Conform v. Transform

Good morning. Church family. Today is Sunday, May 15th. 2022. We are continuing our topic is conform or transform conformed or transformed before we go any further. I just want to throw a question out there if I can. What do you think? This Means War versus transport?

Which is the better of the two? Transformer Transformer.

Let's see. If I you are correct. We're coming out of Proverbs 4:23 and Romans 12:1 through 21 just to bring to your remembrance 23 of the fourth chapter of proverbs says, keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it, are the issues of life. We're going to see you there for Brethren by the mercies of God, that you present, your bodies, a Living Sacrifice. Holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service verse to send to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That you may prove. What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now. That's a lot of fun talking about a reference back to Proverbs 4:23 for today.

Stopping Palm it. What was he trying to convey? Remember what Apostle said last week when it says, I beseech you, therefore, Brethren, cuz I pay attention to this cuz I'm about, I'm about to summarize. Everything that I've been saying. And I'm going to wrap it up in this one, main. Focal point, bring your attention in. I was making all those prior Arguments for a reason. And the reason is this, I am the, I am pleading with you. I am instructing you. I am advising you. This is what you need to do. Not buy your own, will not buy your own mind while you still have time. So by the mercies of God, because this is something that before you leave this earth. Amen. That's why all those Murphy's are still available to you. Do this present yourself, present your body a Living Sacrifice, not just one time. But continually. Holy acceptable, unto God, which is your reasonable service. Now, if you're wondering, how do I do that verse to kind of give you a call and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that he may prove. There's a point. The point is that you may prove. What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now that's a power pack 2 versus and it's a combination of an argument. He have been making and here he is giving you a huge, every quote it. We told it when it's convenient when we want to make a point about why you shouldn't be doing what's happening out there and the world because God said that you are to be a transformed, not comport and we take that message and we the people that were words that you're not going to be like this, but they do and they never tell you what was what was the argument about?

This is something that's for your benefit to break you down, but you eat with you so important get it. Now while you have a chance because if you leave this world without getting this point.

A man who we want to talk a little bit more about this and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That stuff right there. What do you think Paul was trying to convey in that sentence and that piece of his argument?

We just got have a discussion on that. Okay?

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You'll present your bodies a Living Sacrifice. And so the designation living opposed to a dead sacrifice animals that have been sacrificed, but they were a child. So they would have to keep coming back to offer a sacrifice again, because that sacrifice had already been identified and had been utilized for its objective or purpose and the sacrifices to the other transgressions that require you all over again, and so, a Living Sacrifice means that it is constant. And so, what do you say is I would insert another kind of forum, which will be Pro 4.

Okay, and it's a continuous act. And so, then going, it's a continuous Act of Holiness. It's a continual at, it's a continuous Act of reasonable service in. So it's not one individual thing. And then that would allow me to springboard into the personal then. And with the prefix con is always associated with some kind of our deceit. So it's allowing us to know of all it is is telling us is that and he's using it in a passive way in in the Greek. That's Determine what passive structure is actually in. But we know that is passive. Middle passive are persuasive, passive, but we know it's in its passive form. So he's talking about not being caught up. In the structure that is based on deceit in this, the deceit of this age. So when he uses world is not talking about the people, he's talking about the spirit of the people for a designated amount of time. So that word world would actually be better place in the some translations. It says is a then that brings us to where we are today, so that we can make proper use of it, because then we can see the spirit of the world. We typically look at Sinners, not against flesh and blood. So, the world

