Change?



I’m sure you know many of jokes about changing lightbulbs.  For example, “How many Harvard students does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one to hold it while the world revolves around him.”  There’s even one for us: “How many Baptists does it take to change a lightbulb….””

CHANGE??? (It’s not in our vocabulary.)

Most people don’t like change on some level.  But the world is always changing…and that’s a good thing.  If change weren’t possible we’d be stuck in our current miseries.  Change, for the Christian, is normal and expected as we should becoming more and more like Christ.  Change is our hope: “When Christ appears, we shall be like him…” (I John 3:2).

The only thing that doesn’t change is God himself.  A wise theologian once said, ““All that God is He has always been, and all that He has been and is He will ever be.”  God’s steadfastness without change is called his immutability.  God will never change in his love toward you and me.

Here is the truth and good news about change:  God’s immutability is our security; Change is our hope.  We’ll unpack all of that this morning.

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