Conformity

“The Apostle Paul writing to the church at the seat of the Roman government, one of the greatest empires the world had ever known, in Romans chapter 12, verse two, he says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that by testing you may discern what the will of God is, what is good and acceptable and perfect. We see the word conformed, conformed, and we see the word transform. To conform is to fit in.”

“transform their Community the Apostle Paul writing to the church at the seat of the Roman government one of the greatest Empires the world had ever known in Romans 12:2 he says do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that by testing you may discern what the will of God is what is good and acceptable and perfect we see the word word conformed conform and we see the word transform to conform is to fit in”

“I want you to see in Romans 12 when he says, do not be conformed to the world. And there's this word, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. So he draws this line in the text, and this is not an accident. He says, do not be conformed, but be transformed. And so what you know from that is that there's two ways to go about this. You're either conforming to the world or you're being”

“And what you set your mind on is what you become. You begin to conform to that which you dwell upon. What you dwell upon, it infiltrates who you are. And God doesn't desire for us to conform. He desires for us to be transformed. Paul talks about this in Romans 12 too. He says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”

“and what you set your mind on is what you become you begin to conform to that which you dwell upon which you dwell upon it infiltrates who you are and God doesn't desire for us to conform he desires for us to be transformed Paul talks about this and in Romans 12 2 he says do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the”

“conforming to the popular precepts of popular culture and moral relativism, which is the belief that there are multiple truths. And when we don't conform to moral relativism and we don't conform to the precepts of popular culture, you do your thing, you'd be you, your truth is your truth we're afraid that if we speak out against that that there's going to be consequences and we're afraid of those consequences in other words the redeemed of the lord are afraid to say so”

“then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, His good, pleasing, and perfect will. So let's break that down. Do not conform. What does conform mean? Conform means to shape yourself. Okay, so do not shape yourself to the pattern of this world. What's a pattern? You guys know what a pattern is, right? A pattern is something that exists before you get there. Now, how many of you would say, I walked into school with my new outfit on, and I knew automatically that I was popular?”

“it finally brings it down to this. It says, for those whom God foreknew, he predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. What you and I cannot be by our own effort, like Jesus, the Holy Spirit does in us by conforming us to the image of his son. But how does the Holy Spirit bring about this conformity? Yes, he's in us. Yes, he will. Yes, we need to be filled. But how does he do it?”