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are surrendering to Jesus?
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Welcome to Issues &
Answers. My name is J. D. Quinn.
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As I mentioned earlier,
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we're going to be talking about
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the how's and why's
of surrendering to Jesus.
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A person that has
written a book on this
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is our guest today. And
it is Pastor Greg Jackson.
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Greg, welcome to
Issues and Answers.
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Thank you, thank you.
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I know that you
have written a book
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on "Surrender, The Secret
to Perfect Peace & Happiness."
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What else do you do?
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Well, I pastor in the
Allegheny West Conference.
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I'm now pastoring the Bethel
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Cleveland, Ohio.
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And then I travel doing
seminars on to surrender life
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and then on marriage and
divorce, and single life.
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I do several kinds of seminars,
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that's why I stay fairly busy.
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I can imagine being a pastor
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is a fulltime job
in itself. Oh, yes.
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You're married? Yes, I am.
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Yes, I am a married to Marilyn.
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I've been married
to her for 14 years.
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We have five children between us
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and five
grandchildren, amen, so-
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Amen. So your plate is full.
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Oh, yes. Okay.
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Of course it's
good full. I understand.
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Now on this book,
"Surrender, The Secret
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to Perfect Peace and Happiness."
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Why, what was your
purpose for writing this book?
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My purpose for
writing the book was-
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because I'm convinced that
the majority of God's people
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don't fully understand
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the meaning of
the word surrender,
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the depth of that word.
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Because if and when we
do, we're going to experience
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what the title of the book
promises or the perfect peace
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and happiness that
the Lord promise us.
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He says in Isaiah 26:3 that,
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"I will keep
him in perfect peace
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whose mind is stayed on me."
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And that is what surrender does.
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It keeps our
minds stayed on God.
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And so I wrote the book
to really deal with that.
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So that God's
people can begin to enjoy
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the peace and the happiness,
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and the power
that God promise us.
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I also know
here, pastor, it says,
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"The Secret to Perfect Peace."
What do we mean by secret?
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Well, I just kind of
cover that to some degree.
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Most people don't
understand that that is the key.
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Because if they did,
they would truly seek
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to surrender all to
Jesus everyday. Okay.
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But because they
haven't experienced that peace
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and really don't know
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the depth of the
word surrendering.
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It's really a secret.
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And I'm trying to expose
that secret in that book.
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Okay, because I
just know in my own life.
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Whenever I truly
invite the Holy Spirit
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and I press in,
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there's not a
greater feeling in the world
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than have
impressed with my life.
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And I know, that I know,
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that I know that he is working.
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And He certainly simplifies,
He simplifies, you know,
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my path, my path,
you know, so yes, yes.
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You know, you're
talking about a formula
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that you used in this-
in this book and everything.
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Can you tell us
about that formula that,
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that you feel will solve
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most of the
problems that we have?
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Yes, I, whenever I
say that people feel that,
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that's really not realistic.
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When you say that,
you have a formula. Yeah.
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That can solve every
problem that you face.
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And it just has three,
three, three things in it.
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People's ears prick up,
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but their minds
are in disbelief.
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But it works for me.
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And really it is the formula
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that will take us to the depths
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that surrender
requires, so I love it.
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And that formula is this
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and then we'll go back over it.
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My problem is always self. Okay.
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The solution to my
problem is always Jesus. Amen.
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And the way to the solution,
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which is Jesus, is
surrender, always surrender.
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My problem is always self.
My solution is always Jesus.
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And the way is always surrender.
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Now the biggest-
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the biggest hurdle to that
equation is the first thing.
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My problem is always
self. I shared this before.
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And as I talked with someone,
I was giving some counseling,
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and I just kind of
shared the formula with him.
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And he was, he was dealing
with his wife cheating on him.
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And when I say that, he said,
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"Pastor, are you
telling me that I am the problem
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when my wife is cheating on me?"
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And I said to him,
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"I'm not saying
that you're the problem.
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What I am saying is this.
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Is that you have allowed
your wife's conduct to come in
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between you and your God
and that's your problem."
