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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Power Of Surrender | April 14, 2025
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- Hey, family, i want to wish you a happy resurrection
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- Sunday depending on what time zone you are in.
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- And i am so excited that we get an opportunity
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- To celebrate what jesus has done for us and
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- And what he desires to do in us
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- Because of the sacrifice that only he can make.
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- And so today,
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- Let's tune in to this message that god has given me.
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- And my prayer is that we would grow in the things of god.
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- We would be transformed by the word of god
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- And that our minds would be renewed.
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- So let's go into this resurrection
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- Sunday message entitled the power of surrender.
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- Isn't it?
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- Isn't it crazy, though, how
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- Judas portrays jesus
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- And peter portrays jesus?
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- Peter tells jesus, i'll never betray you.
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- And jesus says, peter, yes you will.
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- He says, jesus, i swear i'll never betray you.
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- And jesus says, yes, you will.
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- And then he promised again,
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- I promise you, i'll never betray you.
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- And jesus says, yes, you will it sure,
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- As the crow crows three times you will betray me.
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- And sure enough, peter betrays jesus.
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- And people often ask me, what's the difference
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- Between the betrayal of peter and the betrayal of judas?
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- Because
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- Jesus
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- Forgave peter?
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- And the reality is this jesus forgave judas as well.
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- But judas did not forgive judas.
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- And jesus.
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- But he forgave both of them.
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- But peter acknowledged his faults and turned back to jesus.
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- Judas turned away.
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- And it's crazy, as we look at judas
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- Understanding that judas betrayed
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- Jesus for 30 pieces of silver,
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- Judas only betrayed jesus once.
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- We betrayed jesus every single day for free.
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- Jesus
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- Looks at peter after he cuts the soldiers ear off.
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- He picks up the ear,
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- Puts it back on the head of the soldier,
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- And then he continues on like nothing happens.
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- Jesus answered them and said to them,
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- Are you coming out against me as a thief with swords
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- And with stakes to take me?
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- Wasn't i daily with you
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- In the temple teaching and you took me not.
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- But the scriptures
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- Must be fulfilled.
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- And they all forsook him and fled.
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- Hear this?
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- They all turned their back
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- On jesus.
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- People often ask me,
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- Why did jesus call judas a friend
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- In this city?
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- If you can recall,
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- When peter told jesus what he was about to do
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- Was not necessary.
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- Jesus looked at peter and said, get behind me, satan.
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- So jesus calls peter satan,
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- But he called judas friend.
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- This is why he calls judas friend.
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- Because a friend is anyone that helps
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- You achieve your god given destiny.
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- And right here in scripture,
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- Jesus says the scriptures
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- Must be fulfilled.
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- And they all turned their back on him
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- And they fled.
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- But verse 51 is where i want us to pay attention to today
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- A very odd, peculiar
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- Passage of scripture.
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- And there followed him
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- A certain young man
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- Having a linen cloth cast about his naked body.
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- And the young man laid hold on him,
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- And he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.
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- And they let jesus away to the high priests.
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- And with him were assembled all the chief priests
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- And the elders of the scribe.
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- After jesus
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- Puts the ear back on the roman soldier,
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- After everyone turns it back and abandons jesus,
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- There's a naked boy that appears
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- Seemingly out of nowhere.
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- I many, have you ever read that before?
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- Just a naked boy just walking through the garden.
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- And so
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- Nothing to see here.
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- Strange, isn't it?
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- The fine print on the receipt about an exchange
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- That we never pay attention to.
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- The details, though,
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- Is in the statement
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- Found in verse 51.
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- And there followed him a certain young man
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- Having a linen cloth.
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- I want you to underline that, because that little detail
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- Gives us so much to this storyline that we need
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- To pay attention to having a linen cloth draped
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- Upon his naked body when it says that he was a young man.
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- Theologians and historians believe
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- That this young man was around 12 or 13 years old,
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- And it gives us enough detail to be able to piece this story
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- Together. when we look at the original
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- Context of what these words mean.
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- Linen cloth.
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- The only use for a linen cloth in this context was
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- Burial clothes.
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- Only the elite could afford a linen cloth.
