Title: Surrendering to Christ is Not Drudgery Tags: Surrendering to Christ is not drudgery. We are surrendering to His kindness and goodness. We should not fight against the Lord's will because He never puts us through anything that is not for our good. He always does what He does with a purpose. There is so much joy in truly surrendering to Christ. Meta: surrender,Luke 14:33,Tim Conway,joy 1 00:00:01,270 --> 00:00:04,850 Surrendered. 2 00:00:04,850 --> 00:00:07,880 To be used by the Lord as He wills. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:15,280 For some of us, it may mean 'Lord I surrender. 4 00:00:15,290 --> 00:00:18,620 I will go to Lebanon.' 5 00:00:18,620 --> 00:00:23,050 And for somebody else, it will mean 'Lord I surrender. 6 00:00:23,050 --> 00:00:29,520 I will not continue to hold on to this desire to go to Lebanon.' 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:39,110 'Lord, I put my child on the altar. 8 00:00:39,110 --> 00:00:41,200 I surrender. 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,170 Lord, if it's Your will 10 00:00:43,170 --> 00:00:46,700 that He still be lost a year from now, I surrender.' 11 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:49,250 Brethren, in all the surrender, 12 00:00:49,250 --> 00:00:51,180 we're surrendering to His will. 13 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:53,330 Still in His will, He tells us to pray, 14 00:00:53,330 --> 00:00:54,829 He tells us to pray in His name. 15 00:00:54,829 --> 00:00:58,200 He tells us to pray that our joy may be full. 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,600 The thing is, surrendering to Him is not all drudgery. 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,460 Surrendering to Him is surrendering to His love. 18 00:01:04,460 --> 00:01:05,880 It's surrendering to His kindness. 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,929 It's surrendering to His goodness. 20 00:01:07,929 --> 00:01:11,409 It's surrendering to the reality that child that I just laid on the altar 21 00:01:11,409 --> 00:01:17,880 may very well be saved next year. 22 00:01:19,260 --> 00:01:21,359 Brethren, there is fear. 23 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:22,869 I know it. 24 00:01:22,869 --> 00:01:26,700 There is fear to speak this way to the Lord. 25 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:27,959 There tends to be a hesitancy 26 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,569 and there tends to be a reservation in us to willingly 27 00:01:32,569 --> 00:01:37,200 and honestly pass every single aspect of our life 28 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,590 beneath the gaze of this all allegiance demanding Christ. 29 00:01:41,590 --> 00:01:42,220 We know it. 30 00:01:42,220 --> 00:01:43,140 There's a hesitation, 31 00:01:43,140 --> 00:01:43,940 there's a fear. 32 00:01:43,940 --> 00:01:44,560 Why? 33 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,100 Because we don't know what tomorrow brings. 34 00:01:47,109 --> 00:01:49,880 We don't know what He may put us through. 35 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,590 That's why we hesitate, 36 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:54,259 because when we put it all on the altar - you know what? 37 00:01:54,259 --> 00:01:57,049 When you put Isaac on the altar, 38 00:01:57,049 --> 00:01:59,759 He may demand Isaac. 39 00:01:59,759 --> 00:02:01,219 And you put it all out there 40 00:02:01,219 --> 00:02:04,999 and we're afraid, we're often afraid. 41 00:02:04,999 --> 00:02:09,420 We have these fears that what if He takes away 42 00:02:09,420 --> 00:02:14,180 that thing that I just feel like I need. 43 00:02:14,180 --> 00:02:17,400 And I know that there are fears because I know you. 44 00:02:17,410 --> 00:02:19,970 I know me. 45 00:02:19,970 --> 00:02:22,350 The fear is what will happen if I do surrender, 46 00:02:22,350 --> 00:02:25,430 especially that one particular area of my life. 47 00:02:25,430 --> 00:02:27,690 We fear, we hesitate. 48 00:02:27,690 --> 00:02:32,780 We get nervous. 49 00:02:32,780 --> 00:02:36,790 What will He require? 50 00:02:36,790 --> 00:02:43,050 He always requires things of us that we don't want to give up. 51 00:02:43,050 --> 00:02:47,680 And He gives us things that are far better 52 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:53,220 than the things that we do give up. 53 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,440 Brethren, He has not promised to call us to an easy road. 54 00:02:57,450 --> 00:03:02,130 And He's not promised to call us to a road without suffering. 55 00:03:02,130 --> 00:03:06,500 We need to be ready and resigned. 56 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:08,460 The suffering is coming, brethren. 57 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:11,760 The pain and the sorrows and the tears in this life. 58 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,250 They're all ahead of us. 59 00:03:13,250 --> 00:03:14,720 But there's glory beyond that, 60 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,500 and there's lots of glory in this life as well 61 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:20,110 and being surrendered to Him. 62 00:03:20,110 --> 00:03:22,200 He could bring revival tomorrow. 63 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,640 He can bring cancer tomorrow. 