Our surrender is inevitable.

The enemy is coming.

And we will not make it out in the way that we want to.

There are three things that we will never defeat.

We will never defeat Satan.

We will never defeat Sin.

And we will never defeat Death.

Those three things will completely, and without hesitation, destroy us.

We will surrender to them.

I hate to focus on the enemy … but I have to.

Look at the world we live in.

There is light … and there is darkness.

There is day … and there is night.

There is good … and there is evil.

Our universe is bipolar and the extremes are exactly as we would expect them to be.

There is a God … and there is a devil.

There are Angels … and there are demons.

In his writings on evolution, Darwin claimed that “some variations help individuals survive and reproduce better than others.”

It makes sense, and yet it doesn’t.  Either the organism had it in it or it didn’t.  What was the step of an organism BEFORE an eye? … and how did that intermediate step help it survive?

And what of the wing, or the leg, or the fin?

Do we really believe that we came to be through random chance? … or random processes?

Consider that what has intelligence was DESIGNED.

And consider that there is a God … and a devil.

Consider that you are broken … that you are selfish, and self serving, deceived.

And consider that you will never, ever, no matter how hard you try, defeat death.

But there is hope.

A Jewish fisherman told us about our hope.

John 1  11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God–

Our hope is not in ourselves, it is in Jesus.

He came to us, but we did not receive Him.  Then we killed Him.  And then He rose from the dead.

And right then and there—a new faith started.  And it was based on this man Jesus.

You are not an accident.

You are not the result of some cosmic explosion.

Your heart beats.  Your eyes focus.  And your brain thinks.

And deep down, you know that you are broken.

There are many groups who blame the Christian faith for making them feel guilty … and I understand why.

But it is not the faith of Christians that make people feel guilty.  We feel guilty because we ARE GUILTY.

Let me say this again:

WE ARE GUILTY

And there is not a court around that would declare us innocent.

Our surrender is inevitable.

For me … I am going willingly.

I surrender … to Jesus.

He is my only hope.

And from where I sit, He will crush Satan, He will forgive me of my sin, and He will defeat death.

Surrender?

It’s not a bad word.

It is my honor … and my privilege … and my hope …

That I could surrender to the King of the Universe.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J