A Transformed Life Sermon Notes Week 1

Intro

Driving in Traffic

driving on the open road.

We have obstacles in our lives, this is the work of transformation, next series.

ILL: I used to have a motorcycle, harley sporster 883

nothing better than the open road, back country in Washington State

The freedom, the exhilaration, the boundless opportunity

This is what you and I were made for.

Many of us are driving in traffic

or at worst we are at a complete standstill.

There are obstacles in you

This series is about identifying those obstacles that hinder your spiritual freedom and removing them so you too can hit the open road.

This series is about how people change, how they really change.

The Bible calls us to total transformation, anything less is not Biblical and furthermore won’t work.

So let me as you, do you want to change?

Are you tired of the weights and sins that you drag around with you?

Do you long for freedom, lasting joy?

What transformation is not:

it is not freedom from pain, but freedom in pain

It is not answers to everything, but it is trusting in the one who knows

It’s not the absence of wounds, but the healing of wounds

It’s not the absence of sin, but a life or repentance

It’s not done by your own effort, but by beholding and becoming like Christ.

What Jesus offers us is unlike anything we could have imagined.

True Change comes

from the inside out

turns the world upside down