A Transformed Life 3 - Romans 12:1-2 (notes)

A Transformed Life 3 - Romans 12:1-2

On The Transfiguration on the Mount Jesus was transfigured in front of His disciples. Theologians have debated on why Jesus was transfigured. I believe it was a prophetic act. Jesus was demonstrating the transfiguration of the believer in the future.

The Answer To All The Problems In The World…

• Is the church of Jesus Christ because we have the mind of Christ. We have the thoughts of God. All the creativity of Heaven is for the church to change the world.
• If the world is in a mess we can clean it up. If our life is in trouble Jesus is the answer. If our family has a problem we have the solution.

Transformation Takes Time

1. But it does not have to take a long time, it just takes dedication, presenting our passions, desires, and ambitions to God.
2. It takes a new attitude.
3. It takes a new mind set or way of thinking.
4. The Word of God gives us a new attitude, new though patterns and new passions.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.

Amplified Bible (AMP)

How Transformation Happens

1. We behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face.
2. Are constantly being transfigured into His very own image.
3. How? In ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another.

Explanation

• The glory of God comes upon us through the Word of God. The glory of God is the presence of God.
• In the O.T. the glory of God came as a result of obedience to the Word of The Lord. It is still the same today.

The Glory of God is manifested as smoke, a pillar of fire, a cloud, mist, fog, or crystals that look like floating jewels. When Moses first saw the glory of God it made a desert bush glow and God told him to take his shoes off because the place was made holy by the presence of God.

The Glory of God

• Was seen as a pillar of fire at night and a cloud in the day.
• Was seen by Israel on the face of Moses when he came down from Mount Sinai.
• Is the presence of God. In past revivals around the world people have seen the glory of God upon buildings, in the Azusa Street revival, in the Indonesian Revival and other revivals. People actually saw the fire of God and the cloud.

The Word of God

• Says those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit.
• Talks about the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death. But the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. (Romans 8:5-8)

Romans 8:7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot. 8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.

Amplified Bible (AMP)

Thoughts is where victories are won, where strongholds are formed or demolished.

1. What we think affects our life
2. Strongholds are formed or demolished in our minds
3. A victorious Christian has his mind under the control of the Holy Spirit not the flesh.