Please turn in your Bibles this morning to Romans chapter
12 as we continue our study through Paul’s letter to the
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You see, Paul is now going to speak on APPLICATION, and he will cover this issue starting here in Romans 12:1 and through Romans 15:13. Many make the mistake of focusing their attention solely on doctrine; they have all the right information and that is where it ends, and that is just foolish. Others try doing the right thing, being good, but they don’t have the truths of God found in the Word of God and their efforts are futile! Doctrine is very important and when you have the right doctrine you then need to take it a step further and apply those truths to your life, live out your faith! If you don’t apply these things to your life, then all that doctrine is really meaningless and it will puff you up instead of growing you up!
Think of it like this. You spend years studying gravity, you have all kinds of degrees in this field, you know gravity backwards, forwards, and I guess up and down too! You have all the principles down, you have gathered all the information you can on this subject and then one day you are walking on the top of a building, and as you come to the edge, you continue walking and you come crashing to the ground, and die. What happened?
It wasn’t that you didn’t have the right information; you had all the information you could gather on this subject. The problem was that you didn’t apply it to your life and the result of that was disaster! The same is true with Christians who know the truths of God, who have all the doctrine you might say, all the information of what God desires of them, but they don’t apply it to their lives and many times they come crashing to the ground, their lives are a mess, they wonder why there is no victory!
Paul is going to lay it on the line for us and show us that it is not only important to know these truths, but you must apply them to your life. This is where the rubber meets the road you might say. Paul uses this same principle in Ephesians where he spends the first 3 chapters dealing with doctrine, what God has done, all that we have in Christ and then he begins Ephesians chapter 4 by saying, “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.” Ephesians 4:1. In other words, this is all that God has for you, now you need to walk accordingly. And that same idea is going on here in his letter to the Romans!
And let me say this, I don’t think we necessarily need more and more information, but we need to apply what we know to our lives and as we do God will reveal more to us. Let me give you a couple examples about information we do have and how many people don’t apply it to their lives. The Surgeon General has warned us that cigarette smoking is dangerous to our health. It can cause all kinds of serious problems like; lung cancer, lung diseases, heart disease, low birth weight babies, it can kill us! Do we need more information regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking? Of course not, what we do need is the application of that knowledge to our lives so that we don’t smoke!
We know that being overweight can lead to all kinds of serious health problems like; diabetes, heart disease, circulatory problems, breathing problems, bone and joint disease, and it truly can kill us! Do we need more information about being overweight? Of course not, what we do need is the application of that knowledge to our lives so we lose weight!
Let me give you one more example. We know that alcohol and drugs can lead to a variety of serious illnesses; from liver failure, to lung disease, to decreased mental capacity, to heart attacks, to destroyed families, to loss of jobs, and to death! Do we need more information telling us the dangers of alcohol and drugs in our lives? Of course not, what we do need is the application of that knowledge to our lives so we don’t start using alcohol or drugs or if we are, that we would stop!
I think we can clearly understand that, the problem for most in not a lack of information but an unwillingness to apply it to their lives. Now, before get to our text this morning here in Romans chapter 12, let me share these words with you from James Montgomery Boice. He wrote:
Unless we acknowledge God and God’s saving acts as the source and basis for our values, anyone who thinks clearly may refute our concern with such questions as these: What kind of family values are we talking about? A nuclear family? A single-parent family? A homosexual family? Why should any one be preferred above another? Or why should we want families at all? In other words, the call for values always invites these rejoinders [response]: Whose values are we talking about? and Why those?
During a meeting of college educators at Harvard University in 1987, President Frank Rhodes of Cornell University suggested in an address on educational reforms that it was time for the universities to pay attention to values and the students’ “moral well-being.”
At once there were gasps from the audience, and one student jumped to his feet, demanding indignantly, “Whose values are to be taught? And who is to teach us?” The audience applauded loudly, which meant that in its judgment the student had rendered the president’s suggestion foolish by these unanswerable questions.
President Rhodes sat down without even trying to answer them.
A generation or so ago, it would have been natural for an educator to at least point to the accumulated wisdom of more than two millennia of Western history—to the writings of philosophers like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle and to historians and modern thinkers, even if not to the Bible, though many would have included it as well. It is for a return to precisely this type of education that Allan Bloom called so eloquently in his book The Closing of the American Mind.ÿÿ But all this has been forfeited today, as President Rhodes’s capitulation showed. And it is not just that times have changed or that people today are skeptical. The problem is that without the absolutes provided by God’s revelation of himself and his ways, all views are relative and there is no real reason for doing one thing rather than another—except for selfish, personal reasons, which obviously destroy morality rather than establish it. In other words, our days have become like the times of the Jewish judges when there was no king, the law was forgotten and, as a result, “everyone did as he [or she] saw fit” (Judg. 21:25).
