So with God (Isaiah 43:24).III. Remember, if ever you meet anybody that needs a friendly hand, you must pass it on to them." No man ever did it, not even Socrates at his best. Who does not know the receipt? If you love God, you will present yourselves to God. How amazing that we should have to be urged when God invites us to give ourselves to Him that He may give Himself to us! )A living sacrificeCanon Miller.These words breathe the fervour of a heart which has made the surrender to which it would constrain others, and had they been read to us for the first time without context we might have pictured the apostle not dictating a letter, but standing as he does in the cartoon of Raffaelle with uplifted arms pleading with men. But it is not enough that our reasoning powers first of all yield unreservedly to God's appointed plan of redemption for pardon and peace, everlasting consolation and good hope through grace; they are brought into the school of Christ to be tutored for eternity, and to acquire the elements of implicit submission to the whole council of God. "( Chrysostom. But in full consecration to God, and in the maintenance of a living, holy, and acceptable walk before God.II. So being now consecrated by the blood of the atoning sacrifice, believers are to offer the eucharistic sacrifice of the text.2. Why, to be filled with the Spirit, and then the body will present itself to God's service joyfully.IV. To live in that exalted atmosphere which nursed the faith of Abraham, and the unselfishness of Moses, and the courage of Joshua, and the devotion of David, and the hope of Isaiah, and the energy of Paul, and the love of John, is better than any rule or form which scholastic ingenuity or ascetic piety has ever devised. There is no need in this generation to preach against asceticism. sacrifice. Paul realised that great truth. It took the names, institutions, and ideas which it found, and gave them a new and better meaning; or even if it destroyed them, it immediately planted something corresponding in their place. To these the apostle cries, "I beseech you," etc.2. His priesthood is at once the model and the means of all true human priesthood.(D. You are to present your hands by keeping them from violence and fraud, and putting them to honest work. There was no sacrifice in His love; because there was no sacrifice, there was no merit. It is in these, when connected together, the natural and moral perfections of Jehovah shine in all their glory, in calling into existence, and preserving in existence, true religion in the human heart on this side eternity. Remember, if ever you meet anybody that needs a friendly hand, you must pass it on to them." The manner in which this sacrifice must be presented. But it is not enough that our reasoning powers first of all yield unreservedly to God's appointed plan of redemption for pardon and peace, everlasting consolation and good hope through grace; they are brought into the school of Christ to be tutored for eternity, and to acquire the elements of implicit submission to the whole council of God. It means such a oneness of life henceforth as shall not tolerate the thought of division; such mutual devotion that each shall lose himself in the service of the other — and the anguish of the thought of parting at death is consoled by the confident hope of reunion hereafter.2. Drive your engines, make your coats and boots and chairs for Christ.III. Be not slothful in business. Maclaren, D.D. The body, as well as the soul, is redeemed, and both must go together into God's service. 5. Not self-interest; not the reasonableness, beauty, and dignity of virtue.2. "Holy." Howels.Yes; there is nothing so reasonable — nothing that gives, and will ever give, reason its full powers, but the religion of Jesus Christ. Minor Prophets Where shall this holiness be sought?1. Therefore the command is laid upon us.III. and for what? ITS NATURE.1. Hay Aitken, M.A.I. )Our reasonable serviceW. There is no conflict between the two; for, if the Christian is God's priest, he is so in virtue of the one process and the one sacrifice, and the moment he would officiate independently he becomes a priest of Baal.4. If we are filled with the Spirit of God, our bodies will be the medium through which this world will be continually affected by Him, etc.V. "Thy Word is tried to the uttermost," tried by the investigations of science, by the undue claims made upon it, by the misunderstanding of its enemies, by the exaggeration of its friends; and yet, in spite of all, "Thy servant loveth it," because he knows there is nothing else which will so well repay all the trouble which its study involves.II. The apostle knew this from his own experience.2. But you cannot get the morality without the theology, unless you like to have rootless flowers and lamps without oil. they come! That God will accept us. "A living sacrifice." It is our reasonable service, which has been understood to point a contrast between the Christian sacrifice and those made prior to the Divine command, or those which are superstitious, or mechanical, or carnal. The driving business has made many hypocrites, but never a saint. Romans 12:1-8 Sparkle and Glow. A DEMAND.1. THE QUALITIES THAT THIS SACRIFICE SHOULD POSSESS.1. Conscious of his inability to guard against the numberless dangers that surround him, conscious of his insufficiency to procure the means of happiness, his desire of protection and assistance is one of the strongest ties that binds him to political society; and for the sake of this he is willing to sacrifice a part of his property, and in many cases a considerable portion of his natural rights. Is self-sacrifice reasonable or unreasonable? Christianity gives to the believer a new energy, which cuts off the ivy of selfishness and enables him to bring forth everlasting fruit. Adoption into the family of God and the witness of the Spirit. WHEREIN IT CONSISTS.1. The victims slain could do no further service. But how can we dare to lay any such sacrifices upon His altar? He loved us from eternity. sacrifice. The one is coming to God under the constraint of His love; the other is abiding in Him and growing up into Christian manhood. How is this to be done? So we are not to appropriate our bodies to one master and our souls to another, nor to reserve any faculty of body or of soul. How to estimate ourselves.