Title
Faith To Change 让我们改变的信仰
Date
09/28/2025
Description
Rom 8:6-8 - So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
罗马书 8:6-8- 体 贴 肉 体 的 ， 就 是 死 ； 体 贴 圣 灵 的 ， 乃 是 生 命 、 平 安 。原 来 体 贴 肉 体 的 ， 就 是 与 神 为 仇 ； 因 为 不 服 神 的 律 法 ， 也 是 不 能 服 ，而 且 属 肉 体 的 人 不 能 得 神 的 喜 欢 。(pg 1832)
Gal 3:11 - And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: for the just shall live by faith.
加 拉 太 書 3:11-现在很清楚，没有人通过律法而得到上帝的认可。正如《经》上所说∶“义人 因信仰而得生。” (page 1888)
Mark 9:23 - Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
馬 可 福 音 9:23: 耶稣对他说∶“你刚才说‘如果您能，就请帮帮他吧’，对相信的人，一切事情都能办得到。” (page 1635)
Heb 11:1: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
希 伯 來 書 11:1: 信仰意味着确信我们所期待的事情，肯定我们所看不见的事情 (page 1952)
Eph 2:8: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
以 弗 所 書 2: 8,9: 你们通过信仰得到拯救乃是上帝的恩典，这不出自你们自己，而是上帝的恩赐， 而不是因为你们做了什么，所以，也就没有人能够夸口。(page 1895)
罗马书 8:6-8- 体 贴 肉 体 的 ， 就 是 死 ； 体 贴 圣 灵 的 ， 乃 是 生 命 、 平 安 。原 来 体 贴 肉 体 的 ， 就 是 与 神 为 仇 ； 因 为 不 服 神 的 律 法 ， 也 是 不 能 服 ，而 且 属 肉 体 的 人 不 能 得 神 的 喜 欢 。(pg 1832)
Gal 3:11 - And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: for the just shall live by faith.
加 拉 太 書 3:11-现在很清楚，没有人通过律法而得到上帝的认可。正如《经》上所说∶“义人 因信仰而得生。” (page 1888)
Mark 9:23 - Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
馬 可 福 音 9:23: 耶稣对他说∶“你刚才说‘如果您能，就请帮帮他吧’，对相信的人，一切事情都能办得到。” (page 1635)
Heb 11:1: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
希 伯 來 書 11:1: 信仰意味着确信我们所期待的事情，肯定我们所看不见的事情 (page 1952)
Eph 2:8: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
以 弗 所 書 2: 8,9: 你们通过信仰得到拯救乃是上帝的恩典，这不出自你们自己，而是上帝的恩赐， 而不是因为你们做了什么，所以，也就没有人能够夸口。(page 1895)
Creator
Pastor: Mike Koger
Contributor
Hillside United Methodist Church
3737 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
United States
3737 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
United States
Transcription
Faith To Change: Romans 8:6-10
We are all witnessing the beginnings of a Global Awakening. A Global Revival
Revival comes as a result of an awakening - and that awakening comes through the revelation of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
As 1 Corinthians 15:34 reminds us: "Awake to righteousness, and sin not."
What we're witnessing today may well be the birth of a revival that could radically redirect the future of our country. (maybe the world?)
Consider Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whose preaching during them 20th century was so honest and forceful that the secular media in Wales made this remarkable statement: "The preaching of Dr. Jones probably saved Wales from becoming the first communist country in Europe."
His message was clear and powerful about the nature of faith.
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones put it this way: "The man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work, and rests on that alone."
He continues, "He has ceased to say, 'Ah yes, I used to commit terrible sins but I have done this and that.' He stops saying that. If he goes on saying that, he has not got faith. Faith speaks in an entirely different manner and makes a man say, 'Yes I have sinned grievously, I have lived a life of sin, yet I know that I am a child of God because I am not resting on any righteousness of my own; my righteousness is in Jesus Christ and God has put that to my account.'"
There are people you can always trust to do what they say they will – and some people… not so much.
When someone you consider trustworthy tells you they will do something, you believe them. You count on them to do what they promised.
You accept it as fact.
This is a form of faith.
Last week: "Faith is not feeling. Faith is accepting what God has said."
Galatians 3:11 declares, "And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: for the just shall live by faith."
Are you choosing to live by faith?
If you are trusting God to guide you, He is doing exactly that.
We only see "through the glass darkly" now - but we must walk by faith, not by sight.
"Where we're going, we don't need roads."
I would add: Where we're going in our spiritual journey, we must have faith.
Romans 5:17 proclaims: "It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ."
Jesus himself said in Matthew 9:29, "According to your faith, be it unto you" and "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt..."
In times of revival, people are often delivered from their past struggles and weaknesses. Set free. A fresh start, by the Power of GOD.
I ask you today: - Do you believe God can provide a better life for you?
