Transformed

I Won’t Go Back

“Your Life will Never be the Same”

What does this mean?

++Situational Change

++Positional Change

++Relational Change

++Physical Change

We are all changing

++With age

++Experience

++Health

We need a God Kind of Change

God’s Change

++Beyond Situational Change

++Beyond Positional Change

++Beyond Relational Change

++Beyond Physical

++B

++Beyond Physical Change

His change is transformational

John 8:11 KJV 1900

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

His change declares

++Unspoken realities

Unspoken Realities

++Your sin is common

++Your are not alone

1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV 1900

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

His change declares

++Unspoken realities

++Unexpected possibilities

Unexpected Possibilities

++You are not stuck in sin

++You can change

++Go, Sin no more

The carnal man will always make excuses

We don’t believe

++We can change

++Things can be different

++The truth

Everyone is changing

What kind of change are you willing to make.

Change is

++Rarely about ability

++Rooted in the will

John 5:6 KJV 1900

6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

John 5:6

Christ makes the difference.

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

I’ve Been Changed

Healed

Freed

Delivered

2 Corinthians 5:14–17 KJV 1900

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 5

Ephesians 4:1–3 KJV 1900

1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:13 KJV 1900

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Ephesians 4:20-

Ephesians 4:20–29 KJV 1900

20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 4:1

Ephesians

Ephesians 4:4 KJV 1900

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Ephesians

Ephesians 4:7 KJV 1900

7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Ephesians 4:8 KJV 1900

8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Ephesians 4:

Ephesians 4:14 KJV 1900

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Ephesians 4:14

Ephesians 4:17 KJV 1900

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 4:17

Ephesians 4:24 KJV 1900

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ephesians 4:24

Ephesians 4:32 KJV 1900

32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Following God

++A revelation and response

++Truth requires a response

John 18:38 KJV 1900

38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

No answer is recorded

++Truth is tested

++Truth is questioned

++Truth is never on trial

You may

++not like it

++not agree with it

++not want it

John 8:32 KJV 1900

32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The truth

++informs

++announces

++declares

Everything response to truth

John 17:17 KJV 1900

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

The Mission of the Church is life transformation

A decision

Ephesians 4:28–29 KJV 1900

28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Coming to God is an act of faith

Hebrews 11:6 KJV 1900

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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A decision

Faith is

++A decision

++An action

++A direction

++A believers response to truth

Romans

Romans 10:17 KJV 1900

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Preach the word

++Teach the word

++Live the word

2 Timothy 4:3 KJV 1900

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2 Timonthy 4:3

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

1 John 3:2–3 KJV 1900

2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

1 John 3:1–3 KJV 1900

1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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