Full Transcript for Salvation

dreams. 30 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.479 Hmm Right. So the way that I look at it is there's a 31 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:13.360 guy that shows up at my house every Monday and he does me a massive 32 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.240 favor. Been I mean this guy does me a massive favor. He basically 33 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.639 shows up somewhere between seven and nine a m in the morning and I have 34 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:27.680 to I have to do some things to get ready for his arrival and basically 35 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.199 between six and thirty, all week long, we live however we want, 36 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.280 we drink what we want, eat what we want, and then what we 37 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.840 do is, when we're done with it, we put put it in this 38 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:40.080 little compartment, into this plastic bag, and in that plastic bag, when 39 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:46.520 it gets full or it starts stinking, somebody from my house, not going 40 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.400 to lie, most of the time it's my bride, yeah, takes this 41 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.400 plastic bag out of this container and takes it out to a different container outside, 42 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:59.280 and then somewhere between six and six am, we roll this little container 43 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.960 out to the herb and a man by the name of trash man that I 44 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.360 have no relationship with, I pay him a little bit of money to do 45 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.680 me a massive favor. He comes and gets all the garbage that I don't 46 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:14.000 want. And a lot of US treat Jesus like our trash man. We 47 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.319 give him our sin, our sickness or regret, our guilt, our shame, 48 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:23.800 but we never really surrender our life and what I've found is when someone 49 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:28.800 fully surrenders their life to Jesus, it makes all the difference in the world. 50 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.639 HMM Boy, that's powerful. Yeah, and I think for me the 51 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:35.879 toughest part, I mean, like you mentioned the trash man type thing. 52 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.240 I think one of the things that you don't think about, though, is 53 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:44.520 surrendering your choices, surrendering your future somewhat, and I think that's tough because, 54 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.120 as Americans, like you mentioned, I think we're taught that I've got 55 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.960 to be self sufficient, I'm in control, and I think that we think 56 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.919 of that as a power thing. But when you look at it in reality, 57 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.879 like one of the strongest examples of faith that I love is Joshua and 58 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.240 the Old Testament, you look at Joshua and so basically, like, in 59 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.840 terms of the narrative, right the Israelites have moved into the promised land. 60 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:10.599 They have had to wait forty years to get in and now they're there and 61 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.639 they have these enemies that are in front of them and Joshua is tasked to 62 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.199 lead Israel after its greatest leader ever, Moses, had just died. So 63 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:21.120 now it's on Joshua. He's got to be the guy yeah, he's got 64 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.519 to be strong, worry, be that guy, right. And what happens 65 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.000 in that one of our best examples in the Bible. What does he do? 66 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.360 He doesn't make the choice of for himself. Every time he comes up 67 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.000 to a new city or a new obstacle. What does it say? He 68 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.639 does? He seeks out the Lord. Come on, what does he say? 69 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.560 You're going to do right. And it's just so powerful to me. 70 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.279 Like, you know, we look at that maybe and we're like, you 71 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.720 know, maybe that's weakness. You're like, that's weakness. Why is he 72 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.240 not making decisions from Solfway as you always have to stop and wait. But 73 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.959 he's trusting the Lord that I'm surrendered to your will here. If you're in 74 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.879 it, it's going to turn out well. Absolutely, and so it's something's 75 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:01.319 really hard for us to do, I think, but it's worth it. 76 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.920 It's well and it because, again, let me highlight that what you said. 77 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:11.480 We look at surrender as weakness. There's a term by the name, 78 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.600 by the the term is meekness. HMM. And if you actually think about 79 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:20.439 it, picture this a great big clot Clydesdale Horse Horse Right, this thing 80 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:26.560 is massive. It probably is not going to be easily controlled. Sure, 81 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.360 but the thing that's great about that, Clydesdale, is its meekness and basically, 82 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:35.800 if you actually look at it, it's strength under control. Jesus was, 83 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.959 above all things, meek, yet he was the most powerful human that's 84 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.319 ever walked the face of the earth. M He didn't repay evil for evil. 85 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.600 He walked, he humbled himself, he served people. And so when 86 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:53.079 we surrender to the will of God, when we surrender our lives to Jesus, 87 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.519 what we're doing is we're putting our strength under control, that it's not 88 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:01.560 going to harm us, but we're actually proving that we trust the one in 89 00:06:01.600 -->

