Changes Just Ahead

Change - make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.

"both parties voted against proposals to change the law"

1. Repentance is a change of purpose

1 Thessalonians 1:9 KJV (WS)

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

Luke 15:18 KJV (WS)

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

2. Salvation is a change of position

Ephesians 2:6–8 KJV (WS)

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

3. Justification is a change of state

Romans 5:1 KJV (WS)

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

4. Adoption is a change of family

Ephesians 1:5 KJV (WS)

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

5. Redemption is a change of masters

Ephesians 1:7 KJV (WS)

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

6. Sanctification is a change of life

1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 KJV (WS)

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

7. Consecration is a change of will

Romans 12:1–2 KJV (WS)

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Frederick Marsh, 1,000 Bible Study Outlines: Study Helps and Sermon Outlines (WORDsearch, 1970), 41.