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151. Studying under the Greatest Teacher

Matthew 10:1-42

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Gary W. Houston

... increasing awareness of loving union with the triune God, then we must expect a lifetime of dying to selfcenteredness. We must surrender to God’s complete control on all levels of human existence. This means that the love of God is discovered and experienced to the ... degree that we empty ourselves of all that may impede a total surrender in trusting love to God. May I submit that the main obstacle to our spiritual growth is the fact that we identify with ...

152. For Freedom!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

... on them. The fact is, once release has been provided, it requires response in kind. If not, the one who has been promised the release surrenders it. We show our regard for a gift by the use we make of it. If God frees me from guilt, I show that I receive and celebrate ... it by behaving in the same way toward others in my world. If I refuse, I am, in fact, surrendering the gift. God tells us that the gift is freely given. But if we refuse to act on it, to live with it, to use it, then ...

153. Let’s Face It

Matthew 25:1-13

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Michael L. Sherer

... , while the host arrived and closed the door without me. We cannot tell when the end will come, but we can see that our trust is rightly placed in the meantime. That’s the finest guarantee of all that we will be prepared, whenever it may come. B. We Can Surrender in Advance There is a second way we can be ready for the end with which God will surprise us. Instead of clinging too tightly to this life, we can take steps now, when death does not seem to threaten us, to be prepared to lay down the life God ...

154. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... an embezzler." It is such a lack of moral awareness, moral letdown, spiritual negligence, compromise with evil, a playing with fire, a surrender to undisciplined living, that creeps in, and before we know it we are dead to life. A high level of moral living ... but what is in your mind and heart, what you give yourself to, what you hold on to. We have to get rid of it inwardly by surrendering it to Christ. It is impossible to hold on to anything you know to be wrong, and have peace with God. We have to make the ...

155. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

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Richard Hoefler

... story saying, "I am the resurrection and the life." You can ponder and examine this statement, analyze and search for proof of its factuality and fail to feel the effects these words have had upon the lives of millions of believers. Or you can surrender to these words and enter into a relationship - a love affair with God - thereby experiencing life, a life that has the undeniable dimensions of eternity. A Christ-Filled Life The key to understanding this miracle story of the raising of Lazarus is not the ...

156. Issachar

Genesis 49:1-28

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Warren Thomas Smith

... place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder ... and became a slave ..." (Genesis 49:14-15) Issachar, a strapping mule; it is a metaphor we are not likely to forget. The mule represents strength, but it is strength surrendered to a master. Jacob pictured Issachar, and his progeny, as powerfully built animals lazily reclining in the warm sun between two sheepfolds. There was work to be done, fields to be plowed, burdens to be lifted, decisions to be made. In the face of such ...

157. Sinner to Saint

Matthew 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... in church that night, listening to Spurgeon, Moody decided, "I will try my utmost to be that man." Out of that complete commitment came the great evangelist, Moody. The same can be the case with you. You will never know what good God can do with your life until you surrender it to him now. We do not have to ask who a sinner is, because each of us knows himself. But, what is a saint? He is one who, like a stained glass window, lets the light of Christ shine through him. He does this because Christ lives in ...

158. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... big picnic; nor is the world a gigantic playground. Not a playground, but a vineyard, and God wants you and me to work in that vineyard. Romans 6:19 lays it out: "At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness, for wicked purposes. The same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness, for holy purposes." You may be wondering just what are we free from when we become a true Christian? William Barclay, in his little Daily Study Bibk on the ...

159. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... Paul’s true interpretation of his experience in Philippians 3, where the apostle rejects all his former values as rubbish in order to be found in Christ. In Bultmann’s words, "This is what his conversion meant. In it he surrendered his previous understanding of himself, that is, he surrendered what had till then been the norm and meaning of his life, he sacrificed what had hitherto been his pride and joy ... It was obedient submission to the judgment of God, made known in the cross of Christ, upon all ...

160. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, for joy there of goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field" (Matthew 13:44). Once you make the great discovery of the supreme worth of his way of life, you delight to surrender all you have to possess it. What others call sacrifice is simply the price you are eager to pay to get what you know you most want. Nothing much matters save the great treasure. That is the emphasis to maintain. But suppose you shift it to the negative ...

161. The Perfect Gift

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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Bill Bouknight

... Cor. 5:17) A fourth gift offered by Christ is inner peace. People who do not have inner peace have inner war, a war between their selfish desires and the ways of God. When a person becomes a Christian, the war ends, because self surrenders to Christ. In the wake of the surrender, Christ sends an inner tranquility that no tranquilizer on earth can touch. "My peace I give unto you," said Jesus, "not as the world gives do I give unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." (John 14 ...

162. All Dressed Up and No Place To Go

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Thomas D. Peterson

... dusty streets and heal and minister in his name, giving good news to those who know it not. We go to our Jerusalem, bearing the fickleness of warm-weather friends, and to the high court where all we have believed is challenged. And, we go to our cross - surrendering the self to Christ as we give our best for his highest that we may fulfill the highest in ourselves. We are to bring the glory of our Christmas into the day-by-day duties until all life glows with a reflection from the day we were all dressed ...

163. You Can Depend on It

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Thomas D. Peterson

... his people. In a world with so many offerings for pleasure and gratification of the ego, the prophets spoke to the needs of the self as they still speak today. With the coming of Jesus and his ministry - beginning with the temptations and his total surrender to whatever his relationship with God might require - the wisdom and spiritual depth of the prophets come clear to us. On this day we celebrate a second creation event in scripture. The Word of God became flesh. To introduce it to the world once more ...

