(228) “Unconditional Surrender to God”

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unconditional surrender means I don't have anything to say about this except yes.

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And you know, people can take that wrong and think that that's wrong, but it's the way

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that God worked it.

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It's the way that He planned for us to be able to work with Him.

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And it only works to work with Him when we do it His way.

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When we try to do it our way, it doesn't work.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring.

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We contend for that promised outpouring.

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We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so grateful to the Lord that you have joined us.

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We have a subject today that we feel is very important, and I believe it's going to be

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life changing for you.

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You know, life is a series of surrenders.

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And we have on our heart to share about unconditional surrender to God.

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So Philip, let's talk about unconditional surrender to God.

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Oh, that's that's a hollelujah.

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Well, yes, it is because it really is all about letting go of your self way.

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You know, we don't like to do that.

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Well, it's true.

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We don't.

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Our flesh is always at war with our spirit and our spirit is the real us.

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Your spirit is the real you.

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My spirit is the real me.

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We see that in in Romans, Chapter seven, that there's this war going on in the flesh.

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But the Holy Spirit helps us because when we invite Jesus to come into our lives, our

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spirit becomes one spirit with His spirit.

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Yeah.

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And it's a determination.

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It's like if you're trying to tone your muscles up, if you're an athlete, you know, you're

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you're not going to miss a day, are you?

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Because you can maybe feel the difference if you didn't do all your stretches or things

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like that.

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You know, yeah.

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And for those of us who have not kept up with our our exercises and you pay for it down

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the road, yeah, you get soft and you get you get where things aren't working the way they

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should.

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So if you keep sharp doing your exercises, you keep your body in shape and spiritually,

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it's the same way.

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But it's a choosing.

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I'm going to do this every day or I'm going to choose this.

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They're even a diet.

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I'm going to I'm choosing to do this.

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I'm putting my mind set on doing this.

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And no matter what temptations I have, I'm I'm not going to eat that cookie or, you know,

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or something just happens to go by your nose when you're somewhere and that this determination

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not to do that and unconditional surrender to God is determination.

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Yes, it.

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But it's also determination.

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And even even what you're talking about in the physical, you know, we have such a thing

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as willpower and we also have such a thing called willpower.

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Like I won't do that.

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I'm not going to do that.

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Or, you know, you just you cave sometimes you cave in to temptation of, you know, for

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that cookie or whatever it is.

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And the wonderful thing about relationship with God is he gives you the grace to obey.

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Yeah.

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And he gives you the grace really to surrender.

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He gives you the grace to lay down your will over and over and over.

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And you may not just see results right quick away.

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True.

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Like I'll do this and I'll have the answer tomorrow.

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No, it doesn't usually work that way unless God just really graces you for something like

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that.

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But it's it's like they say if you do something for 21 days, it's a habit.

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And so it's just pressing into, you know, pressing into the word.

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And sometimes you can't just always set a pattern because patterns don't always work.

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But you have to make time somehow.

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Right.

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And you know, the apostle Paul, you know, wasn't able to snuggle away in a nice first

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class in an airplane or you're on one of the earlier trains that had real locking compartments

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and had a sleeper in it where you could lock away because it's a two day train ride.

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You know, he didn't use maybe have that option.

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He didn't have any options.

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I don't think he even had an option to hide away in a cave much.

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Yeah, I didn't have an alarm clock to wake him up.

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You know, so so it's it's a matter, you know, not beating yourself over the head.

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If you if you miss your window, you just make up for it in another way.

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Just well, it's all about surrendering.

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Yeah.

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Moment by moment.

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Yeah.

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It's that OK, I give in.

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I can't do this on my own.

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I need your help, Lord.

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It's that grace that God gives you to be able to do something that you don't want to do

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in your natural way.

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Yeah.

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So.

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So our life is a series of surrenders.

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Absolutely.

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So we want to talk a little on Sister Gwen's story.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, we call her Sister Gwen because that's just kind of how

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the Pentecostal way is.

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She wasn't a sister like in Roman Catholicism.

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She was just everybody's sister.

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And later in life, people started calling her mama and overseas to India.

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Many of these nations, it's an honor, respect.

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Right.

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Right.

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And in India, they would call you Auntie.

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Auntie.

