Oct 22 2024 … Transformed by Christ

Oct 22 2024 …  Transformed by Christ  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

… Please take time to hear the group, Casting Crowns, with music and lyrics, singing The Change In Me declaring how God changes and transforms those who are surrendered to follow and serve the Lord.  

Grenfell Towers 2017 fire ... 

Highlight Verse: … Matthew 23:25n  [NLT] … 

25 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! … For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy — full of greed and self-indulgence!   

… Jesus teaches His followers to follow God’s truth but not to follow the example of the lives of the relishes leaders, the Pharisees, whose lives are not examples of living by the law.          

Highlight Passage (in context)  … Matthew 23:23-33 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Jesus while teaching a large following, …  rebukes the Pharisees as hypocrites, … for not living their lives in following God’s Law.                                                                                           

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 51:10-12 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  King David pleads in prayer and song for God to transform His heart to be able to follow God’s Spirit.  .            

Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus commands His followers and disciples to to reflect God’s light into a dark world by their good deeds which honor our Heavenly Father.                                         

Reference Passage: …Romans 12:1-2  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

…The Apostle Paul pleads with fellow Christians to live their lives as living sacrifices to God’s truth, avoiding follow the ways of the world.   

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Paul declares that he has died to self and lives now lives to honor Christ with his transformed life.    

Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…   The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that God’s Spirt ill transform the lives of those who surrender their (our) lives to follow the ways of their (our) Lord.  

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…   The Apostle Paul fellow Christians to put on their (our) new nature and become more like The Lord as we live for Him. 

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Monica La Rose -  AT THIS LINK  -  tells of the horrible fire in the 24-story Grenfell Towers in London (see photo), which burned down in 2017 killing 70 people.  Later, it was determined that builders of the residential towers ignored the highly flammable nature of the cladding used to cover the building’s exterior.   

And the ODB author used this story to alert Christians to be careful to live genuine, Christlike lives, understanding life as Jesus warned His followers, to avoid following the examples of the Pharisees, who were leading God’s people astray with the way they lived (see Highlight passage), … ignoring the very Laws of God the Pharisees taught. Jesus called them HYPOCRITES; and charged Christians to live by God’s truth, shining God’s light into a very dark world.   But I am asking myself today; … and asking you, … if we’re living to be transformed by God’s Spirit today.   What do you think; … are we?           

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for charing me to follow Your light of truth as I live to serve You, Lord.          

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me seek to live our lives to be Your light, Lord, in this dark world.     …  Amen

 

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