The Sermon Transformed by David McGee
Jan 04, 2015
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Referenced Scriptures: Romans 12:2
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Romans 12:2
2) Don‘t be fashioned according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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Today are the messages on transformation being transformed the I think of the movie, Transformers, you know the kids to the movies with Transformers, and you have these these little trucks and tractors were vehicles, and you transform them into robots. So we have that that type of the transformation, but transformation means to a complete change in someone or something to be transformed in a complete change, and the challenge for us is when you're when you've got a complete change the arrogant you look at these of the some of the television shows that the world, the biggest loser now okay and then you have the makeovers area people who are losing a lot of weight through people who are taking, giving him a new hairdo in a people can know me from my back in my head now that is a real tough. I don't know what that is. But that's a real recognition for her problem. I have an identity problem for me, that somebody can look at the back of my headsail that's pastor and they don't haven't seen him for ten, fifteen years so they hasn't changed much but when we think of being transformed. It's the same eyes looking in the mirror. It's the same person looking at our view of life and at ourselves and and as we look at that it would begin to wonder, am I really transformed time I really changed. Jan and I really that different. While in our life that was lost compared to our life that is found in Christ there is a change visit. There's a difference from who I was who I am. Now I may walk the same streets and they were aware of the state I may wear the same clothes but lives in, and the transformation, the Christ is brought. There's a difference on the inside and out in school to go to different rates. You go to different books you read different young go to different levels, and that's a gradual easement at a seemingly a gradual transformation that you are going from one place to another and whenever we're thinking of progressing physically getting stronger, getting weaker becoming a better reader that becoming a better leader becoming better in our relationship with Christ what's going on. We are setting goals and they are moving towards them, but in Romans chapter twelve verse two it gives us this declaration, and in making James version. I know I said message Bible, but we got up there. Thank you the King James version, not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now we we began to look at that and are enough in their heart 's first informant. I know I spoke an audit and I know I write it and I know I've quoted it hundreds of times and be in any message Bible has it as gods on this evening message Bible says Place your life before God. So here's what I want you to do, God helping you take your everyday, ordinary life, your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is best thing that you could do for him. Don't become so while a job your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside, out readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God, bringing the best out of you, develops well formed maturity in you. So we look at this Scripture, and we began to see brought us out and got in God, through Paul, the Holy Spirit is telling us. Be not conformed informed means to fit into the mold it out. He, I didn't say become moldy set strategic milk don't fit into the malt of the mold. If there is a mold that people look alike sound like you, can you tell preachers. We see them under walking through the mall or something. They just walk a certain way, date, you don't dress a certain way. I many times I can pick preachers out whether they have seats on or whether genes latest have a certain mold about them molding mold, but enough that a certain demeanor about them that this is so it sometimes results in so we see that for me. It's easy to pick them out there. Very few of them that I would know if they were procuring out in atomic, but there are number of people you see that we consider from a distance, and recognize that they are at even be just by the way they carry themselves and how they walk and talk and things like that so there is a conformity that of our world, our world is set up, what is the mold that you are to be in as a mother, a father work the things that you do. You're supposed to fit into a certain characteristic a certain mold and being discounting to the holidays. How many of you may can be from you pour the chocolate into a mold and its its variant form conforms to the mall. So in our lives. We singly find ourselves molded to the image that we are trying to become what we're trying to be whether the husband, a father of a mother, brother or sister of a person and work of friends. What does it, that we are looking like it's on the Bible is telling us don't be conformed to the world don't fit into the mold that the world has for you. The Bible talks about Potter and Clay that as a person. We are on the potter 's wheel and that the hand of God is shaping our lives so that the word of God in the Scriptures are what mold our lives rather than the pressures are pressures what other people think you should be the pressures of the world molding us. That's a certain figure or shape. God is saying don't allow that to happen don't be conformed don't fit into the mold that is not