00:06:06.759 whom we are surrendering too. And so when we surrender our lives to Jesus, 90 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:13.279 everything else follows. So, getting into this, this devotional there's going 91 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.439 to be steps, like if you do this step and this step and this 92 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.199 step. The reality of it is, if it doesn't start with surrender, 93 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:23.480 you'll never do any of those other steps, or if you do, you're 94 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:27.519 just checking off a box. You're not actually living it, because if you 95 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.600 surrender your life to Jesus, you're no longer going to do the things that 96 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.399 you once did or the things that are going to be detrimental or harmful to 97 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:39.480 yourself, your marriage, your future, your family. You're going to be 98 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:43.959 living a different life. Why? Because you've surrendered unto him and now he's 99 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:50.160 releasing new authority, new power, new strength to you. Because it's not. 100 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.040 You know, God, here's my life, and then we get nothing 101 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:59.040 in return. God, as we release what's in our hands, God releases 102 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.079 what's in his hands. But we have to ask the question whose hands are 103 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.480 bigger? WHO's going to benefit more? Right, I know it's in my 104 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:11.279 life. I'm like, Dear God, you're getting ripped off. I'm ripping 105 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.079 you off by giving you my life, but yet at the same time we 106 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.360 don't see what our life is, what's available for life and what's capable for 107 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:27.079 our life. But when it's in his hands, everything changes. I love 108 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.759 that. Yeah, I think that. You know, when it comes to 109 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:35.160 God, right, he he lets us wander. And one of my favorite, 110 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.519 you know, Bible stories is when Jesus talks about the prodigal son, 111 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:44.759 and the prodigal son he's living with his father and he decides, you know, 112 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.759 I want my inheritance and I'm leaving. I want to get out of 113 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.879 here. Basically, and the father says, all right, go ahead, 114 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:54.240 he gives it to him and he goes on this run of ruin. Right, 115 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.839 he goes and he's waste all of his money, he ends up at 116 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:03.399 rock bottom and he comes back walking down the street, I imagine, tears 117 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.560 in his eyes, a failure, and his father welcomes him back. And 118 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.079 so you know, the Lord is going to let you make choices and go 119 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.279 away, but you got to remember that he wants you to be a part 120 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.519 of his plan, he wants you to be with him and he wants to, 121 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.079 you know, welcome you back with open arms. So, if you're 122 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.800 that guy right now, if you're that lady right now that is out there, 123 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.720 you feel like you're wandering, you feel like try a ton of things 124 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.799 to get happy, feel like you're a failure in this moment and that the 125 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.600 Lord couldn't take you back, that he will. Trust me, not only 126 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.720 will he take you back, but here's the thing that we've got to remember. 127 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.440 Here's this kid in the par if you're not familiar with the prodigal son 128 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.120 story, yeah, he basically tells his dad, I can't wait for you 129 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.159 to die. Ye, give me my inheritance, now and he goes and 130 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.279 swanders it and waste it and then he's found in a pigspin and a lot 131 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.919 of us will find ourselves, whether drug addictions, whether it being lifestyles that 132 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.159 we never thought depression, fear, whatever it is that we're going through, 133 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.279 we find ourself in this mess. But there's this memory that comes and serves 134 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.720 him very well at the right moment. This son's in this pigspen and he 135 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.639 said, even in my father's house, even the hired servants have it better 136 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.639 than what I have right now. And he realized the goodness, the kindness, 137 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.720 the gentleness and the generosity of his father and he said, I will 138 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.480 go back and I will repent to him. I'll say I'm not even worthy 139 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.679 of being his son, but I'm going to go back to my father. 140 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.399 Here's a couple of quick things. Number one, we're not going to find 141 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:45.440 that forgiveness until we get up and leave the address of where we are. 142 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.200 We have to be willing to surrender where we are to go to where he 143 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.200 is right there. It was on the road of return that he found his 144 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.159 father, not in the pigspen. Yep, it was the idea that found 145 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.000 him in the pigspen. But he said, Hey, listen, I've got 146 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.039 to leave this place, and he said I got to go surrender myself to 147 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.879 my dad. That meant I can't I've not only got to leave the address 148 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.360 of this place, but I

