but be ye transformed--or, "transfigured" (as in Matthew 17:2 ; and 2Corinthians 3:18 , Greek). 2 Thessalonians 2 John In other words, our problem is not so much the evil in society as it is our lack of discernment and self-control. Be ready to entertain those who do good: as there is occasion, we must welcome strangers. "No," they said, "we're changing it a bit, modernizing it, bringing it up to date." All its joys are but in name; As we live for Him, we are assured that His will for our lives will be "good and acceptable and perfect" and that our life will be pleasing to Him. (Phillips: Touchstone). Nothing will dampen our love for Christ as will love for the world. Fourth: Pleasure. Once you get to that place, then He is free and able to direct your steps (Pr 20:24) -- every one of which is a fulfillment of His will. (see Colossians 3:10-note). Then you will be able to test and approve what Gods will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 (NIV) in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head--As the heaping of "coals of fire" is in the Old Testament the figurative expression of divine vengeance ( Psalms 140:10 , 11:6 , &c.), the true sense of these words seems to be, "That will be the most effectual vengeance--a vengeance under which he will be fain to bend" (So ALFORD, HODGE, &c.). SERVICE IS GOD'S WILL FOR US - Ep 6:5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (note) 1Pe 5:2 (note), IV. This is truly the way to worship him. that ye present--See on Romans 16:13 , where we have the same exhortation and the same word there rendered "yield" (as also in Romans 12:16 Romans 12:19 ). There is an increasing appreciation of the grace of God and of the provision He has made for us in Christ, with a corresponding longing to be done with this body of death and conformed fully to the lovely image of the Lord; which longings will be completely realized at our glorification. Bless, and curse not. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. It is 100-percent negative. 8 1 So now the case is closed. Click to play GNB: Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. A mind dedicated to the world and its concerns will produce a life tossed back and forth by the currents of culture (see Ephesians 4:14-note). I have loved the individual books published thus far from The Passion Translation, https://www.thepassiontranslation.com/testimonial/bobbie-houston/, "Forged many years ago while translating the Scriptures among South American tribes, and hammered out on the anvil of decades of personal devotion and apostolic experience, my dear friend Brian Simmons brings to the earth a powerful and refreshing translation of the Scriptures that is fueling and inflaming the hearts of tens of thousands world wide. 11 Be enthusiastic to serve the Lord, keeping your passion toward him boiling hot! holy--As the Levitical victims, when offered without blemish to God, were regarded as holy, so believers, "yielding themselves to God as those that are alive from the dead, and their members as instruments of righteousness unto God," are, in His estimation, not ritually but really "holy," and so acceptable--"well-pleasing" unto God--not as the Levitical offerings, merely as appointed symbols of spiritual ideas, but objects, intrinsically, of divine complacency, in their renewed character, and endeared relationship to Him through His Son Jesus Christ. You could take anything away from it and make it better. Paul is actually calling us to think Christianly. To make a deliberate break from the decadent mind-set of a decaying society and reorient ourselves toward God. Jon Courson asks "Are you a thermometeradjusting to the temperature of the culture, or are you a thermostatchanging the climate of the culture? To fight temptation from the world There is an eternal opposition between God and the world lying in wickedness. It hates nonconformistslike Christ and His followers. Was any portion of your worldly substance taken away? INSIGHT:Familiar and frequently quoted, Romans 12:1-2 highlights the drastic and dramatic change that occurs when a person gives him or herself completely to God. Acceptable (pleasing - NIV) (2101) (euarestos [word study] from eu = well + arestos = pleasing, desirable, proper, fit, agreeable from aresko = to please or be pleasing/acceptable to) means that which causes someone to be pleased. by the mercies of God--those mercies, whose free and unmerited nature, glorious Channel, and saving fruits have been opened up at such length. "The friendship of the world is enmity with God. Compromise for the very word dependence only means hanging.". Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Christlikeness: Php 2:1-11-note. Ephesians God wants our bodies and our minds; He wants our total submission. Live happily together in a spirit of harmony, and be as mindful of anothers worth as you are your own. That is, at first, you will learn that what God sends is good (cp Jas 1:17-note, Ps 84:11-note). Tho' it may cost me much tribulation, Aliens get their cue from God and not the world. 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. And meditate on what God said Calvin remarks that "If the renewal of our mind is necessary for the purpose of proving what the will of the Most High is, we may hence see how much this mind is opposed to God. This term denotes the entire change that passes on a man when he becomes a Christian. What need of a fresh baptism of the Spirit in order to this! but only the Bible can transform. As His mission could be summarized in the affirmation that He had come to do the Father's will Jn 6:38), the Christian's service can be reduced to this simple description also. Numbers Pressures of the world will continue to try to shape our character, but they will not succeed if God's Word is changing us from within. (Haldane). Matthew "It is not conformity that we need," says Bushnell; "it is not being able to beat the world in its own way; but it is to stand apart and above it, and to produce the impression of a holy and separate life. Galatians Barnhouse picks up on the root word schema and says "we are not to go along with the world's schemes.". However do not misunderstand what Paul is commanding. Habits of life, tho' harmless they seem, Thelema conveys the idea of desire, even a hearts desire, for the word primarily expresses emotion instead of volition. What are you going to do with your life?" Teleios includes the ideas of having no defect whatsoever and of having reached the goal, purpose or end which was originally intended. And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect. No; come out of it, and be you separate. All of life begins and is defined by how we think, what we think about, and what we decide in the confines of our thoughts. The only way to not be conformed is to seek Jesus first and as His presence and power become more experientially intimate in your life (cp Jn 3:30), the things of this fallen world will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. Those who are eaten up with the world will be rejected, as ungodly, at the bar of judgment. Do not hunt after its honors and profits. William Barclay explains that the root of suschematizo: is schema, which means the outward form that varies from year to year and from day to day. Dont be smug or even think for a moment that you know it all. The great enemy to this renewal is, conformity to this world. Wuest: And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing and complete will, and having found that it meets specifications, place your approval upon it. And those that embrace religion, must expect to meet with enemies in a world whose smiles seldom agree with Christ's. A boat in the water is by design In other words, transformation and non-conformity on the outside must flow from a new mind. oh, fatal delusion! Augustine wrote "Two cities have been formed by two loves; the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God, the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. 3God has given me grace to speak a warning about pride. 1 The most amazing song of all, by King Solomon. In this view the presentation of ourselves, as living monuments of redeeming mercy, is here called "our rational service"; and surely it is the most rational and exalted occupation of God's reasonable creatures. Greek: kai me suschematizesthe (2PPPM) to aioni touto, alla metamorphousthe (2PPPM) te anakainosei tou noos eis to dokimazein (PAN) humas ti to thelema tou Theou, to agathon kai euareston kai teleion. AMG, Excerpt from The Habit of Keeping a Clear Conscience - My Utmost For His Highest, Romans 12-16 Devotionals & Sermon Illustrations, Romans Devotionals & Sermons Illustrations-Our Daily Bread, Romans 7-11 Devotionals & Sermon Illustrations, Romans 1-6 Devotionals & Sermon Illustrations, Ex 23:2; Lev 18:29,30; Dt 18:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; Jn 7:7; 14:30; 15:19; 17:14; 1Co 3:19; 2Co 4:4; 6:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2Cor 7:1; Gal 1:4; Eph 2:2; 4:17, 18, 19, 20; James 1:27; 4:4; 1Pe 1:14,18; 4:2; 2Pe 1:4; 2:20; 1Jn 2:15, 16, 17; 3:13; 4:4,5; 5:19; Rev 12:9; 13:8, Ro 13:14; Psalms 51:10; Ezekiel 18:31; 36:26; 2Co 5:17; Eph 1:18; 4:22, 23, 24; Col 1:21,22; 3:10; Titus 3:5, Ro 12:1; 7:12,14,22; Ps 19:7-11; Ps 119:47,48,72,97,103,128,174; Pr 3:1-4; Pr 3:13-18; Ga 5:22, 23; Ep 5:9; Col 4:12; 1Th 4:3; 2Ti 3:16,17. (Ironside, H. Romans). Believers are to be insulated from the world (like Daniel in the midst of idol infested Babylon) but not isolated from the world. he that ruleth--whether in the Church or his own household. . I wonder if I have yet