If revelation is the basis for social morality and ethics, then it is impossible to have valid, effective or lasting morals without it. We must have Romans 1–11 in order to have Romans 12–16.
John Calvin spoke about this at the start of his lectures on Romans 12, only he was comparing Christianity and philosophy. He said, “This is the main difference between the Gospel and philosophy. Although the philosophers speak on the subject of morals splendidly and with praiseworthy ability, yet all the embellishment which shines forth in their precepts is nothing more than a beautiful superstructure without a foundation, for by omitting principles, they propound a mutilated doctrine, like a body without a head. . . Paul [in Romans 12:1–2] lays down the principle from which all the parts of holiness flow.”
- James Montgomery Boice, Romans Volume 4, pp. 1485-1486
That is exactly what we will be talking about here this morning! And so, with that as our background for our study this morning, let’s begin reading in Romans chapter 12, starting in verse 1 and see what the Lord has for us as we study His Word.
Paul is speaking of consecration, of placing your entire life on the altar of sacrifice to be consumed by the Lord. But, I don’t believe you can truly place your entire being on this altar of sacrifice without applying God’s Word to your life! You see, if you are not willing to apply God’s Word to your life then you will not live what God has said because you will be doing those things that YOU want to do instead of what He wants you to do. Thus, there is no real consecration; there is no real surrender to Him and God is not looking for a partial surrender He is looking for a total surrender. With the rest of our time this morning we will be looking at this first verse here in Romans chapter 12 and we will finish looking at verse 2 next time because there is so much in these two verses and they kind of lay down the foundation for what this section on APPLICATION is all about.
Before we look at Romans 12:1, let me share with you how J. B. Phillips translates these two verses for us, I think it is a great translation, it really makes the point, he drives it home. “With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give Him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to Him and acceptable by Him. Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the Plan of God for you is good, meets all His demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.”
And listen to how The Amplified Bible puts these verses, because it also drives this point home in a powerful way. “I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].”
That is what we will be looking at over the next few weeks in these first two verses of Romans chapter 12. Now, let’s break down Romans 12:1 and see what we can glean from this verse so that we can apply it to our lives and learn to walk as God desires us to.
Look at Paul’s appeal to us as Christians. He says that he beseeches us or that he wants us to do what is right. He is begging us to do what is right. He wants us to choose that which is best. You see, we have choices to make in this life. It is not the old Flip Wilson adage, “the Devil made me do it!” Thus, the call is for us to live our lives in a way that God desires us to live, that we would live for Him instead of living for ourselves, fulfilling our fleshly desires.
Then Paul uses the word, “therefore” and he uses this word to introduce a key point. Sprinkled throughout this letter Paul uses this word, “therefore.” Let me show you the points he has made so far and then his point here.
In Romans 3:20 we are told, “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Paul here is speaking of the main point of CONDEMNATION. He is showing us, he is declaring to us that the whole world is guilty before a holy and righteous God! That is the key point!
Then, in Romans 5:1 Paul tells us, “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The key point here that he is introducing is JUSTIFICATION. We have been justified by faith and because of that we have peace with God and that peace is only found through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
In Romans 8:1 Paul tells us, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” The key point here is that of ASSURANCE. That we have total assurance that there is no condemnation because of what Christ has done for us!
And here in Romans 12:1 Paul tells us, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” The word, “therefore” introduces the key point of DEDICATION or DEVOTION to God here in Romans 12:1. You see, if you look at all that God has done for us, therefore we should dedicate or devote our lives to Him!
This may be hard for some but think about what you do dedicate your life to or devote you life to. For some of you it is your job. That you will work and work and work and work and your life is devoted to your job! For others it may be to sports and you know sports statistics like the back of your hand. You can quote all kinds of sports facts because you have devoted your life to that information. And we can be devoted or dedicated to all kinds of things, and they may not be bad or evil things, but what have they truly done for you?