got to leave the practice of this place, 149 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.000 what brought me here in the first place. And he gets there and all 150 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.159 the sudden the father embraces him, he's running to him. He's not angry. 151 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.559 Right. Yeah, and here's the beauty of this for whoever's listening to 152 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:26.440 this right now, is he sees his father and his father's responding to him 153 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.840 differently than what he thought. He thought his father would be angry. God's 154 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.159 not angry with you. God's not mad at you, he's mad about you. 155 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.480 He's his love is not based on you or what you've done. It's 156 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.600 placed on you because of who he is. He loves his children unconditionally. 157 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.879 So here comes his father, he runs and embraces his son and his son 158 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.799 is just sitting there, just overwhelmed, and he pushes his father off. 159 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.440 Yeah, and he says, father, forgive me, and he goes through 160 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.960 this whole repentance thing. I don't deserve this, I don't deserve this. 161 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.200 I'm not worthy to be called your son. See, there were a couple 162 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.200 of things that he knew about his father, but there was a couple of 163 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.320 things that he didn't know about his father. Number one, there were no 164 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.879 help wanted signs in the window looking for hiring a servant. He had a 165 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:16.000 missing. Have you seen my son? And he was not looking at another 166 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:20.039 servant. He wanted his son back. He'd this son didn't realize his dad 167 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.360 he was anxiously awaiting his return. And he also didn't realize that his father 168 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.240 had not given him his entirety of his inheritance, and it was not about 169 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.679 the presence that he gave him, but the presence of where he would find 170 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.639 him. HMM. And so, whoever's listening to this right now, if 171 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:46.720 you truly want to embrace faith in the fast life and live for God and 172 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:50.039 get closer than you ever have, you have to get very comfortable and you 173 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:56.200 have to take on this understanding that in order for any of it to start, 174 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:01.360 it has to start with surrendering your life to Jesus and saying running to 175 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.679 the cross and saying, Hey, listen, I'm not worthy, but I'm 176 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.679 not going to stop. What I feel from stopping me from what you've got 177 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:15.480 available and your love, your grace, your forgiveness and your mercy. I 178 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.879 need like more than the air that I breathe and more than the beating of 179 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:24.960 my heart. And all he is is one call away, one step away. 180 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.840 When we surrender our life, God releases His grace, mercy, love 181 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:35.759 and it may not be deserved, but I can't live without it. So, 182 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:37.120 Jamie, how do I take that step? What does that look like 183 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.000 for me to pick myself up out of the pig pen and start to head 184 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.240 down that road? What does that look like for us in Twos and twenty 185 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.480 two? Yes, a very, very great question. Very simple answer. 186 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.879 You realize where you are, you realize what you need. Number One, 187 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.679 I'm away from God and I need him. And wherever I am, whether 188 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.240 it be at a skate park, whether it be in a parking lot outside 189 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.360 of a bar, whether it be in my marriage is falling apart, wherever 190 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.200 you are in your life, you just realize, hey, listen, where 191 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.759 I am is not where I was created to be, and it's not necessarily 192 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.120 just an address or a position or a condition. It's realizing God, I'm 193 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.519 not where I need to be with you. And then, when we surrender 194 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:26.519 to that idea, we have to go okay, God, I've done I've 195 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:30.399 done what I've done. Now I need you to do what you can do 196 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.440 and I need you to come into my life. I need