Surrendered Life - Pastor Kyle Self

[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold coast podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. [00:00:07] Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus just for what you're doing in and around this place. Father, we thank you for the blessing that you have over our lives. We thank you for the gift that you've given to us in the gospel and in ministry. Father, we thank you for just who you are and how your holy spirit moves. We thank you for your abundance. We thank you for your grace. But most of all, we thank you for this message. Today, it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. God is so good. God is so good, you know, and you say that. I say that repeatedly because he just is. Again, I am so thankful for our children's ministry. You know, there's many churches today that don't have children in them. There's many churches today that are basically being deemed heaven's waiting room. We have a church that has young families. We have a church that has families that are being born on the way. I guess is a better way to say that. We have a church that is made of all walks of life and different people, and that is a church with life. And I am so thankful to God for that. So can we just give the Lord a hand clap of praise before we. Before we really just miss that moment to appreciate God? You know, this morning I have a message about living fully for God beyond just obedience. And I really, like, I think God's been challenging me every week. I just think God's just having so much fun. He's up there with Gabriel and Michael going, yep, we're going to have him preach another message. He doesn't want to preach. Watch this. [00:02:05] I think heaven and all of his seraphims and cherubs and angels are just sitting there going, God, what are you going to do to Kyle this week? [00:02:11] Amen. So I've got a message on surrendered life. A few months ago, one of our church members, church affiliates came up to me and they were. It was just right after a preach and I thought I did pretty good, guy. [00:02:30] I really thought I did well. And it went really good. I followed my sermon notes to a T. [00:02:35] Ended on time, you know, had that marker. It was really good. And, you know, as I used to go behind the door and look at my notes, I had everything figured out. And this person comes up to me who has a prophetic gift. And they said, I have one word for you. I said, yep, what's that? They said, surrender. Now in my head, as intrusive thoughts are. [00:02:57] I said, surrender, girl. Do you not know how much I've already surrendered? [00:03:01] Nah, I don't need to surrender. And when I heard that thought, I said, yep, there's something I still haven't given to God. And then I began to walk. The complexity of what I believe and the revelation I have by grace and what Jesus has done for us on the cross and trying not to slip into self effort. And I was on this journey from about a month or so before I went to Israel and I really landed in a place that I want to share with you today that we're stepping into a deeper understanding than just everyday Christianity. [00:03:40] What I have for you today is. [00:03:41] We'Re going to step into a surrendered life. [00:03:44] We're going to step into. I believe if you receive this message. [00:03:47] Today, you're going to. And if you have the revelation already, you're just going to celebrate with us that have that step into it today. Because this message isn't about rules, it isn't about religion, it's not about trying harder. I want to make that very clear. [00:04:02] If somewhere in this message you start. [00:04:04] Hearing rules and I shoulds cancel that because that is not the message. [00:04:09] If you think you need to do. [00:04:10] More after you hear this message, cancel that because that's not the message. The message is about understanding two pillars that shape how we live out our faith with each other and how we live out our life privately before God. It's submission and, and surrender. Amen. Submission is how we walk one another. Do you understand that? Submission is like I submit to the time clock. If I go to work from nine to five, I'm in submission to what. [00:04:38] I'm being told to do for the day. [00:04:40] I'm in submission to my boss. If they ask me to do something that was within the means of my contract and what they asked me to do, I'll do it because I've submitted myself to work there. [00:04:50] I'm in submission to my wife. [00:04:51] Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. That took long enough. But I'm in submission to my wife. We're in mutual submission, right? [00:04:59] And that's what submission looks like. It builds unity, right? [00:05:04] Submission isn't like just like submission, like I don't know, an arm bar or an uma palata. Some of you may not know what that is, but he does. [00:05:14] It's not something going, oh yeah, I give up. [00:05:16] Tap, tap, tap, I'm out. No, that's not the submission I'm talking about. Submission