Sermon
Romans 12:1-8
Redemption Church - Twin Cities
Speaker: Austin Miller
February 9, 2025 · 37 min
Summary
Romans 12:1-2 calls Christians to present themselves as living sacrifices to God—a paradoxical commitment to daily self-denial that results in authentic life. Motivated by God's expansive mercy revealed in chapters 1-11, believers surrender control and plans to God, finding their purpose not in isolation but in serving the church body with their unique gifts.
Highlights
A living sacrifice is constantly turning away from your own desires and turning towards the desires of God. A living sacrifice is making a constant practice of killing the flesh.
If you're not laying your life down before God, then whatever it is that you are laying your life down for, it's going to make you into a dead sacrifice and not into a living one.
The way that a life sold out as a living sacrifice looks is faithful investment in the people that God has given to you. The call for us is not to be impressive, but to be invested.