1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:03,200 Good morning everyone. And we're glad that you're here 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,600 this morning. I took a lesson out of the 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,300 archives and kind of reworked it a little bit and hopefully it 4 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:14,100 brings some things to mind this morning that will benefit us in 5 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,800 our in our daily Christian Living. 6 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:24,400 And Luke, the 9th chapter, we take our text for our lesson 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,300 this morning versus 57 through 62 and will comment more on 8 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,900 these and get more detailed into these later on in the lesson. 9 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:38,800 but, The story is here. Now it happened as they 10 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:43,300 journeyed on the road that someone said to him, Lord, I 11 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:48,500 will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes 12 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,300 have holes. And birds of the air have nests, 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,400 but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,400 Then he said to another follow me, but he said, Lord, let me 15 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,000 first go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 bury. The dead bury their own dead, 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,800 but you go and preach the kingdom of God. 18 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:12,300 And another also said, Lord, I will follow you, but let me go 19 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,500 first, go and bid them farewell, who are at my house. 20 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:21,400 But Jesus said to him, no one having put his hand to the plow 21 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,800 and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. 22 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:32,100 These individuals still wanted to have their connections to 23 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:35,600 other things instead of surrendering to Jesus. 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,700 They wanted to make a commitment, but they didn't want 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,800 really to surrender. Their was conditions to what the 26 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:48,700 invitation was to them. So many of us want to have full 27 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:53,400 control in our lives, you know, it it just seems like when we 28 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,100 lose control of what's going on in our life, Things Fall Apart 29 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:02,900 and it's sometimes just turns into a wreck but we like to have 30 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:05,800 control of our lives and we like to be the ones in control and 31 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,000 sometimes some may even call you a control freak because you want 32 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,500 to have every little thing done in your life a certain little 33 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:16,200 way. And but some refused to 34 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,200 surrender too much of anything and especially to God. 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,500 But also many, who have been baptized into, Jesus refused to 36 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:27,800 surrender, to control to the control of Jesus in their lives 37 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,500 as well. A common phrase in the church 38 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:34,600 today is I'm going to make a commitment. 39 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,700 But they refused to surrender to the control of Jesus in their 40 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:46,000 lives. You've heard it said and we've 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,800 all maybe said it you know, that person needs to be more 42 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,700 committed to this or two that people need to be more committed 43 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:56,900 to their jobs, they need to become more committed to their 44 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:58,800 families. They need need to be more 45 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,100 committed to all different kinds of things. 46 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,300 But when you really look at the word committed, you'll find that 47 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,600 that word committed, doesn't really go far enough to what 48 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,700 we're talking about this morning committed is defined as a 49 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:17,600 promise to do or I give something a promise to be loyal 50 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,800 to someone or something. In other words, marriage, vows 51 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,900 the attitude of someone who works very hard to do or support 52 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:30,500 something committed to a certain cause there are all kinds of 53 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:32,900 commitments that we make these days. 54 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,500 You make, you may make a commitment you're willing to be 55 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:42,500 the one in control of this or that. and and a person can make 56 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:47,900 a commitment to pray more and to study their Bible, more maybe, 57 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:52,900 make their their house payment, or their car payment, whatever 58 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:57,500 you choose to do, we commit ourselves to doing it, but 59 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:01,500 surrendering is different if someone holds a gun to your 60 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:07,200 head, And you lift your hands up in the air and they tell you to 61 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,900 surrender, you've given up control, you're not in control 62 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:15,500 anymore, you're surrendering to them. 63 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,600 You can't just say, well, I'm committed to do what you tell me 64 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,500 to do. I'm going to make that 65 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,800 commitment to you. If they hold a gun up and tell 66 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,600 you to put your hands in the air, know what you're going to 67 00:04:26,608 --> 00:04:31,100 do is surrender, you're giving up everything that you want to 68 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:35,100 do and now you're going to do what they I want you to do our 69 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:38,100 problem is that we still want to be the ones that maintain 70 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:43,000 control in our lives and continue to work and struggle at 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,100 serving. God, we keep trying to fight 72 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:48,600 against God for the control of our lives and we keep making a 73 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,000 mess out of everything. Always expecting a different 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,600 result. Each time surrender means that 75 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,900 we give up to God. No more fighting or conflict Why 76 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,400 is it that something that that they can keep doing the same 77 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,700 thing and expect a different result? 