The Promise, Power & Process of Change | Duane Sheriff

WE MUST CHANGE BECAUSE GOD DOESN’T

• • Malachi 3:6 (ref.)
  • Hebrews 13:8 (ref.)

ECCLESIASTES 3:1 (KJV)

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

• • Change is a constant.
  • Predestination – Romans 8:29 (ref.)
  • Romans 12:2 (ref.) – Conformed vs. Transformed

WHY IS CHANGE SO DIFFICULT

1. We can’t change (for good) without God.

• • John 15:5 (ref.)
  • Hebrews 4:2 (ref.)

2. Positive lasting change comes from within.

• • Romans 12:2 (ref.)

3. Unwilling to leave what’s familiar.

• • Comfortable with the status quo.
  • Example: John 5:6 (pool of Bethesda)

4. We resist loss, not change.

• • John 12:24 (ref.)

5. Fear of failure.

CHANGE MADE SIMPLE

• • Promise / Power / Process

2 CORINTHIANS 3:17-18 (KJV)

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

• • Beholding the glory – By the Spirit