Transformed - Module Three - Session Four

In this session we spend some time connecting the ideas of the spirit with the flesh and the flesh with the spirit. This was done to ensure that the elements of spiritual progress do not become disconnected with earthly problems. If we allow this disconnection then challenges can become temptations rather than trials. In other words, we can shrink rather than grow. So Challenges are going to happen (John 16:33), our job is to make sure that we turn the challenge into a trial, not a temptation. In therapy this is thought of as staying intentional not drifting into victimhood. This helps us to nderstand how to make our 'normal lives' spiritually motivated (Phil 4:13). We also inspired some great sharing from the participants around their experience of transformation, and their struggles with the flesh. Here is a link to the book this course is based on https://amzn.eu/d/1ZI28kt 0:00 Start 0:02 Introduction 2:30 Relating the spirit with the flesh 3:59 The Four principles 11:57 Build the ground floor first! 12:29 Connecting the flesh and the spirit 18:11 What Philippians 4:13 actually means 26:15 sharing from the floor 32:15 Parts are not traits 32:53 Make your challenges trials not temptations 36:50 The difference between trials and temptations 51:30 Connecting spirit and flesh in a way that produces gowth 1:02:18 Discussion from the floor Ask