(J. As the apostle is addressing himself to believers, we ought to include the idea of the NEW LIFE as distinguishing them from the world and from their former selves when they were in a state of spiritual death. We give presents to those whom we love — to parents, etc., and if we loved God we should bring something to show our love. Soldiers, too, on the eve of some great battle, must, if they reasoned at all, have felt that they were sacrificing themselves in the literal cease of the apostle's words. Reason tells us that we ought to be thankful for favours generously bestowed upon us. And by Him, as our High Priest, the sacrifice is to be offered to God.II. Now that is the highest act of worship.II. First "present your bodies a living sacrifice" unto God; then the world, and all belonging to it, is put in its right place. HOLY. A STRONG MOTIVE POWER BY WHICH TO DO IT.1. It has a kind of life, but all unconscious. Will he not go through fire and water may he but prove his love? Present the offerings of true worship, but above all, present yourselves. Something God will care to receive. Soldiers, too, on the eve of some great battle, must, if they reasoned at all, have felt that they were sacrificing themselves in the literal cease of the apostle's words. In the one sense the Christian is the priest of his own sacrifice. Something worth giving. But now, the reconciliation having been effected by that offering, we must draw near to God for holy fellowship, as in the peace-offering; to praise, as in the thank-offering; and for perpetual dedication, as in the burnt-offering. Oh, I am ashamed of myself before God's law. If we are filled with the Holy Spirit, it will be a revelation of Christ. He was not pleased with it because it cost them nothing (see also 2 Corinthians 14:24). If you love God, you will present yourselves to God. We feel it with an especial force in the beginning of the new year, when new hopes and new resolutions rise within us, and when we determine to enter on a new course of life. Scripture speaks of us as offering up "spiritual sacrifices," as being ourselves "a royal priesthood." It is a service or worship rendered by the inner man, transacted by the mind or reason, and thus, as indicating the part of our nature which performs it, is reasonable. It not only involves the power of Jehovah, but His worth. Now that you may be living sacrifices, it is necessary that you should be daily cleansed, bound, and burned.II. Only ourselves. Here is —1. Your father's will is that you should be in the garden playing with the others, but you have gone against your father's will, and now your father's will has gone against you.'" The renewed mind has new faculties of discernment — new eyes to see the will of God, and a new heart to do it, and to be it. Show us that a thing is reasonable, and at once and of course we do it. They had always been accustomed to sacrifice and splendid ritualism. Likewise, if allowed to grow up round the spirit of man, the selfish nature will increase in power until his life is as a stunted tree without any branches on which the fruit of love can grow. The absolute necessity of a renewed mind in order to any person serving God with acceptance.2. "LIVING." Then it whispers to the seed, "I will pass it on to you." When a young man inflamed with the passion for scholarship is sent to the university, he enters his name upon the college books, and becomes pledged to the life of a student. (2) Reconciliation to God. God complained that His people gave Him the blind and lame. He had already acknowledged that they had "obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which had been delivered" unto them; but he probably thought there was some danger lest they should not to the requisite extent "serve of righteousness."2. Wanting clouds, there could be no streams; so, wanting dogma, there could be no charity. )Our reasonable serviceW. There is plenty of non-conformity to the world in the inside of a jail. (2) "Bodies," a part of human nature, is here used to represent the whole. The natural imbecility of reason in a fallen creature has been much overlooked; and her appropriate province in revealed religion much misunderstood by many of the disputers of this age. )A living sacrificeC. From reason, not from blind necessity, we yield ourselves to the sweep of this great law. Religion is likewise our reasonable service, as it is the exercise of the best affections of the heart, and of those which are most influential on the moral conduct. Read over Psalm 15; Psalm 51, or 101; or even a single verse from 1 Corinthians 13, or the Sermon on the Mount; act upon it throughout a single week, make it the rule of a single family; what a holy sacrifice, salted with the salt of God's special grace, would then be offered up!2. 