A Living Sacrifice

Prologue

               Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer

               your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true 

               and proper worship. Romans 12:1

               On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the 

               gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 

               1 Thessalonians 2:4

               Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the

               Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay 

               down in all the churches. 1 Corinthians 7:17

As Joseph Lives His Faith
God Truly Blesses Him

Genesis 39:1-10

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,  and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

God's Law is the Only
Path Of Righteousness
Jesus Lives the Model Life

Matthew 5:17-20

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I HAVE NOT COME TO ABOLISH THEM BUT TO FULFILL THEM. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Epilogue

The most proper worship of a living saint is to live uprightly and righteously as Jesus has epitomized for he came from God with full of truth and grace.

One can do this as he or she willingly allows the Spirit of God to work out the change of heart and mind that is essential for reformation.

N. B. All Scripture taken from New International Version (By BibleGateway.com)