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Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12:1-2.  1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1-2.

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Romans 12:1-2

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  1. Romans 12:1-2  1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.

  2. Romans 12:1-2 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

  3. Spiritual Worship Romans 12:1-2

  4. Romans 12:1 - Translations I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ESV

  5. …which is your spiritual service of worship. NASV • …for this is the reasonable way for you to worship. ISV • …this is truly the way to worship him. NLT

  6. Elements of verse 1 • Therefore • I urge you • Present • Your bodies • A living sacrifice • Your spiritual worship

  7. Worship… • comes from the Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, which then was modified to worthship, and finally to worship. • Worship means “to attribute worth” to something or someone. • To worship is to respond to God - God is the audience and He watches always.

  8. Traditional Worship • Five acts • They must be done correctly • They are not to be mixed • They identify “the church”

  9. Traditional View of Worship “If I am physically present when assemblies occur, I am faithful.” Faithfulness is a matter of physical presence in a weekly worship assemblyif the appropriate acts occur in the appropriate ways. The ways “I live my daily life” are unrelated to worship. The ways “I live each day” are not a worship consideration. Worship and daily existence are distinctly different considerations.”

  10. Spiritual Worship "Worship is an existence, not an event."

  11. Spiritual Worship is Living Sacrifice Permit me to state it simply, yet emphatically: In every relationship and circumstance of life, be God's living sacrifice.

  12. Antagonistic toward God A lack of zeal for God’s interests No pain when God’s interests are disregarded Spiritual Epicureanism Lack of interest in others Unwillingness to be responsible for improvement in worship On the Throne

  13. Sympathy for God’s sacrifice What pleases God Pain when God’s interests are disregarded Self-denial Great concern for others Living sacrifice On the Altar

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