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Because God
promised to give you peace.
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He promised to
supply your needs.
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He's promised- you've got
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many precious
promises in the Bible.
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But you've
allowed a human being,
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no matter how close,
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to come in
between you and the Lord,
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and your relationship with Him.
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And until you
solve that problem,
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you can't find the
peace that you're requiring.
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What you are requiring
for your peace is that God
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overwrites your wife's choice
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and make her do for
you what you feel is right,
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even though it's a right thing,
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God won't do that.
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So what you in essence have done
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is you have given your
wife power over your life.
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You have given her
the key to your happiness.
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Really in essence,
she has become your God.
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Because now God
can't even do for you
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what He requires, because
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your happiness and
your peace is based on
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a human beings conduct
rather than God's promises
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and that's your problem.
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The solution to
that problem is Jesus,
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because you can't
change the way you feel.
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You can't heal
the hurt that you-
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that you feel, that's real.
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You cannot meet the need
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that your wife has
been to some degree meaty,
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but Jesus can't. Amen.
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And the way He can do it,
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and what is required
of you for Him to do it,
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is that you must
surrender yourself to Him
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in whatever way He
chooses to do that.
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Now that- now that is the issue.
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When we understand
surrendering that decree,
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then a lot of people say,
"Well, when you say surrender,
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you have to do more than that."
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And then whenever I hear that,
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I realized that people
don't really understand
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what surrender really is.
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Because when you understand
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what surrender
is, you won't say,
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"That's a do nothing thing."
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It requires everything you have
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because when you
are hurting like that.
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And you hear that
because our human nature says,
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"I want, I want
someone, some power,
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God, whoever to make that
person do for me what I need."
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When we have to
surrender that desire to God,
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and say, Lord,
whatever way you want to do it,
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I give it over to you.
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That requires
everything we have.
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You know, and I agree with you.
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I mean, I'd like to
take this little bit deeper,
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because I know that
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we have different
connotations of surrender.
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Normal, whenever you
come to a guy and you say,
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"You're supposed
to surrender." Yes.
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He will say, "Oops, I give up."
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You know, and but then you go
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to a woman or
female and you say,
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that you're gonna
have to surrender.
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Normally, they- they bring in.
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No one is gonna control me. Yes.
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And so, you
know, we sometime have
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these skewed ideas of
what surrender is. Yes.
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Now you're saying,
taking it to Jesus.
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Now where do we go with that?
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I mean, do we get on our knees?
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We're saying his issue.
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We're saying that God is
here, Jesus is here saying,
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"Hey, I'll bring
you perfect peace." Yes.
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Now what is our next
step? Our next step is just-
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Again, it is just that
going, as you surrendering,
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really giving Him our
will, giving Him our emotions.
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So is that just done, just by,
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just raising our hands and say,
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"Father, this is
bigger than I am.
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I'm turning this over to You.
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I'm giving You
permission to be in charge."
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It is done that way.
It is done whatever way.
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You know, it is
more so an attitude.
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The words cannot comprehend,
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I mean, that was-
that was a good one.
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The key is- so often
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we're looking
for a prescribed way.
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It's more so an
attitude or desire
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where you want the law to fix it
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and you're willing to go over,
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give it over to
Him, and let Him fix it.
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And you're giving
Him- you've to see,
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because we not
only want God to fix it.
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We have a way we
want God to fix it,
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and that's what we
have to surrender. Yes.
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That's what we
have to surrender.
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So often we say,
"Give it over to God.
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We give it over to
God like the quarterback
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gives a football to the runner."
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We give it to God
with the instructions,
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cut here and make that here.
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And really, we're
still in control of it.
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When we surrender, we release,
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we relent to stay in control,
that's the biggie for us.
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Because control is our
issue, that's our issue,
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that's what sin has done to us.
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Sin has put us in God's place.
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God originally
created us in a way
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where He was in
that control center.
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And as long as He's in
that control of center,
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we have freedom,
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we have power, we have control.
