War & Peace | Week 6 | Pastor Micah Sutton | Five Lakes Church

We are in the final lesson of the series, war and peace.

And I just want to say thank you for all the kind comments that have been sent and the uplifting things that I've been that have been shared with me through this series.

It's been a blessing for me to prepare and to share.

And I'm thankful if it's been a blessing to you.

Um, and, and I'm kinda sad about ending it, um, because the fact that the matter is that we know that we're always in the battle, so we're not really ending this.

We're just, we're gonna shift our way of our, our approach in dealing with it.

But we continue to talk about the war that we're in and the battle that we're going to fight and the victory that has already established for us.

Praise God.

In fact, today, while I want to talk to you about victory in the fight, why do you know that you are victorious already in the fight that you're in, as long as you don't stop fighting, how do you know that you have victory?

What we've been talking about?

This thing called spiritual warfare and the phrase spiritual warfare does not appear specifically like that in the scripture, but we know that the concept is all throughout the scripture.

We know that we, that Satan tried to ascend to power and take power from God.

And God said, no, there wasn't this humongous battle where armies were clashing.

Satan tried, God said Nope.

And kicked him out along with one third of the angels that followed Satan in his effort.

And Satan became the, the angel that Satan used to be became no more.

He became the devil.

And now he is, he is Satan.

And those angels that fell with him are the demons that he works with.

We know that they have no ability to, to fight against God.

In fact, were they, they, more than anyone know, oh, that they have lost the battle and that they have at eternity in the lake of fire, waiting for them.

They know that more than anybody else does, but they fight you and me because they can't touch God, God loves you.

And I, and they hate God.

So they're trying to mess with the thing that God loves.

That's you and I, well, what do they do?

Why is it that they affect us the way or attack us the way that they do?

How, what is their method of attack?

Their method is to attack your faith and mine.

Why do they care about your faith and my faith?

They care because faith connects us with God.

The scripture said is by grace, through faith, that we are saved.

We extend our faith toward God.

And we say, I believe that you are exactly who you say you are.

I believe that you are my savior.

And I'm asking you in faith to be this Lord and savior of my life.

God pours grace

Out grace, through faith.

The faith becomes the conduit of grace to affect and impact our lives.

We become saved by grace through faith.

And so Satan says, all right, that's done.

But what I'm going to do is try to impact the connection that this believer has with God.

Their connection is faith.

So I'm going to attack their faith.

That's what I'm going to do all the time.

Well, how do you establish faith?

And how do you build faith?

The Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing through the word of God.

And so when we hear the word of God spoken, then it builds our faith.

It establishes our faith, and we could, we could go through all that.

And we have gone through all of that throughout the series.

If you haven't been able to join us in that, I encourage you to go back and listen to it.

So Satan's number one method of attack.

What every element of spiritual warfare is designed to do is designed to cause you and I, to doubt what God has said, if faith is established and built on the word of God, then what he wants to do is destroy your ability to believe the word of God.

He doesn't care what you believe, as long as you don't believe God.

And so that's what we've been talking about.

And again, I encourage you to go back and listen to, or watch the services.

If you haven't been able to join us today, I want to talk about our victory in this spiritual warfare when you're in this, when you're in life.

And when you're in the battle, sometimes things go very well.

And sometimes things don't go quite as well as you would like them to.

There are stories within scripture that indicate to us that the struggle that believers, even in those times, we're having, in fact, I would say that believers today by and large habit, better than believers then did, especially here in the United States of America that may change.

But at this present moment, we have it better than they do.

Well, Paul has an amazing story.

And sometimes you hear, or you read parts of Paul's story and, and you see the, you see the dramatic moments, but you forget what it takes sometimes to get from, from the non dramatic, to the dramatic moments.

We see all the ways that God used Paul, and we're like, I want that.

And we see all the ways that Paul was effective in ministry.

And we say, I really want that.

And we see the beautiful salvation that God did in Paul's life.

And we're like, yeah, I get to have that.

We all share in that.

But Paul was kind of an extreme person in the beginning.

In fact, when Jesus started working on Paul's heart, Paul was killing Christians.

I don't know that that's the majority of our testimony.

I hope that's not the majority of our testimony that we're killing Christians when Jesus saved us, but he was, and Jesus dramatically saves him on the road to Damascus is an amazing thing.