Picture of it would be to put it in context and utilize the word that Paul was referencing which was because then it gives us a clear view as to what Paul is referencing and telling us that there's some activity that is taking place in the world. There's a spirit. Dad is dominant in the world and it pursues that which is opposite and adverse to God and it uses deceit and he's letting us know that you can slip into it because you were once a part of it. And the whole idea of a studying the word for the clear conscious to wash my closet conscious, like a kind of baptism. Is so that the stuff that's launching our subconscious mind, which is the most powerful aspect of our mine because we use our subconscious mind. So when we're asleep, we're not conscious of our environment. So I conscious mind takes a break, our subconscious mind keeps us going. Revisit times and places in lodges and stores hurts and disappointments in in an Ensure success accomplishment and it is during the day dreams are good. Is that? So so Paul is telling me it's passive. So it may be referring to the subconscious activity that's down in the heart of your mind. And so you need to make sure Dad that is resolved in the only resolution you'll get it is by you staying in place with the activities that the holy spirit is going to bring and what the word is going to, use to help you wash and cleanse your heart, you know in God sometimes won't decide to deal with those things because he's working on, so many areas of my life and critical critical State, you know, it will be almost typical of us being on life support. And he can't hold us because we wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it. So he locks her issues and then he'll get to the minor issues. All truth, is that our doctors when they can't operate on? But they're going to operate on the areas of the most crucial, than life. And Jeff is hung in the balance and they're going to try to correct and stop the bleeding. So if it's a lottery that's ever going to stop so that the body can survive so much like the same, he deals with the stuff that's in our subconscious mind. We read members, is that man, but he's real struggle is moving him in different directions to transfer. He started the initial stage for a form. He made a decision, a conscious decision to go ahead. With the performance. And now he's dealing with the confirmed inspected and that's where we have to identify in the work. We have to adjust why he prefaced everything with that first part of the statement about, as a Living Sacrifice. This is ongoing. So this is not something that you would like a Scott today. And that's enough as a result because the continuous is what in emphasis to the transformation. If you don't continue, the Bible goes, as far as to say, putting your hand, to the gospel plow, and then looking that, God would have no desire in you. It tells you Jesus tells you if you're going to say, you really love me, you going to keep his Commandments, keeping is consistently working on you. Is that? So, so for me, when I look at it, you know, I hear people say all the time that I let the rest of the floor and chime in, is that people say all the time? I'm a sinner saved by grace. Know that was a one-time. Instant. I am not a sitter. I was a sinner when I accepted Jesus Christ, as Lord and Savior. I'm a part of his body. How can I be a part of this body and beer Center? That would be diametrically opposed to what he's all about. These The Head and the body. We're not sending we were still be a drunk. Call Susie Q candy. Ass ain't even though you may on occasion slip up and missed the Mark or what we say since. But we don't practice in key word is practice is a person who practices drinking a gambler is a person who gambles. Furniture is a person who in practice continues to commit an illicit. That is an opposition to a sinner is a person who practices missing Sono in the preachers.

Because it affects our conscious and our subconscious Minds. It is a negative thought that gives an excuse for your permissive Behavior. So God has but one wheel cuz that means that God would be bound to permissive. He is perfect. He has a perfect wheel. That's it. That's all it's our permissiveness. Our desire to justify our shortcomings because we have not allowed transformation to take place. We've allowed for me to take place because we consistently move into the with the spirit of this age. We're influenced by the spirit of this age and just look at all the ones who allege that. They're Christians, your dress like them.

You got to make a choice. Are you out? There's no gray area with God. So we've got to get to that. So when he says come for him is that he's referencing either by subconscious or by conscious. We commit to both. We consciously, we feed our spirit, all that garbage wonder why we have nightmares. And we have all kind of crazy dreams because we're committed to pornography, is that? So when we commit to pronography, In the name of justifying for God, I didn't go or I really go all the way that was just an image. When we forget that way. We allowed that stuff to get in our spirit in our subconscious mind and it plays back when you sleep. And then it feeds you because it's the, it's the dominant part of the Consciousness. So it'd be. So when you become conscious, mind it, and you have those just what happened, you go right back to it because now you got your subconscious mind. That's pushing it and you got your conscious mind has become weakened. So the Bible tells you to eat the word tomorrow. Like a cow and read all the ingredients out of all that you do, get all the minerals out of the word. So when you ingest the word, you know, mentally fit you to bring it back up out of that Lord, that that Lord Village. Push it back up because there's still more minerals, more vitamins that you can benefit from cuz the body is demanding it, so that it can produce energy so that you can carry out your task for the date, the word, just like I substitute it provides that soon. We conform instead of transform to what's going on in this world is a stage. This crazy age, where anything goes, it's crazy age with nothing, is ethical. Nothing is moral. It's all do what you want. If it make you feel good or if you believe it. So just because you believe, it, don't make it right, but you disregard because you recklessly run through the issue of morality and immorality. And then we just a Is based upon civilization. And what civilization says it's silver is silver knows what God says, is what God says. It's this is moral is moral. Everything else is ephemeral unethical.

