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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the everlasting 
mercies which sent you to us, O 

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Christ, the light of the world 
and the life of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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knowledge. 
Sanctify our souls by your 

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truth, and grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfil your commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
rationale with the knowledge of 

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your greatness, do enlight, O my
Lord, our thoughts that we may 

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meditate upon your holy and 
divine scriptures at all times, 

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O Lord of all, Father and Son 
and Holy Spirit forever. 

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Amen. 
When we leave the church on a 

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Sunday after having offered our 
praise, our worship, our 

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confession and oblation, that is
the Qurbana, the sacrifice 

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without blood, we feel as though
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our Christian life, right? 
Our relationship with God, our 

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love, our respect, our obedience
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Right. 
We feel that that's it. 

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I've done my I've done my duty. 
We become that one or two or 

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three hour Christian for that 
week. 

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That's what we actually allude 
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church every Sunday. 
The exercise of going to church 

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must not be limited to or 
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week, namely Sunday Body 
Physically Experience. 

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We must be engaged in a living 
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of the Church. 
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week, going back to our opening 
statement, that is what we offer

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during church service on a 
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Because half the time our minds 
have drifted away, our spirit is

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somewhere else and our soul is 
yearning for food. 

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Saint Paul encourages that this 
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offering should be a living one,
should be alive. 

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It should be continuous, daily, 
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rather spiritually and mentally.
Our scripture verse is Romans 

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chapter 12, verse one. 
I beseech you, Paul writes. 

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I beseech you therefore, my 
brethren, by the mercies of God,

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that you may present your bodies
living sacrifices. 

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Now this is after he warns the 
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verse 21, that if God did not 
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branches, that is the 
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will not show pity upon you. 
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take face. 
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offer a bodily sacrifice, let's 
put it that way. 

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But a living bodily sacrifice, 
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That's not it. 
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There's more to it, but just be 
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Now let's take these verses upon
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Saint Paul is talking to you and
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Which body is he talking about, 
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Well, your body that was 
fashioned in your mother's womb 

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by God. 
Psalm chapter 139, verse 13. 

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Because you have prepared my 
kidneys, That is you, O God, 

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have prepared my kidneys, and 
you have carried me from the 

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womb to my mother. 
Your body that was presented to 

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the Lord on the eighth day after
your birth in order to remove 

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the old man which is corrupted 
by deceitful desires. 

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Hence the signing of the cross 
from the bottom to the top which

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denotes A circumcision, a taking
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When the priest signs the child,
he signs from the bottom going 

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upwards. 
And there's a reference to that 

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in Luke chapter 2, verse 21. 
Our Lord Jesus Christ, When the 

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8th day were completed that the 
boy that is Jesus should be 

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circumcised, his name was called
Yeshua Eshua Jesus, which he was

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called by the Angel before he 
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womb. 
It's the same thing beloved, 

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when we bring the child and 
offer him to the Lord after 

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eight dates. 
Rushma Marshanta Colossians 

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chapter 2, verse 21. 
And you are circumcised in him 

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in Jesus Christ, by 
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hands in the putting off of the 
body of sin, by the circumcision

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of the Messiah, Christ to be 
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apart. 
So that body, Saint Paul is 

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talking about that body that was
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To receive this gift from the 
prayer of the Rushmore of the 

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signing, the priest recites. 
Your grace has gathered him or 

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her in the life giving net, 
which is the Church, and will 

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lay him or her in the holy 
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That from there he or she may be
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birth. 
See the liturgy of the Church is

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all biblical. 
Paul is talking about your body 

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which was buried, which was put 
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Christ in baptism into death. 
Romans 64 clothed with Christ. 

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Galatians 327 That is becoming 
the child of God, that body. 

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Four, says SJC. 
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If Christ is the Son of God and 
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inside yourself and being made 
like him, you have been made 

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one. 
Listen to this in kind and form.

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Wow. 
God created man, our race in his

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image and his likeness through 
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The children of God through 
Christ receive the kind and form

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of Christ. 
That's why we are called 

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Christians. 
We are Christs on earth just as 

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we are gods. 
We are divine. 

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We become Christians through 
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That body, beloved, the body 
which is dead, signed in front 

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of the altar of God and receives
the Holy Spirit in its fullness.

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That body, your body. 
Hence the confirmation of the 

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adoption of sonship in baptism, 
just as the Holy Spirit ascended

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onto Jesus Christ after his 
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verses 21 to 22, you receive 
that confirmation, the laying on

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of the hand. 
Hu Tama, we say confirmation. 

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And you receive that body that 
receive the fullness of the Holy

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Spirit. 
Yes, yes, that body. 