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When we remove Him by in
throwing ourselves there,
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self,
actualization and by the way,
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that's the world's tomb. Yeah.
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You know, I did it my way. Yes.
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And that's sin.
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We think sin is pulling the gun,
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pulling trigger,
that's a result of it.
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The sin that so easily
besets us is putting self
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where God belongs,
amen. Self-exaltation.
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And that's what it requires,
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and that's why it's the biggie,
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because it
reverses that whole process
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and puts Jesus
back on the throne.
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Now, the way I-
because I say surrender.
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Surrender does it in the way
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is that Jesus
gives us the strength.
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See, so often we
say things like this,
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and we interpret
and that's how we really
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interpret the cross sin against.
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One of the things I
get into 'cause I say,
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what is the cross experience?
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We see the cross as some burden,
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I hear it all the
time, that's my cross.
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One day, if I carry
my cross out win my crown
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and we-you know, we
had that- Trudge along.
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Yeah, we had that trudge along.
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That's not what
the cross is for.
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The cross is for dying. Amen.
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The Lord says, "Come unto me,
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden,
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and I will give you."
Not a cross, not burdens.
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"I will give you
rest. My yoke is easy."
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Amen. "And my burden is light."
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Now if we're
carrying a heavy cross,
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isn't that the cross
that Jesus is giving?
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That's a self-made cross.
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Matter of fact,
that's even a quote
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from the
writings of Ellen White.
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Jesus cross is not for
carrying, it's for dying.
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Now I can't crucify myself,
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and that's another thing we say.
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Well, self-denial.
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Self-denial is
just that, that means
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there's no self in it.
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Now, if I have to do it,
then it's not self-denial,
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its self-exaltation.
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Self-denial is not
I, but Christ. Amen.
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And the way we get the not I,
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but Christ is we go to
Jesus and let Him crucify us.
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That means, when
I'm hurting like,
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the man with the
wife that is cheating on.
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Then I go to
Jesus who is my healer
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and my redeemer and who loves me
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and died for me,
and has all power.
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I go to Him and I say,
"Lord, I need Your healing.
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I need for You to
do for me what I want.
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And I've been looking
for my wife to do for me.
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I need for those
promises in the Bible,
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the word to become flesh." Amen.
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And like you say, I
will supply a new dwells
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all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily.
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You and I can be made complete,
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I need that to happen. Amen.
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I can't make it
happen. I need for You,
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because I need to
let this burden go,
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but I can't, there is a need.
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There is a void in my
life that is not being filled.
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And I can't let it go,
until that void is filled.
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She won't fill it.
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I've been trying to
make her do that, Lord.
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You say, that you would.
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Now I come to You
with all that I have.
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Work in me, both dwells in You,
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and that's that process.
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I love it the
way Philippians 4:13
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens
me." That's right.
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And then it takes a step further
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in some
translations that Jesus speaking
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"I will empower you." Yes.
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"I will infuse inner strength
into you." That's right.
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Which is precious to me, because
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for my weakness I can
do nothing. That's right.
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And here I'm very frustrated
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in a situation as
you're giving here. Yes.
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My wife is
messing around on me. Yes.
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I'm confused. Yes.
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First of all we know that,
he is not author of confusion.
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That's right, but yet
he says here okay, J. D.
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if you will surrender,
then I will empower you. Yes.
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Let me carry that
for you. Right, right.
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I think that's what
I'm picking up that you're-
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And that makes it, you know,
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because so often we try
to solve people's problems.
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The problems we
face today are awesome.
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They're so complicated,
there is no good answer.
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And if you try to solve
that by giving solutions
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you're going to
run into problems.
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And that's why there is
so many suites for pastors
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and ministers,
even psychologist.
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I mean because we're
trying to solve things
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that we don't have the
wisdom or the strength to do,
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even if you can point to them.
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If you can point
out to them the problem,
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there is nothing
they can do about it.
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See when I tell people
that your problem is that,
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you're depending on your
wife to supply your needs.
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He can't stop depended on that-
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the only way he can
stop depending on that. Amen.
