The

Scripture text for this morning's message is found in the book of Romans

chapter 12 verses 1 and 2

if you don't have a Bible in the pew in front of you

there should be a pew Bible and it's on page 947

It's Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2

I appeal to you therefore brothers by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice

Holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world. God, which is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,

that by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

My aim in this message is that God would encourage you and that the spirit would enable

you to build your lives on the mercies of God manifest in Jesus Christ.

So there are two parts to it, two points.

The first one is that you build your lives on something.

That's point number one. second that you build them on the mercies of God.

So let's pray and ask God to encourage us and the spirit to come and enable us to do that.

When a president dies as the beloved sometimes revered and sometimes hated Ronald Reagan

did yesterday. A nation should be sobered, Father, and we ask that we'd be sobered.

Whether 93 or 33 or 3 to die is an awesome thing.

And so as we look upon a man's body

in the next several days and contemplate a life lived,

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