78 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:12,500 You know, that's the definition of insanity doing the same thing 79 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:17,400 over and over and over expecting a different result. 80 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,400 Thinking they will make a commitment after this time or 81 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:24,600 that time or, you know, I'm going to give this up next time. 82 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:28,000 The next time this happens then I'll do the right thing. 83 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,300 But never making the changes that result in a different 84 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:37,700 outcome. Never giving up the battle that 85 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:41,200 goes on in their lives. And what happens in their lives 86 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:46,800 is it just turns into an absolute train wreck Sometimes, 87 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,900 we counsel those people, we try to get them to understand. 88 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:53,700 You can't keep doing that but they want to make a commitment 89 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:57,100 if they can just eventually get it right, you see. 90 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,400 We have enough commitment in the church today. 91 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,600 What we need is surrender complete surrender to Jesus 92 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,200 Christ. It seems may be contradictory 93 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,500 for us to, for people to think that when we surrender that 94 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:11,800 we're actually doing the right thing. 95 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,100 Because, you know, when we think about surrendering, we think the 96 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,700 well, I lost The battle I've given up, you know, when we when 97 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:22,700 we think about surrendering, we think of countries in battles 98 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:26,400 against each other and when they wave the red, the white flag and 99 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,100 surrender there giving up. And now someone else is, can in 100 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:31,100 control. That's what happens. 101 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,000 But when we surrender Our Lives to God, when we surrender Our 102 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,700 Lives to Jesus Christ, we are the winners we're not giving up 103 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:43,800 anything. We give it over to God. 104 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,500 And to Jesus Christ, we are not the Sirs. 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,000 When we fully trust God, fully surrender. 106 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,900 Hint to him. We are the winners submission. 107 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:55,700 And surrender doesn't make us a prisoner. 108 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,800 In fact, it frees us from the bondage of sin notice. 109 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,700 Romans 8, and verse 24, the law of the spirit of life in Christ, 110 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:09,800 Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death surrender 111 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:17,600 is defined as to agree to stop fighting hiding resisting and so 112 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,100 on because you know that you will not win or succeed to give 113 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:26,100 oneself up into the power of another to yield. 114 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:30,600 Means we give up the fight, we're not fighting anymore. 115 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:35,100 Would give in to the control of someone else in our life. 116 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,000 You know. We don't like that people today, 117 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,100 we don't like giving up and giving in to someone else. 118 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:47,000 We find that this is a problem within within the marriage life 119 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,700 today, that one wants to win and the other one wants to win and 120 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,500 they just go head-to-head all the time. 121 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,600 And all it is is just a big mess, whereas if one would give 122 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,500 him or both would give in and see what to do with the benefit, 123 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,500 is for the other things would certainly work out. 124 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:10,000 Bedded better to acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Master Of Our 125 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,900 Lives to surrender. Her to him. 126 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:20,000 Gives us power. Power in our lives to let 127 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,900 someone else help us guide. Us lead us in the right way 128 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,800 accepting the authority of someone or something else. 129 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:34,200 There is power in surrender to God. 130 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,000 It's not accepting defeat to Center. 131 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:40,000 Surrender means to end the fight. 132 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,700 The struggles, there's no more argument, no more fighting God. 133 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:49,700 It's when we realize that his way is better than our way. 134 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,300 You know, I've had times and in our lives that we think that 135 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,400 we're right about something, and we just stand the ground with it 136 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,300 and then come to find out. We were wrong and it's somebody 137 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,300 else was right. Well, God is always right. 