Where I Belong (Romans 12:1-2, Romans 7:7-12, Romans 5:6, Romans 8:15, Galatians 2:20, John 10:28, Galatians 3:26, 2 Corinthians 5:17-19, Galatians 4:4-7)
Pastor Jim Buchanan, 14 February, 2021Part of the Sunday Morning Message series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Romans 12:1–2 (Listen)
12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
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Romans 7:7–12 (Listen)
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Romans 5:6 (Listen)
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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Romans 8:15 (Listen)
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
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Galatians 2:20 (Listen)
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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John 10:28 (Listen)
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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Galatians 3:26 (Listen)
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
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2 Corinthians 5:17–19 (Listen)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
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Galatians 4:4–7 (Listen)
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
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