- You haven’t changed a bit!
Romans 12:1-2 // Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
1 Peter 2:9 // But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1. A RESPONSE to the love of God
Romans 12:1 // Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy…
- We don’t worship out of REQUIREMENT. We worship as a RESPONSE.
1 John 4:19 // We love because he first loved us.
- Worship is easy when it is a RESPONSE to God’s love.
- Our worship isn’t dictated by how we feel, but by how good God is.
2. True worship is COSTLY
2 Samuel 24:24 // 24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.
- We worship with our TIME, TALENT, TREASURE.
3. True worship is a LIFESTYLE
Romans 12:2 // Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Metamorphousthe - Be transformed
- Worship isn’t SOMETHING you do, it’s EVERYTHING you do.
Hebrews 13:15 // Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
