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SURRENDERING OURSELVES TO GOD.

INTRODUCTION:

A CHRISTIAN WHOLE DUTY TO GOD IS TO SURRENDER HIS WILL TO GOD.

A CHRISTIAN MUST MAKE A DECISION WHETHER HE’S GOING TO LIVE FOR GOD OR LIVE FOR THE WORLD.

IT IS HARD FOR A CHRISTIAN TO LIVE FOR GOD AND LIVE FOR THE WORLD, BECAUSE HE EITHER WILL LOVE ONE OR HATE THEE OTHER.

BUT WHEN YOU LIVE FOR GOD YOUR LIVES WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

THAT MEAN YOUR MINDS ARE RENEWED, YOUR HEARTS ARE PURE, AND YOUR EYES ARE ENLIGHTEN.

IN ORDER FOR US TO SURRENDER TO GOD, WE MUST CONSECRATE OURSELVES TO GOD.

MEANING WE MUST GIVE PRIORITY TO SPIRITUAL THINGS OVER PHYSICAL THINGS, AND DEDICATE OUR LIVES TO GOD, AND THE THINGS IN OUR LIVES FOR HIS PURPOSE AND GLORY.

I LIKE TO DISCUSS 3 THINGS TODAY.

WHAT ARE WE TO SURRENDER TO GOD?

WHAT IS IT WE NEED TO AVOID?

WHAT WILL WE ACCOMPLISH?

A. WHAT ARE WE TO SURRENDER TO GOD?

ROMANS 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

WHAT WE ARE TO SURRENDER TO GOD IS OUR BODIES.

THE REASON IS GOD DID NOT HAVE TO PRESERVE OUR BODIES, WHEN WE WAS USING OUR BODIES AS INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

WE BETTER BE GLAD THAT GOD DID ALLOW OUR BODIES TO BURN.

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR BODIES ARE NOT OUR OWN, WE JUST TEMPLE THAT HOUSES THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE WAS BROUGHT WITH A PRICE AND PURCHASE BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOUR BODY TO GOD IT CAN’T BE A PORTION OF YOU, BUT IT HAVE TO BE YOUR ENTIRE PERSON, BECAUSE IF GOD ONLY HAVE A PORTION OF YOU, SOMETHING ELSE WILL HAVE THE OTHER PORTION.

OUR GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD CONCERNING HIS PEOPLE AND HE WILL NOT SHARE HIS WITH NO ONE. GOD WANT YOU TO HIMSELF.

WHEN YOU PRESENT YOURSELF BEFORE GOD, YOU WANT TO HAVE HIS LIGHT, NOT DARKNESS THAT WOULD REMIND HIM OF CALVARY. AND THE SINS HE HAD TO BEAR FOR US.

WHEN YOUR BODY IS DISCIPLINE TO GOD IT WILL SET YOU APART FROM THE THINGS OF SIN.

TO SURRENDER MEANS TO GIVE UP.

YOU BETTER TURN YOURSELF IN TO GOD BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT ARREST YOU.

2 TIMOTHY 2:21 “If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”

B. WHAT IS IT WE NEED TO AVOID?

ROMANS 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

WE NEED TO AVOID CONFORMING TO THIS WORLD.

MEANING WE MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO PATTERNING OURSELVES OF THE WORLDS LIFESTYLES AND VALUES.

AND WE KNOW WHAT’S IN THE WORLD, LUST OF THE FLESH, LUST OF THE EYES, AND PRIDE OF LIFE, WHICH BELONGS TO THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD SATAN.

WE MUST AVOID THINGS IN THE WORLD THAT WILL CONTAMINATE OUR LIVES. SIN WILL SEPARATE YOU FROM GOD’S VALUES AND GOD’S WAY OF LIVING.

WHEN WE GIVE INTO SIN, WE WILL COMPROMISE THE TRUTH.

1 JOHN 2:15 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

C. WHAT WILL WE ACCOMPLISH?

PAUL SAID IF WE CAN AVOID THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD, OUR MINDS CAN BE RENEWED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

A RENEWED MIND IS A MIND THAT WILL CONFORM TO THE TRUTH OF GOD. MEANING YOU WILL SEE IT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GOD AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK TO BE TRUE.

WHAT WE WILL ACCOMPLISHED FROM A RENEWED MIND IS A TRANSFORMED LIFE.

WHEN YOUR MIND IS RENEWED, YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

WHEN YOUR MIND IS RENEWED YOU EXPERIENCE GOD’S PEACE.

WHEN YOUR MIND IS RENEWED YOU GIVE UP YOUR WAY AND SURRENDER TO THE WAY.

COLOSSIANS 3:10 “and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”