grasped the incredible process described in Romans 12:2, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. The Passion Translation New Testament book. Jas 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Watching with prayer and much self denial "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world" is a prohibition which should never be absent from the eye of a traveler to the heavenly city. (John 7:17). Don't be fashioned according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Sanctification extends to the whole man ( 1 Thessalonians 5:23 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ). the Lord led me . We can take such evil thoughts captive in Christ and cast them down. Or ministry, let us wait on--"be occupied with." The world in various instances calls evil good, and good evil. As citizens of heaven (see Philippians 3:20-note) we are to set [our] mind on things above, not on the things that are on the earth" (see Colossians 3:1-note; Col 3:2 note). How does it affect me? Ruth Printed on the picture were the words, "Go against the flow." The mind is renewed by intention and feeding it the truth. Believers are to dedicate themselves to God. I would ask each of you to be emptied of self-promotion and not create a false image of your importance. The word "transformed" means to be transfigured, that is, to become bright and shining in our life. One day Billy and Ruth Graham were driving through a long stretch of road construction. De Haan, Choose Book of Bible to Study (Charles Swindoll, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, p.219), Addressing a national seminar of Southern Baptist leaders, George Gallup said, "We find there is very little difference in ethical behavior between churchgoers and those who are not active religiouslyThe levels of lying, cheating, and stealing are remarkable similar in both groups. 18. Romans 12:2 (NCV) (J. C. Philpot. And live a life thats Spirit-led. But if you have a verse of Scripture propped up on the window sill before you or a passage that you are trying to think through to an understanding of it, your kitchen sink can become the greatest altar you have ever experienced. One must also think through as to the significance. Wise living is God's will for us - Ep 5:15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 (notes), C. Non-conformation, transformation and renewal are God's will for us - Ro 12:1, 2, D. Continual Rejoicing, Ceaseless Prayer and Constant Thanksgiving are God's will for us - 1Th 5:16, 17, 18 (notes), II. SECURITY IS GOD'S WILL FOR US - Jn 6:38, 39, 40, III. Paul is saying once we become living sacrifices something beautiful happens-someone else transforms us! Take a constant interest in the needs of Gods beloved people and respond by helping them. You don't let yourself think like other people around you think. Is your marriage and family yielded to Him? Give me Jesus He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Heavenly-mindedness can only be maintained by the strictest vigilance. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. The mind is our only place of total personal privacy. Nothing is below us, but sin. It was to remove an idol, to dethrone a rival to Christ, to crucify the object of earthly loveso that a purer, holier, and more enduring affection might be enshrined in its stead. Thus Gods will is not so much Gods intention, as it is His hearts desire. .When Satan cannot catch us with a big sin, he will try a little one. And eagerly welcome people as guests into your home. This is another description of progressive sanctification (Click to see this sanctification or present tense salvation graphically displayed and contrasted with justification and glorification). 9Let the inner movement of your heart always be to love one another, and never play the role of an actor wearing a mask. Octavius Winslow - A worldly Christianity? Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities (those things not having any serious purpose or value) and little rogueries (dishonest, unprincipled, mischievous ways of conduct - in agriculture a rogue is a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different, unwanted variety!) Hines said, "Sir, I can't sing in that opera. Practically this means we must be careful what we read and watch (see discussion of to this world below). (Haldane). If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (or creation); old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. (2Co 5:17) If there be not a radical difference between their present state and that in which they were by nature, they have no title to the character of Christians. The pattern of this world belongs to Satan, and it has ever since Adam fell to temptation. All our duty towards one another is summed up in one word, love. Fame is the longing