Living Sacrifice, Your Reasonable Worship
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Therefore, in view of God’s mercy
I urge you
I urge you
urge - invite to come, exhort, admonish, “come on”
brothers and sisters
brothers and sisters
belonging to the same community… not over, but one with
to offer
to offer
offer-present; to stand before, give yourself to, place at the disposal of...
verb, aorist, active infinitive, comes before the present active infinitive, to test
your bodies
your bodies
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
Imperative… this is what we must do. It involves our will, a decision, and decisive action
sacrifice
sacrifice
- living
- living
not dead, unable to do anything...
alive, able to and truly working, functioning
- holy
- holy
set apart to and for God
- and pleasing to God
- and pleasing to God
pleasing… something he would truly enjoy and in which He would take pleasure
this is your true and proper worship
this is your true and proper worship
λογικός - belonging to reason, belonging to the word
belonging to reason - reasonable, logical
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
reasonable/spiritual
reasonable/spiritual
belonging to reason - metaphorically speaking, or in the spiritual sense, vs. physical milk
ambiguous… perhaps the Spirit through Paul chose this word to specifically attach both meanings…
this is your reasonable, spiritual / vs physical worship
service in worship
service in worship
λατρεία - service for hire or as a slave, divine service with the sense of worship
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
worship and serve
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
conform/be conformed
conform/be conformed
outward, look like, take on the pattern, shape
Middle - permissive middle
The action is performed by another, but with the permission of the recipient
be transformed
be transformed
passive… it is being done to you
how
by the renewing of your mind
by the renewing of your mind
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
GIGO
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is
then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is
cannot begin to know what God’s will is if you have not presented yourself to him.
Good
Good
benevolent, profitable, useful
Pleasing
Pleasing
to whom? obviously to God, but when we do follow his will, we will find that it is the thing that is also pleasing to us
Perfect
Perfect
complete… mature