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Yes.

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Anyway, our founder had a series of surrenders in her life.

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And we won't take time to tell her whole story because she wrote it in a book called Unconditional

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Surrender.

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And we have a video of her as well that that was made in the 1990s.

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And we've put it out on our YouTube channel, also called Unconditional Surrender.

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It's in three parts of about 45 minutes each.

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Very, very, very inspiring because that was her thing with God.

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She just had unconditional surrender.

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She kept surrendering.

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And unconditional surrender in a life is you keep on surrendering to God.

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No matter what comes up, no matter how your flesh says, no, I don't want to do this, you

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just keep saying yes, because I've said yes to God.

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And if God is saying this to me, I'm going to do what he said to do.

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And Sister Gwen's story is just a piece of it.

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I think we've told some of this before where she was in Bible school.

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She had already made that first surrender to say yes to Jesus, to come into her life.

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She'd been a rebel.

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She ran away from home.

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I mean, she didn't like to be teased because of having learned all these scriptures as

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a child.

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Her mother would stand her up and have her memorize scriptures so that she could say

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them in church.

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And so all of that stuff was being put into her.

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But when she got into her teens, she really rebelled and ran away from home.

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And finally, she gave her life to Jesus.

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And it was transformative.

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She surrendered.

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It was amazing because the place she was hiding was next door to the police station.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah.

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Well, don't find me here.

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Yeah, they didn't.

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Her daddy found her, though, because he was led by the Holy Spirit.

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And she went home and she submitted and then she gave her life to Jesus.

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And then she went to Bible school.

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And during Bible school, there was a tremendous move of God that was sparked by a man who

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had come from Azusa Street.

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He had been at Azusa Street and his life had been transformed as he surrendered to God.

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And she was in a prayer meeting in the middle of the night and someone was under the power

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of the Holy Spirit crying out, China, China, I'm calling you to China.

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Won't you go for me to China?

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Souls are perishing in China, China, China.

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Oh, won't you go to China for me?

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So she's in this meeting hearing this and she doesn't want to acknowledge that.

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That's not me.

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And then a teacher that was there said, Gweny, have you prayed about this call?

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She said no.

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So she got down on her knees and she began to feel like, oh, this is me.

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This is calling me.

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She got back up on her chair because she was afraid she didn't she didn't want to do this.

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She was afraid of the Chinese.

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She was only what?

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Twenty years old.

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Yeah, probably, probably about that age.

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And so the teacher asked her again because the call went on China, China, I'm calling

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you to China.

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Won't you go for me to China?

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Souls are perishing in China.

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And the teacher said, did you pray through, Gweny?

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And she said no.

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She got down on her knees again and she began to feel this thing going in her spirit about

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this is you.

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This is my calling for you.

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And she got so afraid and she got back up in her chair and she said, God, if this is

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if this is me, you're going to have to put me on my knees.

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And the next thing she knew, the power of God came down and just threw her on the floor

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and pender.

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Yeah.

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And she screamed, oh, go, go.

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And then then she had visions of China speaking in Chinese language.

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And all of a sudden she loved the Chinese people.

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And instead of the clock going tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, it went China, China,

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China.

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And God took her there, another series of surrenders and just one surrender after another

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surrender after another surrender.

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And yeah, and it's like, you know, going to a country like that, it was not like America.

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Now, you see China today as a world power.

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Back then, it was a third world nation and very primitive.

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Oh, yes, it was very primitive.

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So if you want to know more about the rest of Sister Gwen's story, you can get her book

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or you can go to our YouTube channel and watch the videos.

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It's just it's really, really encouraging.

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It will encourage you to follow the Lord in the thing that he's called you to do, because

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each one of us has to have our own unconditional surrender.

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So Psalm 37, seven, and the God's word translation says, surrender yourself to the Lord and wait

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patiently for him.

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Do not be preoccupied with an evil doer who succeeds in his way when he carries out his

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schemes.

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Yeah.

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In the King James, it says, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.

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But I like this idea of surrendering because that's really what resting in him is.

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It's a letting go.

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It's a, okay, I'm taking my hands off of this.

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I'm not going to try and make this happen.

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God, if you want it to happen, you make it happen.

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Because if you surrender to him, then you are at rest.

