Christ's Terms of Surrender

Now our text tonight is found
in the fourteenth chapter of Luke, verse thirty-three. Our subject, God's terms of surrender. Our Lord said in Luke fourteen
thirty-three, So likewise, whosoever he be of you, that forsaketh
not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Now let's look
briefly at what we know. The wise man begins where he
is. He's not afraid to take inventory
based completely and solely on what God has said. Paul wrote
in 2 Corinthians 13, 5, examine yourselves whether you be in
the faith. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Christ dwelleth in you, except you be reprobate? And
then Peter wrote, Give diligence to make your calling and election
sure. And then I want you to turn to
Psalm 139. Psalm 139. While we were in the
study tonight, having the Scripture reading and the prayer, Brother Tate led us in prayer,
and in his prayer he said this, and this is so very important. I cannot depend upon some preacher
to examine me and to search me and to reveal my interest in
Christ. I cannot depend upon others to
give me the answer. Here's something else. I cannot
even trust myself, because the heart is deceitful
and desperately wicked. Who can know it? The one who
must search me, and this is what I must pray. Listen to David
in Psalm 139.23. Search me, O God, and know my
heart. Try me and know my thoughts,
and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting." We must not look to others to
do the searching. We must not even depend upon
ourselves. We must search, we must examine. Let a man examine himself. Paul
said, concerning the Lord's table, and so let him eat. But you and
I, our hearts are so wicked and so deceitful and so bound by
tradition and We can't even trust our own hearts. We've got to
cry out for an examination of the Holy Spirit. God, you search
me. God, you try me. God, you see
if I have an interest in Christ. And whatever it costs, reveal
it to me. Because what should it profit
a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Now here's
where we are. We know this. Let's begin where
we are. There is life and there's death. I live in the flesh, and
I live there for a little while. It can be pleasant or unpleasant,
but it's only for a little while. The Word of God says that life
is like a flower. It buds, it blooms, it pleases
for a little while, and then it's gone. and the place thereof
shall know it no more." The Word of God says that life is like
a vapor, a vapor of steam or a shadow. It's appointed unto
me and wants to die. I'm moving rapidly, rapidly towards
the day that I shall die. I was thinking while the ladies
were singing, what a blessing their voices have been to us
for many years. Well, let's face it, one of these
days they're not going to be singing here anymore. One of
these days, they're not going to be able to sing. Old age is
going to stop the beauty of their voices in a few years. In a few
years, I shall go the way from which Job said, I shall not return. Well, we know that. All right,
secondly, we know there's an eternity. Job said if a man dies,
shall he live again? God said he would. God said there's
a heaven and God said there's a hell. Turn with me to Matthew
25. Now our Lord, Matthew 25, our
Lord talked about heaven. He said, in my Father's house
and many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place
for you, I'll come again and receive you unto myself. But
He talked also about hell. And He said in Matthew 25, verse
31, And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect. from the
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable
of the fig tree. When its branch is yet tender,
and put it forth," that's Matthew 24, "...and put it forth leaves,
you know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall
see all these things, know that it is near, even at the door."
Now turn to Matthew 25, verse 31. And when the Son of Man shall
come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, Then shall
he sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be
gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. And
he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left. Then shall the king say unto them on the right hand,
Come ye, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world." Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. men can have with God. There's
a communion with God. There's a way to be accepted
of God. There's a way to be forgiven, pardoned, redeemed, justified
from all sin. That's what Job was concerned
about when he asked this question, how can man be just with God? How can he that's born of a woman
be clean when even the moon and the sun And the stars are not
pure in his sight. How much less man that drinketh
iniquity like the water? Well, there is a way. And that
way is not in personal piety, personal righteousness. Paul
said they're going about to establish their own righteousness and they're
ignorant of the righteousness of God. And it's not in ceremonies,
and it's not in rituals. God said in Isaiah 1 to Israel,
I'm sick of your burnt offerings, I'm tired of your sacrifices.
When you raise your hands to pray, I will not see you, I will
not hear you. I'm sick of your holy days. It's
not in laws, but the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified. It's not in doctrines and creeds.
Christ said, you search the scriptures, you think in them you have life.
But there they which testify me." This salvation is in Christ.
We know that it's in Christ. It is not in the church. It is
not in ceremonies. It's not in keeping laws. It's
not in doing the best I can. Salvation is in Christ. The Son
of God is come that we might have life and that we might have
it more abundantly. He said, "...I came not to condemn
the world, but that the world through him might be saved."
And he that believeth on the Son of God hath life, he that
believeth not the Son of God shall not see life, but the wrath
of God abideth on him." Life is in Christ. When Christ, who
is our life, shall appear, then shall ye appear with him in glory. Paul said, you are complete in
Christ. In Christ every need is met. In Christ every sin is
forgiven. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanseth us from all sin. We died in him, we were buried
in him, we're risen with him, we're seated in him on the right
hand of the Father. He is able to save to the uttermost
them that come to God by him. There's life in Christ. But here's
the question. Who's in Christ? Now that's the
question. That's the thing that presses
upon my heart. That's the thing that presses
upon my mind. Am I in Christ? I know where
life is, it's in Christ. I know where remission is, it's
in Christ. It's in the blood. I know where
redemption is, it's in Christ. I know that. But am I in Christ? You know that. You know that
it's in Christ. But here's the question, are you in Christ?
Now, throughout the ages, men have tried to reduce this thing
of union with Christ And salvation to simple human acts and simple
human obedience and simple human decisions goes all the way back
to the Jews. The Jews obeyed their Sabbath
laws. The Jews went about offering
sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice. And Paul said, we
know that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. They kept their feast days, their
holy days, their ceremonies. But the scripture says, he was
in the world and the world knew him not. He came unto his own
and his own received him not. They tried to reduce this union
with God, this communion with God, this relationship with God
to obeying ceremonies and laws and doing things. And then the
Romanists came along. And they established an earthly
church, an hierarchy, with headquarters in Rome. They ordained priests. They built great tabernacles
and cathedrals and temples. They established laws and rules. They made salvation consistent
with church affiliation. You're in the church, you're
in the kingdom. You're in the church, you're in the body. If
you're in the church, you're saved. They sold salvation. And then the Armenians came along
and they laid down the laws of morality and righteousness. They
were battling this church affiliation salvation. They were battling
this cold-dead formalism, so they set up some rules, some
standards, some morality and righteousness by which men could
work their way into the kingdom of God. One great old preacher said,
when I first started preaching, when I came to my community,
I preached the law of God every service. I preached the law of
God in every service. I preached salvation depending
on the law of God every week. And after several years of my
preaching, there wasn't a moral person in the town. That's what
the law does. The law strips. It can't clothe.
The law destroys. It can't exalt. The law kills. The law can't give life. There's
no life in the law. And then the fatalists, the antinomians,
came along. And they said, there's nothing
you can do. He who was born for heaven will go to heaven. He
who was born for hell will go to hell. If God's going to save
you, he'll save you. If God's not going to save you,
there's nothing you can do about it. And today, this is what we
have. All that's required for salvation
today is this, and you know it. And if you haven't realized it,
and if it hasn't dawned upon you, turn your TV on on Sunday
morning and listen to it. All that's required for salvation
is to walk down an aisle, to profess to believe in Jesus,
and to join a local congregation, and serve God as best you can,
and die and go to hell. That's salvation. It consists
in a decision for Jesus. They don't even call him Lord.
It's just Jesus. But I want you to turn to some
scriptures tonight, first of all to Matthew 10. Matthew chapter
10. Now I want you to listen as I
read the Word of God. And what I'm saying is this,
Matthew chapter 10, verse 32. Scriptures like these, come forth
to destroy, utterly annihilate our conception of carnal and
spiritual Christians. Scriptures like these come forth
and send fear into the hearts of every nominal church member,
so usually he'll avoid these scriptures. Scriptures like these
make foolish, utterly foolish, first-time decisions, second-time
decisions, third-time Scriptures like these ought to shake every
person in this building and listening to this message who is not growing
in the grace and knowledge of Christ and in a constant pursuit
of a fellowship and a relationship with God Almighty. Listen to
Matthew 10, verse 32. Whosoever therefore shall confess
me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is
in heaven. Whosoever shall deny me before
me, and him will I also deny before my Father which is in
heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I came
not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at
variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother,
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's
enemies shall be they of his own household. But he that loveth
Father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And he that
loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he
that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy
of me. He that findeth his life shall
lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
Now what does that do with us except Jesus as your Savior,
and then later on, if it's convenient, you can bow to him as Lord? What
does that do with this, what we call carnal Christians and
spiritual Christians? What does that do with nominal
church members who, when they find it convenient, will worship
God? When they find it convenient,
they'll pray. When they find it convenient, they'll attend
the house of God. When they find it, if it does
not interfere with something else, what does that scripture
do with that sort of philosophy? It destroys it. Turn with me
to Luke 9, listen to this. In Luke 9, this is the Master
speaking. In Luke 9, verse 57, our Lord
said, Luke 9, 57, And it came to pass, that as they went in
the way of certain men, said to them, Lord, I will follow
you whithersoever thou goest. Luke 9, 58, And Jesus said to
him, Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests, but the
Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. He said unto another,
Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me
first to go and bury my father. Now his father wasn't dead. It
was a custom in those days for the son to stay home until he
had put his father away. Jesus said unto him, Let the
dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of
God. This may surprise you, but this
is nominal so-called Church entity. When my father died a year ago,
you know what the greatest criticism I got was? That I dared to go
to another state and preach a meeting while my father was dying. I
should have stayed home. The meeting had been scheduled
for months. There were people up there waiting
to hear the gospel. But since my father was sick
and dying, I should have canceled the meeting and sat by the bedside
of my dying father. To me, Christ is saying here,
the preaching of the gospel is more important than any human
relationship. But when we fulfill those things,
when we carry out those things, men criticize us. That's what
it says right here. Let the dead bury the dead. You
go preach the gospel. Look at the next verse. And another
said, Lord, I'll follow you, but let me first go bid farewell
to them which are at home at my house. And Jesus said, No
man, no man, having put his hand to the plow and looks back, I'll
follow you, Lord, I'll follow you, Lord, but . . . I'll follow
you, Lord, but . . ." That's what all three of these say.
No man, having put his hand to the plow and looks back, is fit
for the kingdom of God. What does that Scripture do to
this thing that we accept today as being normal, a church with
800 members, 200 in attendance? What does that do with it? A
church with hundreds and hundreds of members. Fifty, sixty, and
twenty. What does that do with this?
Churches that cannot support themselves without having church
bazaars, and rummage sales, and candy sales, and churches that
cannot build buildings without having bonding companies come
in and put the pressure on their members to buy barns at eight
percent interest to build God's house. Turn to Luke 14 again. I don't
know what it does to it. It destroys it. When we announced we were going
to build this building here at 13th Street, I had a bonding
company out of New York call me. Reverend Mahan, yes sir? This is such and such a vice
president of such and such a church bonding company. We hear you're
going to build a building. Yes sir? What's it going to cost? going on almost $200,000. How
are you going to pay for it?" Well, I said, well, people are
going to give. God's going to burden the hearts
of the folks, and they're going to give, and we're going to take
that offer, and we're going to pay for it. Well, he said, that's a good
way if you can do it, and I said, that's the only way. That's the
only way. God has never supported his kingdom
in any way but by the generous, cheerful, willing, loving, free
will, contribution of his people. Look at Luke 14 verse 26. And whoso, if any man come to
me, And hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children,
and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple." Why don't preachers, before they give these mass,
evangelistic, down to the altar, down to the front of the church,
call, why don't we make that clear? Why don't we say to the
people, now you sit, wait a minute, hold it back there, now don't
you come down this aisle yet. You sit down and count the calls,
that's what the Lord says. Which of you, intending to build
a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he
can finish?" Now, here's the cost. If you come to Christ,
it may cost you your family, it may cost you your home, it
may cost you your job, it may cost you everything. Is Christ
first? If he's not, keep your seat.
That's what he says there. Look at Luke 14, verse 27, and
whosoever does not bear his cross, come after me cannot be my disciple."
And then verse 33, "...so likewise whosoever he be of you, that
forsaketh not all that he hath, all that he hath, he cannot be
my disciple." Now, it's obvious to me from
these scriptures that Christ will be Lord of all in a man's
life, or he won't be Lord at all. I'm not preaching down to you,
I'm preaching to myself. Christ shall have first place
or no place. He'll be king. He's not a valet,
he's not a servant, he's a king. And where he is prophet and priest,
he's Lord. The gateway into the kingdom
of God is the Lordship of Jesus Christ. I want to show you something
very interesting, something that I've never preached before, in
Exodus chapter 8, because it's never really I've looked at it,
I think, before, but it's never really come with such a blessing
as it did this week. Now, while I was doing some searching,
some studying for these messages, turn to Exodus chapter 8. Now,
Moses came down there into Egypt, and there were, what, 2 million
Israelites down there in Egypt, been there 400 years in slavery,
in bondage. They were God's people. Moses,
as God's servant, came down there to Pharaoh, and he said, Pharaoh,
God said, let my people go. Let my people go. Let them leave
Egypt, and let them go to a land that I will show them that they
might sacrifice to me, that they might worship me, that they might
serve me. Pharaoh said no. So God sent
some plagues. And old Pharaoh He vacillated
a little bit and he changed his mind. He called Moses in and
said, tell you what, I got a proposition to put to you. I call this Pharaoh's
Compromise. In Exodus 8, verse 25, Pharaoh
called for Moses and Aaron and said, now you go and sacrifice
to your God in this land. All right, Pharaoh said, tell
you what, You stay in Egypt and worship God. You can do that. You stay right here in Egypt.
You keep your homes and keep your affiliations and just stay
right here in Egypt and you can serve your God, you can worship
your God. There's no reason for you to
leave us. You just stay where you are and worship God. Now,
my friend, if you are in a business where God is not glorified, and
God is not praised, and God is not honored, what Pharaoh is
saying here is, just stay there. You can worship God. You don't
need to leave. If you are in a church where
the gospel is not preached, stay there. There is no reason to
leave. You can worship God. Just stay
where you are. The gospel is not preached, and
God is not honored, and Christ is not exalted, but just stay
where you are. No reason to leave. If you're in a club or an organization
that's dishonoring to God, its members, its parties, its conventions,
its goals, its objects are dishonoring to God, there's no reason to
leave. You can serve God and stay right where you are. That's
what they will say. Moses, you and the Israelites,
just stay here and worship God. I've got no objection to you
worshiping your God. I worship mine. You worship yours. Fred
can worship his. George can worship his. Just
stay where you are. Do you know what the world says?
If you're running with a crowd who hates God, don't leave it. Just stay where you are. You
can worship God. When they begin to take God's name in vain, just
stop the years of. There's no reason to get out.
There's no reason to separate yourself. There's no reason to
leave this crap. Just stay where you are. That's
what Pharaoh said. Moses, now you worship your God,
and we'll worship our God, and everybody else worship their
God. Don't leave Egypt. Just stay where you are. Moses
said, No, sir. God said, Get out. Alright, look at Exodus
8, 28. So Pharaoh thought a little bit
about that. And he said in verse 28, he said, I tell you what,
I'll let you go. I'll tell you what I'm going
to do. Since you won't stay here and worship God, I'll let you
go that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,
only don't go far away. In other words, don't break your
ties with us. Now, you've gone out there and
worshipped God, but don't break your ties with us. Don't go so
far away that we can lose contact with one another. Let's keep
the fellowship. Let's keep the contact. Hang
on to the world. Hang on to all these relationships. Hang on to them. And hang on
to God too. Keep a foot in the church fellowship
and a foot in the world fellowship. Don't be identified so openly
and publicly that you irritate these people. cause them to cut
you off. You wouldn't want them to cut
you off. After all, your meat and potatoes depends on them.
But how blessed it would be if you'd just leave them and let
it depend on God. Isn't that right? That's Pharaoh's compromise.
All right, Moses, tell you what you do. If you won't stay here
and worship God, don't go too far away. Just, you know, hang
around out there just far enough so that we can keep in touch
with one another. Agree to disagree. Now Moses
said no. So turn to Exodus 10. God sent
some more plagues, and old Pharaoh came up with another suggestion
in Exodus 10, verse 8. Now this is interesting. So they
came back, in verse 8, Moses and Abram were brought again
to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Now you go serve the Lord your
God, but now who's going to go? Who's going to go? Well, Moses
said, Everybody. And Pharaoh said, verse 11, Not
so. Not everybody. Go now, ye that
are men, and serve the Lord. But leave your women and children
here. Now, I don't want to get mean here, but I've had people
come to me and say this. This is a fact. I've had people
come to me and say, Brother Man, you know where I go to church,
they deny the gospel. Where I go to church, they don't
preach the Word of God. And I know they don't. And I'd
sure like to go somewhere where they're preaching the Word of
God. My children are in the youth group there. They've got a good
youth program. Not a nigger where the gospel
ain't, but it's good, you know, good entertainment. And so I
just can't, on account of my wife and children, I just can't
leave. See, they like it there. That's what Faber said, Moses,
don't bother about your wife and children. Just leave them
here in Egypt. And you fellas, you men, you're the head of the
house, you know, you're just going out there and fellowship. We used to have a Bible conference
here every year, and there was a fellow who used to come to
the Bible conference every year. He'd come, sit and listen to
the sermon, and as he'd go out, he'd shake my hand and he'd say,
Boy, it's so good to hear this good gospel preaching. I said,
Well, why don't you come here every Sunday? Well, he said,
You know, I teach a Sunday school class in my church, and my wife's
got a class, And you know, it's just kind of hard to break those
ties of many, many years. That's what Pharaoh said to Moses.
Moses, you've been here 400 years. Let's don't part fellowship. Let's don't break the ties. Now,
you stay here and right here now, and we'll let you worship
your God. Nobody's going to interfere with
you worshiping your God. You believe what you want to
believe. We're what Nelson Moses said. We're leaving this place.
Well, I'll tell you what to do, Moses, go out there and worship
God, but don't divide with us, don't cut the ties, don't cut
the apron strings, let's keep in conduct and you go out there
and worship your God and we'll still, you can keep one foot."
No, sir. Moses said, we're leaving this place. Well, I'll tell you
what, Moses, you men go out there and worship God. Moses said,
no, sir. One more proposition. In Exodus
10, Pharaoh's not through yet, Satan is reluctant to turn loose
people. He'll give you every alibi and
reason in this world to stay where you are. In Exodus 10,
verse 24, listen to it, And Pharaoh called Moses and said, Tell you
what, Moses, you go serve the Lord, but let your flocks and
your herds stay behind. You can take your children with
you. You can take your wife with you, your little ones. But leave
your flocks and your herds. You get the picture? You have
possessions. You have income. You have flocks. You have herds. You can serve
God without these possessions. Isn't that what Satan says to
us? I hear preachers always emphasizing tithing. I don't emphasize it,
because ten percent of what I've got does not belong to the Lord.
All I have belongs to the Lord. That's what Pharaoh is saying
here to Moses. You just leave your herds and your flocks out
of it. You leave your possessions out
of it. Give a little of what you have occasionally, that is,
when it's convenient, provided it does not require anything
of you personally, any sacrifice or any doing without. You just
give what you can get by with to the kingdom of God. Don't
let your religion interfere with your prosperity, where this world
is concerned. Moses says, No, sir. Listen to
Exodus 10.26. Here's Moses' final reply. Our
cattle go with us, and there shall not one hoof be left behind. We're leaving this place, we're
going to Canaan, we're going with God, and we're taking everything
we've got. It's total commitment. It's total
surrender. It's total identification. You
see what Moses said? Not a hoof, not a hoof will be
left behind. I'm not staying in Egypt, and I'm not leaving anything
I've got in Egypt. Old William Booth. I don't know
a whole lot about what's called the Salvation Army. I know that
they have done some good work. I know that in England, in Europe,
back years ago when it first started, it was not just a humanitarian
effort, it was not just a commercial thing, it was not just a place
for a bum to get a nice lodging. It was founded and and organized
by a man whom many people believe really knew the gospel and knew
God and preached it, William Booth. And he died and was buried, several
years had passed, and one day a man went out to visit his grave. He stood there by the grave of
this great old preacher, this man who had given his life to
relieve suffering anguish and heartache to preach the gospel
and bring sinners unto the sound of the gospel, giving everything,
everything. And this man stood by the grave
of William Booth, and someone overheard him say this. As he
looked down at that tombstone and then looked back to heaven,
he said, Lord, do it again. Do it again. Raise up another William Booth.
Do it again. God will have to do it. The only
one who can take the luster off of the world is the grace of
God, the Spirit of God. The only one who can wean me
from these things of vanity is the Spirit of God. Come ye
out from among them Be ye separate, saith the Lord. All right, I told you a moment
ago to look at verse 34 and 35. Now I want to look at it in closing
of Luke 14. Luke 14, verse 34 and 35. Now listen carefully there. Our
Lord said, after he had made this statement, his terms of
surrender, Whosoever of you, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh
not all that he hath, He cannot be my disciple. Now he says salt
is good, but it's the salt that lost its savor, its strength, its characteristic. Wherewith
shall it be salted? It's not fit for the land, it's
not even fit for the dunghill. It won't do the dunghill any
good. He says salt, what's this, is
an excellent thing to make things tasty. That's what we use salt
for, to make things tasty, to keep them from being so flat.
Salt is good to preserve, to preserve from decay. But if salt
has lost its staying power, its preserving power, if it's lost
its strength, if salt does not contain that ingredient which
makes it useful, It's good for nothing. It's not good for the
land, it's not good for the manure heap. It's not good anywhere. Now he said, you are the salt
of the earth. What is our strength? What is
our savor? What is that characteristic which
God uses as a salt preserving power in
this world, in our homes? in our circles, where we work,
in our churches. Well, it's the gospel of grace
which we preach. The gospel of grace, according
to the scripture, which we preach, which men believe. It's the message
of Christ. It's the life you live, the example
you set, which reveals God's grace to others, what God's done
for you. It's the fruit of the It's love,
it's joy, it's peace, it's kindness, it's meekness, it's generosity.
It's the attitude you manifest. That's your Savior. It's the
grace of God in you. Your attitude toward His Word,
your attitude toward His Church, your attitude toward His people,
your attitude toward yourself, your attitude toward Him. Now,
if these things are not there, You can finish it, can't you?
You're no good to the church or to the world. That's what
he's saying. These high-party religious professors
are no good to the world, for they're stumbling back to the
world, and they are an embarrassment to the church. You see what he's
saying? Now, if this thing is not going
to be an all-out gospel surrender, if this thing is not going to
be an all-out gospel commitment, don't play with it, because you
are no good for the land or the dunghill. Neither one of them
will claim you. If your heart is not on fire
with love for God and his gospel and his church, You're no good
to the church. But if you're a high-hearted
religious professor, you're stumbling block to the world. So you're not good for anything.
That's what Christ said. He said, You are neither hot
nor cold. How would you know one or the
other? A believer or an atheist. But you're lukewarm, therefore
I spit you out of my mouth. I don't want to be lukewarm.
I don't want to be cold. I'll walk with God, don't you?
These are his terms. These are his terms. Our Father in Heaven, thy Word
is sharp, powerful, like a two-edged sword, cutting away the rotten
flesh, and yet healing. We pray that Thy Spirit, using
Thy Word, will operate on these hearts and lives of ours. May
Thy Spirit bring us to the altar where we consecrate, where we
dedicate ourselves to Thee. Here I am, Lord, all of me. I give not just my possessions
and not just my time and my talents, I give myself. Use me for thy glory, but chiefly
reveal Christ to my heart. Do that work of grace that only
the Holy Spirit can do. Bring me to hate that which the
nature of man loves, and to love that which the nature of man
hates. grant a continual knowledge of
our insufficiency and of our sins, deliver us from self-righteousness,
but bring us to Christ and Christ alone. We pray in His name. Amen.

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