Topic: Look-Alikes: The Surrender of Paul [David Jeremiah Ministry 6 July  2024 | Turning Point Ministries]

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Look-Alikes: The Surrender of Paul

JULY 6, 2024

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
Philippians 3:8

 Recommended Reading: Philippians 2:5-8

The idea of surrender is to choose not to resist and to submit to authority. We think of surrender most readily in military terms, but surrender is also experienced personally.

The most consequential act of surrender in history happened when Jesus chose not to resist His Father’s will for Him to die on a cross: “Nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42). All disciples of Jesus are called to surrender in the same way—to be willing to take up our own cross (Luke 14:27). Paul’s surrender to Christ is the most dramatic in history. Having been the chief persecutor of Christ’s followers, Paul surrendered to Christ beginning with an encounter on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19). That act led to a lifetime of surrender in which he gave up everything in order to live for Christ.

If you are a disciple of Christ, contemplate the degree of your surrender to Him and any resistance you feel.

I surrender all, I surrender all; all to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.
Judson W. Van de Venter

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