is about how do we walk in unity, right? Surrender is how we walk before God privately. [00:05:29] Who am I when nobody's looking? [00:05:32] Who am I really? [00:05:35] Am I? [00:05:36] Oh, Lord, I don't want to say it that way. Give me another way. [00:05:39] Am I getting angry every time I walk in the kitchen and see the dishes and go, oh, nobody cleans the dishes and have a little tantrum? Kick the dog and throw the cat? You know, who am I really when nobody's looking? Who am I really? Who am I in my thoughts? Who am I in my heart? [00:05:56] And surrender defines that. [00:06:01] Surrender builds. [00:06:05] Maybe another word there. Surrender submits to holiness. Submission is our corporate expression, right? What we do together, whether it be on a job or here at church. And surrender is personal consecration. I make myself available to you, God. I am set apart for you, God. I want to do your will, not mine. Amen. And how often do we actually do that? Now, this isn't condemnation. [00:06:34] I don't want you to walk out. [00:06:35] Of here and feel beat up either. This is a hard message to preach inside the grace model. Hallelujah. [00:06:41] Here's the problem. The church has turned serving and submission and surrender into consumerism. Serve me, feed me, even though we're feeding you today. Entertain me, make me feel good. Make sure you have all the elements and the big building and the lights and the show and the smoke, which we will have one day. [00:07:00] Praise the Lord. [00:07:01] I'm not against that. But it's not about the programs. It's not about the building. It's not about the words. It's not about the TED talks or the podcast. [00:07:12] About something greater. Amen. [00:07:16] It's about something so much more than that. [00:07:18] And many believers love Jesus publicly, but struggle privately because they've never surrendered to him as Lord. [00:07:29] They know him as Savior. [00:07:31] They know him as brother. [00:07:32] They know him as friend. Heck, they know him as a little cross around their neck or the little rubber guy up there that y' all. [00:07:38] Keep hiding up there. [00:07:40] Somebody please hide them somewhere else now. [00:07:43] That we've all found them. [00:07:45] He is an image to us, but is he our Lord? Right? Like Lord means, what do you want? What do I do? How may I serve you today? Church has turned into, how can you serve me today? Amen. [00:08:05] Come on, somebody. [00:08:07] So today, let's rediscover what the scripture teaches us about not forced obedience nor rigid holiness, but a life that flows. [00:08:17] From mutual submission with one another and full of surrender with the One who saved us. Because it's all about him anyway. [00:08:25] Surrender is. [00:08:28] How we live before God. [00:08:29] But before we can really, really, really. [00:08:31] Understand that we got to start our journey today with submission. How we walk with one another. Submission, whether you realize it or not. Now, I use this in marriage counseling and pre marriage counseling, and it can be used anywhere really. But submission protects unity. [00:08:55] You know, that whole disagree to agree, that thing we hate. Well, I don't know if I agree. [00:09:02] With how you're doing it, Pastor, but we're going to follow you because, you know, see what God does. I'm going to pray for you while we're doing it. That's not submission. That's submersiveness. Submission is when I say I trust the Lord. And God's called me here. God's called me to this job. [00:09:25] God. [00:09:26] God's placed me in this marriage. God has put me in this country. [00:09:30] Submission is like surrender. It's trusting God in what you yield yourself to. Amen. It is trusting God in what you yield yourself to. That as you yield to follow someone, as you yield to serve with someone, as you mutually submit together to serve the community, you're trusting that God has placed you there to do it. And therefore you're not in confrontation or competition. [00:09:56] Ooh, that's a big one. Amen. [00:09:59] So submission protects unity. [00:10:01] And let's look at that in Ephesians 4:1:3. [00:10:07] I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord. [00:10:12] That sounds so strong. I love that. [00:10:16] Beseech you to walk worthy of the. [00:10:18] Calling with which you were called with all lowliness and gentleness. Now that word lowliness we look at like, O Lord, O Lord. No, that is humility. That's meekness. That's not being proud or boastful and making it about you. Amen. With long suffering, bearing one another in love. Bearing. [00:10:43] Go back. Look at that word bearing. Most of you need to get that. I just can't stand so and so I'm called to love. But I don't like them. Bearing means you gotta like them too. Jesus liked you when you were ugly. Jesus liked you when you were sinful. He loved you so much that he died for you. Therefore we have the same love and. [00:11:07] We bear one another in that love. Amen. [00:11:11] Endeavoring to keep unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Well, if