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Exactly.

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And, and you stop fretting about the evil doers.

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When you're surrendered to God, you stop fretting about them because you know that God is going

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to deal with them.

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And part of the reason why he waits so long before he deals with them is he's giving them

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an opportunity to repent and do their own surrender to God.

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And many times they do.

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Many times they don't.

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But we can't be overwhelmed with anger and anxiety over what evil doers are doing.

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Yeah.

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There's a good scripture about anxiety.

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That's in Psalm 46 and verse 10.

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This is in the passion translation.

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Surrender your anxiety, be still and realize that I am God.

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I am God above all the nations and I am exalted throughout the whole earth.

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Surrender your anxiety.

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Yes.

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Because it's fear that causes us to be tormented.

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And we read in first John that perfect love casts out fear.

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Perfect love casts out fear.

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You know, surrendering to his perfect love, it's kind of like it pulls the plug and fear

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goes down the drain.

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When you surrender to the love of God.

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Beautiful.

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He pulls up inside of us and he, and he envelops us in himself.

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And you know, why would you have fear?

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So Jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 16 24, if any of you wants to be my follower,

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you must give up your own way.

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Take up your cross and follow me.

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So when we are dedicating ourselves to the Lord, he said to his disciples, take up your

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cross and follow me.

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Now we don't really get it, what that means or what it would have meant to the disciples

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that he said it to because the cross was a very big reality in their culture.

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They were, they were overtaken by the Romans and that, that was Rome's way of execution.

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So anybody that misbehaved was crucified in front of everybody, they'd hang them up right

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along the road so that everybody would see what, what happens to you.

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If you come against what we want you to do, you are going to die.

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And this is the horrible death you're going to die.

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Terrible suffering, terrible, terrible, just awful.

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So when Jesus said that to his disciples, they must have had a hard time wrapping their

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heads around it because they didn't realize at that time that he was going to be crucified.

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It made more sense later to them like, oh, oh, we have to take up our cross too.

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If anyone wants to be my disciple.

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So there's something deeper about discipleship that we don't necessarily get in our church

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culture about really laying our lives down.

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I remember when I turned 18 and I've told this story before, but it bears retelling.

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I think that just days after my 18th birthday, my sister told me that she wanted to take

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me out to lunch for my birthday.

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And she took me to a ladies luncheon where Gwen Shaw was the speaker.

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And while I'm listening to sister Gwen, I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, I want you,

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I want you 100% and I want you right now.

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It wasn't an ouch to me.

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It was something that made perfect sense in my spirit.

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And I didn't think about it very long.

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I just said, yes, because I knew it was God.

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I knew that this was God speaking to me.

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And so I just said, yes.

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And then, you know, as a little time went by, I kind of thought, well, I've already

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got a scholarship.

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I think I'll just go to college for one year and then I'll serve God.

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And then a few weeks later, I went to the first world convention of the end time handmaidens.

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So those events were that close.

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They were that close.

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And my birthday is in April and Memorial Day weekend was the convention.

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So it was the end of May.

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And so it was very close.

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But you know, in that little time, I had said yes to God and then I waffled and didn't even

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realize I was waffling.

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It didn't dawn on me that when he said, I want you right now, meant right now.

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Somehow I thought I can, I can dawdle around for a year.

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Procrastination.

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I guess that's what it is, procrastination.

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So during that convention, I heard in my, no, I didn't even hear it in my spirit.

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I had a knowing in my knower.

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Nobody prophesied anything.

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It wasn't in words, but I had a knowing in my knower that if I went on to college, if

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I went on to that music school, I was not ever going to serve God.

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And so I surrendered again.

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And through the years, from time to time, I have had that thought come back to me about,

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I want you 100% and I want you right now.

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It's kind of like through the years, 100% has become more than it was at the beginning.

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And I don't know how to explain that.

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We've been in ministry for all these years.

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Can I do what I want to do now?

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Yeah, it, it, it, it isn't, it isn't that.

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It doesn't work that way.

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It does not work that way.

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Unconditional surrender means I don't have anything to say about this except yes.

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And you know, people can take that wrong and think that that's wrong, but it's the way

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that God worked it.

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It's the way that he planned for us to be able to work with him.

