God is My Lord, Owner and Master: Adonai, Despotes and Kurios

Sharing good news of great joy to all people.

Elation Church. Today's our last week in our

series that we've entitled, Hello, My Name is

God. This is week number 13. And you might say,

wow, are there 13 names of God? Well, in the

study, I think there's like 15 or 16 names. Just

some of them are very close together, and we

looked at them on the same week. Like today,

we're looking at three names. Out of the Bible,

for God. But they kind of condense into the same

name. And each week we've been talking about

this. What's in a name? What are names all about

anyway? Well, first of all, names can be about

identity. Everybody say identity. Names signify

identity. Now, when I was born, my parents didn't

name me before we left the hospital. And when

I wanted to play... football in the sixth grade.

Actually, it was a seventh grade. Yeah. When

I wanted to play football in the seventh grade,

I had to get a South Carolina birth certificate.

When that South Carolina birth certificate came

in, it had no name Forrest on it because my parents

didn't name me before we left the hospital. And

you might say, no, I'm serious. My birth certificate,

technically for the first 13 years of my existence,

my name. My official name in the state of South

Carolina was No Name Forrest. I mean, you can't

even make this stuff up. I couldn't play the

first two or three games because we had to get

my name changed to the name that I've gone by

my whole year, my whole life. Jeffrey Dean Forrest

is my full name. I just go by Dean most of the

time. I have another identity name, and that

is Christian. It's not just something I do or

something that I practice. It's who I am. It's

my identity because I am in Christ and I'm a

Christ follower. Names also signify relationship.

Everybody say relationship. We all have relationship

names, don't we? Now my mom, her relationship

name to me was baby because I was the youngest

of four. So it didn't matter how old I was. Even

when I was 50 years old, when my mom would introduce

me, she would introduce me as her baby first.

Do we have any other youngest siblings? I was

the youngest of four. My mom always said, this

is my baby. And then sometimes she would say

my name. Sometimes she wouldn't. But I was always

a baby. Dad never called me baby. He called me

son. When I got married to Gayna. I became a

husband. That's a relationship name. She doesn't

call me husband. That's not the way we talk to

each other. Most times she calls me honey. Unless

I've been bad. Unless I've said something to

upset her, then she might not call me honey.

I won't tell you what she calls me then. Really,

she just calls me nothing. When Jeffrey was born,

I became a father. But Jeffrey doesn't say, oh,

father, can I have $20? No, he doesn't. He doesn't

say that. He started out calling me Daddy, and

I forgot what age it was. He just dropped the

D -Y and just started calling me Dad. Those are

all relationship names. I'm also an uncle, a

cousin, all those things. Those are relationship

names. Everybody say relationship. So names also

signify activity. I've gone by some titles during

my life, and I still go by some titles. that

signify what I do, right? I've been a student.

I'm still a student. I don't know if I'll ever

finish out my PhD. I'm just slow writing papers

and reading books. I'm a student. I was a cook

in high school, cooked for Quincy's, cooked steaks

on the grill. I've been a salesman for a lumberyard,

a Nissan dealership. and I sold recording studio

packages. I've been a sound man. I've actually

got paid to run sound at events before. I was

a custodian for a while at Disney when I got

here. I was also a trainer and a coordinator

there. Gannon and I, because we already had two

jobs, we needed a third job when we were newly

married, and we cleaned offices. Three nights

a week, we would go clean offices after we got

off of our other jobs. I actually bought a screen

printing setup, and I was a screen printer. I

was an A &R director, artist and repertoire at

a record company, Southern Gospel Record Company.

I've been the vice president. I actually became

the vice president of Heart Look Records one

day. The boss walked in and gave me a business

card. It said, Dean Forrest, vice president.

I wish I still had those cards. They're probably

somewhere. I probably got a few of them. Here's

the deal. I got a title, but I didn't get a race.

So there was no difference in the normal pay

or the vice president pay. I found that out.

I've been the music director of state and national

organizations. I've been an event planner. I've

actually rented space in 10 different states.

I've been a crusade director. Area -wide crusade,

I directed three of those. I've been the president

of non -profit corporations and the president

of organizations. I've been the worship leader

at some events. One day I was a worship leader

at the Ryman Auditorium. Does anybody know what

the Ryman Auditorium is? It's where the Grand

Ole Opry started. It was in the Ryman Auditorium.

