A Living Sacrifice

A Living Sacrifice
Romans 12: 1-2
1:1–3:20 SIN
3:21–5 SALVATION
6–8 SANCTIFICATION
9-11 SOVEREIGNTY
12-16 SERVICE
1-2 A Living Sacrifice
What is the Goal?
What is the Method?
What is the Motivation?
1 - What is the Goal?
Vs 1 that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
1 - What is the Goal?
To be acceptable to God …
– I must be a living sacrifice
1 - What is the Goal?
Holy …
– Without blemish, cleansed
– Live a holy life
• Leviticus, used 90 times

1 - What is the Goal?
Present your body …
– We want to present only part of it but keep part for myself

1 - What is the Goal?
This is your reasonable service
2 - What is the Method?
Not Conformed to this world
– Non-conformist
2 - What is the Method?
Not Conformed to this world
– A Non-conformist against this world, not against God
2 - What is the Method?
Be Transformed in your mind
– Metamorphosis
2 - What is the Motivation?
By the mercies of God …
– Remember when you were lost
• Romans 1 our story some of us
• Romans 2 our story for others
2 - What is the Motivation?
Why be a living sacrifice?
– Hospitable
– Love without hypocrisy
– Abhor what is evil

A Living Sacrifice
Romans 12: 1-2