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Romans 12:1-2"We are living in a day of beauty parlor religion. We are living in a day of bubble bath salvation instead of being plunged beneath the crimson flow that washes whiter than snow. We have mouth wash conversions instead of a new creation in Christ Jesus. We have a tooth paste smile instead of the joy of the Lord in our hearts. We are talking more about halo shampoo than about the fullness of the Holy Spirit. We have, today, a talcum powdertestimony rather than one of

the fragrance of Christ. There is, in this age, the rosewater life rather than one manifesting the life of the Rose of Sharon. We talk about daring perfume and fail to live courageously for God. There is lipstick redemption instead of the precious blood of Christ. Synthetic jewelry is being worn instead of adorning the Gospel of Grace. And the glamour of Hollywood is being substituted for the glory of the holiness of God."– J. Vernon Magee, © 1953)

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Romans 11:33–36 ~ 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! 34 "For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor?" 35 "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?"36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

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NIV ~ 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

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NASB ~ 1 Therefore 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. 2 And 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.

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NLT ~ 1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask? 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

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J. B. Phillips ~ 1 With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give Him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to Him and acceptable by Him. 2 Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold, but let God remold your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meet all His demands and move toward the goal of spiritual maturity.

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Williams ~ …to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice… (aorist infinitive; once for all offer)

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Beseech ~ parakaleō – to call to or for, to exhort, to encourage

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Therefore ~ used by Paul 105 xs

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A living sacrifice is: • Living• A sacrifice

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Hindrances to being a living sacrifice: • Comforts (Luke 9:58)• Family (Luke 9:62)• Performance (Luke 10:38-42)• Proprieties (Luke 14:1-6)• Money (Luke 18:18-23)

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NIV ~ this is your spiritual act of worship NASB ~ which is your spiritual service of worship• Reasonable ~ logikos (logical)• Only here and 1 Pet. 2:2 ~ … desire

the pure milk of the word …• Service ~ latreia – that which done in

service to God

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Conformed ~ suskēmatizō – with + scheme (or schematic)• To shape one thing like another and

describes what is transitory, changeable, and unstable

• Present, passive imperative ~ stop being conformed

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World ~ not kosmos, but aeōn – a period of time marked by the characteristics of that particular era

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Transformed ~ metamorphoō – metamorphosis

• Only here and in the Transfiguration (Matt. 17:2, Mk. 9:2) and …

• Refers to the permanent state to which a change takes place

• 2 Cor. 3:18 ~ But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Prove ~ dokimazō

2) to recognize as genuine after examination, to approve, deem worthy

1) to test, examine, prove, scrutinize (to see whether a thing is genuine or not), as metals

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Wuest ~ 1 Therefore beg of you, please, brethren, through the instrumentality of the aforementioned mercies of God, by a once-for-all presentation to place your bodies at the disposal of God, a sacrifice, a living one, a holy one, well-pleasing, your rational, sacred service, [rational, in that this service is performed by the exercise of the mind]. 2 And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you

and is not representative of what you are in your inner being but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing and complete will, and having found that it meets specifications, place your approval upon it.

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Warren Wiersbe ~ "God does not have three wills (good, acceptable, and perfect) for believers in the way that there are three choices for merchandise in the mail order catalogs (“good, better, best”). Rather, we grow in our appreciation of God’s will. Some Christians obey God because they know that obedience is good for them, and they fear chastening. Others obey because they find God’s will acceptable. But the deepest devotion is in those who love God’s will and find it perfect."

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