How to Get God’s Best for Your Life, Part 2

2026-03-12

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There's a way to experience real life change, and it isn’t about trying harder; it’s about a completely new way of thinking.Negative Command: “Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world…”Passive voiceImperativePresent tenseTranslation: “Stop allowing yourselves to be molded by the influences and pressures of this present world system.”Application: We are to be SEPARATE from the world’s values. -1 Jn. 2:15-17Summary: The world’s system seeks to SEDUCE us from our love for Christ by PLEASURE, POSSESSIONS, and POSITION.Positive Command: “…but be transfor...

There's a way to experience real life change, and it isn’t about trying harder; it’s about a completely new way of thinking.

Negative Command: “Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world…”

Passive voice
Imperative
Present tense

Translation: “Stop allowing yourselves to be molded by the influences and pressures of this present world system.”

Application: We are to be SEPARATE from the world’s values. -1 Jn. 2:15-17

Summary: The world’s system seeks to SEDUCE us from our love for Christ by PLEASURE, POSSESSIONS, and POSITION.

Positive Command: “…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

Passive voice
Imperative
Present tense

Translation: “But allow God to completely change your inward thinking and outward behavior by cooperating wholeheartedly moment-by-moment with the Spirit’s renewing process.”

Application: Are you shaped more by the WORLD or the WORD? -Mat. 4:4; 2 Cor. 3:18

The means of transformation: “…by the renewing of your mind.”