Title “Renewed Heart and Change” (Romans 12:1~2)
Contents
This text teaches the relationship between “living sacrifice (worship)”, “this generation”, “renewing the heart” and saving others that God is pleased with by receiving “change”.
“The Offering of Living Sacrifice and This Generation”
① “This generation” refers to the general life of the world in which natural people seek righteousness, food, and the Lord in order to sustain and develop their lives (Matt. 24:37-39) ② “Offering a living sacrifice” means to receive the Lord’s grace for redemption. It is an act of faith that is the initiation, source, basic, and foundation of the spiritual life for those who are born again as a child of God and grow into Christlike people. (Ephesians 2:17~21) ③ From the moment of regeneration, this generation The main job has changed from the life of living only as a main job to the life of a fisherman catching people who earn the personal income of the true man (Jesus), and the life of this generation becomes a side job to do well. 10) ④ Therefore, the life of offering the living sacrifices of the saints should become the center of the general life of this generation, and a general life of seeking food, clothing and shelter centered on the living sacrifice (Gen. 12:7-8, Matthew 6:33).
“Renewing the Heart in This Generation”
① “You must not be conformed to this generation” means that you should not make the life of this generation your main occupation, but live the life of self-salvation offered as a living sacrifice as your main occupation. ② If you present your body as a living sacrifice to God while living this life, He will accept it and give you the grace to renew your mind in response. ③ The renewing of the heart is an inner change, a change of personality, a person putting on the holy divinity, and the building of the temple of the invisible body. ④ Only by renewing the mind, the Word is a mind in which the mind continues to produce new minds. ⑤ In order to become such a person, one must keep and maintain a renewed mind in this generation, and act only with a renewed mind (Proverbs 4:23). ⑥ This generation lives with a renewed mind, and there are conflicts, conflicts and conflicts. It should be used as a platform to strengthen and perfect the body.
“You must change with a renewed mind.”
① The words “be transformed by the renewing of the mind” are given to change the mind by giving the grace to renew the mind. ② Just like the renewed mind, the body and all actions between the examination of words and deeds are being transformed into Christlike ones. ③ Also, with the changed self, he accumulates his possessions in heaven and transforms all those involved into the people of Christ. ④ In this way, when you become a person who achieves your own salvation and go to the Lord's altar on the Lord's day and give the fruit that has changed your body and oneself to the Lord, God accepts it and gives you a new heart and new grace of change every day. ⑤ A life of “living and rejoicing, holy sacrifice”, “renewed heart” and “self-changed” is a living life of faith.
“To discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
① Change is a process of continuous growth, development, and renewal, and it is a spiritual new man who is a regenerated child of God, becoming perfect like Christ, and reaching the fullness of the measure of maturity of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). ② In change, God’s God is pleased and good that God is pleased with what is good, pleasing, and discerning the perfect will, and that we grow into Christlike people and give thanks for the grace that enables us to grow, to receive a renewed heart, to receive a renewed heart, and to grow a new person. and accomplish the full will.