Now, how does the world try to put us into its image? Through the mind, and particularly today, through the media, through television, through a fake book, through the newspapers, through the radio, through all of the stuff that we see around us, the world is trying to get us to think its way, and of course, right now, there is a battle for our minds, those on one side are trying to get us to see things this way, and those on the other side are trying to get us to see things the other way, and that's exactly where Christians find themselves today, do we go with the Republicans or the Democrats, do we go with the scientists or with the White House, do we go with those who want to go back to work, or do we go with those who say we want to be safe, these are the things, but all, and here's the point, all of these is the world's way of thinking, that is the world, whether we go back to work tomorrow or in a month's time or in a year's time, that is the world, it is not the church, and yet that shapes our thinking, whether the virus comes out of a laboratory or whether it's a natural thing that comes out of, that came from animals, that is the world, it is not the church, and yet we are allowing those things to shape us, and I don't mind which one you believe in, I prefer that you believe in the Lord Jesus, that we not allow the world to conform us, but the problem is that we are pushed into a corner today where we feel we have to take sides, I have to take sides, either with the Democrats or the Republicans, I have to take sides with the scientists, and so the list goes on, but whatever side you take is not the side of God, it's the side of the world, because it's all the world, whether it's America or China, it's the world, now I mean, that's a shocking thing to many people, people say, well, you know, China, that's the world, America is not the world, no, China is just as much the world as America is the world, as far as God's concerned, there is no difference, oh, but we have a great heresy, heresy, we have a great heritage, a Christian heritage in the United Kingdom or in America, the heritage makes no difference, it doesn't help, it's where we are at today, it doesn't matter on what basis America was founded, or China was founded, or England was founded, that is gone and past, it's where we are today, and today, every nation in the world, there is not a single nation that can be called a Christian nation, and so we look at that and we say, well, you know, no, I've got to choose the better of these two, now, these guys are closer to the Christian values than these guys, and so I align myself with these guys or those guys, because I say, well, neither of them are Christian, now, please, I'm not for one moment saying that we mustn't fulfill our civic duty, that we shouldn't vote, that we shouldn't obey the law, pay our taxes, do all of these things, of course, we need to do those things, remember, Jesus says we're in the world, and while we are in the world we need to live under the authority that is in the world, but do we have to choose sides, do we have to fight for one side or the other, I'm gonna come back to this idea of fighting, I don't believe that we should, because in that process we've been conformed with either the liberals or the conservatives, with this side or that side, don't allow the world to shape you, we say, well, I'm not allowing the world to shape me, sometimes the world shapes us in a negative way, in a reactive way, so the world pushes against us and we push back, and we form our ideas and our thinking in reaction, not based on the word of God, but in reaction to what we find around us, and at the same time I'm being shaped by the world, the world is conforming me to its image, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, it's the word of God that renews our mind, and as we study the word of God, as we live the word of God, it is in the word of God that our minds are being changed, but here's the problem, and I've spoken about this many times, the problem is that we spend so much time watching television on Facebook and on YouTube and on all of these things, and so little time in the word of God, and we wonder why our thinking is worldly rather than godly, don't allow the world to shape you, let your mind be renewed by the transformation that comes as a result of the word of God, Galatians chapter six and verse 14, here's where the thing really comes down to the basics, but God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world, that's not just Paul's testimony, that should be the testimony of every single born again believer, when we died, when we were born again, we died to the world, there's that whole theology that Paul deals with in Romans, that we have died to the Lord and we've been raised to walk in newness of life, yes we died to the Lord, but we also died to the world, to whom the world was crucified to me, you cannot become a Christian, you cannot be a Christian unless you have crucified the world, unless you've put to death the world, not using the word crucifixion here in the sense of an atoning thing, but simply in the sense of putting it to death, but obviously reminding us of what Jesus did at the cross of Calvary, so the world is dead to me, and I'm dead to the world, so it really should be a twofold thing, it should be a double jeopardy, we should be dead to the world and the world should be dead to us, and so what the world does therefore should not have an impact on us, this is really the heart of my message today, what the world is doing, what is going on in Sacramento, in Washington, in downtown LA, wherever the county supervisors sit, that should have no impact on us whatsoever, yes it impacts on whether we can open this chapel's doors again, it impacts on whether we wear masks or don't wear masks, it impacts on whether we can work or can't work, of course it impacts on all that, but it should have no impact on our values, it should have no impact on our peace of mind, it should have no impact on our spiritual life whatsoever, because that is dead as far as we're concerned, and we should be dead to it, but here's the problem, it is just the opposite in most Christians' lives, most Christians are right now being so upset by what is going on in the world, they feel they need to take up arms, some are feeling the need, and many Christians are going and protesting against the stay at home orders, and protesting against this and that and the other thing, but if you're dead to the world and the world's dead to you, then what are you protesting about?