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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
June 4, 2022
Gifted for Service to the Glory of God
Our Reasonable Service – My Reasonable Response
Part 3
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.
This morning, we’re returning to our mini-series from the Book of
Romans, Chapter 12 -- after a brief pause last week to address from a
biblical perspective so much of the senselessness going on in our world
today.
We’ve entitled our Romans 12 series “Our Reasonable Service – My
Reasonable Response”.
[Representative Church].
Today, I want to continue teaching along the lines of our being “Gifted
for Service to the Glory of God” and how important our need to be
sober minded is relative to the spiritual gifts we possess.
Just to refresh your memories, the 12th Chapter of Romans is what the
Apostle Paul said is and should be every Christian Believer’s
reasonable response to all the goodness, love, mercies, and grace that
God secured for us in the first 11 Chapters of the Book of Romans.
If you were to read the first 11 Chapters, you would come away amazed
and awed at everything God has done to make us His own.
Therefore,
this 12th Chapter [and the remaining four chapters to Chapter 16] is
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Paul’s instructions on how Born-Again Believers should respond to
God’s mercies.
So, Paul begins by saying to us, here’s what you should do to show
honor and respect to what God has done to save every Believer:
“. . .
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your reasonable service.
2And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
In principle, Paul is saying:
Embracing what God has done for you is the best thing you can do
for Him.
It is the best response you can give to Him in return for what
He has done for you as it relates to chapters 1-11.
[Don’t become so conformed or shaped by culture that you fit into it
without even giving a thought to what God has done for you.
Instead,
focus your attention on God and He’ll change you from the inside out.
Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it.]
Now, let me turn your attention to what I want to emphasize today – the
importance of soberness as addressed in verses 3 through 8.
In a previous lesson, I drilled home the dangers of a believer “thinking
more highly of themselves than they ought -- or said another way:
“Thinking of themselves more highly or above what God considers
safe or sober”.
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This morning, I want to ratchet up your understanding on the close
connection between soberness and spiritual giftings as it relates to our
ability as a body of Believers to represent God as model Christians and a
model church.
First, let’s reaffirm our definition of two words:
Sober or Soberness and Intoxication:
Biblically defined, Sober or Soberness is defined as clear-headed,
sensible, and habitually temperate.
It describes a person who has calm
and dispassionate judgment and is not desirous of great things or high
estate but is free from extravagance or excess.
Such a person is guided
by sound reason and is sane and rational.
Intoxication is defined as a state in which a person's normal capacity to
act or reason is inhibited by alcohol, drugs, or ego.
Generally, an
intoxicated person is incapable of acting as an ordinary prudent and
cautious person would act under similar conditions.
What’s the important connection?
We are told by the Apostle in verse three (3) that “everyone who is
among you, [that is, in the fellowship] 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
ourselves only by the faith God has given us – not by the flesh, nor the
level of giftedness we have received from God.
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Thinking yourself to be more highly than you ought is dangerous
because it disregards God [totally leaves Him out] and everything good
He has freely given to you to make you as bearable, valuable, and as
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