06/03/2026
06/02/2026
Strait Way Ministries
Tuesday Night Bible Class
Elder Kamarcus Gardner D.Min
Topic: The Power of the Renewed
Romans 12:2, Philippians 2:5
1. We must understand what the battle of the mind is or we will be defeated. When we have the mind of God, we know how to combat situations and circumstances. The fiery darts cannot pe*****te our minds when we are fully persuaded (pertaining to the things of God). If we fail to renew our minds, we can become trapped and dominated by the world (Matthew 15:19, Proverbs 23:7). Sin starts in the mind - we start to ponder on it, first.
a. Be not conformed.
Conform - Shaped or pressed into a pattern. We must take the time to recognize the invisible pressures we face in this world. What areas in our lives have we conformed? Social Media, Culture, ungodly environments, etc. (Exodus 23:2, Romans 8:5). Conformity happens passively - it is subtle. What influences shape our thought process?
b. Be ye transformed.
This is God’s process for change! Transformation is deeper than natural behavior - it is an internal change that produces outward evidence of what is happening internally. Our lives are meant to be different. We are not meant to conform.
- Conform = external pressures
- Transformation = internal power
Only God can change us (Titus 3:5, 2 Corinthians 3:18). Allow Him to do His perfect work within us!
c. Renewing of your mind.
Renewing - To renovate, to make new again, to replace old patterns with new truth. We must be willing to apply the Word and do what the Word of God says. Have we been changed by the word of God? We need to fill our minds with the Word of God.
- We must remove wrong thinking. We have to identify and reject thoughts that contradict God (2 Corinthians 10:5, 1 Peter 5:7). We cannot get lost in what we are going through.
- We must replace our wrong thinking with truth. The Word of God is the truth (John 17:17, Psalms 119:11). We do not have to rehearse wrong thinking.
Renewing our minds requires faith and pushes us to act on the Word of God.