to be known, to be somebody in someone else's eyes. There's nothing hid from You; He is able to function because he takes his environment with him. In like manner, Paul here brackets, with that great conception of the Christian life, another equally dominant and equally comprehensive. Copyright 2020 Passion & Fire Ministries, Inc. Vernon C. Grounds (Our Daily Bread), Some will hate you, some will love you; The world, or the dominion of darkness has particular ways and goes round by certain means. (World - Trench's Synonyms of the New Testament). In order, then, that our spiritual experience of the truth of God should maintain its ground, it must not be dulled and deadened by conformity to the world. The right order is the Spirit of Christ first, then the lusts of the flesh (cp Ga 5:16-note), Frederick Godet explains that "Paul has just pointed to the believer's body as a consecrated instrumentIn the use of his consecrated body, the believer has first an everywhere present model to be rejected, then a new type to be discerned and realized. Let them be a living and holy sacrificethe kind he will find acceptable. Aion then is the spirit of this age that seeks gratification of self independent of and regardless of the consequences or cost to self or others. And first, the all-comprehensive duty. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. It is a delicate and fragile flower, susceptible of every variation of the spiritual atmosphere. We believe that the essential meaning of a passage should take priority over the literal form of the original words, while still ensuring the essence of those words is conveyed, so that every English speaker can clearly and naturally encounter the heart of God through his message . I will muse on them. Wonder. Mark 9:2 Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. Jerome Hines stayed in opera, but everything was different. Many books can inform, And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God. Even so-called Christian counselors often go to the world for their training. . We arent to follow the Eastern Mysticism of emptying our minds either. In the first case, Satan and the world have abundant power, they know to fashion anyone found willing. Rejoice with them that rejoice; and weep--the "and" should probably be omitted. And so it is in the body of Christ. Third: Power. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. It's amusing to think of how a naturally round watermelon can become square because of the shape of the container in which it's grown. 7If your grace-gift is serving, then thrive in serving others well. Romans 12:2 (MSG) . As the believer chooses to saturate his or her mind with the abiding seed, the living and active Word of God, the Spirit progressively "renovates" our mind so that the way we see, think and feel lines up more and more with the mind of God. Jesus, the Great Innovator, offers all of these and invites us to experience a new and different life in Him. Anyone speaking with divine authority--whether with reference to the past, the present, or the future--was termed a prophet ( Exodus 7:1 ). God will help us control our thoughts and bring them into subjection to Jesus, to conform to His way of thinking. get to know the Bible better! His plan is good and pleasing and perfect. We give way in this and that thing. Proverbs If you will, your life will never be the same. In Spooner's style, one fell swoop became "one swell foop" and a pouring rain became "a roaring pain.". May God be pleased to raise up a generation of transformers, not conformers, men and women whose lives are controlled by a Divine Power from within, not worldly pressure from without. If I am in the habit of continually holding Gods standard in front of me, my conscience will always direct me to Gods perfect law and indicate what I should do. Good (18) (agathos [word study] 19/102 uses in Romans -- Ro 2:7, 10; 3:8; 5:7; 7:12, 13, 18, 19; 8:28; 9:11; 10:15; 12:2, 9, 21; 13:3, 4; 14:16; 15:2; 16:19) describes that which is "good" in its character or constitution or beneficial in its effect. This is really what human beings are here for. So the change in view here is not a superficial fluctuation of fashion or conduct but a vital change revealing a new life. Verses 1-2 The apostle having closed the part of his epistle wherein he argues and proves various doctrines which are practically applied, here urges important duties from gospel principles. 