Faith Over Everything: Mary’s Yes and Surrender

Your good works don't get you to heaven. Sorry. I hope you're a good person. Hell's gonna be full of a lot of good church people. Happy Mother's Day. I know. This is real though. It's only the people who believe and accept Christ. Like, you turn your life over to Christ. You ask him to be your savior and you step into a relationship with Christ. That's what the bible says. To those people, they become the children of God. That's what the word of God says. So if you're here today and you've never entered into a relationship with Christ, you could today. You could today. [00:25:35] (49 seconds)  #FaithNotWorks

You gotta believe and accept Christ. That your belief has to move to a surrender. That's what it said. I am the Lord's servant. I give a I give give God my all. I give God myself. To those who believe and accept Jesus, it is to those people that the father gives a privilege to become the children of God. Baptism does not wash your sins away. Sorry. Some of you believe that sitting here today, but you have not one biblical reason. You can't even quote the verse that says that. First of all, you don't know if there's a verse. Now let me tell you, there is no verse for that. That's religion. [00:24:50] (45 seconds)  #SurrenderToChrist

And you're absolutely right. This doesn't make any sense humanly speaking, but that's the point. What's about to happen isn't about you, it's about God. All God wants is you to live a surrender life that draws attention to yourself that brings glory to God. Because God's gonna do something great inside and through you. Luke chapter one verse 35. Here's what Gabriel says to her. The holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you so the baby to be born will be holy and he will be called who? Granted, the son of God. [00:13:22] (37 seconds)  #HolySpiritPower

And you know that thing that we're wrestling with? Proverbs three, five, and six. It's the same exact thing that Mary at this moment in her life is also wrestling with. God shows up. God asked her to do something that's bigger than her. She can't wrap her mind around it. She's committed to living a life of faith. The just shall live by faith. She loves God. She wants to serve God. She wants to be used of God. But what God is asking her to do, she can't wrap her mind around and now she's at a crossroad. [00:15:10] (35 seconds)  #LiveByFaith

I mean, what are you just to say, I'm done. I'm done trying to figure it out. I don't need any more clarity. I am your servant. That tension inside, that's the Holy Spirit and it ain't worth it. On the other side of that surrender is blessing. There's breakthrough, but you gotta get to the point where you say enough is enough. I'm done. And now I'm ready. [00:29:23] (41 seconds)  #SurrenderForBreakthrough

See, when it comes to salvation and it comes to our relationship, we don't pray to saints. We don't pray to Mary. We don't pray to a preacher. We don't have to pray to a priest. We don't pray to a pope. We don't pray to a statue. We pray to the one who's three days later rose again from the dead. His name's Jesus. And he sees you. He knows you. He loves you. But for some of you, he's waiting for you to come home. [00:26:24] (33 seconds)  #PrayToJesusOnly

So Mary, who asks her questions, she's trying to get clarity. God sees me. He knows me. He loves me. And he's asking me to live by faith and to take steps in my life that I can't fully wrap my mind around. But even though I don't understand all the details, I understand the one who's calling me. And she replies this way, so Mary responded. Read with me, I am the Lord's servant. So may everything you've said come true. What she was literally saying is, amen. I'm done asking my questions. I'm done trying to figure it all out. I'm done needing God to explain to me how this happens. [00:18:49] (63 seconds)  #IAmTheLordsServant

But Mary was like, woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. There's a lot of other people that are probably more qualified for what you're gonna for what you're talking about than me. I don't understand what's going on here. And besides being freaked out that she's having a conversation with a real angel, she's blown away by the by the possibility that God has chosen her to bring about an Old Testament prophecy an Old Testament prophecy starting in Genesis chapter three that one day God himself will become a man and the Messiah himself, the lamb of God would be born to take away the sins of the world. [00:10:15] (43 seconds)  #ChosenToFulfillProphecy