As we look at Romans 12 we are seeing Paul not giving us his opinion but Gods, for Religion is manmade and Christianity is Gods plan as we accept His Divine plane of good will and peace to all. We are a part of the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of Satan’s, for he is out to destroy everything that is the truth. We have a duty to press on in the truth of His words and can’t do right without abiding in the vine Jesus. We need to understand the foundation of how to receive faith that God gave us all the size of a mustard seed, so it can grow as it is rooted in the Lords way, truth and life, so it produces good will and fruit regardless of the Circumstance.

There is a great deal of duty that God prescribes in order for us to grow in grace and mercy. Every race we run requires getting in shape in order to complete the task before us every day. It is excepting practical doctrinal truths, so we can be justified by faith which Paul discussed in the previous chapters. We do not get to do what we want, or see what we want, we get to have our eyes fixed on the goals of one day seeing the Lord as He is; loving, good and kind, as He has prepared the way to heaven for us as we rest or abide in Him.

So we have three duties, 1. We have a duty to listen to God, hear His voice. 2 It is a personal walk or personal duty. 3. We have a duty to our brothers, and people created by God. We are humans needing the way, truth and life as we obey God words.
It is God grace that teaches us to live godly, soberly and righteously and deny all that which is contrary. We are going to see in this chapter the understanding what godliness, sobriety and righteousness are all intermixed.
Romans 12

Living Sacrifices to God 12 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your [b]reasonable service. Paul is wanting us to make sure we understand the mercies of God requires us to take control of our bodies five senses, which are carnal, ears are for hearing, eyes for seeing danger, mouth for eating food to grow, nose for making sure we smell our food and stay away from fowl food. The we have skin that keeps us from all bactrial that inflicts us, causing us to feel bad and unhealthy. Then we all have a soul, conscience that give us the feeling of all is well for we make mistakes and when we repent our consciences are alive and will. We see today anything goes and it is seen by the chaos around the world. Then we all have an imagination that seem to be out of control for we are seeing nothing as impossible, man can do anything. But is it right and benefiting all. Look at our reasons for doing what we do, is many time destroying what us humanin and proper, as our memory so easily forgets what happen in the past and rather than become better we are getting bitter towards one another.  So our affection is geared to pleasing self and we can’t please self or others. Lord help us to see how easy it is living in sin to not have control for the simple reason we are not aware of the Spirit of God with in us all that has five areas that affect us. 1. Faith-who is in in Man-Satan or God. 2. Hopeis given to all but who do we hope in God self or Satan. 3. Worship is shown by who you are guided by and listen to, God or Satan? 4. Reverence is what give us pride of ownership or causes us to be ashamed and we do not care what we do or say until we repent and are forgiven. 5. Prayer is something we can’t get along without. For God wants to answer our prayers so we can be what He created us to be. Are you seeing the power that you were created with as you present your body as a living sacrifice to God will? It’s as God empowers us, that we are able to achieve our potential He created us with, and everyone has abilities and talents that either are a blessing to mankind or are a curse to mankind. Lord help us to realize we are not able to be good without a spiritual bend in life. To be holy is a choice and if it is not chosen there is no holiness, purity, or good mental health. This I hope is reasonable to understand for without becoming like God, we are unholy as filthy rags.  I say and please 2. do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. It is so easy to be conformed to the way of the world, for we are taught to do our thing, which leads to no one being happy. Lord help us to see others are affected by what we say and do, for we are all living together in a world that needs order. It is proven when people are together anything can be accomplished. Today the technology is improving so fast it is taking over our kids and they are mesmerized by how easy it is to maneuver from one pic to other and never get bored. When it is taken away the child has a tantrum and we are seeing adults having tantrums that show disorder and dysfunctional behavior and attitude around the world for they can’t seem to discipline. This is caused for the simple reason we have forgotten to discipline ourselves in the mind and given ourselves to the things of the world. God wants us to prove Him and see that He is able to give us the ability to manage what we have to where it does not control us, but we are able to control whatever our hands have been given to do by Gods, Holy Spirit when we accept His mercy and grace is sufficient to give us giving us the ability to overcome our anger and it is used as a force to fight off evils hold on our attitude, or behavior. Don’t give you anger away, but use in for the good of mankind. Serve God with Spiritual Gifts 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. Paul was speaking from the understanding given to Him at Salvation. For He witnessed God grace given to him to stop what he was doing and begin to listen to the voice of God. Gods voice is being heard today as it has never been heard, for He seems to be screaming, come unto me all you that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. As we are seeing starvation, runaway inflation, indebtedness’, crime’ drugs, sexual acting out, dysfunctionalism like never before. For people think they are ok doing whatever they want as if they were on a drunk, or high on drugs. Lord help us to sober up and see imagination that is vivid showing reality that is Godly and purifying to all 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.  Thank the Lord we can understand the importance of the body when it is in good working order to ward off imperfection and impurities of this world we are involved with every day. Every one of us in the family of God have been chosen by God to be a apart of His body, so man can take the head ship of the marriage, for it is God that gives us a job in His family. Just like our eyes to not argue with our ears; they take commands from the mind. We are in Christ and His mind is what propels us to do His will and not our will. We are all individuals in the Church wanting Gods way to be done. We do not clash with one another, but work together for the good of one another. We stand in relation to one another doing good to one another, encouraging one another for we are on the same field in our big world.  We need to comfort one another more today than any time in my life.6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; It is amazing how everyone created by God, that becomes saved has gifts and talents that differ from one another, not to be abused, but developed to be of use. We are never put on the shelf, but to be used by Gods might powerful hand according to our faith. Grace is given by God as we accept who we are in Him. It is grace that God gave to all to become His children, but do all follow the Lord? We are going to see 7 gifts as distinct offices God uses for the glory of the Church’s benefit. Prophesying is a gift given according to our faith. That faith is one who has studied and knows the inside working of the Holy Spirit telling of things that are going to come to pass. To Be Continued