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OUTLINE FOR SUNDAY MESSAGE, 9-27-26
“I’M IN THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE, PT. III,”
ROM. 12:2 (KJV)
Romans 12:2 (KJV )
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Rom. 12:2 (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].
Rom. 12:2 (New International Version)
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.
Rom. 12:2 (The Living Bible)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.
CONFORMED, ROM. 12:2, DEFINED
Greek syschematizo, pronounced soos-khay-mat-id-zo, Strongs 4964, from <G4862> (sun) and a derivative of <G4976> (schema); to fashion alike, i.e. conform to the same pattern (figurative):- conform to, fashion self according to.[1]
WORLD, ROM. 12:2, DEFINED
Greek aion, pronounced ahee-on, Strongs 165, from the same as <G104> (aei); properly an age; by extension perpetuity (also past); by implication the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future):- age, course, eternal, (for) ever (-more), [n-]ever, (beginning of the, while the) world (began, without end). Compare <G5550> (chronos).[2]
TRANSFORMED, ROM. 12:2, DEFINED
Greek metamorphoo, pronounced met-am-or-fo-o, Strongs 3339, from <G3326> (meta) and <G3445> (morphoo); to transform (literal or figurative “metamorphose”):- change, transfigure, transform.[3]
[1] James Strong,
“Συσχηματίζω,”
in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[2] James Strong, “Αἰών,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[3] James Strong, “Μεταμορφόω,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
RENEWING, ROM. 12:2, DEFINED
Greek anakainosis, pronounced an-ak-ahee-no-sis, Strongs 342, from <G341> (anakainoo); renovation:- renewing.[3]
MIND, ROM. 12:2, DEFINED
Greek noos, pronounced nooce, Strongs 3563, probably from the base of <G1097> (ginosko); the intellect, i.e. mind (divine or human; in thought, feeling, or will); by implication meaning:- mind, understanding. Compare <G5590> (psuche).[3]
In this battle of our lives what God focuses on in revealing how we are victorious in this fight, is by changing the way we think. As revealed in 2 Cor. 10:3-5, and many other scriptures, that is done through the Word of God by faith.
Ephesians 4:17–24 (KJV)
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph. 4:17-24 (New International Version)
-17- So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. -18- They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. -19- Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. -20- You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. -21- Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. -22- You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; -23- to be made new in the attitude of your minds; -24- and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Eph. 4:17-24 (Amplified Bible)
-17- So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord, [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility [of their minds]. -18- Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded, [they are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it, this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature]. -19- In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand]. -20- But you did not so learn Christ! -21- Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as [all] Truth is in Jesus [embodied and personified in Him], -22- Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; -23- And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], -24- And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.
Eph. 4:17-24 (The Living Bible)
-17- Let me say this, then, speaking for the Lord: Live no longer as the unsaved do, for they are blinded and confused. Their closed hearts are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds against him, and they cannot understand his ways. -19- They don’t care anymore about right and wrong and have given themselves over to impure ways. They stop at nothing, being driven by their evil minds and reckless lusts. -20- But that isn’t the way Christ taught you! -21- If you have really heard his voice and learned from him the truths concerning himself, -22- then throw off your old evil nature – the old you that was a partner in your evil ways – rotten through and through, full of lust and sham. -23- Now your attitudes and thoughts must all be constantly changing for the better. -24- Yes, you must be a new and different person, holy and good. Clothe yourself with this new nature.
God zeroes in on one thing, to reveal to men that they are more than conquerors, and that is, He tells men who they are in Christ by waking that inner-man up who has been re-created in the image of His Creator. So, He tells us we must be renewed in our minds, to put off the old man and put on the new man, and to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, all dealing with the man on the inside of these bodies. Then there’s the following scriptures, Colossians 3:10 (KJV): 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
IMAGE, COL. 3:10, DEFINED
Greek eikon, pronounced i-kone, Strongs 1504, from <G1503> (eiko); a likeness, i.e. (literal) statue, profile, or (figurative) representation, resemblance:- image.[3]
Now, let’s go back to the book of beginnings, Genesis 1:26–28 (KJV):
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
IMAGE, GEN. 1:26, DEFINED
Hebrew selem, pronounced tseh-lem, Strongs 6754, from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figurtive) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, especially an idol:- image, vain shew.[3]
LIKENESS, GEN. 1:26, DEFINED
Hebrew dmut, pronounced dem-ooth, Strongs 1823, from <H1819> (damah); resemblance; concrete model, shape; adverb like:- fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.[3]
The Word reveals who we are in Christ, re-created after His image and His likeness, the God-image, therefore really what the Word is revealing is who we already are, and reminding us that our inner-man, the born-again man, is in the image and likeness of God. When that God-image and the Word connect, then we become who God says we are. We become transformed into His image and His likeness. We become like God. Whatever’s in the vine is in the branches, John 15:1–7 (KJV):
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
It’s in the inner-man, the inner-man, the inner-man. Whatever’s in the vine is in the branches, in His image and in His likeness. We’re like God. The people of God have God’s Word reminding them that the way we win the fight of our lives is to win the fight within.
OUTLINE FOR BIBLE STUDY MONDAY, 9-28-26
“IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MIND,”
EPH. 4:17-24 (KJV)
Ephesians 4:17–24 (KJV)
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Emphasis on the highlighted, the inner-man, re-created spirit, new creature, born again, God-image, the candle of the Lord, Pr. 20:27, the new man, which is emphasized by God as witnessed by the scriptures in this correspondence. We will win the battle without when we win the battle within, and the Word reveals to us how to win the battle within, by walking by faith and not by sight. When we walk according to the will of God, denying self, and following Him.
Galatians 5:16–26 (KJV)
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Notice again, that the manifestations of the flesh or the fruit of the Spirit are due to an inner reality, whether we’re yielded to the divine nature of God within us, in the person of the Holy Spirit, or the works of the flesh, the human nature, the carnal man.
It’s in the power of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling presence that we will have victory over this flesh. We can’t please God in our flesh, Romans 8:1-6 (KJV): 8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
Romans 8:13 (KJV)
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
We are empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit primarily for godly character building, strengthening, help, leading, guidance, primarily to deal with ourselves. Then, and only then, after we have learned to keep our flesh in check, will we see clearly to defeat the enemy without, otherwise, we’re beating in the wind.
Acts 1:8 (KJV)
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Ephesians 5:18 (KJV)
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.
As a matter of fact, don’t be drunk with anything from without us wherein is in excess or more influential than He that is in us, the Holy Spirit, 1 John 4:4 (KJV): 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. The Holy Spirit gives us power over this flesh. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. We hinder God’s power in our lives. We don’t realize how we stop Him from manifesting His glory in our lives when we don’t have faith in His Word, but are filled with doubt and unbelief because of the strongholds, or wrong thinking, that have set up camp in our minds. These are what shut the power of God down in Jesus’ day, Mark 6:1-6 (KJV):
6 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. 2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. 4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. 5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. 6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
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