fitting to who you are, who Christ wants you to be not what it says via transformed transformed is a complete change a complete do over. Now some people can wear different hats different clothing. But you know, they never took a shower. The still think Dell is still the same person. It doesn't matter how you dress them up, they still do and act the same way they still have the same language. They still use the same vocabulary. They still do what they always did so being rendered and being transformed is something that takes place on the inside. And Paul says that you are renewing your mind that we are to renew our way of thinking that when you change the way you think you change what you see because we interpret what we see by already what we have in our mind. We do not like if you if if your thinking is that no Christmas time we see a tree down whenever you look at a Christmas tree. What you think of what he what does your mommy secret history presses okay what what about Christmas presents money off Christ's birth. What work ethic decorating on decorating. Okay, what do you cc our thinking determines what we see some able to look at the Christmas tree and smile and some people can look at the Christmas tree and frowned, and some can look at it in the very sad time to look at and be very happy what you're thinking determines how you say something so the renewing of your mind is that we are allowing God to help us process our thinking patterns and the Bible says click on the things that are lovely that are of a good report if there be any part sure there be any praise, think on these things. Think other things. Why do we want to think on these things because what you think is what you're going to see if you say something good, they do the things that are good in our lovely. What's going to happen. You're going to speak about it, but if something you want to buy something back blocked by what he limited which one is going to come up for the good of the bronze is this not true. There probably are doing something that comes by. I was talking to someone and they said, well, you know, hasn't snowed yet is waiting for the shooter drop as we know where to get dumped on sooner or later. This can continue the way it is being like the days we just got to be ready for the bad stuff to get here, although it wasn't anybody here to church and I said that the docket this on the outside, you know I meant bidders only. They would tell me how bad their dreading this winter and help us. What we haven't really had one flesh. Yet all yeah. But it's come and get out. We live in a spot and install their whole thinking is about being dumped on for winter. What about fifty degrees on Sunday in January, while you know that's it's it's it's it's good to be bad, how you think so changing your mind, change in any asked if they were overlooking ideas that we have to renew our mind, remove our thinking that we may prove prove see this is the thing about our faith. Faith is a substance faith is very real faith has tangible myths to it, but face it, and that our faith is able to be proved roofing, so this is not like well I wish I had this wish I had that note, I believe that God is going to work in my life. I believe that God is going to do something through May and May with me whenever, and that this day this month. This week this year is going to be the best year ever that is going to be better than it's ever been in my life that this is the year that God is going to perform something. This is the time God is going to do something my life, and we are saying that but do we believe that, and all were trying. What worked, what I'm looking at is how can we incorporate the Scriptures to prove them prove them see Bible says in one of tangible things is enough Malachi Malachi bring you all the ties and the storehouse and prove me now here with that God would open the windows of heaven, God would open his blessings upon our life and in any God is saying to the profit that I'm able to. You put money and get money out as pretty good deal for money and the money out. Is it you can't reap what you don't so know we usually use at negative and so which read, you know you do bad things, very bad things. What about you so love your repo is so good in people 's lives) that you have. You saw what you reap what you sow you plan a way to get week you don't plan the cotton and corn. What does it just to separate things up you you think are the things that are lovely, you are investing in the things that are lovely. The pure of a good report, and they all fit in a category, you are going there as they all fit into that category of what God wants to do in the transformation of our thinking. What yesterday we want to accomplish. This is where we pray God, what is it that you want to accomplish what you want to accomplish in my life this year. She's not a resolution at the transformation. I am not resolved. I am transformed. I have been changed. Now I have a little metamorphosis going on here. The word metamorphosis and job while we had here on the left over here on your left. We have a caterpillar get all that before Caterpillar spins its cocoon. It will consume it will become almost two hundred times its size so that when it must have enough energy to keep to stay alive in the cocoon, so I've been working on consuming and becoming two hundred times more my weight and the not true but tough, so I have every caterpillar here you as a caterpillar. The imagery of. It did you think a caterpillar ever thinks about flying. We know the week. Do you think of ability to think a monarch butterfly ever thinks