Vision: Worship-The New Life I Now Live Romans 12:1-2

He's extremely familiar with with with with a priest taking an animal and placing it on the altar and killing it on behalf of another person. And what Paul is saying here is literally, hey, man, we you need to know that, man, because of God's mercy, then my life is not lived for myself. My life is lived for Christ, and it's as if I'm the one climbing on the altar. [00:41:42] (30 seconds)  #livingForChrist

We lay our lives down, not to our emotions, not to our desires, not to the way we think is best, not to our plans, not to our agenda. We deny our entitlements. We deny the aspect of ourselves, and we begin to lay ourselves down, and align ourselves to God's good, perfect ways, word, plans, emotions, wisdom, and strategy. Our true worship occurs in the daily and the moment by moment, laying ourselves down for God's good, true, and perfect ways. [00:42:43] (36 seconds)  #surrenderDaily

When I understand the mercy that God has laid upon us, when we think of the compassion he has placed upon our lives, when he found us as his enemy, God did not strike us dead. God did not leave us in the land of the dead. God did not execute us. God did not slap us in the face, spit in our face. Sound familiar? God did not humiliate or slander us. God rescued us. [00:37:37] (36 seconds)  #rescuedByMercy

I'm looking at the fact that that's that that he he's he took my cross from me. He suffered my death, paid my price, forgave me, freed me from the grips and chains of death, hell, grave, and sin. I'm looking at all of that, and I'm seeing that God didn't give me any of that. That God did not give me his wrath. God did not give me the the punishment I deserved. God put it upon his son. He didn't give it to me. That's mercy. [00:36:07] (33 seconds)  #sparedByHisGrace

Worship happens when you go the extra mile for somebody. Worship happens when when worship happens, man, when when you exhibit love to somebody, and they may not deserve it. We can go on and on, but worship is not. When you worship the Lord, you need to know it's not just a gathering. It's a response. It's a literal response to God and his holiness, and it happens daily and moment by moment. [00:43:58] (36 seconds)  #worshipIsAction

Some of us worship our jobs. We orient our life because we because we get something from our job that satisfies deep in our soul. We orient our life. It doesn't matter who we hurt or who or what we operate. Like, we are going to go to work, and we're gonna work hard, and that's how we're gonna be known. Nothing wrong with working hard, but we don't work hard at the sacrifice of family or the Lord. [00:32:06] (28 seconds)  #workIsNotWorship

through his son Jesus given to us, and we realize what God did not apply to us. He applied to him, and we got rescued out of the death of our sin, raised back to life. And so therefore, man, I come to worship because it's a response. I got emotional response. I've got a physical response. I've got a mental response. I've got a spiritual response to give to the Lord. So we are moved by God's mercy to worship. [00:40:08] (36 seconds)  #mercySparksWorship

And family, you need to know that we can do this because Jesus Christ turned in his life so that we could live completely brand new. And we can do this day after day, moment after moment. [01:02:00] (23 seconds)  #newLifeInChrist