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| Sheila Walsh: Living with Purpose | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 19, 2026
- So how do we start living a tran life?
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- Well, number one, start at the b
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- Read god's word every day.
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- Number two.
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- Pray.
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- Talk to god about everything.
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- Number three, put his word into by loving others.
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- For me, the best news is this.
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- We are not left alone in this jo
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- The holy spirit longs to help us live a transformed li
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- I think we're all familiar with that we say as followers of chri
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- But i wonder if we actually know they mean or how to actually liv
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- So let me ask you, what does it actually mean to live a transfor
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- I mean, what does that even look
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- It has to mean more than reading your bible and
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- Church on sunday, and that's mor joining a club or a gym.
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- The word transformed indicates
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- Something that was once one way and is becoming something else.
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- It speaks of a journey.
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- Depending on how old you were when you gave your life to chris
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- The word transformed might carry a different weight.
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- Like i gave my life to christ when i was 11 years old,
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- And at that age, it was more to do with honoring
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- Reading my bible, and being part of our church com
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- For those who came to christ lat in life,
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- Transformation can be a much more drastic shift
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- I received a letter from a woman who told me that she had just re
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- Given her life to christ, and wo if it was still okay
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- To sleep with her boyfriend if they prayed together first.
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- Honestly, i love that question.
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- I could tell from the rest of he
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- That following christ was a whole new world for
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- So asking those kinds of questio was amazing.
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- She genuinely wanted to know what following jesus should look
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- Most of us get to know the big s
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- We know that we shouldn't murder or steal or lie.
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- What about the not so obvious st that could be holding us
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- Back from becoming more like jes
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- Let me give you a few practical
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- Number one,
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- How do we determine what we watch on te
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- What do we watch when no one else is with us?
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- With a multitude of streaming se coming into our homes, it's easi
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- To live one way and public and a you know, behind closed doors.
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- A friend recently confided in me that she'd started
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- To watch online porn and felt overwhelmed by gui
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- But it'd been just so easy to ac
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- She told me
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- It started in a moment of loneli and now she felt caught in a tra
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- I'd love that she shared that wi
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- Too often we hide our real strug from one another,
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- Forgetting that we are not that
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- Jesus is what we watch.
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- What we listen to impacts us.
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- It can bring us closer to jesus of drag us down.
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- Number two, what about gossip?
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- What about the way we talk every
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- That doesn't always feel as weig as some other things,
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- But there's a tongue could do so much damage.
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- The wise king solomon wrote in p chapter 18, verse
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- 21, the tongue can bring death o
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- Those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
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- Can be very tempting to get drag into conversations about someone
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- Particularly when we feel we hav something new to add to the fire
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- But you and i are called to live differently.
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- We're called to build each other not tear each other down.
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- In galatians 513, paul reminds u
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- For you have been called to live and freedom, my brothers and sis
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- But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature.
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- Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
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- Gossip is divisive and poisonous
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- Number three what about what you put in your
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- You might struggle with food.
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- You know too much or too little.
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- Perhaps you wrestle with alcohol or with medication.
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- There's so many things that we don't tal
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- Because we don't want to be judg by others.
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- And i get that.
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- Have to be careful who you choose to confide in.
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- But if the purpose of our lives is to become more like jesus,
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- Then we need each other.
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- In james chapter one, he writes, but don't just listen to god's w
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- You must do what it says.
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- Otherwise you're only fooling yo
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- Here's how the believer's bible commentary unpacks that te
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- It is not enough to receive the implanted word.
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- We must obey it.
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- There is no virtue in possessing or even in reading a literature.
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- There must be a deep desire to h god speaking to us,
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- And an unquestioning willingness to do whatever he says.
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- We must translate the bible into
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- The word must become flesh in ou
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- So how do we start living a tran life?
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- Well, number one, start at the b
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- Read god's word every day.
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- Number two.
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- Pray.
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- Talk to god about everything.
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- Number three, put his word into by loving others.
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- For me, the best news is this.
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- We are not left alone in this jo
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- The holy spirit longs to help us live a transformed li
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- Let's pray.
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- O holy spirit, i want to thank you so m
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- We come in jesus name.
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- And father, i just want to thank that you have given us the gift
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- Of the holy spirit.
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- That when we lack wisdom, you've we get to ask and that you will
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- That.
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- So, lord, teach us what it looks to live a transformed life.
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- To be careful what we take in.
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- To be careful what we say.
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- To be careful not to be engaged in things that tear other people
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- Lord,
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- We pray for this week as every s you would teach us
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- Even one simple lesson
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- Of how to live a life that bring you more honor.
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- That wherever we go, we go in yo
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- And because of that, we make a d
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- In jesus name,
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- Amen.
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