Section 3
that you have a heart for the church meetings, you need to ask yourself if you have presented your body to the Lord for the meetings. Where is your body at meeting time? The body is the container of our being, for the spirit is within the soul and the soul is within the body. We must present this container to the Lord for the sake of His Body.
Verse 2 speaks of the mind, which is the main part of the soul: "And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind." When our mind is renewed, our soul will be transformed. Hence, our body needs to be presented, and our soul needs to be transformed.
In this verse Paul beseeches us not to be con formed to this age. The world, Satan's system, is a cosmos composed of many ages. The nineteenth century was one age, and the twentieth century is another age. Actually, there have been several distinct ages within the twentieth century itself. The present age is a section of Satan's world sys tem. This age includes not only the secular world, but also the religious world. If we are conformed to today's religion, we shall be useless as far as the practice of the Body life is concerned.
For Paul in his day to be conformed to the pres ent age was primarily a matter of being conformed