Sermons About Surrender
Wrestle with God
Jacob meets his match as he wrestles with God, he comes to term with the truth that the only way to win against God is to surrender.
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Obedience
We recognize Jesus as our teacher and authority, and wrestle with how to surrender to the way of love in every detail of our lives. We submit ourselves to one another in love and strive to keep our vows to God and our commitments to one another.
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Genesis 22
We all have those areas in our lives that are ours, and no one else, not eve God has any input. Although God gives us countless opportunities over the course of our journey to hand them over to Him, we still refuse to surrender those particular areas. The great news is that GOd will continue to pursue us until we learn that life is best lived with Him in total control. God allows each of us to be in situations where we can choose to surrender, but do we?
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Take Up Your Cross and Live
The cross is a symbol of suffering and death. And when Jesus asked His disciples to take up their crosses in Matthew 16:24, thoughts of difficulty, danger, and even death might have entered their minds having witnessed the Roman practice of crucifixion. In the context of this passage, the cross is clearly referring to Jesus’ own proclamation of His impending suffering and death—His main mission that the disciples had not yet realized at the time. Don’t think one moment that Jesus is asking you to die the death that He already ‘died’ for you. Instead, He asks you to deny yourself or give total control of your life over to Him. To take up your own cross is to actually live—in a different way—a life of willing obedience and surrender to His lordship.
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Surrender
The New Year represents a time we can look back over the previous year and re-focus on the New Year.
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Unwrapping the Mystery of the Manger
Pastor Larry unwraps the mystery of God becoming man by showing us how Jesus emptied Himself to become just like us and why Jesus humbled himself to die for all of us.
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2 Samuel 11 - Flesh, Blood, and Fidelity
This is the famous narrative of David adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah her husband. In the preceding 2 chapters David had delt with those inside Israel (Mephibosheth) and those outside Israel (Hanan) with covenant Kindness and loyalty. One would see David's leadership as one where fidelity was the driving value of his kingdom administration if it were not for Chapter 11. In this chapter David show his divided loyalties between his own desires and his loyalty to God. Fidelity to God in David's life only went so far it seems. You can learn much about your fidelity to Christ from understanding where you compartmentalize your life to keep Christ's Lordship from intruding too closely. We also see ways of growing in our fidelity to Christ's Lordship including 1) Don't slack off prusing God through his Word, 2) Don't prusue earthly success to control circumstances, 3) Don't prusue safety in life apart from following Christ, and 4) Don't think you will grow without a heart that is absolutely surrendered to Christ's Lordship. This narrative should teach all believers that they can fall into sin just as easily as David did if we don't prusue fidelity with God in all things regardless of the cost. Listening to this sermon will help you see the importance of fidelity as you follow Christ as His disciple.
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Do You Not Yet Understand?
As the first half of Mark's Gospel comes to a close, Mark gives us an opportunity to evaluate our relationship to Jesus. In this final scene, we see Jesus once again act with compassion on the crowd, once again battle with the Pharisees, and once again challenge his disciples. As we evaluate the reasons that Jesus deals differently with each group, we will get an honest glimpse into our own heart-level relationship with Jesus.
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