact on his mindset. Think about it. Joseph's brothers were going to kill him, but instead they sold him into slavery. Slavery rescued Joseph from death. So, it's not a coincidence that he rescued the Egyptians from famine by enslaving them.

Furthermore, Joseph's father, Jacob, favored him so intensely that his brothers grew to hate him. Yet, instead of Joseph humbling himself in their presence, he wrapped himself in his multicolored tunic and taunted them with his father's favor. Thus, Joseph grew up in a two-class family. Joseph was extremely favored and the rest of his brothers who they were obviously not.

Therefore, it's not surprising that Joseph favored his own family over the Egyptians. In the same way his father favored him over his brothers. Instead of mitigating the harm that favoritism can cause, he replicated it on a national scale, giving preferential treatment to his family while enslaving all the Egyptian citizens.

It's funny thing. It's a funny thing how history repeats itself in that the same way Joseph's brothers grew to hate him, so the Egyptians also grew to hate the Israelites that were favored and prospered. Joseph was a supernaturally gifted dream interpreter and spiritual guide. Yet, there's no indication that his plan for Egypt to survive the famine was divinely inspired.

In fact, I would argue that for reasons I stated already that his strategy was seriously flawed. He created a a he created a dysfunctional ecosystem in which today's cures became tomorrow's bondage. >> Wow. >> Joseph nationalized slavery against the Egyptians and the succeeding pharaohs weaponized it against the Israelites. >> The Bible teaches us the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable.

In other words, once God once the Lord imparts a gift to us, he never takes it back. Consequently, a person's gift does not necessarily mean that they have a great relationship with God. Furthermore, it's foolish to think that everything a gifted person says or does is supernaturally inspired. >> In fact, the scripture says, "Do not quench the spirit.

Do not despise prophetic utterances. Examine everything carefully and hold fast to what is good." >> In other words, supernatural ministry must be rooted in a culture of fallibility so that the gifted person's revelation is tested for flaws and fallacies. The challenge is that a believer's supernatural revelation doesn't neglect or doesn't delegate the a flawed mindset.

Nor does it guarantee that a person's perspectives are a manifestation of the mind of Christ. In fact, one of the most profound insights that we can glean from Joseph's journey is the fact that his gift was from God, but his worldview was infected by his upbringing and his painful experiences. >> Yes, sir.

Joseph is a powerful parable of the body of Christ in that he was wholly dysfunctional. He was a noble man who refused to sleep with his boss's wife and forgave his brothers who sold him into slavery. He walked in purity and as he got older, he became a humble, compassionate person.

Furthermore, he appears to have followed God his whole life. Yet, on the other hand, his life decisions were marred by his history, his life experiences, and the pharaoh he served. Unfortunately, I see in my life and the life of most believers in the global church that I know a flawed Let me read it again.

Unfortunately, I see in my life and the life of most believers in the global church that I know, flawed with the same holy dysfunction. We are noble people who walk in purity, love God, and move in supernatural power. But we are often beset with mindsets fashioned more by the world around us than the God within us.

Like Joseph, we are prone to flashes of greatness which are too often followed by short-sighted mindsets which cost instead of empower the generations to come. >> So good. >> We tend to fix the here and now by forfeiting the hereafter because we are entrenched in temporal perspectives that lack that lack eternal values.

In fact, much of our theology is rooted in temporal perspectives which undermine legacy mindsets. We read over and over in the scriptures that the Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Bible's not telling us that God is the God of only three people. No, he's reminding us that God thinks multigenerationally.

Jesus is the one who was >> and is and is to come. >> Joseph had a supernatural gift, but his perspectives were formed by his upbringing. I think this is a powerful example and and in even in that Joseph was such a sign of the coming Messiah and yet he was a flawed sign. >> And I think it's really important for us to to realize that you can have a supernatural gift.

I'm reminded that Jesus encountered someone who said, "Didn't I didn't we cast out demons? Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we didn't we do all these things?" And he said, "I didn't know you." And I think it's really important for where we're going in this next era that we actually tap in not just to the gifts of God, but the mind of Christ.

That we begin to think like God. That we begin to think with legacy in mind. That we begin to think about how we are affecting the generations to come. You probably know this at least by the narrative that I gave that the next generation of Pharaoh's. The book of Exodus opens with this thought.

And there arose of Pharaoh. I'm sorry. There arose there arose a pharaoh who knew not Joseph. And the next verse and he enslaved he enslaved the Israelites. And by the way, he didn't enslave the Joseph enslaved the Israelites for one generation. The pharaohs enslaved the Israelites. No, Joseph enslaved the Egyptians for one generation.