about crawling on the ground. What has happened. We've have to have to have some type of a brain to do that. But how is it nobody's supposed to do. How does it know when it's supposed to eat and how no one is supposed to spin a cocoon. How does it know to spin a cocoon that needs to be strong enough to keep it safe, but yet with that yet. We can after they can break out, but yet not too weak because it will take the struggle of breaking out the soul be able to fly. Now if you think this will pick a number here. That's the second picture there and you kept an open or easy to find what you will find someone you've already done it and he does this comes like Lovano, but if you if you slice it, open your modifying the digested milky juice sly does not account there is not a caterpillar in there and there is not about a butterfly in there. There is a bunch of gooey white junk and I and and has a special layman 's culture about there may be in some of the think there may be little sockets that are left that are left from the digesting of itself, industry consultant from that fund this caterpillar to a milky substance. It grows and becomes just a short period of time, it becomes a butterfly with wings and legs, eyes, and antenna antennae and it becomes the butterfly and far left. Now when you see a monarch butterfly going to the air you go over the flying caterpillar, now why not. It is a flying caterpillar has been transformed, but just don't you think, then data Canada that a butterfly will say in all, I remember when now I don't think it does that. Just think you think that's us. We have the ability to reason that the butterfly would say I feel the same as I did for system different. I feel like a caterpillar. It feels like I was something else, but I'm really different now, renewing and transformation. You see we are not sinners trying to be Christians, we are children of God who are tempted to do wrong sin she wants. We've given our life to Christ. There is a renewal, others a transformation. There's something goes on on the inside of the Army knew there was Reno right spirit within me a large know what the Spirit of God, the same spirit, the race price and the gender dad when he dwells in us, he will quicken our mortal bodies. He will bring played the word of God to life inside of us don't know that milky juice inside a cocoon is something that is alive but it just looks like Melchert, some kind of gooey stuff the word of God is alive and active inside of us transforming us into a child of God, but a look the same but am I the same issue. What was once best in me is now life in me the all way of thinking the old nature which was sinful, which had no sense of direction as to what is right and wrong has found the reality of Jesus Christ and has been forgiven and renewing wedding plans and there is a transformation. I am no longer. I'm no longer the person I was on a different person. We all looked the same. I can tell you from the back. I can know judo from the back your head but I must see this is where the renewal of the transformation that the renewing of your mind that you make from what is that good and acceptable perfect will of God. How does and how does a caterpillar travel thousands of miles doesn't I doubt that they could travel a mile as Caterpillar, but as a monarch butterfly. Where is it going to see does it know that it is the same but different does it now that it is the same, somehow in all of that change. It is the same, but yet it's entirely different, and this is, I think, for four Christians and therefore believers and for followers of Jesus Christ. It is difficult for us to look in the mirror and say I am not it is no longer either limits, but Christ lives in me. It's hard for us to look at the person and say that's not sustainable. David was now the center that do things wrong. Could the guy who made mistakes in the failures and didn't have hope. And now he has hope in Jesus Christ. It has a new life and the word of God is alive and active inside of him changing him and he's not being molded by the world he's being conformed to the image of Christ by the power of God in the same Holy Spirit to raise price and the dead is alive inside of him and he's changing him from what he was the one he is and what God wants them to be, and all things in life are just parts of what he is becoming and shaping him. But God 's Spirit is shaping him and making him and holding him by the hand of God rather than world what you think are you warm our young butterfly. Have you been changed to see you can change. I can't change myself see that the butter, then the caterpillar knows that at some point in time. It just gorges itself and makes the a cocoon. Sometimes we just need to know that God is with us in the matter what happens I'm changed on the inside, and I'm no longer what I used to be because the word of God is alive in me making a difference. That's it. We are. We are not sinners trying to be a Christian. We are Christians, we are believers in Jesus Christ, who had been changed and yet we still have some of those tendencies. The want to go back no does the butterfly land as far walking along the ground are walking along the leaves of the used to crawl there before. Now it's walking there and doesn't remember that that's what was at one time was something that crawled along the leaves. That's what we do we remember the times we walked down the wrong path and we may see ourselves on that path. I don't belong here. This isn't my life anymore. I've been changed. That's God doing the work in our life. That's the Holy Spirit, reminding us