Please open your Bibles to Romans chapter 12. We finally made it to chapter 12. We worked

hard to get there and we are there. I hope tonight you're ready to be challenged and knowing you guys I bet you are.

I'll bet that that's exciting to you. But let me offer something crude before we get started.

But what I mean is a crude analogy or sort of a rough analogy. Sometimes in the scripture it's like God is telling us what's on his

mind. It's as God's revealing sort of his thoughts to us through the

scripture. So we're getting things like, hey, this is the truth about this issue. This is how things

really are in the word of God. We're getting a revelation of God's nature, the who he is,

his plan, his agenda.

We're getting a Christian worldview

through the scriptures.

We also get things like theology, doctrine, apologetics even in the Bible.

So sometimes it's like God's revealing what's on his mind in a sense,

and in other times it's like God's revealing what's in his heart.

And this is where God's like trying to say to us, I think, internalize this.

Let my heart impact your heart in this area.

Take what I am passionate about and be passionate about it.

Take what I care about and let it be your goal and your highest lofty call in your life.

So he wants us to internalize these things. This is what we do with

the stuff that might be on his mind. It's like the stuff that's in his heart to get it

like into the mission of my life. So I think that that's kind of where we're at today. We're getting into a new section in Romans 12, a new section of Romans.

And while it's a crude analogy because we've had a lot of God's mind and God's heart throughout the book of Romans for sure.

But really now we're sort of taking what we've learned and we're saying and now do this with it.

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