How To Be Transformed

0:01 Hello everybody, welcome once again to deep this. Audio. Yes, and this is episode 9 of Deep Things of his word. Yes. So today we have a very special topic. Power in his word. Yes, OK. But before that, we have a special guest in our mist, someone based on popular demands, someone been asking for a very long time. Well, he's saying our mist again. So please join me. Welcome. Hi, my name is Uchi. Hi, Uchi. Thank you so much for coming. I appreciate it. All right, so today, power in his word. Well, that's the concept.

0:58 So what do you understand by power in his world? So now I'm going to give this flow entirely to Uche to proceed. OK, So tell us about power in his world. What does it mean? And every single consensus. Thank you. OK, and thank you so much for this opportunity. The Bible says, OK first of all we're going to talk about the the the topic power in his word that refers to the potency of God's word, what the word of God can do. That's the power in the word OK. The Bible says in Hebrew chapter 4 verse 12 it says for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any 2 edged sword piercing even to the dividing a sound of solar spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a dishonorable thoughts and the intents of the heart.

1:58 You see Bible says in Hebrew to perform a story said the word of God is quick and powerful quick and powerful. There are many things that the Word of God can do. OK, there are, there are, there are many powers in quotes in the world. But then I'm going to be talking about the power of God's word with respect to transformation because I think that's what concerns us mostly and the major benefits we have from the Word of God. Bible says in Hebrews 412 that it is powerful, the Word of God and sharper than any 2 edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is the descender of the thought and the intent of the heart is the Bible also says in Romans chapter 12 is it be not do not be conformed to the standards of this world will be transformed by the renewing of your mind that happens by the word of God.

2:53 The word of God is the raw material that the Holy Spirit uses to change our lives is the Bible says walk out to your salvation with fear and trembling. That is the the life of God that is walked into you when you receive the word of God, the Word of Faith that made for your salvation, you walk it out with fear and trembling. That fear and trembling is fear and trembling to the instructions of the Holy Spirit. So what has been walked into you by faith in the gospel having received the life of Christ, which is the Word, you are walking it out with fear and trembling.

3:32 And the Bible also says in John chapter 17, verse 17 says sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth to the raw material with which God makes us holy. The raw material with which God transforms our minds, changes our thoughts, changes the way we reason, changes the way we see him, the way we see things in our lives, even day-to-day activities, the way we see money, the way we see people, the way we see nature, the way we see his works, the way he's we see even church going. You know, it's is by the word of God.

4:10 There is nobody, there is nobody that the Holy Spirit can walk on except that person is yielded to the word of God. Now Jesus said in John chapter 14, He said the Spirit of truth said He would guide us into all truth. He would take of Himself and He would speak to us, He would give it to us. That means that the person that animates the life of God in our spirit is the Holy Spirit, and the agency with which He does that is truth. The agency with which the Holy Spirit transforms our hearts, makes us new presence is truth, and that truth is the Word of God.

4:53 The Word of God is powerful to transform your mind. I was watching a clip one time on Instagram about 1 Mandy Uno of course, Taris, Dr. Maduka, Dr. Cosmos Maduka and profound man rooted in the Word of God. He he took his Bible to a business meeting and he was like all the secrets of my business are inside his book. Everything I used to succeed and build this company is inside this book and that give me another motivation that the secrets that are locked up in the pages of scripture, if you can tap into it and they are quickened by the Holy Spirit, you will see those words coming to pass in your life.

5:40 So when you have a mindset and you sit on that word, what the Holy Spirit does is that he takes the potency of that word and begins to make you into a person that looks like that word. What I'm trying to say is that Bible says ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. I choose the word make you free. It means that it's not just an information you receive in your head. It's it's an organic work that is done by the Holy Spirit in your heart. You discover that the passions you have towards sin, you.

6:26 It's not that somebody's trying to rule you to not sin. It's not that somebody's trying to rule you or to tell you that, OK, if you sing, you're going to go to hell. You don't even find the desire to sin again. You are being made. You are being made free. It's not just that you are set free, you are being made free. He's turning you into a person that looks like Jesus. So the Holy Spirit takes the raw material of the word of God and he brings it to us in our hearts, transforming us, making us into the turning us into the image of Christ.

7:05 He said we are with open faces, beholding us in a glass. The glory of the Lord are changed, are changed. We are transformed. The word there is the word that is in biology, metamorphosis. It's what happens to a butterfly from egg to lava, from lava to pupa, from pupa to an adult butterfly. So that's what the Word of God does, is like a mirror. If you go to a mirror, what you have seen is not necessarily what is good about you. If you open a mirror to look all right. If you open a mirror, most times you're trying to check what is wrong with your face.

7:43 Is my makeup right? Is my scarf right? Is my earrings right all right? Is the powder too much? Is the foundation? Is it too deep? You know, Even so, you take the Word of God and as you are reading it, it is reading you. So that's the power of God's Word. It is the raw material that the Holy Spirit uses to transform us and make us more like Christ. Notice the truth makes you free. That word makes us more like Christ. In experiences is like animating the words that are written off of the pages of scripture.