164. You Don’t Really Feel That Way

Job 6:1-7:21

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Thomas D. Peterson

... things God is working good; therefore, in our deepest distress there is a radically resistant element of unshakable confidence that we are touching the mysteries of life. Even in the darkest hours God means light for us as he did in our Lord Jesus. We learn from Job’s self-surrender; we live on the self-surrender of Jesus. In him is faith at its highest and best; and through him we can work our way to God’s new spring, forever resurrecting itself within us.

165. Movin’ Around Room

Isaiah 43:14-28

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Thomas D. Peterson

... is to remain as we are, without any prospect of movin’ around room. Christ moves in on our ten-inch space and does a new thing. He opens our eyes that we might see. His gift is an option, that, in surrender, we gain the possibility, just the possibility, that there is movin’ around room. We are so sure that surrender is futile. What is harder than to let go? But Jesus stands before us and opens a new way for us to see. We know that to stay as we are is to court a kind of death of the spirit ...

166. Christians Belong Totally to Christ

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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James Wilson

... can do what we please with our lives and still be called by Your holy name. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to remember that all that we are belongs entirely to You. On the cross You gave up Your life that we might have life eternal, but we must surrender completely to You. Help us, Lord, to be totally Yours. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less" "O Jesus, I Have Promised" "I ...

167. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

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George Bass

... one thing that we can’t do for other people, even if we lay down our lives intentionally in service or literally in a life-saving situation, is deliver people from sin and death. Only Christ is able to do that, because he is the only one who has surrendered his life - laid it down at Calvary - and has taken it up again in the Resurrection. That’s why his name is above every name, and why people can know salvation and all that it means through Jesus Christ. No one else has come back from beyond the grave ...

168. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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Warren Thomas Smith

... we need them - but my concern is that all of us may be so removed from the impoverishment of the world we have forgotten the faces of starving children. Who are the meek? Do you remember The Terrable Meek? The meek are those who have made a complete surrender of self to God. How the world uses or abuses the meek is quite beside the point. They are used of God, and that is all that matters. We just do not understand meek people any more. Today we are taught to be aggressive, demanding, assertive. Speak up ...

169. The ABC Gospel

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... we find ourselves, yet we refuse to cooperate with him to do what needs to be done. Naaman wanted God’s healing, but he wanted it on his own terms. How many times have we done that? It was only after his staff pleaded with him that Naaman surrendered to God’s leadership. III. The Miracle: Healing For Naaman! In the end Naaman was forced to acknowledge that the only way really to find healing was God’s way. No matter how much money and goods Naaman could gather, it would never be sufficient. No matter ...

170. No Time for a Knapsack Faith

Matthew 28:16-20

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King Duncan

... of all we are and all we hope to be to the presence and power of God. The sad truth is that many of us want only a partial experience of God’s Spirit without total surrender. A letter was once mailed to General Electric from a little girl in the third grade who had chosen to investigate electricity for her class project. “I’m trying to get all the information on electricity I can,” her letter said, “so please send me any booklets and papers you ...

171. No More Pain!

John 8:31-41

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King Duncan

... discovered the secret of his uncle's extraordinary life. Albert Schweitzer had his own difficulties with traditional Christian theology, by the way. His faith was not orthodox by any means. But that did not keep him from surrendering his life to the Christ of faith. His life is a study in what surrender to Christ really means. Sartre, for some reason, could not do that. Maybe it was too simple for him. I think that happens sometimes. The Christian faith is too familiar and too simple for some who fancy ...

172. Jesus Won! We Won!

John 20:10-18

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King Duncan

... I say, "Jesus won!" and raise my hand like this, I want you to respond. "WE WON!" So let's try it. "Jesus won!" (Raise hands) "WE WON!" You have it! When Jesus won, you won! When Jesus defeated death, he defeated it for you! On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered and World War II was over. In celebration, people packed the city streets, hugged each other and shouted, "We won!" We named that day VE day for Victory in Europe. On May 8, we still remember VE day. But how can we say, "We won?" Most of us have never ...

173. Casting Out An Evil Spirit

Mark 1:21-28

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King Duncan

... SOUL. By the soul we mean "the whole person." Who we really are inside. Not what other people see. Not a tiny fragment of our being, but the totality of our being. Our personality, our dreams, our fears. When we understand who we are under God when we surrender ourselves to his love and trust in his providence there is healing. Such a healing took place in the life of actress Betty Hutton. This is an old story but one I love. One night Miss Hutton joined the cast of the Broadway production of the musical ...

174. The Baptism of Our Work

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

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King Duncan

... and a new born baby. Her husband came home one day to find five dozen diapers hanging on a line in the back yard. "I saw all the white flags in the backyard," he said sympathetically. "I take it that you have surrendered." There are times when we may be tempted to surrender. Some of us have occupations that are filled with drudgery with few tangible rewards. Yet most of us understand that work is important in our lives even beyond the financial necessity. WORK IS ESSENTIAL, FIRST OF ALL, TO OUR SELF ESTEEM ...

175. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

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King Duncan

... him back. We cannot always put him off. We cannot live forever on borrowed faith. OUR GREATEST NEED IS TO SURRENDER TO THE CROSS OF CHRIST. The conversation continued between Jesus and Nicodemus. Certainly a great Jewish leader would understand a ... forever put him off. We cannot live on borrowed faith. It's time we do more than simply paint the piano. It's time for us to surrender to the power of the cross. And there is a promise for us in the closing words of the story of Nicodemus: "For God so loved the ...

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