TRANSFORMED; Introduction

TRANSFORMED

Introduction
September 18, 2022


Big Idea:


Transformed (metamorphosis) describes a change from within. The world wants to change our mind, so it exerts pressure from the outside. But God wants to transform our life from within by the renewing of our .


1. God’s goal for each of us would be that we would be transformed to the very image of Jesus.


Philippians 2:12-13 - Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed — not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence — continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.


2. This is so important to understand because most of our prayers focus on God changing the circumstances of us.


2 Corinthians 4:16 - Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet
inwardly we are being renewed day by day.


Colossians 3:9-10 - Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.


Renew means: To make new.


Renewal in change.


3. God is working in to transform you into someone new.


Romans 12:1 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.


Spiritual means: Reasonable or Logical


Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world


4. Patterns of this world are like a mold that you pour liquid into and when it hardens, it is the shape of the mold.


Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed…


5. We all would agree that we want to be transformed, but ?


Romans 12:2 - …by the renewing of your mind


6. This truth is so powerful. We think that if we want to change, we have to rededicate our life and try harder. But we all have been frustrated by a lack of transformation. That is why we need a . The renewing of our mind is the means by which transformation takes place in our lives.


So our is to work with God in the renewal of our minds.


Romans 12:2 - Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.


7. Every day as followers of Christ, He is at work in you to bring about transformation.


The challenge is: Will we with Him in the process or ignore the
process? Will we take off the old and replace it with the new?
To renew is to take off the old and put on the new.


8. If we will begin to as He sees, then we will begin to as He says.


Romans 12:2 - …Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.


Good means: Benefit


Pleasing means: Acceptable


Perfect means: Completeness


9. of mind leads to transformation that breaks down our resistance to God’s good, pleasing and perfect will.


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