What should a transformed believer look like, using the butterfly illustration?
A transformed believer should resemble a butterfly: innocent, beautiful, and different from the old life, not like an old vulture. This transformation is not produced by works or self-cleaning; it comes only from God, who alone can touch the invisible part of a person's makeup.
Les explains that believers have been transformed and metamorphosed, just like a cocoon turning into a butterfly. He says you don't expect a butterfly to fly around out there looking like an old vulture; you expect that butterfly to be the innocent, fluttering beauty that it is. That is what we are to be: transformed and different from what we were before. This change does not take place by works. Les uses the dead car battery illustration: when the battery is dead, you don't clean the outside with warm soapy water and a rag; you must bring in power from an outside source. In the same way, works religion is doomed to failure because no preacher, teacher, priest, denomination, or religion can go into the invisible part of a man's makeup and touch it. Only God can, because He is the Creator of that invisible part. The next word Les comes to is Mind.