you to be 197 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.840 my Lord, I need you to be my savior, I need you to 198 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.559 be my very best friend, I need you to be my everything. And 199 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.759 I'm not looking at just giving you the trash today. I'm looking at giving 200 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.600 you my life, because in all reality, Jesus, I realize that you 201 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.879 did not die on the Cross and suffer the way that you did to just 202 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:56.080 get my garbage. You didn't die for my sin, you died for my 203 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.600 life. And so, therefore, as I give you my life, I'm 204 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:07.399 asking that we trade and now I receive your life and your life is more 205 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.399 abundantly and it's a very simple prayer. It's not necessarily even the words that 206 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.240 you say. You just cry out to Jesus and ask him to be your 207 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.399 Lord and Savior and surrender everything, and he will say yes, he's

waiting 208 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.399 for you to ask. He is waiting, yes, waiting for you to 209 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.759 ask to be back with him. And there's literature in the Bible. It 210 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.240 talks about the angel. Celebrate when you come back, when just one sin 211 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.679 and returns home. Yep, and when the productal sign came back, what 212 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:37.960 do they do? They through a party. They threw a party for him. 213 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.799 So what's what's a step? So say somebody wants to want have surrended 214 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.399 their life. How do they get connected with local churches? Where they're at 215 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.240 Jamie? What does that look like? A couple different things. Number One, 216 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.440 there's churches everywhere, but you want to sit in the pews of a 217 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.399 place that makes you squirm if you're not living right for God, one that 218 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.320 preaches the absolute truth of God's word, not necessarily opinions. You're not wanting 219 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:03.679 somebody that's going to stroke your ego or bad behavior. You're wanting someone that's 220 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:09.519 going to give you the word and not necessarily preach of opinion or denomination or 221 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.039 theory or theology, but one that just gives you the word and let you 222 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.559 know, hey, listen, there's a better life to live. You get 223 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:22.840 yourself. So you get yourself in a strong church. You you get yourself 224 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.840 and some type of a discipleship. You you begin to grow and learn. 225 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.799 You get a a Bible. I don't care if it's a Gideon's Bible. 226 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.679 You get in there and you begin to get in the word and as you 227 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:35.320 get into the word, the word begins to get in you. David said 228 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.399 this. He said he said I've hit in your word in my heart. 229 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.679 That I meant a sin against the when you begin to fill your heart with 230 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.000 God's word, it's as valuable as if him having a conversation like we're having 231 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.799 today. He's speaking. When you can't hear God's word, read God's word 232 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.679 and it begins to speak to you. So you get into a church, 233 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.440 you get into some discipleship where people are actively pouring into you to grow. 234 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.279 Then you get into the word and out of that you begin to share what 235 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.240 God's done in you, and it's amazing people that share what God's done in 236 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.840 them. They've mature faster in the Christian faith. Absolutely, Amen. Yeah, 237 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.360 and if you want to have somebody else to talk to, you can 238 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.919 reach out to salvation at fast life ministriescom. We've got this set up. 239 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.320 So send in your question. Send in what are you struggling with? What's 240 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.519 going well? Send that to us. Will shoot you a message right back 241 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.679 and we can also help you get connected to people wherever you're at, that 242 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:33.080 a strong Christians to help you to understand the step of surrender more so and 243 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.279 as well as follow these next eleven steps that are in this that are in 244 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.639 this book that you've got. So go give those a read, pray through 245 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:44.080 these and listen to the podcasts that are connected a lot of really smart and, 246 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.039 you know, impressive Christians that are following the Lord, that have surrendered 247 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:52.399 their lives to him and whatever facet of their life. You Got Surgeons, 248 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.600 we've got athletes, we've got pastors that I've talked about these steps how they've 249 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.919 affected them. So just keep working on it and the Lord's excited to have 250 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.079 you with him. That's amazing and man, I love it. Thank you 251 00:17:03.079 --> 00:17:04.200 for letting me share