138 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,300 God is always right and we need to give in to that. 139 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,200 The opposite of surrender is to live in Rebellion. 140 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,800 Rebellion means opposition toward a person in Authority. 141 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,900 We see lot of rebellion today, don't we? 142 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,600 We see it in the news. We see it everywhere that people 143 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,400 don't like Authority. And that's part of the problem 144 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,800 with the world is, they don't want to turn the authority over 145 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:40,600 to God, they've taken God out of out of the schools, they taken 146 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,600 God out of the families, they've taken God out of All different 147 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,500 kinds of things. And then we wonder why there are 148 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:49,200 so many problems in the world. They don't like the authority of 149 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,700 God. And have not surrendered to God. 150 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:59,000 And when we Rebel on one thing, it's usually turns into many 151 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,500 things. And we see that happening today, 152 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,100 as well, whatever it is that you're holding onto. 153 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,100 That's keeping us from surrending, is not something 154 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:14,100 that's eternal. If there's something that's keep 155 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:17,900 you keeping you today from surrendering to Jesus and 156 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:21,300 surrendering to God, it's only a temporal thing. 157 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,500 It's things. And it's not eternal. 158 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:29,600 It's fleshly and it's worldliness. 159 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:35,800 Temporal, we must start doing things God's way the world we 160 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:41,900 live in and the people we are around put so much trust in our 161 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:47,500 own intelligence and education. Others think that trusting the 162 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:51,100 Lord is not. And and not our own 163 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,500 understanding is crazy. Why would you, why would you 164 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,000 turn your trust over to something that you can't see? 165 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,900 And they try to reason out all of these things if they can't 166 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:09,900 pick up, just any old book and read about it or or whatever and 167 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:14,500 prove it, false will why would you believe something like that? 168 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,900 Why would you have faith in God? Why would you have faith in 169 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:19,800 heaven? Why would you have faith? 170 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:25,700 That baptism saves your soul? And they think you're crazy. 171 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:35,100 But this is the center of what it means to surrender is 172 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:40,300 trusting in our God, and not our own understanding, or anyone 173 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,700 else is understanding, I hear and read of so many that are 174 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,100 worried and concerned of the things that are going on in this 175 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:50,000 world today and they find themselves struggling to cope 176 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,800 with what's going on today in life. 177 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,900 Because the way of the world is the way that the world is going 178 00:11:56,900 --> 00:12:03,200 doesn't make sense to them. Well, it doesn't have to make 179 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,100 sense to us. When our trust is in God. 180 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:10,100 What goes on in this world doesn't make sense. 181 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:13,900 What goes on in life, doesn't make sense? 182 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,700 And is not fair and is not, right? 183 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,500 And is not trustworthy. And what men tell you and what 184 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:24,700 Rend reason with you about in this life doesn't make sense and 185 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:32,400 is not trustworthy. If we're putting all our trust 186 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,900 in the things of this world, it's in the wrong place. 187 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,600 A surrendered Christian acknowledges God at every step 188 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:48,000 living a life of total trust in his power, in his plan, in his 189 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,600 will in order to comprehend and experience. 190 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:56,400 Surrender to God, obedience to the gospel, is a requirement, 191 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,300 the Lost rebellious person, must have faith, Hebrews 11 and verse 192 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:05,400 6, but without faith, it is impossible to please him. 193 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:08,600 For he who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he 194 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,800 is a rewarder. Order of those who diligently 195 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,200 seek him. If I'm going to surrendered 196 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,100 myself to Jesus. And to God, I must have faith in 197 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:20,800 God that he does he can and will do what he has promised. 198 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,700 He will do. Absolutely, we must repent of 199 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:29,200 Our Lives, Luke 13 over 3, I tell you no but unless you 200 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,900 repent you will all likewise perish. 201 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,100 A rebellious person must make the confession of faith in 202 00:13:36,108 --> 00:13:38,400 Jesus. As the Son of God, Matthew 10 203 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,100 verse 32. Therefore, whoever confesses me 204 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:44,200 before men him. I will also confess before my 205 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,300 father, who is in heaven? And then the rebellious person 206 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:54,000 must repent of you baptized, and then be baptized for the 207 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,900 remission of his sins Acts 2 and verse 38, repent. 