Romans 12, if you would go there, please, Romans 12, aren't we blessed?

Oh, we're so blessed.

Sitting up here, air-conditioned comfort on a padded seat in our own building, paid for it.

Nobody telling us what we can preach and what we can't and how quick we got to get out.

It's the goodness of the Lord.

It's the goodness of the Lord.

And when people fight what they call the prosperity

message, that's what they're fighting. They're fighting having your bills paid. They're fighting

having the resources that you need. No, God is the God of abundance. He's always been, always will be. Hallelujah. Somebody said out loud, God's will is abundance. Amen. For you, for me, everybody. God's will is always abundance. When you see lack, you know it's not the will of God.

No, it's not. When you see people hurting and doing without and coming short, that is not the perfect

plan and will of God. In Romans 12, verse 1, he said, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Now, I want to notice that word service today,

because we're going to be talking about that.

He says your service, your reasonable service,

in connection with what's acceptable to God.

And in a moment, he's going to talk about the will of God.

And this in connection with your service.

In verse two, be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed.

So it's not God's will that you and I be carbon copies of everybody else around us that

does not believers.

We're supposed to be different.

Not weird.

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