Change

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

DEFINITION: complete change: a complete change, usually into something with an improved appearance or usefulness

FOUNDATION – Faith In Christ

The journey to a gloriously transformed life begins with an encounter with the saving grace of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He is the foundation to a meaningful and long lasting transformed life.

Ro 10:9-10

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The scriptures calls on us to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

Ac 16:31 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.. Household.”

Faith begins with the heart and flows through the mouth and ends with your hands and feet

THE NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE

John 3:3 … “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”…7 “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

1Pe 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

(NKJV)

The new birth begins with the planting of a seed (like natural birth). The seed of new birth is planted in us by the Spirit of God and it is an incorruptible seed, which is planted in the life of the one who believes. This seed ought to be nurtured.

THE NEW CREATION

2Co 5:17

The seed planted in us when properly nurtured brings the newness in us. Everything becomes new

1. It is our spirit that is born again, but our body and soul remains the same.

• Spirit, Soul and Body all needs transformation – a continuous process

THE SEAL OF THE NEW CREATION

Once you are born again you are sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Eph 1:13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were SEALED with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

2Co 1:21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God… 22 who also has SEALED us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

A seal conveys

• Ownership
• Genuine or authentic
• Guaranteed quality
• Security