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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
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Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
May 22, 2022
Romans 12 – Part 2
Gifted for Service to the Glory of God
Romans 12: 3-8 and 2 Kings 5: 1-19
Serve God with Spiritual Gifts
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For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among
you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to
think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
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For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do
not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in
Christ, and individually members of one another.
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Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,
let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
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or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in
teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with
liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with
cheerfulness.
In Romans Chapter 12, verses 1 & 2, the children of God are beseeched
(begged, counseled, pleaded) by the Apostle Paul to present our bodies a
living our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God.
Last week, we learned the true meaning behind this urgent appeal.
It was said in response to what we as NT Believers have been graciously
given by God in the first 11 Chapters of Book of Romans.
In a word, the
first 11 chapters are nothing, but an arsenal of the mercies God has
lavished upon every person who names the name of Jesus -- one blessing
after another.
Of those blessings, two of my favorites are both found in
Romans - Chapter 8: 1-4 and verse 28
• 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but
according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For
what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh,
God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the
righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do
not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those
who love God, to those who are the called according to His
purpose.
Many of you have your own as well.
Against a backdrop of those 11 mercy chapters, we are reminded that
because of everything God did to secure a right relationship with us, the
only reasonable response from us to God is to give Him our Bodies and
our Minds.
In giving Him our bodies, we commit to presenting, that is, to present –
voluntarily and willingly -- once and for all our bodies a living offering,
a living sacrifice.
To present our bodies is a commitment that we are
willing enter into with no intent to rescind or reject.
This commitment is
our “reasonable service” or our “spiritual worship”.
This means that
every day is a worship experience when your body is yielded to the
Lord.
Secondly, we give Him our mind.
You see, the world wants to control
your mind, but God wants to transform your mind.
Transform is the
same word as transfigure that Jesus used on the Mount of
Transfiguration.
If the world controls your thinking, “Do you know
what you are?”
A CONFORMER!
But if God controls your thinking,
you are a TRANSFORMER!
(Whether red, white, black, or yellow).
In the same commitment, we also give the Lord our minds
NLT says of living sacrifices and the mind
Being a living sacrifice is truly the way to worship him.
2 Don’t copy
the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into
a new person by changing the way you think.
Then you will learn to
know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
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Now, given that, after we have presented ourselves, then God gifts us.
He gifts us for service to Him, to one another, the church, the
community, and the world.
Listen to how Paul says He goes about doing it: Romans 12: verses 33
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among
you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to
think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
In this passage, God starts with the mind, then the body.
First the mind: Paul says of the mind, to every believer, that is: …to
everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than
he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a
measure of faith.
In view of all the blessings God has bestowed upon each one of us, Paul
is warning us to never think you, nor I are better than we really are.
We are told to be honest in our evaluation of ourselves, measuring
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