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SERMON TEXT: ROMANS 12:1-2
Introduction
Secrets for a successful Christian life
A.
Total Dedication
B.
Radical Separation
C.
Personal Transformation
Turn in your Bible to Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2. If
you have not memorized these verses I would encourage you to do
so.
These verses will be verses that will mean a great deal to
you every day of your life.
Let me read these verses and as you
keep your place in your Bible we'll look at these verses together
this morning.
1.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
I want to talk with you a little while today on the subject,
"Secrets of Highly Successful Christians".
Success is something
that all of us are interested in and it is a subject which we read
a great deal about in secular material.
A lot of books have been
written in recent years on how a person can be successful and a
great deal of the definitions of success today have to do with
making a lot of money or have to do with being successful in the
particular business or activity of your life.
People who are
successful today are considered to be those who have achieved some
amount of financial independence.
Or they have excelled in the
leading of a great company.
Or they are outstanding in some field
of sports or athletics.
Much of what we read today about the
subject of success has to do with these particular areas of
endeavor.
And of course there are many Christians, outstanding
Christians, who have been successful by these definitions of
success.
I'm thinking about a man who lives up in Jonesboro, Georgia,
he's a member of the First Baptist Church there, who started a
chain of fast-food restaurants.
He's a man of strong convictions.
He's a man who believes that the Lord's day is a holy day so he
does not open his business on Sunday.
Because of his faithfulness
to the Lord and because of the skill which God has given to him in
business Mr. Truitt Cathey has made very famous and very
prosperous the Chick-Fil-A enterprise.
He is a Christian and he
is a highly successful Christian in the realm of business.
In the
realm of athletics there are Christians who have been very
successful.
Mark Price, the fine young Christian ballplayer for
the Cleveland Cavaliers, is a Christian who is strong in the Lord
and he's been successful in his athletic endeavor.
But I want to talk to you today in a little bit different
realm.
I want to talk to you not about success as the world looks
at success but I want to talk about success as it really is.
You
see, there are many people who have become very, very successful
in secular ways and by definitions which I have already given and
they've come to understand that this kind of success does not
really make you a happy individual.
Do you know Lamont who was on
"Sanford and Son"? Do you know him?
Lamont.
His real name is
Demond Wilson.
Well, Demond Wilson said this, "Like many people I
have been deceived.
I believed that the great American dream said
that once you've obtained success and a certain amount of
notoriety and money happiness would come."
And so he walked away
from success in the show-business realm, he walked away from self-
desire, and has embarked in an evangelistic ministry.
He's come
to understand that there is more to success than making a lot of
money and becoming famous in your particular field of endeavor.
I'm talking today about highly successful Christians.
I'm
talking about that truck driver who's a member of our church who
has learned how to be what God wants him to be in his daily life.
I'm talking about that medical doctor I hear about just about
everywhere I turn who has learned to use her medical profession to
serve the Lord Jesus Christ in being a blessing to others.
I'm
talking about that department store clerk who quietly goes about
his business and yet he is a highly successful Christian because
he has found out what success is by God's standard of measure.
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