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And it only works to work with him when we do it his way.

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When we try to do it our way, it doesn't work.

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Yeah, that's, we found that out.

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Yeah, we found it out.

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We find that out many times too often.

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Yeah, it's true.

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So what, what happened to you?

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Where was your moment of surrender, Philip?

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Well, my moment of surrender, that's when, when everything is taken away that you call

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dear to yourself.

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Car got repossessed and was a start of it.

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Then in sports, I loved the bowl and my bowl, God, God took my bowling average away.

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I mean, he sovereignly just took it away where I couldn't win any money.

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And, and I just dropped.

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You know, when you drop hunt from a 180, I think it was 183 average to 167, that's disastrous.

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That's like for a bowler.

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That's like being on the bottom of the roster.

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You know, you know, you're not going to be on the team next year.

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You know, you know, it's serious.

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And then you have your, I lost, lost my job.

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Then my unemployment got cut off three months earlier than I realized.

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And I had to make a drastic move, but God orchestrated that whole thing for his glory.

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And within two weeks after that happened, I was on the course of where I was, what I

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needed to do.

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And what happened on Christmas Eve?

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That's when I met you.

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Yes, but, but, but the thought process that you went through when you're, when you're,

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when you asked your mom, where are you going at 10 30 at night?

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Where are you going?

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And she said, we're going down to Angle Tall to give gifts to the staff girls.

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And she said, do you want to go along?

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Yeah.

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So just quick nutshell, sister, Gwen, our founder, I knew her when I was about 12 years

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old in the mid sixties in Chicago and my mom was her best friend.

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So she would come over a lot.

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My mom would go there, but you know, my teenage years, I start to backslide.

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And so I started avoiding sister Gwen.

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I mean, I just stay away.

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I mean, I get dragged to our meetings because I lived under the roof of the house, but I

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always try to sit in a safe place.

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In the back row.

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Yeah.

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If you can find a post and sit behind it, that's a nice thing too, you know, and all

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that.

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And so I avoided her for years.

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And so now I'm 26 years old.

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And I thought, as Sharon said, you know, well, it's 10 30 at night.

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It's Christmas Eve.

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There won't be a real holy roller prayer meeting going on.

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I'm a big boy now.

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You know, I need to face the music.

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I'm an adult.

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You know, I think that was a surrender.

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That was a surrender.

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And so I went down the hill and Sharon's the one that opened the door.

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And that's a whole nother story.

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And we can put a link to that story in the show notes.

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And I've never was the same since.

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Yeah.

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And then you stayed for another extra week.

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I stayed an extra week.

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Ended up helping in the print shop.

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And Sharon was working in the print shop of the ministry.

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She had taken it over.

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So I was helping that a little bit in the last second week.

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And I felt this is where I'm supposed to be.

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I had a real piece.

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You know, when you're uncomfortable, if things aren't going right, you feel depressed.

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You know, that's a normal thing, it seems like anxiety, you know, this, this, that and

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all that stuff just left.

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And just like I know, this is where I'm supposed to be.

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Went back home, started a 21 day fast, wrap my whole life up in the city.

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And that actually went an extra seven days.

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And that's in the story.

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It has to 28 days and got catapulted as a green, what do you call a newbie in the ministry?

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Yeah, it's true.

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And it was just surrender after surrender.

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Yeah.

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How many times have you surrendered?

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And it's still surrender.

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We still have like daily surrenders.

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What Paul said, I die daily.

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Or I surrender daily.

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Yeah, I think that's a good way to say it too.

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That's a good way to say it.

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Proverbs three, five and six says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not

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on your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths.

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If you want God to direct your paths, it's that acknowledging of him and surrendering

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to him, letting go of the way you think and saying, okay, Lord, I'll do it your way.

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Yeah.

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And Psalms nine, 10, this is in the new King James version.

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And those who know your name will put their trust in you for you Lord have not forsaken

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those who seek you or that be for you, Yehovah.

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I have not forsaken those who seek you.

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Yes.

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So trusting is a part of surrender.

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That's where the grace is.

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The grace to trust comes into you and gives you the grace to surrender where you just

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say, okay, I'm done.

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I give it to you.

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You lay it down.

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You lay down your life.