So, it's right or wrong. So now looking at it, it says in the last form was transformed and that means that you go beyond the base. So it's like moving into a whole nother round. So you see people who Transformed those that didn't like how they did their their physical structure. Anatomical structure, physiological, structure. Didn't like it. They want an agreement with God or the gods, whatever you want to call that. That's Superior being him. Heard them. Doesn't matter what they were. So what they decide to do.

And create a whole nother, four and then try to push it off on the rest of us and make, like we're in opposition. We didn't create that. You're not answering to us. We're just making a statement based upon What God Says, transformation is about, what a stimulating to him, not to the eight this age. So you're confused about who you are. And you are angry with God cuz you feel like you should have been somebody else. Okay, but that's your fault. But I don't have to agree with you just because you decided that you're in a fight with your creator that thing I do agree with you out of respect for your rights, just because you got me to agree with, you doesn't mean it's true in the right context. When you say, I agree. I don't agree with what you done. I agree. You have the right to do it. So make sure that it's clear is that man.

Because the one that's protesting in and making this Proclamation has gotten some sense of acquiescence without even understanding the basis of the agreement can in their mind, believe it's true. And it's not just because two parties agree on something that is not. The truth is not true, but I want to make sure we stay on it because I don't

I agree. Let's define what we agree on and I make no apologies. I make no apologies at all because I don't have any invested interest. I didn't write any of the stuff. I just believe in it. I have the right to believe you have a right? Not to believe it and we can still be cordial and have dialogue. Okay, cuz I'm not ever change your position. Is that? So miss you is and I should not be handcuffed. Feel like like like my life is threatened because I don't agree with a person's position. So I say, I don't agree, I will never agree that a man is supposed to be. Sexually involved with another man, like he would be involved with a woman and I don't believe it because the Bible says, it is a perversion and I believe the now, do I believe that a man and another man have the right? Two engaged in Civilization. Yes, cuz you are a citizen of the United States. And if that's the law, and then, I'm okay, that you have a right to work in compliance. That's what my dream is restricted to. You have the right now beyond that. We don't have to make that distinction to me. Because again, just because you recognize that that right exist and that's the extent of your agreement. The.

Bigger issue with making that distinction and why you want to make sure you do. If that's the position you say, is because of the push to conform to the H that we now exist it. And the need to ensure that your position is Sam. I'm not conforming to that. I am not conforming to that movement and the suggestion that my success is based on my Conformity to that. Is an attempt to get me to surrender the process. I started engaging in when my I gave my life over to God. So I can't stop that process. Because that process is telling me that my mind is being reformed from what it used to be when I was in the in the world now that I stepped out of the world. And I did that purposely. I did that deliberately. I did that by entering into an agreement with God, through the sacrifice, that was made by Christ Jesus. That's what his death meant to meet his death met. I am willing to not, go along with the world are ripped to say. Don't go for the car if you want to see what I look at.

Agreed that I will continue to recognize the distinction because I understand the need to continue to recognize the distinction. Because if I don't even buy my acquiescence in silence, I will conform especially if this world begins to appeal to what we all have ambition. We have a desire to want success. We want a good life. We want to be free. We want to have Liberty, we want to have security. So when that's being threatened, the challenge is, what will you do? And that's why Paul says, wait a minute. You have to present yourself a Living Sacrifice. That's holy to God. So you can't go before God in a state of compromise because you stopped the transformation process.

