A Compelling Commitment, Part 1

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, 507918

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Romans 12:1–2 Every moment of every day is a window of opportunity to worship God. In this message on Romans 12:1–2, Pastor Chuck Swindoll urges believers to follow Paul's command to offer themselves as living sacrifices to God. What does that mean? How can we find meaning and purpose through obedience to God's will? Let's find out! Consecrate your life to God. Determine to think biblically and act accordingly. Allow God to transform your mind and heart as you follow His commands. You won't ever be the same!

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why so many Christians remain spiritually stuck despite spending years attending church and listening to inspirational messages?
0:16.0	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall confronts an uncomfortable truth.
0:22.0	Maturity in Christ requires that we move beyond shallow inspirational thinking in order to make concrete changes.
0:29.1	In our study of Romans Chapter 12, Chuck points to Paul's uncompromising challenge.
0:34.6	As followers of Jesus Christ, we're called to reflect the magnitude of God's mercy
0:39.2	through our radical commitment to His Word. Are you ready to be challenged? Chuck titled
0:44.9	today's message, a compelling commitment.
0:51.3	We're reading from God's inspired word.
0:58.3	He breathed it out and has miraculously inspired the truth so that what we have is God's mind in print.
1:07.9	Romans 12-1,
1:09.4	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.
1:25.5	And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your
1:35.1	mind so that you may prove what the will of God is that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
1:49.0	The Net Bible renders the same passage.
1:52.7	Therefore, I exhort you brothers and sisters by the mercies of God to present your
1:58.3	bodies as a sacrifice, alive, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
2:06.6	Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may test and approve what the will of God is.
2:21.1	It is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
2:27.1	J.B. Phillips, in a paraphrase of the New Testament, writes,
2:31.1	with eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers and sisters, as an act of
2:38.0	intelligent worship to give him your bodies as a living sacrifice consecrated to him and acceptable by
2:47.4	him. Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own 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 meets all demands, and moves toward the goal of true maturity.
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