Romans 12:1-5
1: 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.
2: And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
4: For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
5: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Therefore, or because of all he just said, Paul urged them to present their bodies a living and holy sacrifice to God. The sacrifice—or offering—which we are to give to God today is not a dead thing, but a living thing—our bodies—which of course we are still in control of because we are alive. Our spirits inhabit our body making it under our control.
To properly present our bodies as holy and acceptable to God we must renew our minds, so we are changed from the world's way of thinking. We are to be different from the unholiness going on around us. Our thinking changes to align with the new heart God has given us. It aligns with the One we’ve put our faith in, and with the way He has shown us. This renewal of our minds enables us to make choices of what to do with our bodies that are pleasing to God. We don’t boast in our holiness or righteousness either because it's not of our own doing. God has given to each a measure of faith. There is nothing for us to boast about. It’s all a gift.
Paul compared all of the believers who make up the body of Christ with individual parts of a human body. We are separate parts with different functions, yet all one body working to accomplish one thing—whatever the Head desires. We will do well to identify our individual place in the body of Christ and recognize the gifts and functions of others, so together we will accomplish what the Lord desires in the earth.
2: And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
4: For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
5: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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Therefore, or because of all he just said, Paul urged them to present their bodies a living and holy sacrifice to God. The sacrifice—or offering—which we are to give to God today is not a dead thing, but a living thing—our bodies—which of course we are still in control of because we are alive. Our spirits inhabit our body making it under our control.
To properly present our bodies as holy and acceptable to God we must renew our minds, so we are changed from the world's way of thinking. We are to be different from the unholiness going on around us. Our thinking changes to align with the new heart God has given us. It aligns with the One we’ve put our faith in, and with the way He has shown us. This renewal of our minds enables us to make choices of what to do with our bodies that are pleasing to God. We don’t boast in our holiness or righteousness either because it's not of our own doing. God has given to each a measure of faith. There is nothing for us to boast about. It’s all a gift.
Paul compared all of the believers who make up the body of Christ with individual parts of a human body. We are separate parts with different functions, yet all one body working to accomplish one thing—whatever the Head desires. We will do well to identify our individual place in the body of Christ and recognize the gifts and functions of others, so together we will accomplish what the Lord desires in the earth.
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