Help God! I want to change. Part #2

Want to Change Overview

In this powerful continuation of his series, the pastor of NTC Ministries opens with a foundational truth drawn from Ecclesiastes 3:11: God has set eternity in the hearts of men. Building on Part 1, this message titled Eternity Is in Man’s Hearts unpacks why human beings were created with the capacity and the calling to change. The pastor walks through Genesis 6, highlighting Noah as a man of integrity who took God at His word in the middle of a corrupt and violent generation. He contrasts the herd mentality of the world, driven by five physical senses, with the transformative power available to believers through the incorruptible Word of God. Drawing on Romans 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, and 1 Peter 1:23, the message calls listeners to stop conforming to the patterns of a corrupted world and instead allow their minds to be renewed. A personal testimony about trusting God for a radio station license over seven years illustrates what it looks like to tap into eternity rather than rely on human ability. This sermon is a compelling invitation to stop making excuses, sow the Word of God into your life, and watch transformation take place from the inside out.

Want to Change Outline

• 0:00:00 – Introduction and Series Recap: The pastor revisits Part 1, reminding listeners that God created human beings with the built-in capacity to change, and that maturity begins when excuses stop.
• 0:06:30 – Ecclesiastes 3:11 and Eternity in the Heart: A deep dive into the key verse showing that God has placed eternity inside every human heart, though natural man cannot fully apprehend it without the Spirit of God.
• 0:18:00 – Noah as a Model of Integrity: Genesis 6 is opened to show Noah as the one man in a corrupt and violent world who took God at His word, illustrating what it means to walk with God against the tide.
• 0:29:00 – The Five Gates and How Corruption Enters: The pastor explains how mankind became enslaved to the five physical senses after the Fall, and how these gates allow worldly corruption to enter the mind and life.
• 0:41:00 – Adam, Soil, and What We Sow: An exploration of the Hebrew word adama reveals that man was made like soil, meaning whatever seed is planted determines the harvest, for better or for worse.
• 0:51:00 – Born Again by Incorruptible Seed: 1 Peter 1:23 and 2 Corinthians 5:17 are unpacked to show that the new birth produces a brand-new prototype creation, never before existing, through the Word of God.
• 1:02:00 – Romans 12:1-2 and the Metamorphosis of the Mind: The pastor contrasts conformity with transformation, using the Greek metamorphoo to call believers to a mind renewal that changes marriage, work, family, and destiny.
• 1:12:00 – Personal Testimony of the Radio Station: A seven-year faith journey of praying and thanking God for a radio station license, received against 750 competing applicants, demonstrates tapping into the eternal.
• 1:18:00 – Redeeming the Time and Final Exhortation: Ephesians 5 is invoked as the pastor challenges listeners to redeem corrupted time by sowing the Word daily, refusing idleness, and allowing eternity to flow through their lives.

Scripture References

Ecclesiastes 3:11, Genesis 6:9-13, Psalm 24, Deuteronomy 30:19, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:17, Romans 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 Peter 1:23, James 1:18, Ephesians 5, Galatians 6:7, Revelation 22

Key Takeaways

• God placed eternity inside every human heart, giving every believer the capacity and the calling to rise above the corruption of this world.
• Maturity begins the moment you stop making excuses for your life and start making deliberate, Spirit-led changes.
• Like Noah, taking God at His Word in the middle of a corrupt generation is what positions you for supernatural provision and purpose.
• Your five physical senses are gates through which worldly corruption enters, and submitting them to God through His Word is how transformation happens.
• Because man was formed from adama, the ground, whatever seed you sow into your life determines what you will reap, blessing or bondage.
• The new birth described in 1 Peter 1:23 produces a kanos creation, a prototype never before existing, through the incorruptible seed of the Word.
• Redeeming the time means refusing idleness and conformity, and instead planting the Word daily so that eternity can be expressed through your ordinary life.

Want to Change Notes

Eternity Already Lives Inside You

The central teaching of this message rests on Ecclesiastes 3:11: God has set eternity in the hearts of men. This means the longing every human being feels for something greater than this corrupted world is not accidental. It is by divine design. The pastor points out that natural man cannot fully apprehend this eternity, but the believer who has received the Spirit of God and the mind of Christ now has access to everything God prepared from the foundation of the world. Eternity is not a future destination alone but a present reality waiting to be expressed through surrendered lives.

Noah Shows Us What One Person Can Do

In a world filled with violence and corruption, Noah stood as the single man described by God as just and perfect, meaning he was a man of integrity who would take God at His word. The pastor draws a direct line between Noah’s obedience and the preservation of all life on earth. This is not a distant Old Testament story. It is a pattern for every believer placed in a difficult workplace, a struggling marriage, or a broken community. You are not there because it is easy. You are there to bring life, just as Noah’s faithfulness brought life out of global judgment.

How the Five Senses Become Corruption Gates

When Adam fell, humanity became enslaved to what it could touch, taste, see, hear, and smell. The pastor uses Psalm 24 to show that these five gates must be submitted to God if the King of Glory is to come in and do His transforming work. Corruption does not only come from dramatic sin. It slips in through overheard conversations, misread situations, and passive media consumption. Every time something corrupt enters through a gate it distorts perception, breeds ill will, and diminishes the eternal potential God planted in the heart. Washing those gates daily with the water of the Word is not religious routine but spiritual survival.

The Soil Metaphor and Personal Responsibility

The Hebrew name Adam shares its root with adama, meaning ground or soil. The pastor uses this to drive home personal responsibility. Soil does not determine what grows in it, the seed does. But the condition of the soil determines how powerfully the seed grows. Whatever you sow into your mind and heart through time, relationships, media, and the Word will produce a corresponding harvest. Sowing corruption reaps bondage. Sowing the incorruptible Word of God reaps life and transformation. This is not motivational thinking but the immovable law of seedtime and harvest established by God from creation.

Seven Years of Thanking God for the Impossible

The pastor shares a personal testimony about receiving a radio broadcast license against more than 750 competing applicants, despite having no broadcasting knowledge and no savings. For seven years the ministry simply prayed and thanked God, treating the station as already given. When the license arrived, provision followed naturally. This story illustrates Romans 12:2 in real life: a mind transformed by faith in the eternal does not need to figure everything out first. It simply aligns with what God has already spoken and refuses to let the corruption of doubt or limitation redirect the course.

Transformation Is Not Conformity

Romans 12:2 draws a sharp contrast between two Greek words: suschematizo, to be pressed into the mold of the world like a factory cookie cutter, and metamorphoo, to be transformed from the inside out in a way that has never existed before. The pastor connects this to 2 Corinthians 5:17, where the word new is kanos, meaning a prototype, something brand new in kind. God is not trying to renovate an old version of you. He is producing through the Word a completely new creation that corruption cannot define. Renewing the mind daily through Scripture is the mechanism by which this metamorphosis takes place.

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