Do you believe God can deliver you from your struggles - your addictions - your fears? Your past mistakes?
Psalm 34:4 assures us: "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears."
? What if you realized there is a better you waiting for you on the other side of your struggle?
We’re not talking about “starting over.” Not “starting from scratch.”
We’re talking about starting afresh with wisdom and power.
God has a "nevertheless" to speak into your life today.
"Nevertheless" is a formal adverb that means "in spite of that," "however," "even so," or "still". It is used to introduce a statement that contrasts with or opposes what was just said, highlighting an unexpected turn of events or a different perspective despite a previous point.
Romans 8 tells us: "Nevertheless once the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you he will, by that same Spirit, bring to your whole being new strength and vitality."
Will you receive that promise today by faith? (amen)
Despite our own failures, there is a "But God" ready to work in our lives to transform and sanctify us. By Faith. A “nevertheless”
Mark 9:23 reminds us: "Jesus said to him, 'If you can'? Everything is possible for the one who believes."
Change comes by faith - faith that it is possible to change through the victory won by Jesus for us.
Grace to Change. Faith to Change.
If the Christ lives within you, even though the body is as good as dead because of the effects of sin, the Spirit is infusing you with life now that you are right with God.
It takes faith to work out and walk out this Christian life, to continue in His Word and keep our hand on the plow...
…because everything does not happen at once.
When you are believing for something that hasn't happened just yet - when you are trusting in the word of another that something will take place, that is faith.
“Faith means accepting what God has said.”
Hebrews 11:1 defines it perfectly: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
Externally - who we are now is not who we will be. We are in the process of becoming.
But who we are internally - spiritually - as Believers - is already a real thing.
John 1:12 tells us Jesus "gave the right to become God's children to everyone who believed in him."
The born-again believer has received (by faith) "the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness."
Ephesians 2:8 declares: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."
You are saved, made righteous by leaving your old life (repenting) and accepting new life through Christ - the gift of righteousness.
Made righteous! By faith you have to accept that is who you are now.
Ephesians 2 in the Phillips translation puts it beautifully: "It was nothing you could or did achieve - it was God's gift to you. No one can pride himself upon earning the love of God. The fact is that what we are (present-tense) we owe to the hand of God upon us. We are born afresh in Christ, and born to do those good deeds which God planned for us to do."
By faith you have to accept that is who you are now.
The carnal mind cannot accept this grace-through-faith salvation.
It always gravitates back to works.
Early Christian church in conflict… trying to receive the new, even while clinging to them old
Galatians 6:12 warns: "Those who are trying to force you to be circumcised want to look good to others. They don't want to be persecuted for teaching that the cross of Christ alone can save."
? Why is it so important that we believe and accept being made righteous through faith as a present-day fact?
To live by faith and please God you have to believe you have already been made right with God - so that you can go beyond your own existing limitations and start doing the good works God prepared for you to do.
Otherwise, you'll never get beyond yourself.
You’ll keep trying to “qualify yourself”
You'll still think YOU are the Vine, and because of that misunderstanding, you may believe nothing good can ever come from you.
Just attempts. Trying. Struggling.
What if you realized (by faith) there is a better you on the other side of your struggle?
This faith we are talking about pleases God and strengthens our Divine Connection
(MSG) Romans 8 puts it this way: "Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them - living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God.
Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.”
"...the mind-set controlled by the Spirit finds life and peace." (Romans 8:6)
The Gospel message is not only meant to lead us to Christ - but it is crucial toward keeping the Believer rooted, grounded and moving forward in their faith.
Romans 8:10 assures us: "if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God."
Romans 5:17 declares: "But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ."
Declare it:
“I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, because that is who God says I am.”
Remember this truth: If you can work it out on your own, it doesn't require faith.
• We have been reminded again today:
Without faith it is impossible to please God.
The justified will live by faith.
Following after the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace.
We are all witnessing the beginnings of a Global Awakening. A Global Revival
Revival comes as a result of an awakening - and that awakening comes through the revelation of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
As 1 Corinthians 15:34 reminds us: "Awake to righteousness, and sin not."
What we're witnessing today may well be the birth of a revival that could radically redirect the future of our country. (maybe the world?)
Consider Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whose preaching during them 20th century was so honest and forceful that the secular media in Wales made this remarkable statement: "The preaching of Dr. Jones probably saved Wales from becoming the first communist country in Europe."
His message was clear and powerful about the nature of faith.
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones put it this way: "The man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work, and rests on that alone."
He continues, "He has ceased to say, 'Ah yes, I used to commit terrible sins but I have done this and that.' He stops saying that. If he goes on saying that, he has not got faith. Faith speaks in an entirely different manner and makes a man say, 'Yes I have sinned grievously, I have lived a life of sin, yet I know that I am a child of God because I am not resting on any righteousness of my own; my righteousness is in Jesus Christ and God has put that to my account.'"
