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“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
3 Necessary Changes: 1. Change of Principles “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (GN 1:27-28)
3 Necessary Changes: 1. Change of Principles “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” (RM 8:22)
3 Necessary Changes: 1. Change of Principles “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” (LK 19:10)
3 Necessary Changes: 2. Change of Priorities “When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name.”(DT 26:1-2)
3 Necessary Changes: 2. Change of Priorities “…O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.”(2 Chron 6:14)
3 Necessary Changes: 2. Change of Priorities Success that makes no room for God is limited to this life.
3 Necessary Changes: 2. Change of Priorities “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?” (MT 16:26)
3 Necessary Changes: 3. Change of Practices “It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.”(DT 13:4)
3 Necessary Changes: 3. Change of Practices “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!”(Php 2:5-8)
3 Necessary Changes: 3. Change of Practices “But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.” (JAS 1:25)
3 Necessary Changes: 3. Change of Practices “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.”(EC 9:10)
3 Necessary Changes: 3. Change of Practices “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”(Col 3:23-24)
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