208 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,700 And let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus 209 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:04,300 Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift 210 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:12,600 of the Holy Spirit. This is the acceptance of a new 211 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,500 master. A lord, lord means master. 212 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,800 When we have a master we subject and we surrender to that Master, 213 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:30,700 we do his will we do his? We he is the one that is in 214 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:36,300 control. Luke 9 and verse 23. 215 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:44,800 And he said to them all if any man will come after me let him 216 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,800 deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 217 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,900 I know this is a hard thing for us to do is to deny our self. 218 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:02,000 You know, we want, we live in a world, that is selfish. 219 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,100 I want this, I want that. I'm going to do this. 220 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:11,300 I'm going to do that. Not if the Lord is willing, but 221 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:15,700 we live in a selfish selfish world where everyone wants to do 222 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:19,500 what they want to. And that's a hard thing for them 223 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:24,100 to do, is to deny themselves to surrender to Jesus means that 224 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:27,900 there has to be room for Jesus. In their life. 225 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:32,100 If a person says that they're committed to Jesus, but has not 226 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:36,200 turned away from their old ways, there's no room for the 227 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,000 surrender and replacement of the old ways. 228 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,400 It's like trying to put 10 pounds of dirt in a 5-pound bag. 229 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,000 If there's, if it's already full of dirt, you can't put anything 230 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,800 in it. If there's no room in the in the 231 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,900 person's heart for Jesus, then you can't replace what is in 232 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:58,500 there. You have to take out the old 233 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:03,700 before you can put in the new And so it is with the Christian 234 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:07,500 Living, we have to die for from ourselves so that Christ can 235 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:11,600 live and work within us. If we're all stuck on ourselves 236 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,500 and we're all taking care of ourselves and all of our own 237 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:18,100 selfish desires all the time and that's all that controls our 238 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,300 life, there's no room for Jesus in our life, because it's all 239 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,400 about us. It's all about me. 240 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:33,100 There's no room for Jesus. The Bible teaches the Christian 241 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:37,000 has to put off the old ways, the way all old way of thinking and 242 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,800 speaking, and living, and doing, and make room for Christ. 243 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:46,900 Notice Galatians 5, and verse 24 and they that are Christ's have 244 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,000 crucified, the flesh with the affections and lusts. 245 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:54,000 That means those are gone, Romans 6, and 6 knowing this, 246 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,100 that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin 247 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:00,100 might be done away with that. We should no longer be slaves of 248 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:03,900 sin. Trusting God, that his way is 249 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:06,400 best is the beginning of our surrender to him. 250 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,500 Notice proverbs, 31 verses 5 through 6, trust in the Lord, 251 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:14,400 with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding, in 252 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:19,500 all your ways acknowledge Him and He Shall direct your paths. 253 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:27,599 Be led. He has made the path. 254 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:32,800 He's leading us down that path. All we need to do is follow him. 255 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:37,700 Put our trust and faith in him. There have been people that I 256 00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:42,400 have followed sometimes on roads and this and that and and you 257 00:17:42,408 --> 00:17:44,100 wonder what in the world are they doing? 258 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:50,800 Where are they going? Some dark Road or some dark 259 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,500 Trail. I remember one time when we were 260 00:17:55,500 --> 00:18:01,600 out deer hunting in Oregon. Late in the afternoon. 261 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,800 Got the truck stuck. Couldn't get out of there. 262 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,400 I knew where a house was about a mile away. 263 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,700 And we started off in the dark headed towards the house. 264 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,100 Neither one of us really knew where we were going. 265 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:22,700 But all of a sudden, we saw the light From that house. 266 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:29,400 I knew where I was going. Jesus is our light, Jesus is our 267 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,600 pathway. Jesus is our way unless our, we 268 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,500 surrender up over to him and let him lead us down this path. 269 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:45,200 We will be dead LED down a path of sin and write us living. 270 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,900 Getting back to our text, there are three things I would like to 271 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,000 notice about surrendering to Jesus. 272 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,400 As first, we must submit our life to Jesus. 273 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,400 We must neither this world and we must focus on the kingdom. 