The document discusses the concept of surrendering to God, emphasizing that true surrender involves submitting to His will rather than trying to control one's own life. It outlines different perspectives on surrendering and argues that genuine submission leads to spiritual fulfillment and the resolution of life's struggles. Ultimately, it asserts that only through surrendering to God can individuals overcome sin and cultivate a meaningful relationship with their Creator.

1. Surrendering To GodSurrendering To God
Have You Taken The SecondHave You Taken The Second
Step?Step?

2. What is Surrendering?

3. Use As A Verb
sur·ren·der
• sə rendər/ˈ
• verb
• verb: surrender; 3rd person present: surrenders; past tense:
surrendered; past participle: surrendered; gerund or present
participle: surrendering
• 1.
• cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.
• "over 140 rebels surrendered to the authorities"
• synonyms: capitulate, give in, give (oneself) up, give way, yield,
concede (defeat), submit, climb down, back down, cave in, relent,
crumble;

4. Use as A Nooun
• noun
• noun: surrender; plural noun:
surrenders
• 1.
• the action of surrendering.
• synonyms:capitulation, submission,
yielding, succumbing, acquiescence;

5. How Do We Think About
Surrendering?
• Most times when we think about
surrendering we think about it in terms of a
fight. We equate it to struggling with doing
what we want to do rather than us doing
what God would have us to do. Most of us
believe that the act of giving your life to
Christ is equal to surrendering your life to
Christ. We are wrong when we believe
this.

6. Perspective 1
God Gives us Free Will
• God may be God and he may be almighty,
but he doesn’t really know what it is I want
so I need to show God how my life should
be lived. You have determined you will live
your life the way you want to and God will
bend his will to accommodate you. God
has given you free will to make the choices
you do and consequences may or may not
follow.

7. Perspective 2
God Knows My Heart
• God knows I am good person and he knows
I am going to fail because God knows man
cannot be perfect and therefore he will
forgive for my sins and I can start over. He
has already forgiven me for the sins of my
past and the sins of my future so if I don’t
honor his will all the time he understands.
God has my back.

8. Perspective 3
I Can Totally Give Myself to
Christ at Heaven’s Door and Roll
On Into Heaven
• My personal favorite. Live life with no
respect to anyone but yourself even though
you know its outside of God’s will. I am
going to get mine’s now.
Turn it Up!

9. Remember You Are Storing
Treasures in Heaven
• Matthew 6:19-21
• King James Version (KJV)
• 19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal:
• 20
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through nor steal:
• 21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.

10. Key to God’s Treasure Chest
In order to store up treasures you have to
submit to the will of God. You must
surrender

11. Jesus Died on the Cross
• Jesus Christ, died on a Roman cross as
recorded in Matthew 27:27-56, Mark 15:21-
38, Luke 23:26-49, and John 19:16-37.
Christian theology teaches that Christ's
death provided the perfect atoning sacrifice
for the sins all mankind, thus making the
crucifix, or cross, one of the defining
symbols of Christianity.

12. Scriptures on Why Jesus Died?
• Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned
to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him [Jesus] the iniquity of us
all.
• John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,
“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
• Romans 3:25 God presented Him [Jesus] as a sacrifice of atonement,
through faith in His blood.
• Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His love for us in this: While we
were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 Corinthians 15:3 …Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures.
• 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin for
us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

13. • Hebrews 2:17 For this reason He [Jesus] had to be made like His
brothers in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and
faithful high priest in service to God, and that He might make
atonement for the sins of the people.
• Hebrews 9:28 Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of
many people; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to
bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.
• 1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that
we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you
have been healed.
• 1 John 2:1-2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not
sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in
our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning
sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the
whole world.
• 1 John 4:10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us
and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

14. Surrendering is The Second Step
• Jesus chose to be crucified. The death of Jesus was an act
of surrendering because he submitted to the will of God.
He had the power to stop the crucifixion but he did not.
• Jesus said: "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30). Jesus
chose not to save Himself. He went to His crucifixion
willingly to be killed like a lamb going to slaughter. He did
this because, as we learn in John 3:16 He loved us: "God
so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that
whosoever believes on Him would not perish but have
eternal life."

15. Have You Taken The Second
Step?

16. Surrendering Requires
Submission
• When we commit our lives to Christ we simply
recognize the fact that Jesus Christ died upon the
cross for our sins. We aren’t taking an affirmative
step but we are showing our reverence for the
power of Christ.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all your
heart and lean not on your own understanding; in
all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make
your paths straight (or: will direct your paths)

17. Surrendering is Spiritual
Surrendering is a spiritual act but we confuse
it with the natural and physical act of
fighting in the flesh.

18. Why Should You Surrender?
We Cannot Help Ourselves. We, on our own, are
not smart enough, nor are we strong enough, to get
ourselves out of the situations in which we find
ourselves. These situations can be anything that is
keeping us from being all that God desires us to
be: Drugs, sex, alcohol, money, movies, whatever.
When you are moving from a place where you
either shouldn't be or don't want to be to a place
where you either ought to be or want to be, God
must be in control.

19. It is impossible for any of us on our own to overcome sin. We
cannot get ourselves out of a problem that plagues all
mankind. We need to submit to God because we cannot solve
our own problems.
• Isaiah 53:4-6 - Surely he took up our infirmities and
carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by
God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for
our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by
his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone
astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the
LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

20. God Fills our Emptiness.
Submission will get us where we need to go. We were created to have
communion with our Creator. When our first parents rebelled against
God in the Garden of Eden the intimacy of that communion was lost.
Mankind as a whole got lost and wandered away from God. Whether
we know it or not the one thing that all people lack is that communion
with our Creator, it is the one thing we all are looking for but many of
us are so blind to it that we replace it with smaller things. Things like:
Wealth, power, sex, fame, society, knowledge, liquor, drugs, and so
on. These are created things and as such they can never fill the great
emptiness inside of us. Instead we are left noticing that emptiness even
more and we go down in a vicious spiral of dependency and
desperation. The vast emptiness within us can be filled by God alone.
The one place to which we all aspire, whether we know it or not, is the
throne of God and it is only through submission to Him that we will be
able to reach that destination.

21. God Can Deliver Anyone
• Psalm 34:3-7 - Glorify the LORD with me; let us
exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and
he answered me; he delivered me from all my
fears. Those who look to him are radiant; their
faces are never covered with shame. This poor
man called, and the LORD heard him; he saved
him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD
encamps around those who fear him, and he
delivers them.

22. Let God Fight Your Battles
• Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the LORD, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

23. Surrender Control
If your sinful nature controls your
mind, there is death. But if the
Holy Spirit controls your mind,
there is life and peace.
– Romans 8:6

24. God Doesn’t Negotiate
(God) cannot bless us unless he
has us. When we try to keep
within us an area that is our own,
we try to keep an area of death.
Therefore, in love, He claims all.
There's no bargaining with Him.
C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”

25. Only God Can Free You From
Sin’s Control
…there is another law at work within me that is
at war with my mind. This law wins the fight
and makes me a slave to the sin that is still
within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am!
Who will free me from this life that is
dominated by sin? Thank God! The answer is
in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is:
In my mind I really want to obey God's law,
but because of my sinful nature I am a slave
to sin.
– Romans 7:23-25

26. God Removes Guilt
Keep me from deliberate sins!
Don't let them control me. Then I
will be free of guilt and innocent
of great sin. – Psalms 19:13

27. How To We Submit?
1. Trust God
2. Permit God To Guide Us
3. Yield to God’s Control

28. Trust God
We must realize that God can be trusted. God is completely trustworthy and always has
only our best interests at heart. We have nothing to fear from God. He may be infinitely
greater that us in every way but it is because of that difference that we can trust Him. He
is not petty. He is not given to mood swings. He is not out for Himself. We can trust that
in all ways He seeks our good so that we can become what He has designed us to be. In
the letter to the Roman Christians we find these words:
Romans 5:6-10 - You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good
man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by
his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if,
when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son,
how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
If God was willing to do this great thing of salvation while we were still His enemies
how much more will He do for us now that we are His children. If God could be trusted
to love us when we hated Him, how much more can He be trusted to love us now that we
love Him.

29. Permit God to Guide Us
• We must permit God to be our guide. It is all well and good to say that the
roadmap you have in your hand is trustworthy, that it tells the truth, that it has
been prepared by the best mapmaker on earth. No matter how trustworthy the
map is it will never help me reach my destination if I do not look at it and
follow its direction. Sometimes we can get lost even with a roadmap if we fail
to look at it. Some people have even gotten lost with a GPS because they
didn’t trust the directions. We often treat God the way we treat roadmaps and
GPS. We may believe that He is the best of all possible Gods and is always
completely trustworthy. We may even believe that God is real and is
completely honest and loving in all His dealings with humanity. Yet if we
never allow Him to be our guide this knowledge is worse than useless, doing
us absolutely no good while causing us unbelievable harm. We need to be able
to stop directing our own lives and allow God to do the directing for us.
•

30. Let God Drive!
• Proverbs 16:1-3 - To man belong the plans of the heart,
but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue. All a
man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed
by the LORD. Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and
your plans will succeed.
•
• If you are being driven somewhere by someone the only
way you will get there is to let them drive. God has a goal
for us that can only be found by letting Him lead us to it.

31. Yield To God’s Control
• Yield. We must yield to God's control. Isaiah, a prophet of the Old
Testament, was given these words of comfort by God to speak to the people of
Israel in spite of their turning their backs on God and the punishment that hung
above them because of this:
•
• Isaiah 30:19-21 - O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no
more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he
will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the
water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes
you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will
hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."

32. You Cannot Make It Own Your
Own!
• Many of us go through our lives as though we are free agents. We
carry the concept of a loving God around with us in our back pocket as
a comforting presence but in reality we have bought into our society's
lie that we can make it on our own. God is not a back pocket God. He
is not a convenient power that we can pull out when we mess up and
need Daddy to fix it. He asks us to trust Him and let Him be our guide
•
• Psalms 32:8 - I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should
go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
•

33. Ask God For Help?
• God will only be our guide if we allow Him to, if we say to Him:
"God, I'm not capable of doing this on my own, please help me go the
right way." Each of us needs to realize, to believe, that we cannot get
ourselves out of the messes that we get ourselves into. Only God is
able to do this.
• We cannot remove ourselves from the power of whatever is
controlling our lives but God can. On our own we are trapped but if
we allow God to have His way with us then instead of walking along
to our deaths we can look forward to life both now and for eternity.
Words about submission will not make you submit. You can be told
why submission is necessary, but you have to make the decision to
submit to God. You must be willing to allow God to guide you.

34. Test Yourself
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and
he will make your paths straight (or: will direct your paths)
This is perhaps the best test of whether or not we are submitting to
God: Are we acknowledging Him in all our ways? Is there any part of
our life where God is not allowed, any area where we are unwilling to
experience communion with God? Through Jesus' life, death, and
resurrection our broken communion with God has been restored. Once
we are able to have fellowship with God and enjoy it we will no
longer will treat God as a map lying closed on the seat beside us but
He will become our guide, active in every aspect of our lives.

35. SURRENDER
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