Transformation

George Bernard Shaw ~
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Romans 12:2 Paul ~
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.


The word transformed in context with Romans 12:2 … means not to fashion yourself after the world.

In other words don’t try to fit into the worlds mold … fashioned by others ideas, thoughts or formulas.

Instead be transformed (changed) by the renewing of your mind (of yourself) … (your intellect, your understanding, feelings and will … the complete you) … that you may prove (allow, try, examine) what is that good and acceptable and perfect will (choice, inclination) of God.

If you want the same results, keep doing things the same way.

What you have done up until now has brought you to where you are. Keep doing the same thing and you will get the same results.

Now if you are happen with the way you are, if you are doing what you want to do in life, and you have all that you want to have out of life … just keep on doing what you are doing.

But …

If you want to move on to the next level of faith, the next level of Glory.
If you want to know God better, and in so know yourself and others better.

If you want to do more than you are doing; have more than you have in life; be more than you are; … some things have to change … the first being your thinking (or the changing of your mind).

Now before you take a ride on the Old I’ve heard all this before train … go with me to the House of the Potter.

Jeremiah 18:1-6 ~
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Unfortunately we each have been molded by hands that err. At the very best performance we are marred in the hand of the potter and need to be re-molded (reinvented) in order to be what God created each of us to be individually.


Each of us had a different childhood. We were molded by parents, grandparents or the lack thereof … molded by teachers, neighbors, friends, Sunday school teachers, Ministers, Literature, Music … you get the idea.

We each had different experiences, different relationships, different health issues, different levels of prosperity or poverty, different trauma.

We were even taught about how the World works and how it should be. We were taught about how God is and how we should live.

And all these things have build a philosophy (so to speak) within our minds of the way things are and how our lives should be … the way WE should be.

By acting on these Philosophies we have gotten results accordingly (good or bad).
If we have rebelled against the philosophies, we have walked in the results of the rebellion, but then carried the baggage of guilt around with us like a bag of bricks.

Col. 2:8 ~
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.


Many things have been taught in the earth and many will be taught. But in these many teachings are flaws. Flaws that leave people marred, broken, or at the verge of cracking.
Some of the negative philosophies may go like this:

• It’s a dog eat dog world.
• You can’t trust anyone.
• People are just out for what they can get.
• You’ve got to take the bitter with the sweet.
• It’s a man’s world.
• Women should be kept barefoot and pregnant.
• You can’t have it your way all the time.
• It anything bad could happen … it would happen to me.
• I’m just not a lucky person … if it weren’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.
• The devil made me do it.
• If anything can go wrong it will.
• You just can’t do anything right.
• You won’t ever amount to much
• Money is the root of all evil.
• God doesn’t want you having things.
• It isn’t God’s will to heal everyone

Can you think of other negative remarks that have molded people as the potters wheel spins.


Now … on the positive side maybe you have heard things like:

• People are generally good.
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• I expect good every day.
• You should see the good in every person.
• God watches out for me.
• God is good.
• Jesus loves me.
• You can do all things through Christ which strengthens you.
• Nothing is to hard for you and God.
• You can do what every you set your head and heart to.
• You have a can do spirit!
• I see you doing great things.
• God has such good plans for your life!

Now it would be best to be on the positive side of the mold.
However, even at that, there is still a best to acquire.

That is why we must go to God and be renewed in the spirit of our minds daily, and come up the new man each day.

Eph. 4:23-24 ~
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


God wants us to put on the new man … the man who walks in truth and liberty. Not after the rudiments of World (base arrangements and false religions); After vain deceit of men.

Not after those who follow after moons and feast; Sabbaths and Holy days. Not eating this or drinking that. Not after Horoscopes, microscopes or empty and futile doctrines or empty religious laws.

You can read all these as you study.
Col. Chapter 2; Ro. 14:2-3,5,10,13,17; 1Co. 8:8; and Gal. 4:10.

The old nature resist these changes that lean toward liberty and the New Testament life. Religion resist this teaching as well.

That is why so many people still live in bondage. Bondage of works.
This is why so many people die young, walk with sickness and disease in their bodies, live a poverty stricken life, never smile or laugh and drag around with empty lives.

For these very reasons, men and women are not free to be who they are called to be. To be who they truly want to be.

They just can’t seem to grasp God’s truth because their old renewed mind tells them something different. Their deceiving philosophies keep them bound.

For instance:
You will hear some religious teachings say … “if it be God’s will he will heal you.” No it is God’s will to heal who ever will believe him for it. Have faith … and it is the victory every time.

Another for instance is:
It is not God’s will for everyone to be prosperous. Really? Of course it is. He is no respecter of persons.
I did not say everyone would be wealthy or acquire wealth. I merely told you the truth that God wills for you to be prosperous.

How about this:
God never intended women to preach, or men are not suppose to raise children. Neither are true.

Mary was a woman and carried the first resurrection message. Paul wrote letters to the church and not just to men:
II John 1:1 ~ to the elder, the elect lady of the church and her children.
That was a female heading up the church.

Mordecai raised his niece Esther, and did such a good job that she landed a seat in the palace next to the King and became instrumental in the saving of an entire nation.

Most people have never became aware of the power of these deceitful philosophies shaping their lives … they are unaware of how they have led and guided these vain rudiments and traditions.

This unaware “state of stupor” … this sleeping state … has kept people from God’s best (from his will for their lives). It has kept them for the good life … the higher life.

It has left them in a miserable state of can’t do this, don’t do that living.

It has left them on this side of the river Jordan, so to speak, and out of the promised land where life is good!

We are to be led by the Spirit.
We are to allow the Spirit to go beyond the mental arena of these philosophies and trust God!

Proverbs 3:5-6 ~
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.


When you begin to do this … your life will begin to be transformed.

To be transformed is to be changed from the low life to the high life.
You leave the old crawl in the dirt mentality, to the fly high and live colorful mentality.

You let go of customs, cultures, traditions, vain rudiments, deceitful philosophies, egos and false religions that are a mere forms of godliness without power.

II Cor. 3:17 ~
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Listen to me when I tell you that God is all powerful! There is none like Him.
He is all in all.

Word = God = Power!
To walk in the truth of God’s Word is to walk in light … is to walk in power!

John 1:1-4
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light (illumination, fire, power, energy) of men.


You and God are one … Just as Jesus and the Father was one … so we in Christ Jesus are also one together with him in the Father.

The very same Power that raised Christ from the Dead dwells in you and I and quickens our mortal bodies.

• The most powerful source that ever was or will be lives in YOU!
• The creator lives in YOU!
• Power lives in YOU!
• Light lives in YOU!
• Truth that sets free lives in YOU!

Jesus said, “I AM … the truth, the life, the way!”


He also said, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." ~John 8:12

But then in Mt 5:14 He said, “YOU are the light of the world!”
We must get beyond our old way of thinking and think POWERFULLY.
We must begin to walk in the Freedom purchased for us by the blood of Jesus … not a freedom unto sin … but a freedom unto the uniqueness of our individuality and of a power supply that comes with it.

Jesus told us that when he left … he would send us one just like himself.
The Holy Ghost … Spirit of Power.

Lu 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with Power from on high.

• So walk in that Power.
• Live by that Power.
• Allow that Power to work in and through you.