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It was a “Take Your Child to Work Day” and the doctor had brought his six-year-old daughter to the hospital.
He introduced her to everyone, gave her a tour of the building, and then showed her the corner office he worked out of.
He was sure she was impressed by how important her daddy was, and when she picked up his stethoscope he felt a surge of excitement.
He had impressed her so much she undoubtedly wanted to be a doctor just like him.
The little girl put the stethoscope to her ears.
As tears of pride came to the doctor’s eyes, his daughter lifted the end of the stethoscope to her mouth and said, “Welcome to McDonald’s.
May I take your order please?”
We are going to spend several weeks talking about Transformation.
We all need to be transformed in some ways because we aren’t perfect.
In fact we will never be perfect.
In our lives we should be striving to be more and more like Christ.
Think about your life.
Are there areas that aren’t perfect?
Well, then this sermon series might help you!
The Word of God points out many areas that we can be transformed.
There are things we can do to make things better in our lives.
Why do we need transformation?
Mainly because our sinful nature will lead us to bad places.
Left on our own we would find ourselves in a place of destruction.
In our own strength we fail time and time again.
It’s actually impossible to find true fulfillment without living a life set apart for Christ.
We need transformation to live a victorious life.
Romans 12 is going to be our main portion of scripture over the coming weeks.
It deals will how we are supposed to be transformed children of God.
Part of our Transformation challenge will be to memorize the entire chapter.
Would anyone be willing to recite the first two verses from last week?
This week we are going to focus on verses 3-5.
But I first want to remind you of what we talked about last week.
Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
That first phrase sets the stage for everything else Paul is going to teach us in this chapter.
The mercy of God is our motivation to be transformed.
The mercy of God is basically the fact that instead of punishment God has chosen to love us and forgive our sinful nature.
He has accepted the undeserved punishment of Christ as our payment.
We have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb.
I like that verse because it gives the image that we have put Christ on like clothing.
Remember back in the old testament when Jacob stole the blessing of Esau?
Esau was the first born of Isaac and fully expected the blessing of his father.
He was robbed by his younger brother.
Do you remember how it happened?
There’s a couple little elements of that story that resonate with me about how we have put on Christ and recieved His blessing instead of what we deserved.
Jacob put on his brothers clothes, he even covered his skin with the skin of young goats to make his skin more like his hairy brother Esau.
When his father touched him he thought he WAS Esau.
In the end Jacob recieved the blessing because the father thought he was Esau.
This is a picture of the mercy of God in our lives.
We have recieved the blessing of the father because we have put on Christ.
When God looks at us He sees the perfection of Jesus.
Our punishment is gone when we place our trust in Christ.
We are transformed by the mercy of God.
This is what motivates us to live a life as a living sacrifice.
We lay down our selfish desires to live a life set apart form the world.
We allow God to make us into new people by changing the way we think.
We desire the will of God.
Now, we get to what we are going to talk about today.
Being an agent of change.
Let’s read our main text today:
There are three things that I believe you can do right now in your life that will transform your situation and make you become an agent of change.
Here’s the first thing:
Be Humble
Romans 12:3 (NLT)
3 Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are.
Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
Most of us know the children’s story about the three little pigs and the big bad wolf.
The first little pig’s house was built with straw.
After huffing and puffing, the big bad wolf blew it down.
He then moved on to the second little pig’s house which was built out of wood.
As before, the wolf huffed and puffed and blew this house down also.
By this time, the big bad wolf was feeling pretty confident.
Filled with pride, he approached the next house—the one made of bricks.
Once again, he huffed and he puffed but nothing happened.
So he huffed and he puffed and he huffed and he puffed and … he failed to blow down this house.
He had been deceived by his previous experiences.
In the same way, we can act like the big, bad wolf.
We deceive ourselves into thinking we can tear down the walls that keep us from approaching God.
But Scripture declares that man is worthy to approach God in their own strength.
“But doesn’t my life count for something?”
you might ask.
“I go to church; I’m a good person; I do good things for people.
Isn’t that the basis for approaching God?” No! Man-made approaches are totally inadequate.
The only way to approach God is through Jesus Christ.
The only way for us to be saved is to humble ourselves and admit that we are sinners in need of a Saviour.
Now, most of us would say that’s true and even say that we’ve done that at some point in our life.
But the christian walk in humility isn’t a one time bow to receive Christ.
No, if we are going to be committed to transformation the Word of God tells us that we cannot think that we are better than we really are.
We must continue in humility all the days of our lives…why?
Remember it’s the Mercy of God that has saved us.
It’s why we can even stand in the presence of God.
We don’t get to decide how God works.
Don’t we get upset when things do go our way?
We get upset when we feel passed over.
We feel rejected.
We feel used.
God why would you allow this person to have what I desire?
Wouldn’t it be so easy for God to touch our situation and bring us to the top as we see it every time?
Well, I think back to Esau.
If anyone was going to have a reason to be upset, he certainly did!
His brother pretended to be him.
He lied to get the blessing of the father.
It’s all good when we think about the parallels of how we put on Christ like Jacob put on his brothers clothing to receive a blessing that he didn’t deserve, but what about Esau who didn’t get the blessing that HE deserved!
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