Title: The driving force of new creation
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1. Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, which is good, acceptable, and perfect.
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Title: The driving force of new creation
Text: Romans 12: 1-2
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God is making a new creation. Wesley interprets the new creation as a world that is so realized, not only symbolically, but literally, as a world where the wolf and the lamb, the lion and the child, the leopard and the calf play together. However, it is emphasized that the new creation of the love of peace can be accomplished not only on the other side of history, but also on the other side of history. The Apostle Paul gives us the wisdom and driving force to create a new creation through today's text. I hope you will gain new strength to create a new creation through Paul's words.
I. Do not imitate this generation!
II. Refresh your mind! The Greek anakainosei of this word is the active voice. I must always open my heart and my will anew. Only when I open my heart can Jesus come in. Heaven enters the violent ones. You have to yearn for it with the heart that climbs the mulberry tree like Sakcheo. The legend says that Sakcheo grew mulberry trees all his life. Let's do a heart transplant with the heart of Jesus. The heart of Pilate, the heart of Samson, and the heart of the rich young man must be replaced with the heart of Jesus.
III. Get a change! The Greek word for this word is metamorphsthe passive voice. I open the door of my heart, but for change, the Holy Spirit must change it. You must repent of your lifelong sins (actual sins) and be reconciled to God through faith in the grace of atonement on the cross to receive the change of justification to become an adopted child and an adopted daughter. In addition, by being born again by the Holy Spirit, we must undergo the change of being born again in the image of God of righteousness and holiness, intellectual, static, and volitional nature. Not only that, even though we have been born again, we are freed from the inner sin or the root and power of sin, and a life filled with love for God and neighbor. should receive
IV. Let us discern what is the good and perfect will of God!
I need to discern God's good, pleasing and perfect will that he wants to accomplish through my life, the historical mission given to me, and the will of God's economy as to why he sent me into the world, and I must live a life of awareness in order to fulfill it. Moses was wandering without knowing it, and came to realize God's calling and mission given in history at Mount Horeb.
V. Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God!
For the realization of this will of God, we must offer not only worship but our whole life as a living sacrifice. Jesus' devotion to the cross made history from BC to AD. Martin Luther also created a new history of the Reformation when he offered himself as a living sacrifice while shouting “Here I Stand, help me, God!” during the Inquisition. While ministering for workers in the Detroit factory area for 13 years, Reinhold Niebuhr, who made a great contribution to saving the United States at the American economic airport in the 1930s, prayed “Serenity Prayer”.
God grant me the courage to change the things I can change
, the serenity to accept those I cannot change, and the wisdom
to know the difference. But God, grant me the courage not to give up on what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Therefore he stresses the impossible possiblity in this prayer. Pray for the courage to do the things you can change and the serenity to accept the things you cannot change.
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Let's create a beautiful history of becoming a person who lives for the mission given to me in order to fulfill God's good, pleasing, and perfect will in this age. To do this, don't be conformed to this evil generation, but be transformed by renewing your mind, discerning the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. We must become a Wesleyan with historicity in this history.