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Romans 12:-1-21

 

Your Body is a Living Sacrifice 

 

• Because of God’s mercy. We are urged to present our bodies as a living sacrifice 

• Holy, pleasing to the Lord (life that is holy according to the Word 

• This true worship

• Do not be conformed to this age 

• Transformed by renewing our minds 

• To have discernment of God’s will

 

Offering your whole self to christ daily 

 

 Sacrifice is a choice 

We can do a lot of work for God and never give Him our body 

They had to bring a living animal sacrifice so for paul to say bring yourself as a living sacrifice 

The opposite of transform is to be conformed.

He talking about renewing your mind. Because that where the battle is 

We allow the Holy spirit to renew,, reeducate and redirect us daily through the Word 

 

Everyone in the Body has a Gift, Use it Well

• Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should 

• Think Sensibly 

• Each person has been distributed a measure of faith 

• Everybody does not have the same function 

• We are one body in Christ and individual still should be unified on the WORD 

• Our gifts have been given to us by grace.

• The gifts 

Prophecy -use it according to the proportion of one’s faith Those with the gift of prophecy should speak only when they are confident that the Holy Spirit is truly revealing something to them.

Service-use it in service 

Teaching-teaching 

Exhorting-in exhortation

Giving-in generosity 

Leading-with diligence 

Mercy-showing mercy with cheerfulness

 

• Love without hypocrisy (no mask no feeling, actions 

• Detest evil (all ungodliness and wickedness 

• Cling to what is good

• Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters

• Outdo one another in showing hone 

• Do not lack diligence in zeal 

• Be fervent in the Spirit (boiling)/

• Serve the Lord 

• Rejoice in hope

• Patient in affliction 

• Be persistent in prayer 

• Share with the saints in need 

• Pursue hospitality 

• Bless those who persecute you. Bless not curse

• Rejoice with those who rejoice 

• Weep with those who weep

• Live in harmony with one another 

• Don’t be proud. Associate with the humble 

• Don’t be wise in your own estimation 

• Don’t repay evil for evil 

• Give careful thought to doing what is honorable in everyone’s eyes

• IF possible far as it depends on you. Live in peace with everyone 

• Don’t avenge for yourself 

• Leave room for God’s wrath because vengeance belongs to Him. He will pay 

• Feed your enemy to heap fiery coal on his head 

• Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good 

When we submit to God and our lives are living sacrifices we can be used by HIm

 

Have you presented your body as a living sacrifice? 

Where are you using your spiritual gifts? 

 

The Chew 

To be renewed in the mind. 

Watch what goes into the body and feed the mind with the Word 

 

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Because Jesus condemned sin We are Free From Condemned

• No condemnation of those in Christ 

• The law of the Spirit sets us free from the law of death 

• The flesh weakened the law 

• Jesus came in the flesh to be a sin offering to fully meet the righteous requirement 

• For those who do not live according to the flesh but to the Spirit 

 

Are you free?

The Fleshy vs Spiritual Mindset

• Those who live according to the flesh have the mindset of what the flesh desires

• Those who live according to the Spirit have their mindset on what the Spirit desires 

• The mind governed by flesh = death 

• The mind governed by spirit =life and peace

• The mind governed by flesh is hostile to God 

It does not submit to God’s law nor can it 

If your mindset is wrong then your feet are going to go in the wrong direction
Which mindset do you have?

Like watching TV or social media you can be on two channels or two apps simultaneously. You have to choose 

The Spirit vs Fleshy Realm 

• Those who are in the realm of the flesh can not please God 

• If the spirit of god is in you then you are in the realm of the Spirit 

• If you don’t have the spirit of God then you don't belong to Christ 

• If Christ is in you, even tho your body is subject to death you will have life and righteousness because of the spirit 

• If the Spirit who raised Christ lives in you he will give life to your mortal bodies 

Which realm are you operating in?

