<TITLE>05. Par 37-46</TITLE>L-37   In Romans, a very familiar chapter, I want to take a--a few verses here, and about the first two or three verses, two verses, I think it is, and read. And, in this, try to explain It the best that I know how, by the help of the Holy Spirit. Romans, the 12th chapter.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

L-38 I thought that was so beautiful for this group this morning, what you done did. Now, "And," and is a conjunction, as I understand.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

L-39 That's what we all want to do, is, "Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, to do the perfect and acceptable will of God." Now that we have been saved, as we are; and that we have been filled with the Holy Spirit, as we have; now we want the mind that was in Christ, to be in us, that we might be transformed from the natural things of life, and be brought in to do the perfect will of God, by transformation, of God's Spirit, by His Word.
Now my subject is: The Power Of Transformation.

L-40   I may leave my Bible here. Now, it used to be, years ago, when I was a young man like these man, I--I didn't have to set down my Scriptures and--and things when I was studying. But now since I am getting old, why, I carry me a little book. And--and when I get something, why, I jot it down, have to put it on the Scripture. And used to, I just had that line of Scriptures right in my mind, I just come right down.

L-41 But, dear friends, I'm not young like you all, this morning. But I am old, and I have been through many hard battles, see; and, by going through those hard battles, brings you where you are this morning. See? So, I'm sure you understand that. God has put me through it, that my life might open up a way, to say "this is It, see," then you all run over that road. But before me, there was someone opened up the way for me to go. See? And we open up the road, one for the other. And as you see, sometime, an old veteran getting old, and his marks all over him, and as Paul said one time, "I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ." You see? How Timothy looked upon those marks, I guess, with reverence, as he commit it to young Timothy.

L-42   Now, "transforming." I used to work for a Public Service Company, where we had transformers, and to transform. Now the word is, the word means, in itself, something like... To transform, means "something that's been changed, something that's changed from one thing to another."

L-43 And as I want to speak, for the next forty-five minutes or an hour, on--on the transforming, I would like to--to use this text. And I--I may say some things, in here, that seems very strange. And as Brother Leo had just said, "Take It and just study over It, a little while." See, just think of It for a little bit.

L-44   To be transformed is to be "changed and made something different."

L-45 Like a--a tadpole, it's transformed from a tadpole to a frog. See, once, he looked like a catfish, he swims around, he's--he's got a head and his tail, and everything looks just like a--a catfish. Then, after a while, he begins to lose, he loses the tail, and he's--he's transformed from one specie to another.

L-46 I think that's what Paul must have had in mind, when he said, "Be ye transformed by the--by the renewing." Let's see, let me get that right. "And be not conformed," you know what conformed is.
... be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,...


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