“Sold Out!”

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Living Sacrifices

¹Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

1. What are they?
   1. _______________________
   2. _______________________

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…to offer your bodies as living sacrifices…

1. Why do we resist commitment?
   1. Ignorance
   2. Refusal to come under authority
   3. Lack of trust
2. If we commit, God will…
   1. make us holy.

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      …holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

   2. be pleased.
   3. receive it as worship.
3. Without commitment we conform to the world

   (vs. 2)

   ²Do not conform any longer 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. Refers to a pattern of thought
      1. Primarily self