Grant Partrick teaches that God desires His children to be conformed to the likeness of His Son. By taking our thoughts captive, actively fighting against sin, and offering ourselves to God we can live lives pleasing to Him.
Scripture References
1.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.
2.He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering9:2 Or purification offering; here and throughout this chapter and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the Lord.
26.You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
15.But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
29.For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
1.Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2.because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me free from the law of sin and death. 3.For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13. God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.8:3 Or flesh, for sin And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4.in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.5.Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6.The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7.The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8.Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.9.You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10.But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11.And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.12.Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13.For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
21.So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22.For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23.but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24.What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25.Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature7:25 Or in the flesh a slave to the law of sin.
12.Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13.for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
17.Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
4.We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
12.Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13.Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14.For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
About the Contributor
Grant Partrick is a part of the team at Passion City Church and serves as the Cumberland Location Pastor. He is passionate about inspiring people to live their lives for what matters most. Grant and his wife, Maggie, live in Marietta, Georgia with their daughters, Mercy, Ember, and Charleigh. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned a masters of theology degree. View more from the Contributor.