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- As a matter of fact,
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- The only time we see this greek word
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- Linen cloth in the new testament is when we find it again
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- From the tomb where jesus is
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- Laid to rest, wrapped in a linen cloth.
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- And when we read this about this naked young boy,
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- This naked young boy belong to a wealthy jewish family
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- That gotten this linen from egypt.
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- And he died prematurely.
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- And they laid him in the grave wrapped in a linen cloth.
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- And when the roman soldiers came to get jesus, and jesus
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- Says, i am power left his body.
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- And i accidentally raised this boy from the dead.
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- There's so much power in surrender.
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- When you surrender to god, god does more with your life
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- Than you could ever think of.
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- Dream of, or imagine.
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- And i just need you to
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- Understand that although you may be wrapped in linen today.
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- Jesus is still saying,
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- I am he.
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- Your marriage may be wrapped in linen today,
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- And jesus is still saying, i am he.
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- Your mind may be wrapped
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- In linen cloth today and jesus is still saying, i am he.
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- There are some of you that have wrapped
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- Your children in linen cloths thinking they're hopeless.
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- There's no hope for them.
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- And jesus is still declaring, i am he.
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- But can you surrender those things back
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- To him?
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- When jesus said, i am he.
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- Scripture teaches us that over 600 soldiers flew back.
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- But then it also says that this young boy
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- Was resurrected from the dead sea.
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- What we have to understand
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- And know is the garden of gethsemane
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- Was not just a place where jesus went to pray.
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- The garden of gethsemane was a graveyard
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- Full of dead people,
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- And this boy, being
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- Freshly put into a grave, now being resurrected, followed
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- After the man that brought him back to life again.
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- And it says that the soldiers saw this,
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- And they tried to capture the young boy, and the young boy
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- Fled, leaving to the soldiers his linen cloth.
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- The reason the soldiers
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- Tried to capture this young boy is because they understood.
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- If another story gets out about jesus raising
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- Someone else from the dead, all heaven will break loose.
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- We can't have that happening.
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- So they try to grab him and
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- This boy escapes
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- Jesus, surrendering his life.
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- Gave this young boy an opportunity
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- To regain his life.
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- There was freedom
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- In your surrender.
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- Today, i want to encourage you with three thoughts.
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- And those three thoughts. number one is this.
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- You have to surrender to
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- Obedience over your desire.
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- Jesus had to do this.
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- This is very clear in the text.
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- When jesus is in the garden of gethsemane
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- The night before and he asked god, god,
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- Would you allow this cup to pass from me?
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- Nevertheless, not my will,
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- But let your will be done.
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- What jesus was saying was, god, my surrender
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- Is about my obedience over
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- My desire.
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- One of the things that
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- I've come to learn about this life is where my will ends.
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- God's power begins
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- Transforming surrender into the birthplace
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- Of every miracle that i have need of.
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- In the garden of our hearts, true surrender blossoms
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- Not from the soul of our will, but under the tender care
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- Of divine grace.
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- The paradox of biblical surrender
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- Is that in giving up control,
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- We gain the freedom that the world cannot offer,
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- And a peace that the world cannot take away.
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- So whether you in this room or whether you're watching online,
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- Or maybe you're in the overflow right now,
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- There's something supernatural that happens when you surrender
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- Your will and desires to fully obey
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- And cooperate with the plan that god has for you.
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- It releases power in your life
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- That you never will experience outside
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- Of surrender.
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- The second
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- Thing that i want you to write down about surrender.
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- We have to surrender to trust in the midst of trials.
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- You have to surrender
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- And trust god's plan in the middle
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- Your trials.
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- You have to understand and believe
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- That jesus, standing on trial,
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- Knew that the plan of god was good.
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- Although everything seemed bad.
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- We have to believe that
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- The plan of god for the life of jesus
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- Superseded what other people could possibly know,
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- And that particular day in age, and although it seemed like
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- Jesus was losing in that moment, he actually was winning.
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- Which leads me to believe when i'm winning in my life
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- And certain seasons, it doesn't always feel like i'm winning.
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- And sometimes the only way that i win is through subtraction.
