Following God’s Plan
Romans 12:1-2
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And 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."
- Surrender
Verse 1
Romans 3:24-“justified us freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 5:8-“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 8:1-“
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:38-39-“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:12-13-“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 And do not present your members
as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members
as instruments of righteousness to God.”
- Separation
Verse 2.
1 John 2:15-16-“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that
is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.”
- Transformation
Verse 2
2 Corinthians 4:16-“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward
man is being renewed day by day.”
Colossians 3:10-“And have put on the new
man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.”
2 Corinthians 3: “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”