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Is to find another source
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that we're
adequate to do it. Amen.
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The only other source is Jesus.
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And when you go to
Jesus, Jesus knows that problem
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and He knows all
the ins and outs.
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He knows the end
from the beginning. Amen.
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And He not only
will work it out,
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but He will give
you the power. Amen.
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That you need while
He is working it out.
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So my, I'm not-
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I don't major in
knowing the right answers,
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Oh, well, I do. The
right answer is Jesus.
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I have one this one
thing I do in this one,
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our major inch knowing
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how to get
people to Jesus. Amen.
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Once I get him to Jesus,
the problem is solved. Amen.
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And so that's why that solution,
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that formula. Amen.
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Solves every problem. Amen.
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Because they formally
get you to Jesus. Amen.
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So its going from yourself
into the hands of Jesus. Yes.
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And because now you understand
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the redeeming power of Jesus,
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then you get on your
knees and you surrender. Yes.
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And then that
takes away to self. Yes.
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And let me just say this.
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You only have to understand
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and most likely
you don't understand
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the fullness of the
redeeming power of Jesus,
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I've done it when I
didn't fully understand it.
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I just told to believe
it, and that's what faith is.
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Faith is a choice to
trust and believe in Jesus.
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Amen. That's what it is.
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I don't have to
feel it, when I do,
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because I have done
it, when I've been afraid,
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you know, the
consequence, I say Lord,
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I don't know if you
can really do this thing.
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I feel really so messed up
now that I can't, you know,
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I don't want the problem solved,
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I want it gone. Yeah.
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But I'm gonna
trust you now. Amen.
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And I'm going to Him like that
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and God is worth lifting- Amen.
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and that's what
He ask of us. Yes.
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You know just,
just trust me. Yes.
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And you know my
prayer quite often is,
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father increase my faith,
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increase my belief in you. Yes.
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You know, I give you permission
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to work in me. There you go.
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Now, you're talking also about
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the three greatest
fears concerning surrender.
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Yes, one of it I kind
of hit the core of it,
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because we're afraid
that, that when we give,
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when we give the
Lord total control
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that we're going to miss out
on a happier and better life,
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that, that's gonna
make us like a Robot.
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We don't have control anymore
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and really as
violation of our will
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and that's number two.
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And then the third
one is that, you know,
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we're really not going to,
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we're gonna live in
our personal growth,
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you know, I have
dreams, ambitions and goals
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and if I
surrender all to the Lord
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and what happens
to those, you know,
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I'm suppose to have.
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So those are the
three greatest fears,
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and you know
I'll just say briefly
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the book covers
it more extensively,
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I've more of time.
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But to the one that, you know,
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better and happier
existence out of fear that,
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and I limited the law
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when I first came
and I stopped the drugs,
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I gave this in my
personal testimony
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before in another program,
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but stopped drinking and
drugs and then the smoking.
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I know the drugs and smoking
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and the pointing lifestyle,
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because I really truly believed
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that I could be
happy without that. Yes.
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But I went back to
drinking because I told myself
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I can't be truly
happy with the Lord
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if I don't have
some kind of substance,
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because I've had some
kind substance for so long.
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And until I was ready
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to let that go up,
I couldn't get victory
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and the Lord helped
me to get there so. Amen.
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You know, that limited God,
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there is another
line that they miss God
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when we feel that
I'm gonna lose control
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and I've my will.
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Really what happens you
gain more control. Amen.
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I was- I didn't have
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after I gave it all to the Lord,
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I have more self control
than ever I had before. Amen.
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So that's another law.
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And it's not a
violation of your will,
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it's the right use of your will,
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because you have to choose it.
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That's why people say,
why don't I have to ask-
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why I have to
give him permission
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because that's your right,
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that's where your power
is. You have no other power,
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but that will and
it's weak as what as it is,
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give it to Him and
He will make it strong.
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Then the last
one where you know,
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He's talking
about, He was going to-
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He's gonna live in
my personal growth.