One day I was a worship leader there. I've been

a conference director. We had a youth conference

for over 20 years. I was on the road for over

20 years as an evangelist. I was a chaplain at

Lakewood Camper Resort. I'm also a volunteer

chaplain at Giovanni's right there on the corner.

I'm a preacher. Some people call me preacher.

Some people call me pastor. Some people call

me dean. Somebody wipe your head and say, that's

a lot. But for those of you who are new to this

series, you just found out a lot about me, didn't

you? That you didn't know. You might have thought

I was a preacher my whole life. I've done a lot.

Alright? So, over 29 names I've just shared with

you, but I'm one person. Some people, when you

talk about God having a lot of names, you might

be confused that there's a lot of gods. But God

is one essence in three persons. Okay? Are you

with me? Nod your head or something if you're

with me. God is one. Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

One essence. So, what's in a name? Identity,

relationship, and activity. And that's in God's

names too. And that's what this study's been

about. Because in God's names, we find out who

he is. His eternal name that he wants to be known

by for every generation for all time is Yahweh.

Everybody say Yahweh. That's his eternal name.

But then there's some relationship names. They

signify what kind of relationship he wants to

be in with me and with you. And then there's

some activity names. What he wants to do in our

lives. And you might say, well, if he wants to

do it, let him do it. But we have to receive

who he is by faith. I'll say that again. We have

to receive. It's not just that he is that. We

have to receive him as being that in our lives

by faith. Easiest example. The Bible says it's

not God's will that any should perish, right?

That's what the Bible says. It's not God's will

that any should perish, but that all should come

to repentance and believe in Him. So it's God's

will to save everybody, for Him to be Savior

for everybody. How many of you know that everybody

is not going to be saved by grace through faith?

Are you with me? You have to receive it. You

have to receive him as Savior in order for him

to be your Savior. He is Savior, but just because

he is Savior doesn't mean he's your Savior. Are

you with me? Come on, somebody. Y 'all lighten

up a little bit. I'm not talking about money

anymore. I'm talking about salvation. Right?

So. If we want to see God do the things that

he says he wants to do by telling us who he is,

then we've got to receive it by faith. Here's

our platform verse for this study. Psalm 910.

Those who know your name, everybody say God's

name. Those who know your name will put their

trust in you. For you, Lord, have not forsaken

those who seek you. Another translation of that

Hebrew word that's translated trust in English

is confidence. Everybody say confidence. So when

we know who God is based on His names given to

us in Scripture, then we can put our trust and

our confidence in Him. And we can know. Everybody

say, I can know. I can know who God is, what

He wants to do in my life, what kind of relationship

He wants to be in with me. I can know that. Because

He's not going to forsake me. He's not going

to turn His back on me when I seek Him based

on who He says He is. Today we're looking at

three names. First one is Hebrew. The next two

are going to be in Greek out of the New Testament.

Hello, my name is Adonai. Everybody say Adonai.

Have you heard that word Adonai before? Who has?

Who's heard that word? Adonai. Now, Adonai, I

don't know if this is the next slide or not.

Adonai is in the Old Testament over 450 times.

Look to the person beside you and say, that's

a lot. It's in there over 450 times. I'm going

to give you a way to distinguish. when the word

is Adonai and when the word is Yahweh. Is that

okay? So when you read your Bible, if all four

letters of Lord are all capitalized, I don't

know if you've noticed that in your Bible or

not, but if you read the word Lord and it's all

capital, that means that the Hebrew was Yahweh.

Okay? If it is not, all capitalize the word Lord,

it means that the Hebrew word was Adonai. All

right? So it's used over 450 times. So what does

that mean? What does Adonai mean? Well, it comes

from Adon, and it means to rule. It means sovereign.

Lord, master, ruler is the way it's translated

into English. So we can put it this way. My Lord

and respected authority. Everybody say that with

me. My Lord and respected authority. That means

he's my Lord and I respect his rule. I respect

his authority over my life. You know why I can

say I respect it? Because I've yielded the authority

of my life over to him. Then you can call him

Adonai from your heart. Now, some people take

that word sovereign and they try to make it mean

other things. The Christian doctrine of God's

sovereignty is not saying, listen, it's not saying,

everybody say not saying, it's not saying that

he is in meticulous control over everything that

happens on earth. It's not saying that. Some

people think that's what sovereignty means. God's

in control of everything. He's in meticulous

control of everything. I'm just going to go ahead

and throw it out there. If He is, He's messed

up. If He's in control of all the evil, if He's

in control of all the choices of sin that people

make, It can't be. It can't be. Because if it

is, then he's not good. He's like an evil puppet

master. So he's not in control of every meticulous

thing that happens. Now, he is supreme authority.