Life According to the Flesh 

• We have an obligation not to live according to the flesh 

• If you do, you will de

• If by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body you will live 

 

The Spirit identifies God’s Children 

• Those who the Spirit leads are God’s children 

• The Spirit doesn't make you a slave but makes you a son by adoption 

• Now you can call God Abba Father he is now your daddy 

• The Spirit will testify with our spirit if we are God’s children 

• Children receive an inheritance from their father 

• We share his suffering and his glory ( we don't just take our inheritance and life the total peaceful we will have trials and how we deal with them represents his glory 

Our walk represents our daddy Abba it is the proof. The word Abba has the meaning papa or daddy 

The Desires of the Spirit vs the Flesh 

• Walk by the Spirit to not gratify the desires of the Flesh 

• The flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit 

• The spirit desires what is contrary  to the flesh 

• They conflict with each other 

• You are not to do whatever you want 

• If you are led by the spirit you are not under the law 

You are either pleasing God over self or your self over God 

Our walk is the conduct of our lives 

To  walk you have to be active not passive the spirit leads we follow 

Two ways of life, Two outcomes 

The Acts of the Flesh vs The Fruit of the Spirt 

• Acts of the flesh 

Sexual immorality

Impurity 

Debauchery 

Idolatry 

Witchcraft 

Hatred 

Discord

Jealousy 

Fits of rage 

Self ambition

Dissensions

Factins 

Envy 

Drunkenness 

Orgies 

Those who practice these things will not inherit the Kingdom of God 

These are obvious and observable 

To walk in these is slavery 

Believers who live in the flesh will have consequences 

Work is something you.. Works of the flesh or works spirit ;

Fruit of the Spirit 

Love 

Joy 

peace 

Patience 

Kindness

Goodness 

Faithful 

Gentleness 

Self-control 

Just as the works of the flesh are evident so is the fruit 

Against these, there is no law 

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh and its passions and desires 

We live by the spirit so we keep in step with the spirit march with the commander leading the holy spirit must be included in every move 

Let us not become conceited provoking and envying each other you can't take credit for the fruit you bear that’s all  on the Spirit and you can't envy another person's fruit 

 

The flesh must be crucified 

 

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The actions of one person affect many...

 

There is a comparison in the Scriptures that shows you what Adam's sin vs Christ's righteousness did for us. Today we will look at Romans 5:12-21

Adam Sin brought Death into the world

•  When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

• For the sin of this one man, Adam brought death to many.

• Adam’s sin brought condemnation 

• Cause sin to rule over many 

Christ's Death Brought Life into the World 

• Jesus brought the gift of forgiveness to many

• God’s free leads to righteousness even though we are guilty 

• The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to be king over all, but all who will take God’s gift of forgiveness and acquittal are kings of life[d] because of this one man, Jesus Christ. V17 TLB

• Christ’s righteousness to those who receive it will triumph over sin and death 

through Jesus 

 

Adams one sin vs Jesus one act 

• Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. 19 

 

One person disobeyed vs One person Obeyed 

 

• Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.

 

God’s law shows our sin and his grace 

God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. 

  Sin used to rule but now grace rules 

• So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death,

•  now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, 

• giving us the right standing with God 

• resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Digest 

 

• Sin came into the world through Adam’s sin and every time we sin we identify with Adam

• We all came from the Adam family line of sin, guilt, and punishment but we can trade family lines and be born again into Christ's family where there is righteousness, forgiveness, and eternal life 

Everyone is either in Adam or in Christ. If we do nothing we stay in Adam’s family and die. If we come to God through Jesus we live which family do you belong to?

 

The Chew 

 

Sin can’t overpower grace. 

 

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"We had a need and God had a solution in Christ Jesus"

 

"We are all under the power of sin"

"We have all turned away"

" Every part of our body is guilty of sin" 

"We are freed from the slavery of sin with the redemption price of the blood of Christ"

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Refusal to Repent requires Righteous Judgment 

 

God is being patient and kind. His kindness is what means to lead to repentance –to lead you to him. He is not going to force himself on you. His spirit will draw you to him leading you to repentance

 

They mistook his patience for his absence. If I judged me by not he aint going to judge me 

But they were being stubborn ( 

 

But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin,

you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. 