You can't do that tomorrow. You can't keep missing tomorrow, right? Cuz that's not how it's also not acceptable. And this isn't hard because he said it's your reason. So I have to always recognize where God is in everything that's happening in the world at this time and make sure the process of reforming my mind to prove that there is a good, there is an acceptable, and there is a perfect will of God. That people have a problem with my conservative is my conservative ideas because I'm like this I believe very strongly in capital punishment. Not everybody does it so that people understand is that

some people agree with my position. So people don't we're not going to sit and argue and go back and forth and fall out of friendship. You and I have very different and all because you are okay, not like the new Republic and let me make sure I qualify that, but I'm talking about the Lincoln. And the Ronald Reagan Republican. Is that because she's working. Okay, but I think that's what brings out the beauty in dialogue, and sometimes it gets really heated. Because we're both in passion about what we believe and that's okay is that if we don't listen to to defend our position, you know, you know, we we listen to gather ideas in hope to inform one another and then if by that informed of one another on the issues that one of us transitions into a different, so if not, then went back to the basis of having intellectual dialogue, celebrated anniversary, I can stop going on trips.

And we get a chance to reflect and get a chance to announce our different positions based on the body of information. We got having said that is that? So some people I believe very strongly in capital punishment. If you are a brute, you have no sense of Consciousness and you go, and you've got a family intentionally, I don't think you need to sit in prison for life. You kill people not like we've had their crazy person. Is that and you wipe out a whole host of people who are innocent? And then I want you to then rest on the the the government feeding you giving you three Hots and a cot for the rest of your life. No, absolutely. No, I think they ought to take you out, put you in the middle of the Forum, making a public spectacle and they should eliminate you. And what's that ain't what is he fat? Because when people know that there are consequences to removing that evil out of the community, it will listen. It doesn't, shut up. They are lying to you. We have countries all around the world who the police officers, don't even wear side irons. But they cheap and maintain order. Is that so people in the Bible talks about it is it if you wipe out a whole host of folk that were innocent just because you had the you felt like you had the right to do it. I don't think you get to just spend my tax dollars in other folks, tax dollars and you get to live and have medical, you get to live in, go to go to school and get degrees. You get to live what you get to live in prison for the rest of your life. You know, what kind of financial burden that puts on the whole economy? What is big business? So we engage my point is I think that you had to deal with him. Just like the Bible says, you are reared them out of the community because their actions mending. You don't get to look what you how you ravished people's minds that that their loved one can never come back. I know what the Hideous ones that do all kind of crazy stuff. I believe that the government should take a proactive and that they should resort to Capital Punishment. They should let folk know if you do the crime. And if it's Kitty, it is inhumane. If it's almost monstrous, it's just a mustard mentality. Then we need to get ready out of the out of the community is Safeguard the community. I'm sitting with the song Island and put them all on the same page together and let them all hang out with the rest of the folks, that murdered. Cuz when you end it with other murders, then you start acting kind of civil because, you know, the same person that you are, they are too, but it needs to be something done to stop some of this nonsense that is going on. And I think we stick to the Bible. Getting back to what Paul has said the difference between Conformity and transformation. It all. You know, I think what has been revealed through all of this requires the use of your mind. Where you are called upon to recognize. What God requires. And the only way that you can recognize what God requires is by knowing his word because his his will, his character is revealed. And so, as you and I think you said three words, that would capture what the mindset should be. Good Bear, right? What? Would be for the greater, do not Midas. What would be the overall right thing to do on behalf of everyone. But Community the body, not just for me. What would be the right thing to do? That shows who God is in all of it instead of right by me. And I think that's what Paul is talking about that. There is an enemy Within you that will assist in the conform, the conform the Conformity process. Let's say it that way. That's your selfish ambition and we all have it. Did that by any means necessary? It's just a little thing. It's not going to do much harm. I got to get mine just like you got to get yours. This is a doggy dog world that we live in, you know, that that it appeals to that. Doesn't it? Justifies the theft and the robbery that's taken place while this world is not fair. They didn't give me a good opportunity. I didn't have the same chances of somebody who lived in a better