Being Transformed…

To be like Him

HOW ?

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Three Stages of Salvation in Life

2Transformed

soul

1 Regenerated

spirit

3Glorified body

“we all…are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory”

- 2 Cor. 3:18 “we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.”

- 1 John 3:2 “that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life”

- 2 Cor. 5:4

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Transformation Process from Adam → Christ

IMAGES FROMGod’s Plan of Redemption

Mary E. McDonough

Regeneration occurs in an instant, we are glorified in the twinkling of an eye but,TRANSFORMATION is a life long….process

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HOW – 1. By the Dispensing of the Divine Life (Gk. ZOE)

“I have come that they may have life [zoe] and have it abundantly – John 10:10

“may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete” – 1 Thess. 5:17

“Now He who has wrought us for this very thing is God – 2 Cor. 5:5

Triune GOD Tripartite MAN Glorified MAN

Divine Life

Regenerated spirit+

Transformed soul+

Glorified body

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2. By Partaking of Christ and Absorbing His Riches

EATING“He who eats me shall live because of Me…It is the Spirit who gives life…the words I have

spoken to you are spirit and are life.” – John 6

DRINKING“you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water” – John 4

“were all given to drink one Spirit” – 1 Cor. 12

Assimilating Him as food and drink produces the expression of ChristBeing transformed to be like Him ≠ self-improvement)

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3. By Beholding His Face

We turn our

heart

Veil is taken away

We behold His face

We reflect

His glory

That’s trans-

formation

Turning our hearts to behold His face transforms us.

Take time to behold Him!

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We have this treasure in earthen vessels – 2 Cor. 4:7

treasure refers to:“the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”

in previous verse

In the whole universe there is nothing so precious as to behold His face which is His person

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4. By the Work of the Holy Spirit

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His

purpose.Rom. 8:28

• “His purpose” is that we be conformed to the image of His Son

• The Spirit arranges our outward environment for the breaking down of the old nature and re-constituting with the new nature.

• Difficult environments forces us to depend on the Lord and gain Him for our transformation.

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5. By Being “Metabolically” Purified

Moab has been at ease from his youth;And he is settled on his lees

And has not been emptied from vessel to vesselNor has he gone into exile

Therefore his taste remains in himAnd his scent is not changed.

Jer. 48:11

If a believer is always at ease, he will not be transformed. As we are metabolically purified our natural taste and scent are changed to have His taste and scent.

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Our God-arranged environment

Inadequacy or failures of the natural man

The light of the Lord’s presence

Work together for our transformation

“though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.” - 2 Cor. 4:16

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6. By Denying the Self and Living by Him in the Body

As we deny our natural person and take the Lord in our spirit as our person, the faculties of our soul are uplifted and transformed with the Lord as our life.

“be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner

man”Eph. 3:16

“let him deny himself and take up his cross

and follow Me”

Matt. 16:24

“be transformed by the renewing of the

mind”

Rom 12:2

“exercise yourself unto

godliness”

1 Tim 12:7

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IN CONCLUSIONBy the transformation process

we are prepared to be His bride, the holy city New Jerusalem

which hasthe appearance of God,

the glory of God,and the expression of God

Excerpts from: “The Spiritual Experience of the Divine Truth of Transformation”

by Ed Marks