But a pharaoh rose, Pharaohs rose for generations and enslaved the Israelites for 400 years. Joseph's flawed perspective of life that actually was was cultivated in a broken family and in a broken broke broken slavery and broken prison. His perspectives actually caused Israel 400 years of slavery. He was supernaturally empowered.

But he did not think divinely. He did not think about how his actions today were going to infect and affect the generations to come. Joseph enslaved the Egyptians and the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites for 400 years. >> It's so important that we don't create symptomatic cures. That today's cure becomes tomorrow's problem.

That we don't kick the can down the road for the generations to come to pay for our comfort today. I'd like to propose that a lot of what happened with Joseph is happening in our countries. That literally the debt o of this generation is falling on the generations to come.

And we care more about our comfort than their legacy. >> Talk to us. Help us. >> And that is not the way we're to think. We are to disciple. Are you with me? Like, why am I telling this story? Because we're called to make disciples of nations. And we don't want to disciple nations like Joseph did.

We want to disciple nations like Jesus did. Are you with me? We want to we want to think about the generations to come. We want to think about how our actions today and our solutions today are actually rooted in eternal not just eternal purposes but eternal perspectives. >> It's it's interesting that Solomon taught the book of proverbs but his mindset ultimately became the book of Ecclesiastes.

Let me give you a little contrast. In Proverbs Solomon wrote how uh this is Proverbs 16:6. How much better it is to get wisdom than gold and to get understanding than chosen how and to get understanding is chosen above silver. In Ecclesiastes, he wrote this. I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but fools walk in darkness. And yet I know that the same fate befalls them both. And I said to myself, as the fate is to the fool, it is also befall me. So why should I be extremely wise? So I said to myself, it's all vanity.

In the book of Proverbs, he said, "Get wisdom. Whatever you do, get wisdom." In the book of Ecclesiastes, he said, "Why should I be wise? It's foolish." In in in Proverbs 13:22, Solomon wrote, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children." Yeah. >> In Ecclesiastes uh 2:21, he writes, "When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, then he leaves his legacy to the one who has not labored for it, this is vanity, and it's a great evil."

In Proverbs, he says, "A righteous man leaves an inheritance to his children's children." In in Ecclesiastes, he says, "If you leave an inheritance to your children, it's evil." In in Proverbs 14 in four, sorry, in Proverbs 4:18, he writes, "The path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn shines brighter and brighter to the perfect day."

In Ecclesi Ecclesiastes 7:16, he writes, "Do not do not be do not be excessively righteous and do not be overly wise." Why should you ruin yourself? In Proverbs, he said, "You should be righteous." In Ecclesiastes, he goes, "Don't do that. you'll ruin yourself. >> In Proverbs, it says, "Don't worry yourself to gain wealth.

Cease from consideration when of it. When you set your eyes on it, it's gone. For wealth makes itself wings like an eagle. It flies to the heavens." In Ecclesiastes 10:19, he said, "Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything."

I'm pointing out what what's the point? I I don't think Proverbs was I don't think Ecclesiastes was written to be true like Proverbs is. I think it was written really true in that it shows you when you get a gift from God, he never he never takes it back.

And if you read Eccles Ecclesiastes, you'll see there are some great nuggets of wisdom in there. The only problem is Proverbs was written when Proverbs was written when the wisest man in the world had a relationship with God. And Ecclesiastes was written when the wisest man in the world lost connection with God.

I'm pointing out that God didn't take the gift back, but suddenly he lost perspective. No longer was his mindset the kingdom >> and his and his and the book of Ecclesiastes is a great example of what happens when we walk with God and God gives us gifts and we have these we have these moments of of amazing things happen in our life and then we lose connection with God and all of a sudden our life becomes Ecclesiastes.

It becomes like it feels meaningless. How many Christians do you know that walked with God? I I I've mentored so many believers, especially in Weaverville, that walk with God and then no longer they think it's vanity. I don't go to church anymore. I don't do this anymore. They're living in Ecclesiastes life.

They had a Proverbs gift. >> Wow. >> It is so important we stay connected with God. It's so important that we don't just have supernatural experiences, but we actually develop. We actually we actually renew our minds to have the mind of Christ so that we're not just doing we're not just doing dream interpretation but when we give the king wisdom it's actually the wisdom from another age. >> That's good. >> I'm trying. >> The warning here is not to let life experiences define our core values and pollute our relationship with God.

David committed adultery with Basheba and his kingship with plague with weaknesses for women. Solomon loved God and wrote about weakness and seduction. You know, there's seven chapters in the book of Proverbs that are mostly dedicated to seductive women in the life of Solomon. Now, I understand there's seductive men, too.

