ROmans 12:1-2

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. Today I wanted to talk about a portion of Romans
  3. that I believe contains some of the most important and
  4. practical lessons for Christians today.
  5. Specifically, I wanna look at Romans 12 versus 1 to
  6. 2, wherein Paul advises of the church to present their
  7. bodies as a living sacrifice to God by not conforming
  8. to the world, but by being transformed by the renewal
  9. of their minds.
  10. Now, what does he mean by that?
  11. And what does this confirmation and transformation look like?
  12. Well, let's take a look at it together.
  13. First. It's important to provide some perspective on this portion
  14. of Romans.
  15. Paul begins Chapter 12 saying, I appeal to you therefore,
  16. brothers by the mercies of God in the new King
  17. James version says that Paul beseeches those in Rome.
  18. He's urging the people to listen to what he has
  19. to say.
  20. He also says, therefore indicating that what he's about to
  21. share with him is the culmination of all he has
  22. shares so far from Romans one through 11.
  23. Clearly his message is very important.
  24. That therefore leads to the instruction of presenting their bodies
  25. as a living sacrifice to God now to be a
  26. living sacrifice means yielding to God in a committed, lifelong
  27. act of worship.
  28. This implies that worship is not merely something that we
  29. do in church on Sunday mornings.
  30. It's something that we're constantly doing by living in a
  31. God honoring manner to get a better picture of this.
  32. Look at polls grammar.
  33. Yes, I know that we're in Bible class, but bear
  34. with me.
  35. He instructs the church to present their bodies plural as
  36. a living sacrifice.
  37. Singular. Not 100 or 200 individual sacrifices, but one sacrifice.
  38. The church is to be united in the worship to
  39. God, presenting themselves together as one and serving him, but
  40. also one another in love and devotion.
  41. This instruction that Paul gives here is not meant to
  42. be exclusive to the church in Rome.
  43. It's meant for all Christians to hear and heed, he
  44. says. Do not be conformed to this world, but be
  45. transformed by the renewal of your mind.
  46. Now, to understand what he's thinking here, let's take a
  47. look at a basketball, but on a normal basketball, definitely
  48. different. My voice came out on me