Complete Sacrifice

Thursday, December 10, 2015
Romans 12:1-8 KJV

1 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 7 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What did the Apostle Paul beseech his brethren to do, in what way, and why? (v.1-2)
2) What does the apostle tell the members of Christ's body to refrain from doing? Why? (v.3-5)
3) What are the gifts of God and how are believers to use the gifts that have been given to each of us? (v.6-8)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) What are your spiritual gifts and how are you using those gifts in your local church or within the body of Christ?

LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord gives spiritual gifts to every member of His body to edify and encourage every member of His body!