I had an organ right now. [00:11:22] Bom, bom, bom. Exactly that. [00:11:26] Bond keeping unity in bond of peace. [00:11:30] Unity should bring peace because it's in submission. [00:11:34] It's not submission that goes well, I'm going to do it right now. [00:11:38] But I hope the Lord changes what we're doing. [00:11:42] That has no peace in it. There is no submission in that. Whether it's on your job, in your marriage, in your relationships, your friends. There's no peace in just buckling down and doing it until you change your mind. [00:11:56] You know what I mean? It's got to be peace. You got to do it out of love. Amen. I promise you. I'm going to tell you a story. Submission isn't weakness. It's the spiritual discipline of protecting unity. [00:12:13] It takes discipline to choose peace over pride. It takes discipline to choose another person's way over yours. It takes discipline to say when someone says, not when someone's not going and doing the things the way you want it. It takes discipline to say, I'm gonna. [00:12:31] Guard my heart and stay in peace. Amen. [00:12:36] Because. [00:12:39] Humility, gentleness, patience, and love are not personality traits. I'm sorry, they're not. They're actually not in your nature. They came with Jesus. They are submission traits. Amen. Because humility is not natural to us. [00:12:58] We. We devour, we conquer. [00:13:02] Amen. That's who humans are. But no, what came with Jesus was humility, gentleness, patience, and love. They're not a part of your nature. They're a part of your divine nature. And when you surrender to God, you take on that divine nature and you. [00:13:21] Act out of the traits of Jesus. Amen. [00:13:25] Come on, somebody. So submission protects unity. Here's the big one. Submission prefers others over self. Read the scripture first. Romans 12, 4, and 5. [00:13:40] For as we have many members in. [00:13:41] One body, but all the members do not have the same function. Realize that I love Jeremy as an evangelist because he doesn't get up here. [00:13:50] Every time he talks and say we need to be out there evangelizing. No, he knows that not all of us are called to evangelists. We all have different job descriptions in the body of Christ. And we function together to fulfill a goal which is to reveal Christ as a body. So we, being many, verse 5, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Amen. We, being one body, are individual members, one another. You do not have the same function as I do. And so you sitting there saying in World Changers, I think I could do. [00:14:32] It better than Pastor Kyle. [00:14:34] You probably could. I'm gonna go ahead and admit that. But you ain't the one called here right now. [00:14:42] Amen. [00:14:45] You might do it better than me logistically, but I'm the one that's in submission and surrender this seat. Amen. [00:14:53] Amen. [00:14:54] And so it's okay if you can do it better than me. What you can do is tell me your good ideas. So I can pray about them and do those because I'm not so prideful that I don't listen to the body. Because in you is the piece of the puzzle that tells me how we. [00:15:08] Can win at this thing. Amen. [00:15:10] When we work together, we do better. Amen. [00:15:15] Come on, somebody. [00:15:17] So I prefer you to come tell me what God is saying to you. Because I am not so prideful that. [00:15:25] I choose myself to just do it my way. Amen. [00:15:30] Do you see what I'm saying there? Submission is not submersiveness. It's not going around and saying, I could do it better. [00:15:36] We should do this and we should do that like the body of Christ out there does. Because y' all don't do that in here. I know that. That's okay. Y' all don't do that. [00:15:46] Amen. But what we. What we can do is do it the way Christ calls us to do. [00:15:50] It and share with one another and come together in the spirit of unity to achieve the goal. Amen. Submission shows us how we treat each other. I say all the time to my family, to my wife, to my kids, I'm not responsible for how people treat me. I'm responsible for how I treat them. That's submission and surrender. [00:16:17] I'm not responsible for what you say to me. [00:16:19] I'm responsible for what I say to you in return. Amen. So I choose you over myself and my pride. I've had people get in my face in 25 years and tell me, you the devil. [00:16:39] You the devil. I just know you are angel in light. Just because I'm telling you you should stop drinking doesn't mean I'm the devil. Amen. Just because I'm telling you, you hurting yourself with your action doesn't mean I'm the devil. Actually, he does the opposite. Amen. [00:16:55] But my response to that is not pride and defense. My response to that is say, well, I understand where you are right now. I understand what you're thinking. But let's talk about it. Let's pray. Let's get through the emotions of the moment and see if we can come to a resolve. That's submission and surrender. Amen. It has nothing to do with me. Submission lifts others higher. Philippians 2, 3, 4. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness, not puffed up of mind. Let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interest, but also for the interest of others. Hmm? Submission isn't about being lower. It's about lifting others Higher. Amen. It's not about being a welcome mat. It's not about being a stepping stone or a ladder. It's about lifting people up. The Marines do it well. When they go to climb a wall, one will come up to the wal. He or she will position themselves to boost everyone up, and then they reach. [00:18:00] Up to climb that wall themselves. [00:18:02] It's a team effort. It's not lowliness. It's working together. Amen. Submission echoes Christ's character and prioritizes the mission over personal preference. So that's submission, how we walk with one another. But let's talk about the deeper work. Surrender. Because submission without. Listen to this. This is. [00:18:27] Whoo. When God said this to me this. [00:18:29] Week, I was like, lord Jesus, I'm. [00:18:32] Gonna have to take that in myself. Submission without surrender is just behavior. Say it again. [00:18:41] Submission without surrender is just behavior. [00:18:46] But surrender with submit. [00:18:48] But surrender without submission is isolation. Meaning I just. I'm gonna pull back and I'm gonna be with God. Well, I'm gonna make sure I act right in front of you. But who I am, really, I'm gonna hide. That's called hypocrite. That's just behavior. That's just an act. We want to kill those two things. We need submission and surrender to be in our true form. Amen. [00:19:18] Surrender is how we walk before God. Look at Matthew. [00:19:21] Cause surrender requires a daily dying to self. [00:19:25] Matthew 16, 24, 25. Is this too hard for y'? All? Is it all right? Matthew 16, 24, 25. If anyone desires to come after me, then Jesus said to his disciples, if. [00:19:35] Anyone desires to come after me, let. [00:19:37] Him deny himself and take up his. [00:19:39] Cross and follow me. Verse 25. [00:19:41] For whosoever desires to save his life will lose it. [00:19:45] But whosoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Now, here's what that's actually saying. Because this is not about more effort. What you compromise to keep, you will lose anyway. What you compromise to keep, you will lose anyway. [00:20:09] So if you are compromising who you are in God for a relationship, you. [00:20:14] Will lose it anyway. [00:20:16] If you compromise who you are in God for your marriage, you will begin to devour and destroy your marriage and use God as a weapon against your partner. If you compromise to keep your job, you will begin to slip away from God because you're loving. Timmy said it. You'll serve money and not God. [00:20:34] What are you yielding yourself to Will direct your life. [00:20:39] Amen. [00:20:40] Surrender isn't emotional. It's obedient. [00:20:46] Surrender isn't something we do in the moment, in a crowd on a Sunday. It's something we do when no one's looking. It's the right thing to do because it's the right thing to do. [00:20:59] I'm gonna land somewhere, I promise you. It's a daily letting go of self will and looking for God's will. [00:21:14] Surrender now. I'm going to say something. [00:21:15] You're going to have to give me all you grace people going to have to give me five minutes to explain because I'm not going against anything. But I'm going to say something a little catchy and I need you all to hold on. All right? Surrender breaks the power of sin. Oh no it doesn't. The blood of Jesus and what he's. [00:21:32] Done on the cross. Yes it does. [00:21:35] When you accept it, when you walk in it, when you receive it, when you believe it, when you've surrendered to it, sin no longer has dominion over you. Amen. [00:21:50] But without your submission and surrender, you're gonna continue to struggle with sin and wonder what's wrong with you. It's because you still holding on to you and prioritizing you when you to give everything to God so you can walk a sinless life. Pastor, do you walk sinless? [00:22:08] I am getting better at it, but. [00:22:11] The M1 right now makes it very hard. Amen. There's this thing called humans. Amen. But as you look at people that are mature in Christ and have walking in that revelation of Christ, you just begin to look at them like how? How you just. [00:22:29] Can I be real? [00:22:30] You just look at me. Can you just cuss one time so I know you human? And then they just go, no, it's not in me anymore. Do you just not ever get angry? No, it's just not in me anymore. Don't you just ever talk about somebody? Come on, I know that little prayer call you do. [00:22:50] You talking about people, ain't you? No. [00:22:53] Cause those things are of the flesh. [00:22:55] And I have surrendered that to Christ. [00:22:57] And I now walk in him. It's not fake, it's not phony, it's not fluffy. I mean look at me right now. [00:23:07] I am me and I'm funny and I'm not doing all the things I. [00:23:14] Shouldn'T do to be fun. [00:23:16] Amen. You can live this life without smelling, looking, tasting like the world. Amen. Christ broke the power of sin. Your surrender takes its power out of your life. Well, what does that look like? Only believe. Believe that he did it for you. Believe that his holy Spirit empowers you. Believe that he talks to you read your word. Surround yourself with different things that are feeding your spirit, not your flesh. Deny yourself the cravings and you'll begin to walk in the spirit. Romans 6, 12, 13, New Testament. Paul's writing. After Jesus died. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, that you should obey. [00:24:20] It in its lusts. [00:24:23] And do not present your members as instruments. Uprightness to sin, unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Holiness flows from surrender. You don't overcome sin by trying harder. You overcome sin by yielding more deeply to God. Amen. You do not overcome sin by praying more, by worshiping more, by coming to church, by going seven days a week. No, no, no. You overcome it by yielding to God and believing what Christ did on the cross. Amen. Amen. And what holiness flows from? Surrender his holiness. [00:25:21] You, while robed in this flesh, have. [00:25:24] To remember and realize that kadesh means holy. And that when we talk about things like sanctification, which is another word for holy, that means when he says, I. [00:25:38] Am holy, therefore be holy. In the Old and New Testament. What does that actually mean? Well, Tony, I think most people thought it was prim and proper. We don't do anything wrong. [00:25:49] No, no, no. [00:25:50] It means he is the one God. [00:25:53] And you are his people. [00:25:55] That means he will be God and nothing else, and you will be his people and nothing else. That means he places Himself above all other gods and you place yourself to be seen and his people surrendered to Him. Holiness is not your words, your actions, or your deeds. [00:26:11] Holiness is saying, I surrender all to you, God. I give it all to you. Amen. Aren't you glad Jesus did that hardest part for you? Amen. [00:26:26] Is this good? [00:26:27] You're taking it in. [00:26:30] Surrender. Trust God with the outcome. [00:26:33] Ooh, we all need this one. You got kids. You got a dog. [00:26:39] I looked at my little fluffy white dog today. [00:26:41] He's like a little. If I hold him, I look like a 007 villain. Paddy told me that one time. I thought it was funny. [00:26:52] And I'm looking at this little dog that hates being left alone during the day. And he's barking at me. [00:26:58] I mean, he ain't just barking. There's a bark that comes out of that little dog. That'll scare you a little dog. Maybe not you, but it scares me. Because I'm looking at him, saying, I'm looking at him. He's got this lookin. I'm gonna chew something and catch this house on fire. [00:27:12] I'm sitting there thinking, this dog is gonna do something to this house today. So I shut my door so he doesn't pee and poop on my bed. [00:27:19] Amen. [00:27:19] Well, where does this go, Kyle? [00:27:21] I gotta trust God, no matter the outcome. I'm gonna come home to a house that's not burned down. You say, well, something as simple as. [00:27:28] A thought like that. Yeah. [00:27:29] I gotta trust God with everything. I gotta trust God with every intrusive thought. I gotta trust God with every worry. I gotta trust God with every fear. I trusted God with these kids. They turned out all right. I gotta trust God in my marriage. [00:27:41] Because, man, Lord knows that men, we just stupid. We sometimes don't listen, and we just. We just don't always get it. And I walk in and I'm like, hey, how you doing, babe? [00:27:49] I'm fine. You know you're in trouble when you get that. [00:27:54] What's wrong? [00:27:54] Nothing. [00:27:55] You know you in bad, deep trouble when you get that. [00:27:59] My submission asks the next question. Do we need to talk? Let me tell you a story about submission and surrender before I go on. I feel like we need to lighten up just a little bit. We gotta trust God with the outcome, right? [00:28:16] So, Tina, as you know, we're having. [00:28:18] Our 25th anniversary May 12th. And I'd love to invite everybody, but I'm not rich, so there's only gonna be a few friends from the US And a few select people. So if you don't get invited, know that I love you, and please don't leave the church. But if you do, let's talk about submission and surrender a little bit more. Okay? [00:28:33] So anyway, Tina. [00:28:34] Tina finds this dress yesterday. [00:28:37] And for those of you who don't know, we got married young, we got. [00:28:39] Married quickly, we didn't really have the. [00:28:42] Wedding she always wanted. [00:28:43] We got married because we were living together. And I was told we were in sin. So in that same week, we got married. [00:28:48] So it just happened. [00:28:50] But I robbed her of something. [00:28:53] I robbed her of that day. [00:28:54] I robbed her of walking down the aisle. I robbed her of being pretty in that