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Remodeling Your Life- God's Transforming Power

Jim Ayer

1- Celestial Plan

2- Born Again

3- Second Chances

4- Danger to Safety

5- Revival

6- View From Above

7- Heavenly-minded

8- Are You Tempted?

9- Becoming Fireproof

10- Faithful Abiding

11- Pressing Together

12- Becoming New

Well, we've examined the samples and the lab results are conclusive.

I'm sorry to tell you, but it's bad news.

The infection is going to be fatal unless drastic measures are taken.

You see, there is a cure, but we must act immediately.

It's time to join your guide, Jim Ayer, for an exciting 12-episode journey into remodeling your life.

You're going to discover that God's transforming power is real, and he's ready to provide that power to you.

Now here's your guide, Jim Ayer, to take you on the journey of a lifetime, an amazing and dynamic experience with God.

You know, many church members believe that they have immunity to the sin gene, that It really doesn't affect them.

They think that simply being a member of a church inoculates them from the consequences of this deadly disease.

We're all infected and there's only 1 cure, the great physician Jesus Christ.

Jesus told 1 patient that the cure was to be born again.

You see, our lives must be completely remodeled, overhauled, changed, transformed.

You see, we must allow the master craftsman entrance into our home to tear down and get rid of the old, rotten, destructive material and replace it with the new heavenly material, God's Word.

But many people have a very different idea.

They wanna hang on to the old wood and rewrite the manual.

They wanna shape and fit Jesus into their own desires and their own perceived needs.

Are you guilty of attempting to shape Jesus into your own image?

You're a homeowner, and you decide the home needs a lot of improvements.

Next, you decide to remodel it on your own.

But you have little to no experience in the building trade.

You do, however, have great pride in your ability to handle it.

You watch them do it all the time on television.

Well, let's put some boards here, let's put some boards there.

We'll do a little texture here, a little tape there, and sure, you can manage it.

Oh, and the marble floors and the granite countertops?

Well, it took longer than you thought now, but you know, the job looks really good.

You've done it and you're so happy with yourself.

It's a pretty good job if you do say so yourself.

Some years later, you decide to sell your home so you can call a real estate agent and you put it on the market.

You don't say a word about your remodeling job and your expertise but you allow them to go through the house take it all in because you've got such pride.

The next day the agent comes back with a price and the listing papers well your expectations are great but he shares the price and man it's not what you thought it was going to be.

And then the agent pauses, and she says, Well, it's very evident that the quality of the workmanship is tacky, and in many areas, it's just really lacking.

Do you know if the home was remodeled by an owner builder?

I've toured many homes over the years, and it's pretty easy to see which jobs work, the non-professional jobs, by simply looking at their works.

If you want the remodeling job to turn out right, you need a craftsman who knows what they're doing.

But that means admitting all your own inadequacies.

Let's transition to the spiritual realm because the dynamics are really the same.

In your own mind you're great and you think everyone should see things the way you do.

Well as a matter of fact that's how it was for James and John, the disciples of Jesus.

In 1 town, they didn't put out the welcome map for the disciples, so they wanted to call fire down from heaven and consume it.

They must be punished for their disrespect to their Lord, they thought.

Note, they were really thinking about their own feelings at that point.

And in their mind, they just knew that Jesus felt the same way.

Jesus had to break the news to them that they were way off base.

See his character was far removed from their idea of who he should be.

I've called myself a Christian for many years and I dressed the part, I acted the part, I even preached the part.

But I was not much different than James and John.

If I was good enough I would no longer infect others.

Yeah, well anybody I came in contact with, at least that's what I thought.

My attitude was that I loved Jesus, and he was a wonderful Lord, but the thing is, I had my own idea what the word Lord meant, and it certainly didn't mean Lord of my life.

No, I envisioned something a little more along the lines of, you know, a general friendship.

I put my money in the offering plate, and he blessed me for doing it.

Well, I got all the benefits of the relationship with no potential downside, like needing to turn over my life decisions to Him and allow Him to fully control me.

Now, that would not have been the God I grew up to know and love.

Imagine giving God complete control of your life, 100% to do exactly what He wants us to do in your life.

In my opinion, many of Christianity, the whole idea to surrender everything just seemed to me and seems probably to many people a little over the top.

David Platt in his book Radical says quote we're starting to redefine Christianity we're giving into the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of the Jesus we're more comfortable with.

But you and I realize what we're doing at this point, we're molding Jesus into our image.

He's beginning to look a lot like us because after all that is whom we are most comfortable with and the danger now is that when we gather in our church buildings to sing and lift up our hands and worship We may not actually be worshipping the Jesus of the Bible.

Instead, we may be worshipping ourselves." Could this be the reason so many non-Christians look at the church, look at us and say, if that's Christianity, I want nothing to do with it.

When this happens, the devil could not be happy.

Our own actions have destroyed the witness of the gospel long ago.

Maybe it's time to take a look into the mirror and see who's looking back.

Now's your opportunity to purchase Jim Ayers' entire transformation package at 1 low price.

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In retrospect, I had to ask myself, what happened?

What was the reason I didn't want to fully give God control of my life?

Well, it was really quite simple, actually.

Oh, I'd certainly had my moments, but over time those moments became fewer and farther between.

Well, with God, it's all about continuity of commitment, a life direction.

It's a little like this pathway I'm walking on today.

When Jesus speaks to you and you decide to answer the call, you turn and you go the opposite direction.

You see, you're no longer walking in the old direction, and you don't run back and forth on the path each day trying to figure out a new path.

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