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- Sometimes the only way that i win is through me
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- Putting myself at the feet of jesus,
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- Surrendering some things that i've been carrying,
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- Some things that i've been weighing down my life with,
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- That only jesus can carry and steward
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- Jesus understanding that although i'm going through
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- The worst trial of my life, i fully trust the plan of god.
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- And when we look at that word, trust, that word trust means
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- To jump off of a ledge
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- And fully embrace that plan that god has for you.
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- So, family, hear me if it feels like god is shaking
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- Your nest, he's preparing you to fly.
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- If it feels like your life is squeezing the life out of you
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- And the people
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- That were comfortable around you and the things that made
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- You comfortable are now squeezing you.
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- It's a sign and an indicator that god is preparing you
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- To fly.
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- You are no longer equipped
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- Or fit
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- To stay in the season of comfort that you
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- Have been in for so long.
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- You are now stepping into a season of godly conviction,
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- Where now it's no longer about your will or your what.
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- It's about your life of surrender
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- And obedient to the plan that he has for you.
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- And it has to be about your trust in god over the trials
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- Of this life.
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- And i want you to know that surrendering to god
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- Is not the end of desire, but it's the beginning of true
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- Fulfillment.
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- And there is no greater fulfillment
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- That can be found outside of jesus christ,
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- The hands of god.
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- Our surrender becomes the brushstroke of his masterpiece,
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- Painting victory after victory
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- On the canvas of our lives.
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- And even when you find yourself
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- In the midst of the worst trials and tribulations,
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- Testings and circumstances
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- You have ever seen.
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- If you can thank god in the middle of it,
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- He'll get you through it.
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- The scripture says, though i walk through the valley
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- Of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil.
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- You have nothing to fear when you know who's
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- Guiding you through that valley you're going through.
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- You have nothing to be afraid of.
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- When you know who's walking hand in hand with you.
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- You have nothing to be fearful of when you know who is leading
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- You and guiding you to all perfect truth.
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- And according to jeremiah, the word of god says, for
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- I know the plans i have for you, saith the lord.
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- And those plans are good and not evil.
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- Those plans are to see you all the way through until you
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- Get to the end.
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- The plan that god has
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- For you is better than the plans you have for yourself,
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- But you will never experience them
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- If you don't fully surrender.
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- The third thing that i want you to take
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- Note of.
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- Is you have to surrender to peace
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- Amidst pressure and persecution.
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- There
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- Will be pressure that enters into your life
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- That you did not plan,
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- That you did not anticipate.
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- That was not on your calendar.
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- You didn't get a notification about it this morning.
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- You didn't get an email about it.
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- It just arrives in your life.
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- And so one of the things
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- That i had to start doing.
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- Was planning my victories
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- Because the pressures of life were planned themselves.
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- And so i just want to encourage you every single day,
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- Put a friendly reminder in your notifications on your calendar.
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- Have a little dance party for a minute.
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- Schedule your victories.
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- Because your defeats were scheduled themselves.
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- Don't you dare let life
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- Dictate and predict when you celebrate.
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- You put a daily reminder in your phone.
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- This is the day that the lord has made.
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- I choose to rejoice.
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- Being made glad in it.
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- And i truly believe
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- We would stop having so many angry people.
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- If people just dance a little more.
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- So you have to surrender to peace
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- Amidst the pressure and the persecution.
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- Stop allowing people to pull you into their storms.
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- Pull them into your peace.
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- Are you?
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- Listen to me.
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- The roman soldiers,
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- They came for jesus and they didn't for jesus.
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- Jesus pulled them.
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- It says, he declared, i am he.
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- And they flew back.
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- And then after
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- They came to themselves, jesus says, i surrender to you.
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- You can take me now.
- 00:17:28.186 --> 00:17:29.854
- He gave his life so that the greater good
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- For humanity could be complete, so that prophecies
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- Could be fulfilled. no one could take his life.
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- No one could break his body, but he broke his body for you.
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- No one could kill him.
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- He gave up his life for you on the cross.
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- Jesus hung, bled and died.
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- And he commended his life to the hands of the father.