And then he goes through this journey of becoming the apostle Paul.

Well, even in the middle of all of his incredible successes and, and all of the wonderful things that we see happen to the apostle Paul throughout his ministry and his life.

We forget sometimes that he also had incredible, incredibly difficult times.

We read about them in a, in a, you know, a verse or two, and then he moves on and we forget that this is days, weeks, months, and even years of difficulty in his life that are summarized in a verse or two.

And in the time of the writing that we're about to read, Paul is going through a very difficult place.

It's a tough time of life and ministry.

See he had gone, he had written first to the, to the church in Corinth and the church in Corinth loved him.

And he loved them, but, but they did not like his correction entirely.

I know we all love to be corrected all the time, but you know, they weird people.

They didn't like his correction.

And then we don't have a lot of details about this, but apparently he went and visited Corinth and that visit didn't go well, either if he ever showed up to somebody's house that you really wanted to visit.

And then you got there and about 15 minutes in, you were like, I really wish I hadn't done this.

That's Paul things or things did not go well in this visit.

And so he, he leaves them and now he has a reason to connect with them again, to communicate with them again.

But he says, I'm not going to go visit you because you know, we've, there's already been some damage done.

So I'm not going to come visit you right now.

Cause I don't want to cause anymore dilemma.

So I'm going to write to you, but I'm a little trepidatious about that too, because I've been misunderstood before.

Have you ever been misunderstood?

Sometimes I'm saying words and I know the words I'm saying, and Christie's hearing words, but somehow the words that she seems to be hearing are very different than the words that I seem to be saying.

And it's like, I don't get how you got there from what I just said.

And she says, well, there's obviously clear, you said X, Y, Z, and I'm.

And so that means blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, good night.

Where, where have I gone wrong?

I feel totally misunderstood.

And she feels absolutely right.

We're praying for her.

Now y'all need to pray for me.

It's the nature of life though.

Every parent has been misunderstood by their child.

Every child has been misunderstood by their parent siblings, specialized in misunderstanding one another.

It's like their job.

We misunderstand all the time and Paul has been misunderstood.

And so he said, I'm trying to try to write to you this letter, but I'm afraid that you're going to misunderstand me.

And then after all that's done, he travels to Troy's, which is a city on the other side of the GNC from Corinth.

And, and he goes there and they're excited about him showing up.

And he's excited about being there.

And the buyer actually in his letter, he says the doors are open in TRO as he's like, they want to hear the gospel.

And I want to share it to them.

I've got a great opportunity for success in this city, but as he gets there, he supposed to be meeting his, his ministry partner and his friend and a protege in his life.

This guy named Titus and Titus has been collecting offerings for people.

And he's supposed to meet Paul[inaudible] and they're going to deliver the offerings together.

But when Paul gets there, Titus hasn't shown up yet.

And he's been there for a minute now and Titus hasn't shown up at all.

And in those days, you know, travel is dangerous and he doesn't know, he's been, he's carrying money from different places, offering from different places to, to, to share with the believers.

And, and he's, he doesn't know what's happened to Titus.

And you know, he can't just pick up his cell phone and dial him up and say, Hey dude, where are you?

He can't do find my iPhone on the didn't happen.

Find my donkey app didn't exist yet.

You know?

Um, and so, and so he he's like, he's very disturbed and he has an opportunity for great success, but his head's not in the game ever been there.

Where, where you, you know, if, if I could get my head on straight, then I could really do something beautiful in this moment.

But I cannot seem to concentrate on the opportunity that's in front of me.

This is where Paul is in this moment.

He's trying to communicate with people that he loves.

He's worried about a close partner and friend that's missing and is possibly dead.

His head's not in the game enough to be effective in taking, uh, an open opportunity, getting a win for the kingdom of God.

It's a hard, hard place.

And when we're in those moments, it seems like things compile on one.

Another one thing just makes another thing worse.

And so Paul is trying to figure out what to do.

And finally, he says, listen guys in Troy, I'm thankful to be here and I want to be here, but I've got to go find Titus.

And so he goes to Macedonia to try to find Titus.

Now Macedonia is like a region of the country.

It's like saying, I'm going to the Midwest to find a guy it's smaller than that.

But you get my drift.

Things are rough.

And yet this is what Paul writes.

