BE TRANSFORMED

Resurrection Sunday recap

Every time you put yourself in the Lord’s habitation - great advantage

The world’s influence and pressures are at times overwhelming

These influences and pressures are external and our best and only great defense as followers of Jesus comes from the internal

The influences of this world come from the gods of the nations, they are real, they are not just carved or molten images

Their influences are real - can you imagine seeing the mighty hand of the One true God part the Red Sea, defend from the Egyptian army with a pillar of fire, plunder all of Egypt for the people of Israel, lead with a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night, but to have to wait on the Lord 40 days was too much..............They said to Aaron,”come make us a god who will go before us ; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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Exodus 32:1 NASB95

1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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Romans 12:2 NASB95

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

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WORLD

aion (Greek) - unit of time, stage of history

practices and standards of those without God

As followers of Jesus we have to keep our guard up, be in God’s word, being in God’s word brings us revelation, seeking and walking with Him in Spirit, renewing the mind to God’s truth, why is that?

A saying goes thet “its easier to fool a person than to convince them they have been fooled” Its’ easier to deceive a person than to convince them they have been deceived”

Lets look at this passage again

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Romans 12:2 (NASB95)

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Conformed - to another’s pattern (mind / character) EXTERNAL

Transformed - to change into another form (transfigure), essential nature INTERNAL

We encourage the influence worship has here at The Road church .......if you learn from the people of the bible you really see the internal influence and wisdom and knowledge they gained form worship

Lets look at the NLT translation for Romans 12: 2

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Romans 12:2 NLT

2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Two perfect examples in the Bible ................king Saul / king David

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Ephesians 4:17 NASB95

17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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Ephesians 4:18 NASB95

18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

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Ephesians 4:19 NASB95

19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

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Ephesians 4:20–21 NASB95

20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,

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Ephesians 4:22–23 NASB95

22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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Ephesians 4:24 NASB95

24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

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2 Corinthians 10:4 NLT

4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

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2 Corinthians 10:5 NLT

5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

You and I as followers of Christ will have a very hard time convincing those of the world they have been deceived or are being deceived (maybe a fellow believer)

We can ask or invite those out there to come, come to church, a coffee and conversation, youth rallies or events or camps, men’ breakfast, conferences or ministry events

CLOSE / PRAYER

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“BE TRANSFORMED”