Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is Kristen and my name is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time.

This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know

him, not only with our minds but with our hearts. Together we will learn that

who Jesus is changes everything.

Welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is Kristen Schmucker and we are journeying

through the New Testament one chapter at a time.

Today we are in Romans 12. For a couple of weeks now we have taken a deep dive into the theology of the gospel.

We have learned that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We know that we cannot earn our salvation with good works or perfect attendance at church.

We have nothing to boast in ourselves, but we should only boast in Christ.

Though we deserve God's wrath for those in Christ. Though we deserve God's wrath, for those in Christ there is no condemnation.

We are saved by faith in Christ alone. Because of Christ we have access to God. We stand in grace. We experience love

poured out to our hearts through the Holy Spirit. What was dead in us by sin is now

made alive in Jesus. We are made righteous, called children of God and co-ears with

Christ. Sure that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Paul seeks to unite the Roman Church by reminding them that these Jews are for both the Jew and the Gentile, and we know they are for us today.

Paul has laid out the theology of the Christian faith, a theology whose crown jewel is Jesus Christ.

Without Jesus, hope does not exist, but in Jesus hope is certain. Today Paul teaches us something profound. These truths

directly apply to the lives of the Romans and to our lives today. The gospel is

transformational. Jesus demands worship. He's worthy of all the worship we could ever give and then some.

But is worship merely song sung on a Sunday morning? No. Paul tells us what true Is Paul's first century audience would have had a lot more context than modern minds with the use of the word sacrifice.

In the Old Testament, sacrifices were made to God regularly for sins, for praise, for Thanksgiving, Jews would sacrifice animal offerings

and sacrifice their treasures to the temple. Boiled down all of these sacrifices communicated

a need for God's mercy and his presence.

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