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 TEXT:  ROMANS 12:1-17

The priestly service is required of all Christians without distinction. Every believer is assumed to be anointed, to have passed through the preliminary purification, to have been called and separated (1Pet 2:9), and to have passed through the consecration ritual (Rev 1:5, 6). Therefore every one of them has “boldness to enter into the holiest (Heb 10:19; Eph 3:12). And therefore they are all here summoned to holy service. Clearly the act of worship is to be continuous. The Jewish priests had to minister day by day. Morning and evening sacrifices must be offered: the altar fire must be kept burning; the lamps must be lit, and, generally, worship must be offered up continually. And these all symbolized for the people of God the necessity of constant service.

The Christian must present his own body. The Jew had to present the body of an animal: the Christian must offer his own. Under the law the priest sacrificed the animal; the Christian must offer up himself. The free, intelligent soul must be the presenting priest: the body, animated by the soul, and serving as its many-mannered instrument, must be the ever-presented offering (Rom 6:13).

The sacrifice must be living. The servant of God is not at liberty, by neglect of the body, to put an end to its life. Rather it must be carefully preserved that its providential term may be available for Divine service. For this life belongs to God (Rom 14:7, 8).

This sacrifice must be holy. This holiness includes –

(a)        Full and perpetual dedication to Divine service.

(b)        Sanctification by the blood of Jesus or it will become anathema.

(c)        “Sanctification of the Spirit,” so that all the appetites, instincts, and members of the         body, and all the powers and properties of the inspiring soul, shall be brought into true harmony with the will of God.

PRAYER: Father, help me to offer acceptable sacrifices to You always in Jesus name. Amen