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Well, this isn't actually the smallest group is that that I've ever preached you on a Sunday morning before?

I remember it.

Wasn't this last Thanksgiving with a Thanksgiving before I preach the sermon with about three people in the entire room for an entire Sunday morning.

So, I'm it still feels weird, but it's not the weirdest situation I've ever been in, but I'm so glad that you're tuning in with us online.

And we are continuing our sermon series called simply transformed today.

And we are on week 3 of this and where we've been previously for the past two weeks.

The first week, we discussed kind of our call our mission, to be different from the world.

And we just talked about that were different, a little bit and what it looks like to be different and how we're supposed to be different from those who are in the world, not living as followers of Christ.

And so we dug into that a little bit in the second week, I'll be really focused on this idea of what it looks like to be with Jesus, and kind of how that is a way that we can.

A suit after being transformed into this week.

I really want to focus on this idea.

What?

What is it actually look like to be a transformed person.

That question might come to you a little bit as we were going for the first couple of weeks so it's okay.

Yeah I get that I'm supposed to be different.

I get that I'm being with Jesus and simply being present with him can be a way that I can be transformed, but what does it actually look like to be a transformed person?

And so as we discussed that, I'm working to look at a specific story, a little bit later on and that title is already in your bullets in there and so you might have already read it and said okay that's the story where we're going but there's a story that I want to focus on a little bit later.

This idea of a chair that we've been focusing on for the past couple of weeks, right.

The first week we had this chair in it and it signified kind of our life and our life decisions in the directions that we go.

And whoever is sitting in that chair, is the person that is governing.

What your Decisions are which direction you choose to go.

And so this kind of the struggle between me if I'm talking about my chair and God to say, you know, there's often times where I want to follow kind of the desires of the Flesh in that the darkness, and I want to be the one sitting in the chair was also a lot of times where we have this, these desires of the spirit as well.

And we want to play some God in that chair and overall, God should be the one in the chair.

All the time, he should be the one governing, our life and in telling us where to go and how to interact with people.

And so that's what we focused on with.

I'm the first week in the idea of the chair in the last week when we focus on was his idea of.

All right, we've placed God on the chair, Jesus is in the chair.

And now, I am sitting at his feet learning from him, observing just what he does.

And scripture reading what he tells us and teaches us and just soaking in everything that he has to offer.

That's where we've been out for the past couple of weeks with this idea of the chair and as we get into this week, what I want to kind of focused on, you know, on is this idea of leaning on God? Now we placed God in the chair, we are sitting at his feet and now let's just let's lean on him because life can be difficult, it can be hard and we need his strength to get us through our strength that can only take us so far.

And then there's a point where, oh, my goodness, I feel overwhelmed and over, and I, I don't know what to do and in those moments, let's let's lean on.

God, let's just leaned on him cuz he's the one sitting in the chair.

As we move into this idea, there's a couple points on your on your bulletin.

Kind of the things that I thought of when transformation has come up before not.

I'm not saying that these are truth but this is just kind of the way that I used to view transformation.

The first thing is that transformation is doing the right.

Things transformation is doing the right things and while doing the right things, can definitely be an indicator or kind of image into being a transformed person.

That's not the full picture that really isn't the full picture, you know, the the media.

And I've heard pastor Matt talked about this, a few times, the media really focuses in on these negative stories that happened in Church's, right?

They don't focus in on a lot of good things that happen in churches and I completely completely ignore wants that.

But there still is a truth that there are negative stories that happen in churches.

And sometimes when we see what we see is these, these church leaders right for their entire life, they've done.

The right things, they've gone to the right places.

They've gone to the right colleges that got in the right degrees and then they're in these positions get inside, they're not transforms, they're not living out of life of transformation and I will send some massive event happens.

That kind of lets us into this idea like oh this person wasn't transform this entire time.

They were just doing the right things and so there's this is the full picture is are they transformed person?

Are they loving people in the way that they're supposed to love people and it's hard for us to determine that.

We can't look inward lie and say all yes this persons transformed in this person's not so it's a lot of self-reflection of.

Where am I at within this idea of transformation?

Nonetheless, right.

I had thought transformation is doing the right things and I didn't fully have the full picture.

I didn't have the full picture in my mind.

Now, secondly, when I am transformed life will be easy.

Yeah, there's a few people laughing in here, right?

This couldn't be further from the truth, right?

Life is, is, is difficult, it's hard.

It's full of wondrous Beauty.

Don't get me wrong, like, life is full of so, so much Beauty yet.

Also, there's a lot of difficulty in struggling and hardships, that happen, right?

And I'm sure, as I say those things, you can probably think of a situation that either has happened to his ongoing in your life of wildest thing is hard.

And so just kind of to fallacies within this statement when I am transformed life will be easier when I'm transformed within this life.

We're never going to reach a point where we are fully transformed.

Its transformation is kind of this ongoing process, this journey that we go on as we continue learning about ourselves learning about the world learning about others and how we interact with them as we continue this process of transformation.

That's kind of the first fallacy within this idea.

And then secondly, Life is difficult.

Life is full of struggle against still full of beauty, but life can be difficult.

As we continue that process of transformation though, I think that we can learn how to handle different situations may be better than we once did before.

But in the end, the truth of the matter is, there's always things in my life, even when I reach this point of like that, you know, I'm so much wiser than I was in high school and so much wiser than I was in college now.

And then I reached the situation is happening in my life and I'm like, I am not prepared to handle the situation.

And so then what comes into play is leaning on God.

Thank God.

I've placed you in the chair.

I'm sitting at your feet and I'm leaning on you and this time that I I don't know what to do.

So guide me teach me what I should be doing.

And that's kind of what I want to lean into this morning.

So I were talking about this idea of transformation.

The first couple weeks I've shared with you to the Oxford dictionary, trans definition of transformation, and that is to make a thorough or dramatic change in form appearance or character of, right?

I haven't memorized.

Now, for the first 22 weeks and slap what we're talkin about, what kind of focusing in on this idea of a character in the transformation of character and kind of our our our lives you can say, so the demon-possessed man.

And this is really interesting story to focus in on in terms of transformation, it wasn't one that initially came to my mind when I was studying for the sermon but as I looked up transformation and it was trying to study the little bit, there was this article that showed up that I was like, huh?

That's a really interesting story till it to.

Look at within this idea of transformation and he goes through a wild series of events within that and sore going to read the entire story really quickly together.

And then we're going to kind of look at a few different points from that.

Looking in the story, Luke chapter 8, starting the 1st 26th, they sailed to the region of the gerasenes which is across the lake From Galilee.

When Jesus.

Stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town for a long time.

This man had not worn clothes or lived in a house but had lived in the tombs when he saw Jesus.

He cried out and fell at his feet shouting at the top of his voice.

What do you want with me?

Jesus, Son of the most high God.

I beg.

You don't torture me.

For Jesus had commanded.

The impure Spirit to come out of the man, many times it has seized him and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by a demon into solitary places.

Jesus asked him.

What is your name legion?

He replied because many demons had gone into him and They begged.

Jesus repeatedly, not to order them to go into the abyss.

A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, in the demons beg Jesus, to, to let them go into the pigs and he gave them permission.

When the demons came out of the man.