So, I'm just pointing out in Solomon's light. And yet he ended his life by marrying foreign women and doing the polar opposite of everything he talked about in the book of Proverbs and walked away from God and built temples to foreign gods. Are you with me? E uh Ephesians 4 23 says, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind."

I love that he says in the spirit of your mind. I I believe that God wants us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. I mean that God wants us to actually let the spirit of God actually infect and affect how we see the world. >> Not just my upbringing.

I had a tough upbringing and God redeemed me from it. He redeemed you from it in that he saved you. But have you still do you still live in the mindset of the way your parents abused you? The drug habit you had, the wife that you lost, the husband you lost.

Like my point is this is that you can be saved from the famine so to speak and still think like a slave. >> Wow. >> There's uh in in Romans chapter 12, I bet many of you are quoting this in your mind already. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by >> renew of your mind.

The renewed mind thinks like God, but the unrenewed mind thinks like Joseph. It's not necessarily evil. It's just human. I don't think I don't think Joseph had evil motives. I don't think he was trying to do some evil to the Egyptians. I think this is the way he thought.

It's it it he took his life experience and he goes, "This is what helped me. This is how I'll help you." And I'm pointing out that he didn't have heavenly thinking when it came to his insights for wisdom. He had human wisdom and it did save Egypt. And the and by the way, you may know this, but the first generation of people who were saved through slavery, they actually celebrated him as a national hero.

It wasn't until as after after Joseph died that they realized, hey, Joseph enslaved us. It like it took a whole generation for them to go, whoa, wait a second. What what's going on here? And how come his family's prospering? >> And how come he didn't charge them for the grain? >> And how come he gave him the best of the land?

And how come, hey, how come we were treated differently than him? It was a whole generation before they actually realized that Joseph duped them. >> Wow. >> And I don't think it's because Joseph did tried to do that. I think he wasn't thinking like a legacy mindset. I don't think he was thinking about how his actions were affecting them.

I'm pointing out that you can have a good heart and still not have a renewed mind. >> True. >> You know, most people love their children. Not everyone's the great parent who loves their children. Some of us, like my own life, I if I didn't meet this man in the front row, I don't know what kind of father I would have been.

Not because I didn't really love my children, >> but because I was trying to not be my parents, >> you can't become what you haven't seen or heard. I didn't want to be my parents. I I lived in reaction to my parents, but I didn't live in response to the will of God for my children because I didn't know what that was.

I was just trying to not be them. >> I was trying to not be angry. I was trying not to break things. I was trying not to break windows. I was trying not to let anger be in my family. I was trying not to I I remember the the the the year before Kathy and I got married and we went to we went together for 5 years.

The year before we got married, I you know, you call it cold feet. I I didn't have cold feet about marrying her, but I said, "I need you to promise me we'll never get an argument." She's like, "Okay." I'm sure she's thinking, "If we get in an argument, it won't be my 
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You remember that? I mean, I was like I'm like, "We're coming to marriage like and then, you know, reacting to like that man's we didn't tell each other anything because we, you know, you understand what I'm getting at. There's a principle in the Bible called the principle of first mention."

And it says this. It says the first time you hear about a subject it becomes the way you view that subject from then on the first time you view a subject no I'm sorry first time you hear about a subject from that day on you view that subject through that perspective in other words the information you hear creates a lens everybody say lens >> everybody do this and say the way I hear the first thing >> the way I hear >> about a subject >> subject >> gives me these lenses Excuse me. >> Okay, it doesn't mean that you can't change.

It just means it becomes the way you interpret information from that day on. Right? So everything that you hear or experience after your first exposure to that subject will be measured by the information you receive first. Are you with me? So Joseph life is a great prototype of this, right?

It's a great prototype of first mention. He loved God and was supernaturally gifted, but his upbringing shaped his world view. And by the way, parents, I'll take a little Exodus here for just a second and say it's really important that you talk to your kids first about sex >> because we are in a sexually charged culture >> where people ask in more revolution conferences, hey, my 10-year-old, is he too young for the conference to come to this More Revolution conference where you talk about sexuality?

I'm like, you know what? 30 years ago, I would have said definitely too young. Now we got 5-year-olds in kindergarten learning about sexuality. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We need to be the first ones to teach them about sexuality. So when they hear something that's perversion, the wrong version, they go, "Oh, no, that's not true." >> But how many you know, if their friends teach them first and you teach them second, you're running against a lens in which they view that and they're going to be more apt to go, "That's not true because this is what I believe." >> Are you with me?