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That body that you prepared for 
a specific occasion this 

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morning. 
Look at it. 

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Look at it in the mirror. 
If you are in front of the 

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mirror. 
If not, if you're driving, pull 

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aside. 
Tilt the rear view mirror and 

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look at it. 
Stop your vacuuming, give or 

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stop and look in the mirror that
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Do that for a few seconds. 
Yes, that body Paul is talking 

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about. 
What do you see there? 

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What do you see here in the 
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Is it offered as a living 
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slaughter to die? 
No, not a one time suicidal 

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sacrifice. 
No, not like the animal 

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sacrifices. 
They were killed and eaten and 

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finished. 
No, this is supposed to be a 

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living sacrifice, not the one 
Time Duhrana food serving 

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service that once a year you do 
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No, this is a continual, 
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of sacrifice. 
Let me ask you, and please be 

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honest with yourself, OK? 
I'm going to give you a few 

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seconds to prepare yourselves 
and promise me that you will be 

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honest with yourselves. 
Did you pray this morning? 

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Where were you last night? 
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What were you watching last 
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Would you classify that it was a
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God? 
Well, everything that I said is 

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done with the body and the body 
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I'm going to leave that to your 
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yourself. 
Now you may be asking, how does 

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the body become a sacrifice? 
St. 

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John Chrysostom writes. 
Let the eye look on no evil and 

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it has already become a 
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This is what the the members are
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The members of the body are not 
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This is what we are not to do 
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The eyes look on no evil thing, 
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sacrifice. 
Let the tongue say nothing 

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filthy, and it has become an 
offering. 

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Let your hand do nothing evil, 
and it has become a hole burnt 

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offering. 
But even this is not enough, for

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we must have good works also. 
And he continues, the hand must 

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do arms charity. 
The mouth must bless those who 

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curseth and the ease must find 
time to listen to the reading of

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scriptures. 
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allows of no unclean thing. 
It is the first fruits of all 

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other actions. 
Okay. 

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Okay. 
Relax, relax. 

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I know, I know. 
Yeah, I'll be you. 

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You're you're repeating 
yourself. 

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You've quoted this already in 
other episodes. 

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Fine. 
Sure. 

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Yes. 
I admit, I stand corrected. 

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But let me ask you, what did you
do with this quotation? 

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Has it been active, alive. 
Or was it only during the 

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listening of the episode where 
you shook your head and say, 

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yeah, yeah, that's right, Or 
maybe at best for a few hours, 

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hours after listening? 
Now, Saint Paul doesn't stop at 

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sacrifice, but expands and 
includes the adjective, a holy 

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sacrifice off the bat. 
Since our bodies are a temple of

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the Holy Spirit, what is 
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portrayed, et cetera, must be 
our offering of the sacrifice 

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that is holy, meaning. 
Set apart for the glory of God, 

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Set apart for the pleasure of 
God, set apart to serve God, 

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used only for the glory of God. 
Just as our Church temples well,

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our altars, our altars are 
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service of the Lord, the 
Sacramento service of the Lord. 

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Just as the Lambs were offered 
to God, they were unblemished 

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and pure, just as Jesus, the 
Lamb of God, with a definite 

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article. 
The there's no other lambs, 

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beloved. 
Only Jesus Christ is. 

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The pleasing Lamb of God was 
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We too our sacrifices with our 
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filed. 
There must be a holy and under 

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filed body that will offer that 
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to God. 
So another question. 

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Your entire body, your entire 
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body. 
How, For what and where are they

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being utilized? 
Now that's talking about body. 

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What about the spirit and the 
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Well, Saint Paul continues to 
say that our living, quote UN 

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quote, living, continual daily 
sacrifice of the body is one 

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that is acceptable to God by a 
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That is a service of our soul, 
our spirit, our behaviour, our 

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spirit and rational sacrifices 
in the true faith which we offer

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during the Divine Liturgy. 
And that is what we offer during

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the Divine Liturgy. 
The the celebration of the 

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Divine Liturgy. 
Look at what the priest prays 

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and you hear. 
It is our hearts being sprinkled

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and claims from an evil 
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There's one body part, my heart.
God Who? 

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Who purges the heart? 
Our hearts being sprinkled and 

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cleansed from an evil 
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May we be made worthy to enter 
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Not physically we've done it 
physically, but imitating the 

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spiritually. 
That means let our sacrifices, 

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our service with a pure heart, 
attend and be present before 

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your throne, that is in the 
Kingdom of heaven, the High and 

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Exalted, and in purity, 
excellence and holiness. 

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May we stand before your holy 
altar and offer to you spiritual

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and rational sacrifices in the 
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See, these are all Scriptural, 
Beloved. 