Hello? Everybody say, he's supreme authority.

He's supreme authority. I've got a little thing

to help you understand what I'm talking about.

King Charles III. He's known as the sovereign

king of the UK and the 14 commonwealths. Everybody

say sovereign. Just because he is the authority

over the UK and the 14 commonwealths does not

mean that he's responsible for 100 women burning

their scones this morning. Do you agree with

me? You can't hold him responsible. Now, he's

as high as it gets authority -wise in the UK

and the Commonwealth. He is the authority figure,

right? But those women didn't set the timer's

right or something. You can't blame that on the

king. I'm glad some of you smiled. Could you

blame it on him? No. Some people take that doctrine

of sovereignty to the point that God is in control

and responsible for everything that happens in

this earth and in their lives. Several years

ago, I had a pastor friend that posted this.

He said, I hate to even read it, but here's what

he posted. I believe the devil is more a servant

of God today after his fall than he was before

his fall. The devil is simply a tool. In God's

hands. God is trying to teach you something through

everything that happens to you. Now a preacher

posted this. If preachers are posting this, God

help us. Right? What's happening? I don't know.

I don't know what was happening. But I had to

change microphones. Did that one have a devil

in it or something? I don't know. Turn red. Oh,

you saw the battery about to burn out. Thank

you. All right, back to this. A preacher posted

this. Now, a lot of times people say things about

God and they don't think through. Look at the

person beside you and say, you've got to think

it through. Whatever you say about God, you better

think it through. Because what this pastor put

on social media about God, he might as well be

saying this. God runs a mafia organization, and

the mafia organization is of demons, and they

do his dirty work so that he can keep his hands

clean. Hello? If you think it through, that's

what he said. That's what he said. In that case,

if what he posted is true, all spiritual warfare,

all standing in the armor of God, all resisting

the devil would ultimately be fighting against

God. If God's bringing it, we shouldn't be against

it. Hello? I think half of you are with me. I

don't know about the rest of you. Years ago,

some friends told me, they were talking about

their son. They told me that God's plan. Everybody

say God's plan. Now, I know bad things happen,

all right? Bad things happen in relationships,

and bad things happen with addictions. But they

were telling me that this is God's plan. They

told me God's plan for their son, who had been

my pastor for three years. God's plan was for

him to get divorced and to become an alcoholic

so that God could eventually use him in a greater

way. And they told me that that was God's plan.

What are you saying? Think it through. Everybody

say, think it through. In that case, if what

they say was true, then God is the one who leads

us to sin. So repentance and holy living, that

would be going against God's bigger plan. Isn't

that crazy? To think that? Many people say God

made them sick to teach them something. Has anybody

ever heard that? God made me sick. God gave me

cancer because he needed to teach me something.

The Bible said, listen, Jesus said, if a little

kid asks his daddy for some bread, Would he give

him a snake? Is there a parent in this room that

you would want your child to get cancer so that

you could teach them something? So what are we

blaming on God? Come on somebody, help me. People

say that God made them sick to teach them something.

Now listen, God's in the business. of taking

whatever we're dealing with in this fallen world.

God's in the business. If we will look to Him

and trust Him, we can see something good. Even

in the middle of the most terrible situations

that we find ourselves in, we can see something

good. Are you with me? But God didn't bring the

tragedy. He didn't bring it. He's the one who

can bring some good out of it. Because in that

case, if God gave you a disease or if God gave

you cancer, going to the doctor, taking medicine,

praying for healing, we'd be working against

God. Look to the person beside you and remind

them, you've got to think it through. You've

got to think it through. so many people get it

wrong so many people hear a preacher say something

like that and then they go repeat it and nobody

has thought it through listen god is not the

author of evil god is not the author of disease

god is not the author of destruction god is not

the author of death All this, they're products

of rebellion and sin. That might not be a product

of your personal rebellion or sin. It could be

the product of somebody that you're connected

with, their rebellion of sin. But we're all connected

to Adam and Eve. If you go back far enough, we're

all connected. And that's when all of these things,

evil, disease, destruction, death, that's when

they all manifested in the world. It didn't come

from God. Some people say God's in control and

it's all God and God does this, God does that.

He's the one who puts all this evil on me and

all these things that I just talked about. I

call that a no -fault religion. And the reason

why so many people are okay with that is because

they don't want to take any responsibility. Hello?

