Part 1

INTRODUCTION

• Today I want to start out by having you to examine your heart today by asking the questions: “What is your motive?” Ask yourself, “Do I want my will or do I desire Thy Will?”

TWO WORDS THAT CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF SATAN

• Turn with me in Isaiah 14:12-15 (I Will 4X)
• I Will
• Isaiah shows us the fall of Lucifer or Satan; it calls him the “son of the morning.” (v12)
• He was a beautiful angel that one day decided that he was jealous of all the attention Yahwah was getting.
• If we were to summarize the mission and heartbeat of this fallen angel Lucifer, I believe that you would agree that two words capture the essence of who he was.
• As we read in Isaiah 14:13-14, see if you can figure out the two words that capture the heart of Lucifer.
• Isaiah 14:13-14 says, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of Yahwah; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly… I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
• Two words that capture the heart of Lucifer would be: “I WILL.”
• Turn with me in Matthew 26:42
• Now if you move over to the New Testament and compare that to Messiah, the Son of Yahwah, when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane; two words that capture the heart of Messiah would be: “Not my will but THY WILL.”
• Lucifer wanted everyone to worship him; Messiah wanted everyone to worship Yahwah.
• Lucifer wanted himself to be made known; Messiah wanted His Father to be made known.
• Lucifer wanted his will; Messiah wanted the will of His Father.
• And that battle of “good vs. evil” or “my will vs. Thy will” still rages on today in the hearts of every follower of Messiah.
• “Will it be my will or will it be Thy Will?”
• Yahwah wants us to completely surrender our life and ultimately wants us to get to a place where we can passionately say, “Lord, not my will but Thy will be done.”
• Today, we’re going to study three phases to this surrendered life.
• If you find yourself in one of these phases and then let’s move toward the phase of ultimate surrender.

THREE PHASES TOWARD THE SURRENDERED LIFE
• The first phase would be:
1) YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT, NOW
• How many can say that you are like this in many areas of your life? You want what you want and you want it now…
PERSONAL STUDY OF KINGS
• Let’s open up to 2 Kings chapter 8
• If we were to exhort on this chapter, we could go many different directions with it.
• Read the story with me in 2 Kings 8:7-15
TWO THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• There are two things about this story that you need to know before I can make my point.
• The first one is that Yahwah had already chosen Hazael to be anointed king.
• 1 Kings 19:15
• It was Yahwah’s will for Hazael to become king.
• But, contrary to popular opinion, last time I checked murder isn’t Yahwah’s will…
• One side might argue, “Ben-Hadad was an evil king who worshipped false gods. He deserved to die!”
• And the other side might argue, “But murder is a direct violation of the will of Yahwah.”
• Regardless of your opinion on that, there is one thing we can all agree on…
• Hazael knew what he wanted and he wanted it NOW!
• It was Yahwah’s will but it wasn’t His timing.
• How many of us in here have gone similar experiences?
• You want what you want and you want it NOW!
EXAMPLE OF WHEN SOMEONE PURCHASES THEIR FIRST CAR ON CREDIT
• There are many examples I could give but I’ll just leave you with one today.
• We’ll say you have a perfectly great running car.
• Yeah, it was a little old but it ran like a champ and you loved it.
• But you noticed that all your friends were getting nice cars and trucks and Jeeps and you felt out of the loop.
• So, you went to the car dealership and tried to get a loan for the first time; of course, with no credit even established, you couldn’t get a new car.
• But now that you had to have a new car, you went to another new car dealership and tried getting a loan through them.
• You didn’t get that loan either.