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WHAT IF: WE JUST SURRENDERED? (3 OF 4)
by Central Christian Church of Arizona
Scripture: Proverbs 16:18
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What If: We Just Surrendered? (3 of 4)
Series: What If
Cal Jernigan
Proverbs 16:18
1) What If?
a) Our current series has been titled What IF?
b) The very idea of ''what if'' implies things don't have to stay the way they are!
c) If we're not happy with something, we can make ''changes''
i) We don't have to stay on the same road we once got on!
ii) We can turn around, we can change direction
iii) We can use our imagination to picture a BETTER FUTURE!
d) Nothing changes when nothing changes!
2) Embracing The Truth
a) God wants to change you!
i) This is called growth
ii) This is called progress
iii) This is called improvement
b) Most of us are inclined TO RESIST CHANGE!!!
i) We fight change
ii) We resent change
iii) We flee from change
c) The greatest growth opportunity in your life is on the other side of the point of your greatest resistance to God.
d) Therefore: To grow we must quit resisting his will and decide to surrender to it.
e) The story of Lt. Hiroo Onada
i) On March 10, 1974, Lt. Hiroo Onada was the last World War II Japanese soldier to surrender.
ii) Show Picture of Lt. Onada here
iii) Onada had been left on the island Lubang in the Philippines on December 25, 1944, with the command to ''carry on the mission even if Japan surrenders.'' Four other Japanese soldiers were left on the island as Japan evacuated Lubang.
(1) One soldier surrendered in 1950.
(2) Another was killed in a skirmish with local police in 1954.
(3) Another was killed in 1972. Onada continued his war alone.
iv) All efforts to convince him to surrender or to capture him failed. He ignored messages from loudspeakers announcing Japan's surrender and that Japan was now an ally of the United States. Leaflets were dropped over the jungle begging him to surrender so he could return to Japan. He refused to believe or surrender.
v) Over the years he lived off the land and raided the fields and gardens of local citizens. He was respons ...
Series: What If
Cal Jernigan
Proverbs 16:18
1) What If?
a) Our current series has been titled What IF?
b) The very idea of ''what if'' implies things don't have to stay the way they are!
c) If we're not happy with something, we can make ''changes''
i) We don't have to stay on the same road we once got on!
ii) We can turn around, we can change direction
iii) We can use our imagination to picture a BETTER FUTURE!
d) Nothing changes when nothing changes!
2) Embracing The Truth
a) God wants to change you!
i) This is called growth
ii) This is called progress
iii) This is called improvement
b) Most of us are inclined TO RESIST CHANGE!!!
i) We fight change
ii) We resent change
iii) We flee from change
c) The greatest growth opportunity in your life is on the other side of the point of your greatest resistance to God.
d) Therefore: To grow we must quit resisting his will and decide to surrender to it.
e) The story of Lt. Hiroo Onada
i) On March 10, 1974, Lt. Hiroo Onada was the last World War II Japanese soldier to surrender.
ii) Show Picture of Lt. Onada here
iii) Onada had been left on the island Lubang in the Philippines on December 25, 1944, with the command to ''carry on the mission even if Japan surrenders.'' Four other Japanese soldiers were left on the island as Japan evacuated Lubang.
(1) One soldier surrendered in 1950.
(2) Another was killed in a skirmish with local police in 1954.
(3) Another was killed in 1972. Onada continued his war alone.
iv) All efforts to convince him to surrender or to capture him failed. He ignored messages from loudspeakers announcing Japan's surrender and that Japan was now an ally of the United States. Leaflets were dropped over the jungle begging him to surrender so he could return to Japan. He refused to believe or surrender.
v) Over the years he lived off the land and raided the fields and gardens of local citizens. He was respons ...
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