neighborhood, but that's all for self. And it's even in the most higher Echelon of people, it justifies in their mind why they are better than other people. And because in their mind, they're better than other people, they have the right to feel entitled to things that the lower people don't have a right to expect so they should be deprived. Everything is centered around self, where the focus is me, Phi me. And not what's for the greater good. That's come for me to this age. That. Is it an it at its best? When you only speak what is good and right for you, but if you're looking at what is good and fair, and right for the overall, you'll recognize that there are times that, don't you have the ability to pull rank, you won't. When you have the ability to win you willingly, decrease and draw back because you were thinking outside of yourself and you're thinking for your fellow man thinking about what were the impacts of me doing this half on somebody else that's in me. If you're thinking about others, you won't be so quick to live in the reign of your Authority and title. Like, you're entitled to. The protections that your office right now. I'm a servant and the higher my power, the greater, my servant because God has entrusted me with this power and authority. To glorify him in everything that I do. That's how you prove. What is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God when people can see. It's because I want to make sure people don't get it twisted, is that? I'm not saying that for me, I'm saying, for the better of society, the community as a whole, you have to read it. Yourself of that element for cheekily. If it's not willing to transfer, is that our whole Judicial System, our whole system of incarceration was here for rehabilitation. If the person will not rehabilitate then you have to do something because if you promoted by your liberalism you promoted and you you lesson, Penalties in in this idea of somehow, by lessening the penalty, they will do. It's not sadistic so showing that's not the case. All we do is look at California. Look at all the folk. They don't let out of jail. And what do they do? Go right back and do the same card that in every area straight across the board. I use that as an example. So people can see that you can have differences of opinion and still be able to hold for the benefit of the Hulk transform. The prefix trans means Beyond, I like other. Okay. So you're going to be on the structure of the standard structure. So go beyond the age of this world, the spirit of this world. The only way to get me on this via the holy spirit, in the word of God says, go beyond beyond. What is the spirit of this world? Then it is a conditioning. It renews the fault. It's just like when everything is the Beyond is that he tells us of rewards that are Beyond like that is beyond happiness. That goes to the Beyond. So when we see it, he's talking about this form of thinking. When you're conscious man, in your subconscious has been infiltrated by the word of purpose of the spirit of God, then it creates a whole new process annoying of that conscious. That's the only way that you can get to prove it. So you can't get to proving what is good. If you're stuck in the age of this world, in the spirit of this world, the teachings of this world, be a marchioness of this world. You can never get to what is good as a release to die. What is acceptable? As it relates to die. What is perfect as release of. Cuz you're not perfect or imperfect. So you can't get to Perfections unless you thinking outside of the box. We said all the time in school in science and engineering from outside the box, you can't get to it. Is the will of God, unless you willing to transform mean, you willing to go. Beyond the system. Go beyond the spirit of the sage. Go beyond what they say is still go beyond what they say is. Mark Morel. You got to go beyond in the only way to get there is the holy spirit that God sees in you when he moves you from OK, Google Saint. Is that and he encouraged you that despite your flaws in your mishaps? Because he knows, what's in your subconscious mind, but it's being washed is being baptized by the word of God. That's why you got it. Always read it and get into it. It's just like going to school. Read it. When we grow up, we learn. How to put this instructions together, we learn arithmetic, subtraction addition Division and those are the Hallmarks of everything going to do in the rest of my life. No matter how far we go to. We don't use a lot of that in our normal everyday, everyday everyday. We do use, subtraction division multiplication. We use those Basics every single day, to help us Advance our life. We use that, we use the word. It helps us to advance our life on a day-to-day basis. So when I say it to you, if you see it. You have an advocate with the father didn't say that to centers because Sinners practicing. This is what they do from. The first man that was created is that he's talking to the people who become Believers so that we can pacify pacify the unbeliever. Yes. We are different by what we say, by the way, we conduct our business, by the way, we go about loving one. Another, that's why Jesus made a distinction that he wasn't this age. He told his disciples of this age, but I want you to learn by observation so that you'll be able to impact this age. So what are we? Should we be doing? We should be thinking about going to be on. This is why the Bible says When the righteous are in positions of authority, there is peace.

