Mudança
A mudança é constante na vida, mas Deus é imutável. A Bíblia nos ensina a abraçar a transformação espiritual enquanto confiamos no Deus que é o mesmo ontem, hoje e sempre.
Deus é imutável
Jesus Cristo é o mesmo ontem, hoje e para sempre. Deus não muda — Ele é a rocha firme em meio às mudanças constantes da vida.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
For I am the Lord, I don’t change, and you haven’t stopped being descendants of Jacob.
All that’s good, every perfect gift, is from above, and comes down from the Father who made heaven’s lights. Unlike them he doesn’t change—he doesn’t vary or cause shadows.
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my teachings will not.
Transformação em Cristo
Se alguém está em Cristo, é nova criação. Somos transformados de glória em glória à imagem do Senhor pelo poder do Espírito.
That’s why anyone who is in Christ is a new being—what was old is gone, the new has come!
So all of us, with our faces unveiled, see and reflect the glory of the Lord as in a mirror. We are being transformed into the same mirror image, whose glory grows brighter and brighter. This is what the Lord the Spirit does.
Don’t follow the ways of this world; instead be transformed by the spiritual renewal of your mind so you can demonstrate what God’s will really is—good, pleasing, and perfect.
My friends, we are already God’s children; however what we shall become hasn’t been revealed just yet. But we do know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.
He will re-create our defective human bodies so that they will be made like his glorious body using the power by which he brings everything under his control.
Listen, I’m going to reveal a mystery! Not all of us will die—but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. The trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised never to die again, and we will be changed.
Arrependimento como mudança
Arrependei-vos, pois, e convertei-vos. O arrependimento é a mudança mais radical — da morte para a vida, do pecado para a graça.
Show by what you do that you have truly repented,
"No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.
Now repent, and change your ways, that your sins can be wiped away, so the Lord can send opportunities for you to heal and recover,
Tempos e ciclos
Para tudo há uma estação e um tempo para cada propósito debaixo do céu. Deus faz novas todas as coisas no tempo certo.
Everything has its own time—a time for all that happens here:
People come, and people go, but the earth lasts forever! The sun comes up, and the sun goes down, and then rushes to its place to rise again. The wind blows south, and then turns to the north. Round and round it spins, finally coming full circle. Streams all flow into the sea, but the sea never becomes full. The streams return to the place from where they came.
Everything that was will continue to be; everything that has been done will be done again. Nothing new ever happens here. There’s nothing anyone can point to and say, "Look! Here’s something new." In fact it’s been around for ages, long before our time.
Just look at something new I’m going to do now! In fact it’s started already. Can’t you see it? Yes, I’m making a way through the wilderness, rivers in the desert!
Above all you should know that derisive people will come in the last days, full of mockery and following their own evil desires. "So what happened to this coming he promised?" they ask. "Right from the time our ancestors died, everything’s continued as it always has, ever since creation began." But they deliberately ignore the fact that by God’s command the heavens were created long ago. The earth came into existence from the water, and was surrounded by water. It was through water that the world that then existed was destroyed—through being flooded by water. But by means of that same divine command the heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved for destruction by fire at the day of judgment when the wicked will be destroyed.