By Dan:
Once the heart is being changed there will be changes in behavior, which will be the fruit of the change from the Holy Spirit imparting grace into your heart. This comes through a relationship with Father. Father doesn’t want behavior modification, which is self effort, but heart transformation, from spending time with Him. Fruit will be produced by the Holy Spirit as you study and hear His Word and spend time in His Presence. Ro. 7:4-5 says- Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. When we were living in the flesh(mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death. So beloved child of God, we now live in newness of life so we can bear fruit for God by obeying the promptings of the Spirit (Ro. 7:6(b)).
Check back tomorrow for Be Transformed: Part 11!