Current second Corinthians two says, but thanks be to God who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession.

And through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Even in this moment, Paul is saying, thank you, God, thank you that wherever I go, we're leaving a fragrance of you there wherever we are.

We're, we're bringing you there.

And we're leaving something there.

Even if we can't do everything we hoped or, or everything would desired, or even if our head's not in the game and we're not quite as effective as we should have been.

There's still a fragrance of you in that moment, in that place.

Don't despise the small words in the end, the short moments that you have with people in your life, let, let there be a fragrance of God left in that, but he says this thing called Christ.

God rather is leading us in triumphal procession.

So what does he mean by triumphal precession?

A triumphal procession was a Roman tradition.

A conquering king would, would defeat an enemy and then they would, they would take their army.

They would assemble the army.

They would line everybody up.

Everybody would be, you know, polished up and, and everything would be sharpened.

Right?

And then they would take all the prisoners that had been captured.

They would put the prisoners often behind the king, not always.

And then after the prisoners would come the treasure.

And then after the treasure that had been captured would come the army and the, and they would March through the city in a grand parade.

And what was being shown is that number one, the king was powerful.

The king would be on a LAR on a charger of some kind or some something that projected his power, being a horse, a large horse, and projecting his power or maybe a grand chariot.

And then after him would come, the slaves and at the, at the front of the slaves would come.

The, the, the leaders, the generals, the, the, the, the Kings, the, the, the top people that had been defeated, they would be coming next.

And sometimes they would have them walking and sometimes they would have them on donkeys, but wherever they were on, they would have them in something that diminished them to, to every level that they could and then would come the common slaves and then the treasure, and then the army.

And, and of course, everybody did it a little bit different, but this is, this is not unlike what would have been fairly common.

And so, as they're walking down, this, this, this grand city scape and, and people are watching, what they're seeing is this is the king, the one who was conquered, and this is what they have conquered.

They've defeated the foes.

This is the treasure that they have gathered.

And here's the army, the army that, that made all of this happened that this general, that this king leads.

And at the same time, it showed two things.

Number one, the power of this king.

And secondly, it showed the benevolence of this king.

And you might think, well, how is that a benevolent king?

If they've got all this treasure, the captives, and now they're slaves and so on and so forth.

Well benevolent because they were alive because if they, the king didn't want those people alive, he would have just had them all killed.

And so it's showing as well as power and authority.

And what Paul is saying here is that God leads us in a victory polit parade that reveals his greatness.

And he is spreading the knowledge of him everywhere.

Everybody that saw that procession would understand that king is powerful.

That king has benevolent.

That king is wealthy.

That king is strong.

And so that would be the, the perception of the people in everybody they spoke to.

They would tell the story of this procession.

And Paul saying everywhere, the people of God go, people are telling stories about the processional that God is leading through the world, the world, looking upon you.

And upon me as the body of Christ, as a representation of God almighty here on this earth, that's who you are.

That's who I am.

And he is leading us as his prized possessions.

If you will leading us down through this world, and we are supposed to represent his power and his benevolence, his love, his greatness to the world, that's around us.

And here's our big idea today.

If you're a note taker, I encourage you to write it down or take a picture of the screen.

Your victory is settled when you become a captive Christ, a captive of Christ.

And then it kind of goes against our personal grain because thought number one is this.

I have three thoughts.

Thought one is victory begins in, surrender begins in surrender.

How can I be victorious if I've surrender?

Well, that's the beautiful thing about Jesus.

We're in a battle.

We become a captive of Christ when we surrender willingly to him at the end of it all, when, when time is no more, there will be a great judgment.

Those who are fighting against him, they go to eternal judgment.

Those fighting with him, go to eternal reward.

So you and I have the privilege of willingly surrendering ourselves to him today.

Does it mean to become a captive of Christ?

It means that we obey his commands, want to don't want to.

We obey because our master has commanded it.

We depend on his sovereign love.

If a master didn't like, what a slave did, the master got rid of the slave one way or another.

So we depend on his sovereign love.

And we live by his will.

The scripture tells us that we live, that we move in.

We even have our very essence, our being according through Christ.

And so this is who he is to us.

We are the slaves of God and Paul, when he's writing this, some people try to say, well, this is, this is God leading us through as, as the, the people that have triumphed, but this is not at all.

