Well, thank you, Vince, and it's great to be with you all, this, this morning. Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 12. We look forward to hearing more from Vince and a couple others in the modular building after this second service. Romans chapter 12, we, for those of you that maybe have not been with us in recent months, we did a study through Romans 567, and 8, and we learned much about the blessings, the glories, the forgiveness, the relationship that belongs to us in Christ.
And upon concluding our study of those four chapters, we have been asking the question, what then shall we do, both in response to these things and as a way of unleashing these gospel realities in our lives. And the first few weeks of that, we inferred some things that we ought to do in response to what we learned from Romans 5 through 8. But as we came into Romans 12, a couple of weeks ago, we don't have to infer anymore. It's right there in front of us.
Paul says, let me tell you exactly what to do with and in response to these blessings that I have been rehearsing for you. And we begin to find what's called imperatives or commands, where we're not left to guess anymore. We have explicit instruction. And in our passage this morning in Romans chapter 12 verse 2, we're gonna add to the list of what we ought to do in response to the gospel, and that is to be transformed.
So if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be Always transforming. Always transforming. In Romans 12:1, Paul says, I urge you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual or reasonable service of worship, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. We find in verse two, A very simple command, be transformed, that is fraught with, with meaning for us to, to ponder....
