[Romans 12:2 And DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…]

We have seen after salvation, God commands every believer to go thro a transformation process. In our opening verse, we see for Transformation to take place, the 1st step is to stop conforming to the world. To conform is to take the same form or shape. God instructs us as His children never to take the form of this world. We must never talk the way they talk, never put on the way they do, never listen to what they listen to, never be entertained by what entertains them etc. Why does God give us this instruction? 1)Because the world is being influenced by the spirit of the world, which is Satan’s spirit. Do they know? No they don’t. The lifestyle, entertainment, fashions & trends of the world are inspired by Satan. Ephesians 2:2 says *”… according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air..”* So the world is on a course & that course is being inspired by the Prince of the air, who is Satan. So when we follow the trends of the world, we are following Satan! 2)We should not follow the world because the world is perishing. 1 John 2:17 says *”.. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it..”* The world is passing away. You look at the lifestyle people are embracing, if you have wisdom u will know many will not live for long. Alcohol, smoking, immorality, adultery – all these have already destroyed many lives. Yet many are being deceived into such. God saved us from the world bcoz it is perishing, He saved us so that we should not perish with it. So If we continue following their lifestyle, we will still perish with the world. This is why many in the church go thru exactly what the world goes thru. So today, look at your life & radically cut of any conformity to the world, or else you will never come to your full destiny in God.