This is the GVM version. This is the accurate version. Because I translated it myself and I will gladly argue with any Greek scholar who disagrees with me because I believe this is what the Greek says.

Mark 11 reading from verse 23. Let me tell you something, any person who says to this mountain be removed and be thrown into the sea and does not waver in doubt in their heart, but is fully persuaded that those things that they are saying are happening for them, they will have whatever they say. Because of this I'm telling you, no matter what you are asking for yourself, while you are praying, commit yourself to taking it and it'll happen.

Second passage is in the book of Colossians and it relates very closely to what I'm going to try and share today. And this too is a new translation which you will find to be very different in your original. But as I look to the Lord and as I looked into the Greek, I believe that this is an accurate translation.

Colossians chapter 3 and reading from verse 9. Do not lie to one another since you have discarded the old worn-out you with its bad practices and have clothed yourself with the brand new you which is continually being transformed into an experiential knowledge under the influence of the image that has been created. We covered a lot of ground in our seminar that we had recently, but it's a huge subject. So we could only take the highlights because we only had so many meetings.

And as we came to the end of the seminar and took a bit of a break and waited on the Lord, I continued to meditate on the subject. God began to show me some new things. So I felt it was necessary that we add one more teaching to this series.

This will be added to the seminar course for you to go and watch. But we're also going to make this one available to the public because it's a Sunday meeting and perhaps those who watch this will be inspired to go and watch the rest of the seminar as well. Now most of you had an experience with God during the seminar and the Lord touched you in some way and healed some of the hurts and problems in your life.

And perhaps you thought this is wonderful. At last I am healed. But within a few days a couple of things began to surface.

Maybe it took longer than a few days. Perhaps you faced a few conflicts and a few things that you thought shouldn't be there anymore, but they are still there. It's been my experience and I was the teacher.

You see, we had to cover the most important source of hurts of the past in the seminar and probably most of the hurts that take place in our lives take place in the home and in context of our mother and our father relationship. And so that's why we zeroed in on that in the first meeting and we got you to deal with those hurts and wave goodbye to mom and dad and to let go of the past. But you see not all of the hurts that happen in our lives happen in the home.

There's a lot of things that happen outside of the home and when we need healing there is an experience which begins to build up and I've likened it as I described it. A template is formed and it becomes like a chain in our lives. There's an experience that we have which is the first link in a chain and as we have similar experiences later in life that chain begins to build and it creates in us an area of weakness, an area of difficulty and hurts and something that periodically would trigger bad feelings in us unexpectedly.

Okay, so we're not looking just at an era. We try to cover an entire era in the home and in our relationship with mother and father, but you see they were probably also isolated incidents that you haven't thought about. And as you begin to experience some more of these same symptoms and conflicts and you wonder but wasn't I healed? There's an area that actually you didn't submit to the Lord for healing because you weren't aware of it.

There was a chain there that was not addressed. Okay, and so sometimes we've got to go back and we can have a fresh healing just in that area alone. Now, sometimes it takes a while for us to become aware that we have these problems in our lives.

And so that we may have removed the big things. There's lots of small little things there still that affect us as we go through this life. There are other areas of hurts that did not involve your mom and dad.

For example, you may have had bad experiences with other relatives. Perhaps with grandparents. Many children at times are given to the grandparents to take care of them.

And grandparents can inflict hurts on children as well. Sometimes we're under the care of aunts or uncles. Sometimes with cousins.

There are other relatives in our lives that may have caused hurts in our lives which had nothing to do with the mother and father. And those may need to be addressed separately. You may have had bad experiences with siblings.

Now, depending on where you were in the chain of siblings, you're probably being subjected to very different things in life. For example, if you are the oldest child, there's a particular set of problems that the oldest child faces. Particularly if your parents were very young when you were born.

They were ignorant. They were untaught. They didn't know how to handle children.

And you were the guinea pig. You were the experiment that they practiced on and messed up badly. And now, later in life, you're suffering the effects of your parents who didn't know what to do with you because they were still young and inexperienced.

We're not looking past blame here. We're just looking at facts. It's a known fact that the eldest child in the home often suffers the major traumas and difficulties.

Later on, as children come, the parents have learned a little bit from the previous children and they know how to handle things better. And sometimes, if you're the eldest one, you look there and you say, that's not fair. They never treated me like that.

I was given the hard time. Any eldest children here? You know what I'm talking about. Then there comes the middle child.

Oh, the middle child has a problem all of their own. See, when the first child comes, there's big fanfare. Yeah, we're having a baby.

Yeah, yeah, isn't this exciting? We take hundreds of photos. And the second child comes along and we're saying, yeah, being there, done that. I look through the photos and you see hundreds of photos of the first child.