 

What does it mean to store up something? You stack it up. So those who don't repent and turn are stacking up a storage unit of wrath. 

 

For a day of anger is coming when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. He will judge everyone according to what they have done. 

Eternal Life vs Wrath

He will give eternal life

• to those who keep on doing good (not good for salvation but good out of your salvation. Those who trust in the Lord will do good.)

• seeking after the glory and honor and immortality (eternity) that God offers. 

 

He will pour out his anger and wrath on 

• those who live for themselves

• who refuse to obey the truth 

• instead live lives of wickedness, fight against the truth walk in evil ways 

 

Trouble or Glory 

• There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 

 

• But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. 

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It's not works-based salvation but he will reward those who honor him not based on the background but individual specifically 

 

• For God does not show favoritism.  The Gospel is for everyone. All means All in the Bible. This faith has no race.

 

• You going to get what you have earned

• We must ask him to reveal our sins so we can repent 

• Not get satisfied in our sin. 

• What if God punished us right away every time we did something wrong life would be a mess and be graceless. But eventually, there will be punishment if you don't repent 

 

As parents we give our children chance after chance but why take a chance with Jesus? It's too much to gamble your eternity for the sake of thinking you have time. 

 

Remember that Jesus came first to save and next to Judge 

 

The chew

 

The antidote for wrath is repentance.

 

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God is angry because we are suppressing HIS truth.

God shows his anger at Wicked people who know about God but suppress the truth 

• Once a man rejects the truth of God in Jesus, he will fall for anything foolish
• So basically God is like you want to do what you want to do, so he closes up his Mercy and opens up his Wrath. It is the consequence of living apart from him

God Abandons those who do vile and degrading things, follow heart desires, homosexual

• Paul lived in a culture like ours that was accepting the shameful vile and degrading lifestyle as the norm. 
• They trade the truth for the lie. WHo is the Liar? The enemy. 

 

God abandoned to foolish thinking and foolish behaviors 

• The freedom to continue in the sin is  the judgment
• A culture without Jesus is death because he is the way the truth and the life. Apart from him, there is no life.

• Wrath is righteous and necessary 

  
  

  That's why we needed a savior when God sees Jesus in the US he doesn't see his Wrath Christ took upon the Wrath that we deserved on the cross. 

  
  

   God does not send you to hell. Your rejection of Christ is what sends you to hell.

  
  

  First people reject God,fall into sin, and then they encourage others to reject God through their lifestyle.

The Chew 

Life without God is the worst slavery known to mankind because you are a slave to sin it is your master you are on the plantation of rebellion But the good news is that Christ can redeem you from that Plantation he came to purchase you from the bondage and death sentence of the master named sin.

 

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Overview of the Book of Hebrews 

Focus on what stood out to you the most!

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The Son was Gone..The Death, Burial and Resurrection 

 

 “By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words, he breathed his last. 

 

• The light was gone from the sun, Nature and Creation mourned

• This shows us that Jesus is the true light and the Son of Man. 

• Darkness preceded his death showing us that without Jesus there would be no light

• The torn curtain shows allow us access to the throne room of God. Only the Holy Priest could enter once a year to atone for the sins of the people at the death of Christ the barrier was split so Christ gave us access to Jesus

• Jesus had trusted God’s plan for us and now he released his spirit into the hands of His Father and breathed his last breath

 

How is this significant to us? Without Jesus, there is a darkness that hovers over our lives. There is not Light. There is no Son. There is no access to the throne room without him.  Christ's dead tore the veil to grant us access to God’s presence. His obedience to the point of death is an example of following God and taking up our cross daily

 

The Sorrow was present 

When the Roman officer overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man was innocent.” And when all the crowd that came to see the crucifixion saw what had happened, they went home in deep sorrow. But Jesus’ friends, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching.

 

• Here we see the death was execution 

• The Roman officer knew Jesus was innocent. 

