Welcome back...
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before the break, we
took a look at a sacrifice
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in Leviticus chapter 1
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and it was the sacrifice
that was the burnt offering
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in which the entire
animal was burned on the altar
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and we noted that this
was a sweet aroma to the Lord.
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As a matter of fact, there
is another part in the Bible
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that describes
this same offering
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in Leviticus chapter
1 verse 12 through 13,
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"And he shall cut it in pieces
with its head... its fat...
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the priest shall lay
them in order on the wood
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that is on the
fire upon the altar:
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But he shall wash the entrails
and the legs with water:
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then the priest shall bring
it and burn it on the altar:
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it is a burnt sacrifice,
an offering made by fire,
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a sweet aroma to the Lord. "
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The different
parts of the animal
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were placed in
order on the altar...
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the head... the inward parts...
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the legs and one scholar
noted that these parts represent
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the different parts
of the human entity.
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The head represents the
mind and the intellect...
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the inward represents
the will and the emotions...
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the legs indicate the walk...
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which represents the
conduct and the lifestyle.
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In other words, the significance
of this particular offering
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was that the
person bringing the animal
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and placing the
animal upon the altar...
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and the entire animal...
the head... the inward parts
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and the legs were
burned up upon the altar
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which was a
sweet aroma to the Lord
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typified this idea
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that the sinner was
placing himself on the altar.
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It was a symbol of
total surrender to God.
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Not one part of the
animal was left back
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and it was the
response of the individual
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saying, "Lord, because of
what you have done for me,
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I will give you all of me. "
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Now, in our human relationships
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especially our most
intimate human relationships
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like marriage...
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we go to weddings all the time
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and I do not find
individuals that are there
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weeping and mourning
because this is a terrible event
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in which the
husband and the wife
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unreservedly give themselves
100% to the other person,
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you don't see people
say, "Oh, what a travesty...
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this person is surrendering
all to the other individual
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for the rest of their life... "
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radical thing... marriage is
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because in saying,
"Yes" to the person
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you are saying
"No" to everyone else,
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you are giving all of yourself
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and marriage in
its most ideal form
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is so beautiful
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because you have the
giving of all to each other.
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The most intimate
relationship this side of heaven
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that we can have
amongst ourselves is marriage
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and why is that?
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Because of total
giving of yourself
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to the other individual.
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Oh, God is no different...
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God wants to have a
relationship with us
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and this
relationship... we cannot expect
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to be any less than
our human relationships
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ideally speaking
in terms of marriage.
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When we think of our
relationship with God,
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God says, "Look,
I give you all... "
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and the freewill
response of the individual
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is to give all in return to God
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because of the love of God
that has touched our hearts.
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This is what
motivates the individual.
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Now, the important
thing about this offering
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was that it was not mandatory,
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in other words,
it was voluntary.
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The person was not
forced to bring this animal
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and bring it before the Lord,
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the person came
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because their hearts
were overflowing with love
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which means that every
sacrifice we give to God,
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really comes from
this motivation of saying,
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"Lord, I surrender all to
you because I've been touched
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by the love of God. "
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The is from the book, "The
Sanctuary Service" page 90,
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"The offeror placed himself
symbolically on the altar,
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his entire life
wholly devoted to God. "
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Sanctuary Service, page 90,
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And he was saying,
"All that I am is Christ. "
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Romans chapter 12 verse 1 says,
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"I beseech you,
therefore, brethren,
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by the mercies of God,
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that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
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holy, acceptable to God,
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which is your
reasonable service. "
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So, this idea or this notion
of giving ourselves to God
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as a sacrifice
typified in the burnt offering
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is not just a New
Testament motif...
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it's
actually... or I should say,
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it's not an Old Testament motif,
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it is a New
Testament idea as well
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because Paul here says that
in response to the love of God,
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we give our bodies...
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and notice what he says,
"As a living sacrifice. "
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Notice the word on
the screen, it says,
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"I beseech you, therefore... "
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up to this point,
Paul has been elaborating
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and establishing the
grace and the mercies of God
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That's why he
says, "Therefore... "
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now whenever you see
the word, "Therefore"
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they say, "Ask
what it's there for... "
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in other words, it's
a concluding statement.
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You have, "premise... premise...
premise... therefore... "
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so in chapters preceding
this chapter... chapter 12,
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Paul has spent an
exorbitant amount of time
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talking about
the mercies of God...
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the love of God...
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the grace of God...
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and then he says,
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"In light of all
the mercies of God,
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I want you to present your
bodies a living sacrifice. "
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In other words, when you're
touched by the love of God...
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when you're just filled
with that heartfelt response
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to what He has done for you,
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you say, "Lord, I give
myself as a living sacrifice. "
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This is what's typified in
the Altar of Burnt Offering
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or the Burnt Offering
Sacrifice on the brazen altar
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and notice what Paul
says at the end of this verse,
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"You present
yourselves a living sacrifice,
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holy acceptable to God... "
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and in the last part he
says, "which is reasonable. "
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In other words,
this is not unreasonable,
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this is not something
that is incomprehensible,
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this is not
something that's irrational,
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Paul says, "In
light of everything
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that God has done for you,
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when you give
yourself back to Him
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and say, "Lord, all that I am...
all that I have is Christ... "
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Paul says, "Look,
this is reasonable...
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this is rational...