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It's part of the humbling yourself in the side of the Lord where you're surrendering.

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You're saying, okay, your way.

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And his way is always better than our ways.

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I mean, always.

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Amazing how that works.

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That's because his ways are so much higher than our ways and he can see from a whole

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different perspective than we can.

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We're down here groveling among the caterpillars and he's up there above the heavens, above

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the cosmos.

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And he knows all about the best way for this to go.

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And he makes arrangements for that.

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So Jesus in Luke 9, 22 to 26, Philip, would you read that from the Passion Translation?

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The Son of Man is destined to experience great suffering and face complete rejection by the

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Jewish leaders and religious hierarchy.

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He will be killed and raised back to life on the third day.

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Jesus said to all his followers, if you truly desire to be my disciple, you must disown

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your life completely, embrace my cross as your own and surrender to my ways.

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For if you choose self-sacrifice, giving up your lives for my glory, you will discover

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true life.

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But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will lose what you try to keep.

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Even if you gained all the wealth and power of this world and all the things it could

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offer you, yet lost your soul in the process, what good is that?

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So why then are you ashamed of being my disciple?

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Are you ashamed of the revelation and truth I give to you?

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I, the Son of Man, will one day return in my radiant brightness with the Holy Angels

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and in the splendor and majesty of my Father.

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On that day I will be ashamed of everyone who has been ashamed of me.

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Yeah.

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So that's what happens if we don't surrender.

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If for some reason because of our pride or because of our fear, we choose not to obey.

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It has to do with shaming him, really.

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We're shaming him when we do that.

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So the Lord is trying to help us to understand what it means to take up our cross, what it

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means to lay down our lives.

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A really good example is Peter.

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You know, yes.

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In John 13, where Jesus and his disciples are in the upper room for the Passover.

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And the way that it works is if there's not a servant, then the person who has the least

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seat at the table is supposed to wash the people's feet.

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Don't you think Peter felt kind of rejected being put there?

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Yes.

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It's obvious.

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If you understand the way that that was done in those days, it was done at what's called

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a triclinium.

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In other words, it's three tables or it's tables in a U shape that they recline at.

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So it's a triclinium.

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They're reclining in this three table situation.

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And the only way for the conversation that went on would be Jesus would be on the side

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where he would kind of be facing the wall and his back to others.

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And John would be next to him.

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And when they would feed one, they would feed one another as a part of this.

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And they would dip into the bowl and lean back on the chest of the person next to them

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and give them something to eat, which is what Jesus did for Judas.

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So we know that it was John and then Jesus and then Judas.

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And when Jesus said, one of you is going to betray me, the only way for John and Peter

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to have had that little connection where Peter's saying, ask him who it is.

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He maybe made a signal to it.

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Yeah.

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Maybe just mouthed it.

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Or just mouthed it.

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And the only way for them to see each other would be if Peter was in that least place

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on the other end of the triclinium, on the third side.

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So Peter was supposed to wash the feet of the disciples.

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And when Jesus got up and girded himself with a towel and went around and washed everybody's

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feet, Peter was the last one he got to.

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And Peter says, Lord, you're not going to wash my feet because he knew he was supposed

481
00:28:04,060 --> 00:28:06,880
to have washed everybody's feet and he didn't.

482
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:12,760
So Jesus said to him, you do not understand now what I'm doing, but you will understand

483
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,280
later on.

484
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,840
And Peter said, you'll never wash my feet.

485
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,360
He said, unless I wash you, you have no part in me.

486
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,240
You have no share in my companionship with me.

487
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,220
This is from the Amplified Classic.

488
00:28:26,220 --> 00:28:32,520
So then later on in that chapter, in chapter 13, Peter says to Jesus, Lord, where are you

489
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,040
going?

490
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,560
Jesus answered, you are not able to follow me now where I'm going, but you shall follow

491
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,460
me afterwards.

492
00:28:40,460 --> 00:28:44,720
Peter said to him, Lord, why cannot I follow you now?

493
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I will lay down my life for you.

494
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,120
Jesus answered, will you really lay down your life for me?

495
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,040
I assure you most solemnly, I tell you before a rooster crows, you will deny me, completely

496
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,760
disown me three times.

497
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,400
So this is losing face in front of over and over for me.