People don't want to take responsibility. Like

Jeffrey said last week when we were looking at

Yahweh Rapha, the Lord is our healer. People

don't want to look at the responsibility that

they ate at McDonald's two times a day for ten

years and then they got some kind of disease.

We had a lady in Myrtle Beach. I preached her

funeral and she says, you know why I have stomach

cancer? Because I eat hot dogs with nitrates

twice a day every day. She owned up to it. Because

she just loved hot dogs. And she ate hot dogs

until the day she died. Now you can get them

nitrate -free. But she went 60 years of eating

hot dogs every day. And it says on the package,

I mean, you know, you look up nitrates, you can

see that it's not going to be good for you. She

knew. She didn't say God gave me cancer. She

said I gave myself cancer because I ate nitrates

every day. Hello? But some people want to blame

God for their predicament. And sometimes their

words and their actions are responsible for where

they are. Psalm 105. The Lord. Everybody say

Adonai. For the Lord. He's good. Look to the

person beside you and smile real big and say,

God's good. Adonai is good. His unfailing love

continues forever. His faithfulness continues

to each generation. That's who Adonai is. Adonai.

He rules and reigns as my respected authority.

And when we call Him Lord, We're saying that

that's who He is. We're not just saying a word.

Hello? We're not just saying the word Lord, because

you can say the word Lord and Him not be your

Lord. We'll look at that in just a minute. You

can say that He's Lord, but to say that He is

Adonai means that you have given Him authority

over your life. Somebody smile. Hello, my name

is... I'm going to cheat and look at the phonetic

here. Despates. Despates. Hello, my name is Despates.

That means he's absolute ruler. And it comes

from the root word, deo, which means to bind.

To bind. So... when we call Jesus Lord, we're

saying that He is the absolute ruler of our lives.

Here's what it's saying. I have bound myself

to Him. He's bound Himself to me. We're bound

together. So He is my Lord and He is my owner.

If Jesus is Lord, If He really is Lord, you've

got to agree that He owns you. And here's why

He's owned you. Because He bought you with a

price. What was that price? His blood. He bought

us. He bought us. He is my Lord and He is my

owner. 2 Peter 2 .1 But there were also false

prophets. Everybody say false prophets. False

prophets in Israel, just as there were false

teachers, there will be false teachers among

you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies,

listen, and even deny the master. Everybody said

despates, Lord. They will even deny the Lord

who bought them. So it's heresy, it's false doctrine.

unless we recognize that Jesus paid a price for

us and He bought us. See, we're all born being

a slave to sin. Hello? We're all born being a

slave to sin. But when we receive Christ as our

Lord and acknowledge Him as Lord, the Holy Spirit

takes us from being a slave to sin into being

in Christ. We were in sin. He moves us to being...

In Christ. He bought us. And it's a heresy. If

you do not look to Jesus as being your owner,

many believe that God exists. And they think

if they believe that God exists, that they're

good. Many believe that He exists, but... There's

a lot of people who believe that God exists and

they've never surrendered the ownership rights

of their lives to Him. They've never done that.

God exists. Okay, I believe that, so now I've

got a fire insurance policy, so now I can just

go about my life however I want to. Somebody

say false doctrine. It's not true. James 2, 19.

You say you have faith, for you believe that

there's one God. Good for you. Even the demons

believe this. Fallen one -third of the angels,

the demons, they believe that there's a God and

that there's one God. I mean, they've seen it,

right? They believe that, but how many of you

know that's not faith unto salvation? It's different.

Denying or not recognizing that we belong to

God, that we were purchased by the blood of Jesus,

is an indicator of false doctrine and counterfeit

faith. I don't normally preach this hard. I feel

like I'm preaching hard today. Sometimes we need

dogmatic preaching. This is the way it is. And

we need to hear it. We need to receive it. 1

Corinthians 6, 19. Don't you realize that your

body, everybody say my body, if you're in Christ,

this is talking about you, don't you realize

that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit

who lives in you and was given to you by God?

Listen to what it says. You do not belong to

yourself. How do we live our lives? Come on,

somebody. How do we live our lives most of the

time? Most of the time we live our lives like

we belong to ourselves. And God is just somebody

who we occasionally come visit on Sunday morning.

And our life is just about me, me, me, me, me,

me, me. Listen, you do not belong to yourself

for God bought you with a high price. You've

been bought. One more. Everybody say one more.

Hello. My name is... I don't know if I'm going

to say it right. Let me look at phonetics again.

