Our Reasonable Service
This article expounds Romans 12:1-2 to explain how believers' good works and holy living constitute a "reasonable service" of grateful worship to God. Marcus argues that sanctification—the transformed life of the redeemed—flows necessarily from grace and represents the spiritual sacrifices Christians offer in thankfulness, while warning against pride in works.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1 The inspired apostle Paul spent much of the first chapters in Romans establishing the depravity of mankind and God's wrath against sin. He made it clear that "by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified" (Rom. 3:20). He taught us that salvation is "of faith, that it might be by grace" (Rom. 4:16). But...
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