498
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,260
I mean, he's already in the servant seat.

499
00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:08,120
And after all, he's one of the chosen, right?

500
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,040
Peter, James, Peter, James and John.

501
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,640
He was first on the list.

502
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,680
He saw the transfiguration of Jesus.

503
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:17,680
He's one of the top boys.

504
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:18,680
Yes, he is.

505
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,920
And all of a sudden he's in the servant seat.

506
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,400
Yes, he's in the servant seat.

507
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:23,400
He doesn't do his job.

508
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,400
And he's not comfortable.

509
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,480
Well, why should I do this job when I'm one of the?

510
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,160
Yeah, I'm going to be the big guy after this.

511
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,400
It's like cleaning the toilets just after you've been put in as assistant pastor.

512
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,400
Exactly.

513
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,400
Exactly.

514
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,560
So, you know, Peter had this want to, to give his life for Jesus.

515
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He was bold in his words.

516
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,960
He was bold in his spirit.

517
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But his flesh had a problem.

518
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,360
His flesh said, no.

519
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,880
And then he had this blunder where he, he lopped off the ear of the high priest servant

520
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,400
and Jesus healed him and said, no, put it away.

521
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,160
This isn't the time for that.

522
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,960
So you know, it's just like slam after slam after slam.

523
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,080
And so his, his whole soul has been wounded in this time.

524
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,800
And then he gets to where he's being challenged.

525
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:12,800
Oh, you're one of them.

526
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,320
He says, no, I'm not.

527
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,680
I don't know that man.

528
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:23,880
Three times he denies him and Jesus looks at him as if to say, I told you so.

529
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,680
You know, so he went through all of these things.

530
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,060
This is, this is where you don't have the grace to surrender.

531
00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:38,120
But then when Jesus came back, when he was resurrected from the dead, he meets the disciples

532
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:47,920
in Galilee and in chapter 21 of John, Jesus meets them with fresh fish cooking for breakfast.

533
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,720
And he says to Peter, do you love me?

534
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,680
And in that word, he used, he uses the word agape.

535
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,660
Do you agape me?

536
00:30:56,660 --> 00:31:00,960
And Peter says, you know that I feelio you, you know that I'm buddy buddy with you.

537
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,720
You're my friend.

538
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,720
And Jesus says, feed my lambs.

539
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,120
You can handle that much.

540
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,440
Feed my lambs.

541
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,440
And then he says it again.

542
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,000
Do you agape me?

543
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,160
And he says, Lord, you know, I'm your friend.

544
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,240
And then he says, feed my sheep.

545
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,520
And then he says, now, Peter, do you really feelio me?

546
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,000
Are you really my buddy?

547
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,880
Peter's grieved now because now Jesus has brought the bar down.

548
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,720
You know, the bar, the high bar is the agape love.

549
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,240
And it was the third time too.

550
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,120
Yeah, and it was the third time.

551
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,920
And so he's saying, so are you really my buddy?

552
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,280
Are you really my friend?

553
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,240
Now Peter's grieved and he says, you know that I love you.

554
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,400
You know that I feelio you.

555
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,960
And he says in verse 18, this is from the Amplified Classic.

556
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:58,720
I assure you most solemnly, I tell you when you were young, you girded yourself, put on

557
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:04,000
your own belt or girdle and you walked wherever you pleased to go.

558
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,160
But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will put a girdle

559
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,640
around you and carry you where you do not wish to go.

560
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,760
He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God.

561
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,240
And after this, he said to him, follow me.

562
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,520
Well that's what he said to him in the first place.

563
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,580
And it's like, okay, Peter, you had a really bad day.

564
00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:28,220
It's time to get over it.

565
00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:29,560
Come and follow me.

566
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,560
Just follow me.

567
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:35,840
That's what happens whenever we blunder, whenever we have a problem.

568
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,820
And we did a whole podcast about the blunder.

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00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,640
We can maybe put a link to that in the show notes.

570
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,840
The thing that made the difference for Peter was when he was filled with the Holy Spirit

571
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,080
on the day of Pentecost.

572
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,760
And then the preacher came out.

573
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:49,760
Yeah, yeah.

574
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,240
Talk about a transformation.

575
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,480
It was a transformation.