On the other hand, look at what God has done for you. That is Paul’s point here as he says, “by the mercies of God.” What are these mercies of God that Paul is speaking of? Go back over the other 53 studies we have done on the book of Romans or look over the first 11 chapters of Romans and see what God has done for us! We have seen:
Justification
Adoption in Jesus and identification with Christ
Set under grace not law
The gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit
Help in all affliction
Standing in God’s election
The certainty of coming glory
The confidence of no separation from the love of God
Total confidence in God’s continued faithfulness
And we can go on but you get the point. Look at all God has done for us, and He wants us to live for Him now! It is as Harrison wrote, “Whereas the heathen are prone to sacrifice in order to obtain mercy, biblical faith teaches that the divine mercy provides the basis of sacrifice as the fitting response.” In knowing all that Paul has shared with us regarding God and what He has given to us, Paul is urging us to live a life that is pleasing to God. Morris put it this way: “When he uses this pattern Paul is saying that the Christian life is dependent on the great Christian doctrines.” You see, we don’t live a life that is separate from the Word of God but a life that is according to the Word of God!
How do we do this? By presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice. That we are holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service or spiritual worship! You see, our lives should be different now that we have come to Christ. We should not be living like we were. Leon Morris says, “It is fundamental to [Paul] that the justified man does not live in the same way as the unrepentant sinner.” That is what we should be doing, that is how we should be living, in a way that honors God!
Now Paul tells us that we are to be a living sacrifice unto God. That is our lives are to be placed on the altar to be offered up as a burnt offering, totally given to God, and it will be a sweet smelling sacrifice unto God as we do. Too often we give God portions of our lives but not our entire being. He wants it all and as we do, He gives it back to us so we may bring Him glory! And many times, because we are living sacrifices, we jump off the table and run away!
To be totally consecrated to God means everyday we must, in light of all that God has done for us and especially because we now belong to Him, we must first present our bodies to God! Let me give you a few verses to show you what I mean. In Romans 6:13 Paul wrote, “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.” Once again, this tells me we have a choice to make, how we present ourselves.
Also, in I Corinthians 6:20 Paul tells us, “For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Almighty God became flesh and dwelt among us, going to the cross of Calvary and dying for our sins, being raised on the third day to make us happy people? No, He died so that we might be holy people and glorify God in all that we do! You see, when Paul speaks of our bodies he is not talking about flesh and blood but about all that we are, every part of us being placed on the altar of sacrifice, totally dedicated to the Lord for His use, for His glory! Because of all He has done for us, we should live for Him and that will only be done when you are willing to give your life totally to Him!
Yes, the Old Testament sacrifices were dead; they were not living when they were placed on the altar to be given to God. But here Paul speaks of us being living sacrifices and that means as living sacrifices we must place ourselves on the altar and offer ourselves to God. And the sacrifice that Paul is speaking of, I believe, is the burnt offering, which was totally given to God as a sweet smelling sacrifice, and it speaks of totally consecration to God.
Leon Morris says, “Paul surely expected Christians to offer to God not only their bodies but their whole selves. . . . But we should bear in mind that the body is very important in the Christian understanding of things. Our bodies may be ‘implements of righteousness’ (6:13) and ‘members of Christ’ (1 Cor. 6:15). The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19); Paul can speak of being ‘holy both in body and in spirit’ (1 Cor. 7:34). He knows that there are possibilities of evil in the body but that in the believer ‘the body of sin’ has been brought to nothing (6:6).”
In a similar manner, Robert Haldane says, “It is of the body that the apostle here speaks, and it is not proper to extract out of his language more than it contains. . . . This shows the importance of serving God with the body as well as with the soul.”
But why do we do this? What is the motivation of our hearts to live holy lives before God? There are many out there that have many different reasons, but listen to what we are told in Rediscovering Holiness by J. I. Packer. He wrote, “The secular world never understands Christian motivation. Faced with the question of what makes Christians tick, unbelievers maintain that Christianity is practiced only out of self-serving purposes. They see Christians as fearing the consequences of not being Christians (religion as fire insurance), or feeling the need of help and support to achieve their goals (religion as a crutch), or wishing to sustain a social identity (religion as a badge of respectability). No doubt all these motivations can be found among the membership of churches: it would be futile to dispute that. But just as a horse brought into a house is not thereby made human, so a self-seeking motivation brought into the church is not thereby made Christian, nor will holiness ever be the right name for religious routines thus motivated. From the plan of salvation I learn that the true driving force in authentic Christian living is, and ever must be, not the hope of gain, but the heart of gratitude.”
That is exactly what Paul is teaching. As John Calvin wrote, “Paul’s entreaty teaches us that men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to his mercy.” When we truly understand all that God has done for us, the sacrifice He made because of His great love for us, and not because we deserved it, then to live a life that is pleasing to Him should not be done because we feel forced into doing it, but because He loves us so much that it causes us to love Him that much more!