What Paul is saying.

Paul is saying, God is leading us by his own will.

He is the triumphant.

We are the slaves.

And he is showing us off.

It's his triumph, not ours.

Didn't you say, this is about the victory of the believer.

We are the believers and this teaching is not popular.

Why isn't it popular?

It's not popular because we want to be the masters of our own destiny.

We want to be the rulers of our own domain.

We want to be the most powerful entity that we know, oh, we want to be the winner.

We want to be the one that people look at and go, wow, look what he has done.

Look what she has done, but that doesn't work for God.

It doesn't even really work for us because study after study say that that stress is up in our world, that, that, uh, that people are more depressed and anxiety and, and battling all of these things on a consistent basis.

Maybe more than has been in recorded history and, and different.

Uh, I've read a bunch of different things on this.

And one after another, this is not all believers that we're talking about.

This is not all people of God.

This is people who might, would very well say I am the master of my own destiny.

I will do.

I can do whatever I want to do in the world.

I, I am the one that's saying yes or saying no.

And yet study after study stresses up, worry is up concern over the future is up.

It's us trying to try to make things work so we can declare victory.

But here's the problem with that.

You and I both know this to be true.

Once we gain victory over one thing, something else pops up.

And as soon as we gained, oh, finally got that all settled down and something else pops up.

It's a lifetime of whack-a-mole.

We're just trying to figure out where the next one's popping up so we can pop it down as quickly as possible.

We're just trying to get this thing done.

And that is a frustrating game.

I don't even like playing that game.

Never have like play in that game.

It's a tough thing to do, but it's how life works.

It's how life works, except for those who are surrendered, because those who are surrendered no longer have control of their own life.

Those who are surrendered have already said, it's not my will, but thine, be done.

Those who are surrendered have given up the right to rule.

And now they stand under the rulership of a king greater than themselves.

Paul writes to us, he said, thanks.

Be to God who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession.

And through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

And maybe it was then that the holy spirit was teaching him about what he would later write in Romans chapter six.

Now I know in your Bible and in mind, Romans comes before Corinthians, but in chronological order, it doesn't.

And so here, Romans chapter six, but now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit, you get leads to sanctification, and it's an eternal life.

He defines believers that have come to Christ in set in salvation, have been freed from sin.

He defines us as being slaves of God.

We were slaves to sin and we were fighting against God, Jesus invaded your life and mine.

And you could have kept fighting.

You could have pushed him away, but you recognize that he was greater than yourself.

And so you surrendered, you accepted him.

You said, I surrender all.

I accept all that.

You are.

I refuse myself.

I turn from my wicked ways.

And I accept everything that you have for me.

Lord, you surrendered everything to him.

You died to yourself and he resurrected you.

He quickened your bodies with the holy spirit and in doing so.

He gave you the gift of eternal life.

Praise the name of the Lord.

You and I are saved, but we're saved by willingly, surrendering ourself to him, giving ourselves up.

He could have destroyed us.

In fact, we deserved it for the wages of sin is death, but the scripture doesn't end there.

It says, but the gift of God is eternal life.

That eternal life giving by given by grace, through faith, through Jesus Christ.

Our Lord.

There's no way to the father except through the son.

That's what the Bible teaches us.

That's what Jesus said of himself.

And so all of this is true.

We become slaves to him.

We become slaves to him before we become anything else.

In fact, the price of eternal well, life is slavery to Christ.

It's complete surrender, complete surrender of self willingly, becoming a slave or a servant of Jesus.

Now, when we think about this, we typically think about it in terms of employee, employer, that God's kind of like my employer.

And if he stays good enough to me and handles me the way that I want to I'll stick, stay loyal to him.

But if he doesn't give me a raise every once in a while, pat me on the back periodically, and if he gets too harsh with his correction, that I'm going to kind of check out because you'll work for somebody else.

Thank you very much.

That's not how it works here.

Roseville, the Lord, our God is one Lord.

There is no other company to work for.

And you're not his employee.

You are his servant.

You are his slave.

So at the end of the day, I know this is super touchy, feely sermon, but at the end of the day, you and I owe him everything.

He owes us nothing.

And his benevolence grants us all that we have.

And if we get that proper perspective of our relationship with Christ, we understand that we are a slave surrendered to him.

