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Imagine - Surrendering to Surrender |
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Sunday, August 19 2007 |
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by Senior Pastor Denis Beausejour
Series: Imagine Outlines are in your Imagine Journal. Get your copy from someone at the Information Desk in the Parish Center lobby, or download a copy here.
Message 2: Surrendering to Surrender Luke 12:34: For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. {NIV}
Matthew 25:14: Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. {NIV} Defined Realities of Surrender: 1. God ___________________ ______________________. 2. God ___________________ ______________________. 3. God holds all ___________________ ______________________. Matthew 25:21: “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You havebeen faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and shareyour master’s happiness!’” {NIV}
4. Good and ___________________ trustees provide a ___________________ . 5. Wicked and ___________________ trustees provide ___________________ . Matthew 25:24–27 24: Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ 26His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have notscattered seed? 27Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.’ {NIV}
6. ___________________ comes with ___________________ surrender. Come and share your master’s happiness!
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