you been changed. You're not a center trying to be a Christian. You are a believer in Jesus Christ forgiven of your sins and be tempted to walk away from it. Now this is story not close with this is a story this guy. He was a person who was into the occult and stuff like that and he was into escrow. It's it's our body flight and they had spirit guides. They never talked about that it's it's evil. It's demonic and is not God. Stay away from it, but a honest guy was warlock whatever and he would do these out of body experiences, and he was going somewhere to place a curse on someone and he got to the house where he was going to do his thing they couldn't get in because the person that he was going to solve so curse put curse upon them. That's seated around the table where I think for five Christians having a Bible study with this person and here is this spiritual experience of this person who is evil can get in because the light inside of the building is so great he can't penetrate it and all that is in that building are five Christians having a Bible study to see the light of Jesus Christ is so great and so powerful, evil can't touch it. People turn evil cannot curse that which is righteous and good because it doesn't stick. I like the one guy says if you want to tell the devil, anything write it on the bottom of your shoe because he's under your feet evil does not have a position a foothold, a total haul a fingernail fall and oh, hello, and so when the righteousness of Christ is in our heart. Evil cannot cannot get in because it cannot share the same space. Jesus Christ is in your heart and in your life in your transformed and how did we arrive at this transformation Jesus forgive me of my sins, and every time we think we've done it failed whatever. Remember we are a Christian. We are redeemed. We are God 's, and that we have a tendency to want to do something wrong, we are tempted to do something wrong, but we are not a crate. We are not a sinner trying to become a Christian we are saying we are forgiven of our sins, we have the blood of Jesus Christ as Clinton is from our sins, and we are tempted to do wrong. But always remember in Christ. I'm forever. Here's a been changed by the power of Jesus in an and extensively what a wonderful day it is the Lord to know that we are yours. Send that we are changed into this world and this life is not about resolutions. It's about transformation, God, we are transformed into the image of Christ, his love and his spirit God, your spirit abides within our hearts and lives. It quickens us encourages us keeps us safe. God gives us hope that your word is alive and active and sharper than any two edged sword and God that alive. This is an honest for an eternity. Thank you Jesus that we are alive in you forever. We ask God your blessing your direction your power, your strength your word to transform our minds and our hearts. We pray this in Jesus name. Everybody who believes and says amen, amen. God bless youToday are the messages on transformation being transformed the I think of the movie, Transformers, you know the kids to the movies with Transformers, and you have these these little trucks and tractors were vehicles, and you transform them into robots. So we have that that type of the transformation, but transformation means to a complete change in someone or something to be transformed in a complete change, and the challenge for us is when you're when you've got a complete change the arrogant you look at these of the some of the television shows that the world, the biggest loser now okay and then you have the makeovers area people who are losing a lot of weight through people who are taking, giving him a new hairdo in a people can know me from my back in my head now that is a real tough. I don't know what that is. But that's a real recognition for her problem. I have an identity problem for me, that somebody can look at the back of my headsail that's pastor and they don't haven't seen him for ten, fifteen years so they hasn't changed much but when we think of being transformed. It's the same eyes looking in the mirror. It's the same person looking at our view of life and at ourselves and and as we look at that it would begin to wonder, am I really transformed time I really changed. Jan and I really that different. While in our life that was lost compared to our life that is found in Christ there is a change visit. There's a difference from who I was who I am. Now I may walk the same streets and they were aware of the state I may wear the same clothes but lives in, and the transformation, the Christ is brought. There's a difference on the inside and out in school to go to different rates. You go to different books you read different young go to different levels, and that's a gradual easement at a seemingly a gradual transformation that you are going from one place to another and whenever we're thinking of progressing physically getting stronger, getting weaker becoming a better reader that becoming a better leader becoming better in our relationship with Christ what's going on. We are setting goals and they are moving towards them, but in Romans chapter twelve verse two it gives us this declaration, and in making James version. I know I said message Bible, but we got up there. Thank you the King James version, not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now we we began to look at that and are enough in their heart 's first informant. I know I spoke an audit and I know I write it and I know I've quoted it hundreds of times and be in any message Bible has it as gods on this evening message Bible