274 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:08,800 First, we must submit our life to Jesus and our text, Luke 9 275 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,900 and verse 57. Now it happened as they 276 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,800 journeyed on the road that someone said to him, Lord, I 277 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:21,300 will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes 278 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,400 have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of 279 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,500 man has nowhere to lay his head. Now Jesus wasn't saying to this 280 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:33,700 man, you know, turning him away. He was explained to him the cost 281 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:40,000 of being a disciple He makes it clear that there was more to 282 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,100 following him than just simply going wherever he went. 283 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:50,700 And walking around with him that there was going to be a cost. 284 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:56,700 Foxes. Have holes birds have nests, but 285 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,200 the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. 286 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,100 In other words, you understand what you're doing, when you make 287 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:09,200 this surrender to me, Many times we find people who get caught up 288 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,200 in the excitement and the emotion of hearing a lesson or 289 00:20:14,208 --> 00:20:17,300 whatever, but they're not really willing to to surrender their 290 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:20,700 life over to Jesus. They just kind of get emotional 291 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,600 about things and they they want to get things fixed in their 292 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,700 life. They just want to get things 293 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:27,400 fixed but they don't want to surrender. 294 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,300 James and John surrendered to Jesus. 295 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:35,300 After after he called them Lotus. 296 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:39,800 Mark one in verses 19 and 20 when he had gone a little 297 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,900 farther from there. He saw James, the son of Zebedee 298 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:46,200 and John his brother who also were in the boat, mending their 299 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,800 Nets and immediately he can't, he called them, and they left 300 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,300 their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and went 301 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:58,100 after him. Dropped what they were doing and 302 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:02,900 went. Jesus called James and John and 303 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:04,300 they surrendered their lives to him. 304 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:07,500 They left their home, their families, their job to follow 305 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,100 Christ. They left everything. 306 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:13,700 When Jesus calls us to come to him, we must submit to him. 307 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:20,400 And we are to live a life of complete surrender to our 308 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,800 Savior. All the apostles. 309 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:32,300 Did that they didn't go back to their fishing or they're they're 310 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:35,200 collecting taxes or whatever it was that they were doing. 311 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,600 They follow Jesus until the day, they died for Jesus. 312 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:46,000 And, you know, God requires things of us sometimes that we 313 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:53,700 just don't want to give up. In verse 59 and 60, or a text, 314 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:57,000 we see that that if we're going to completely surrender, then we 315 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,800 must deny this world. Verse 59, then he said to 316 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,300 another follow me. But he said, Lord, let me go and 317 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:10,500 bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead 318 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:14,300 bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God. 319 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:21,600 Now, this first individual, we notice previously, made an offer 320 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,300 to Jesus. He says, I'll follow you 321 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:26,700 wherever you go. But Jesus now, invites this 322 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:31,400 person to follow him. He receives an offer from Jesus. 323 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:34,900 We have an opportunity to follow Jesus. 324 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:40,200 He said to this man, follow me. Jesus offers a man, the 325 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,000 opportunity to follow him an invitation to follow him, and 326 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,100 the same word, Jesus said to the Peter, and James, and John, and 327 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:50,400 Andrew, Matthew, Thomas, and others, he said to this man, 328 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:55,400 Jesus is still calling men today to follow him. 329 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,400 The last invitation in the Bible says in revelation. 22 verse 17 330 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,800 in the spirit and the bride say come and let him who hears say 331 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,200 come and let him who thirsts come on. 332 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:12,200 Whoever desires, let him take the Water of Life freely. 333 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,600 Jesus is Calling today. He's inviting everyone to come 334 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,200 follow him. There's still an opportunity. 335 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:26,700 But in this verse, we also see that we still put obstacles in 336 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:29,500 the way of following Jesus. Jesus gave this man an 337 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:33,900 invitation and the man wanted to accept it, but he had something 338 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:37,700 that was so important to him, that he needed to get taken care 339 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:39,400 of. He said, Lord, let me go bury my 340 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,900 father. And then I'm Yours. 