I see three points to make about the church as the body of Christ and two applications to our situation today. All of this is what life looks like when you know that you have peace with God by faith alone and Christ has become the foundation and summation of all your hopes. Then he deals with our relation to the civil authorities in chapter 13:1-7 and so on. Then he deals with our relation to our enemies (vv. Then he deals with our relations with each other in the church (vv. Then he deals with humility and lowliness in relation to ourselves (v. First Paul deals with our life as worship toward God. So chapter 12 begins to describe this life and call us to it. ![]() Instead we are able to live a merciful life because we have been shown mercy. We do not try to earn mercy with a merciful life. We are people who are stunned that we have been shown utterly undeserved favor mercifully because of Christ. We are not a people trying to earn the favor of God. ” In other words, the Christian life is built on the mercy of God. “I appeal to you therefore, brothers,by the mercies of God. Paul has spent 11 chapters teaching us the gospel of Christ-that we are great sinners, that God is infinitely holy and just, that we are therefore under his wrath and condemnation, but that God, in his great mercy has sent his Son Jesus Christ whose perfect obedience and death in our place makes it possible for God to justify-declare righteous-all who trust in Christ, so that there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Īnd on the basis of that great work of salvation for all who believe in Christ he now begins to build his application for life in chapter 12. Our focus today is on Romans 12:4-6a, namely, on the foundation and nature and implications of being one body in Christ. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith 7 if service, in our serving the one who teaches, in his teaching 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation the one who contributes, in generosity the one who leads, with zeal the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 4 For as in one body we have many members,and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. ![]() 2 Do not be conformed to this world,but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
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