Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Rom.12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

It is by the mercies of God we present our bodies a living sacrifice too God. Many since Christ Jesus time on earth have presented themselves to a religion as a sacrifice to God only to come up devastated in their faith! Man in any terms is not the mediator before God for our faith, there is one, and that one is the Christ. It is the life of Christ who is the living sacrifice too God, we a part of him, and him in us, making our lives a holy acceptable spiritual service to God.

Romans 5:15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

1Cor.1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.

The apostles Paul urges his brothers and sisters to grasp the mercies of God, what are the mercies of God? It is Christ Jesus as a living holy sacrifice of God for our salvation, it is not our goodness by works of any law, but rather God's mercies in sending us his love before we every knew him. We do not determine what is acceptable to God by our minds of flesh sold under sins and their laws which are nothing but dead works in Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

1 Corinthians 8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Our service is only acceptable if we are a branch on the Christ the tree of life, he feeds us, he teaches us, he cleanses us from all dead works, he sanctifies us before God, and presents us as his bride to God made righteous as he own righteous life. Please don't be confused here, we are urged by truth not to fall into unrighteous acts of men approving our faith. We must be determined in our faith to stand in faith in Christ the complete means of our salvation, and walk humbly under our head, letting him cherish and work within our members to the glory of God/YHWH.

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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