dress. [00:28:57] I, I, I me. [00:28:59] I did that. I robbed her of that because of my. What? [00:29:03] I. [00:29:03] The choices I made before we got married that ruined our original wedding date. If you want to hear that story, there's a marriage class. We'll talk to you about it. Amen. But she gets to walk down that aisle. So she finds this dress in Sydney yesterday. And she calls me up, she said, I found the dress. You know what I'm thinking? How much is It. [00:29:26] And she's so excited, and she's. I mean, you can just hear the happiness in her voice. I'm like, it's making me smile. On the other side of the phone, I was like, oh, what's that? [00:29:34] This. [00:29:37] You know, she's smiling, and I can hear the joy. And then she tells me the price. [00:29:45] I'm a pastor. Amen. And every Jew part in me goes. But submission said, if it makes you happy, by it, I mean, we got the money. We're not broke. I mean, a Jew, if you got $20,000 in the bank, you're broke. I ain't telling you I got that much because then you go, come ask me for money. I'm a Jew. Amen. [00:30:11] But the reality is, is that all. [00:30:14] I could think about is what I wanted to say. And I thought about what that would do. It would rob that joy. It would rob that happy moment. And in that moment, I preferred her over what I thought. I preferred her happiness over mine. And I trusted God with the outcome. We really. [00:30:37] And the reality is, that wasn't easy. And it took a long time for. [00:30:45] Me to get there. 25 years we're celebrating, so it's a long time. [00:30:51] But surrender. Trust God with the outcome. [00:30:55] Psalms 37:5 says, Commit your ways to the Lord. Trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass. Surrender isn't about abandoning responsibility. [00:31:08] It's about trusting God with the control. It's about trusting God with the outcomes. [00:31:13] The timing and the destination and direction. [00:31:19] I'm still trying to figure out all. [00:31:21] The other things I gotta do. And Timmy helped me out today when he said diamonds wasn't precious, so I gotta buy a new ring. And I thought, ooh, maybe I'll just tell my wife that it doesn't have to be a diamond. [00:31:31] The Holy Spirit immediately said to me. [00:31:35] Son, you've made enough mistakes in 25 years. Let's not make another one. Yes, sir. [00:31:46] Surrender. Trust God with the outcome. Surrender takes the power of sin out of your life because Jesus has defeated it. The champion of your life. Jesus has defeated sin. Why would you not give it all. [00:32:03] To him so that sin no longer has power over your life? [00:32:06] He defeated it. He defeated it. It's no longer the devil made me do it. It's your emotions and your fear and. [00:32:14] Your lack of trust in God that makes you sin. [00:32:18] God answered the question to me a long time ago. [00:32:19] Tony, let me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but God. [00:32:23] I asked this question. I said, what really is sin? What is it really because when people. [00:32:29] Sin, it's usually because they need to feel good, right? [00:32:32] I said, what is sin? [00:32:34] And he said to me, it's unbelief. It is unbelief. They just don't believe that I. I can fix it. They don't. They don't believe that I can step into this moment and make it better. So they choose the instant comfort over me and they miss the mark. Amen. [00:32:54] Amen. But that's solid, right? [00:32:57] Surrender requires us giving everything to God and choosing Him. Submission prefers others over ourselves. [00:33:07] Submission. [00:33:10] Protects unity. [00:33:12] Man. [00:33:13] Can I tell you this in closing? Somehow I still made it on time. Timmy. I came up to Timmy earlier, before he got up, because Timmy's a teacher. We're going to have him up later on this year to preach a Sunday morning or teach a Sunday morning. And I do allow other people to get up and teach in this house because we have to have different voices and different perspectives. And then God gives me and my wife the majority of the year. Amen. I was telling Timmy, I walked up to him earlier, and he's in real submission. I love this kid. I walked up to him. Come here, son. I wouldn't do this to anybody else. Turn around. It's all right. Just trust me. I walked up to him and I said, timmy, I got a stinky sock I'm gonna throw at you if you go over time. And he turns around, he says, so 20 minutes. I said, throw 10, Timmy. And then he comes up to me right before he gets up, and he says, now, I need you to trust me where I'm going in the beginning. And this was my response to him. You would not be up there if I didn't trust you in your submission and surrender to God. Timmy, you really need to understand that if you ever step in this pulpit to minister, you need to understand that I'm not looking at your ability. I'm not looking at your qualifications, your certificates, your degrees, who you are, where you're from, or even what color you are. I am looking at are you in submission to the vision of this house, and