And as a slave, our wins are his wins and our issues become his issues.

And this is a revelation for you.

And I, in fact, it's going to be a long thing on the board, on the screens.

And I encourage you to take a picture of it if you can't write it down fast enough.

But here's what I tell our team.

I'll oftentimes, if I take credit for the successes, then I must take responsibility for the failures.

If I give king Jesus credit for the successes, then he takes responsibility for the failures and he mails them to the crush.

So it's not in my best interest to stay free.

I'm a full bro, man.

I'm a free man.

I can do all that I want when I want.

No, because now I'm responsible for all the failures of my life and they are many.

But if I give myself to him, become his slave, then they become his responsibility and he nails them to the cross.

He already nailed them to the cross.

So what weight are you carrying right now?

What weight do you need to surrender from your life today?

Is it a way of dealing with a responsibility but child children, or, or is it a situation of work or is that situation a financer or is it a situation of business clarity or is it, what, what is it a community situation?

What is, what are, wait, are you carrying right now?

Surrendering?

Isn't just surrendering.

When you are lost in sin, it's also surrendering and saying, I can't do this anymore.

I need you father.

I need you.

And I surrender to you.

Surrender that today.

Thought number two is this that your SU the surrendered become a testimony.

Remember in this grant and procession, the king is, is proceeding down the route surrounded or, or followed rather by those that he's defeated.

They become a testimony of his power and his benevolence captives them, triumphal, procession, a testimony as an evidence or proof of something.

And Jesus said this, but you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will be mine witnesses telling people, revealing me to people everywhere, your going to become a testimony to me, you're going to testify of my grace of my power of my benevolence.

You're going to testify of that.

He said, when you willingly surrender yourself to me, when you, you, that you become my slave, you testify to the world about who I am.

So your life is a living testimony, a living testimony of Christ, grace, mercy, goodness, and provision it, testifies of what God can and will do.

And so I encourage you.

I know that sometimes people are like, well, I'll, I'll share with you all of the bad news out of my life, but I don't want to be braggart braggardly or be a braggart and, and tell all the good stuff that's happened in my life.

Cause I don't want to, you know, I don't want people to think I'm prideful and arrogant.

Well, let me ask you if you're testifying about Jesus and your testimony is life is hard.

Everything's bad.

There's no hope I am undone.

I have everything sucks.

It sucks today, tomorrow and yesterday, too.

It's all bad.

Everything's terrible.

And you know what?

Every once in a while the sun shines, but usually it's cloudy.

And so if that's your testimony, who in the world's thinking good about your king, right?

God's doing good stuff in your life.

Recognize that everything's not wonderful that you're still struggling in some areas, but also recognize.

Let me tell you what God has done in my life.

He's blessed my life.

He's blessed.

My family.

I have good relationships with my kids.

I've got a great marriage.

Whatever the relationship was hard, whatever the situations is that you could testify about of God's greatness.

When he heals the hurts in your life, strengthens the weaknesses in your life gives light.

Whenever it was beat would be dark.

Otherwise when he makes away where there is no way when he gives hope in a hopeless moment, those are, those are testimonies that the slaves of the king are able to share in a world around and show how good, how beautiful God is.

God is in fact it, it testifies to the fact that being a slave to the king of Kings is better than being the king of my own domain.

Praise God.

So while we're were on earth were paraded before the world, by the king, the king who already won the victory, the, the king who defeated death hell and the grave.

So that's well, you and I can expect good things out of life because our king, our master is good.

That's why I know that the church of the living God will continue to grow and prosper even in unique and strange and somewhat terrible days.

I know that because our king is the overcoming caucus.

That's why you and I can count on being blessed at life because our master is the benevolent.

You might say, well, pastor Michael, are you special?

Are you, are you more specialer than anybody else?

The answer is, yes, I am.

And you are too.

If you have surrendered to the king, it makes you special because he makes you special.

He makes you special.

In fact, this is what revelation teaches us.

It says, then they have defeated him.

Him is the enemy involved in our life, fighting against us in this thing called spiritual warfare.

They have defeated him.

How by the blood of the lamb, that's Christ blood that's given to you.

And I shed for you and I on Calvary and allows us to, to defeat death hell and the grave.

It wash, washes away our sins.

