Submission to God

This thirty-second message from Romans begins a radical change in the book. Paul is moving from his first eleven chapters of doctrine to how each believer is to appropriately respond to the mercies of God. First, believers are to be completely DEDICATED to God because He has provided the opportunity through His great compassion. Each occupant is to place their body at the disposal of God by offering it as a living and holy sacrifice. Only God's opinion matters as to what is acceptable, but we have an obligation to give ourselves as a spiritual service of worship. Second, we must be DETERMINED to be real in our commitment - not masquerading with an external conformity with the mirage of this world, but being renovated in our minds and being able to discern what the will of God is - profitable, pleasing and practical.