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.

As we begin our time, I want to begin with the word of prayer and then I want to go

straight into this text. You're joining us on really a great study of a landmark verse. So let me begin in a word of prayer. Father as

we open your Bible we ask now that you would open our eyes and open our hearts,

open our minds, that your Holy Spirit would teach us and instruct us the truth of

this passage and of this text.

And so we come to you now desiring not only to know the truth but that the truth might possess our lives.

We pray this in Christ's name, amen.

All right, I want you to take your Bible and turn with me to Romans chapter 12 and today we're going to be looking

at just verse 2, Romans 12 verse 2.

The title of this message is a transformed life, a transformed life.

So let me begin by reading verse 2, and I think I'm going to begin reading in verse one, which is what we looked at last time.

Therefore, I urge you brethren by the mercies of God to present your body as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God

which is your spiritual service of worship. Now here we are for today.

Verse 2 and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing

of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

A transformed life.

It's been well said that the goal of scripture is not merely information, but transformation.

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