341 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,500 Jesus is telling this man to let the spiritually dead bury the 342 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:55,100 dead. And what is it? 343 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:59,100 That hinders us. From surrendering to Jesus 344 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:03,600 today. there are three things, I believe that hinder us from 345 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:10,300 surrendering to Jesus day, personal desires, family 346 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:20,900 obligations social expectations, What about personal desires? 347 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:24,500 There are some things in this life that we just want to 348 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:27,800 accomplish, you know, there's nothing wrong with accomplishing 349 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,300 things in your life. Absolutely not. 350 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:33,400 There's nothing wrong with your children, accomplishing things. 351 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,200 There's nothing wrong with your spouse. 352 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:37,100 Accomplishing things in this life. 353 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:40,600 Absolutely not. But when those things hinder us 354 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,700 from surrendering to Jesus, when we let our own personal 355 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:49,500 aspirations get in our way, Then there's a problems. 356 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:54,100 There are places we want to go. Yeah, there are things that that 357 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:57,100 we want to see their goals that we want to reach their things 358 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:00,800 that we want to do and because of these things, sometimes we 359 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,700 refuse to surrender, everything to Jesus Christ because I need 360 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,000 to do that. I need to get that out of my 361 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,900 system or I want to accomplish that. 362 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:13,300 Well there's this going on over here to serve. 363 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,400 We need no no I got this. This other thing to do. 364 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:28,100 We like the idea of peace and joy and eternal life, but we 365 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,600 want to live this life for ourselves. 366 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,500 We've made our life here on Earth. 367 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:38,200 So comfortable for ourselves that, you know, I want to do 368 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,800 things my way for now. So we let our personal desires, 369 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,800 get in our way and we let our family obligations. 370 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,600 Get in our way and our social expectations, get in our way. 371 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,200 What about the family obligations? 372 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,400 We can understand their with where this man is coming from 373 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,100 this father with had passed away and he wanted to go bury him. 374 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,900 The problem is not that he wanted to bury his father. 375 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:09,100 The problems that he was giving Jesus a postponed commitment 376 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:14,100 instead of complete surrender. I'll go follow you. 377 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:20,300 But I'll serve you, but I need to do this. 378 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:21,900 I need to do that. I want to do this. 379 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:24,500 I want to do that. What how does that happen in our 380 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:29,000 lives? I know I need to serve you Lord 381 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,100 but any time that word, but comes in there's a problem. 382 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,600 Why don't we just serve? Instead of do always doing what 383 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,700 we want to do first. So many people put their family 384 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:48,500 in front of Jesus. They can't serve or honor the 385 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,100 responsibilities in the church because their children have so 386 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:54,300 much going on, they can't do the work of the Lord, because they 387 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:57,300 put their relationships to their spouse before the relationship 388 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:00,000 with Jesus. Jesus makes it clear that if 389 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,900 you're going to be his disciple, you cannot. 390 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:10,500 Let family come between you and him. 391 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:15,300 Luke 14:26. If anyone comes to me and does 392 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,700 not hate his father, and mother wife and children, brothers, and 393 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,700 sit, brothers and sisters. Yes, and his own life also, he 394 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:26,000 cannot be my disciple. Now we've heard it said time and 395 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,800 time again that doesn't mean that we hate our family. 396 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:38,200 That means that we love them less than we love God. so he 397 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,100 says, if you're doing things to where your family is getting, in 398 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:46,700 the way of your service to God, You can't be my disciple, 399 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,700 sometimes this causes a whole lot of pain and a lot of trouble 400 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:55,100 and problems in the family. when one individual wants to 401 00:27:55,100 --> 00:28:04,800 surrender to God or to Jesus and the other doesn't We have 402 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,100 attachment attachments with our families but which sometimes 403 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:13,100 make a decision to surrender to Jesus very painful then there 404 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:18,400 are the social expectations. I wonder if this man thought to 405 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,700 himself. What will my friends and 406 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,100 neighbors? Think if I don't bury my father, 407 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,800 you know, two people, too many people, I've seen people get 408 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,300 concerned about what their spouse is going to think if they 409 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:37,300 turn the life over to God, and to Jesus, They worry about their 410 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:40,100 friends, how it's going to impact their friendship with 411 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:48,600 others. Listen to what the Apostle John 412 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,800 says had to say. In first, John, 2 and verse 15, 413 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,500 do not love the world or the things in the world. 