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we’re acting like it’s kind to say that
sin isn’t sin because we don’t want
people to feel shame
and we need to say you know what there
are things that we do that we feel
ashamed of that doesn’t make us shame
that’s not who I am but it’s okay to be
ashamed of choices that you make that’s
why you redeem them
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all right so in this lesson we’re going
to be talking about adamant holy
transformation don’t be afraid of that
word holy but we’re going to really be
talking about transformation you can’t
talk about transformation without
Holiness and you can’t talk about
Holiness without transformation so
they’re kind of merged together but what
does transformation even mean well it
means Transfiguration metamorphosis
think about caterpillar to butterfly
it’s a shock and conversion so we are
supposed to be a generation that is
transformed we live in a day and a time
that is going to actually demand from
each of us individually a lot of wisdom
and a lot of empathy and compassion and
this is kind of that whole juxtapose
that we are talking about how truth is
as hard as an adamant as hard as a
diamond and as tender as a blossom and
so having a holy reverence for God
understanding what he’s done in our life
we should be very tender to what he’s
doing in other people’s lives so opening
up right away with Matthew chapter 7
verses one through five judge not okay
judge not that you be not judged for
with the Judgment you pronounce you will
be judged and with the measure you use
it will be measured to you now this is a
really scary verse for me because I am
so quick to judge I’m like yeah I mean I
am so glad I’m not God because I would
judge people so quickly sleep on it and
then be like okay I’ll forgive them you
said Smite yes I would Smite I would I
would I would implement the Sicilian
Smite and then it goes on to say why do
you see the speck that is in your
brother’s eye so is there something
there yes
but do you not notice the log that is in
your own eye yes I do or how can you say
to your brother let me take the speck
out of your eye when there is a log in
your own eye you hypocrite remember we
talked about hypocrisy first take the
log out of your own eye and then you
will see clearly to take the spec out of
your brother’s eye so I’m just going to
ask you
has bemoaning the evils of our day
changed anything why are we expecting
people who are not children of the light
to act like children of the light why
are we mad at them for living in
darkness when that’s really where we
used to be before we were born again
it’s not changing anything criticizing
condemning judging does nothing I get it
I’ve had enough wood in my eyes to build
an entertainment center but that does
not help anybody judging is not what
this is about this is about judging
ourselves do you understand the promise
of God this is what it says in second
Corinthians 7 it says if my people this
is God talking to his people who are
called by my name humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from
their Wicked Ways our own Wicked Ways
then God will hear from heaven and will
forgive us sin there sins and heal their
land yeah like we’re like pointing out
everybody else’s and but God is actually
saying I’m giving you an incredible
opportunity it doesn’t depend about the
posture of your president the posture of
the government it depends on the posture
of my people when my people hit their
knees humble themselves what is that
what does that mean to Humble ourselves
well prayer and fasting and to say hey
guess what we’ve been wrong and I think
the church needs to say we’ve been wrong
we have been more known for what we are
against and what we are for and we have
made Jesus to be all about what he’s
against rather than what he is for
remember he’s not for everything but he
is for everyone and so we need to stop
misrepresenting him our land needs a
healing but the transformation doesn’t
happen when we change the legislation
I’m sorry yes get involved in politics
the transformation happens when we deal
with our own Hearts first
good so many people are anti-abortion
and I’m not saying I’m pro-abortion but
we need to do with our own murder in our
own Hearts right now and the own
judgment in our own Hearts so we have to
decide we’re gonna we’re gonna change
and I know it’s not fun to call people
out but it’s also wrong to call the
prison a place of Freedom so that’s
where we flew from we don’t want to be
judgmental so we’re going to call a
prison a place of Freedom we’re going to
call bondage freedom because we were so
mean no we’re going to get it right
we’re going to Humble ourselves we’re
going to get our hearts right because a
generation without conviction is a
generation without transformation and
this isn’t about just changing in our
own strength this is about
transformation this is about God
astounding the World by what he does in
and through his people and so I want to
change I want to change I don’t know how
you feel but I want to change and you
know what the world needs me to change
the world needs me to be more
christ-like yeah so what does that look
like well first of all it’s what we
tolerate in our cell what we tolerate on
ourselves will continue to grow and when
I’m intolerant of my in myself will stop
to grow Ephesians 5 and I’m going to
read out of the passion translations
verse one and two it says follow God and
imitate all he does in everything you do
you don’t compartmentalize God and say
well I’m going to follow him in this
place in this place but I’m going to
follow myself over here follow him
everything you do for then you will
represent your father as his beloved
sons and daughters so when we don’t
follow him in everything we do what are
we doing we’re misrepresenting our
father and that says and continue to
walk surrender to the extravagant Love
Of Christ for he surrendered his life as
a sacrifice for us his great love for us
was pleasing to God like an aroma of
adoration a sweet healing fragrance in
heaven and earth I love how this is
saying if we will lay down our lives to
the will of God and here’s the truth