are you in surrender to God? And if you are those two things, I will. [00:34:49] I will. [00:34:49] I tell you what, I'll put you in places you probably don't want to be. Because if you're in submission and surrender, you don't care about the platform, you. [00:34:59] Don'T have the ego. [00:35:01] Your social media is probably half dead because you're not caring about what everybody thinks about you. Real submission and surrender is so free, guys. It doesn't walk into church feeling heavy. It doesn't walk into church wondering what's wrong if anything. If it walks into church and it's not right, it has a response like. [00:35:21] David, what's up with this? What are we going to do about this? This don't feel right. We got authority here. [00:35:28] It doesn't come in trying to look for what's wrong, who did what. And this is my prime moment to say something spiritual. Real submission and surrender is looking with different eyes, listening with different ears and has different words. And it is so free. It doesn't seek approval, it doesn't seek. [00:35:47] Man'S kindness, it doesn't seek the career, the title, the job or the recognition. Real submission and surrender says, I prefer you to be seen Jesus over me. And if that means somebody else gets the row to boat, then I do. If somebody else gets the lead and I don't, if somebody else gets the job, if somebody else, somebody else has the house and somebody else has the card, somebody else has the marriage, I want, you know what? I choose you over what I'm feeling in this moment, over what I'm thinking in this moment, over how I feel about this moment. No, I choose you because real submission. [00:36:25] And surrender doesn't look at all the other stuff. Make sure this stays in the recording. Somebody came up to me the other day. [00:36:40] You American? [00:36:41] Obviously. [00:36:43] Did you vote for Trump? [00:36:44] I was here. Well, you could have sent in your ballot. I didn't. So you, you a liberal then? [00:36:54] They had every opinion about me. And I looked at them and I. [00:36:58] Said, sir, Cause you're a ma', am, I'm gonna look at you. [00:37:02] Sir, you don't know me. And if you would take the time to get to know me, you would. [00:37:07] Realize that the things of this earth don't bother me that much. And I pray for the President of. [00:37:13] The United States just as much as. [00:37:14] I pray for the Prime Minister of Australia. [00:37:17] And those things are out of my control. And my complaint, my energy, my shouting, my crying takes away from what I could be doing. And what I can be doing is praying with people, feeding people, visiting people, caring for people, loving people, helping the elderly, helping the orphan. Because that's pure religion. I can do those things. So I'm not going to waste my time on the things I don't have control over. So sir, I'm sorry I didn't vote. I'm sorry I didn't and this is how I said it. But I can tell you what we can do. [00:37:50] We can pray and then me and you can Figure out what we can do to help the person next to us. Surrender doesn't get haughty and look at what's wrong and complain about it. Surrender looks at the need and says, how can I feel it? Submission and surrender. Do that. Amen. And I don't know what this message has done for you today, but you know what it did to me in Israel? I was standing there, sick as a dog. I think I was laying down, actually gray, feeling like I was going to go to the hospital. I said, lord, how do I continue in ministry? How do I keep doing this? He said, well, you have to first realize that it's not your ministry. This is the impression I got from the Lord After a few audible conversations that I had that were quite scary. I said, lord, what do you mean by that? He said, son, everybody has a ministry. And that's the problem. We keep telling people, you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a ministry and you got a. Well, doggone, how are we gonna work. [00:39:13] Together if we all apart? [00:39:16] What if your ministry is to be a part of the ministry, the ministry of Jesus? [00:39:24] You know what God said to me? [00:39:25] He said, Kyle, I need you to change your language. Stop saying your ministry. Start saying my ministry. And when people ask you a question, start saying, well, because I'm a part of the ministry of Jesus, it may have the brand, world changers on it, and I may be the current pastor, but when I die, I, you know, world changes will continue because somebody else will take the baton. Because it's not built on me. It's built on Jesus. Amen. Amen. [00:39:48] And so the reality of all things. [00:39:50] Is this, is that I'm not going. [00:39:53] To tell you you have a ministry. [00:39:54] I'm going to invite you to the ministry of Jesus. And you may serve that ministry in Colorado, you may serve that ministry in. [00:40:01] Singapore, you may serve that ministry in Russia. [00:40:03] You may serve it right here in the Gold Coast. But you are going to be a part of the ministry of Jesus. Amen. So quit thinking