Grace Is The Power To Transform by J Loren Norris with guest Rev. Michael D Jarmon

MESSAGE FOR KING TELEVISION 9-5-20

GRACE IS THE POWER TO CLEANSE, TO COVER, TO TRANSFORM US.

1. GRACE WASHES US FROM THE INSIDE OUT
“What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’”
‭‭Acts of the Apostles‬ ‭22:16‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Jesus replied, “You, too? Are you being willfully stupid? Don’t you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated? But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It’s from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That’s what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands—that’s neither here nor there.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭15:16-20‬ ‭MSG‬‬

“Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other. But— When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.

Because of his grace he made us right in his sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.”
‭‭Titus‬ ‭3:3-5, 7‬ ‭NLT‬‬

2. YOU CANNOT DO THIS - SO JESUS DID IT FOR YOU

“Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:11‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
‭‭John‬ ‭1:29‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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“In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭9:21-28‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/111/heb.9.21-28.niv

GRACE LEAVES EVIDENCE OF TRANSFORMATION

- DESERT FLOOD ILLUSTRATION

“If someone claims, “I know him well!” but doesn’t keep his commandments, he’s obviously a liar. His life doesn’t match his words. But the one who keeps God’s word is the person in whom we see God’s mature love. This is the only way to be sure we’re in God. Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.

My dear friends, I’m not writing anything new here. This is the oldest commandment in the book, and you’ve known it from day one. It’s always been implicit in the Message you’ve heard. On the other hand, perhaps it is new, freshly minted as it is in both Christ and you—the darkness on its way out and the True Light already blazing!

Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It’s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God’s light and doesn’t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn’t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:4-11‬ ‭MSG‬‬
https://www.bible.com/97/1jn.2.4-11.msg

“Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:15-17‬ ‭MSG‬‬
https://www.bible.com/97/1jn.2.15-17.msg

——-CLOSE——-

LOOK YOU MUST CHOOSE TO BE MADE CLEAN
- TO BE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
- TO BECOME A NEW CREATURE
- TO DO AWAY WITH THE OLD WAYS.
- YOU MUST OR YOUR DESTINY IS AN ETERNITY OF TORTURE AND TORMENT.

ALSO KNOW THIS
- YOU CAN CHOOSE WHETHER YOUR CLEANSING WILL BE LIKE:

1. WILL YOU CHOOSE THE SINGLE DRIP OF WATER WHICH TRANSFORMS THE BOULDER TO GRAVEL OVER 1000 YEARS?

2. WILL YOU CHOOSE TO BATHE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD WEEKLY OR PERHAPS DAILY AND ALLOW HIS WORD TO WASH YOU AND TRANSFORM YOUR MIND OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS OR DECADES?
3. WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMERSE YOURSELF AND SUBMIT YOURSELF WHOLLY AND BE TRANSFORMED - LIKE THE LANDSCAPE AFTER THE DESERT FLOOD TO WALK IN THE POWER OF GOD’S HOLINESS - LIKE PETER WHOSE SHADOW HEALED THE SICK AT HIS VERY PASSING