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Good evening church
Please turn your Bibles to
As we continue our study of the Book of Romans
This chapter will focus on how to live our life as a Christian in the world
A lot of what is mentioned in this chapter is completely counter culture
of God’s promises being fulfilled...A clarification that God did not throw Isreal to the side...In fact, Israel's rejection is a part of God’s greater plan...A plan for good
Paul discusses how to act with other believers and nonbelievers...
Including those who would be considered our enemies
Opening Prayer
Before we dive into the text...
Please join me one more time in prayer before we start
Reading:
Verse 1: Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God,
As believers and followers of Christ...
We are called to sacrifice our bodies for God
We are called lay down our lives if ever called to do so
We are called to follow in the example of Jesus who sacrificed His life for our sake
Many martyrs have paid the ultimate price throughout history for the benefit of the church
Stephen was the first Christian martyr and Paul, the writer of these words...
Lead the Jewish people in their stoning
Even the Bible you hold in your hand, to be in a language you can understand...
Was made possible due to the sacrifice of people like William Tyndale
Many before him and many after him paid with their life to reform the church
Even people who didn’t get murdered for their faith where hunted down at times...
And at the risk of capture or death like Martin Luther and John Calvin
Physical death is not the only sacrifice a believer is called to do
Some have been tortured nearly to death like Richard Wurmbrand...
Who wrote the book Tortured for Christ and is the founder of Voice of the Martyrs...
He spent 14 years in a communist prison
John Bunyan also spent time in prison, 12 years for the crime of preaching...
During that time he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress...
Which is the second best selling book of all time right after the Bible
Countless other have sacrificed their careers, friends, family, health, reputation, material possessions, etc.
We many be called at anytime to sacrifice but we can be reassured...
These sacrifices are acceptable to God
Verse 1: Which is your spiritual service of worship.
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
These sacrifices we pay in order to live a faithful Christian life is an act of worship to God
Remember Worship is not just singing along in church with the band or listening to the radio
Their are many ways to worship God and sacrifice is one of them
Verse 2: And do not be conformed to this world,
Church, stop trying to look like the world...
Stop trying so hard to “fit in”
If you are a follower of Christ then you will be an outcast
If you are a follower of Christ then you will not look like the world
In fact, the world will hate you...
Not because of who you are but solely because of who He is
This lack of accepting this truth has created these “seeker friendly” churches...
They sacrifice doctrine and biblical truth in order not to offend
The cost of not offending man...
Is offending God
You cannot serve two masters...
You cannot please both the goats and the sheep
The goats are part of the world and will never leave the world
The sheep on the other hand know their Master’s voice as it says in
Verse 2: But be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
But we are not simply called to just be different for the sake of being different
We are to be transformed by our renewed mind
Our renewed mind in focused on the ways of God and is no longer in bondage to the flesh
made it clear that believers have two natures...
And as believers, we need to fight our body and be lead by our renewed mind
This renewing of the mind is when we become a new creation...
And once transformed, we go through a process of sanctification...
We become more Christ-like
Verse 2: So that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Following the will of God by following our renewed mind proves to the world (and ourselves)...
That God’s will is ultimately good, acceptable and perfect
So we should never have any worry or anxiety when following God’s will
Questions or Comments?
Reading:
Verse 3: For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;
Just because you recieved grace...
Do not this of yourself higher than anyone else
We all started off in darkness...
Not seeking after God as it says in
We have nothing t boast about since grace is a gift and it was not earned
We have nothing to boast about ourselves...
We can only really boast about the cross
Verse 3: but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
We are however called to have sound judgement
We are called to understand sound doctrine
We need to be able to identify good and bad...
We need to to able to identify was is sin and what is not
We need to be able to identify heresy and solid theology
Verses 4-5: For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
We are the one body of Christ...
We must remember we are not all the same part of the body
Some are hands and some are feet
Some are legs and some are arms
But we all make up the body...
The better each part is faithful about doing their role...
The more fluid the whole body will move
We don’t all have the same function but we ultimately should have the same goal
Verse 5: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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Verse 6: Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly:
We all have been given spiritual gifts as believers
We are each to execute that gift appropriately which will look different
Although we are called to do different tasks...
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