Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. We're going to dive right into this. This is a blockbuster text of scripture. So let's pray.

Father, as we now come to look into your word, we ask that your grace would be upon each one of us, that you

would work through me to be a mouthpiece for the teaching of your word.

I pray that you would be meeting with everyone who's watching. of your

omnipresent,

omnipresent Holy Spirit would be working both sides of the aisle

and be at work in the hearts and the lives of

everyone who's watching. So may you extraordinarily bless them through this

study this morning.

We pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Well, I want you to take your Bible and turn with me

to the book of Romans, Romans chapter 12 and we have just crossed the continental

divide and we have stepped into the last major section of the book of Romans. Now there's still five chapters to go.

So it's not as though we've come to the end of Romans. In fact we've come to everything that the Apostle Paul has been

building towards which is how to live your Christian life. The title of this lesson this morning is living on the altar.

And that's where each and every one of us need to be living is on the altar. And the problem with a living sacrifice is they crawl off of

altars. So we must stay on the altar as our life is presented to God as a living and holy sacrifice.

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