says Place your life before God. So here's what I want you to do, God helping you take your everyday, ordinary life, your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is best thing that you could do for him. Don't become so while a job your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside, out readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God, bringing the best out of you, develops well formed maturity in you. So we look at this Scripture, and we began to see brought us out and got in God, through Paul, the Holy Spirit is telling us. Be not conformed informed means to fit into the mold it out. He, I didn't say become moldy set strategic milk don't fit into the malt of the mold. If there is a mold that people look alike sound like you, can you tell preachers. We see them under walking through the mall or something. They just walk a certain way, date, you don't dress a certain way. I many times I can pick preachers out whether they have seats on or whether genes latest have a certain mold about them molding mold, but enough that a certain demeanor about them that this is so it sometimes results in so we see that for me. It's easy to pick them out there. Very few of them that I would know if they were procuring out in atomic, but there are number of people you see that we consider from a distance, and recognize that they are at even be just by the way they carry themselves and how they walk and talk and things like that so there is a conformity that of our world, our world is set up, what is the mold that you are to be in as a mother, a father work the things that you do. You're supposed to fit into a certain characteristic a certain mold and being discounting to the holidays. How many of you may can be from you pour the chocolate into a mold and its its variant form conforms to the mall. So in our lives. We singly find ourselves molded to the image that we are trying to become what we're trying to be whether the husband, a father of a mother, brother or sister of a person and work of friends. What does it, that we are looking like it's on the Bible is telling us don't be conformed to the world don't fit into the mold that the world has for you. The Bible talks about Potter and Clay that as a person. We are on the potter 's wheel and that the hand of God is shaping our lives so that the word of God in the Scriptures are what mold our lives rather than the pressures are pressures what other people think you should be the pressures of the world molding us. That's a certain figure or shape. God is saying don't allow that to happen don't be conformed don't fit into the mold that is not fitting to who you are, who Christ wants you to be not what it says via transformed transformed is a complete change a complete do over. Now some people can wear different hats different clothing. But you know, they never took a shower. The still think Dell is still the same person. It doesn't matter how you dress them up, they still do and act the same way they still have the same language. They still use the same vocabulary. They still do what they always did so being rendered and being transformed is something that takes place on the inside. And Paul says that you are renewing your mind that we are to renew our way of thinking that when you change the way you think you change what you see because we interpret what we see by already what we have in our mind. We do not like if you if if your thinking is that no Christmas time we see a tree down whenever you look at a Christmas tree. What you think of what he what does your mommy secret history presses okay what what about Christmas presents money off Christ's birth. What work ethic decorating on decorating. Okay, what do you cc our thinking determines what we see some able to look at the Christmas tree and smile and some people can look at the Christmas tree and frowned, and some can look at it in the very sad time to look at and be very happy what you're thinking determines how you say something so the renewing of your mind is that we are allowing God to help us process our thinking patterns and the Bible says click on the things that are lovely that are of a good report if there be any part sure there be any praise, think on these things. Think other things. Why do we want to think on these things because what you think is what you're going to see if you say something good, they do the things that are good in our lovely. What's going to happen. You're going to speak about it, but if something you want to buy something back blocked by what he limited which one is going to come up for the good of the bronze is this not true. There probably are doing something that comes by. I was talking to someone and they said, well, you know, hasn't snowed yet is waiting for the shooter drop as we know where to get dumped on sooner or later. This can continue the way it is being like the days we just got to be ready for the bad stuff to get here, although it wasn't anybody here to church and I said that the docket this on the outside, you know I meant bidders only. They would tell me how bad their dreading this winter and help us. What we haven't really had one flesh. Yet all yeah. But it's come and get out. We live in a spot and install their whole thinking is about being dumped on for winter. What about fifty degrees on Sunday in January, while you know that's it's it's it's it's good to be bad, how you think so changing your mind, change in any asked if they were overlooking ideas that we have to renew our mind, remove our thinking that we may prove prove see this is the thing about our faith. Faith is