Every Christian Should Be a Living Sacrifice Unto the Lord

Romans 12:1: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

We have been studying the wonderful things God has done for us in Christ. We have seen how God put us in Christ, how He delivered us from the kingdom of darkness, how He has delivered us from the power of sin, self, the flesh, the world, and from Satan. We have seen how Christ came back to live in us that we might fulfill the righteous requirements of the law.

All of these wonderful things are "the mercies of God." We deserved nothing but death, but God has freely bestowed all of these great blessings on us. Now God asks us to do something for Him.

What does God ask us to do? God asks us to consecrate ourselves to Him. Let us hear what God says to us through His servant Paul: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

What is consecration? What is the basis of consecration? What is its motive? What is the result of consecration? These are important questions, and we are going to find the answers to them in this lesson series.

What is consecration? Consecration is the giving of our lives to God to do His will instead of our own. It means that we present our bodies to Him as a "living sacrifice."