Romans
12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy (hagios), acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.”
All Christian musicians must be aware that
they do not have the responsibility to satisfy me with their definition of what
hagios (40) means in this verse. The
person that all Christian musicians have to please with the way they live is
God. I am simply saying that God said in
this verse present Me a living, breathing sacrifice that is without moral
blame.
Hagios is sometimes translated saints in the
AV and the Practical Word Studies in the New Testament states that,
“believers are saints in the sense that they are set apart to live consecrated
and holy lives in this present world.” Practical word Studies
in the New Testament, Vol. I, (no author) p. 1044 W.E. Vine believed that hagios “…signifies ‘separated’…and hence, in
Scripture in its moral and spiritual significance, separated from sin and
therefore consecrated to God, sacred.” Vines expository
Dictionary of Biblical Words, by W.E.
Vine et al, p. 307
J.H. Thayer stated that this living sacrifice
(thusia 2378) must be, “in a moral sense, pure, sinless, upright, holy…” The New Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon of the New
Testament by Joseph H. Thayer,
p. 7 One of the ways that a Christian can
keep the living sacrifice acceptable to
God is to keep it pure and unspotted by the world (James I:27) and another is
to keep the sacrifice alive unto God. It
only stands to reason that if God requires the life of living sacrifice to be a
holy sacrifice, then anything less than holy living is not acceptable to God.
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