3. It requires that the thoughts of our minds, the affections of our hearts, the decisions of our wills, and the admonitions of our consciences should all be Christianised.III. And then, in all the consciousness of this blessed life, he thinks of the half-hearted, of those who come far enough out of the far country to lose the husks of the swine, but not far enough to get the bread of the father's house, who, like the fabled coffin of Mahomet, lie suspended between earth add heaven, unclaimed by either, and yet fretting for each. The ear is deaf to the voice of God, calling us to Paradise again. Similarly each member of the body is to be held by the believer as specially consecrated to God.II. Thus the first feelings of nature indicate his want of protection, and lead him to seek it from those whom he conceives more powerful than himself. God is the motive of it. Then there are birthday and Christmas presents, and the more imposing testimonials given to men and women for special work. (3) Acceptable to God. The sin which reigns in that man's heart who is a stranger to grace makes his sacrifice abomination. THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH AS A DUTY. Of, through, and to God, was the rhythmic flow of his whole being. This is to be the result of the test in the personal experience. But there is another thing to be considered. You must not be contented with outwardly resisting and inwardly longing. But now, the reconciliation having been effected by that offering, we must draw near to God for holy fellowship, as in the peace-offering; to praise, as in the thank-offering; and for perpetual dedication, as in the burnt-offering. (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.3. Remember that the expiatory sacrifice has gone before, and by virtue of it only are we priests unto God (Revelation 1:5, 6). This verse begins the second part of the Epistle. You are to "present yourselves a living sacrifice"; you are not to be "conformed to the world," but to be "transformed by the renewing of the mind." WHAT SHOULD WE GIVE.1. He had seen something of God's unspeakable gift. Personal. A teacher cannot save his class, nor a minister his congregation, nor a mother her child.2. The practical proof of the perfect will of God.(J. Who was living this life of blessedness. And therefore he has gone with great fulness into the whole system of grace and redemption, and now he turns to the practical inference.1. The man who has not yet obtained mercy, in any sense in which he may be said to live at all, lives to himself, and not to God. Keep back nothing. Not white robes, not golden streets, not harps and anthems, but this only — the eternal harmony of wills; and we can have that down here. The manner of offering it. THE ARGUMENTS BY WHICH THE PRIESTS ARE URGED TO ATTEND DILIGENTLY TO THIS SERVICE.1. THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THESE PRIESTS ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM THEIR SERVICE (ver 21)1. Under the law the mode of presentation had to be attended to, or the sacrifice was spurned as an abomination. Man would give worlds to live that life if he could. Let the hand do alms, the mouth bless them that despitefully use us, and the ear find leisure evermore for the hearing of Scripture. What does love mean by the surrender of self? Let the hand do alms, the mouth bless them that despitefully use us, and the ear find leisure evermore for the hearing of Scripture. In the olden time the bullock had to be dragged to the altar, but the Christian comes willingly. Lyth, D.D.I. Hence reasonable service means the service of mind.2. And what a pure earthly love is able to accomplish for a man, shall not the love of God in Christ accomplish for us?2. "The mercies of God," in which there is at once a backward reference to the foregoing arguments and illustrations, an onward reference to the duties about to be inculcated, and a central reference to the consequential link which binds on the one to the other.3. It is in that that I see the possibility and the progress of self-sacrifice and self-consecration. Not only such as God can accept, but offered on such a ground as shall be well-pleasing in His eyes. )A living sacrificeA. (2) Thus to consecrate one's self is the way to secure a higher and a nobler life. There is a kind of border land; and there they are, going to and fro. There are people that think they have done a meritorious thing in coming here to this service, and whose only notion of worship is a weary sitting in this place for an hour and a half. —(1) An acknowledgment of what is due to God. Kelly.I. And then, oh! For the law of this sacrifice is new, and the fire of a marvellous nature. Young brethren, render my text into life. If you want to go all to rack and ruin live according to your own fancy and taste.3. How small is man compared with the great truths of God's intellect! I can count them on my fingers; they cannot count us or weigh us. III. You are to "present yourselves a living sacrifice"; you are not to be "conformed to the world," but to be "transformed by the renewing of the mind." By "the mercies of God," the apostle means the great scheme of mercy set forth in the previous chapters. So we are not to appropriate our bodies to one master and our souls to another, nor to reserve any faculty of body or of soul. Why do two human beings give themselves to one another? (2) Rise to the higher world. I lifted up my voice for help so loud that I was heard in the town near a mile away. So soon as the offering was made they were dead sacrifices. )Acceptable to GodOn the attributes of acceptable worshipN. Daily. "Present your bodies a living sacrifice." )Our reasonable serviceW. Had he been writing to persons who were strangers to the grace of God, or had received that grace in vain, it might have availed but little, and the other motives might have availed much. Okay Meets His Maker (Romans 2:1-16) To enjoy the consolations it affords, to be inspired with the amiable dispositions it promotes, to be animated with the encouraging hopes it suggests, we must not be satisfied with the mere profession, but must diligently cultivate its duties, and endeavour to imbibe its principles.