414 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,900 If any man loves the world, the love of the father is not in him 415 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:02,600 for all that is in the world. The lust of the flesh, the lust 416 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,700 of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father, but 417 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:11,500 is of the world and the world is passing away and the less of it. 418 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,200 And he who does the will of God abides forever. 419 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:19,200 So if you desire complete surrender, you must deny this 420 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,400 world and the things that are in it. 421 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:26,800 And focus on things above. And that's the next part of our 422 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,700 text to focus on the kingdom of God. 423 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:37,700 And he said, and another also said, Lord, I will follow you, 424 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:42,100 but let me first go and bid them farewell, who are at my house. 425 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,800 But Jesus said to him, no one having put his hand to the plow 426 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,600 and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. 427 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,100 After submitting to the Lord and 9 the world, then our lives will 428 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,200 be Christ and not ours. You know, we didn't we don't 429 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,400 necessarily like that statement that when I when I give my life 430 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:07,400 to God and give my life to Jesus and I'm baptized into Christ for 431 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,700 the remission of my sins that my life is not mine anymore. 432 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:12,600 It's someone else we don't like that, do we? 433 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,100 We don't like giving ourself in our Wills over to someone else. 434 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,500 We think we're giving up, we're losing know, we're winning. 435 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:36,200 We're winning. Our life is not our own anymore. 436 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:41,700 You know what Jesus died on the cross for us so that we could 437 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:44,000 have the hope of Eternal salvation. 438 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:54,100 The least I can do is serve him. How selfish of me to want the 439 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:59,100 blessing. Of Salvation and not serve. 440 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:07,900 How selfish of us? We are to be a Living Sacrifice, 441 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:12,400 Romans, 12, and verse 1. I beseech you therefore Brethren 442 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,600 by the mercies of God, that you present, your bodies, a Living 443 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,400 Sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable 444 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,000 service. Our life is not ours anymore. 445 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,100 If we want the blessing of our sins being washed away, it is 446 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,000 not our life anymore. We are bought with the price of 447 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,300 the blood of Christ. It is not our life anymore, and 448 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:41,500 if we are not willing to give our life and surrender to Jesus 449 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,500 Christ, then we don't get the blessing. 450 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,600 And must be a surrender. It must be giving up, our will 451 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:59,600 to serve him and to focus on the kingdom of God for 61 says, 452 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,800 Lord, I will follow you. But let me first go and bury go 453 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:09,600 and bid them farewell, who are at my house, it involves finding 454 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,000 and fixing those things that our priorities in our life. 455 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,300 That Jesus and God is the priority of our Life. 456 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:25,700 You see this man wanted to serve but he had conditions, he said, 457 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:31,100 but let me go do this first. I will follow you. 458 00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:36,500 After I tell everyone, goodbye. He wanted to set his Affairs in 459 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,100 order and this man had too much attachment to the things that 460 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,700 are in the world. And this is a common issue in 461 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:46,600 the lives of many today misplaced priorities when they 462 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,900 feel the time is right. When they finished sowing their 463 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:56,000 Wild Oats, excuse me, what I do. Yeah. 464 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,300 After they've taken care of certain things and after they 465 00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:10,500 cleaned themselves up when it's more convenient for them, so 466 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,100 many Christians fail to give their all because it's not 467 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:22,500 really a priority. They want to serve God on their 468 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:31,100 terms. and this is the world we live in today that Mill sir. 469 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:35,000 But why do I get out of it? Well, you get a home in heaven. 470 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,300 That's what he's promised us for serving. 471 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,800 We get a home in heaven. Do we get all the pain of this 472 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,100 life taken away? No. 473 00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:50,000 We get all the disappointment of this life taken away. 474 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,500 No. Do we get to enjoy ourselves in 475 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:55,600 this life? Yes. 476 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,400 Does our life have to be miserable in this world? 