Consecrate Your Heart: Surrender Fully to God

``The cure for casual, common Christianity is a pilgrimage back to the cross. Go look at it again. Take communion again. Remember again that he didn't have to do it, but he did it for you, and you've got to look at the broken, battered body of Jesus and realize he didn't have to do that, man. But without that, you would be lost and undone forever, and it will just rekindle in you the gratitude. [00:19:49] (24 seconds)  #ReturnToTheCross

Jesus was not unclear about his mission. He was not unclear about what he came to do, and he wasn't going to let anybody deter him from doing it, even his close friends like Peter. He wasn't going to let anybody keep him from the cross, bro. It was his main mission, and he was committed to it. And if he's that committed to it, so must we be. [00:21:40] (46 seconds)  #MissionToTheCross

Partially surrender is so spiritually exhausting because it's the same reason, it's the same reason a marriage gets cold calloused and exhausting if you're not fully committed to your spouse. What it feels like is your two roommates living together, barely tolerating each other, but not celebrating each other. And day after day of that redundancy leads a marriage to get cold calloused and cracked. And at some point you just go, what are we doing? And why are we wasting our life on this? [00:34:00] (33 seconds)  #NoHalfMeasures

Whereas when you are fully committed in marriage and you have committed your life to encourage one another, prefer one another, love one another more than yourself, serve each other, out-respect each other, out-honor each other, that is the fertile soil that passion and love truly grows. And what you find in that person is this unbelievable joy that comes from the depth of that relationship. [00:34:33] (28 seconds)  #MarriageGrowsInCommitment

So one foot in, one foot out don't work because you got to be all in with God to get all of the best of God. So you don't really know the power of the Bible. You don't know the power of the gospel until you've gone all in with the gospel. Then all of a sudden you tap into a power, right? It's just like the marriage. Until you go all in, you don't really know what marriage is all about, bro. [00:37:49] (26 seconds)  #AllInWithGod

And in Laos and Vietnam and places like that, people are going to church underground because you can get arrested or imprisoned, and they're meeting every six weeks underground. I know missionaries in Laos. They'll take a Bible because it's so precious. They can't hardly get their hands on one. They will tear pages out of it, and they swap pages. They'll keep it for six weeks, memorize that page. Then they'll gather together again in their little underground church, and they'll swap pages of a Bible so they can memorize another page. [00:41:08] (32 seconds)  #UndergroundFaith

And listen, I'm not saying you should go somewhere you hate, but what I am saying is you're asking the wrong question. The right question is, is this where God has called me to plug in, to not only continue my growth in him, but to serve the world through this local church and to help as many people come to Christ as I possibly can? [00:42:17] (25 seconds)  #CalledToServeLocally

This thing doesn't exist just for your pleasure or for your blessing. It exists for the glory of God and for those that are lost to come to Jesus. And are you giving, serving, and participating in the life of this church? It's not all about you. You're already saved. Thank God I'll see you on the other side. But the devil has the biggest church. The devil has the biggest church. And we're trying to make heaven bigger, not canvas bigger. [00:44:51] (23 seconds)  #MakeHeavenBigger