a substance faith is very real faith has tangible myths to it, but face it, and that our faith is able to be proved roofing, so this is not like well I wish I had this wish I had that note, I believe that God is going to work in my life. I believe that God is going to do something through May and May with me whenever, and that this day this month. This week this year is going to be the best year ever that is going to be better than it's ever been in my life that this is the year that God is going to perform something. This is the time God is going to do something my life, and we are saying that but do we believe that, and all were trying. What worked, what I'm looking at is how can we incorporate the Scriptures to prove them prove them see Bible says in one of tangible things is enough Malachi Malachi bring you all the ties and the storehouse and prove me now here with that God would open the windows of heaven, God would open his blessings upon our life and in any God is saying to the profit that I'm able to. You put money and get money out as pretty good deal for money and the money out. Is it you can't reap what you don't so know we usually use at negative and so which read, you know you do bad things, very bad things. What about you so love your repo is so good in people 's lives) that you have. You saw what you reap what you sow you plan a way to get week you don't plan the cotton and corn. What does it just to separate things up you you think are the things that are lovely, you are investing in the things that are lovely. The pure of a good report, and they all fit in a category, you are going there as they all fit into that category of what God wants to do in the transformation of our thinking. What yesterday we want to accomplish. This is where we pray God, what is it that you want to accomplish what you want to accomplish in my life this year. She's not a resolution at the transformation. I am not resolved. I am transformed. I have been changed. Now I have a little metamorphosis going on here. The word metamorphosis and job while we had here on the left over here on your left. We have a caterpillar get all that before Caterpillar spins its cocoon. It will consume it will become almost two hundred times its size so that when it must have enough energy to keep to stay alive in the cocoon, so I've been working on consuming and becoming two hundred times more my weight and the not true but tough, so I have every caterpillar here you as a caterpillar. The imagery of. It did you think a caterpillar ever thinks about flying. We know the week. Do you think of ability to think a monarch butterfly ever thinks about crawling on the ground. What has happened. We've have to have to have some type of a brain to do that. But how is it nobody's supposed to do. How does it know when it's supposed to eat and how no one is supposed to spin a cocoon. How does it know to spin a cocoon that needs to be strong enough to keep it safe, but yet with that yet. We can after they can break out, but yet not too weak because it will take the struggle of breaking out the soul be able to fly. Now if you think this will pick a number here. That's the second picture there and you kept an open or easy to find what you will find someone you've already done it and he does this comes like Lovano, but if you if you slice it, open your modifying the digested milky juice sly does not account there is not a caterpillar in there and there is not about a butterfly in there. There is a bunch of gooey white junk and I and and has a special layman 's culture about there may be in some of the think there may be little sockets that are left that are left from the digesting of itself, industry consultant from that fund this caterpillar to a milky substance. It grows and becomes just a short period of time, it becomes a butterfly with wings and legs, eyes, and antenna antennae and it becomes the butterfly and far left. Now when you see a monarch butterfly going to the air you go over the flying caterpillar, now why not. It is a flying caterpillar has been transformed, but just don't you think, then data Canada that a butterfly will say in all, I remember when now I don't think it does that. Just think you think that's us. We have the ability to reason that the butterfly would say I feel the same as I did for system different. I feel like a caterpillar. It feels like I was something else, but I'm really different now, renewing and transformation. You see we are not sinners trying to be Christians, we are children of God who are tempted to do wrong sin she wants. We've given our life to Christ. There is a renewal, others a transformation. There's something goes on on the inside of the Army knew there was Reno right spirit within me a large know what the Spirit of God, the same spirit, the race price and the gender dad when he dwells in us, he will quicken our mortal bodies. He will bring played the word of God to life inside of us don't know that milky juice inside a cocoon is something that is alive but it just looks like Melchert, some kind of gooey stuff the word of God is alive and active inside of us transforming us into a child of God, but a look the same but am I the same issue. What was once best in me is now life in me the all way of thinking the old nature which was sinful, which had no sense of direction as to what is right and wrong has found the reality of Jesus Christ and has been forgiven and renewing wedding plans and there is a transformation. I am no longer. I'm no longer the person I was on a different person. We all looked the same. I can tell you from the back. I can