Elicit. Is that but when the righteous because they're going to be on themself, they've gone beyond this world. They don't like them. It's all about, it's all about their tribe. It's all about their group is all about their children. It's all about their people is all about everything that pertains to events that is given in selfishness. You're not looking as relates to the whole God wants people to think outside the box who thinks about the hoe. And if you want success in this life, Figured it out. All these years. I finally come to it. You create a space for other people. You create a job for other people. You will always have one. My mother told me if I plant a lemon tree in my neighbor's backyard. I always have lemonade. She wasn't a college grad, but she was the wisest woman and because she had the principal. So if we create venues the people that God said, he's concerned with those that are orphans, those that are widows. Okay. Those are the ones that we called those that don't nobody want to do. We want to throw money. So rich folk and get rich using the system, but you haven't help the homeless one bit. You haven't helped those sleeping tent one. Bit your guardian situation, so you can become in Rich off the backs of the broken and God's going to get you because you're about you. But when you make a decision that I'm for who gospel, God is always been against the oppressor and for the oppressed check your history, every city, every country ever. Has risen up and selfish greed has collapsed. And if we who on the back of a dollar, say in God, we trust and we got them in the voice that all through the world. And then getting off campus and in an in an elitist, like we're somebody special even realize just like the Hebrews God chose America and she wasn't even a country. He chose the United States of America and they weren't even a form countries. There were a bunch of crooks, a bunch of Misfits, a bunch of degenerates who came over in the American Native. Indians helped them doing a couple times that they would have died. And they had the gall to give them smallpox and other disease disease sickness for their gesture. And if we don't correct this Behavior, America's going to have a big problem on his hands because if you don't look around your world and you don't see that, something is happening. There's amount of something about to take place America better, get back on his knee. And follow the scripture that says, if my people who are called by, my name would humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked untransformed waves, seek my face, and turn from their Wicked Ways. Then I'll hear from Heaven. I'll forgive their sins and shortcomings, and I will heal their land. We need the land to be healed the natural land, and our bodies. The other land. We need it healed. And we need gas assistance. And so as I State, my last point, is that still at the end of the day? God's looking for us to go beyond this age. So let that be what we commit to from this day forth. I'm going to be on the Call of Duty. I'm going to be on because if you don't go beyond you won't be that example that God is looking for people in the work. In the street. Look for that individual to go beyond used to be. The Christians is that they were there, they stayed late. They were committed with folks. Look to hire people to look to hire Christians because they were ethically and morally solid. Because they felt like if they were working it working as unto Jesus, so when they went to work, they weren't taking our lunch. When they knew they only have 35 minutes or 30 minutes, 25 minutes for break when they knew they only had 10 or 15. Is that calling in sick just to call in sick knowing that they weren't sick and they do it on the phone gossiping and raising. Hell right. Now, it's hard to know who's who because Gavin transport. They haven't gone beyond just looking for something more than our self. I'm just confirming confirming. Excuse me for me. Versus transforming. Amen, and we trust that you all got something out of that, and that's your spirit and soul were blessed by it. Next week. We're going to go into the third verse for, I say, through the grace given unto me to every man. That is among. You not to think of himself more, highly. Wow. According as God has dealt to every man, The Measure of Faith, or as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office, birth 5. So we being many are one body in Christ and everyone members of another that's community. So next week, that's what we want to talk about. How do we better build this community, that will help us in the transformation process because we have to help each other. So what are the tools that we need in order to build a community and a cyst? Even if we see one of us straightaway and reminding them, hey, Rob legation is to be transformed, not conformed. So how do we do that? We'll talk about it next week, a man. Until then we have to get to Bebo.