Hello my friends and welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you are ready

to get your mind aligned with the truth of God. Let's stop for a moment and just

offer a prayer up to Jesus. Jesus, we are a all the attention we release our stress and we tell you we are ready to get our mind

aligned with your truth today so reveal it to us in your name.

All right we are stuck happily stuck in Romans chapter 12, 1.

And I say happily stuck because there's just so much great truth here that we need to understand.

The apostle Paul is appealing to us to do something that sounds pretty radical. He says, I want you to present your

bodies as a living sacrifice. Now again going back to the Old Testament sacrificial system sacrifices weren't living by nature of what they were I mean they were initially and then they were killed and given to God so they weren't considered to be a living sacrifice. They were

killed because of what they were. But in our case, God is saying present your

body as a living sacrifice. Now why is he focusing on the body? Do you have any

recollection of why that might be given what we've already covered in the book of

Romans? Well if you walk back through Romans chapters six, seven,

and eight, especially in seven and eight, the Apostle Paul puts a particular focus on the human body for a very specific reason.

That reason is that it's in our unredeemed human body that the power of sin still resides in our personal lives.

You see, when we do sinful behavior, the apostle Paul says in chapter 7, believers in Jesus Christ it's not really us who does it

it's not the new redeemed transformed godly me or you that's doing it. It's the power of sin in us that is deceiving us and pushing us

towards sinful behavior and ultimately therefore it's the sin that does it, Paul says.

And that sin, that power of sin resides in our human bodies.

I believe that's why Paul says right here I appeal to you brothers by the

mercies of God because of what God has done in your life to redeem you and

make you new and transform you and give you his

Holy Spirit present that body that's still tainted by the power of sin as a living sacrifice.

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