about what you can do, because then you will isolate yourself and your surrender, submit to the local body and become a part of the body, a working, functioning member of the body, and surrender all the other stuff to him. Amen. Because we are one body. Come January, we're going to preach a message on All In. Now, you can decide to visit another church at that time if you'd like. [00:40:40] Because I believe one Thing. [00:40:41] And this is the last thing I'll say. I believe what God is doing. And let me tell you what God is doing. He's not just having Kyle preach pretty messages and making him feel uncomfortable. Amen, man. [00:40:50] Like you. [00:40:50] When somebody gives. When we come to give each other a hug, it's like, and I. That's how I feel on Sundays with these messages. But you know what God's doing? He's killing the flesh. And he's also killing the let me. [00:41:01] Be served mentality and let me serve mentality. [00:41:05] And he's starting to really make that an attribute of who we naturally are, that we don't have to ask to serve, we just serve. And what God's doing, even more than that is I believe he's building people. We're not going to have to come in here every week broken and crying and wondering what's wrong. No, you know what God's doing as he's preaching these messages? He's making us leaders of our community. He's making us leaders of our home. He's making us solid disciples of Jesus Christ so that when we walk through the door, we're not going. Well, Michelle, I didn't really like the worship today. [00:41:39] When did. When did we start worshiping them? None of this is for you. [00:41:46] Everything we do is for him. [00:41:49] And when you mature in the Lord, you stop walking through the door with expectations and you start walking through the. [00:41:55] Door with expectations for good from God. [00:41:59] Amen. And you surrender everything to him. And maybe the church isn't perfect. I mean, right before I got up to preach, I'm gonna tell this story, bro. Is that all right? I tell this story? What I said to you before I got up to preach? [00:42:10] All right, sweetheart. Do you remember that awful, stinky moment that you had to endeavor? [00:42:16] Yep. I'm about to get up to preach. I do not have time to handle this problem or I'd have handled it myself. [00:42:22] I promise you that. [00:42:25] I looked at Paddy. I said, patty, somebody just sent me. [00:42:27] A text, there's poop on the toilet seat. [00:42:30] Paddy without hesitation. [00:42:32] Right, Got it. [00:42:34] That is serving the Lord. Because that is not something you want to do. But you know, Paddy does more than that. You know Jeremy does more than that. You know Claire does more than that. Do you know they do more than that all week long? They're serving in the human waste of life and giving everything to God and saying, you know what? Doesn't matter what crap you throw on me, I'm going to turn to Jesus every time. And that's why these people are leaders in this church. Amen. [00:43:05] And that's why my wife is a leader beside me. It's because they have submitted and surrendered to Jesus. Amen. Stand to your feet. My God reigns. Worship team, I'm going to invite you back up if that's okay. Is that all right? We're going to end in worship today. You played a song. Beautiful. Is that what it was? Can we. Is that possible? [00:43:40] Or. [00:43:41] Huh? Which one? Yeah, the last one. This song they had in their queue to do I Surrender All. Michelle came to me and said that'd be a little bit too obvious with the message. And she prayed and she got this message about how beautiful the Lord is. She came with this song for our worship. And I want to end inside of. [00:44:00] This, but what I'm going to do. [00:44:00] Is we're not going to have a corporate prayer. We're not going to have something led by me. We're going to enter into worship. And if you feel that you want to give that submission and surrender to. [00:44:11] God. [00:44:14] I would like you to come forward. And for those of you that don't come forward, that means you're saying, I have surrendered to the vision. I know who I am. I know what God's called me to do, and I know the path he's put me on. And those of you who don't come forward are saying that, you know, I have fully given God everything. I'm good. And I know that was a little like, how could we not come? No, there's some of you in here that actually have surrendered all there is a couple of you. [00:44:44] And you need to know that you have. [00:44:48] And it's not always easy. The choices you make. [00:44:50] You look at surrender as perfection. No, surrender is that I choose God in the mess. [00:44:57] Amen. [00:44:59] So if that's you this morning, can. [00:45:02] You come forward as we worship? [00:45:07] Thank you for tuning in to today's message. To connect or find out more, you can reach us online at worldchangers.life. Remember to subscribe for more uplifting messages from our pastoral team. And may you continue to walk in faith and transformation until we meet again.