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- And before his soul left his body, he says, father,
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- Into my hands, into your hands i commend myself.
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- It is finished. what was he declaring?
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- He was declaring every trial, every tribulation, every pain,
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- Every sickness.
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- It does not have a hold on you because it is finished.
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- I've taken all those things to the cross, so that you don't
- 00:18:10.161 --> 00:18:14.132
- Have to take them to your own cross.
- 00:18:14.132 --> 00:18:17.635
- The greatest exchange ever known to mankind
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- Did not
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- Just stop at an exchange, but when you really think about it,
- 00:18:21.706 --> 00:18:24.142
- What's another term for an exchange
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- Return policy?
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- Not only that, jesus give us
- 00:18:32.350 --> 00:18:33.718
- The greatest exchange policy known to mankind.
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- He makes us a promise of his return that supersedes
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- Anything we've ever seen before.
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- And the promise that he makes us
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- Is that i'm coming back for you.
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- I'm not leaving you.
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- I'm not abandon you.
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- I am coming back for you.
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- He is coming back for you.
- 00:18:52.837 --> 00:18:54.772
- And the word of god says that he'll never leave you,
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- Nor will you forsake you, but he will be with you
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- Until the very end of all time.
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- But you have to surrender in order to receive this
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- Great exchange.
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- My question for us this morning.
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- Is, are you willing to live
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- A surrendered life
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- Because there's power
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- In your surrender?
- 00:19:21.332 --> 00:19:24.268
- Just as power was implemented in the
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- Earth when jesus surrendered.
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- Power will be implemented in
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- Your life as soon as you surrender.
- 00:19:31.242 --> 00:19:35.379
- And there's some of you today that are sitting in this moment
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- Knowing that you have been living
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- Life on your own terms.
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- The reality is that we.
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- We have no direction
- 00:19:49.860 --> 00:19:51.629
- Without jesus.
- 00:19:51.629 --> 00:19:54.865
- We have no god given direction
- 00:19:54.865 --> 00:19:57.568
- Without jesus, we have no god given destiny.
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- Without jesus, the only way that we can have eternal
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- Life is with him.
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- So surrender.
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- Not just some surrender. all.
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- Not just a portion of your life.
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- Surrender all of your life.
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- Jesus
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- Made this exchange with us, understanding that
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- The only way that we could live was for him to die.
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- So i'll give you what you need in exchange
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- For you giving me your life.
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- I will lay my life down
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- So that you would never have to experience death.
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- What if i told you because of this exchange,
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- You would never know what defeat is.
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- You never lose a battle.
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- You never experience
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- Death when the physical body gives up on you.
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- And someday it will all.
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- And you take your last breath.
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- You will experience life like you've never experienced before.
- 00:21:03.734 --> 00:21:09.507
- And that's why we can say,
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- Oh, death, where is your sting?
- 00:21:11.375 --> 00:21:14.712
- O grave, where is your victory?
- 00:21:15.346 --> 00:21:19.216
- Death won't have a hold on you.
- 00:21:19.850 --> 00:21:23.154
- The grave can't keep you.
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- When you know who jesus is.
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- So today i want to encourage you.
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- Surrender your all
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- To jesus.
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- Know him as the i am
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- As the giver of life,
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- The one who came so that you could experience
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- Life and life more abundantly.
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- And should by your hands.
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- And should close your eyes.
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- Today i want to give you an invitation.
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- Not to just follow jesus,
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- But to surrender to him.
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- You know, incidents like this,
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- Sometimes you feel pressure to.
- 00:22:22.012 --> 00:22:27.485
- There's no pressure here.
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- You have to make this decision.
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- Sometimes.
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- We'll count to three.
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- One, two, three.
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- I'm not going to do that today.
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- You know, you're
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- Tired of pursuing the life
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- That you've been living.
- 00:22:52.943 --> 00:22:54.879
- You desperately need jesus to lead you, guide you.
- 00:22:54.879 --> 00:22:58.215
- You want to surrender to him today,
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- And that's you.
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- I just want you to stand to your feet right now.
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- All heads bowed, all eyes closed to stand to your feet.
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- No one's looking at you.
