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We kicked off our new series Life on the Altar by carefully looking at Romans 12:1 where Paul urges us to look at the mercies of God so that we will be living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to him. But how are we to become a living sacrifice? What does it look like to live life on the altar? The apostle Paul is going to give us a number of instructions and pictures to teach us what life on the altar looks and how we can become the living sacrifices God wants. Please open your copies of God’s word to Romans 12 and we are going to spend our time in this lesson looking at verse 2…

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I want to begin our study by reading the first two verses of 2 Chronicles 25. You will read that Amaziah was 25 years old when he began to reign. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. At the very beginning of the account of Amaziah’s reign, the Chronicler wants you to pay attention to what happens to him. He did right in the eyes of the Lord, but not with his whole heart. We are left with some questions that we want answered. Why did he not serve with his whole heart? What did he do that brought this result about? What happens when faith goes missing, how does this happen, and what can we do to make sure this failure does not happen to us?

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We have been looking at eleven chapters in Romans over the past few months. But it is important to notice that Paul does not start in chapter 12. We must know the first eleven chapters to appreciate what Paul is going to tell us that we must do. So how should we sum up all that we have looked at over these chapters in the book of Romans? The apostle Paul has a simple phrase to sum up what he has taught to us. He calls them “the mercies of God” in Romans 12:1. It would probably be helpful for to scan back through through eleven chapters to remember the mercies of God that Paul proclaimed…

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The message of Romans 9-11 is that the mercy of God is here. The mercy of God is available to all who will receive it. In Romans 9 we observed Paul asking us to consider what we are doing with God’s mercy. Is God’s mercy moving us to serve him or to resist him? In our second lesson from Romans 9:30-10:4 we saw that the reason people resist God’s mercy is because they are establishing their own way of righteousness. We do not want to do things God’s way. We want to do things our way and believe that we are saved and that we are God’s people. In Romans 10 we saw Paul teach that it is not too hard or too far out of reach to do what God has asked us to do. God has not asked the impossible from us. The problem is not that it is too hard but that we do not want to listen. If we believed, then we would be transformed in heart to obey the gospel. This brings us to Romans 11. As we come to Romans 11 I want us to think about why God keeps telling us about his judgment and his offer of mercy. Is God being mean or insensitive or uncaring by telling us about his wrath and coming judgment? This is a common response that people have to hearing about the idea of wrath, judgment, hell, and the like. I want us to notice where this teaching concludes in Romans 11…

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Have you ever considered something to be too hard to do so that you do not even try to do it? There have been things that I have looked at, maybe did a little research on it, and then decided that it was too hard for me to do. This has been particularly true when it comes to working on my car. I have watched videos, saw the degree of difficulty, and thought that there was no way that I could do what I am watching. What I want us to think about as we begin is that there are many things in life that we do not attempt because we think it will be too hard to do. Sometimes this thinking bleeds into how we look at serving the Lord. Moses addressed this in one of his final sermons to the people of Israel…

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There is great power in influence. We even have a term today for a special group of people that we call influencers. An influencer is someone that people listen to and, because of that, are able to use their good will to encourage people to do or not do things. Businesses understand the power of influencers and will try to pay them or send them free products so that they will review their product and influence people to buy their product or service. Influence is powerful. We have another term for influence called peer pressure. Because we care about what other people think and respond, we will do certain things because of their influence. Things that we would not consider doing we might consider doing because of the influence of others. Influence is powerful. This is the key message that we are going to study in this lesson from 2 Chronicles 21-24. In these chapters were are going to read three examples of influence. As we read about these influencers I want us to think about who is influencing us and who are we influencing…

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