TRANSFORMED FROM THE INSIDE OUT !

TRANSFORMED FROM THE INSIDE OUT ! From the traditional standpoint many dear saints, or trying to transform from the outside in. One of the best pictures of what happens to our spirits at the new birth is found in the Genesis account of the creation of Adam, when God breathed divine life into him by saying, "Man, the in our image, after our likeness; have dominion over all the earth and everything in it." When that WORD went into Adam, he lit up with the very life of God Himself. He was Love just like God is Love. He was Light just like God is Light. Adam, like God, was a fire from the loins up and a fire from the loins down (Ezekiel 1:26-27). The very lightning of God's glory radiated out of him. If you look at God and Adam standing together, you wouldn't be able to tell one from the other because they were both covered in the same fire. It's thrilling just to think about it. But what's even more thrilling is the same thing happen to us when we were born again ! The very Spirit of Almighty God breathed new life into us. He lit up our inner man which is referred to as the hidden man of the heart with Himself the same way He lit up Adam in the beginning. He activated in our beings the very same words he spoke it the beginning in the Garden: "Man, be in Our image, and have dominion !" If you could look inside yourself it your spirit right now, you'd be absolutely stunned because what you'd see is all the attributes of God. This doesn't happen because you joined what is called church: You Must Be Born Again ! You'd see love, joy, peace, patience, resurrection power and glory. You'd realized that just as you were born naturally with the physical DNA of your parents, you have been born again with the spiritual DNA genetics of God. Those attributes aren't yet fully developed and mature, but they are all there. Much like a baby at birth has all the DNA of the physical parts----bones, organs and muscles--- his parents have, but on a smaller scale, you already have within you everything you need to grow up and become (on the inside and outside ) just like Jesus. Your inner man is Love just as He is Love. Your spirit is ablaze with the fiery light of His glory. You are Light just as He is Light. "Brother Lewis, surely your're exaggerating." No, I'm not. THE WORD says it very plainly. It tells us that "God Is Light," and those who have been re-created in His image are light, too. The Bible says it over and over again: however, for the most part many believers do not believe the Bible. "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in THE LORD. Walk as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8), new King James version. "You are all the children of light..." (1 Thessalonians 5:5). "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). "We walk in the light, as he is in the light..." (1 John 1:7). "... You shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15). "Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light" (Romans 13:12). "As he [Jesus] is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17).