There are people you can always trust to do what they say they will – and some people… not so much.
When someone you consider trustworthy tells you they will do something, you believe them. You count on them to do what they promised.
You accept it as fact.
This is a form of faith.
Last week: "Faith is not feeling. Faith is accepting what God has said."
Galatians 3:11 declares, "And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: for the just shall live by faith."
Are you choosing to live by faith?
If you are trusting God to guide you, He is doing exactly that.
We only see "through the glass darkly" now - but we must walk by faith, not by sight.
"Where we're going, we don't need roads."
I would add: Where we're going in our spiritual journey, we must have faith.
Romans 5:17 proclaims: "It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ."
Jesus himself said in Matthew 9:29, "According to your faith, be it unto you" and "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt..."
In times of revival, people are often delivered from their past struggles and weaknesses. Set free. A fresh start, by the Power of GOD.
I ask you today: - Do you believe God can provide a better life for you?
Do you believe God can deliver you from your struggles - your addictions - your fears? Your past mistakes?
Psalm 34:4 assures us: "I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears."
? What if you realized there is a better you waiting for you on the other side of your struggle?
We’re not talking about “starting over.” Not “starting from scratch.”
We’re talking about starting afresh with wisdom and power.
God has a "nevertheless" to speak into your life today.
"Nevertheless" is a formal adverb that means "in spite of that," "however," "even so," or "still". It is used to introduce a statement that contrasts with or opposes what was just said, highlighting an unexpected turn of events or a different perspective despite a previous point.
Romans 8 tells us: "Nevertheless once the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you he will, by that same Spirit, bring to your whole being new strength and vitality."
Will you receive that promise today by faith? (amen)
Despite our own failures, there is a "But God" ready to work in our lives to transform and sanctify us. By Faith. A “nevertheless”
Mark 9:23 reminds us: "Jesus said to him, 'If you can'? Everything is possible for the one who believes."
Change comes by faith - faith that it is possible to change through the victory won by Jesus for us.
Grace to Change. Faith to Change.
If the Christ lives within you, even though the body is as good as dead because of the effects of sin, the Spirit is infusing you with life now that you are right with God.
It takes faith to work out and walk out this Christian life, to continue in His Word and keep our hand on the plow...
…because everything does not happen at once.
When you are believing for something that hasn't happened just yet - when you are trusting in the word of another that something will take place, that is faith.
“Faith means accepting what God has said.”
Hebrews 11:1 defines it perfectly: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
Externally - who we are now is not who we will be. We are in the process of becoming.
But who we are internally - spiritually - as Believers - is already a real thing.
John 1:12 tells us Jesus "gave the right to become God's children to everyone who believed in him."
The born-again believer has received (by faith) "the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness."
Ephesians 2:8 declares: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."
You are saved, made righteous by leaving your old life (repenting) and accepting new life through Christ - the gift of righteousness.
Made righteous! By faith you have to accept that is who you are now.
Ephesians 2 in the Phillips translation puts it beautifully: "It was nothing you could or did achieve - it was God's gift to you. No one can pride himself upon earning the love of God. The fact is that what we are (present-tense) we owe to the hand of God upon us. We are born afresh in Christ, and born to do those good deeds which God planned for us to do."
By faith you have to accept that is who you are now.
The carnal mind cannot accept this grace-through-faith salvation.
It always gravitates back to works.
Early Christian church in conflict… trying to receive the new, even while clinging to them old
Galatians 6:12 warns: "Those who are trying to force you to be circumcised want to look good to others. They don't want to be persecuted for teaching that the cross of Christ alone can save."
? Why is it so important that we believe and accept being made righteous through faith as a present-day fact?
To live by faith and please God you have to believe you have already been made right with God - so that you can go beyond your own existing limitations and start doing the good works God prepared for you to do.
Otherwise, you'll never get beyond yourself.
You’ll keep trying to “qualify yourself”
You'll still think YOU are the Vine, and because of that misunderstanding, you may believe nothing good can ever come from you.
Just attempts. Trying. Struggling.
What if you realized (by faith) there is a better you on the other side of your struggle?
This faith we are talking about pleases God and strengthens our Divine Connection
(MSG) Romans 8 puts it this way: "Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them - living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God.
Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.”
"...the mind-set controlled by the Spirit finds life and peace." (Romans 8:6)
The Gospel message is not only meant to lead us to Christ - but it is crucial toward keeping the Believer rooted, grounded and moving forward in their faith.
Romans 8:10 assures us: "if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God."
Romans 5:17 declares: "But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ."
Declare it:
“I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, because that is who God says I am.”
Remember this truth: If you can work it out on your own, it doesn't require faith.
• We have been reminded again today:
Without faith it is impossible to please God.
The justified will live by faith.
Following after the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace.