Restrain Your Will, Release God's Authority, Choose Life

So the merger is when you show self restraint and when you finally release your authority. You don't exert it, you release it. And this picture is one humanity despises. It's called surrender. You you don't quit, you don't give up, and you don't give over. You actually use your authority, the God given authority to rule, reign, subdue, fill and multiply, making a conscious decision that I'm gonna release that to God and surrender myself to his will. [01:08:13] (36 seconds)  #SurrenderDontExert

Now here's the danger in this. When you do this, it will cost you dearly dearly, but it'll save you eternally. This is why we don't choose this. You're like, I'm doing the right thing. You're paying the highest price. The gospel. Right. Then I'm gonna because you don't have to surrender to his will. Use your authority and walk away from God. Go ahead. [01:08:50] (34 seconds)  #CostlySurrenderSaves

There ain't a single one of you in this room in Morgantown or Glasgow who doesn't know what needs to happen. You don't need a degree in theology. You don't need to understand sociology, world history, world power. You don't need nothing. What do you do with a man who has done nothing wrong? You release him. And see how blinded humanity can get. [01:12:19] (30 seconds)  #DontBeBlinded

Here's what he wants them to know. The one thing you need to realize is what you do doesn't affect who I am. I'm gonna be seated at the right hand of God. I'm gonna be seated at the highest position with the highest authority ever. God is going to exalt me and seat me and I will ultimately judge everything. [00:54:48] (23 seconds)  #IdentityUnaffected

Because you can tell yourself a lot of different reasons why you're going to do what you're getting ready to do. But you gotta ask yourself, but through that choice, what do I release? Do I release my God ordained authority back to God surrendering to his will? That's going to cost you. But it's far less of a price to pay than to abdicate your authority and turn your will over to others? [01:17:49] (36 seconds)  #AskWhatYouRelease

And that I surrender to the authority and the will and the plan of God for me. That Christ came and lived perfectly, died painfully, rose triumphantly under his own power, strength, and authority. And the wisest, most powerful thing any human being can do is to surrender to the power, the plan, and the purposes of God for your life. And I could tell you what that is, that you might be saved of your sin, redeemed from sin, adopted by God, justified through faith, transformed by the spirit, Kept secure by God Almighty. [01:18:56] (47 seconds)  #SurrenderToGodsPlan

I pray God today there's a lot of good healthy life changing mergers. Where we do what Christ does. We show restraint of our own self will, and we then finally release our authority surrendering to God so that God can then allow the punishment that was on Christ to be the punishment that pays my price. [01:18:26] (30 seconds)  #ChristLikeMergers

You won't pay a price in this life, so to speak, but you will surely pay an eternal price. Why don't you do the most powerful thing you could ever do? Do what Jesus did. I'm gonna show self restraint. You can't force me to do anything I know I'm not supposed to do, nor can you stop me from releasing my authority to do anything I wanna do. [01:09:25] (24 seconds)  #EternalPriceOfChoice

Sometimes it is a lose lose. When it comes to our relationship with God. Okay? There most of it all of the time for humanity, it has seemingly been a lose lose relationship. Okay? But with the education and understanding of what God wants us to do with our will and his will, Can you merge those together properly? Yes. And his authority and our authority. Can you merge those together properly? Yes. So if we can merge our will with his will and our authority with his authority, you will produce eternity changing possibilities. [00:47:33] (43 seconds)  #MergeForEternity

Right here, Pilate is operating really, really wisely. This is a good merger. Okay? He's using his will to draw a conclusion or a verdict, and he's using his authority to confront the religious leaders. He's in a really stable position at this point. Okay? He's rendered the right verdict. He's exerting his will using his mind saying, no, that's not right. [00:59:33] (23 seconds)  #PilateGoodMerger

Okay? And that is the abdication of your responsibilities. He's going to now shift this to somebody else to make the decision. This is right in his face and he's not going to see, not doing what you absolutely should do gets you the same place of doing the things you absolutely shouldn't do. [01:00:48] (21 seconds)  #AbdicateResponsibilities

Why are you still having a conversation? Just release the man. You have thousands of Roman soldiers in town that if someone should raise a hand against him or start rioting against you, you can squash it immediately. What is the fear here? So Pilate decided. He's finally going to decide what to do with his will and his authority. [01:15:55] (40 seconds)  #UseYourAuthorityNow

And I know this is on the epic scale, but God would have this word be drilled down to my individual scale. The capacity to see what is right and completely ignore it is utterly amazing. Herod hasn't found any reason for this either. He sent back to us because it's a boomerang. You don't get to kick your responsibility to the curb. It's coming back. As you can see, he's done nothing to deserve death. [01:12:49] (32 seconds)  #ResponsibilityBoomerang

The greatest demonstration of the exertion of your God created will is self restraint. Ain't nothing or nobody gonna make me do what I know I'm not supposed to do. [01:07:09] (20 seconds)  #WillExertedIsRestraint

So understand that this is a dangerous place to be with what you're going to do. This is a terrible merger. Your will and your authority are gonna produce catastrophes. When we wrongly exert our will and authority, we're capable of believing the most rational lies known to me. I have a right to be happy. I have a right to experience love. [00:57:21] (23 seconds)  #DangerousWrongMerger

And this is man's incredible pattern of behavior that we practice to this day. You you've already made the decision of what you wanna do and that you're going to do it. Now you try and ask questions in certain ways to get some rational explanation and ultimately, you can't rationalize a poor choice. You have to tell yourself rational lies in order to go ahead and make that choice. [00:52:30] (27 seconds)  #RationalLiesWeTell

It's what we wanna know. If you really are him, then you need to tell us. Okay? Which seems like a legitimate question and you'll see in a second that it's not. Because one thing we do know is they've already got predetermined notions in their mind. Okay? The reason that they're accusing him and arresting him is because they think he's the Messiah. So this isn't an honest question. [00:51:41] (24 seconds)  #PredeterminedAccusations

They've already made their minds up. They're now just kinda asking a question to see if they can get Jesus to self accuse himself. Jesus answered, if I tell you, you're not going to believe me because you've already made your mind up. What you're doing now is you're playing games to try and rationalize the poor choices that you are about to make. [00:52:05] (25 seconds)  #DontSeekSelfAccusation

And this happens today, they already know what they wanna do. They wanna kill them. Right? And so sometimes you'll hear it asked today, but don't I have a right to be happy? Well, you've already answered that question in yourself. You've already you feel like you have the right to be happy. Now that how do I like, do you want me to answer that question? Because if I do, you're not gonna believe me. [00:52:57] (25 seconds)  #DecisionsAlreadyMade

Then the whole assembly rose. This is that religious group and led him now off to Rome. So we see religion and now we see Rome off to Pilate. And they began to accuse him saying, we found this man subverting our nation, which basically means he's disturbing the peace. He's a rabble rouser. He's ruffling feathers. He's disturbing the tranquil nature of our nation. This is what he is doing. [00:57:56] (28 seconds)  #ReligionAndRome