Transformed By The Gospel

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TransformedBy The Gospel

• Romans 122

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Romans 121-2

• Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies
  of God, to present your bodies a living and holy
  sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your
  spiritual service of worship. And do not be
  conformed to this world, but be transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove
  what the will of God is, that which is good and
  acceptable and perfect.

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do not be conformed to this world

• METROTHEISM
• Become more like the world so the world will be
  attracted. Make sure we are being cool.
• Take out all the hard truths and retranslate His
  words so that the world will not be offended.
• Emphasize such things as emergent,
  existentialism, universalism, relativism, and
  ecumenicalism so that the world can be impressed.
• Dress up Jesus a little bit so that He seems more
  friendly and agreeablerather than the King of
  kings and Lord of lords.

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• A great deal can be learned about people by
  observing who and what they imitate. The weak,
  for instance, imitate the strong, never the
  reverse. The poor imitate the rich. The
  self-assured are imitated by the timid and
  uncertainall tend to imitate what they admire.
  By this definition power today lies with the
  world, not with the church, for it is the world
  that initiates and the church that imitates what
  has been initiated. By this definition the
  church admires the world. The church is
  uncertain and looks to the world for assurance.
  A weak church is aping a strong world to the
  amusement of intelligent sinners and to her own
  everlasting shame. A.W. Tozer
• The Danger of World-Worship

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• Most people today attempt to make a sales pitch
  for the gospel as if it were sweet plums and
  fairy dustthe modern thought is woo the masses
  in with Starbucks franchises stationed in the
  church lobby, movie-based sermons, beer and
  hotdog potlucks after the service, and the cool
  pelvic-thrust of a semi-moral garage band leading
  everyone into the worship of Jehovah
  God. Eric
  Ludy The Bravehearted Gospel
• What might happen if we were to just let the
  gospel be what it is---a gritty, bloody,
  revolutionary call to die?

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But be transformed by therenewing of your mind

• Transformed (metamorphoo)
• a change in outward appearance
• Transformation is aided by the renewing of our
  minds.
• Emphasis on truth.the Scripturesrenewing our
  minds and NOT our minds and opinions renewing the
  Scriptures!
• Sola scriptura vs. Wikibiblia

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• How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
  counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of
  sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But
  his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His
  law he meditates day and night. He will be like
  a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which
  yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does
  not wither and in whatever he does, he
  prospers. Psalm 11-4

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That you may prove what the will of God is, that
which is good, acceptable and perfect.

• Good (agathos) useful, pleasant, generous,
  joyful, excellent, distinguished, honorable.
• Acceptable (euarestos) well pleasing
• Perfect (teleios) having reached its end mature
  and complete consummate human integrity and
  virtue.