there’s nothing I’ve ever laid down for
the sake of obeying God that I’ve
actually been sad about later I’ve
always been happy I’m like that was a
bunch of nonsense he’s never said put
this down I’m going to give you
something worse he’s always like put
this down I know what’s best for you I
know I know I know what’s best for you
this is what I love Isaiah chapter 2 and
I don’t know the verse but it’s in the
book says that God will show us the way
he works so we can live the way we were
made so God is working a good thing at
you and he’s doing this so that you can
live the way you’re made some of the
ways you’re living right now is not the
way you were made Ephesians 5 3 says
this love it’s continuing this love has
nothing to do with sexual morality lust
or greed not just Christians always go
yeah those fornicators are all those
homosexuals or greed or Greed for you
are his holy ones and let no one be able
to accuse you of them in any form guard
your speech forsake obscenities and
worthless insults these are nonsensical
words words without utility words that
build nothing that bring disgrace and
are unnecessary instead let worship fill
your hearts and spill out in your words
as you remind each other of God’s
goodness we need to be a core of people
who are constantly reminding one another
of God’s goodness and and I you know I I
always get real whiny when I’m thinking
about what I don’t have or what I don’t
like but when I remember God’s goodness
when I remember it’s faithfulness it
completely shifts everything and so I
think that we all know and I’ve said it
earlier that church people can be
mean-spirited and rather than use these
verses
to purge their own heart and humble
their own heart they use these verses to
attack people outside of the church but
this is God talking to his people right
in the church now I’m gonna go to the
Book of Romans because I am Italian and
I’m going to pack three things I’m gonna
unpack the reality of our God
the reality of our day
and the reality of us I’m going to
majorly focus on the reality of us
because the reality of God is is it’s
set and the reality of our day it’s it’s
a it’s a reality but I’m not child of
this day I’m a child of Eternity but I
am responsible for the reality of us
we’re going to go in through some of
these verses real quick and then we’re
going to dive in to some other ones I’m
going to go to the message paraphrase
now for all of you Bible purists in the
book I did the ESV and the message
because I wanted to bring it home so
Romans chapter 1 verse 19 says but the
basic reality of God is plain enough
open your eyes and there it is by taking
a long and thoughtful look at what God
has created I’ve got the mountains out
there by taking a long and thoughtful
look at what God has created people have
always been able to see what their eyes
as such cannot see
eternal power and the Mystery of his
Divine being so that nobody is without
excuse nobody has a good excuse when we
look out there and we see The Wonder of
God when we see stars when we see the
ocean when we see a baby you know Hannah
you’re pregnant right now is it not just
like a one are you almost like there’s a
person growing inside of me there’s a
real person now that you’re done with
the nausea but but yeah but by taking a
long and thoughtful look yeah we can’t
miss the Unseen Realm of the Divine God
but we live in a culture in a time that
does not want you to pause and it does
not want you to ponder and it doesn’t
not want you to take a long and
thoughtful look it actually wants to
think for you it wants to tell you what
you’re seeing but I need you to step
back and say la I need you to pause and
Ponder but whenever I step back pause
and Ponder I say what the heck is going
on it’s like our world has gone crazy
the things that we talk about the the
things that I’m navigating with my sons
the things Julie’s navigating with her
children these are things that we never
even thought we’d have as conversations
now and they’re just daily normal now so
I was like praying I was like God what’s
going on and he was like well the answer
is in the very next verse Romans 1 21
says what happened was this people knew
God perfectly well but when they didn’t
treat him like God refusing to worship
him they trivialize themselves into
silliness and confusion Till There Was
neither sense nor Direction in their
life they pretended to know it all but
they were illiterate regarding life you
know the Millennials right now are the
smartest generation that has ever walked
the face of the Earth and yet they are
having such a hard time finding their
place in life because worshiping God is
Not acknowledging God worshiping God
means I bowed the knee of my opinion to
his word it goes on again it’s talking
about a culture that doesn’t worship God
it says they trade the glory of the God
who holds the whole world in his hands
for cheap figurines you can buy at any
roadside so God said in effect if that’s
what you want that’s what you get and it
wasn’t long before they were living in a
pig pen smeared with filth filled the
inside and out and all this because they
traded the true God for a fake God and
worship the god they made instead of the
God who made them the God we Bless The
God Who blesses us oh yes and then it
goes on to say worse followed refusing
to know God because you can’t know God
outside of worship they soon didn’t know
how to be human either women didn’t know
how to be women and men didn’t know how
to be men
here is our day the reality of our day
we’re trying to self-identify you know I
I don’t even know what we think we’re
doing right now a lot of schools at
Junior Ohio are asking 12 13 and 14 year
old kids to self-identify I’m sorry if
somebody would ask me do you guys
remember Junior High if somebody would
ask me a junior high to self-identify I
would have said I was a unicorn I was
like what in the world I was not
interested in what was going on with the
boys I was trying to figure out why am I
not growing breasts so there is like a
lot of same-sex curiosity but we have
perverted it and sexualized young people
we need to protect them it goes on to
