The Changed Life Of The Christian
Lesson Nine
Introduction
 Disciples Of Jesus Pattern Their
Lives After The Lifestyle And
Teaching Of Jesus.
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This Is What Makes His
Church, The Body Of Christ,
Different From The Rest Of
The World.
The Changed Lifestyle Of The Believer Is A
Testimony To The World And A Glory To God.
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A New Relationship With God
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A New Relationship With God Changes Our View Of Life.
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The Most Important Change
Takes Place When A Believer
Surrenders His Life To Jesus
As Lord And Is Buried with
Christ In Baptism.
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The Relationship With God
Is Brand New Although Many
Lifestyle Changes Need To Follow.
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These Changes Will Continue As You Grow And Mature
As A Christian.
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Paul’s Letter To Rome
• The Apostle Paul Wrote A Letter To
The Saints In Rome, Describing
How Their Relationship With God
Had Been Established By Their
Faith In Christ Jesus.
• He Discussed A New Attitude Of
Peace, Joy, And Hope That Was
Available To These Christians And
To Christians Today.
• He Also Points Out How We Can
Even Look At Hardships And
Suffering Much Differently Than
Before We Knew Him.
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Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through
faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have gained access by
faith into this grace in which we now
stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the
glory of God.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings,
because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his
love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
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“Justified Through Faith”
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We Are “Justified Through Faith.”
Justified Is A Legal Term That Means
“Brought Back”,
 “Made Right.”
 Some Have Defined It As (Just If I'd) Never Sinned.
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When You Put Your Trust In Jesus As Your Only
Atonement For Sin,
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You Are Brought Back Together With God And Made Right
From His Perspective.
All Sin Is Washed Away By The Blood Of Jesus, And God
Remembers Them No More (Hebrews 10:17).
Therefore, Your Past Is Different From What It Once Was.
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It Is Forgiven And Forgotten.
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Our New Relationship With Him
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Our Present Life Is Also Different Due To Our New Relationship
With Him.
A Peace Within Comes From God That Allows You To View Life
From A New Perspective.
It May Be Compared To Putting On A Pair
Of Colored Glasses That Changes The Way
You See Everything.
It Even Changes The Way You Think About Possessions.
If You Belong To Him, Everything Your Own Belongs To Him.
Everything You Have Can Be Seen As A Gift From Him (James
1:17), And How You Use These Gifts Can Glorify Him.
He Has Blessed You With Them So You Can Be A Blessing To
Others (Gen. 12:2).
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A Changed View Of Difficulties
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God Wants You To Also Look At
Problems In A Different Way Than
You Did Before.
The Difficulties Don't Go Away, But
You Are Able To Look At Them In A
New Light.
Now They Can Be Seen As
Challenges That Help You Grow As
You Overcome Them (James1:2-4).
Furthermore, He Provides You The
Strength To Overcome Them.
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View You Troubles as Temporary
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You Are Able To Look At Your Troubles As Being Only
Temporary While You Are On Your Way To Your Eternal Home.
(2 Cor. 4:17)
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Your Suffering Here Is Seen As Bearable
Compared To The Reward That Will Be
Yours In Heaven (Romans 8:18).
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Even When You Are
Persecuted For Your Faith, You
Shouldn’t Be Surprised.
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Jesus Said This Would Happen, And He Told His Followers To
Rejoice When It Does (Matthew 5:11-12).
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We Will Study This More In Lesson Eleven.
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A Changed View of Others
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Your Relationship With
Other People Can Be
Different Than Before,
If You Allow Christ’s
Love To Control You.
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His Love Should
Influence All Other
Relationships.
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Corinthians 5:14-17
14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one
died for all, and therefore all died.
15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for
themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.
Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we
do so no longer.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
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So Why Do We Live?
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We Live For The Purpose Of
Telling Others About Jesus.
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Matthew 28:18-20 Tells How Jesus
Sent The Apostles To Make
Disciples Of All Nations.
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He Wanted Those Disciples To
Do Everything He Commanded
The Apostles To Do.
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That Includes You!
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Your New Purpose
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Your New Purpose Is To Go And Share
The Message Of Jesus With Everyone
In Your World.