• He began to worship God. Could this have been salvation at the cross the scales were removed from his eyes 

• The crowd saw the crucifixion –when is it ever comfortable to watch someone die 

• But the people who loved him and followed him they stood back at a distance 

 

It took the death of Jesus to remove the scales from the Roman officer's eyes. What is it going to take for yours? I wonder if he was saved after this. He gave worship to God but I wonder if he gave his heart to him. We would want to stand around the execution chair of our best friend for a crime they didn’t do. So his friends stood at a distance. This had to be hard to experience and watch. 

 

The Secret Disciple who buried Jesus 

 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish high council, but he did not agree with the decisions and actions of the other religious leaders. He was from the town of Arimathea in Judea, and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come. He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then he took the body down from the cross wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb that had been carved out of rock. This was done late on Friday afternoon, the day of preparation, as the Sabbath was about to begin. As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where his body was placed. Then they went home and prepared spices and ointments to anoint his body. But by the time they were finished the Sabbath had begun, so they rested as required by the law.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭23‬:‭44‬-‭56‬ ‭NLT‬‬

 

• Joseph was not in agreement with the death of Jesus. He was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come 

• He took care of Jesus' burial body 

• Here we see the wrapping in the linen cloth like we saw in the cloths at birth 

• It was the women who went to the tomb 

• It was the women who went to prepare ointments and spices to anoint his body 

He had got Jesus a new tomb. So we see there was o fishy stuff.They might have tried to say the stone was a little used and loose. Joseph was waiting on the Kingdom are you waiting on the Kingdom? 

 

The Sunday that changes everything  

“But very early on Sunday morning, the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes. The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.” Then they remembered that he had said this. So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened. But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it. However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭24‬:‭1‬-‭12‬ ‭NLT‬‬

 

• Sunday morning. The women took the spices but the stone had been rolled away 

• They didn't find the body 

• Two men in dazzling robes appeared and terrified them 

• The men question them. Why are you looking among the dead for someone alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!

• Jesus had already told them he would be betrayed, crucified and risen 

• The women rushed to tell the disciples and everyone else 

• It was women who told about the resurrection 

• But the men thought it sounded like nonsense and didn't believe 

• Peter jumped to see and he went home wondering what had happened 

Are you looking among the dead for the living? What dead thing, place, or circumstance are you still looking to?

 

Who are you going to for help? Remember in the Old Testament how the Lord told them in Jeremiah their idols can't help them nor harm them. Why because they are dead!

 

The fact that Jesus told them and they didn't believe the plan after it was played out right in their face. 

When Jesus returns, there will be some people who still don’t believe what is happening even though through his Word He tells us just like he told them 

 

The women have a role and relationship in the resurrection 

• It was the women who stayed at the cross 

• It was the women who prepared the spices

• It was the women who followed to the tomb 

• It was the women who first entered the tomb 

• It was the woman that the angel first told about the Risen Lord

• It was the women who rushed to tell the others about the Resurrection 

 

The man thought it sounded like nonsense and didn't believe. Peter ran to see and still didn’t believe 

Will you be like these women?

 

Without the Resurrection, we have no faith and no hope, no eternal. Jesus had to rise so we can live forever. 

Christian faith is the only faith that has a LIVING GOD and LIVING WORD 

The Chew

 

Women have a role and responsibility to prepare our souls for Jesus to follow him, testify about him, and share the gospel. 

 

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Jesus demonstrates the power in His Identity... I AM HE  Jesus is Betrayed...

 

• Jesus had just finished praying for all believers Pause .. when we are praying and covering trust that the enemy is going to come seeking to kill and destroy that which you just covered. Jesus was praying for us before he was about to die. 

• He was with his disciples across the Kidron Valley in the garden.  The brook would have been reddish from the blood of the Passover lamb right before he would become our lamb of God shedding his blood that still flows today. 

• Judas the betrayer knew the location because Jesus often met with his disciples there 

• So Judas brings his mob squad to the garden  (around about 200men) 

• Jesus knew everything that was getting ready to happen Jesus knew everything that was going to go down and he didn’t run and escape he stayed and let the plan unfold. The plan that benefits us right now. 

