Lesson 2018

(Lesson 2018)(05-12-17) Romans 12:1-3

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."

In today's quote, Paul exhorted the Roman Christians, as well as those of us today who are believers, to carry them/ourselves in a manner befitting their/our expressed beliefs. In essence, as Christians, the born again children of God, and members of the church Jesus Christ established, we are to keep ourselves away from even the appearance of sin. (Remember, "sins" are those things we do that breach one or both of the two "great" commandments that Jesus imposed upon us whereby we are to love God with all that we are, and to love our fellow man/woman as we love ourselves.) This is NOT a commandment to obey the old Hebrew Law as some today would have us believe. Rather it is an exhortation to always do those things in our dealings with one another that are right in the sight of God.

"By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7:20 in part)~