Second child's got none. We're too busy. Nothing exciting about that anymore.

See, the middle child suffers a trauma of their own. They kind of feel left out and neglected. And particularly, if another child comes after, they're kind of stuck in the middle.

Now, you first borns, you probably think you had problems, but the middle born sometimes has far more problems. See, under the old covenant, the first born had a special place. You're the first born.

You're my first born. You get everything. The middle child, well, sorry, you're just going to have to be subject to your eldest sibling.

You're just a nobody. And you know, God has a very special place in his heart for the middle child. If you're a middle child, I've got good news for you.

Middle children often get the greatest call. Esau and Jacob were born and Esau was the first born. Jacob was the second born.

God says, Jacob of our love and Esau of our hatred. And Jacob, he has all these children and they come for blessing. See, and Joseph brings his two kids to dad to bless.

And he says, Dad, there's the eldest there, Manasseh, put your right hand on him. And there's the second one, Ephraim. You can put your left hand on him because the left hand is not so blessed.

So you know what Jacob does? He goes like this and he lays his right hand on the second born. So instead of being Manasseh and Ephraim, you always hear about Ephraim and Manasseh. And he said, Dad, Dad, Dad, you're senile, you're blind.

Dad, that's the first born there. Dad said, I know, I know what I'm doing. Oh, but that's not fair.

Oh, the first born already got their blessing by being first born. God favors the second born sometimes by giving them something very special. And you see, I can say this boldly because I'm the second born.

But I've seen it again and again, very often. The second born who felt rejected and all alone. Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent now, but I just feel that I should do that.

And then you get the youngest child. Oh, the ladlamiki, as they say in Afrikaans, spoiled brat, the child of my old age. That was Joseph and there was Benjamin.

All the children that he spoiled and made the brothers envious. The younger child is usually spoiled and envied at the same time because they, and you know, you may think it's great being the spoiled one, but you know, you face a very different kind of problem when you're in that situation. There are a lot of people up against you because of that.

And then maybe you're the only boy or the only girl amongst the mob, the rose amongst the thorns or the thorn amongst the roses, as the case may be. Isn't that wonderful? You're the only daughter amongst all those sons. Well, that may be a real blessing and your parents may think, wow, at last we've got a daughter, we'll treat her with special favor.

But you may have a family where the sons are everything. And you're the odd one out there. Sometimes you're going to wish you were born with a different gender.

Sometimes you're going to act like a boy. You're fine. Same with the son who's born amongst daughters.

It's special problems that occur very often amongst siblings because of these situations. And then you get the step-sibling situation, which is so common these days, where there's a second marriage and you've got the kids mixed together. Sometimes yours, mine, and ours.

And you know, it's very hard for a parent to give the same favor to a stepchild as what they do to their own. And it shows. It shows.

And if you're that little ugly duckling amongst the other ducks, you're going to face special trauma and difficulties and problems in your life. Now, these are areas that may also need to be brought to the Lord for healing. Then there are bad experiences outside of the home.

Very often mothers work, have to send their children perhaps to a nursery school or to a creche, or the child is sent to preschool. Usually you've got unqualified teachers there who don't have a clue what they're doing. Sometimes impose their will on that child and treat them really badly.

See, if the mother is not there afterwards to heal that and to show the acceptance, the mother is so busy with her work, she comes home tired at night, she's got to cook, whatever, there's no time for the child. The child faces a real difficult situation. It can leave scars and hurts.

Need to be healed. Then we get babysitters. Oh, sometimes it's just so convenient just to get a babysitter to take care of the kids, take care of the kids so you can go out.

Sometimes the person you bring in, you don't even know who they are. You brought them in from outside as an employee and you don't know what they're doing to your kids when you're not there. You say, well, no, I don't do that.

You know, I actually, I rather would have my sister or my brother or a relative take care of my kids. You think you can trust them? What if they got kids of their own? Are they going to treat your child, your baby, with the same care that you would? See, you don't know because you're not there. And that child grows up having faced trauma and difficulties and problems and pain.

And sometimes healing is needed because of the scars that were created by those bad experiences. Then we get public school. Oh, that wonderful experience of going to school.

Didn't you love your school days? I hated every day of it. Really, I did. Maybe I'm just different.

I just can't think back on good experiences in school. And, you know, in ministering any healing to people, very often we found a huge, huge percentage of hurts that we have to minister to people. It was things that they suffered in the school system.

The child is rejected because of how they look, because of their ability. You get the teacher who has their teacher's pet, the favorite. Oh, isn't it nice to be the favorite? But you get the unfavorite too, the one the teacher picks on all the time, gives all the discipline to, is always highlighting, is always humiliating.