I am the man you are looking for 

• He stepped to them and asked Who is it that you are looking for? Jesus was not afraid of these weapon-carrying men He approached them first. The whole time he is in control. They fell, and they let his men go. 

• They replied Jesus of Nazareth

• Jesus replied I am he”

• Judas was standing with them 

• Jesus tells them again I am he

• The mob stepped back and fell to the ground (they knew who they were dealing with the great  I am, their physical weapons had no power. Jesus's words were enough to knock them off their feet. Divine power 

• Jesus asked them again who are you looking for

• Jesus, they replied if you looking for me let these men go 

• This fulfilled the word he had said I have not lost one of those you have given to me 

 

Simon the Sword Slayer

• Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the high Priest servant's right ear off

• Jesus said to Peter put the sword away. Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me? Peter was in the way of the obedience of Jesus to the Father who is in your way to obedience to the Father?

• Peter was always trying to be Jesus' bodyguard but Jesus didn't need Peter to protect him. He was El Nekamoth the God who avenges. He can handle his own. And if Peter would have blocked his obedience then you and I would be dead in our trespasses forever. Because Jesus went on to drink the cup of wrath for our sins and sake 

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YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN --Jesus 

• Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jew. Pharisee comes to Jesus at night. 

• He told Jesus he knew he was sent from God because no one else could perform the signs he did unless God was with him 

• Jesus responded by telling him unless you are born again you will never enter the Kingdom of God 

Two types of Birth 

Physical/Spiritual 

One comes from the flesh. Your mother’s body 

One comes from the Spirit. From the Holy Spirit

The wind blows and you hear, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with the Spirit. We don’t know who he will give his spirit to next because the heart work is inside. We only see the evidence of the fruit on the outside

I’m telling you what I know 

• Jesus said he was telling what he knew, what he has seen, yet you still won't believe and accept my testimony

• He had the testimony out of Jesus' mouth. And still wouldn't believe

• I have told you about earthly things you don't believe so how can you believe things about heaven?

• No one has ascended into heaven except the one who has descended from heaven—the son of man 

• Just as man lifted up the snake in the wilderness. Jesus tells him I will be lifted up so that everyone who believes in me will have eternal life.

God so loved the world 

• The most famous verse–for God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son 

• So that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life 

• Jesus was not sent to condemn but to save the world 

The Trial of this life 

• Believers are not condemned 

• Unbelievers are already condemned because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God 

• This is the judgment 

Light came into the world 

People loved the darkness rather than the light they wanted to sin her their darkness 

Because their deeds were evil 

Those who do evil hate the light and avoid it 

Coming into the light would expose the darkness 

Those who live in the truth 

Come to the light 

So that his works may be accomplished by God and everyone see what God has done in their life.

 

John testifies about Jesus again 

• Jesus and disciples were baptizing in Judea 

• John was baptized as well 

• Dispute broke out because everyone was going to Jesus' baptisms 

• John responds No one can receive anything unless its from heaven 

• John reminds him my work was to prepare so that everyone would go to him 

• He said his joy was complete and that Jesus must become greater and he become less 

• He said Jesus was from above and is above all and he was from earthly and spoke on earthly terms 

• He told them just what Jesus told NIcodemus Jesus had testified to what he seen and heard and yet they still didnt accept his testimony 

• The one who accepts his testimony has affirmed that God is true 

• The one God sent speaks God’s words 

• God gives him his  Spirit without measure 

• God loves Jesus and  has given him all things into his hand 

• The one who believes in Jesus has eternal life a

• The one who rejects Jesus will not see life(heaven) and the wrath(anger and punishment) of God remains on him. 

• What does it mean to reject Jesus?

• not to allow one's self to be persuaded

• to refuse or withhold belief

• to refuse belief and obedience

• not to comply with

 

So have you trusted in Jesus as your Lord and Surrender your life to Him?

Are you like Nicodemus you know about his teaching and want to know more but afraid to do it in the day?  Jesus is available  day or night. Run to Him!

The Chew 

You must be born again

 

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