Surrender to God's Will; Lessons from Gethsemane

Introduction

Meet and Greet. If I was to start this off and be 100% transparent and honest with you, I would have to say, “This is my first sermon”. This isn’t my first time speaking but giving the fact that this is the first time that I have spoken on behalf of God’s Word, this is my first time speaking. I am sure that if my mentor was sitting here in the congregation with you, he would be head in hands, shaking his head at me. Today we are talking about faith. A level of faith that is so deep, you never question it, only your interpretation of it. That said, I believe it is almost necessary, as an example, to tell you that, now, my faith is so deep that I trusted the Lord and his path for me as it took years to get to this very moment.

My life is full of heartache. Whether it was at the hand of the “system” or someone or at the behest of my selfish desires and sinful flesh. And yet here I am. On April 11, 2014, I handed my life completely and fully over to the Lord and he in turn said, “Son, I have been here the whole time. Thank you for growing up, Nathan. I now have a job for you.”

I had spent, from about the age of 15, when I left the church, till 2014, looking at God’s creation through the peep hole on a door of secularism. That is a long time when we only get so many years to do the work that God asks us to do. I almost had to start all over again. I kept the items that God, Christ and the holy spirit had taught me along the way and I started fresh. Several years have now passed with regards to learning and understanding God’s universe from his Word, rather than trying to pigeon hole my understand of his universe into his Word.

The title of today’s sermon is “Surrender to God’s Will; Lessons from Gethsemane”. I’m kind of

Gethsemane, when broken down to its origins and parts