A living Sacrifice

"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. 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." - Romans 12:1-2

"Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful." - I Corinthians 4:1-2

• To God - as His priests
• Ministry to the Lord = Worship
• To His saints - as His servants
• Ministry to the Church = Service
• To His world - as His prophets
• Ministry to the World = Reconciliation

1. I Samuel 2:11
"Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child ministered to the LORD before Eli the priest."
2. Daniel 7:9-10
Ministering to the Lord in heaven
3. II Corinthians 6:3-10
Ministers of the New Covenant

• II Corinthians 4:7-12 We are crushed but not defeated!
• Life is like waking up at a crash scene
• devastation from the fall of man
• Aliens have invaded the earth! The signs are clear!
• We are scheduled for annihilation
• I Corinthians 15:57 "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
• We have the reality of a victorious life!

• Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
• Revelation 1:4b-6 "Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• Revelation 5:9-10 And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. - John 10:10

• I John 5:4 "Faith is the victory!"
• Ephesians 6:16 "above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one."
• The Book of Stories
• Hebrews 11:1-6