Point of Grace Worship 10.29.23 Sermon Notes – “Servants of Christ – TOGETHER” – 3
How do we do life as “Servants of Christ” ……… TOGETHER?
Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform 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 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters,
in view of (through) God’s mercy,
to offer (present) your bodies as a sacrifice,
(that is) living,
holy, (set apart to God, consecrated to Jesus)
pleasing to God—
this is your true and proper (spiritual/reasonable) worship.
Why “God’s mercy”?
“Seculosity”
How career, parenting, technology, food, politics, and romance became our new religion and what to do about it!
by David Zahl
Romans 3 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness,
Romans 5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, …. 31 If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In Christ …… I am ENOUGH!
The “finished and for me” work of Jesus Christ purchased true “enoughness” with my name on it!
It is through this “mercy of God” that we must go in order to present ourselves everyday as “living, holy and pleasing sacrifices” … which is true and proper worship.
Then the rest of Romans 12 makes sense!
How do we present “our everyday all day living” to Jesus as a living, holy, pleasing sacrifice?
We can start by coming to Jesus and telling Him our deep desire!
Jesus, I am here! I am yours!
I come to You now to soak in Your grace and mercy that I so desperately need this day!
Thank you for being my “enough”!
I now present myself and all my living this day to You as an offering – a living sacrifice!
Jesus, I am here! I am yours! You are mine! You lead… I follow!
Amen