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We continue our study of Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s letters<\/a> this week with Romans 12<\/a>. In the first 11 chapters of Romans, Paul talked about salvation and being reconciled to God through faith in Christ, not by works of the law. In Romans 12, Paul instructs all who put their faith in Christ to live a life surrendered to Christ.<\/p>\n

Paul begins exhorting us to:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/b> <\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

v. 1 (NASB)<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have been bought at a price. We are not our own. We are God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. We worship and honor Him by committing all that we have to Him.<\/p>\n

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you w<\/em>ere bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. <\/b><\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV)<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slave.<\/b> You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 7:22-23 (NASB)<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul continues instructing us to:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

v. 2 (NASB)<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I often pray and ask God to show me His will for me. I always think that I have to be doing something that has an eternal impact on someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life in order to be doing His will. \u00c2\u00a0But God repeatedly reminds me that His will is to transform me into His holiness. I often forget that He has to work in me<\/i> in order to work through me<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As we conform to God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s will, instead of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, He can work through us to minister to others. When we use the gifts God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s given us to minister to others, Paul explains that we should not think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. Our gifts differ from one another. But all gifts are equally important because they have been given to us by God to accomplish His purposes.<\/p>\n

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.<\/b> For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;\u00c2\u00a0<\/sup>or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

v. 3-8 (NASB)<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the rest of the chapter, verses 9-21, Paul instructs us how to faithfully serve God. I found it helpful to break down these instructions and study them one verse at a time.<\/p>\n

Paul instructs us:<\/b><\/p>\n