Message Title: What Does God Want from Me?
Message Text: Romans 8:29-30
Message Truth: Gods perfect will is your transformation into Christlikeness.
Two Key Terms to Understand
- Foreknowledge: God knows His people in advance from eternity past, establishing a personal relationship before time began.
- Predestination: God marks believers out beforehand to be conformed to the exact image of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Three Truths About Transformation:
“May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi”
Ancient Jewish Blessing
1.Be with Jesus
2.Become Like Him
3.Do as He did
The Goal is to keep moving inward…Jesus had different types of people who followed him:
- Crowds – just observed from the outside
- Masses – received the ministry of Jesus
- 70 followed and served 2×2
- 12 Disciples
- 3 – Peter James and John
- 1 Beloved Disciple
Key Takeaway: The Gospel is not about following good advice its following a King.