True Worship / Sermon by Pastor Tim Block / July 6, 2025
Series: Transformed: Living Differently in a Difficult World
Text: Romans 12:1-2
Big Idea: True worship is when total trust leads to total surrender
TRANFORMED: sermon series overview
- True Worship: Living Sacrifices
- Humble Service: Gifts for the Body
- Sincere Love: Marks of the True Christian
- Compassionate Forgiveness: Overcoming Evil
Romans chapters 1 through 11 in context:
- Romans 1 – Humanity Desperately Needs Grace
- Romans 2 – God’s Righteous Judgment
- Romans 3 – All Have Sinned, Grace is Revealed
- Romans 4 – Grace Through Faith, Not Works
- Romans 5 – Grace Greater Than Sin
- Romans 6 – Grace Empowers New Life
- Romans 7 – The Struggle Without Grace
- Romans 8 – Living in Grace and Freedom
- Romans 9 – God’s Sovereign Grace
- depends on His goodness & faithfulness, not ours
- Romans 10 – Grace Offered to All
- Romans 11 – Grace and God’s Faithfulness
“A living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1)
- Living – ongoing, daily
- Sacrifice – total surrender, offered up to God
“But be transformed” (Romans 12:2)
- a continuous process
- origin: metamorphosis
The mind being renewed:
References: 2 Cor 10:5, Isaiah 26:3, 2 Tim 1:7, James 1:8
The expectation: total surrender
The process: transformed by renewing of our mind
The result: “that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:2)