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- So you don't have anything to be afraid of.
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- I see you,
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- I see you.
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- If you know the person that
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- Is beside you and you're afraid to stand
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- By yourself, just tap one on the legs.
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- They stand with me.
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- They'll stand with you.
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- I see you.
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- If you don't mind, would you just
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- Stretch your hands towards heaven?
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- When everybody that prayed this prayer.
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- Lord jesus,
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- I repent
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- And i turn away
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- From the life that i've lived separate from you
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- Today, god, i surrender my all.
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- I desire
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- Not to just live a saved life,
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- But also a surrendered life.
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- I surrender to the plan.
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- I surrender to the purpose.
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- I surrender to your will.
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- And i'm grateful
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- That you would lay your life down
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- So that i could experience life
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- And life more abundantly.
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- In jesus name, amen
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- And amen.
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- You can take your seats.
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- That's a great golf clap.
- 00:24:43.888 --> 00:24:46.957
- But the bible says
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- If one turns and gives a life to jesus christ,
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- All of heaven rejoices.
- 00:24:54.798 --> 00:24:57.535
- So can we celebrate.
- 00:24:57.535 --> 00:24:59.537
- As you can tell, we had an incredible time
- 00:24:59.537 --> 00:25:01.438
- This resurrection sunday at celebration church.
- 00:25:01.438 --> 00:25:04.241
- And if you're in the jacksonville area,
- 00:25:04.241 --> 00:25:06.510
- My prayer is that you would stop by, come visit us in person.
- 00:25:06.510 --> 00:25:10.581
- There's something beautiful happening here in jacksonville,
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- And i want you to be a part of it.
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- So if ever in the area, stop by on sundays at 9 a.m.
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- And 11 a.m.
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- If you don't live within driving distance, it's okay.
- 00:25:20.224 --> 00:25:22.826
- You can still experience what god is doing via this broadcast.
- 00:25:22.826 --> 00:25:26.463
- And so continue to lean into these moments with us.
- 00:25:26.463 --> 00:25:29.567
- And would you do me a personal favor?
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- Share it with somebody.
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- This broadcast blesses you.
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- Tell somebody about it.
- 00:25:34.371 --> 00:25:36.240
- And the second thing i want to ask you to do
- 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.808
- Is help us continue to tell what jesus is doing.
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- By partnering
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- With us
- 00:25:41.579 --> 00:25:42.580
- At the bottom of the screen, our team is going
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- To throw some information down there.
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- I want you to know there's no partnership
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- Too large, no partnership too small.
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- We all have an opportunity
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- To decide what we partner with and who we partner with.
- 00:25:51.355 --> 00:25:54.625
- And my prayer is that as we continue
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- To share the message of jesus christ with you,
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- That the holy spirit will move upon your heart
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- To partner with us so that we can continue
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- To be a blessing and sharing the gospel
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- Of jesus christ to those that need it the most.
- 00:26:04.835 --> 00:26:07.071
- Like you and me, i want to pray for you right now.
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- I want to set myself in agreement
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- For the things that you may be believing god for.
- 00:26:11.775 --> 00:26:14.278
- And so right now, in jesus name,
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- I thank you for my brothers and my sisters.
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- They have decided god to take out time
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- To spend it with us.
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- And i don't take that for granted.
- 00:26:21.585 --> 00:26:23.487
- And so, god, would you bless them?
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- Would you open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings?
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- So much so that they cannot receive them all by themselves
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- And god?
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- Will you continue to bless them with your hand
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- Of favor, open doors
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- That they cannot
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- Open, and closed doors you don't desire
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- For them to walk through in jesus name.
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- We ask right now god, that this would be
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- The greatest season of the life,
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- The greatest season of joy, the greatest season of peace,
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- The greatest season of love, and the greatest season
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- Of breakthrough.
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- In jesus name we pray. amen.
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- Well, family, that's our time for today.
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- I pray to see you next week.
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- And until then, i want you to know that god loves you.
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- I love you too.
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- Happy resurrection sunday!
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- Be blessed in jesus name.
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- ♪♪
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- ♪♪
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- ♪♪
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