Think about growing up as a kid. You knew how much your parents loved you and what did you do? You tried to do things that would please them, not because you had to but because they loved you so much it caused you to love them that much more! Now that is not to say there were times when we dishonored our parents, we did not glorify them you might say in all we did, but that did not change their love for us, at least it shouldn’t. And even if their love changed based on your behavior, God’s will never change. He loves you more than you will ever know and He can’t love you anymore than He loves you right now and He can’t love you any less for His love for you is unconditional!
And like I have said, we need to give all to God. We need to give him our MINDS. That is to say that we are to fill our minds with the things of God and not the things of this world! We are to give Him our EYES and EARS. In other words, are we guarding what goes in through the eye gate and in our ears? We need to seek things that are good, that are holy; to listen to things that will build us up and not tear us down. To watch things that will build us up and not tear us down!
We are to give Him our TONGUES. In other words, may the words of the Lord flow from our lips instead of the things of this world, the evil and hateful things that can speak forth from this little muscle! May we use our tongue to bring glory to God and to edify those that need to be edified and correct in love those that need correction! And we are to give Him our HANDS and FEET. In other words, may the work we do be glorifying to God, the things we do with our hands. May the places we go, where we walk be glorifying to God!
In other words, total consecration to God, that is what Paul is speaking of here. And folks, it is not easy. Listen to the struggle F. B. Meyer had regarding this issue of total consecration to God and not just partial, or most of, or even 99.999%, all of his life to God. We are told:
Dr. F. B. Meyer came to a crucial, transitional time in his ministry. He sat dejectedly in his study. “My ministry is unfruitful, and I lack spiritual power,” he said to himself.
Suddenly Christ seemed to stand beside him. “Let me have the keys to your life,” Christ said. The experience was so realistic that he reached into his pocket and took out a bunch of keys! “Are all the keys here?” “Yes, Lord, all except the key to one small room in my life.” Christ said: “If you cannot trust me in all rooms of your life, I cannot accept any of the keys.”
Dr. Meyer was so overwhelmed with the feeling that Christ was moving out of his life because he was excluding Him from one interest in his life that he cried out, “Come back, Lord, and take the keys to all the rooms of my life!”
- Walter B. Knight
Are we willing to do that? Only you can answer that question. And now here’s the thing. As we give ourselves to the Lord, as we lay our lives down upon the altar of sacrifice, Paul tells us that it is our “reasonable service” or literally our “spiritual worship.” Let me explain this, because I do believe this is important. First of all the word “reasonable” comes from the Greek word, LOGIKOS, (log-ik-os’) and it can also be translated “of the word” just as it is in I Peter 2:2. Also, the word “service” in the Greek is LATREIA, (lat-ri’-ah) and it speaks of the worship of God. Thus, what is our reasonable, our logical service unto God? Listen carefully; it is a life of worship that is according to God’s Word! Again, if you don’t have the right doctrine you are not going to be able to live a life that is pleasing to God, I don’t care what people will tell you today! I think that Paul makes this point very clear! Jesus said that we are to worship God in SPIRIT and TRUTH! In other words, we must be saved and we must worship Him according to His Word!
If this is what God desires from us, then why do so many people struggle in this area? I think John MacArthur hits the nail on the head as he tells us, Some years ago, a tearful and obviously distraught young woman approached me at a conference where I was speaking. She told me a story I have heard many times. “I just can’t seem to live the Christian life the way I should,” she said. “I’m frustrated. I don’t have spiritual victory or a sense of accomplishment. I struggle with the simplest forms of obedience, and I’m constantly defeated. Can you help me?”
I said, “What has been your approach to solving the problems yourself?” She replied, “I’ve tried everything. I’ve attended churches where they speak in tongues, have healings, and have all kinds of extraordinary spiritual experiences. I’ve spoken in tongues myself, had ecstatic experiences, been prophesied over, and experienced several supposed miracles. I’ve been ‘slain in the spirit.’ But despite all of that, I’m not pleased with my life and I know God isn’t pleased. I’ve tried to get everything from Him that I can, but I’m not satisfied. I’m still miserable and want more.”
“I think you have just put your finger on the problem,” I said. “The key to spiritual victory and true happiness is not in trying to get all we can from God but in giving all that we are and have to Him.”
Countless thousands of people today, including many genuine Christians, flock to various churches, seminars, and conferences in search of personal benefits — practical, emotional, and spiritual — that they hope to receive. They do just the opposite of what Paul so plainly emphasizes in Rom 12:1-2. In this forceful and compassionate exhortation, the apostle does not focus on what more we need to receive from God but on what we are to give Him. The key to a productive and satisfying Christian life is not in getting more but in giving all.
