Time For You To “Grow Up!
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
INTRODUCTION:
Now that it’s 2022 a new year, we always try to look at what to resolve (settle or fix) in our lives.
If we are to live a life that is pleasing to God, we need first to change ourselves by growing up into Him.
Are become more like Him.
A. Gen. 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
B. 2 Cor. 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
C. Eph. 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
D. Eph. 4:22–24
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
I. WE MUST COOPERATE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
A. We must choose to let go of old ways of acting.
B. We must change the way we think.
C. We must put on the character of Christ by developing new, godly habits.
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.
II. GOD USES HIS WORD, PEOPLE, & CIRCUMSTANCES TO MOLD US
A. God’s Word provides the truth we need to grow.
B. God’s people provide the support we need to grow.
C. Circumstances provide the environment we need to practice Christlikeness.
III. BECOMING LIKE CHRIST IS A LONG, SLOW PROCESS OF GROWTH.
A. Eph. 4:13
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:
B. 1 John 3:2
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.
C. Rom. 12:2
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.