Good morning. So since God did what He did for us, what
should we do? Therefore I urge you by the mercies of God to present your bodies
a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service
of worship. Instead of feeling like we can do anything we please, we should
respond to God’s gracious gift by giving ourselves totally to Him. Sacrifices
aren’t alive when they’re placed on the altar. They don’t choose to be a
sacrifice. It says that Abraham bound Isaac and placed him on the altar. It
doesn’t even say that Isaac tried to get away. I don’t know how old Isaac was,
but his dad was over 100. Surely he could have gotten away, but he trusted his
father that no harm would come to him if he lay still and not try to get off
the altar. Shouldn’t we? Father thank You that we have the opportunity to be a
willing, living sacrifice for You. Help us to embrace that opportunity instead
of resisting.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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