Transformed into Christ's Image: Our Divine Journey

Dec 08, 2016

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God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as a life of his son. The Sun stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. [00:02:36]

After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself, and then after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. [00:03:32]

This is God's purpose for every last one of us who have come to Christ. Don't lose sight of it. Many, many things that we can hear and you get occupied with. We battle against sin, we want to pursue after holiness, we want to become godly, but don't lose sight of this. [00:04:55]

He wants to produce in me the image of Jesus. He wants to make me more like Jesus, simply put, make me more like Jesus. And the way I conduct my not just I give an impression to others by the way I live every day with my family, 24 by 7, the way I conduct myself in my office. [00:06:54]

God's ultimate purpose in working in your life and mine is to make you and me more like Jesus. And for that, he has given us a helper, a helper who comes alongside us. And that's something that we read also in Romans and chapter read in Romans chapter 8. [00:10:41]

The Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. So God has given someone to come alongside you and me, and that's the Holy Spirit. In John chapter 14, verse 16, Jesus said, I will ask the Father, and He will give you another helper. [00:11:09]

He comes alongside us, not behind us to push us, alongside us to help. And that's how a wife should be to her husband. She's called a helper. God said in the beginning, I will make a helpmeet. I'll make a help of a man for Adam. [00:12:16]

The moment we begin to tire and get discouraged and want to give up because of so many trials and temptations in different situations we find in the home, on in our work spot, the moment we begin to try and lose courage, he comes alongside us to help us. [00:13:37]

He does our praying in us and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. [00:16:09]

Justification simply means putting us right with God because of what Jesus did for us on the cross, making you and me right with God, declaring us not guilty. Jesus is our advocate, the Holy Spirit is our advocate, and we are declared not guilty, just as if we had never sinned. [00:26:30]

He doesn't make us righteous; he declares us righteous. There's a vast difference in being made righteous and declaring somebody righteous. He said, how can it be? Look at his parts. Jesus stands there. I've taken his place, and he puts on us, puts on you and me, a robe of righteousness. [00:27:32]

Our calling is not just to be forgiven and then not that we are on our way to heaven. Our calling is not that. I hope you saw that clearly today morning. Romans 8:29, our calling is to all those whom God called. He called with this one purpose, not to evangelize primarily. [00:38:02]

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