Introduction
1. "Separating material and spiritual blessings is to make a great ingratitude to God."
2. Maybe a way to avoid that ingratitude is to remind the child that they passed the offering plate, put it on the floor and stood on it. The attendant asked him what to and she said, "the teacher said the shark Sunday that the best offering to God was completely give him." Are you willing to surrender in the offering plate to God?
3. That is the recognition that everything we are and have belongs only on the words of the hymn. God gave us this "space suit" our body, to walk comfortably through life. In the church we charge batteries without changing costume. We anchored to the ground. Your Bible says you should change your way of thinking about worship and life. Did you love when you work? "When you study? When battles against temptation?
4. There was a young congregation needed to hear these things. This is the lesson that Paul received from God and communicated to believers living in Rome.
5. Paul said that neither the law nor religion saved (Ro . 1-3). Faith justifies and Jesus is the architect of the justification (Ro . 4-5 ). But then taught that they must defeat sin by the power of the Spirit (Ro . 6-8). God has been merciful to temporarily put aside Israel to save the gentiles. Therefore, believers should change their thinking.
6. Paul repeated that lesson today in Romans 12: 1-2 . If we had to say in one sentence would read:
Idea C entral Our worship of God should be comprehensive.
Purpose: Change the way you think, that, God does not care what religious and daily life.
First Paul says: ( Transition ... )
I. Our worship includes the body and mind, v.1
A. Our worship is physical, v.1a
The phrase "so that" connects this passage with the above. If the sovereign God has mercy on the Gentiles, then we are called to live this life giving God.
"Your bodies." Not only be willing to die for him, but to live for Him, q or and is sometimes more difficult. Not in the church, or the prayer meeting, but at work, in college, in the gym and my recreation. There, where we cultivate the land or study, our life is given to do the will of God.
B. Our worship is mental, v. 1b
This release is a "worship." We always think of the quality of our actions. Obedience and actions are not only physical, they are also mentally. if we Odbedeceremos how?
Our worship not only includes a comprehensive worshiper, too ...
II. Our worship includes a comprehensive mission, v.2
A. Integral mission includes challenge this century, v. the 2nd
"Do not conform." rather than ban it, the idea is "let's do it." We've become something we are not, involved in a scheme that is not our role, and if we recover what we are.
One of the patterns is the way of thinking inherited from the Greeks. They believed that matter was evil and the immaterial was good. That the idea was more important than physical reality. The Bible does not teach that.
Hollywood with movies, television scripts and actors life imposes on us also other equally bad lifestyles. How do you understand if you do not challenge these bad ideas?
B. Integral mission includes a renewed mind v.2b
"Be renewed." Here comes an urgent demand: renewing transform our understanding. If you think differently we act differently. If we think correctly, we change.
C. Integral mission is to do the will of God, v.2c
"able to test." When we turn to the practice field, we see what the will of God. We more spiritual it is to pray and work that is less spiritual. Sometimes the most spiritual is pray. But sometimes the most spiritual act and accomplish the task, because the most spiritual to do the will of God in every situation.
Conclusion
Our worship and our mission is the case. Worship are integral and holistic mission full of responsibilities and tasks.
First, we have seen in this passage that our worship of God includes our body and mind, and second we saw that includes also an integral mission, which does not shirk any responsibility in this world.
is important to think about it carefully. Paul has told us that we must change the way we think it wrong thinking paralyzes us. We not only live in the church, we also live at work, home, workshop, school, etc.. where worship is real and which is refined to make his will
Therefore, the teacher said, "the false thought is that it does not take into account real life." In real life, you and your children are writing the history of the church and create a new society. In real life, it is the will of God. In this life, and not the other, we put our whole life to total obedience to God. Obeying is how we worship. This is a time to commit to worship God in this integral. God wants you to leave the day Monday morning, when you go to take care of your things, he wants to be part of them.