"Immanuel" - God With Us:
God is with you, as your Transformer
God is with you, as your Transformer
2 Cor. 3:18 “And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His [Jesus’] likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
Jn. 5:17 “ ‘My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working.’ ”
2 Cor. 3:18 “… are being transformed into His likeness …”
1 Cor. 15:42-44 “So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”
Phil. 3:20-21 “… our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body.”
2 Cor. 3:18, “… which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
Rom. 8:11 “And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.”
Eph. 5:18, KJV, “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit …”
What God is looking for from us, being our Transformer
Rom. 12:1-2 “… in view of God's mercy, … offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship. 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. 12:1 “… offer [our] bodies a living [sacrifice], holy and pleasing to God …”
Jam. 4:7a “Submit yourselves, then, to God.”
Rom. 6:11, KJV, “… reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Rom. 12:2 “… do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, …”
Eph. 4:17 “… you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.”
1 Pet. 1:14 “As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.”
Rom. 12:2 “… be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Phil. 2:5, KJV, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus …”
Closing
Gal. 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
1 Cor. 15:48-49 “As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the Man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the Man from heaven.”