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this is
something that makes sense
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in light of everything
that God has done for us. "
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Now, in Leviticus chapter 2,
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there's another sacrifice
that the Bible mentions
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and it is the meal or the
food or the grain offering
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and the Bible says,
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"When anyone brings a
grain offering to the Lord,
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their offering is to
be of the finest flour...
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they are to
pour olive oil on it,
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put incense on it
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and take it to
Aaron's sons... the priests...
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"The priest shall take a
handful of flour and oil,
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together with the incense... "
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This was a meal offering
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and they were to
burn it as a portion
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on the altar...
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the food offering... an
aroma pleasing to the Lord,
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the rest of the grain offering
belongs to Aaron and his sons.
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It is a most holy
part of the food offerings
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presented to the Lord.
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"By this burnt offering...
" according to Leslie Hardinge
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"the worshipper affirmed
'all that I am is Christ's'
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and then on the
basis of this dedication,
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further declared
through his meal offering
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'all that I have is Christ's. '"
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Now, the unique
thing that connects
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Leviticus chapter 1 and 2
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is... chapter 1, you are
placing yourself symbolically
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on the altar.
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In chapter 2, you are
giving up your possessions...
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or of your food and
placing it on the altar.
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Leviticus chapter 1 was saying,
"All that I am is Christ's... "
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and Leviticus
chapter 2 was saying,
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"All that I have is Christ's. "
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This is an
important distinction to make.
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In other words,
it's one thing to say,
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"Lord, all that I am is Christ's
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but you can't have
anything that I have... "
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no, the second part logically
follows the first part.
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In other words, if you
accept Jesus as your Savior,
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it indicates that
all of your possessions
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belong to Him as well.
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Jesus is Savior
and Lord of your life.
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Matthew chapter 22
verse 37, you have this idea
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of loving God
with all your heart...
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with all your soul...
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and with all of your might.
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This is reasonable...
this is rational...
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in our
relationships with one another,
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we expect... especially
in the marriage relationship
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even in the secular world,
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we want the total
heart of the other individual
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in response to our love.
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Jim Elliot, a
missionary to South America,
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who died as a
martyr, notice what he said,
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"Father, let me be weak
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that I may lose my
clutch on everything temporal.
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My life, my
reputation, my possessions,
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Lord, let me loose the
tension of the grasping hand.
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How often I
have released a grasp
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only to retain what I prized
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releasing all that
I may be released...
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so let me release my grasp. "
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I found, in my
Christian experience,
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there are
certain areas of my life
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that I find a whole lot
easier to let go of than others.
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Do you find it the same way?
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Do you find that
there are areas of your life
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that you're like,
"Lord, you can have it all... "
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and then other
areas of your life,
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you're like, "No Lord, I want to
have a little bit more control
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of this area of this life... "
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and here, Jim Elliot,
who died as a missionary
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to South America says,
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"Lord, let me loose my
grasp on these things. "
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Now, this is not to say that God
is calling us to go out there
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right now to sell
everything that we have,
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but what it is saying
is to hold on to entities
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whether they be physical
or... or things in our own lives
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hold on to them loosely...
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so that if God ever
calls us to surrender...
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specially our possessions...
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we can say, "Lord, whatever
it is you want me to do,
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I will do... "
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and this is a
prayer that we can pray.
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Clifford Goldstein in
his book, "Bestseller"
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describes how his
dream was to be a novelist.
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He went to a Kibbutz in Israel
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and dedicated his
life to writing this novel
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and this is what he said,
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"One night, the Lord came
to me and just said to me,
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'You've been
playing with Me long enough,
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if you want Me
tonight, burn the novel... '
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and in that
instant the Lord showed me
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that the novel was my God
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and nothing else in the world
meant more to me than that book.
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That book was everything to me
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but then, it's fascinating
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because I had
this back and forth
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and then finally at
one point, I surrendered...
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I said, 'Okay God, I want You,
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I want truth more
than I want this novel... '
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and once I made that choice...
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I made that surrender...
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all the turmoil
and all the struggle...
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everything lifted.
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I've never been sorry.
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My life
radically, radically changed
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and that night I became
a born again believer. "
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Here Clifford Goldstein is...
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he's struggling because
he's holding on to this novel,
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this novel was his life
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and he said, "Lord, I want You
more than I want this novel. "
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There are times in
our Christian experience
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when we can come to
God and kind of be fakey...
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we say, "Lord, everything is
fine, I'm not struggling... "
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but the authentic communication
that we can have with God
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through prayer is saying,
"Lord, I love this thing,
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help me to hate it. "
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You see,
surrender is not something
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that we have to fabricate,
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surrender is not
something that we have to
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just get from our own bootstraps
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or pull ourselves
by our own bootstraps
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and say, "Lord, I'm
going to surrender to you
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and just grit it out. "
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No, the reality is
that even surrender
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is a God-given gift.
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You can say, "Lord, help me to
be willing to be made willing,
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change my heart
because I can't change myself.
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I'm holding on to
this idol in my life
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help me to let go. "
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Won't you
surrender to Jesus today?
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Won't you say to Him,
"Lord, help me to be willing
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to be made willing. "
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Won't you say,
"Lord, I love this thing...
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change my desires...
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help me to desire. "
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God is willing and
able to change your heart.
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He's not asking you
to fabricate surrender,
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He's asking you to come to Him
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just the way that you are
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and ask Him for
the gift of surrender.
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Won't you
surrender to Him today?
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Join us again
next time as we study
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the sanctuary,
salvation and our Savior.
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