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Spiritual Service
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
"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" (Rom. 12:1).
"You" are to do something with your body. For if you don't, nothing will
ever be done with it. "You," the inward man, have become a new man in
Christ.
"You" have received eternal life. When eternal life - which is the life
and nature of God - is imparted to your spirit, it changes "you."
You won't have any trouble with "you," but you will have trouble with
the flesh. People say, "You have to die out to the old self." No, you
don't. That old self is dead, and you have a new self in its place. But
what you need to die out to is the flesh.
Isn't the flesh the old self? No, it isn't. Your flesh is the outward
man, the body. And it's the same old flesh you had before you were
saved!
Your body is the house you live in, and "you" - not God - are the
caretaker of that house. "You" do something with your body. You are to
present it to God as "...a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God...." Another translation concludes this verse with the phrase
"...which is your spiritual service."
Confession: I am a new creature in Christ. I hold fast to this
confession. And the new man on the inside of me is being manifested on
the outside and through the flesh. I dominate my body. I present it to
God as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to Him, which is my
spiritual service.
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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