Does the living sacrifice stop with praising God with your lips?
No, the living sacrifice does not stop with praising God with your lips. The context explains it will always move on into other areas of your life. This living sacrifice is also to be holy, meaning simply set apart for God's purposes.
Les explains that the sacrifice is not an animal or our own blood, but the sacrifice of praise to God continually, the fruit of our lips. He asks what you do with your lips—you speak—and says this is the living sacrifice God is looking for first and foremost. God wants to hear our lips speak praise and thanksgiving to Him all day, every day. That is the easiest way to fulfill Romans chapter 12. A believer who offers lips of praise to God seven days a week will start accomplishing things for God as well; it works hand in glove, automatically. But then Les returns to Romans 12:1 and says this living sacrifice should not stop with the lips of praise. It will always move on into other areas of your life. In this living sacrifice, it is holy. Holy scares people, but it simply means set apart, as the vessels in the Temple were declared holy.
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.
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What is required to present your body as a living sacrifice?
You don't have to cross raging rivers, move to another place, or get an education that God can use in order to present your body as a living sacrifice; you just say, 'Lord, here am I. Use me.'