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And one of my greatest fears
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also even after I
got into ministries
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if I gave it fully to the Lord.
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I had ambitions and
goals, timetable about so and so
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and I felt that I'm
going to in five years
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I want to be so here in
my ministry and so and so,
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and even in
pastoral ministry, you know,
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people think well, you know,
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I know that you don't
look at that as a career,
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yes you do because
everybody wants success the way
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and we see it in
the way the world
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defines it in. I did as well.
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I did necessarily want to,
my praises sung to the tune of,
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I did it my way,
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but I did want to
sung to the tune of
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Jesus keep me near the
cross, you know, but my praises.
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I was sincere,
trust me I was sincere
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and I love the Lord
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and I want to do
right and I even looked it
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and say well that's where
the Lord can really use me,
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but there was still that part
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that I couldn't
fully give it over
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and I really
didn't find a four pieces.
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But on one morning
as I was, you know,
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I would have my
sessions with God
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as I understood this thing with
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surrender is
spending time and I will love.
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That's why I
call it my sessions,
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because is like I have
my own personal psychiatrist
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that makes all, you know,
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that deals with all my problems
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and knows me like a book.
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Not only he can
tell me what's wrong,
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he gives me power to overcome.
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I don't have to pay him a dime.
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I can get him
anytime I want. Amen.
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I have my sessions with
God and I was with myself
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and I wasn't feeling
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the closeness
that I normally felt
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and I was talking to a doctor
a friend of mine one morning,
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all he knew, but he shares me
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whenever that
happening to with me
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there's something I haven't
fully given all to the Lord
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and the Lord is, He is
really addressing at the time.
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And you know before
he hadn't dealt with it
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he deals with
the- He brought me,
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so I wasn't feeling because
he knew he get my attention
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and so I start
praying to the Lord-
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I already knew that, but
it's just the Lord that use it.
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Prick my mind, I
said Lord what is it.
00:22:06.64\00:22:08.77
And He let me
know it's my ministry
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into that degree you
know because I was sincere
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but there was a little inkling.
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And I said okay I
will get that to you
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because I had this in mind
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if I give it over
to the Lord I know,
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because He already
impressed me when I came.
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He say, your ministry is going
to be like Jeremiah ministry.
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A lot of people
not going to know what
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he is talking about, you know,
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its not going to be that popular
00:22:29.48\00:22:30.62
and truly surrender
of self is not popular,
00:22:30.63\00:22:34.04
because you know we have
to give some great thing,
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but good things must I
do, but when it comes to,
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I wish we shall all praise you.
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Master will do good thing.
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What, tell me
good thing, I'll do it.
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But when the Lord told him
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and really was
surrender, you know,
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the good thing wasn't
to give up all your money,
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because we look at
and say, oh that means
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I give up all the
money, that wasn't
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what the good thing
was, because the Bible says
00:22:53.18\00:22:55.27
if I give all my
goods to feed the poor,
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and have that love is nothing.
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He hadn't he
wanted perfect peace.
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He say, what can
I do to find that.
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Lord say, if you want be perfect
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that's the word you
say if that will be perfect
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go and say all that you have,
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give to the poor come follow me,
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his claim was when he says,
when he says what good thing,
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they will say keep the commands,
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you're looking for good thing.
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But before you said that he said
00:23:17.90\00:23:18.87
there is only
one good, that's God.
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Goodness is not in our thing,
it's in being and that's God,
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that's not you,
there is only one.
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But he knew,
he's going to have us,
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if you're looking for
good thing, I'll give you,
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keep the commandments.
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You know, this really
gets us over there. Amen.
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We're looking for good things.
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There is nothing
wrong to good things,
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but that's not
what's gonna do it.
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The good one. Amen.
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So he said I've been doing this.
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So but I don't have
it, what like I get.
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He say, okay now
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if you want to be
perfect go and serve on to him.
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Now we jump right
into a good thing.
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Oh, we got to give it all,
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oh, I can't do,
not that's not what.
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He is saying
surrender all to my control.
