Bible Readings:
Luke 19:11 – 27, Romans 12:1 – 21
Sermon Outline:
Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)
1 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. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
I Total consecration
Romans 14:7–8 (NKJV)
7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
II Humble self-assessment
Romans 12:3 (NKJV)
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
III Appropriate and joyful service
Romans 12:4–8 (NKJV)
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
God does not ask about our ability or our inability, but our availability. — Anon.
Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. — Jim Elliot
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than the man who tries to do nothing and succeeds. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones