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Romans 12:9-13 | The Christian Walk – Part 1

November 17, 2024 • Harvest OPC

I’d like you to think about yourself when you were in HS. What did you wish you could change about yourself back then? Most of us wished for external things: we wished we were smarter or faster, or prettier or taller. The flaws we noticed about ourselves tended to be external flaws in our appearance or abilities.

Isn’t it interesting, as we grow older, as we mature as a Christian, how we begin to care more about the internal flaws? You start to realize how proud you are, how selfish you can be, how difficult it is for you to truly love people. And you increasingly desire change regarding those things - the internal things.
The great news of the gospel is that this is exactly what God is working to accomplish in us.

We are being transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the words of Hebrews 13:21, God is “working in us that which is pleasing to Him.” Our text this morning gives us wonderful insight into what God is working to produce in our life. This is what God is making us to be.