Coup. Coup. Got some phlegm in my esophagus.

Coup. Courios. Courios. Kurios. Hello, my name

is Kurios. Here's what that means. Supreme in

authority. My Lord and Master. That's who God

is. Romans 10, 9. You might have heard this verse

before. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus

is Kurios, Lord. And believe in your heart that

God raised him from the dead. You will be saved.

He will become your Savior. Listen. When you

confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord

and Master. Do you think he's just using those

words? Or do you think there has to be some understanding

and implication to what this says? Is it just

saying the word Lord? Oh, I said the word Lord

one day, and I believe that he was raised from

the dead, so I'm saved because I've said the

word Lord. Here's what Jesus said. On judgment

day, many, everybody say many, many will say

to me, Kurios, Kurios. We prophesied in your

name, cast out demons in your name, performed

many miracles in your name. So Jesus, I've done

a lot of religious stuff in your name. Done a

lot of religious stuff. So you've got to let

me in because I'm a very religious person. You

know? What did Jesus say? But I will reply, I

never knew you. These are some tough words. But

I'd be wrong if I didn't tell it to you. Right?

I'd be cheating you. Because now nobody in this

room can look at me and say, Dean, why didn't

you tell me the truth? I thought as long as I

was a good religious person that I was going

to get to heaven. And as long as I just said

the word Lord, I was going to heaven. But Jesus

said, no, there's going to be a lot of people

who say, Lord, Lord. And they've even done some

really religious stuff. Even beyond just going

to church, even every Sunday, right? They're

prophesying. They're saying, I'm speaking for

God. This is what God's saying, you know. So

they had enough religion and maybe even enough

word of God to say, well, this is what God says

about what you're doing. But here's the problem.

They missed out on Lord. They missed out. Because

Lord is a relationship name. Remember, I said

some names are identity, some names are relationship,

some names are activity. Lord is full on a relationship

name. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord,

Kurios, will be saved. Everyone who says, Jesus,

I call on you to be, My Lord and my Master, Jesus,

I surrender my life to you. You're my supreme

authority. You own me. You bought me. So I'm

going to live for you and follow you. My life's

just not going to be about me all the time. I'm

going to live for you. Right? Isn't that what

we do if he's our owner and our master? If he's

our authority, if we respect him as our authority,

don't we live for him instead of just living

for ourselves? Everyone who calls on the name

of the Lord will be saved. So Adonai, despotis,

kurios, they're more than just identifiers. Because

many will say, Lord, Lord, as an identification.

But Jesus said, you know, you're using the word

Lord, but I've never been your Lord in relationship.

Isn't that what he said? Because he said, sorry,

never knew you. We know God's name. We can put

our faith, we can put our trust, we can put our

confidence in him. For you, Lord, Adonai, have

not forsaken those who seek you. When you call

on the name of the Lord, let me tell you something.

When you say to Jesus, I surrender my life to

you, you know what? You can be confident that

he's going to receive you. That He's going to

forgive you. That His blood on the cross purchased

you. And even in that understanding, guess what?

You become a child of God. You become a joint

heir with Christ. You get adopted into the family

of God. But we still understand who He is and

what He has done for us. And we stay in that

relationship with Him. His name is Adonai. Despotes.

Kurios. Some people call Christianity itself

the great confession. Everybody say the great

confession. Here's the great confession. Jesus

is Lord. Would you say that with me? Jesus is

Lord. Can we put it like this? Jesus is my Lord.

Here's what I want you to get today. He is Lord

and wants to be Lord over everything. Listen.

There's coming a day when He is going to be recognized

as Lord of all. The Bible says there's a day

when every knee will bow. Have any of you ever

met somebody who was a sure enough atheist who...

Didn't just know if God existed or not, but they

were working against God. They were against God.

Their knees are going to bow one day. When they

stand before Jesus on judgment day, their knees

are going to bow. And they're going to confess

this great confession that Jesus is Lord. Because

they're going to see it, but it's going to be

too late. See, we exist on this earth. If you

ever want to know why you're here, you're here

to have the opportunity to come into a relationship

with God. That's why you're still alive today.

That's why we exist. Will you make the choice?

To love God and to accept Jesus as your Savior

and Lord. That's why we exist. If we only saw

our lives that way every day, I believe it would

make a difference in the way we lived our lives.

And I want to tell you today, God will be Lord

over whatever... You surrender to him. I'll say

that again. God will be Lord. Jesus will be Lord

over whatever you surrender to him. Most important

thing is that you surrender yourself to him.

