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1. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... side. This blood of forgiveness we find on our communion table. In this seventh word from the cross, we feel a sense of closure in his dying. But, this word from Jesus’ lips must plow its way into our daily lives. The life lived with God is a life of surrender - of commitment. There simply is no other way to relate to God. The hymn writer, John H. Sammis, sang: When we walk with the Lord in the light of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way! While we do his good will, he abides with us still ...

2. I Surrender All?

Luke 13:31-35

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Craig M. Watts

... All." At the end of the hymn a young man jumped to feet and shouted, "You people don't mean a word of what you say! You sing, "I surrender all to Jesus," "Where He leads Me I will Follow," "Trust and Obey," and you don't believe a word of it. How many of you are willing to follow, surrender, trust and obey? How many? The congregation sat stunned under the impact of his words, people were too shocked to even dismiss the young man as just another messed up kid. They were haunted by the question, speechless ...

3. Don't Surrender Your Gospels

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Staff

... the decree in North Africa. One of the targets was Felix, Bishop of Tibjuca, a village near Carthage. The mayor of the town ordered Felix to hand over his Scriptures. Though some judges were willing to accept scraps of parchment, Felix refused to surrender the Word of God at the insistence of mere men. Resolutely, he resisted compromise. Roman authorities finally shipped Felix to Italy where he paid for his stubbornness with his life. On August 30, as the record puts it, "with pious obstinacy," he laid ...

4. Surrendering to God’s Inescapable, All-Searching Presence

Psalm 139:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... sudden wish that God would slay the wicked may not be as abrupt as interpreters have imagined. 139:23–24 We now realize that the speaker’s invitation for God to search him at the psalm’s close is not a spontaneous response of piety but a reasoned surrender to God’s inescapable, all-searching presence. Earlier the speaker’s initial response was to escape; now he chooses to draw near to the God who pursues him. But why does the speaker petition God to do the very things he would do or has done in ...

5. The Surrendered Self

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Editor James S. Hewett

... and said, "Lord, you'll have to take care of my reputation." A few weeks later he received a letter of apology from the man who had turned on him. When the self is unsurrendered, it tends to be touchy, easily provoked, unable to bear insults. When the self is surrendered to Christ and the love of Jesus fills and cleanses the self, then we can bear all things, endure all things, and men and women are impacted by our lives.

6. Surrender to Christ

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Editor James S. Hewett

Why do people resist surrendering themselves to Christ? For many, the reason they give is that they don't really trust God to handle their lives to their suiting. A young lady stood talking to an evangelist on the subject of consecration, of giving herself wholly to God. She said, "I dare not give myself ...

7. Close Up - Wives: Sweet Surrender

Colossians 3:18

Sermon

James Merritt

Respect - if the coach doesn't have it, he loses control of the team. If the officer doesn't have it, he loses control of his troops. If the teacher doesn't have it, he loses control of the class. If the home doesn't have it, then the entire family is in trouble. We are in the middle of a series entitled, "Picture Perfect" and we have said over and over, "God desires for your family to reflect His glory." The way the family does that is by each member of the family fulfilling their God given roles and ...

8. The Surrendered Will

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Editor James S. Hewett

Laid on thine altar, O my Lord, Divine, Accept my gift this day, for Jesus' sake; I have no jewels to adorn thy shrine, No world-famed sacrifice to make; And here I bring within my trembling hands This will of mine, a thing that seemeth small; Yet thou alone canst understand That when I yield Thee this, I yield Thee all!

9. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... has never been easy for me; but this time, I let go. Lisa ended up coming back, and we were engaged just a couple months later.” Now the time table is not the issue. The important matter is that God works His best in lives that are surrendered to Him. How many Christians have wondered why a precious relationship has seemed to go sour, a powerful ministry appears to be drying and or a healthy business seems to be disintegrating? Could it be that we have taken what is good and begun worshiping the created ...

10. A Pair of Ducks and Abundant Life

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... upon the streams of sunlight which flood it. This intangible light energy is absorbed into leaf and blossom and fiber until this tree grows into a mighty edifice giving shade to all. A tree does not worry about surrendering itself to the sun that bathes it. It can do no other. You and I, however, are confronted with a choice. Do we surrender all we are and all we hope to be to God? If we do, we can know this: God is the creator of beauty, and God can take our lives and make something beautiful out of them ...

11. Getting Real

Genesis 22:1-14

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... shall be provided." No wonder Abraham might have said, "Get Real." Let's look at this passage through the words, SACRIFICED, SURRENDERED AND SANCTIFIED. I. Sacrificed A. First SACRIFICED. I can't imagine having to go through something like that. Can you? Oh ... the mustard off, we think it's a sacrifice when we eat it with mustard. Most of us don't understand what sacrifice and the surrendered life is all about. Most of my generation hasn't ever given much up for the their kids or their family or to survive. Not ...

12. The Life We Prize

Luke 9:18-27

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Various Authors

... observe the Lord’s Supper we remember how on the very night when Jesus initiated this sacrament, he prayed that God would take the cup of suffering from him. Then he prayed, "Nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done." (Luke 22:42) Here we see the act of self-surrender to which Christ gave himself and to which he calls us. One evening when our two children were in junior high school, I made a special point to be home with my family. I am one who has to struggle to turn from the pressures of my work and ...

13. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... dream ended. I went to my study for my morning time of prayer after that dream, having received a message from God, a message to surrender, to let go. In retrospect, I knew why I had had that dream. I was the Chair of the Committee on Evangelism for the World ... , but I was not going to carry the weight of it on my shoulders. God doesn’t intend that for any one of us. So I surrendered. I realized again how limited I am and how dependent I am upon the Lord; how yielded I must be to Him if His power is ...

