God’s Condition for His Full Blessing - Part 1

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August 29 the rendering to Constantine scaring that today. My getting yourself to Christ they think this thing you can ever do you want dog school blessing that is planned for you are you disorder willing to get along the best you can do. So take what's coming your way. Love even stop to think about what would God do in my life. If he had full control of it.

What are the possibilities of the ways I could be blessed if I let God do it his way is the most Christian lover happy with our Christian life. They struggle over this, and they struggle that they complain about God doesn't answer my prayer and my needs not all being that God is not given me the desires of my heart by Mona Negron.

The complaint about the Christian life is not what it's all cracked up to be all alone. No Lego, never stopping to ask the question wonder why things don't work out right.

Wonder why God doesn't seem to be favoring me, why am I not experiencing all these blessings where there is a reason.

That's what I want to talk about in this message and if you listen very carefully and follow some scriptures that I want to give in this passage God can absolutely change your life revolutionize your life change your sense of circumstances and change the flow of the blessings of God in your life. I will in turn of the will to Romans chapter 12 and the title of this message is God's condition for his full blessing well. Romans chapter 12. These first two verses. He says therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is what's that that which is good and acceptable and perfect that with that in mind I will talk about this one condition in order to receive God's full blessing that not many conditions there's one ultimate condition that is the bottom line to receive God's best. And when you lick lick lick of this passage is very evident here that God's condition for full blessing calls for a full surrender God's condition for a full blessing calls for it. Listen calls for a full surrender. What is he say I urge you, brother. The mercies of God, to present your body is not simply talking about your physical body, but that your whole being, body, soul and spirit. The total be as a sacrifice living holy sacrifice, acceptable to God. Now when you think about sacrifices. For example, use of the word sacrifice or surrender or yield a very threatening words to some people I was able to talk about God's love. God's goodness. God answers prayer.

God's kindness God's mercy alone and only go but when you start talking about sacrifice when you start talking about surrender.

When you start talking about yielding these are rather threatening words because the implication is that somebody is about to get into my business somebody is about to want to control my life.

Somebody is about want to tell me how to operate and so therefore all of us like our freedom, we only by controlling us dominating as telling us what to do, how to go about it. We want freedom. What we don't realize is the freest people in the world of those who have come to the place in life to recognize that the life fully surrender to Almighty God is the greatest life of all.

So when you go back in the Old Testament you look at those sacrifices. People bring their sacrifices, animals, or something else that they had grown up whatever it might be, and they offer them to God.

Now a sacrifice is something that we give to another, either as an act of worship or as a gift as an offering. And so the offerings were given and when that sacrifice was made that sacrifice was made in this manner you had to relinquish.

You had to give it up as you had to surrender it. And so, for example, let's say the sacrifice because of sin, someone would bring that lamb and as an offering of four sacrificial offering for their sin. They would place in the hands of the priest when they placed an offering of the hands of the priest and he cut the throat of that lamb laden on the altar of sacrifice. The person who was offering the sacrifice for the forgiveness of their sin could go back and take that lamb back once it was given it was relinquish that was taken away could go take it back when people gave offerings as acts of worship, they would go take the offering is sacrificial offering back. It was given the way it was surrendered it was yielding. And so what he's saying at this point, which is Roman readers what sort of understood and that is when he says, I beseech you to present your bodies to make a presentation to make an offering, an offering of what our whole being, body, soul and spirit to Almighty God through his son the Lord Jesus Christ. He set up an offering a sacrifice that is holy, that is one that is separate and given unto God for the purposes of God eases a living sacrifice, one that can mean something one that can be used of Almighty God. He says that's the reasonable right thing to do for the children of God did live in such a fashion that their life is a sacrificial offering to Almighty God. Now, in order for that to happen.

A person is to change their lifestyle is what he says. He says now that he puts this in a in a form that says stop being conformed to the world. He says stop around the world to draw you away from your commitment to Jesus Christ stop allowing the world to pull you into its mold so that you will think the way they think and act the way they act and behave the way they behave. That is, and who we are as the Lord Jesus Christ to save us from our sins and made his his children. We are new creations in Christ Jesus. We don't fit the world's mold. That's the reason they criticize the church. That's the reason I criticize you personally are persecuted you a laugh that you are a make some smart remark about you because you don't their mobile and because you don't fit there mold you stand out because you don't fit there mold. Sometimes you make them very uncomfortable. He says listen. He says he won't, God's best, you present your bodies a living sacrifice to Almighty God, you make a full surrender of yourself to him and do not allow yourself to be pulled away and re-molded and shaped like the world God's best blessings are going to come your way.

