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I Surrender All

 
  The greatest truth in the world is that Jesus Christ the Son of God died for our sins and that through faith in Him we can be saved from our sins, spiritual death and hell.  The simplest yet most profound promise is that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  This is all encapsulated in perhaps the greatest declaration in all of Holy Scripture in John 3:16-18: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."  God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. There is no judgment awaiting those who trust him. But those who do not trust him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God.
  The greatest most momentous thing that anyone can do is to surrender their heart to Christ. God surrendered himself to us when He gave his Son who surrendered to the cross-the symbol and instrument of death.  Christ died for our sins.
  Dr. Richard S. Taylor writes in Life in the Spirit p. 99: The fundamental work without which faith is spurious is surrender.  This is true in all the stages of the Christian life, whether conversion, sanctification or any subsequent crisis.  Surrender is the submission of our will to the Lordship of Jesus, an unreserved and uncompromising yes to His terms whether in small or large issues.
  In church we sing:  I Surrender AllSurrender to Him now.  You will never regret it in this life or eternity!  I promise!
 
 
 
     
                       

Pastor Mark