In response to all of God‘s mercies described in the first 11 chapters, we are to present our bodies and be renewed in our minds.
Salvation is not a matter of racial identity or religious privilege but of true righteousness, which comes through the gospel.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.
The construction of the tabernacle foreshadowed greater dwellings of God, which he keeps building by plundering the nations.