God offers his best, he has prepared his best, and the truth is I can either be satisfied with less than God has to offer. All I can ask the question God, what would you do with me if I gave you my whole life, what would you send my way if I open my life without reservation, without any bargaining without any kind of holding back in any area of my life. What would you do, what could you do what you willing to do what you want to do one thing for certain God is prepare the very best that he and his infinite wisdom and unconditional love can possibly provide for every single one of his children.

Does that mean you'll always be what I want to be not necessarily does that mean that if we offer ourselves in full surrender to him that things will always go the way we want them to go absolutely not, because sometimes what we think is the best way is not the best rate all and sometimes when we surrender our life to the Lord Jesus Christ sometime and we give ourselves and maybe some particular thing that he's dealing with in our life. Things don't always turn out the way we expect them to. One thing for certain when we are fully surrendered. They will turn out to what is for our good advance from the wisdom listen and the goodness in the love of Almighty God. Somebody says this passage, I urge you, I plead with you, I beckon you listen, he says, to present your bodies a living holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, the only kind that is acceptable to God, we come in the right spirit, saying, Lord, here is my life now he has the deed to your life. The tragedy is that many people trusted Jesus Christ as their Savior and nobody ever told them now that you trust in Jesus as your Savior. You have given over all rights to him because he is the Lord we sing about them being Lord we talk about it being Lord we read the Scriptures about them being Lord but the truth is we don't live out we don't acknowledge in our daily life that he is the absolute lot about life because being Lord. He has absolute right, authority, ownership, control and possession of our life.

Therefore, he has the right, he has the awesome right to demand that you and I walk in obedience to him and that is that we live a surrendered life yielded to him totally given over to him now, so one of the basis of that call for full surrender is the effective who he is, by the second one is this and that is simply this, that God has planned the very best for us. One of the reasons he calls for full surrender is because of what he most of their followers and look at this passage because often times we think will I don't know that God loves me and so forth. Look, if you will, in the Jeremiah chapter 29 only give you 23 verses here than just indications of what God wants to do in our life that he has planned and he has the best provided for us and solicit what he says in this 29 chapter he says in the 11 verse for I know the plans that I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not the calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you you seek me, and finally, when you search for me with all of your heart like that God has a plan for is his plan for you no matter what you may think about your life in the past and what you don't have a what you could have and what you all have and what you should have and what you'd like to have this what he says he's I have plans for you. What kind of plan is that it is the best plan that an infinite, all wise and all loving God could and would plan for you.

It's the very best plan you can expect the best you can expect the very best that God could possibly conceive and plan for your life. That is the very character of God. So if we are leading and if we are dissatisfied and discontent in our Christian life know what it ought to be and we don't think a relationship with the Lord is right we don't build intimacy with him on telling you listen we not wait known God. God's waiting on us. He wants the very best he's calling for a full surrender so but it's as well you know I am.

I think it's a wonderful idea and I would like to do that. But them what's the purpose of all that in way. Well, let's talk about it for a moment, one of his purposes. Is this is that God wants is fully surrendered to him because, listen, watch this now. He loves our worship God loves Russ to worship him. He's a jealous God.

He wants us to worship him and him alone so unanswered question how can I come the church and worship God numbers I can saying and pray and read the Scriptures listener message or whatever might be how can I come to God and really worship him. That is this is that living sovereign God of the universe. How can I worship God at the same time reserving areas of my life for myself.

How can I come to God and genuinely and truly worship God and at the same time reserving areas of my life that I am willing to yield to him. I'm here to tell you it is not genuine true worship all the praying all the singing. All the preaching all the reading of the Scripture.

There is no substitute acceptable to God, other than full surrender got.

I want you to have you in my life, whatever that is. Let me ask a question.

