The word “transformed” is from the Greek word “metamorphoo,” (to transform or change) and is found only in Romans 12:2 and two of the gospels. In the gospel accounts (Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2), the term is used with regard to the transfiguration of Jesus.<\/p>\n
The story is told of a Christian man who wanted to teach his young daughters about the term transformed and how a Christian is to be inwardly transformed from the world. So, he placed a green garden worm into a jar. Not too long after, the worm spun itself into a cocoon, staying there several days.<\/p>\n
One morning, as the man and his daughters looked into the jar, there was a very beautiful butterfly in place of the ugly worm. The girls were so impressed by his illustration, that they filled the whole house with jars with worms in them.<\/p>\n
When we are baptized into Christ (Gal. 3:26-27), we are transformed or changed from the “old man” of sin (the ugly worm – Romans 6:6) into a “new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV) or a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17; cf. Romans 8:8-9; Gal. 2:20) or a “new man” (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10); i.e., a beautiful butterfly – a Christian (Acts 11:26; cf. 1 Peter 4:14-16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The word “transformed” is from the Greek word “metamorphoo,” (to transform or change) and is found only in Romans 12:2 and two of the gospels. In the gospel accounts (Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2), the term is used with regard to the transfiguration of Jesus. The story is told of a Christian man who wanted to … Continue reading “A Look At The Word “Transformed” – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}