We See An Example Of This In Mark
5:17-20, The Story Of A Man Who Was
Possessed By Demons.
Jesus Cast The Demons Out Of The Man Who Then Wanted To
Go With Jesus, But Jesus Would Not Allow Him To Do So.
Jesus Encouraged Him To Go Back Into His Village And Tell
Others What Was Done For Him.
Now That You Have A New Relationship With God, Go And
Tell Others What He Has Done For You.
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1 Peter 2:9
“But you are a
chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people
belonging to God,
that you may declare
the praises of him
who called you out
of darkness into his
wonderful light.”
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Be Concerned For The Souls Of Others
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As You Become More Like
Him, You Should Be As
Concerned For The Souls
Of Others As He Is And
Share The Message Of His
Love With Them.
Can You Think Of People
In Your World Who Need
To Know Him And
Experience The Peace, Joy,
And Hope That Only He
Provides?
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Transformed Life
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Paul Reminds The Christians In
Rome That They Have Put Their
Lives On God’s Alter As A
Living Sacrifice.
You Too Must Think Of Yourself
In This Way.
You Now Live For Him And His
Purpose.
Your Whole Life Should Be A
Worship To God – To Adore,
Glorify, Honor, And Praise Him.
(Eph. 1:12)
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Make A List
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Make A List Of Ten People That You
Will Pray For Every Day.
You Might Want To Think Of This As
Your Ten Most Wanted List.
Ask God To Help You See
Opportunities To Share The Message
Of His Love.
Pray That God Will Give You The
Courage To Do So.
Pray That God Will Open Their Hearts
To Be Receptive.
Christ’s Love In You Should Become
The Major Theme Of Your Life.
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Serving Others
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Your Reason For Living Is
Completely Changed:
You Now Serve God By
Serving Others.
He Expects You To Do So
(Ezekiel 3:16-21), And You
Will Be Held Accountable
For Doing This (Matthew
25:31-46).
You Serve God By Telling
The Message Of His Love
And Grace To The People
In Your World.
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God Wants Us To Be Like Him
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God Wants His
Children To Be Like
Him.
He Demonstrated A
Greater Love For You
Than For Himself
When He Sent Jesus So
You Could Be Saved.
He Wants Us To Think
Like Him.
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Philippians 2:3-5
3 Do nothing out of selfish
ambition or vain conceit, but
in humility consider others
better than yourselves.
4 Each of you should look not
only to your own interests,
but also to the interests of
others.
5 Your attitude should be the
same as that of Christ Jesus:
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The Transformed Life
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Paul Reminds The Christians
In Rome That They Have Put
Their Lives On God’s Altar As
A Living Sacrifice.
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You Too Must Think of Yourself In This Way.
You Now Live For Him And His Purpose.
Your Whole Life Should Be A Worship To
God –To Adore, Glorify, Honor, And Praise
Him. (Eph. 1:12)
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Romans 12:1-2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy,
to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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You Must Change
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Transformation Will Not Happen
If You Continue To Be
Like The World Around
You.
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You Must Change The
Way You Think And Act.
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The Changes You Make
Will Be A Clear Statement To Your World
About God’s Will For Them.
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You Can Be A Light
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You Can Be A Light
To Your World.
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When They See The
Good Things You Do,
They Will See God’s
Character In You And
Give Praise And Glory
To Him (Mat. 5 14-16)
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1 Peter 2:11-12
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the
world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your
soul.
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they
accuse you of doing wrong, they
may see your good deeds and
glorify God on the day he visits
us.
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The Power To Change
• Have You Ever Tried To
Change Your Habits Only To Go
Back To Them Again?
• We Fail Because We Try To
Change On Our Own.
• But Now You Have Received
God’s Spirit To Live In You.
• He Empowers Us To Live
Changed Lives.
• God Gave You His Spirit When
You Obeyed Him (Acts 2:38;
5:32)
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God’s Spirit Dwells in You
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Since Your Obedience, God
Has Made You The
Dwelling Place Of His
Spirit (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19).
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The Spirit Is The Seal And
Guarantee Of Your
Inheritance (Eph. 1:13), And
He Is Our Teacher And Our
Guide (John 14:16-17, 26).