How can I come to the Lord's house, and worship him when this Amir my life. I refuse to surrender and maybe financial and maybe the guys been telling you the time of use is in use, a gallon of praise you another worship you, serve you will do all these things 5% God's outlying hand which is saying is not think about as you say to this God whom you worship. I praise you I worship you, but I don't trust you is real simple and it just gets down to just real simple. How can I worship a God I don't trust his seat when the reasons he wants a full surrender is because he wants in genuine, true worship. A second reason he wants full surrender is because he wants our service for him to be effective and fruitful. Now person can serve the Lord, that being fully surrendered is no question about that, and here's what happens if we are serving God in the flesh, the way we want to do it. We don't have our way. What happens is God may use some decisions that tomato he may use what we say. But you know what we will miss the blessing emphasize that it's not going to have the impact they could have so unanswered question. Think about this. Why do you want to live your life and not make the full impact what you will live your life and not receive the full blessing listen to what I want, even a little bit when you can have more why you would be what you are when you can be something else. Why do we want to risk going through life trying to figure things out.

Having our way.

When God's way is the best way and he is more than willing to show us what his wages so one of the things he wants. He saw him was worship, and secondly he wants is certainly one service and third in their watchlist. The third thing he wanted listener wants this one God wants freedom to bless us is in a way to is the omnipotent yes he is. If he is omnipotent.

I can give them freedom. Let's say that's true. Does God have principles by which he governs things Jesse does what God violate his own principles.

No I would not was one of his principles. Obedience brings blessing. Whatever we so we reap what we sow more than we so literally so so therefore what happens is when you and I fully surrender our life to him. We lay it all down. No bargaining. Think about this for a moment how the world can you bargain with God. Many people hear people say when I got if you do thousand so here's what I'm going to let me ask a question Mr. Michael.

He said there were beginning to whom do we belong God right sole ownership he owns all us and all that we have so unanswered?

What you in a bargain with God, with when you don't have anything anyway.

You came bargain with God. And so the whole idea of trying to manipulate can't manipulate God and so we come to acknowledge we don't have any bargaining rights. We don't even have anything to bargain with. It's a matter of obedience or it's a matter of disobedience and what he simply saying it arises. This piece is present your bodies a living sacrifice because, listen in order to worship God properly.

He's got to have all of me in order for the service to be really truly acceptable and really fruitful and make an impact is going to have all of and not only that in order for God to be able to bless others the way he wants to. He's got to have freedom to do it now wants this. He's not going to violate his own principles. He's not going to violate his own character. Whatever we so we reap what we sow more than we so literally so blessing follows obedience God.

Listen cannot condone disobedience. He cannot condone rebellion. He does not overlook sin.

He does not ignore our ignoring him and insisting on having our own way.

So, therefore, is what we do we say God I want you bless me and we slammed the door got. I want you bless me that we choke up the channel because we position ourselves so as because of the principles by which God operates.

He's not going to pull on the fullness of the blessing upon us and we have refused listen to surrender every aspect of our life, is it easier to give it all up. No, it's not is the right thing to do. Yes, it is the wise thing though yes it is and after it's done. We look back and say thank god thank god thank God you finally got me to see that it was the wisest thing to do to yield everything that you is it easy.

No it's not what I want is is that you want God's will blessing when you say God can't do some is a must keep incident God can't do anything he cannot act outside of his own character. That is, his own self-imposed character. He is not going to violate his own law. So, if we choose to have it our way live in rebellion disobeying him withhold things from him is going to do it our way. You know what he can't do it. So we're the ones who responsible for the slowdown in the blessings of God and some people live their whole life and you know what they'll complain all their life and look back at the go. God what in this happened meanwhile and then happening.

Why did this happen.

Why did that happen and the truth is because we decided we were smarter than God got someone for your hand you say Lord I will now move you to feel my hand but it's like this. But suppose I had $100 bill in my hand and that was very valuable to me and so I wouldn't open my use of this exchange. What I want to give you what you have said no. So hundred dollars M had a hard dollar bills, long-term self, Kate Kate let this go, and you pull that $10,000 and say is what you could add it open Jahan. I'm here to tell you my friend. That is exactly the way most people living their life there holding on. The pin is when God has blessings in innumerable there holding a listen. Holding on to what they can do in life when you can discover what God can do in your life, why not discover what God can do in your life. Give him the privilege and the privilege listen demands a full surrender of my life. Why, if God pours out a full blessing. He was to be in full control. How can God give his best. How can he give all that he's plan unless we're willing to give him full absolute total listen already.

Right, privilege, which is his. Anyway, to rule and terrain and to govern and to guide our life.

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