Lesson 6 – Consecration (Outline)

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Lesson 6 – Consecration

Romans 12:1 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price. So then glorify God in your body.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised.

  1. The basis of consecration
    1. Gods purchase 1
  2. The motive of consecration
    1. Gods love 2, 3
  3. The meaning of consecration
    1. To be a sacrifice 4
  4. The purpose of consecration
    1. To work for God 5, 6, 7
  5. The result of consecration
    1. For one’s own benefit – deliverance from sin to be a slave of God in order to bear fruit unto sanctification, that is, to live out the overcoming life day by day. 8
    2. For God’s benefit – to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect, the accomplishment of Gods eternal purpose. 9

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Bible References:

  1. For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself; for whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the Lord’s (Romans 14:7-8)
  2. For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
  3. I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)
  4. Command the children of Israel and say to them, My offering, My food for My offerings by fire of a satisfying fragrance to Me, you shall be careful to present to Me at its appointed time. And you shall say to them, This is the offering by fire which you shall present to Jehovah: two male lambs a year old without blemish each day as a continual burnt offering. (Numbers 28:2-3)
  5. Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Romans 1:1)
  6. Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted faith equally precious as ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: (2 Peter 1:1)
  7. The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must quickly take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John, (Revelation 1:1)
  8. Do not let sin therefore reign in your mortal body so that you obey the body’s lusts; neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God. (Romans 6:12-13)
  9. I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2)