14. Called To Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... which Christ offers. As you come for Holy Communion this morning, think about those people who have gone before us and made the freedom we have possible. Then think about those things which keep you from giving your whole life to Christ. Think about them and surrender them to Christ. Leave them at the altar and leave unburdened and free. "For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not ...

15. Family Re:Union - Great Expectations

Ephesians 5:22-33

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James Merritt

... needs of your body are met. Again, God wants your love to simply be an expression of Christ’s love. Let me stop and address one other thing that I know both husbands and wives are thinking right now. If I meet God’s expectations in this marriage and I surrender to Him and I sacrifice for her who is going to meet my needs? Who is going to meet my desires? Who is going to meet my wants? The whole point of this fantastic passage of scripture is this: When you start treating your spouse the way God treats ...

16. Jesus Defines Himself as Lord in Contrast to the Leaders of Israel

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... in verses 41–44, and it is far more likely that Jesus considers her a prime example of true discipleship, one who gave “all she had” to God. So she is another of the “little people” (see “The Text in Context” on 7:24–37), who demonstrate radical surrender (she does what the young man in 10:21 could not: give up everything for God). It is the heart of the giver, not the amount given, that pleases God (see Matt. 6:1–4). Teaching the Text 1. Jesus the Messiah is also the cosmic Lord. Mark ...

17. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

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King Duncan

... entirely? What if our thoughts weren’t focused on ourselves and our need to achieve, to belong, to be happy or significant? What if we could change our mind’s focus from ourselves and our needs to God and His plan for the world? What if we could surrender everything we have and everything we are to God and His will for our life? Would that not mean that we were becoming a new person? Cody Garbrandt is a Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Cody says he was raised in a family of fighters. Cody gave an interview ...

18. Abraham and the Meaning of Consecration

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Don Yocom

... God" (Hebrews 11:8-10). For God asked Abraham to give up his most precious possession, his son born in his old age. That was quite a test! Consecration does not mean a token gift. Nor does it mean we will be free of life’s challenges. It does mean surrender of the most valuable possessions of life, to Almighty God. Part of the answer to a test is one’s faith. Abraham had faith to believe that God would provide his every need; not only as he moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan, but also as he faced ...

19. All In: Betting the Ranch

Luke 9:18-27

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James Merritt

... give up an activity or you even give up food for a certain reason, but we deny self when we cash everything in and when we surrender all that we have and all that we are and all that we could get and all that we can ever become to follow Jesus. ... your life is very simple. You are either going to waste your life by trying to hold on to it or you are going to invest your life by surrendering your life to Christ. If you try to hold on to it you are going to lose it, but if you will lose it to Jesus you will gain ...

20. Jesus Is Tested in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32-42

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... spiritually but instead to remain vigilant in every area of our lives. (5) All of us have a “weak flesh” and easily give in to our baser instincts; it is essential that we depend on the strength of Christ at all times. Teaching the Text 1. To pray is to surrender to God’s will. In Jesus’s Gethsemane prayer we discover the true meaning of all intercession. As Paul says in Romans 8:26–28, we do not know the actual will of God when we pray. Yet we must realize that as we groan, the Spirit groans with ...

21. Deep Joy For A Shallow World

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... of fact, I am convinced that no person should be allowed to preach each week unless he or she has sat with persons who experience pain that will not be cured by simple formulae or slick "ten things you need to do" lists. I know a woman who surrendered. She surrendered to the fact that blindness would invade her life and there was nothing anyone could do about it. As her blindness came slowly upon her, she came to me one time and demanded (she did not ask) that I pray for her healing. She did not want some ...

22. Make Disciples—Intentionally

Matthew 28:16-20

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J. Howard Olds

... Savior—dare you claim him as your Lord? B. Stewardship. What comes to mind? The manipulative efforts of the pastor to get selfish people to pay his salary? Money donated to a worthy cause for a common good? Sharing spare change with the poor? What if stewardship were surrender to Jesus, asking him to be the Lord of all that I have, all that I am, all that I hope to be. V. DISCIPLESHIP IS GOING FISHING. This is leadership. Everything I know about fishing I learned from my father-in-law. He was not the most ...

23. I Wonder about God’s Will for My Life

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... been caught, you have nothing to hide. And when you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And when you have nothing to fear, oh my, what you can become.” Imagine what you could become with a surrendered spirit to God. Imagine what this church could become with a surrendered spirit. In Waiting for Godot, Vladimir asks Pozo: “Where are you going?” Pozo gives the Christian answer: “On.” As you think about God’s will for your life, God is asking: “Where are you going? Backwards with fear ...

24. Let’s Climb a Mountain

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... free of hypocrisy and absolutely sincere toward God. It means that our main motive is to do his will in all of life, and to make pleasing him our sole aim in life. It is to surrender our lives completely to Jesus. Who, asked the martyred Dietrich Bonhoeffer, are the pure in heart? Only those, he said, who have surrendered their hearts to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. A certain man had a heartwarming experience of Christ. Before that time he had simply plodded along life’s way. He was in the deep ...

25. Change Is Possible

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... We can change if we have a mental image of the kind of person God created us to be. MOST OF ALL, THOUGH, CHANCE COMES WHEN WE SURRENDER OUR WILL TO GOD. Perhaps St. Paul was ready for a change. As he held the Apostle Stephen's robe while the mob stoned Stephen to ... change if we really want to. We can change if we fix our eyes on Jesus. We can change if we are willing to surrender our lives completely to God. 1. By William K. Quick in "Signs of Our Times: A Vision for the Church," and submitted by Donald ...

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