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Key Points of Lesson 6: Healing Your Damaged Emotions - Transformation of Your Will - Practical Living From Your True Identity
Lesson 6 focuses on the culmination of God's transformation process, emphasizing how believers can experience healing and practical changes in daily life by living from their true identity in Christ. It is structured across five days, covering emotional healing, will transformation, behavioral changes, faith-to-experience progression, and real-life applications/stories. Here's a summarized breakdown using tables for clarity where effective:
#### Day 1: Transformation of Damaged Emotions and the Will
- **Emotional Transformation**: As the mind is renewed to believe truth (e.g., from "I am selfish" to "I am selfless"), damaged emotions (e.g., feeling self-sufficient reinforcing false beliefs) progressively align with truth. Emotions don't vanish entirely but lose power; you no longer have to yield to them.
- **The Emotional Swing**: Pre-transformation emotions fluctuate wildly (negative to positive based on circumstances). Post-transformation, they stabilize and line up with truth, reducing intensity over time.
- **Will Transformation**: The will shifts from choosing fleshly behaviors (driven by false beliefs and damaged emotions) to Christ-like behaviors. This results in practical choices rooted in truth, leading to freedom from sinful patterns.
| Component | Pre-Transformation | Post-Transformation |
|-----------|--------------------|---------------------|
| **Mind** | Believes false beliefs | Renewed to truth (Romans 12:2) |
| **Emotions** | Damaged and reinforcing lies | Healed and aligning with truth (Psalm 147:3) |
| **Will** | Chooses fleshly behaviors | Chooses based on truth (John 8:32) |
| **Behaviors** | Fleshly (e.g., anger, selfishness) | Christ-like (e.g., love, forgiveness) (2 Corinthians 3:18) |
#### Day 2: Transformation Results in Christ-Like Behaviors
- **Replacement of Behaviors**: Fleshly behaviors (e.g., angry, demanding, unforgiving) are progressively replaced by Christ-like ones (e.g., unconditional love, patience, forgiveness, humility, security).
- **Progressive Nature**: Change is gradual; start with faith, leading to evident shifts others notice.
- **Impact**: Living from true identity not only transforms you personally but positively affects relationships, as behaviors become loving, sacrificial, and compassionate.
Examples of Christ-Like Behaviors:
- Unconditional Loving, Patient, Forgiving, Humble, Secure, Adequate, Wise, Joyful, Peaceful, Gentle, Compassionate, Faithful, Good.
#### Day 3: Final Key Truths in Experiencing True Identity
- **Faith to Experience**: Faith is persuasion and expectation that God will fulfill promises (Hebrews 11:1). Start "faithing it" (believing without feeling), leading to experiential changes in mind, emotions, and will.
- **God's Timetable**: Unknown to encourage faith; persist despite no immediate feelings.
- **Walls of Resistance**: Encounter doubt, discouragement, impatience—overcome by relying on Holy Spirit's power to break them down and continue steps of faith.
- **Consequences of Quitting**: Reverts to false beliefs, fleshly behaviors, bondage, and hardened heart. Key: Each faith step frees you and transforms you.
#### Day 4: The Transformation of Your Soul
- **Soul Summary**: Mind renewed, emotions transformed, will choosing truth, behaviors Christ-like—leading to experiencing true identity characteristics (e.g., love, righteousness, humility) in the soul.
- **Line Analogy**: Progressive alignment from renewal to behaviors.
- **Eventual Result**: Think, feel, and choose from truth, growing Christ-confidence.
#### Day 5: Practical Living and Transformed Lives Stories
- **Daily Applications**:
- **Marriage/Relationships**: Unconditional love, value others beyond flesh, acceptance (unrejectable), forgiveness (first to repent), humility/selflessness.
- **Workplace**: Security/peace (no stress ownership), identity/value not in job/promotions.
- **Parenting**: Patience (vs. frustration/anger), teach kids their identity (discipline behavior, not person), unconditional love.
- **Transformed Lives**: Real stories illustrate freedom:
- Married man freed from pornography, marriage restored.
- Angry business owner becomes loving, transforming workplace.
- Abused woman healed, forgives abusers.
- Pastor heals from sexual abuse anger, becomes loving shepherd.
- Man forgives drunk driver who killed fiancée, loves God/others deeply.
Overall Theme: Transformation is supernatural (Ephesians 3:20), progressive, and impacts personal life and others. Persist in faith; the Holy Spirit does the work, leading to freedom and Christ-likeness.
