C H A N G E

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Definition

• Change verb (action word)
• Make or become different

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• Don't tell me we can't change.
• Yes, we can. Yes, we can change.
• Yes, we can.
• Sen. Barrack Obamas acceptance speech during
  the Democratic Presidential Primary Jan 2008

For the world has changed, and we must change
with it. President Barrack Obamas
Inaugural speech Jan 2009
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• While the world has pressured us to change, God
  has commanded us to change the world. But before
  we (His children) can change the world, we first
  need to change ourselves.

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• Why is there a need to CHANGE?

SIN entered humanity
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JUSTIFICATION CHANGE FOR RESTORATION

• Jesus paid a price He did not owe because we
  owed a price we could not pay.
• 1 Timothy 25For there is one God and one
  mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

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CONVERSION CHANGE FOR RECONCILIATION

• Only when we accept Jesus as our personal Lord
  and Savior that we are SAVED and CHANGE begins.
• 2 Corinthians 517Therefore, if anyone is in
  Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone,
  the new has come!

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SANCTIFICATION - CHANGE FOR A PURPOSE

• 2 Timothy 219-21 (New International Version)
• Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands
  firm, sealed with this inscription "The Lord
  knows those who are his, and, everyone who
  confesses the name of the Lord must turn away
  from wickedness."
• In a large house there are articles not only of
  gold and silver, but also of wood and clay some
  are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a
  man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be
  an instrument for noble purposes, made holy,
  useful to the Master and prepared to do any good
  work.

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GLORIFICATION CHANGE FOR ETERNITY

• Philippians 321who, by the power that enables
  him to bring everything under his control, will
  transform our lowly bodies so that they will be
  like his glorious body.

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• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHANGE DOES NOT OCCUR?

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• Winston ChurchillDestiny is not a matter of
  chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a
  thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be
  achieved.

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• CHANGE IS NOT CHANCE BUT A CHOICE.

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• Romans 122 (Amplified Bible)
• Do not be conformed to this world (this age),
  fashioned after and adapted to its external,
  superficial customs, but be transformed
  (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind
  by its new ideals and its new attitude, so that
  you may prove for yourselves what is the good
  and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the
  thing which is good and acceptable and perfect
  in His sight for you.