January 30, 2021 Change or Die

Part 4 | “The Ultimate AIM of my CHANGE “

Change or Die Message Series: “Are you really interested in change or do you just like the “idea” of it? When it comes to becoming a new person, the world has their way and God has His. Often times they are very very different. On the heels of 2020, let’s embrace 2021 with a new attitude – changing for the good and the glory of God. If we learn to overcome the four basic hurdles of change, we will see God’s glory in our transformation.”

From 2 Corinthians 4

Fasting and Prayer | Sunday (dinner) through Tuesday (breakfast)
Focus and Scriptures: https://waterschurch.guide/events/prayer-fasting/

QUESTION: What is God’s in my ?

ANSWER: God’s of my is to be like .

📖 Colossians 1:15 (ESV) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

📖 Hebrews 1:3 (ESV) He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

📖 John 14:8–9 (ESV) Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen ME has seen the Father.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:1 (ESV) Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV) So we do not lose heart.

My GAIN in every PAIN: God is using to make me more like HIM.

Maximizing the change God wants to happen no matter what happens in your life:

1. REMEMBER: God’s is .

📖 2 Corinthians 4:2 (ESV) But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

📖 Psalm 19:7-9 (ESV) The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

2. REMEMBER: Not every is .

📖 2 Corinthians 4:3 (ESV) 4:3 (ESV) And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:4 (ESV) In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

📖 John 8:48 (ESV) “Are we not right in saying that you have a demon?”

I must stop the God produces in my life by the it in those me.

📖 Luke 6:26 (NLT) What sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds, for their ancestors also praised false prophets.

3. REMEMBER: You are a for the of Christ.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:5 (ESV) For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT .

📖 Colossians 3:3 (ESV) For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

📖 Galatians 2:20 (ESV) I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:8 (ESV) We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:15 (ESV) For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

4. REMEMBER: I’m being on the no matter what happens on the .

📖 2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV) So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

📖 2 Corinthians 4:17 (ESV) For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Sermon in a Sentence:

Romans 8:28–29 (ESV) And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Prayer:

“Father I thank you that what I am experiencing right now is helping me grow TO BECOME MORE LIKE JESUS. Amen”