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The theme of the book of Romans is victory, yes, but it’s also more; it’s surpassing victory. That is God’s will for your life. God does not want you defeated. He wants you to have surpassing victory through Him who loved you.

He’s been building on this theme for several chapters; verse by verse, laying a foundation and then building upon it; truth by truth, precept by precept. The Spirit bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. You have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which you cry out, “Abba! Father!”

The Spirit helps you in your weakness. And even though you do not know how to pray as you should, the Spirit intercedes for you, he prays to the Father in your behalf.

God works all things together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. What can we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? For I am convinced, Paul said, that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is found in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Those are great promises. It’s when you hear such promises and take hold of them and live according to them that faith is strengthened. Faith is anchored to truth. That’s why Paul said in Romans 10:17, “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”

That brings us to our current study in this short series through the book of Romans. In chapter 12, Paul gives the epicenter of what it means to live according to faith. It’s all about God’s transforming power. God doesn’t want to just give you truth, he wants you to be transformed by the truth -- so he sends that truth with power to transform your life.

That’s God’s will for your life. Paul talks about God’s will in these verses. Many people are very interested to know God’s will for their lives, but what they mean is that they want to know what God has in store for them. But the key to understanding God’s will is that He is first and foremost concerned with who you are and that you be transformed by His power, His truth, and His presence in your life.

I. Be a Living and Holy Sacrifice

 Paul begins by passionately entreating, beseeching them, “I urge you, therefore,” Paul said.

 “I beseech you by the mercies of God.” These are strong words. Paul is imploring you, by the mercies of God, to be transformed…

A. Present your body as a living sacrifice
 In the Old Testament a sacrifice was something offered to God which represented the heart, “My heart is yours, Lord, so I give You this offering from my heart.”
Illus - Last week I gave the illustration of someone who gives flowers on Valentine’s Day simply because it’s the thing to do on Valentine’s Day. Giving a gift simply out of obligation is empty; it means nothing. But when your heart does love and you give something because of that love, that’s completely different.
 To present your body as a holy and living sacrifice is to say, “God I want to honor you with the strength of my body, the effort of my endeavors and the way I live here on earth.”
 The body has many drives; hunger, thirst, and sexual desire, for example. If the drives of the body are allowed to be the master, you will be in trouble. Because the flesh is like a spoiled child; it wants what it wants; and it wants it now.
Romans 6:13-14, “do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you,”
1 Corinthians 6:12-13, All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with them both. The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

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