120415 worship is a lifestyle rom 11.33 12
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Romans 11:33 – 12:2
2 ideas about worship: “shachah”=“proskuneo”= adoration
“abad” = “latreuo” = service
Worship = adoration + serviceWorship is a L I F E S T Y L E.
introduction
v1 “in view of God’s mercy,”
God in His mercy/grace sent Jesus to die for our sins.
“Amazing love, how can it beThat You my King should die for me Amazing love, I know it’s true, It’s my joy to honour You, In all I do, I’ll honour You.”
v1 “offer your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.”
3 words: 1. Offer : We present our lives to God. 2. Bodies: The body is the sum total of everything we are physically, emotionally, intellectually, volitionally, and spiritually. 3. Sacrifice: Something we give to
God as an act of worship.
3 aspects of this sacrificial lifestyle of worship.1. Living Sacrifice: to live for God. 2. Holy Sacrifice: to be set apart for God. 3. Pleasing Sacrifice: to be acceptable to God.
v1 “your spiritual worship” = your reasonable service.
v2 “Do not conform any longer …., but be transformed …”
• Negatively: we are not to conformed/shaped by the world. • Positively: we are to be transformed/changed
by the renewing of our minds.
• How are we transformed? 2 Cor 3:18,