And we can stand blameless before the Lord and by their testimony, the testimony that they revealed to the world around them, the testimony that they spoke from their mouth, the testimony that they lived from their lives, their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

They overcame.

And sometimes even their overcoming took their very life.

Paul who was writing the passages that most of the passengers we have read today.

Most of those passengers written by Paul, who ultimately dies a murder.

And you're like, wow, that's not good news.

But you already wrote to live as Christ and to die is gain.

Is that I've got an understanding of this, that as I'm being led as a testimony to God in my life, led through the world, that I'm going to leave a sweet smelling, savor the presence of God, wherever I go.

And in the process of that, he's going to do a work that's beyond me.

He's going to do a work through me.

I'm going to make a difference in the world.

It is the victory that the believer automatically has as the child, as the slave of God.

But you and I do not end as slaves of God, we willingly surrender.

We willingly step into this place of slavery saying, I am nothing.

You are everything.

I control nothing.

You control everything.

I will decide nothing.

You will decide everything.

That's the ultimate context of slavery right there.

That's, that's what slavery is.

And then Jesus does something amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

And that assault number three, that the surrendered are granted freedom.

Jesus is the most unique of Kings.

He says, willingly surrender to me.

And I will give you your freedom.

Not, I will take you and leave you as cactus, but I will give you your freedom, John, chapter eight, if the sun sets you free, you are truly free.

He says that he frees us from the of sin.

And then he invites us to become part of his family.

He doesn't leave us as slaves.

He brings us in as part of the family of God.

You said really?

Where does the scripture say that I am so glad that you asked Ephesians two.

Now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners.

You are citizens along with all of God's.

Holy people.

You are members of God's family, the equivalent of the conquering and king honest charger, going through the city streets, the slaves coming behind him and the king dismounting off the charger, turning to the slaves and say your slaves.

But since you willingly surrendered, I want to adopt all of you into my family.

I'm going to give you the rights of royalty.

I'm going to get you to give you the bloodline of royalty.

I'm going to give you everything that royalty has.

I'm going to dispense it to you right now.

Will you be my, what slave in their right mind would say no?

What slave would say no, I'm going to remain your slave and serve you a courting to the law versus I am your slave.

And I will serve you as your son, praise God.

He gives you Royal blood.

He gives you the Royal access.

He gives you a Royal name, all granted to the surrender.

We don't deserve it.

We couldn't earn it, but he's, that's freedom on another level that is victory unheard of on this earth.

And it's the victory that you

And I, as believers in Jesus Christ live in every city.

Dad,

When did he make your victory possible?

He made your victory possible at the cross.

He sacrificed himself to give you an I, the opportunity to become first, the slaves, and then the sons.

And today, if you've never surrendered to him, if you've never been willingly said, Hey, I'm giving you everything right

Now.

Then I want to encourage

You in this very moment.

I want to encourage you to do that.

In fact, what everybody just bow your heads with me.

It's for a moment.

And if you've never allowed Jesus Christ to be the Lord and savior of your life, that I want to encourage you to do that.

We're all going to pray together.

In fact, I'm going to ask everybody to pray out loud so that nobody has to pray alone.

But if you say, Hey, I I've been fighting against him.

And whether I knew it or not, I was, if you haven't accepted him, then you're fighting against him.

It's as simple as that.

And so you say I've been fighting against him, but I've been trying to do it on my own and it's not working for me.

Then I want to encourage you to surrender to him today.

It does mean giving everything to

Him, becoming the slave of God.

But I will tell you that his promise is clear.

Those who will willingly become his slave will be made his children.

How was that work?

It works by faith, by grace,

Through faith in Christ Jesus.

So right

Now we're going to repent of our sins.

We're going to accept him as Lord and savior.

Repentance is surrender.

It's saying not my will yours

Instead, not my way your path instead.

And we're going to begin them walking in the victory that he has for us.

So let's pray

Out loud together.

Ready, Lord Jesus.

I love

You.

I believe that's you lived, died and rose again.

And while I can understand that, all I accept by faith, the truth of your word.

I surrender everything to you right now.

Everything of me is gone and I accept everything of you, Jesus.

From this point forward, I accept you as my Lord and my savior.

You are my God.

I am your child in Jesus name.

And I had everybody say amen and amen.

Can we thank God for what he's done in this place?

Thank you, Jesus.