It happens all the time. Scars are left in the person's life. They grow up with a blot, with something that prevents them from rising up and being a normal person and relating to society.

Then, of course, you get the schools who favor the children, whose parents know the teachers or the headmaster, whose parents are wealthy and give lots of money to the school. I felt sorry for my kids because I was pretty poor at the time they were in school. So I thought, let me try and do something to help.

Let me go and join the PTA. I got into a fight with the headmaster. You weren't there to do anything except try and raise money for the school.

If you didn't do that, you were mad. I had the audacity to suggest we go a little bit more modern and bring some computers into the school at that time. And I was shot down in flames.

Now, as long as I was finding ways of raising money, that was good. I think my children were actually in worse light after I'd been in the PTA. And before I went in, and it happens, it happens.

In this world, it's who you know. People are favored and get away with things. I was always the who you don't know.

I don't know about you. So many of us, we faced traumas at school. You go to work and you get a boss who takes a dislike to you.

I was in a situation where I had a boss who really liked me and a boss who really didn't like me. Fortunately, the guy who didn't like me was the higher one. And, you know, I didn't realize how much he didn't like me until one day he, it was time for me for my annual increase and he put in a recommendation to recommend I don't get my increase.

It leaves scars on you. And, you know, sometimes you start school young. See, because most of these hurts, they occur, as I said, originally, pre-birth, childhood, puberty and adolescence up into young youth.

Seldom goes beyond the 20s, early 20s. After that, what happens to you is based on the experiences that you had before. Now, a lot of kids are forced to go and work very early.

They face particular traumas because they're too young to be in a work situation. And they have expectations put on them that they can't handle yet because they're not mature enough to handle yet. It leaves scars.

It leaves hurts. It can affect us for the rest of our lives. And then at the work situation, there's always dog eat dog competition amongst the employees.

Who's the favored one? Who does the boss look at with favor? Do you have an ability they don't have? They begin to hate you for it. And if the boss shows you favor, rightfully so, they hate you for it. You get jealousy from your fellow employees.

It's a wicked world out there, folks. And all of us, we go through these experiences that leave hurts in our lives. We start getting into friendships and personal relationships.

Now, you're in a situation, probably starts in school, where you want to be accepted by the group, but you're not part of the in-crowd. You don't have what it takes to qualify for being with the in-crowd. You're not one of the beautiful people.

You're too poor. Look at the clothes you wear. You don't fit in here.

But you know, we heard which suburb they live in. That's really a poor suburb of town. Don't associate with somebody like that.

Have you seen their folks? Clap that old car they drive. All of these things affect our relationships and they leave scars. And you periodically get the bully who picks on the weaker ones.

See, I was always small. Always the smallest guy in the class. I was just open game for everybody who wanted to be a bully.

I was rescued a little bit in high school because I had a big brother. When people would start to pick on me, somebody would say, Hey, have you seen his brother? I would just leave him alone. Thank the Lord.

Temporary reprieve. Have you been bullied? Have you been picked on for no reason whatsoever, except that you're weak? It leaves scars. It leaves hurts.

It can affect you and they may need to be brought for healing. Oh, and then the ultimate antagonism comes when the romantic relationships. When you got your eyes on that guy or that girl and everybody else has the same intentions.

Oh, the competition is stiff. And if you don't shape up, you just lose out. Just when you think you've got that person interested in you, somebody just comes out, snatches them away.

Hurts. It hurts. Makes you feel insecure about yourself.

Makes you think, who would ever look twice at me? I must be really ugly. As it hurts, there's scars. You need to be brought to the Lord for healing.

Now, I hope I've touched on something in everybody here today because we've all been through these things. Now, how do we detect these? How do we become aware that they exist? And we can bring them to the Lord for healing. Because very often, they happened a long time ago.

Sometimes we even shut that memory out. We try to forget it because it was too painful. But it starts to have an effect in our lives.

And very often, we don't realize that what we are experiencing now is based on that back there. So, you need to keep your eyes open. For signs that point to there being something that needs healing.

Spoke in the seminar about triggers. Emotions that suddenly surface in you that you cannot explain. Now, you may have been healed of some of those triggers already.

But now, new ones come up. And you think, well, you know, quite honestly, when I think back on that memory, it doesn't hurt anymore. So, why am I feeling this now? See, there's a new circumstance.

There's a new chain. There's a new trigger that has not been addressed. So, when you start feeling those negative, unexplained emotions, don't say, well, obviously, I wasn't healed.

It was all a big mistake. No, no. God did a work in you, but there's more.

There's more to be done. You know, I'm 68 years old, going on 69. I've got a lot of baggage there.