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Romans 8:5-14
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that
nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds
set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind
controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It
does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in
you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to
Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit
is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to
live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but
if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because
those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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God’s Spirit In You
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When God’s Spirit Lives In You,
You Are Able To Live Differently
From The Rest Of The World.
He Provides The Power To Do So.
There Is No Limit In What You
Are Able To Do With The Power
He Provides.
You Cannot Even Imagine What
He Might Be Able To Do Through
You.
You Are Now Tapped Into A
Tremendous Resource Of Great
Power To Change Your Life
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Ephesians 3:20-21
“Now to him who is able to
do immeasurably more than
all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at
work within us, to him be glory in
the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations, for
ever and ever! Amen”.
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Bearing Fruit
 When God’s Spirit Is Living In You,
Your Life Should Bear The Fruit Of
His Spirit.
 The Power Available Through His
Spirit Will Help You Overcome The
Acts Of The Sinful Nature
(Galatians 5:16-26), And To Have A New
Nature, One Like Christ’s.
 Look Carefully At The New Characteristics His Spirit
Enables You To Have.
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Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol. Against such things there
is no law”.
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Paul’s Encouragement
 In Many Of Paul’s Letters
He Encourages Disciples
To Put Off Their Old Nature
And To Put On The New
Nature Of Jesus Christ.
 In Each Case, Paul Was Addressing Baptized
Believers.
 They Already Possessed The Spirit Of God, But
Paul Was Reminding Them That They Still Had
Many Changes To Make In Their Lives.
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Ephesians 4:22-24
“You were taught, with
regard to your former way
of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful
desires; to be made new in the
attitude of your minds; and to put on
the new self, created to be like God in
true righteousness and holiness”.
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Colossians 3:5-14
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual
immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you
must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice,
slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its
practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian,
Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Therefore, as God's
chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have
against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these
virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity”.
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Love, The Most Important Factor
 Paul Says That Love Is The Most Important
Factor.
 If You Really Love
Other People, You Will
Not Mistreat, Misuse, Or
Offend Them By Doing
Ungodly Things.
 Paul Says Love Binds Everything Together In
Perfect Unity.
 Love Should Be The New Theme Of Your Life.
 Paul Reminds These Christians That Changes
Must Continue To Take Place As Long As They
Live.
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1 Peter 4:3-4
(Contemporary English Version)
“You have already lived long enough like
people who don’t know God. You were
immoral and followed your evil desires.
You went around drinking and
partying and carrying on.
In fact, you even worshiped
disgusting idols. Now your
former friends wonder why you
have stopped running around
with them and they curse you
for it.”
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When You Fall Again
Some Fail To Make An Initial Commitment
To Jesus Because They Are
Afraid They Will Not Be Able
To Keep It Perfectly.
That Is A Wrong Decision To Make.
No One Is Able To Walk Perfectly
Pure And Holy After Baptism.
We All Need The Constant Cleansing That
Comes From God Through Jesus Christ.
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1 John 1:7-2:1
“But if we walk in the light, as he is
in the light, we have fellowship with
one another, and the blood of Jesus,
his Son, purifies us from all sin.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness.
If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a
liar and his word has no place in our lives.
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not
sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to
the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous
One”.
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Confess Your Sins
He Wants You To Admit Or Confess Your
Sins To Him And Rely Constantly
On His Cleansing.
So When You Fall He Wants You
To Get Back Up, Call On Him In
Prayer, And Move Forward In Your
Transformation Process.
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Conclusion (To Chapter Nine)
 Some Think They Cannot Become Christians Until
Changes In Lifestyle Have Already Been Made.
 What They Are Really Saying Is They Think They
Can Make Those Changes By Themselves.
 God Wants You To Surrender Your Life Over To The
Lordship Of Jesus Christ.
 With The Help Of The Holy Spirit, You Will Begin To
Live A Life Of Holiness And Purity That Will Glorify
God.
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Conclusion (continued)
 He Will Keep You Clean As Promised, Even
When You Fall.
 You, Too, Can Be One Of
His Disciples.
 You Can Begin To Live Your
Life With A Whole New
Purpose Empowered By His Spirit And Cleansed
By His Blood.
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The End Of Lesson Nine
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