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2. Put Him to the Test 3 Reasons to trust God’s will
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Romans 12:1-2

3. The Complexity of Planning
Success
Intricacies
God’s will …

4. Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

5. Testing God’s will? Doubtful Testing
“He must prove it before I’ll trust Him”
Faithful Testing
“I will test Him by trusting Him”
“you will be able to test and approve what God's will is”

6. What is God’s will?
12:1 “offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God”

7. What is God’s will? Hebrews 10:5-7
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
Then I said, 'Here I am —it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, O God

8. What is God’s will?
12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”

9. What is God’s will?
12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”
Pattern of this world:
Independence from God
Exchanging God for other things
Denial of His existence

10. What is God’s will?
12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”

11. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test

12. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Mercy
“therefore, … in view of God’s mercy” (12:1)

13. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Mercy
“therefore, … in view of God’s mercy” (12:1)
Romans 9:15-16
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.“
It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy

14. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Supremacy
“therefore, …” (12:1)

15. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Supremacy
“therefore, …” (12:1)
Romans 11:36
For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen

16. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Transforming Power
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (12:2)

17. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Transforming Power
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit

18. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Transforming Power
“be transformed by the renewing of your mind”

19. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Transforming Power
“be transformed by the renewing of your mind”
The Holy Spirit transforms me as I renew my mind with God’s word (1 Peter 1:25ff)

20. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Transforming Power
“be transformed by the renewing of your mind”
don’t be conformed to
this world
do be transformed
(not by)
your renewed mind

21. Romans 8:5-14 (selected)
5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
9You, …, are controlled … by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. …

22. Romans 8:5-14 (selected)
12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation…, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

23. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Mercy
His Supremacy
His Transforming Power

24. 3 Reasons to Put God’s will to the Test
His Mercy
His Supremacy
His Transforming Power
…then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will

25. A Living Sacrifice