He Changed Me!

Psalm 22:30-31 NIV
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it! 

WHAT GOD DOES flows from WHO GOD IS.

Leviticus 20:7-8 ESV
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.Keep my statutes and do them; I am [Jehovah M’Kaddesh] the Lord who sanctifies you.

JEHOVAH M’KADDESH: Mekoddishkem – “I am the Lord who SANCTIFIES you!”  

SANCTIFIED: different, clean, holy, changed, set apart, and completely dedicated to God       

Leviticus 20:23-26 ESV
And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has SEPARATED you from the peoples... You shall be HOLY to me, for I the Lord am HOLY and have SEPARATED you from the peoples, THAT YOU SHOULD BE MINE.           

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such WERE some of you. But you were washed, you were SANCTIFIED, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.           

Romans 8:29-30 ESV
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

JUSTIFICATION 
GLORIFICATION
SANCTIFICATION 

SALVATION gets YOU into HEAVEN.  SANCTIFICATION gets HEAVEN into YOU.

Leviticus 20:7-8 ESV
CONSECRATE YOURSELVES, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.Keep my statutes and do them; I am [Jehovah M’Kaddesh] the Lord who sanctifies you.

James 4:4 NLT
Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Matthew 28:18-20 NIV
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,BAPTIZING THEM in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...”

Romans 6:3-4 NIV
Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his DEATH? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a NEW LIFE. 

WHO should be baptized?
Those who have made a conscious decision to follow Jesus and are ready for Him to change you.

Maybe you made a decision to follow Jesus today, or maybe you’re curious what life with Him is all about. Wherever you are on your journey, we invite you to share with us so we can help you discover your next step.