576
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:59,720
The soulish Peter had surrendered and gone back to follow him again.

577
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,880
The idea is that every time you blunder, you get up quickly and you go back and you follow.

578
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:10,480
When you're trying to maintain a sense of the presence of the Lord and you realize,

579
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,080
oops, I'm not thinking about him.

580
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,200
I better come back.

581
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,200
You just come back.

582
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,040
You just come back fast.

583
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,260
Come back quickly.

584
00:33:17,260 --> 00:33:21,200
And it's not like the Lord holds that against you when you've missed it.

585
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,880
When you repent, he forgives you and you just go back to following.

586
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,680
So Peter, in the book of Acts, he was filled with the Holy Spirit and he became bold.

587
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,000
There was a boldness that came on him.

588
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,880
And that gives you the grace.

589
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,920
The grace and the boldness comes from the Holy Spirit.

590
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,580
The Holy Spirit in you will give you that grace and boldness.

591
00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:45,600
And Peter was arrested three times.

592
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:46,600
Yeah.

593
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,600
Three times.

594
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,600
And he got to rescue by an angel.

595
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,240
Yeah, the third time.

596
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,240
I think all the times he got rescued.

597
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,560
I mean, God just sovereignly rescued him every single time.

598
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,560
So yeah, so if God has spoken a plan over your life, you know, that as long as you're

599
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,080
walking and surrendering to him, he'll make sure you get there.

600
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,080
Absolutely.

601
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,160
And Peter had to lay his life down by way of crucifixion.

602
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:20,720
There's a legend or a story that was told in the early church that Peter went to Rome

603
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:26,880
and when he got there, I don't know how long he was there if it's even true, because it's

604
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,620
not recorded in the Bible, but it's according to tradition.

605
00:34:30,620 --> 00:34:35,120
He was there and persecution was on its way to him.

606
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:41,280
They were after him and he was fleeing from Rome on the Appian Way.

607
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:48,040
And the story goes that as he's walking away from Rome, he sees Jesus, he meets Jesus on

608
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,040
the road.

609
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,240
He says, Jesus, where are you going?

610
00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:55,120
Col vadis is what they say in Latin.

611
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,440
Where are you going?

612
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,520
And Jesus says, I'm on my way to Rome to be crucified again.

613
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,280
And Peter realized that, okay, this is my time.

614
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,280
I'm going back.

615
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,800
I'm going to surrender my life.

616
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,340
I'm not going to deny him again.

617
00:35:12,340 --> 00:35:15,360
I'm going to go and be crucified with him.

618
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,400
And so he went back and he was apprehended.

619
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,640
And when it came time for his execution, he said, I am not worthy to be crucified the

620
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:30,520
same way that my Lord was, crucify me upside down.

621
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,280
And that's how he laid down his life.

622
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:39,120
That point is that it's the surrender that comes when you yield to the power of the Holy

623
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,360
Spirit in your life.

624
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:48,120
And you just give your life because if Jesus is worth living for, he's worth dying for.

625
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:54,440
And it just means giving him all of your life, letting him deal with how your life is going

626
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,520
to end here on this planet and continue in heaven.

627
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,520
Hebrews chapter two, verses 14 and 15.

628
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,760
Philip, would you read that in the passion translation?

629
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:13,200
Since all his children have flesh and blood, so Jesus became human to fully identify with

630
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,520
us.

631
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:19,640
He did this so that he could experience death and annihilate the effects of the intimidating

632
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,380
accuser who holds against us the power of death.

633
00:36:24,380 --> 00:36:30,200
By embracing death, Jesus sets free those who live their entire lives in bondage to

634
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,760
the tormenting dread of death.

635
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,040
Yeah.

636
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,120
The same scripture in the Amplified Classic says, since therefore these his children share

637
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:44,680
in flesh and blood, in the physical nature of human beings, he himself in a similar manner

638
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:50,040
partook of the same nature that by going through death, he might bring to naught and make of

639
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,980
no effect him who had the power of death, that is the devil.

640
00:36:54,980 --> 00:37:00,800
And also that he might deliver and completely set free all those who through the haunting

641
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,800
fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.

642
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:11,640
The point here is that the fear of death keeps you in bondage.

