Transformation is never a product of our strength, our effort, nor our self-discipline. It comes from beholding all Jesus is - which is everything we are not. Jon encourages us to stop looking at all we are not and begin gazing upon all that He is.
Romans 7:7 (NKJV) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:15 (NKJV) 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:18 (NKJV) 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
Romans 7:19, 23 (NKJV) 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24 (NKJV) 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:25a (NKJV) 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Jesus is everything you’re not!
2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (ESV) 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Romans 7:25 (NKJV) 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:16-18 (NKJV) 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Proverbs 24:16 (NKJV) 16 For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Micah 7:8 (NKJV) 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.