The Father looks out into the world at His children and sometimes with a tear, is grieved for the lives they have chosen once they accepted His Son. We have been given an awesome privilege to re-present Christ in the earth by allowing the Holy Spirit to move and use us according to the Father’s will. Most of us come to the Father for our own selfish reasons and once we receive what we came for we return to the ways of the world. Unfortunately, there are many children that start on the path with sincere hearts but after life those many difficult circumstances at them they too choose the comfort of the world instead of standing for Christ and His standard. We have to realize that we were bought with a price. Our redemption came at the price of another man’s life. We owe creditors for mortgages, cars, school, credit, and are faithful to pay them back. Yet our Savior gave up his life and our payments continue to be less and less or just stop all together because we don’t “see” a penalty as we do when we stop paying the electric and the lights get turned off. We need to realize that when we turn from the Father the light gets turned off as well, the light we are to show the world is no longer there and we are just adding to the darkness once again!!! Love the Lord and give yourself as a living sacrifice which is the reasonable act for your redemption. Have a wonderful life of redemption on purpose!!!!!
Romans 12
Living Sacrifices
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. 4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his[b]faith. 7If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
1 Corinthians 6
Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."[b] 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
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