say sexually confused they abused and
defiled one another women with women men
with men all lust and no love and then
they paid for it oh how they paid for it
emptied of God and love Godless and
Loveless wretches no I just want to be
really clear God is never the one who
makes this pay
when I built my life with untempered
mortar when I thought fornication and
alcohol and dating would fill this void
in my life and then all Came Crashing
Down it was costly but it was me who
chose to build with the wrong things and
then have it come crashing down and then
it goes on in verse 28 to say since they
didn’t bother to acknowledge God God
quit bothering them and let them run
loose and I’m going to read to you what
it looks like when a generation is loose
it says they’re filled with all manner
of unrighteousness evil covetousness
malice they are full of Envy murder
Strife deceit maliciousness they are
gossip Slanders haters of God insulin
hottie boastful inventors of evil
disobedient to parents foolish faithless
heartless and ruthless
and then it says in the close of Romans
1 and it’s not as if they don’t know
better they know perfectly well they’re
spitting in God’s face and they don’t
care worse they hand out prizes to those
who do the worst things best that is the
reality of our day but that’s not the
reality of us
reality of US starts with Romans 2 1
goes back to Matthew those people on a
dark spiraled down but if you think that
leaves you on The High Ground where you
can point your finger at others think
again every time you criticize someone
you condemn yourself it takes one to
know one judgmental criticism of others
is a well-known way of escaping
detection your own crimes and
misdemeanors but God isn’t so easily
diverted he sees right through all such
smoke screens and holds you to what you
have done what has the church done
judging Envy competition we have been
back biting we so strive Between
Brothers we are doing the things the
things the six things God hates you know
he hates these things and then it goes
on to say you didn’t think did you that
just by pointing your fingers at others
you would distract God from seeing all
your misdoings and from coming down on
you hard or did you think that because
he is such a nice God he’d let you off
the hook better think this one through
from the start God is kind but he is not
soft yes in kindness he takes us firmly
by the hand and leads us into a radical
life change in kindness God takes us by
the ham I don’t know what your story is
but when I was 21 years of age God took
me firmly by the hand and said Lisa I’m
going to lead you into a radical life
change it wasn’t a behavior modification
I began to read the word of God and I
began to find out that God was holy God
was holy I was like what does that even
mean
what holy means otherness and actually
we find our wholeness when we choose to
walk holy I can’t heal myself in My Own
Strength I tried to fill all the voids
in my life it was impossible but to
experience the Holiness of God we
actually have a revelation that we can
never be holy as he is God was holy is
Holy and will always be holy he is Holy
in all he is and all he asks of us is to
be holy in what we do I am ready for a
generation to actually cry out to God
and say I need mercy so I’m going to
extend Mercy I need love so I’m going to
extend love loving people
stand Mercy because they know it’s set
up a generation for transformation I’m
so thankful that people told me the
truth baby girl you’re fragmenting your
soul with your promiscuity this
alcoholism is going to make you make bad
decisions that you’re going to regret
for the rest of your life they cared
enough to tell me the truth but then
they didn’t leave me there they said
God’s got something better for you there
is something on the other side I had no
idea what was on the other side and they
led me to a place of hope we have to
give hope to a generation that’s good
God’s kindness is always an invitation
for us to return to truth rather than an
endorsement of sin we’re acting like
it’s kind to say that sin isn’t sin
because we don’t want people to feel
shame
and we need to say you know what there
are things that we do that we feel
ashamed of that doesn’t make us shame
that’s not who I am but it’s okay to be
ashamed of choices that you make that’s
why you redeem them that’s why you tell
other people that’s why David said hey
forgive me I’ll be clean and then I’ll
teach transgressors your ways I’m going
to redeem what was on my life for the
the place of other people we are all as
Christians going to make mistakes but we
are not allowed to make excuses because
when we know better we should do better
and there is a generation that is
desperate for transformation and they’re
watching and waiting to see it in US
so I’m going to challenge you I’m going
to challenge you to invite this holy God
to take you firmly by the hand and lead
you into a place of radical life
transformation I’m going to ask you to
ask God because see he is the Lord thy
God who makes you holy I’m going to ask
you to ask God to make you holy to have
this separation this otherness where
people understand that there’s something
on you then different that used to be on
you see the truth is being holy isn’t
about trying to be good
being holy is about being gods it says
you belong to someone else I want
everything in your life to say that you
belong to this adamant Cornerstone this
invincible God who is at once intimate
and truth that is alive and a God who is
a consuming fire of the chap in your
life that people would begin to see this
holy transformation in your life you
were not made to live small and safe and
and just on the edge of constant bondage
you are made to be holy and so I want to
see you invite him when we’re done I
want you just to pray about this and say
God what is an area of my life that you
want to take me firmly by the hand
probably an era you’ve been scared he’s
going to take away from you listen don’t
be scared anymore don’t be scared let
them take you across this road and
you’ll see that what’s on the other side
is for His glory in Jesus name
thank you
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