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Don't adapt to this world

Dr. Roberto Miranda

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SUMMARY: Paul invites all believers to live a life of continuous surrender to the Lord, symbolized by the body as the carnal and material part of the human being. The mind can also be a part of this process. By living a sacrificial life, constantly dying to the old self and acquiring the attributes of a human being immersed in the Word and the principles of Christ Jesus and His Kingdom, we can be a holy and pleasing sacrifice to God. This continuous surrender and subjection to the principles of the Kingdom of God constitutes true worship. Paul warns against conforming to the present time, characterized by the world's rebellion against God, sinful attributes, and cultural attitudes that militate against holiness and obedience to the commandments of the Lord. Christians should live in contradiction to the values of this world and obey the values of the Kingdom of God.

Devotionals based on Romans 12

In this series, Dr. Miranda delves deeply into Paul's exhortation in Romans 12:1-2 to "renew our minds" and "not be conformed to the world."

1 Such a beautiful and complete plan of salvation

2 The danger of taking lightly the call to holiness

3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?

4 We have to present ourselves each day before the Lord

5 Sin will have no dominion over us

6 We have to identify the areas of our life that are not addressed by God

7 Freed from sin to serve justice

8 Our old nature is crucified together with Christ

9 Our true life of worshiping the Lord is our conduct

10 Don't adapt to this world

11 Do not love the world or the things that are in the world

12 Let's aim for a transformed life

13 The gradual process of our transformation

14 In perpetual search for a higher level of holiness

15 A radical change

The apostle Paul makes a solemn invitation to all the children of God throughout all generations to live a life of continuous surrender to the Lord in all areas and that is why he speaks of bodies as symbols of the carnal, material, animal part of the human being, those areas that can constitute an instrument for evil and sin.

Our mind can even be part of that process, the mind not touched by God for example, those members, those instruments of our being that he calls the body, somata but that can be greater than simply our physical part we present it to the Lord and let us live a sacrificial life, of continuous death of the old man so that the new man can be resurrected and that this new birth of which the Word speaks can become effective, real, manifest, observable in our lives.

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