477 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,400 No it's as miserable as you want to make it. 478 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,100 You can live a sinful life and you can be it just absolutely 479 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:13,900 make yourself totally miserable. But serving God, we get a home 480 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:17,500 in heaven, if we surrender ourselves to him. 481 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,000 So what is our priority? Our focus on the kingdom of all, 482 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,100 is a clear perception of where we're going. 483 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,400 We're 62, and Jesus said to him. No, man. 484 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,500 Having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the 485 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:33,199 kingdom of God. When plowing a farmer has to 486 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,199 keep his eyes on on the work at hand, he has to keep his eye on 487 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:43,300 the end of the row. and when he looks away instantly stray off 488 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:49,000 course, And those who look back at their life, their old life. 489 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:57,400 And not focus on the Kingdom of Heaven, they run off track. 490 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,300 And, you know, when we're, when we do that as well, we're not, 491 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:10,600 we're not able to help others to stay on track as well, either. 492 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,900 there, we've seen so many people that put their hand to the plow 493 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:22,400 and then they turn and look back at the old life and start living 494 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:27,300 that again as well. Or they went back the cell. 495 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:30,800 This lesson is Illustrated so well in the him. 496 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,700 I surrender all that is so familiar to us. 497 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,900 All to Jesus. I Surrender humbly At His Feet. 498 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:44,700 I bow worldly pleasures, all forsaken, take me. 499 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:50,300 Jesus, Take Me Now All to Jesus. I Surrender, Lord, I give myself 500 00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:53,100 to thee. Fill me with thy love and power. 501 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:57,700 Let thy blessing fall on me. I surrender all, I surrender. 502 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,600 All, all to thee. My blessed savior, I surrender, 503 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:12,200 all That's not some. that's not when that's not if that's just a 504 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,900 surrender. I surrender all my time. 505 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,000 All my my life, all my Pleasures. 506 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,600 I give up all my wishes, I give up all my desires, I give up my 507 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,900 family, I give up, I give it all to you. 508 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:34,500 And I Surrender my life to you in service to you. so, the 509 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:38,700 Christian have we truly surrendered surrendered? 510 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,700 All to God and to the Lost? What is hindering you from 511 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:50,400 surrendering to Jesus today? Give up your will in complete 512 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,700 submission to God. Quit fighting God, give up to 513 00:36:52,707 --> 00:36:55,500 him. You'll never be happy until you 514 00:36:55,500 --> 00:37:01,400 deny yourself. We can enjoy our walk with the 515 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,600 father until we stop being in opposition to him. 516 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:08,800 Notice first John, one of her seven, but if we walk in the 517 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,500 light, as he is in the light, we have Fellowship one with another 518 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,700 and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanses us from all 519 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,800 sin. Let me mention a couple quotes 520 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,200 one by aw, Tau Tozer, the reason why many are still troubled, 521 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,400 still seeking still making little forward progress is 522 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,000 because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. 523 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,300 We're still trying to give give orders and interfere with God's 524 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:41,400 work within us. And also Rick Warren. 525 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:46,700 You cannot fulfill God's purpose for your life while focusing on 526 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,400 your own plans. Other words, there's no room for 527 00:37:49,400 --> 00:38:00,200 God. I've had people tell me that 528 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,800 they're, they're worried about their soul. 529 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:07,800 They seem sometimes feel like they've made no Headway. 530 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,400 They're not making any progress in their life. 531 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,800 They've been thinking about it a lot worrying about it a lot 532 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,500 they've been may be searching the scriptures and and praying 533 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,600 about it receiving Council about it. 534 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:31,000 But they're still struggling. To correct the things in their 535 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,800 life and get it right? It's very possible that the 536 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,300 reason that they haven't made any progress is because they 537 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:41,300 haven't just given it over to God, haven't surrendered. 538 00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:47,900 They made a commitment but they didn't surrender to God. 539 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,700 Can we make the statement in conclusion? 540 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:08,800 This morning, Jeremiah 26 and verse 14. 541 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:16,000 As for me here I am in your hand do with me as seems good and 542 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000 right. Let me serve you God. 543 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:24,200 Let me serve you. Let me surrender my life to you. 544 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,100 The lesson is yours. 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