The Bottom Line (Romans 12:1-8)

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Bottom Line
Romans 13:1

Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
Christian - No Church

Government - No God
Romans 12

1 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
Romans 11

34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
Romans 11

35 “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”
Romans 11

36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Romans 12

1 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
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.
Romans 12

3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 
Bottom Line

Health of the Church
Romans 12

3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 
Towels - Badges
Romans 12

3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 
Forensic

Gifts - Behavior 

Fruit - Mind
Romans 12

4 For just as we have many parts in one body and all the body’s parts do not have the same function, 
Personal

Towards

Corporal
Romans 12

5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually parts of one another.
Unity - Uniqueness

Competition Cooperation
Romans 12

6 However, since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to use them properly: if prophecy, in proportion to one’s faith; 
gifted vs. listed
Romans 12

7 if service, in the act of serving; or the one who teaches, in the act of teaching; 
Romans 12

8 or the one who exhorts, in the work of exhortation; the one who gives, with generosity; the one who is in leadership, with diligence; the one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.