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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
May 15, 2022
Our Reasonable Service – My Reasonable Response
Part 1 - Romans 12:1, 2
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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. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
Serve God with Spiritual Gifts
3
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to
think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God
has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one
body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many,
are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 Having then
gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if
prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in
our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation;
he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy,
with cheerfulness.
Behave Like a Christian
1
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Let love be without hypocrisy.
Abhor what is evil.
Cling to what is good.
10 Be
kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving
preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving
the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient[c] in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in
prayer; 13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given[d] to hospitality.
14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those
who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind toward one
another.
Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble.
Do
not be wise in your own opinion.
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Repay no one evil for evil.
Have[e] regard for good things in the sight of all
men.
18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
19
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is
written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
20 Therefore
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Start Here:
This morning, I want to teach from the Book of Romans, Chapter 12 – a very
familiar passage.
My motive for turning here is twofold:
First, because I believe Romans Chapter 12 provides the most practical and loving
example a church and its members can follow in its representation of God in a
dying dark world.
Secondly, to say to Grace Place [in an alerting-reminding kind of way] that
Romans 12 expresses the kind of spiritual characteristics we want to model [even
must model] as a church and a people as we return to the community after a twoyear absence.
In a three-part series entitled:
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Our Reasonable Service – My Reasonable Response,
I want to better position GP as a motivated, model church of God’s righteousness
and love.
What that means is that I want the members of GP to walk in the spirit
of Romans 12 – exhibiting spiritual maturity and how to behave and get along with
one another – both believers and non-believers.
Let’s go to the Scriptures for our first installment:
Romans, Chapter 12:1, 2.
1
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. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
These first two verses are the most important because they answer the question of
“why” every born-again believer should be completely “all in” when it comes to
giving ourselves sacrificially over to doing God’s will [and seeing it as the most
reasonable thing we could ever do].
Often, we quote these two verses with good intent, but without understanding what
they mean or what they are related to.
The Apostle Paul is the author of the Book of Romans.
The entire Book is 16
chapters long.
What is important to know is that Paul spends the first 11 chapters
telling Believers about all the good things that God has graciously given to them
through a “blood” purchased righteousness; things such as:
• Salvation through Jesus Christ by the power of God and the Gospel for both
Jews and Gentiles ~ Romans 1:16
• Deliverance from the wrath of God to come upon those unrepentant toward
God ~ Romans 2
• Peace with God through Jesus Christ who justified us by faith ~ Romans 5
• Deliverance from death, sin, and the law – and made alive to God ~ Romans
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