6:5; 2Ti 3:8; Titus 1:15; Rev. Wright has also focused on the Greek word for stillness, , by drawing comparisons between 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and the time that Jesus instructed Mary while Martha was cooking. Here, then, is the point where we have to make our chief stand; for if we are conformed to the maxims, the principles, the customs, and the spirit of the world, we so far lose that spiritual position which is a believer's highest blessing and privilege. He calls us to think His thoughts after Him and to conform our thoughts to His will and His ways. If you need to cast off some "filthy" clothes, then by the Spirit's enabling power "Just do it!" And you want to give more to your spouse than youd get in return. To the Christians in Rome Paul wrote, Dont copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think (Rom. The world is crucified to us, and we are crucified to the world. Standing upright, we see a world rising on the foundations of our own achievements. Let us render ourselves; all we are, all we have, all we can do: and after all, what return is it for such very rich receivings? Why would anyone want a square watermelon? Even apparent or superficial conformity to a system controlled by such a spirit, much more an actual accommodation to its ways, would be fatal to the Christian life. The eyes of the LORD are searching to and fro throughout the earth (2Chr 16:9) for men and women who will not be conformed but rather transformed by the Holy Spirit into the image of Jesus Christ. The word nous, mind, is used as it is here, frequently in the New Testament, Romans 1:28; Ephesians 4:17, Ephesians 4:23; Colossians 2:18, etc. I dare say that this is a major reason for the weakness of Christians today. Ezra Conformed (4964) (suschematizo [word study] from sun/syn = together with + schema = external form, appearance) means to form according to a pattern or mold, to fashion alike, to conform to the same pattern outwardly. Until you lay your life on Gods altar as a living sacrificeuntil your will is deadGods will wont be manifest in your life. My hearts need is to trust God. He dedicated his art, his work, his all to that purpose. (Haldane), Hodge - The transformation to which Christians are exhorted, is not a mere external change, but one which results from a change of heart, an entire alteration of the state of the mind. Truly, this is a great mystery to a lot of Christians. cooperate with Your work in me. The words he sang were. According to John Piper dokimazo "has two implications: one is the idea of testing and proving something's value. Romans 12:2 (SBLG) Live in the truths found in Romans and discover the heavenly treasures of faith, grace, righteousness, and power. This age contrasts sharply with "the age" (the messianic age or millennial reign of Christ on earth is the next "age") to come when righteousness reigns (see 2Pe 3:13-note). (3) In this light, what are we to think of the so-called "unbloody sacrifice of the mass, continually offered to God as a propitiation for the sins both of the living and the dead," which the adherents of Rome's corrupt faith have been taught for ages to believe is the highest and holiest act of Christian worship--in direct opposition to the sublimely simple teaching which the Christians of Rome first received ( Romans 12:1 )-- (4) Christians should not feel themselves at liberty to be conformed to the world, if only they avoid what is manifestly sinful; but rather, yielding themselves to the transforming power of the truth as it is in Jesus, they should strive to exhibit before the world an entire renovation of heart and life ( Romans 12:2 ). That's why in Romans 12:2 we are told not to be "conformed to this world," but to be "transformed by the renewing of [our] mind." What this does mainly is sober us up and wake us up so that we don't drift with the world and take for granted that the way the world thinks and acts is the best way. (Romans 12 - William Barclay's Daily Study Bible). Significantly, there is a shift in the tense of the verbs (from the aorist "present") to the present tense, pointing up the necessity of continual vigilance lest the original decision be vitiated or weakened. It cost him, over the period of ten years, something like a hundred thousand dollars. Paul said, 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 (Romans 12:2). "I will meditate on them. This is truly the way to worship him. People might never think of going to an astrologer, or witch, or soothsayer, or New Age channeler, (thought far too many do), but they will go to a secular psychologist who has been training is rooted in the philosophy of this world which is self-centered. This judgment is on manythe earth swallows up their time, thoughts and discourse. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. The least suspicion of either would have been a blot upon the noble knight's escutcheon. 6Gods marvelous grace imparts to each one of us varying gifts and ministries that are uniquely ours. is the eager inquiry of many. Between those covers is a living Book. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 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