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So the sacrifice of the mind of 
the soul now is our worship. 

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John chapter 4, verse 24, Jesus 
states it for God is a spirit 

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and they that worship him should
worship him in spirit and in 

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truth. 
The liturgy, the order. 

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But this beloved is not to be a 
one time service and offering at

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church for a couple of hours. 
Keep this in mind, it must be a 

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living, a continual a daily 
offering. 

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In verse two of Romans chapter 
12, Paul now continues. 

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And do not, after we offer this 
body as a holy and pleasing 

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sacrifice, We are not to imitate
this world, but be transformed 

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by the renovation of our minds. 
And we should distinguish what 

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is the good, acceptable and 
perfect will of God. 

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What is the pattern of this 
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What is, I'm sorry, what is 
imitating what of the world? 

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The fashion of the world. 
The pattern of the world. 

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Saint John Chrysostom rights, 
which is groveling. 

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It's creeping. 
The world is creepy. 

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Beloved, don't for a second wait
and anticipate and believe that 

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the world would change. 
I was preaching this on 

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Wednesday in in the in the the 
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Let us not for a second thing 
that one day the superpowers, 

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the United nation, the 
governments, those who hate 

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Jesus Christ, those who don't 
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God. 
One day everyone will accept it 

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unless God then forcefully 
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this into fruition. 
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The world is creepy. 
It's worthless and temporal. 

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That's why it will end. 
It will melt. 

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And if you don't think so, then 
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renovation. 
Beloved, if you think the world 

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is it, it is ultimate. 
It is the best. 

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It is the best that we can 
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Well then you will not be able 
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acceptable and perfect will of 
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Let me give you an example, 
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Now since we're discussing a 
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let me give you an example in a 
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Listen to this very carefully 
and I hope it doesn't offend and

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disappoint and cut a few people.
And if it does, I'm not sorry, 

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just as Paul writes, I'm not 
sorry to grieve to this point. 

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I just pray that that grievance 
and disappointment then produces

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repentance, enhancing your body,
that is various body parts for 

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the sole purpose of beauty, 
glamour and attraction in any 

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way, shape or form and not for 
medical reasons. 

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You must imply that you are not 
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fashioned your body. 
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God got it wrong. 
How can you tell me? 

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How can you justify that it is a
living and holy sacrifice? 

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You know what I'm talking about.
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specific as they may be underage
listeners, but let me put it 

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this way. 
We're talking about sacrificing 

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your body, the body members 
enhancement, enlarging pills and

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procedures. 
That's what I'm talking about. 

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Yeah, right. 
Holy and pleasing sacrifice to 

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God, aren't they? 
No, no, no, no, no, no. 

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Tisk. 
Tisk, tisk. 

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No. 
Beloved for glamour and beauty. 

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Well, Proverbs chapter 31, verse
30 states beauty is false, 

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beauty is false and favour is 
empty. 

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But a woman or a man that is in 
the awe of the Lord God, he or 

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she will be praised. 
We need a renovation of the mind

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in order to discern the will of 
God and not appease the view of 

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man. 
We have that tool beloved, and 

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that tool the mechanism lack. 
The better term is discernment. 

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We have that spirit of 
discernment through the Holy 

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Spirit. 
We have that gift and that Holy 

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Spirit that you received in 
baptism. 

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We spoke about that previously, 
that Holy Spirit that Christ 

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sent from the Father to grant us
the wisdom, the knowledge, the 

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strength, the discernment, the 
prudence. 

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John Chapter 14, verse 26. 
Jesus states but the Comforter, 

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the Holy Spirit whom the Father 
will send in my name, He will 

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teach you everything, and He 
will remind you of all that I 

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say to you. 
He will remind you of this 

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episode when you want to 
enhance, when you want to 

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glamorize and beautify for 
glamour and beauty purposes. 

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I'm not talking about medical 
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Now you know what I think that 
is a a lentil, not lentil. 

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A lentil. 
A psalmer and a prayer point. 

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A psalmer and a prayer point. 
Lord, grant me the discernment 

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while attempting to offer my 
body as a living and holy 

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sacrifice, grant me the 
discernment. 

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So once again, I'll leave you 
with this. 

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Go back to that mirror, beloved.
Look at it and ask yourself, how

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is this vehicle you want to call
it? 

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This living Organism, this body,
this soul, this spirit, this 

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mind that is within the body? 
How is it being offered? 

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As a sacrifice, a living 
sacrifice, holy and pleasing to 

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God. 
Praise be to the name of the 

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Father and of the Son of the 
Holy Spirit forever. 

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Amen. 
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