(B. We give to those who deserve well of us — especially if they have done or suffered much on our behalf. )Reasonable servicePrincipal Edwards.I. "What is the matter, my lad?" THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THESE PRIESTS ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM THEIR SERVICE (ver 21)1. First "present your bodies a living sacrifice" unto God; then the world, and all belonging to it, is put in its right place. Good Gifts for Growing People: A sermon on Romans 12:1-8 11th Nov 2017 16th Oct 2020 By Christine This post is Starlight content. Love is the only guarantee for the enduring fellowship of souls, whether Divine or human. Thomas, D.D. Why?1. Hay Aitken, M.A.The body is —I. But the Christian convert was now taught that he himself was a priest of God, that everything he did should be presented on the altar of a religious faith.2. For a moment the child was speechless, not knowing what to answer. The wealth of the world would not be a substitute for himself. That is worship. If you have made the resolve to present yourselves to God, be encouraged to do so, for the text declares that this sacrifice is "acceptable to God." We cannot know God's will until we are given up to it. It is to be(1) A living sacrifice, i.e. That shame is the beginning of self. After the bullock had been dragged to the altar he was slain, but the real Christian sacrifices while he lives, and does not put off till death, as some do when they bequeath so much to the cause of God because they cannot hold it any longer.2. RATIONALITY. The dispensation under which we are living richly blends justice with mercy. "That ye may prove," etc. —(a) According to the original a sacrifice alive. Yet there is no worship of truth. The driving business has made many hypocrites, but never a saint. The victims at the altar could be offered but once, and could never appear at the altar again. This holiness includes —(a)Full and perpetual dedication to Divine service. Or if he did not believe man to have been made at all, can you not imagine him saying, "However, you were made, considering what your mind is, and what society is, with your own knowledge of what is becoming, it is a most irrational thing for you to sink down into such a low, gross existence"? Lyth, D.D.teaches us —1. If the surrender be really entire and mutual, then marriage is really a holy sacrament, consecrating each to each as under the eye of God. "Now, to-day," I said, "I pass it on to you; and remember, if you meet with any one that needs a kindly hand, you must pass it on to them." The strongest temptations to the Christian are not always those that come from the baser part of his nature, but sometimes those that come from the purer and better emotions of the soul. He had already acknowledged that they had "obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which had been delivered" unto them; but he probably thought there was some danger lest they should not to the requisite extent "serve of righteousness."2. — thy high parentage! Lyth, D.D. I told him. "By the mercies of God."2. To show that you feel what God has done for you in Jesus. In these bodies we should carry about the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Then," saith the seed, "thou shalt be only earth for ever. The purpose for which this presentation must be made. But "the mercies of God" strike the chord of a Christian's tenderest and best affections, and touch the mainspring of all his conduct. (2) The sacrifice must be living. What Paul has in mind now is to take the … Therefore, "acceptable to God." This sacrifice must be —1. Your father's will is that you should be in the garden playing with the others, but you have gone against your father's will, and now your father's will has gone against you.'" Which of these shall we take? (2) Rise to the higher world. )Religion a reasonable serviceB. There are four courses open to us. How great a drop is this! I can do many things here on earth in the service of God and my fellow-creatures, which I could not possibly do if body and soul were separated from each other. There are four courses open to us. Advert to the reasonableness of the service. And by Him, as our High Priest, the sacrifice is to be offered to God.II. In these bodies we should carry about the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your bodies are like precious caskets containing the more precious jewels of your souls and spirits. And what is hell? Religion is likewise our reasonable service, as it is the exercise of the best affections of the heart, and of those which are most influential on the moral conduct. "Your bodies." It is a service agreeable to your rational nature. The body does not signify here the whole man. Conclusion: The two things most needed in the religion of our day are a greater spirit of consecration to God, and a greater conviction of its reasonableness. (4) "Holy," not nominally but really, cleansed from guilt, purified; passively and actively, not ceremonially, but experimentally; not outwardly only, but inwardly. (3) Acceptable to God. And I can imagine that they would almost feel the want of it; and in consequence of the absence of it to the heathen they did not seem to have any God or religion at all. Man does not lose himself by consecrating his existence to the Eternal. 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