Brother David Embry’s memorable sermon yesterday, Sunday, August 10, at Cedar Grove Baptist, focused on “Transformation.”
His use of a butterfly’s life cycle was spot-on relatable, especially for me since my parents are Monarch butterfly aficionados.
Yes, they’re still driving around looking for Milkweed plants and Monarch eggs.
Being a retired English teacher helped me relate to Brother David’s butterfly analogy, too. I’ll just bet you he was a great student in English class.
Transformation is not a single event in a person’s life. It’s a lifelong process. So Brother David used another PowerPoint graphic to illustrate. It was something similar to this:
(from Google Images)
Just as we age physically and mentally, transformation is aging spiritually.
Brother David preached that Christ himself was transformed. We call it the Transfiguration. In the Books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Christ took Peter, James, and John up on a mountain before the resurrection where he changed his appearance.
He is described as transformed into a being of light. His face was like the sun, and His clothes were a spectacular, bright white.
When we become a believer and receive our salvation, our old self dies, and we are reborn into a new life that starts us on the road to transformation
As Brother David recently told me, “Ultimately our desire as Christians should be to become more and more like Christ as we travel through this journey called life.”
Yesterday, Brother David shared this verse from the Book of Romans that explains it further. As believers, our goal is to grow spiritually through transformation and become more in tune with God and His will.
I’m not a theologian, but the older I get the more I understand. I also have learned to appreciate a good sermon, which is what I heard at Cedar Grove Baptist yesterday from Brother David Embry.
If you’re looking for a good sermon, you’re sure to find one at 10:30AM next Sunday at Cedar Grove.
