Message Date: February 12, 2023
Bible
WE MUST CHANGE BECAUSE GOD DOESN’T
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- Malachi 3:6 (ref.)
- Hebrews 13:8 (ref.)
ECCLESIASTES 3:1 (KJV)
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
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- Change is a constant.
- Predestination – Romans 8:29 (ref.)
- Romans 12:2 (ref.) – Conformed vs. Transformed
WHY IS CHANGE SO DIFFICULT
1. We can’t change (for good) without God.
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- John 15:5 (ref.)
- Hebrews 4:2 (ref.)
2. Positive lasting change comes from within.
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- Romans 12:2 (ref.)
3. Unwilling to leave what’s familiar.
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- Comfortable with the status quo.
- Example: John 5:6 (pool of Bethesda)
4. We resist loss, not change.
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- John 12:24 (ref.)
5. Fear of failure.
CHANGE MADE SIMPLE
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- Promise / Power / Process
2 CORINTHIANS 3:17-18 (KJV)
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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- Beholding the glory – By the Spirit