Our true life of worshiping the Lord is our conduct

The Christian is always presenting himself before God by dying a little more, being crucified as Christ was crucified, being offered as a sacrifice before the Father and being consumed. Every day we are shedding our sinful nature so that the Body of Christ can become more real in us.

So Paul says, "Let's present our bodies as a living, holy sacrifice" because after that, we are taking our body and sanctifying it. The word sanctify means to set aside, to consecrate, to dedicate something to a single purpose. So every day what we do is we die a little more and we sanctify ourselves a little more, we consecrate ourselves to a single purpose and that is to please God, to serve God, we no longer serve the world. Our only reason to exist.

What is something sanctified? something secluded. When the instruments and utensils of the Sanctuary were sanctified, that meant that they could not be used for normal daily purposes, they only existed for one thing and that was the service in the Sanctuary, in the temple; they were holy objects.

Well, we too, when we enter the path of the Lord, we present our bodies and sanctify them, we consecrate our bodies to only one thing and say: I will never again use my body for sinful uses, secondary uses, but I will always use them for the service of God and I'm going to sanctify myself. Then he says: "your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God" pleasing to God because the only thing that pleases the Lord is holiness, holiness is what pleases the Lord.

The Bible says that without holiness no one will see the Lord. We have to serve the Lord, he says, in the beauty and beauty of holiness because that is what is pleasing to the Lord, right? then present our bodies as a living sacrifice, sanctified to Him and that pleases Him and then says: "That is your rational worship."

I know that many of us have stumbled upon that expression and have not understood what that idea means, that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God that is our rational worship. "I want once and for all clarify to you what that idea "your rational worship" means and what does this strange idea mean?

The word that is translated into rational Spanish is the word: logiken, it is a Greek word that means: something that is reasonable, understandable, logical where the word logiken comes from or it can also mean spiritual, according to the Greek philosophers used that word the word logiken referred to that highest dimension of human life, to reason, to thought, to the highest principles, right? There is an element of reason here and an element of spirituality involved in this word logiken which is translated rational in this case.

What Paul is saying here brothers is that when we give our life, our body to the Lord, the sinful and biological part of our being to the Lord for a continuous sanctification and we cleanse our life, says Paul: that is the true and logical worship of the Lord.

The word worship says that it is your rational worship is the word latreya where the word idolatry comes from, it means: adoration, it means ministering to the Lord, it is what you do when you worship the Lord, we come to the temple, right? to worship the Lord. Paul says: present your lives to the Lord, sanctify yourselves because that is what constitutes your true worship. That's the idea, right? of your rational worship.

The translation into Spanish is correct and it is equivalent, but it kind of does not let us understand what Pablo really wants to say. Now when we study the word in the original Greek then we can understand that what Paul is saying here is: if you sanctify yourself and live the kind of life that God asks for and give your life continuously to the Lord and purify yourself that is your true worship.

Brothers: what is it that truly pleases the Lord? It is not our words, it is not our songs, only that is good and pleases God but what God truly likes, what constitutes our true life of adoration and pleasing the Lord is our conduct, our holy life, our purification , our perfection, our commitment to please and adore the Lord every day of our life that is our true worship, our reasonable, spiritual worship.

Why does Jesus Christ say that the day is coming when God will seek the worshipers in spirit and in truth? because those are the ones that please the Lord, those are the worshipers that God seeks to be worshiped by true worshipers. In other words, there are many people who worship the Lord by mouth but do not worship him in life and behavior.

So what Paul is saying: my brothers sanctify yourselves, purify yourselves, give your lives to the Lord so that God can work them, perfect them because that is what constitutes your true and logical and reasonable adoration. What a wonderful passage.

With that we conclude and it is like that everything is unified and constituted in a single thought. This wonderful God who has taken so long to perfect His plan of salvation, has invested so much in us, He deserves a serious and total dedication of our lives, a daily and continuous coming before Him to present our whole being that many times used by the carnal nature and the devil to be an instrument of injustice and ask the Lord to transform it.

And in that effort and in that we become more and more like Christ then we become true worshipers, that life of total surrender and consecration constitutes our rational worship, that is, our true worship, our true adoration, our pleasing to true God. .

The one who pleases God is not the one who pleases him by mouth, who simply comes to the Church and worships him by mouth, but the one who consecrates himself to the Lord and who commits himself to him to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord every day. That is in fact what constitutes our true worship.

This passage like few makes dramatically clear what we truly must do as children of God and how serious that Christian life is when it is truly taken and understood what it means. May God grant that through this study and then we are going to continue other things in this wonderful passage, we can clearly understand the serious and great importance of giving up our lives and living a life of holiness that is pleasing before the Lord.

I hope this study has blessed your life as much as it has for me and I bless you in the Name of the Lord and we commit ourselves to each other to live pleasant lives before God so that we can worship Him as He deserves. May the Lord bless you. I say goodbye to you Pastor Roberto Miranda.