Transformed Life – Part 3 – His Good, Pleasing and Perfect Will

God, what is Your good, pleasing and perfect will for my life?

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Romans 12:1

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Romans 12:2

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world,

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The three themes that dominate the world are so deadly:

The lust of the

The lust of the

And the of life

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John 17:14-16

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Romans 12:2 cont.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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God, what is Your good, pleasing and perfect will for my life?

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Romans 12:1-2

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What is God’s good, pleasing and perfect will?

1. To lay our life down as a sacrifice.
2. To live a life that is and to the Lord.
3. To no longer to the pattern of this world.
4. To be by the of our mind.
5. To God through service.

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Eph 5:18

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Romans 12:9

9 Love must be sincere.

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“Sincere” – Without hypocrisy

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Two forms of love:

1. Love flowing from a lack of intimacy with God – love, “fake love.”
2. Love flowing from intimacy with God – love and without hypocrisy.

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Romans 12:9 cont.

Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

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“Hate” – Abhor, detest, dislike, despise, be repulsed by.

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Rom 16:19

I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

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We need God to break our love affair with evil in the world.

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Romans 12:10

10 Be devoted to one another in love.

Honor one another above yourselves.

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Ph 2:1-4

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John 13:34-35

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Romans 12:11

11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

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“spiritual fervor” – used of boiling water

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Romans 12:12 – The three

12 Be joyful in hope,

patient in affliction,

faithful in prayer.

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Joyful in Our hope of Heaven

1 Cor 2:9

9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[a]—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

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Patient in our suffering and affliction

Romans 5:3-4

3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.

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Faithful in prayer

Eph 6:18

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

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