know judo from the back your head but I must see this is where the renewal of the transformation that the renewing of your mind that you make from what is that good and acceptable perfect will of God. How does and how does a caterpillar travel thousands of miles doesn't I doubt that they could travel a mile as Caterpillar, but as a monarch butterfly. Where is it going to see does it know that it is the same but different does it now that it is the same, somehow in all of that change. It is the same, but yet it's entirely different, and this is, I think, for four Christians and therefore believers and for followers of Jesus Christ. It is difficult for us to look in the mirror and say I am not it is no longer either limits, but Christ lives in me. It's hard for us to look at the person and say that's not sustainable. David was now the center that do things wrong. Could the guy who made mistakes in the failures and didn't have hope. And now he has hope in Jesus Christ. It has a new life and the word of God is alive and active inside of him changing him and he's not being molded by the world he's being conformed to the image of Christ by the power of God in the same Holy Spirit to raise price and the dead is alive inside of him and he's changing him from what he was the one he is and what God wants them to be, and all things in life are just parts of what he is becoming and shaping him. But God 's Spirit is shaping him and making him and holding him by the hand of God rather than world what you think are you warm our young butterfly. Have you been changed to see you can change. I can't change myself see that the butter, then the caterpillar knows that at some point in time. It just gorges itself and makes the a cocoon. Sometimes we just need to know that God is with us in the matter what happens I'm changed on the inside, and I'm no longer what I used to be because the word of God is alive in me making a difference. That's it. We are. We are not sinners trying to be a Christian. We are Christians, we are believers in Jesus Christ, who had been changed and yet we still have some of those tendencies. The want to go back no does the butterfly land as far walking along the ground are walking along the leaves of the used to crawl there before. Now it's walking there and doesn't remember that that's what was at one time was something that crawled along the leaves. That's what we do we remember the times we walked down the wrong path and we may see ourselves on that path. I don't belong here. This isn't my life anymore. I've been changed. That's God doing the work in our life. That's the Holy Spirit, reminding us you been changed. You're not a center trying to be a Christian. You are a believer in Jesus Christ forgiven of your sins and be tempted to walk away from it. Now this is story not close with this is a story this guy. He was a person who was into the occult and stuff like that and he was into escrow. It's it's our body flight and they had spirit guides. They never talked about that it's it's evil. It's demonic and is not God. Stay away from it, but a honest guy was warlock whatever and he would do these out of body experiences, and he was going somewhere to place a curse on someone and he got to the house where he was going to do his thing they couldn't get in because the person that he was going to solve so curse put curse upon them. That's seated around the table where I think for five Christians having a Bible study with this person and here is this spiritual experience of this person who is evil can get in because the light inside of the building is so great he can't penetrate it and all that is in that building are five Christians having a Bible study to see the light of Jesus Christ is so great and so powerful, evil can't touch it. People turn evil cannot curse that which is righteous and good because it doesn't stick. I like the one guy says if you want to tell the devil, anything write it on the bottom of your shoe because he's under your feet evil does not have a position a foothold, a total haul a fingernail fall and oh, hello, and so when the righteousness of Christ is in our heart. Evil cannot cannot get in because it cannot share the same space. Jesus Christ is in your heart and in your life in your transformed and how did we arrive at this transformation Jesus forgive me of my sins, and every time we think we've done it failed whatever. Remember we are a Christian. We are redeemed. We are God 's, and that we have a tendency to want to do something wrong, we are tempted to do something wrong, but we are not a crate. We are not a sinner trying to become a Christian we are saying we are forgiven of our sins, we have the blood of Jesus Christ as Clinton is from our sins, and we are tempted to do wrong. But always remember in Christ. I'm forever. Here's a been changed by the power of Jesus in an and extensively what a wonderful day it is the Lord to know that we are yours. Send that we are changed into this world and this life is not about resolutions. It's about transformation, God, we are transformed into the image of Christ, his love and his spirit God, your spirit abides within our hearts and lives. It quickens us encourages us keeps us safe. God gives us hope that your word is alive and active and sharper than any two edged sword and God that alive. This is an honest for an eternity. Thank you Jesus that we are alive in you forever. We ask God your blessing your direction your power, your strength your word to transform our minds and our hearts. We pray this in Jesus name. Everybody who believes and says amen, amen. God bless you