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You still have God,
you still have something
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that you depend on more than me.
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If I, if you want
me to make you perfect,
00:24:04.31\00:24:06.62
you have to surrender all to me,
00:24:06.63\00:24:08.82
because if that's
not surrendered to me
00:24:08.83\00:24:10.99
all the devil has to
do destroy your peace
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is to touch your bank
account and I can't help you,
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because you are depending
on that money more than me.
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If you want to be
perfect, surrender all,
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give me control of that.
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You say, you can
keep the commandments.
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Commandments are
based on two basic things,
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supreme love to God
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and unconditional love to
your brother and you sister.
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Now if you love me supremely,
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let me tell you
what to do with my money,
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it's God's money not his.
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And if you love your
brother unconditionally,
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then give it to him
and come and follow me.
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I'm not going to hurt
you, because I'm the one
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that gave the money
in the first place. Amen.
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You don't have
to worry about that.
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Do you trust your bank
account more than you trust me?
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Do you really love me supremely?
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Do you really
surrender all to me?
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You see really he's
saying that to all of us.
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When we surrender to God,
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and this is where the tithe
and offering thing comes in.
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You often we struggle with
this and we do the good thing.
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And we relate to it like we
were relating to a mafia boss.
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I'm gonna pay God
off, get him off my back,
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then I can do with the
rest of the way I will.
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But when we really
relate to it at the right way,
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then we have peace no matter
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whether we have
that money or not,
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because it
says, Lord I recognize
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that the rest of this money,
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its all comes from
you and I trust you
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and I depend on
you and no matter what
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even if my bank account goes,
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all that I'm, all
that have comes from you
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you've been good to me
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and you will
continue to keep me.
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And that's where
that fear comes from,
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so when we
realize, it won't let me it,
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get us just, it gets better.
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We've got about a
minute, minute and half left.
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You talk about
surrendering daily.
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Yes. Kind of explain that.
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Well, its yesterday surrender
isn't good enough for the day
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and every day is a
new adventure for God,
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and in your
prayers never get boring,
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because your life isn't boring
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what you have to
deal which isn't boring.
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What God will
reveal to you isn't boring.
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It's an exciting
encounter with God
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and so it's a daily thing.
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And once I start in the morning,
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it keeps me throughout the day.
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And if I need to pray
again because I got connected,
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it's like a trolley car.
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When I connect in the
morning, I'm on tuning,
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if I need to pray the
Holy Spirit prick me pray.
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If I need a
song, the Holy Spirit-
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He is in charge, so once
I connect in that morning
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and that's my morning session,
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He keeps me throughout the day,
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so that' what
daily surrender is about.
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It is just not only
just praying in the morning
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that is your time,
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that is because
in you're the way
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it works for you is
that then you can feel
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His coat of righteousness
on you from the very
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when you get up probably
the last thing you do it
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and I this is oh,
Jesus, just please be with me,
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let me wake up in the morning
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you know with happiness
and cheerfulness in my heart.
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Yes, yes and throughout
the day its communication,
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because I've
connected and I stay connected,
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it keeps me
connect throughout the day.
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Amen, amen.
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Okay. Oh, listen.
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I know that I have certainly
enjoyed reading these books,
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"Surrender, The Secret to
Perfect Peace and Happiness"
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by Pastor Gregory L. Jackson.
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And I just appreciate the time
that you spend with us today.
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I know I can just tell
your love for the Lord.
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I can tell that, He
is just all over you
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and I know that
as busy as you are,
00:27:34.45\00:27:37.85
you start every day
off in the right way.
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So, I just appreciate very much
00:27:41.02\00:27:42.95
for you being at 3ABN today.
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I know that you did
another program yesterday
00:27:46.68\00:27:49.25
and you'll be doing
more before us I think.
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Anyway I just, I
just appreciate everyone
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being here with us
joining this program
00:27:56.10\00:27:58.76
sharing this time with us
on Issues and Answers at 3ABN.
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And I just ask the God
will just richly bless you
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and all that you do
and you say. God bless.
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