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“Walk according to the Spirit...” “Walk according to the Spirit...” The “mindset” of the Spirit The “mindset” of the Spirit – Patterns of thinking; preoccupation, fixation, dedication – “Worldview”: what I believe is true, valuable, enduring How do we change our “mindset”? How do we change our “mindset”? Philippians 2:12–13...work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to do His good pleasure.

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Hebrews 5:14

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify “The battle is a spiritual one, but it is fought, and won or lost, in the daily decisions the believer makes about how to use his body.” Douglas Moo

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify...I discipline my body and make it my slave Cor 9:24

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. Romans 13:14

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify – Cultivate...discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. 1 Timothy 4:7

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify – Cultivate “The disciplines are activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken, to bring our personality and total being into effective cooperation with the divine order. They enable us more and more to live in a power that is, strictly speaking, beyond ourselves, deriving from the spiritual realm itself, as we ‘yield ourselves to God....’” Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines

Engagement Prayer Study, meditation Worship Service Fellowship Abstinence Solitude, silence Fasting Frugality, giving “In and of themselves, the disciplines have no virtue, possess no righteousness... The Disciplines place us before God; they do not give us ‘brownie points.’” Richard Foster

✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Crucify – Cultivate – Imitate – “Walk”

“How We Get Addicted,” M. Lemonick [S]cientifically speaking, addictions are repetitive behaviors in the face of negative consequences and they are often fueled by the addict’s manipulation of the brain’s reward system [pleasurable activities or substances release dopamine, a neurotransmitter]. Anything that can manipulate that reward system can, in a sense, become addictive including drugs, alcohol, food, sexual stimulation, and a host of other behaviors.

1)Crucify 2)Cultivate 3)Imitate