If we want to be conformed to the image of Christ, we have to be trained by the Word of God.

The Word of God has to take a hold of us and grab us in the heart.

You're not going to act like a Christian until you think like a Christian.

You know, when you walk like a duck and you quack like a duck, chances are you're a duck.

And when you're unconverted, you think like an unconverted person.

And you act like an unconverted person.

The Old Testament tells us that as a man thinks in his heart, that is at the core of his

being, not just the superficial thoughts that may go across his brainwaves for a second,

but that which he thinks about deeply, that which takes a hold of him and grabs him at

the core of his being, as a man thinketh there in his heart, so is he.

And so if we want to be transformed, and that's what Paul was talking about at the

end of his great letter on redemption in the book of Romans, you know, he says, therefore

my beloved brethren, be transformed, right?

Present yourselves as living sacrifices under God, which is your acceptable worship and so

on.

And then he says, be transformed, not conformed to this world.

An unconverted person is conformed to the patterns and the way of thinking of a fallen

world, but a Christian who is converted is called to transformation, to be transformed

people, changed lives.

And the question is, how does that happen?

And what Paul teaches us there is the way you're transformed in your life is to be first

of all transformed in your mind.

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