Yeah. Wow. >> So in uh John 8:31 32 actually Jesus said you'll know the truth. Everybody say truth >> and the truth will set you free or make you free. And by the way the word set you free or make you free. It's actually a Greek word I understand that means process.

Now I understand that some people have been addicted to drugs or whatever and the Lord does a miracle and you're over. That's great. Thank God it happened that way for you. It doesn't always happen that way for for other people who are still having a supernatural experience in God.

Sometimes it's a journey if that makes sense. >> This word truth though is really interesting. The Greek word that we normally um that we normally associate with the scripture logos the written word and Rama the spiritled word. Those two words are usually the word we would think and you'll know the logos, the Bible, that'll set you free.

Or you'll know the Rama, the spoken word of God, that'll set you free. This word is not either one of those. >> This word is the word we get our word reality from. >> You'll know reality and that will set you free >> because a lot of believers live in a virtual reality. >> Feels real, it looks real, but it isn't real. when I I I went to um I went to flight school a long time ago when we were in Weirville because um we had a auto parts store in Willows, California and an auto parts store in Reading, California and our house was just like literally 3 minutes from an airport and the Willows auto parts store was literally 5 minutes from an airport.

So, this could save me an entire day if I just get a little plane, fly back and forth. So, I went to uh flight school. I went to uh ground school first. you have to go to ground school first. And and I did fine in ground school. I don't remember it was like three months long.

And then I uh started flying with an instructor. And uh uh first three times I threw up in the plane. Every time I took the wheel, I threw up. And the instructor's like, "You'll get past this." The fifth time I threw up, he's like, "You need to find another instructor and another plane cuz that's not happening in my plane again."

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 That was the end of my big career of flying. But um one of the things the the most emphasiz empa emphasized thing that I learned in flight school was about this thing called spatial disorientation. Spatial disorientation. And it usually it's it's the it's the way it's the reason why most small planes crash.

Uh besides mechanical problems, most small cla most small planes crash because of spatial disorientation. And it's the sense it usually happens in a storm when you can't see out the windows. And it's the sense that you're upside down and climbing when you're actually right side up and level.

And what I learned in flight school was that that every single plane, no matter how cheap the plane you buy, you can buy really inexpensive planes, 
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 but they always have a duplicate. I think it's about three gauges. The two I remember is the altitude, the altimeter altimeter. There's two of those.

And the yaw gauge that kind of tells you are you this way, this way, or this way, or this way. There's two of those. And I believe there's one other. Three gauges. And every plane, no matter how small it is, has two of these. Two of each of these.

And the reason is is because if you're flying and all of a sudden you get in a storm and you feel like you're upside down and and and and you're and you're and you're going up and you look at gauge number one and it goes level and flat >> and you go, "Something wrong with that gauge." the the principle of a double witness >> saves your life >> because you look at the gauge on the other side and you look at that altimeter and that alter and they read the same and you look at that yaw gauge and that yaw gauge and they read the same and you're like two gauges can't be wrong >> and the point that I'm getting at is this that you're supposed to be instead of trusting your feeling you're supposed to tr your trust your gauges >> and so the idea is that you would see two gauges and you like two gauges can't be wrong, so my feelings must be wrong. >> And I'd point out that our high values and our core values are often quite different.

And let me explain. Jesus said, "Take care how you listen. I'd like to point out that we all talk with an accent. >> You just don't know you have one till you meet someone has a different one." I went to England. You should see what they have done to the English language.

Thank God we got out of that country. I went to Scotland, bro. It is not it it is not Braveheart. I had 
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 I went to Scotland. This is a true this is not exactly a true story. And then I did a Q&A with about a 100red leaders in a tent and and and after the second question I go I need a translator.

I have no idea what they're talking about. I don't. This is not the Braveheart movie. This is I I this mixed with Chinese or something. I have no idea what you're mixed with. When you meet someone who has an accent, who do you think has the accent? Yeah, you think they do.

You're like, "What did you guys do with the English language?" >> My point is this. We don't just talk with an accent. We see with an accent. >> We see with an accent. we hear with an accent. In this case, Jesus didn't say, "Be careful what you listen to."

He said, "Be careful how you listen." And I'm pointing out that we will often question what we see, but we seldom question how we see. >> And there's a huge difference between our core values and our high values. I want to tell you a story. Gosh, I'm almost out of time.

Um, years ago when when I used to counsel, thank God I don't. I mean the people are thanking God also. 
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 Who needs compassion? Get over it. I was counseling these three women and I think it was the Lord that I was counseling these three different women. They didn't know each other and they all had this the same kind of circumstances.

They were all married. They all had children and all three of their husbands were physically emotionally too but physically abusing them and their children. And I was trying to get and so and I I was meeting with them all like in the same month. And so I really do think the Lord was teaching me as much as he was teaching them.

