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STAYING ON COURSE
“Dedicated Service on the Course”
Romans 12:1-4
I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
And 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.
For I say, through the grace given tome, 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.
For as we have many members in one body, but all
the members do not have the same function.
I urge you
therefore to do as we just read. This is dedicated service.
In this passage there are three things that take place in the course
of dedicated service.
Staying On
Course With God…..
1.
You become a living sacrifice….to give
yourself
You must present
your bodies acceptable to God (Romans 6:12-13)
Verse 12:
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should
obey its lust.
Verse 13: “and
do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as
those alive from the dead and your members as instruments of
righteousness to God.” This takes “commitment”.
Psalm
37:5-6…Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He
will do it…..
Your sacrifice
must be acceptable to God…Spiritual Service of Worship. Does God
recognize your worship as acceptable to Him?
2.
You have a renewing of your mind….this
means:
A renovation,
which makes a person different than in the past. A new quality of
life.
You need this
renewing of the mind to prove what the will of God is. (Good
acceptable, perfect)
***Proving it means living it…
3.
We become one body in Christ. Though we
don’t all look alike and act alike, we become one in Christ.
It takes doing
the 1st and 2nd thing we talked about to be
able to do the 3rd thing. This causes a singleness of
heart. There is a reason for this singleness of heart. Jeremiah
32:39-40…..then I will give them on heart and one way, that
they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children
after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that
I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in
their hearts so that they will not depart from Me….
We must make the
total dedication of life (with honor) to Jesus to stay on course
with Him.
**We have to look like Jesus, act like Jesus,
to stay on course with Jesus.. |