643
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,760
So fear has to be surrendered.

644
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,380
You have to surrender your fear.

645
00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:18,340
You have to surrender your anxiety.

646
00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:24,320
You have to give it to him as you even get grace from him to give it to him.

647
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,560
He gives you the grace to go through whatever it is you have to go through.

648
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:34,440
Whether it's a simple choice in life where you end up doing something you don't want

649
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,440
to do.

650
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,560
He gives you the grace for that.

651
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:42,200
Or whether it comes to that ultimate sacrifice of your life where, okay, this is how I'm

652
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,680
going to go to heaven.

653
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,200
I love what Dean Braxton says about death for the Christian.

654
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,040
It is you leave your body and your body dies.

655
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:57,360
And we've heard story after story of people who have had visions of those who have laid

656
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:02,800
down their lives for the Lord or just laid down their lives in an accident even.

657
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:11,000
And the one who has the vision sees the person leave their body before the accident happens.

658
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,960
We heard of somebody having that kind of a vision when they were praying about a friend

659
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,280
who lost their life on 9-11.

660
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:24,560
And she saw that lady who always came early to work to pray and she was standing in front

661
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,920
of the window praying as the airplane was coming.

662
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:35,600
And she saw that an angel came and took her out of her body before the airplane got there.

663
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:41,360
And this is part of the grace that comes with laying down your life.

664
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,360
I love what Jim Elliott said.

665
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:49,400
Jim Elliott was one of the five missionaries in Ecuador in the 1950s that were martyred

666
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:54,440
because they were trying to reach the Stone Age tribe that had never been reached with

667
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,400
the gospel and they were pretty fierce tribe.

668
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:03,480
And on that particular day something had happened to cause them to be really, really angry.

669
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,400
And these missionaries had landed there.

670
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,400
They had reached out many times sending gifts and it seemed like they were ready for a connection

671
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,280
with these people.

672
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:19,200
But an incident had happened to make this man really, really angry.

673
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:24,360
And he got there and speared Nate Saint.

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00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,080
He was the first one to go down.

675
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:33,480
And then later when some of the wives and children of these men had gone to that tribe

676
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,320
and brought them the gospel and many were getting saved and turning their lives over

677
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:42,400
to Jesus, this man who had killed Nate Saint, and I don't know if he killed all of them,

678
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:47,360
but he killed the first one and that just lit the other guys up to kill everybody.

679
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:56,280
So he came under conviction of the Holy Spirit and he stepped up to become like a dad to

680
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,040
Nate Saint's son, Stephen.

681
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,400
And he wrote a book about it called The End of the Spear and they made a movie from the

682
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:04,400
book.

683
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:09,160
So you can see the movie or you can read the book, tremendous, tremendous story.

684
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:18,120
But it was a life surrender that these five gave that they paid the ultimate price from

685
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,120
our point of view.

686
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:25,320
But what it did was it brought the entire tribe to Jesus.

687
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:32,700
So laying down your life, as long as you have given your fear of death to the Lord, He's

688
00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:39,200
going to give you the grace to be able to lay down your life and to give you what it

689
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,320
takes to have that full surrender.

690
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:47,140
So it's that daily surrender, daily surrender, daily surrender.

691
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:56,200
So Father, we ask you to give the listeners that grace to say yes to you, to say, yes,

692
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:57,980
I will give myself 100%.

693
00:40:57,980 --> 00:41:00,680
I will give myself unconditionally.

694
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:06,360
I will not keep my conditions like I will do this if you do that, but to lay down our

695
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:12,320
lives unconditionally so that you can do everything that you want to do through us.

696
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:19,600
It's that kind of unconditional surrender, Lord, that will cause us to be fillable, that

697
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:24,500
you can fill us with your purposes, that you can fill us with your light and your life

698
00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:30,720
and your love to give freely even to those who would persecute us.

699
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:39,400
Lord, we ask you for that overwhelming, overflowing grace to go into each listener, Lord, and

700
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,560
bring each and every one into a deeper relationship with you.

701
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:50,280
That is that agape love that is more than just being a buddy, but that kind of love

702
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,920
that totally surrenders to you in the name of Jesus Christ.

703
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:56,920
Amen.

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00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:57,920
Amen.

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