64 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,290 I mean that's been the reality of church history. 65 00:03:26,290 --> 00:03:28,840 That's been the reality of our brethren that have gone before us. 66 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,670 But being surrendered, 67 00:03:30,670 --> 00:03:32,490 we don't want to fight because, brethren, 68 00:03:32,490 --> 00:03:35,190 He never puts us through anything that isn't for our good. 69 00:03:35,190 --> 00:03:37,240 He always does what He does with purpose. 70 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,230 And it is always done with love. 71 00:03:40,230 --> 00:03:44,520 Brethren, I would just say this to us. 72 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:52,280 As we hesitate, you think about this Christ who demands all of our allegiance. 73 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,700 Has He not led you in the best possible way? 74 00:03:56,700 --> 00:03:58,890 Has He not been kind to you? 75 00:03:58,890 --> 00:04:01,280 We heard about His Providences. 76 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,160 Have they always been easy? 77 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 No. 78 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,450 But brethren, do we not have a promise in Scripture 79 00:04:07,450 --> 00:04:09,720 that they're all being worked out for our good? 80 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,580 Do we not have the promise that as the Father loved Christ, 81 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:14,280 He says so I love you? 82 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,079 Did He not tell us that He came to give us life more abundantly. 83 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:19,969 You see these things we hold on to. 84 00:04:19,969 --> 00:04:24,630 We get this idea that 'I have to protect this because, 85 00:04:24,630 --> 00:04:26,199 Lord the truth is, 86 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:31,539 I just really believe that I know how better to handle this thing than You do 87 00:04:31,539 --> 00:04:34,909 because I really think that if something happens to this over here 88 00:04:34,909 --> 00:04:36,750 that I'm not going to be able to be happy 89 00:04:36,750 --> 00:04:38,870 and satisfied and content any longer 90 00:04:38,870 --> 00:04:42,360 and I'm just really nervous about surrendering this thing to You 91 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,409 because You may come in and do something that I don't want you to do.' 92 00:04:45,409 --> 00:04:46,669 But brethren, 93 00:04:46,669 --> 00:04:48,420 we are just infants. 94 00:04:48,420 --> 00:04:49,820 We're children. 95 00:04:49,830 --> 00:04:53,030 We don't know what is best for us, 96 00:04:53,030 --> 00:04:55,960 and He knows and I guarantee you when He comes 97 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,270 and He comes and He cuts, it is good. 98 00:04:59,270 --> 00:05:01,199 It is good for us, 99 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:02,220 we can trust Him. 100 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:04,629 Brethren, is He not always done everything 101 00:05:04,629 --> 00:05:06,849 that leads us to believe that we can trust Him. 102 00:05:06,849 --> 00:05:08,199 You see, it's a trust issue. 103 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:11,900 That fear, when it crops up, it's a trust issue. 104 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:15,219 And He tells us, I love you. 105 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:16,300 He tells us, 106 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,100 I came that you might have life more abundantly. 107 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,360 Brethren, we try to hold on to things. 108 00:05:24,379 --> 00:05:26,599 And you as a Christian, you know this. 109 00:05:26,599 --> 00:05:28,090 How often have we been in that place. 110 00:05:28,090 --> 00:05:29,729 Oh, we're trying to hold on to this thing. 111 00:05:29,729 --> 00:05:31,840 We're trying to protect this thing. 112 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:33,509 And the longer we try to hold onto it 113 00:05:33,509 --> 00:05:37,279 and protect it and keep it from Him and shelter it and hold it back, 114 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,009 the more miserable we become. 115 00:05:40,009 --> 00:05:42,830 And when you let it go, joy. 116 00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:49,729 I mean, the cases are many fold. 117 00:05:49,729 --> 00:05:52,460 Don Johnson and his Arrowheads. 118 00:05:52,460 --> 00:05:54,600 Many of you have heard that story. 119 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,889 Corrie ten Boom and the Nazis. 120 00:05:56,889 --> 00:05:59,180 You can read the chapter there. 121 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:05,249 Hudson Taylor, those of you who got that - just concerning the mission. 122 00:06:05,249 --> 00:06:06,569 Men and women throughout history, 123 00:06:06,569 --> 00:06:10,000 they come to these points of resignation and what happens? 124 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,780 Is it misery? 125 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:14,340 No, it's joy. 126 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:17,220 There is so much joy in surrender.