SURRENDER

The Power of a Surrendered Life

Romans 12:1

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

I.                   WHAT IS SURRENDER

1.     Concept

sur·ren·der: 1 a : to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand b : to give up completely or agree to forgo especially in favor of another 2 a : to give (oneself) up into the power of another especially as a prisoner b : to give (oneself) over to something (as an influence) intransitive senses : to give oneself up into the power of another : YIELD synonym see RELINQUISH

a.      It’s not allowing another to dominate or take control of you

b.     It’s not weakness

c.      It’s not giving up to the enemy

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

d.     It’s relinquishing your rights voluntarily

2.     Picture

Galatians 2:19-20

¹⁹ For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

3.     Language

a.      Not my will but thy will be done. Luke 22:42

b.     Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. Psalm 73:25

c.      He must increase, but I must decrease. John 13:30

d.     My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work.  John 4:33

e.      That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. Philippians 3:10

f.       One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4

II.                WHY SURRENDER

1.     Jesus demands it

Luke 14:25-27;33

²⁵ Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, ²⁶ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate (love less) his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple…³³ So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Luke 9:57-62

⁵⁷ Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” ⁵⁸ And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” ⁵⁹ Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” ⁶¹ And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.” ⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

2.     Jesus demonstrated it

John 6:38

"I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me";

John 4:34

"My meat is to do the will of him that sent me";

Hebrews 10:7

…again, "Lo, I come... to do thy will, O God."

John 14:31

³¹ but I will do what the Father requires of me so that the world will know that I love the Father. NLT

3.     You were made for it

Ecclesiastes12:13-14

¹³ That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.

                        Ecclesiastes 3:11NLT

“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart…”

                        Proverbs 27:20 NKJV

Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.

4.     You will be rewarded for it

John 12:24

²⁴ Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

Mark 10:28

²⁸ Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.” ²⁹ So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, ³⁰ who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

III.             DEGREES OF SURRENDER

1.     God Tests for Maximum surrender

Genesis 22:1-2

Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” ² Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

2.     Perpetual Surrender

Hebrews 4:14-16

¹⁴ Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. ¹⁵ For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Answer Key: dominate; demands; demonstrated;