- John MacArthur, Romans
We tend to make it so complicated when in reality it is just complete surrender! Yes, the Old Testament priests came with bodies of slain animals to offer up to God, but we, as New Testament priests you might say, bring our own bodies, our own lives to the Lord and place them on the altar of sacrifice as a living sacrifice unto the Lord and that is our logical, our reasonable, our spiritual worship, one that is in accordance with the Word of God!
Think about this for a minute. Because Jesus Christ has already made the only dead sacrifice the New Covenant requires — the only sacrifice that has power to save men from eternal death — all that remains for worshipers today is the presentation of themselves as living sacrifices. Let me share a few examples of Christians who were willing to lay their lives on the altar of sacrifice for their Lord to be used as He pleased.
We are told of the story a Chinese Christian who was moved with compassion when many of his countrymen were taken to work as coolies in South African mines. In order to be able to witness to his fellow Chinese, this prominent man sold himself to the mining company to work as a coolie for five years. He died there, still a slave, but not until he had won more than 200 men to Christ. He was a living sacrifice in the fullest sense.
Also, in the mid-seventeenth century, a somewhat well-known Englishman was captured by Algerian pirates and made a slave. While a slave, he founded a church. When his brother arranged his release, he refused freedom, having vowed to remain a slave until he died in order to continue serving the church he had founded. Today a plaque in an Algerian church bears his name.
And I am sure you have all heard of David Livingstone, I presume, the renowned and noble missionary to Africa, wrote in his journal, "People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of the great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own reward of healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? . . . Away with such a word, such a view, and such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering or danger now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause and cause the spirit to waver and sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not talk when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father’s throne on high to give Himself for us." (Livingstone's Private Journal: 1851-53, pp. 108, 132)
Look at these men like Livingstone and other Christians who offer a living sacrifice of themselves and they usually do not consider it to be a sacrifice. And it is not a sacrifice in the common sense of losing something valuable. The only things we entirely give up for God — to be removed and destroyed — are sin and sinful things, which only bring us injury and death. But when we offer God the living sacrifice of ourselves, He does not destroy what we give Him but refines it and purifies it, not only for His glory but also for our present and eternal good.
Are you willing this morning, as you leave this church, ready to completely, entirely, with every part of your being, consecrate yourself, dedicate yourself to the Lord? You see, that is what He desires in our lives because it is what is best for our lives. This is the application to everything that we say we believe! Let me ask you this. Do you know where we find the first, “living sacrifice” in the Bible?
It is in Genesis chapter 22 and it is the story of Isaac. God told his father, Abraham to take his son, his only son and sacrifice him on a specific mountain and we are told that Abraham did just that. And, maybe because of our children’s Sunday School lessons we tend to think of Isaac as this little boy or teenager when in fact he was much older and I tend to believe he was 33 years of age, the same as when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ sacrificed His life for us! Thus, I think this 33-year-old man could have refused to go with his father who was 130 some years old, but he didn’t. He freely placed his life on the altar of sacrifice you might say, as a living sacrifice, willing to give all. And, of course the Lord did not allow him to be sacrificed in the physical sense, but there is the first example of a “living sacrifice” in the Bible and now Paul is admonishing us to do the same! It is as Jim Elliot wrote, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” May we not forget that!
Another missionary, William Borden, came from a wealthy privileged family, was a graduate of Yale University, and had the promise of a wonderful and lucrative career before him. But he felt a call to serve God as a missionary in China and left for the field even though his family and friends thought him a fool for going. After a short time away and even before he reached China, Borden contracted a fatal disease and died. He had given up everything to follow Jesus. He died possessing nothing in this world. But Borden of Yale did not regret it. We know this because he left a note as he lay dying that said, “No reserve, no retreat, and no regrets.” Like so many others, he found the service of Christ to be eminently reasonable, and he gained a lasting reward.
And, in one of Jim Elliot’s diary entries, and for those who are not aware, Jim was martyred by the Auca Indian’s for his faith in Christ, and this is what he wrote, “God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.”
Are we willing to do that, lay it all on the line for Jesus? Are we done playing church and ready to live out our faith because God is looking for people who are available for Him to use, all we must do is surrender to Him. Or as we have read here this morning, and this again is from the J. B. Phillips translation, “With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give Him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to Him and acceptable by Him. Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the Plan of God for you is good, meets all His demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.” Romans 12:1-2. May we have that kind of passion and love and be able to surrender all to Him for it is truly our logical, our reasonable spiritual service of worship! It is a life of worship that is according to God’s Word!