In View of God's Mercies - Reformed (Romans 12:1-2)
Notice how Paul begins: "IN VIEW OF God's mercies, I urge you..." Romans 1-11 unpacks those mercies—election, justification, adoption, glorification. THEN comes the call to...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 12:1-2.
Notice how Paul begins: "IN VIEW OF God's mercies, I urge you..." Romans 1-11 unpacks those mercies—election, justification, adoption, glorification. THEN comes the call to sacrifice. Reformed theology emphasizes: obedience flows from grace, not toward it. We don't offer our bodies to EARN mercy; we offer them BECAUSE OF mercy already received. A. W. Pink wrote: "The Christian should view his whole life as an altar."…
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