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Renewing Our Minds Romans 12:1,2. Principle #1 Dying to Live (A soul given) Principle #2 A Living Sacrifice (Body, Mind, Will). Renewing Our Minds Romans 12:1,2. The Patterns of this Age? Secularism – The Cosmos is all there is Humanism – You will be like God
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Renewing Our Minds Romans 12:1,2 Principle #1 Dying to Live (A soul given) Principle #2 A Living Sacrifice (Body, Mind, Will)
Renewing Our Minds Romans 12:1,2 The Patterns of this Age? Secularism – The Cosmos is all there is Humanism – You will be like God Relativism – No moral absolutes Materialism – All about dollars & Sense
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • The Doctrine of God • The Supernatural! • If anything exists, there must be an inevitable, self-existent, uncaused first cause that stands behind it. • Know God and His Character!
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • The Doctrine of Revelation • “He is there and He is not silent”God is revealed in nature, history and the Scriptures • God has spoken and His Word can be trusted. • There is absolute truth • There are absolute morals laid down in that truth
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • Implications of these two doctrines • We now have a different perspective. • Our enemy death (1 Cor. 15:26) is now balanced by eternal perspective. • Success and pleasure will not be the greatest of goods. (Matt. 16:26) • We no longer mind that we die!!
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • The Doctrine of Man • We are created in the image of God – Genesis 1:26,27; 9:6 • Personality • Morality • Spirituality – John 4:24
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • The Doctrine of the Fall • Fall of man leaves us utterly depraved – compare Romans 1 with Psalm 8 • Lower than the Angels • Higher than animals
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 • How Shall WeThenLive? • The Doctrine of Redemption • Intensifies man’s value • Highlights man’s condition
Renewing Our MindsRomans 12:1,2 Application • How Shall WeThenLive? • How is your personal time with the Lord? • Is your input of God’s Word, prayer and being still and knowing He is God, growing? If not why? Take the challenge!