Paul’s message in Romans 12:1
is all about lordship and submission.
All Christians know Jesus as their Savior but that is only half of His
commission. “God has made this Jesus ...
both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36), “Lord and Savior” (2 Peter 3:18). As Christ,
the anointed one, the Messiah, He brings salvation. But He is also the Lord God Almighty, and
total submission as a bondservant... love slave, to His lordship is not only mandatory,
it is reasonable rational intelligent service... “a living sacrifice.” What matters now and in Rome two thousand
years ago is not that we are Christians.
What matters is that we are Christlike.
Gods’ goal is not a label... Gods’ goal is a lifestyle, which brings us
to Romans 12:2 where Paul addresses this issue with two commands and a promise:
* Commandment One: Stop
living, thinking and acting like the world.
* Commandment Two: Start
living, thinking and acting like Kingdom people by the renewing of your mind.
* The Promise: “Then” you will understand, test, and approve
God’s will, His good, well pleasing and complete will for you.
Do you want to know God’s will? Here is the only recipe given in
scripture: "PRESENT your bodies a living sacrifice." STOP living, thinking and
acting like the world. START living, thinking and acting like Kingdom people. THEN
you will understand God’s will. It takes a thorough understanding of God’s word
to differentiate between the world’s ways and Kingdom ways, equipping saints
under the Lordship of Jesus to complete the recipe... setting their minds on
things above moment by moment, day by day. Overcoming life is life lived in the
will of God... His good, well-pleasing and complete will...
GODS’ GOAL IS NOT A LABEL...
GODS’ GOAL IS A LIFESTYLE...
LIVING HIS WILL...
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