Giving to God

Dr. Tony Evans says they think God wants us most represent is ourselves were spiritual victory is learned.

Seven this is the alternative with Dr. Tony other speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative when God says he wants his people to be givers.

He's talking about a lot more than money will find out what he means today as Dr. Evans begins a series called return on investment. Let's join in on your phone will your computers password restrictions my words. The only way you can get in all the stuff that's available to you is if you know the password is to keep you don't want to be in there and let you win so you can take it manage of what your phone system or computer system have available to someone to share with you today. The password to your spiritual victory. Don't get me wrong when I say spiritual victory. I will email it will be challenges or problems that comes with life. Jesus saves about password that will let those realities are you waiting to get rid of all the issues of life, but you can be in overcoming the password to your spiritual victory. Don't get me wrong victory. I will email it will be challenges or problems that comes with life.

Jesus password that will let those realities will you waiting to get rid of all the issues of life, but you can be in overcoming the password to your spiritual victory is the word surrender moments while wanted to read this follows.

Therefore, I urge you, brother in 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 up so that you may prove what the will of God is that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Many folks here all the folks here have made the decision to trust Christ as your personal savior. You've decided to become a Christian. That's a decision. The problem today is Mary who have made decisions have not yet become disciples. They made a decision at some point in time to trust Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, but not gone on to become a Christ as a disciple of Jesus Christ and the difference between a decision-maker and a disciple is surrender that what God is asking from you is to present your body now think God will do with YouTube you will for you will involve you is that your body into your hands or feet. No, I bring my present your body is saying. Present your life God wants you to place you on the altar. The picture of an Old Testament sacrifice a lamb they didn't put my hand on the altar. They didn't put the lids on the altar of the frame will be all they put the body will build which meant the life was being placed in the altar, all the land was placed on the altar. In fact, when you look throughout Scripture. You will find what God wanted to do something every wanted to do something required a sacrifice first, something present that demonstrated that you want one since that truly would doing it based on God's standard.

God says it wants you to present you to him. He called the presentation of you to your worship service. If it doesn't get you you haven't worship even if your church is your worship service, worship your presentation. I know many come to church to hear what the pastor will present in the sermon.

What I will present in the small God comes the church to see what the signs of the present presentation. He says there is no worship, and therefore what God is asking for is for you to surrender to present your self why is he asking for that is your brethren, by the mercies of God, I wanted to surrender because of God's mercy about the real web kids in college college is expensive because of the high cost of college you want them to take seriously. You don't want them playing around in college too much money for play want them to enjoy college, but you want them to surrender the study. You know what the print reference things become the main things, the prices God is trying to get your surrender. Therefore, there is a high price.

I urge you, brethren, to present your bodies a living sacrifice. I want you to give it all to God.

Stick with me. What a piece of it bad about all the phone off are we not going anywhere, not just part of the children. The pictures of the big one street that come to a grocery store to sign in the window bacon and eggs desperately need to come up with the pigs and chickens and given the eggs you get the bank said the chicken you got me out of your mind and you got bacon big difference for you is a contribution for me this the whole thing still a lot of Christians want to do is give God an Aggie and PNA everywhere and God want some him gently back pork ribs. He want the whole thing.

Please want the whole thing was satisfied with me present your bodies a living cell amplifies youth asking for surrender because a holy act only in the Bible means special, unique, or that which is set apart, he says, present your bodies a living side provides highly that is set apart, don't treat me as regular now that the first two people break it down. He says the first thing I want you to understand that if you go to get me the whole kit and caboodle. The first thing I want you to understand is you are not to be comfortable this world. Don't let the world squeeze you pressure you you into what you like. Tell you what to do. Don't be pressured now. Why does John chapter 2 says this world nor the things that are in the world. For if any man loves the world wants this watch this watch this is not what you can, but you can't have me, you can have both of us truly say you lose your relationship with me will ship with me, you lose the listing with you since my love, you will sense my reality. One of the main reasons why we also made it so much to my attention that only three things in the world. By the way, the last of the flashbacks passion. He says that possessions committee says the pride of life that's position would become Preston squeezed and destroyed our relationship with people he shouldn't hang out with. We wind up doing what stop we shouldn't deal with because the world and all the time pursuing the world losing the love of God losing the experience of his reality in our lives because we don't want to deal with password God wants us to unlock our spiritual victory.

