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The Transformed Life

Words of Faith Final

The Transformed Life
Words of Faith 11-11-2021
Dr. Jeffrey D. Hoy © 2021
Jeff.Hoy@faithfellowshipweb.com
Faith Fellowship Church - Melbourne, FL
www.faithfellowshipweb.com
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Romans 12  
    [13] Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. [14] Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. [15] Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. [16] Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.


       The transformed life will be evident within the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ will be a contagious gathering of transformed people marked by certain behaviors.  
       Sharing with God's people in need. Among transformed people, there is a natural willingness to share. No flash. No show. Just quiet sharing. Needs met. Bills paid. Thoughtful gifts of love that are seen only by those in need.
       Practicing hospitality. Hospitality is the gift of making people feel welcome. Some do this with food or lodging, but hospitality is often simply a warm spirit of welcome. Transformed people are hospitable, warm, and welcoming.
       Blessing those who persecute rather than cursing them. As a Body, the transformed people of God are marked by their blessings of other, even their persecutors, not curses. When the pressure is on, it is easy to notice transformed people because of the blessings they utter and the curses they do not.
    Rejoicing with those who rejoice and mourning with those who mourn. Not all of life is happy, nor is it all sad. A transformed person is a friend able to be with a person both in joy and sorrow.  
    Living in harmony with one another. Harmony is a musical quality achieved not when every voice projects the same note but when an appropriate distance and relationship between notes create a chord. Harmony requires listening to one another, adjusting to other pitches, and avoiding discord. Transformed people live in harmony with one another-- listening, adjusting, and avoiding discord.
    Not proud but associating with people of low position. Do not be conceited. The Body of Christ is remarkably diverse. A gathering of God's transformed people is a place where social ranking, education, and socioeconomic class disappear in God's love. A gathering of transformed people will be diverse and varied without regard to "position."
   How transformed are you? Praise God. He is still at work in all of us!  How can we see more of God's transformation in us?  In view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, for this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is‑‑his good, pleasing and perfect will.

    Lord, I offer myself to You. Transform me, more and more each day, by the renewing of my mind. In Jesus' name. Amen.  

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