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Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
I. God calls us to be Transformed NOT Conformed
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
“If the world controls your thinking, you are a conformer; if God controls your thinking, you are a transformer.”
II. God Desires to Renew my mind…
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come!
II. God Desires to Renew my mind…
Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.
He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
II. God Desires to Renew my mind…
Proverbs 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps…
Acts 2:42-47 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and
miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything
in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day
they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising
God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who
were being saved.
2. We Practice Learning to Love
Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship”
3. We eat together
Acts 2:46 “They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and
sincere hearts”
4. We pray for each other
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and to prayer.
5. We encourage each other
Acts 2:44-45 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45
Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.
6. Transformed: Impacting the World for Christ
Acts 2:47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added
to their number daily those who were being saved.
IV. We must Choose to set worthy Goals
Philippians 3:12-14 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made
perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward
the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.