In the process of coming to know Messiah, it is remarkable how Messiah is able to clean

up a life.

Don't read people rules of spirituality on root to salvation.

Let the Lord do it.

You present to them the Savior.

As I've heard old Vernon McGee say so many times, our job isn't to clean up the fish

mole, it's to fish.

When you get up in the morning and study your face in the mirror, do you see some flaws

in your character, perhaps your behavior that you'd really like to change?

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reminds us that genuine change, that is dramatic

and transformational life change is not something we can manufacture, manipulate or control.

There's a spiritual force that does all the work when we release the control to him.

From the series Growing Deep in the Christian Life, Chuck presents Message Number 9.

This title, Changing Lives is Jesus Business.

When I think about that which keeps me going with Christ, it is the hope of change.

When I meet with people who have struggled through the battles and the valleys and the

swamps of their experiences, and I search for reasons they hang on and keep growing, it

is the hope of change.

It is the inner conviction that God is at work changing them.

I want to think to begin with, before we look at three lives, our Lord Jesus changed.

I want to think about some statements from both Old Testament and New Testament that

affirm this idea.

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