And and I was like I was trying to get them to separate from Tarzan for a season and let him deal with the animals for a while. I wasn't like hey get divorced. I was like can we get Tarzan to stay in the jungle for a while when we get you well then we can work on Tarzan.

But they wouldn't leave. None of them would leave. And so I like the second session with the first woman I was working with, I I I felt like, Lord, what's really wrong here? Like what's really wrong? And the Lord says she doesn't love herself. And and she's and because she doesn't love herself and she doesn't understand what I did on the cross, she she's creating, you know, penance.

She's creating she she hates being punished, but she likes the closure of she sinned and therefore she paid for it. >> And so I go, so okay. Okay. So, I go to the next meeting. I'm kind of excited. I'm like, we're going to solve this. And I say, you know, the Lord told me that you don't love yourself and that's why you stay in this relationship like this.

And by the way, you attract men who will punish you because And she goes, I love myself. And she quoted five scriptures about loving herself. So, I I left that session. I'm like, well, that sucked. That didn't go well. So, I go to the Lord. I'm like, Lord, she loves herself.

And he said, no, her high value is not her core value. I'm like, what does that mean? He said the way what she what she has a high value for is not the way she sees the world. Let me ask you a question. How many believe that God always provides for you?

Raise your hand. Okay. How many how many you have ever worried about money? See that? Message closed. Your high value is not your core value. And so the Lord said, "What I want you to do is I want you to take her high value and I want to make it her core value."

Because their core value is the way you see the world. Not the way you want to see the world, but the way you really see the world. >> Are you following me? >> And I'm pointing out that a lot of people will repeat scriptures in which they think, "Well, yes, this is what I believe."

And I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Do you worry?" Yeah. Well, that isn't what you believe then. >> Well, you're saying I don't believe in God. No, I'm saying that you don't see the world through the through your the values you say you see the world through. Those are values you wish that you saw the world through.

But these are the values you actually see the world through. >> And I'm pointing out that that so many values are being shaped by the by by our environment instead of by the scriptures. So many of our values are being shaped not by experiencing the Lord but by experiencing humans.

So many listen we live in the 21st century where so many of our values for truth what is true is shaped by how I feel. I'd like to point out that that's like the plane like how I feel isn't how I am. If I lose sight of my gauges who knows what's going to happen to me and we have people like the reason I live like this is because why would God make me have a desire for this and then make me and then punish me for it.

I'm like he didn't 
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 give you a desire. Hey, God. Listen, how you feel isn't who you are. How you feel isn't how you're doing. And people like, "Oh, you you're you're saying my feelings don't matter." I'm saying, "No, they're great servants. They're just terrible masters." >> We have a whole generation that is crashing into the ground because they feel like they're upside down >> and and they feel like they're upside down and climbing.

And it's like actually your level, just stay there. >> Yeah. That's so good. Are you with me? 
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 >> There's a brain. Our brain has a filter called the theelness. This part of the brain determines what your brain listens to, what you believe to be true, what you value, and the experience you welcome.

This is your reality filter. We pay attention to only a small portion of the information presented to us and we throw most of it away. This process is known as selective filtering and we do it hundreds of times a day. Hundreds of times a day we are filtering what is true. >> What is true?

And when we renew our mind, don't be conformed to the world. Don't let the world determine your core values. Don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of mind. When we renew our minds, what's happened biologically or can I say neur neurologically is that we are train our theelmus.

This is true. This isn't true. Don't feed me this anymore. >> Listen, you tend to attract what you actually value. I was I was just saying in first service and I end with this. Why don't you stand while I'm finishing? Bill Johnson Bill Johnson has a high value for testimonies.

How many of How many you know that? >> And you know what happens? Because he has a high value for it. He attracts it. >> He attracts. He has trained himself. Hey, testimonies. That's what I want. I want to attract testimonies. How many you know if you're a person who always complains, guess what you attract.

Anyway, let's move on because very bad way to end the message. I'm going to pray for you right now. Father, I thank you for what you're doing in this room. I thank you for what you're doing on on on our online campus. And Lord, I pray that on online and in the rooms, Lord, that you right now, you'd pour your spirit on us.

God, we wouldn't just be highly gifted. We'd actually have the mind of Christ. We wouldn't make decisions that that that solve today's problems and put the next generation at risk. But we be the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And that when we disciple the pharaohs of the world, we don't give them we don't give them the wisdom of man, but we give them the wisdom from another age. >> I thank you for these people, Father, in Jesus name.

Amen. Thank you for listening. God bless you.