But did you know that you could surrender your

family to him? Did you know that you could surrender

your home to him? Do you know that you could?

Surrender your business to Him? Did you know

that you could confess with me that Jesus is

Lord over four corners? We can stand by faith

in that, that Jesus is Lord over all 172 communities?

See, when you surrender it to Him, when you surrender

your job to Him, when you surrender your business

to Him, when you surrender your family to Him,

then you can see Him at work. But if you don't

surrender to Him as Lord, then it's yours. You're

the Lord over it. How many of you know it's a

whole lot better to let Jesus be Lord over it

than you to be Lord over it? Come on, somebody.

Real quick. If you're here today and you cannot

look back on your life and see a time. Now listen,

I'm not saying a time when you repeated some

words after somebody because you got emotional

during something going on. Can you look back

to a time in your life where you found yourself

and realized because the Holy Spirit was convicting

you, have you realized that you were a sinner

and that your sin separates you from the Holy

God? Has that ever happened in your life? Have

you ever come to the point where you realize

that God is holy and you're not? And when you

came to that point, did you ask God to forgive

you? He's faithful and just, right? If we confess

our sins, He's faithful and just. He'll forgive

us of all unrighteousness. So can you look back

to a time when that happened? And then the Bible

says if you call on the name of the Lord, you'll

be saved. You'll be rescued from your sin when

you call on the name of the Lord. So can you

look back at a time? You didn't have to use these

exact words, but has there been a time where

you said, Jesus, up until today, my life's just

been all about me. But from now on, I want you

to be my Lord. I surrender my life to you. I

want to live for you. Can you look back at a

time in your life and see that that took place?

If you can't, I have some great news. Because

today, the Bible says, is the day of salvation.

Right here, right now, while the Holy Spirit's

tugging at your heart, today's the day of salvation.

If that's what you want to do, I want to ask

you to pray with me. But listen, there's nothing

magic about the words that I'm going to say.

You could write these words down, and you could

just read them off of a page a hundred times

today, and it wouldn't mean anything unless you

take these words and make them yours. All I'm

doing is putting in the words what I believe

the Bible says to confess Jesus as Lord and to

confess your sin to God. I'm just putting it

in words. But it's not about repeating my words,

because listen, we can teach birds to repeat

words after people. But if this is what you want

to say to God from your heart, and you say it

to Him, the great news is this, He'll hear you.

He'll forgive you. He'll welcome you into His

family. He will be your Savior and your Lord.

Because that's who He is, and that's the relationship

that He wants to be in with you. So if that's

what you want, I ask you to pray with me. Let's

pray. Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God.

I believe You died on the cross for me, for my

sin, in my place. I believe You rose again from

the grave, just like the Bible says. I realize

today that I'm a sinner. You're holy and I'm

not, so I ask you to forgive me of my sin. Wash

me clean. Clothe me in your righteousness. Jesus,

today, I realize that up until today, my life's

just been all about me. But from now on, I want

my life to be about you. I surrender myself to

you as my Lord, my honor, my master. I confess

you as my Lord. If you're here today, don't look.

Everybody keep your eyes closed and your heads

down. If you're here today and you say, Dean,

you know what? I couldn't look back in my life

and see a time when I confessed my sin and surrendered

my life to the Lord Jesus, but I just did. If

that's you, nobody's looking around. Only me

and God are looking around right now, but would

you lift up your hand? If you'd say, I just pray

with you. That's what I wanted to say to God.

I ask Him to be my Lord, my Savior. I ask Him

to forgive me. Everybody look up this way. Either

you have done that or you're not ready. I want

you to stand with me. Let's stand together. And

let's say this confession together based on who

He is as our Lord. You ready? Let's read it together.

Don't repeat. Just read it together like we're

in third grade reading together. All right? Here

we go. One, two, three. Lord, I surrender my

life to you. You are my respected authority,

my owner, and my master. You are Lord over my

life. You are Lord over my family. You are Lord

over all, everything. Listen. Saying that Jesus

is your Lord shouldn't be a one -time thing that

you never say again. We need to confess this

every day, that Jesus is our Lord. I believe

it will change the way we live. We need to confess

that Jesus is Lord over our home. Jesus is Lord

over our business. Jesus is Lord over our job.

Jesus is Lord over Four Corners. Hello? Somebody

smile. We need to be confessing that Jesus is

Lord. Every day, that great confession. That's

who he is. That's who he wants to be in relationship

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