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Into the Deep: Worship Is A Lifestyle
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. —Romans 12:1
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God…”
· Justification from the guilt and penalty of sin.
· Adoption in Jesus and identification with Christ.
· Placed under grace, not law.
· Given the Holy Spirit to live within.
· Promise of help in all affliction.
· Assurance of God’s sovereign control.
· Confidence of coming glory.
· Confidence of no separation from the love of God.
· Confidence in God’s continued faithfulness.
Mercy brings about praise.
Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. 17 I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 19 But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!
—Psalm 66:16-20
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice…”
Sacrifice brings about trust.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” —Matthew 6:25-33
· Justification from the guilt and penalty of sin.
· Adoption in Jesus and identification with Christ.
· Placed under grace, not law.
· Given the Holy Spirit to live within.
· Promise of help in all affliction.
· Assurance of God’s sovereign control.
· Confidence of coming glory.
· Confidence of no separation from the love of God.
· Confidence in God’s continued faithfulness.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God…”
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. —2nd Corinthians 5:21
Ever expanding devotion
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” —Luke 14:25
“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.”
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen. —Romans 11:36
🔹 Does my “lifestyle of worship” match what the Bible describes as a “lifestyle of worship?”
🔹 Are there places I need to be more devoted to Christ?
🔹 Are there places I need to trust more?
Psalm 139 Prayer:
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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