CHAPTER 1
1.
Explain how 1 Kings 20:1-4 is a symbol of Absolute Surrender to God. (Pg 6)
2.
According to the author, what is Absolute Surrender? What is the outcome
of our Absolute Surrender to God?
God Expects
Your Surrender
3.
Explain what the author means when he says God expects your surrender.
God
Accomplishes Your Surrender
4.
How will the Holy Spirit work in you to
accomplish your Absolute Surrender?
5.
The author asks, “Have you ever yet learned the lesson that the Holy Ghost works with
mighty power, while on the human side everything appears feeble?” Explain
how this thought ties into absolutely surrendering all.
God
Maintains Your Surrender
6.
What hinders us from living a life of Absolute Surrender?
7.
Identify and explain the two sides of a life
surrendered to God
God Blesses
You When You Surrender
8.
Explain why we must empty ourselves before God.
9.
The first paragraph on page 11 says, “You may not have such a strong and clear
feelings of deliverance as you would...” This paragraph explains how one
lives a life of Absolute Surrender. Explain
how you do this practically.
10. Explain
how the story of Abraham and Isaac is an example of the sacrifice spoken of in
the last paragraph of this chapter. (Read Genesis 22:1-19)
Chapter 1: Bible Verses To Reference
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no
longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come
after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
For whoever would save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of
wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears
much fruit.
And whoever does not take his cross and
follow me is not worthy of me.
I protest, brothers, by my pride in you,
which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in
sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live
in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into
death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of
the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united
with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a
resurrection like his. ...
He himself bore our sins in his body on the
tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you
have been healed.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ,
any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and
sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love,
being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but
in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look
not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this
mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,
arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the
flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh
no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past
suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality,
passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With
respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood
of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is
ready to judge the living and the dead. ...
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his
own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and
even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the
vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and
every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in
me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides
in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are
the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much
fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,
and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the
sake of his body, that is, the church,
My little children, I am writing these things
to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our
sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by
this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the
truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God
is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter
of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were
those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God,
and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its
mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with
Christ for a thousand years.
He saved us, not because of works done by us
in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
At that time the disciples came to Jesus,
saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a
child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless
you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...
So put away all malice and all deceit and
hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure
spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have
tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by
men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living
stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to
offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain.
Therefore remember that at one time you
Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the
circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at
that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and
strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the
world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near
by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one
and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing
the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in
himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, ...
How much more will the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our
conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
There is therefore now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you
free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the
law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the
righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to
him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do
these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of
God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he
enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he
cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
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