Every Christian Should Be a Living Sacrifice Unto the Lord, Part 3 (Onward Christian Soldiers #96)

Onward Christian Soldiers

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Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

Every Christian Should Be a Living Sacrifice Unto the Lord, Part 2 (Onward Christian Soldiers #95)

Onward Christian Soldiers

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Our key Bible passage today is Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

Our lesson today is titled “Every Christian Should Be a Living Sacrifice Unto the Lord, Part 2”

In our last lesson, we talked about the meaning of consecration. Consecration is the giving of our lives to God to do His will instead of our own. It means we present our bodies and lives to Him as a “living sacrifice.” We also saw that:

1. Consecration is voluntary.
2. Consecration is to the Lord.
3. Consecration is the offering of a whole life to God.
4. Consecration is continual.

Why should we consecrate ourselves to the Lord? Because we belong to Him. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20: “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Every Christian Should Be a Living Sacrifice Unto the Lord (Onward Christian Soldiers #94)

Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

We have been studying the wonderful things God has done for us in Christ. We have seen how God put us in Christ, how He delivered us from the kingdom of darkness, how He has delivered us from the power of sin, self, the flesh, the world, and from Satan. We have seen how Christ came back to live in us that we might fulfill the righteous requirements of the law.

All of these wonderful things are “the mercies of God.” We deserved nothing but death, but God has freely bestowed all of these great blessings on us. Now God asks us to do something for Him.