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He had a good two hour session with the treatment that when you leave the training attracted churches get you fried chicken any difference. I'm confessing here Dragon churches you go to the cafeteria to get the chicken fried steak smothered with gravy and potatoes you know you just like the cake you go through the grocery store you get to blue Bell ice cream. But you don't feel good to work this I gave my workout doing what you are going back to the trailer next week and as when you live in the training that you cancel the training the trainer you cancel the training because what he said did not become the way the way you move because it did not become the way you move. It became a wasted.

So what we often do is come the church and waste two hours on a weekly basis because then we leave in the world.

Tell us what to do how to do it what to spend how to spend it hang out with him not to hang out when it begins to give us, and therefore God keeps his distance while the world makes us feel like we've lost. We've lost something, all right, we lost something big. That is the living love of God being experienced in our lives after negative, positive, almost killed by the renewing of your income fall. But then he switches words and transformation occurred not from outside the world of conformist takes place with a change in your thinking. He says be transformed renewing your change. Change does not occur that must be transformation that takes place. God is going to change you know it's a change all judgment: full different. You could be doing it the way different. The difference you want changes you'll have to 2012. We've all seen the biggest loser people who go on this competition to lose weight. The biggest show of the show is you become what you exercise on discipline, but to show with what will determine what you look like all some of this discipline problems on the family. They grow up in some, but it is moving in the wrong direction to the big lose and they getting this competition when because that's dealing with them thinking differently so that they are hearing differently. What's the big lose is true on the Christian you what you spiritual you become spiritually with so and so we are becoming.

When the word when people word the word and all and therefore we are not spiritual become what you read, and says that means you must renew your you must you must different frame of reference.

You must begin to develop one simple question and answer. What's God and you must ask at first to most people ask that none of the other views have worked with a changing process that option becomes difficult becomes difficult because you start now. So whenever you start out something you're not used to working out the first time you go John plan 5 miles would be better suited the first time you faster and faster the whole week eat nothing but water. Okay you have to adapt to this new reality because it wouldn't first is you not used to going to God first, getting God's perspective for you. Not used to it. And so the Col. part of you is going to say as to how hot is too difficult and you get used to your spiritual pink spots change and you want the spiritual first he says remove the line saying no world yes to God's perspective God's point of view.

Double minded that leads us to the final question yeah I'm supposed to make even want to what's my incentive will God have nothing without an answer to what motivates you to use the password to surrender.

Motivate me to use the password surrender and costs collectively to use to become a surrender church, he says at the end of verse two so that you may prove what the will of God hands, which is good and acceptable and perfect.

What's your motivation for doing this experiencing God's involvement in your life at a level you've never experienced what automotive you say you know what I will use this password because you get to experience the will of God. God's direction for your involvement in your life plan for your life government life to God at work in you that you will never see the world and you are saying yes you seek God's will in your life. You see the problem we have to wait and we can hear the screaming got into a screaming program of the plan of God.the problem but you will see that God's plan for your life when you first doctrines will come back in a moment with the final illustration to wrap up today's message giving to God. If you'd like to get the complete full-length version check with us for details or better yet, you can receive this lesson as a part of Tony's current series return on investment. As I mentioned earlier, we are offering all six messages in this series both on CD and instant downloads along with the personal or group study guide the goes with it is or thank you gift when you support our ministry with a financial contribution contact us at Tony up and start or for the details or call our resource request line at 1-800-800-3222. We have team members there around-the-clock ready to help you. Again, that's 1-800-800-3222.

Stocks, bonds, 401(k)s, there are plenty of ways to invest but not all investments are financial tomorrow.

Dr. Evans will talk about the investment. God wants us to make in ourselves and the kind of return.

He expects right now though he's back with this final story for today one day and say close. She says give me medical missions pocket change, so I'll give her doll.

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