8:26 The Holy Spirit takes those raw materials, which is the word to transform our heart. So it is impossible for a man to give himself to the world. It's impossible for a man to give himself to the due diligence of studying the world under the England of the Holy Spirit. And that man does not change. It's it's, it's impossible. It's impossible. The Word of God is quick and powerful. It discerns your thoughts, it discerns the intents of your heart, and it changes it to be more like Jesus. Well, thank you so much for that.

9:01 Who? Transformed by His word. OK, You know, I just, I think about something when you're speaking. So you spoke about the transferring power in his word. So can you like probably shed a little more light on how can 1 be transformed by his word? Thank you. Second Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 18. I'll start from verse 17. He says now the Lord is that spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, but we all with open face beholding us 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.

9:45 If you want to see the dramatized version of this verse you need to take you need to go back to Genesis, the case of Jacob where Leban was trying to cheat him with with the flock that was due due to him. What Jacob did was that he took he took something and placed it in their feeding troughs so that as those animals went to drink, as they were beholding that mark in their feeding trust, they were transformed. That's exactly what happens to us with God's word. The more you engage the word of God, the more you look at it, the more you behold God in his word.

10:23 And as you're reading the word of God, you can read it as a theological material. You can read it as a historical material, but you can read it as the word of God. There you are beholding the principles of Christ, the, the, the, the, the, the promises of Christ, prophecies, things that God as you're reading the Bible, be reading thoughts, be reading patterns that Jesus don't just really like his storybook. As you behold that word, something is happening to you that you can't even tell. That's how we get transformed by his word.

10:54 As we behold the word, as we engage the word deliberately day after day, day after day, something is happening to you. I saw you put today that it actually blessed me. It said that I'm paraphrasing now. It said that change does not come by trying to beat what is wrong. It it comes by focusing on what is good. It comes by focusing on the truth and that is what God calls us to do. He said if you are in Christ, you are a new creation. All things are passed away. Behold, behold all things are new. It is a behold all things are passed away.

11:37 He doesn't even want you to look at the old things. Behold, all things are new. Behold yourself in the world. At the point I had to get scripture that talks about my mind, I started quoting I have the mind of Christ in the name of Jesus. I, I, I took those scriptures as I said, speaking it to myself, beholding those words. Soon I discovered I was taking decisions that the the quality of my decisions changed. You know the spirit of wisdom had now come based off of what I was reading from Scripture.

12:09 The Satanist tries to woo you with temptation. You pick up the word of God and the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus seems shall not have dominion over me. I live in the spirit, I walk in the spirit. I will not fulfill the desires of my flesh. This is how you get changed by the Word. You pick those words and you keep looking at them. Something is happening within your Bible says it is able to go through your thoughts, through your bone, through your marrow, through the deepest part of you and cause it change.

12:39 So it's as you behold that you are changed. That's how we get transformed by His Word. Thank you so much. So another question, you know how light is in different wavelengths? Yeah. So is transformation is also in different wavelengths? Like some people are they transformed a certain way to a higher degree and some people are not transformed to a slight degree. Because I'm not just meant people, I mean Christians that they say they read the Bible, right. And some other people read the Bible. There's certain transformation that comes to, let's say Group A, then be heightened transformation and then to Group B is now just to just live life and be a Christian.

13:18 So is there like transformation that comes in different wavelengths? Yes, I will say yes. Why? Because like I said, some people read the Bible like a storybook. It's a spirit text. You don't read it like Tina Chavez's book. No, you it is spirit text. It takes spirits to no spirit. Bible says this old scripture is given by inspiration. That word is Numa, breath of the the Spirit of God. Transformation cannot happen to you when you're studying the Bible as a novel. No, because there are some theologians that have now become a theist.

13:57 Yes, they know scripture. What do you think happened to the Pharisees? They know scripture. They knew the Torah. They knew the Torah A-Z even could recite it, but then they do not have the life of the Scriptures. That's why Jesus told them you can't understand me, I know my sheep, you can't understand this, that I'm telling you. So they know the Scripture in their head, but then the they said they have a form of godliness, but denies the power thereof. So beyond reading it like a textbook, like a novel, the the transformative power of Scripture comes when we read the Bible by the help of the Holy Spirit.

14:38 Like I said, he's the one that animates these letters. He said the letter kill it, but the spirit gives life. It is the Spirit that makes the life of Christ lead to you. So you can see a Christian that got born again 2010. Two Christians 1 is studying the Bible by the agency of the Spirit. The other one is studying the Bible just to get puffed up with knowledge. The difference will be clear because the other person will have a lot of things in his head. But then the way we doubt to prove that thing, you won't see it in the present life.

15:10 So the difference is the Bible is not a novel, it's a spirit text, and it takes spirit to no spirit. Thank you so much for that. I'm really blessed. You know, that's my question pop in my head, but I feel if I go back and listen to this again, I think the answer will be there. You've said it all, so this is every other person listening. Please, you think you have heard this? Go back. Listen to this exact episode, the game. There's a reason I'm telling you this. So thank you so much, Uchi, for this.

15:41 God bless you. Mary, thank. You all right, so to all our listeners, thank you all for joining us today. So till we see you again next week, bye.