But at the end of the day, most of my baggages, later experiences, were all based on the same stage in life that all of us face. Now, some of you are still younger and in your teens. You're probably going through some of these things right now.

If not, you're about to. So, perhaps I can pre-warn you to watch out for these. And deal with them when they come up immediately.

Instead of letting them fester inside like a sore that's been there for years. One of the most common signs of there being something is when you just feel restless and discontent. You don't know why.

You've had this busy day at work, perhaps a very successful day at work. Everything went well. Everything's kind of coming together pretty good in your life.

So, it seems. There's no real traumas, problems, but you lie down in bed that night and you can't sleep. You're tossing and you're turning.

And you're saying, there's an itch there that I can't scratch. Something's wrong. Can't put my finger on it.

Something is bugging me deep inside. You been there? I've been there often. And every time I've been there, I've stopped and said, okay, Lord, there's something here that I haven't detected yet.

There's something here that I haven't brought to you for healing yet. Usually I'll sit down and I'll journal and I'll wait on the Lord until he shows me what it is. Because it's one of the things God uses to get your attention.

Say, I want to heal you. I want to touch that area. If you'll give it to me, I will heal it.

See, but it's not automatic. You've got to bring it to him. And when we bring it to him, it's amazing how quick.

We can deal with it. Another of the most common things that is a sign that there's problems back there that need to be dealt with is when you suddenly start dreaming of the past. You dream of the house that you grew up in.

You dream of people from your past that you haven't thought about for years. You start dreaming about events back there in the early childhood sometimes even. And you think, what? Why am I thinking about this now? This is the furthest thing from my mind.

And suddenly you find all your dreams are based around a certain era in your life. And that happens. Don't just wake up and shake your head and say, I can't understand what's going on.

That was very strange. What made me dream about that? Something is surfacing in you that you forgot about. Very often when you wake up, you feel negative.

You feel uncomfortable. And some of those triggers actually begin to come out as a result of your dreams. Now's the time to seek God for healing.

Now's the time to ask him, Lord, show me where it is. And you know, if you'll wait on him, he'll zero in on a particular event in your life way back there. There it is.

There it is. I'm sure I've shared this before. I'll give you an example.

As I grew up, I often had an experience of always being afraid of getting into trouble. I never looked for trouble. I was a pacifist.

I was not one of those rebellious kids who was trying to keep everybody happy. Somehow, I always did something or forgot to do something that would upset somebody. I just always felt so condemned and guilty.

And frustrated. I looked to the Lord and he showed me an event, one simple event in my life that started it all. I was probably not even five yet because I wasn't in school.

I was the child in the home with my mom. And one day there was a knock at the door and my mom said, go and answer it. It was those Jehovah's Witnesses.

Tell them I'm not here. Here's this little child come to the door. And there's a man standing.

He says, I'm the building inspector. I would like to come in and check the house. Is mommy home? No, no, mommy's not home.

So, well, you know, I won't be long. Can I just come and look through the house quickly and just inspect it? So, what am I going to say? No, you can't. You're a queen.

So, he walks through the house, strolls into the room and there's my mother. They're both looking at me. How dare you tell him I wasn't here? But you said she wasn't here.

I tell you what, if the ground could have swallowed me up, I would have been very happy. I carried a guilt for years from that wonderful event that I was totally innocent of. It left a scar on me.

And Lord had to take me back and remind me of that. And then I had to experience his healing power. I did that.

I dealt with the chain of all so many other events in my life. Whenever I'd get into trouble, you know, a cop would pull me over for a traffic offense and I would go to pieces. All because of that wonderful event.

So, don't discount little events in your life. If you can remember what happened way back there, trust me, it had an effect on you. Because there's thousands of other things that happened, you can't remember them.

So, when something like that pops up in your mind, a little memory from the past, particularly a negative experience, stop right there. And say, is the Lord showing me something here? Is there perhaps a temple that was created there that has caused a habit pattern in my life that's affecting me? Okay. Sometimes God will give revelation.

But I found in most cases, for me particularly, I experienced this while I was preparing the seminar. I experienced it while I was preaching the seminar. And when we were finished, I experienced it again.

You know, I've been doing this for years. Heck, I'm teaching it. And yet, there were still things in my life that I hadn't fully identified.

So, don't feel bad if you had a wonderful experience at the seminar, but now there's more things coming up and you're thinking, I must have missed it somewhere. The Lord is just uncovering a few more things that he can take away to set you totally free, that you can live the life. He wants you to live.

Now, that's all my introduction. Sorry, it's going to be a long message. I will try and keep it as short as I can.

Let's get now to the main subject that I want to look today, and that's transformed images.

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