“The Body of Christ and Transformation”
September 13, 2020 | Bart Tarman | Message and Music
Pastor Bart Tarman delivers the message “The Body of Christ and Transformation”, with music from Music Director Kathleen Sieck and Linda Tarman.
Sermon:
Children’s Story Time
References and Resources
Scripture:
Romans 8:1-2, 31-32, 35-39
1-2 No condemnation now hangs over the head of those who are “in” Jesus Christ. For the new spiritual principle of life “in” Christ lifts me out of the old vicious circle of sin and death.
31-32 If God is for us, who can be against us? He that did not hesitate to spare his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need?
35-36 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat of force of arms? Indeed some of us know the truth of the ancient text: ‘For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter’.
37 No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through him who has proved his love for us.
38-39 I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God’s whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 12:1-2
12 1-2 With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him. Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within.
Ephesians 4:4-7, 14-16
4 Therefore, as a prisoner for the Lord, I encourage you to live as people worthy of the call you received from God.2 Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love, 3 and make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together. 4 You are one body and one spirit, just as God also called you in one hope. 5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 and one God and Father of all, who is over all, through all, and in all. 7 God has given his grace to each one of us measured out by the gift that is given by Christ. 14 As a result, we aren’t supposed to be infants any longer who can be tossed and blown around by every wind that comes from teaching with deceitful scheming and the tricks people play to deliberately mislead others. 15 Instead, by speaking the truth with love, let’s grow in every way into Christ, 16 who is the head. The whole body grows from him, as it is joined and held together by all the supporting ligaments. The body makes itself grow in that it builds itself up with love as each one does its part.
1 Corinthians 12:27
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Lyrics:
New Wine
In the crushing
In the pressing
You are making
New wine
In the soil,
I Now surrender
You are breaking
New ground
So I yield to You and to Your careful hand
When I trust You I don't need to understand
Make me Your vessel
Make me an offering
Make me whatever You want me to be
I came here with nothing
But all You have given me
Jesus, bring new wine out of me
'Cause where there is new wine
There is new power
There is new freedom
And the kingdom is here
I lay down my old flames
To carry Your new fire today
Additional Resources:
Writings:
Snake Skin
Shedding old skin is a slow process
of expanding and releasing,
realizing the old doesn’t fit
the growing newness you sense in yourself.
There is loss and confusion
in coming to terms with how to release the old,
while, mysteriously, the new begins to appear
covering what was raw and exposed.
It is a cooperation rather than a determination;
a gift wrapped in grace
that stretches around you,
enveloping you with the new,
While the old has dropped behind you
somewhere along the roadside
no longer needed.
By Linda Tarman
Notes
Traits of Maturity:
Humility
Self Reflection and the ability to take responsibility for your own actions
Able to Apologize
Ask for Forgiveness
Not Judgemental
Open Minded
Healthy and Intact Relationships
Less Attached to Superficial things/ideas/goals and attached to God, People and Love.