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1. THREE RESPONSES TO GOD’S CALL:

A. JONAH: HERE I AM. I’M NOT GOING.

Jonah 1:2-3 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” ³ But Jonah ran away from the LORD…

B. MOSES: HERE I AM. SEND SOMEONE ELSE.

Exodus 3:10-11 - So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” ¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Isaiah 6:8 - Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

C. ISAIAH: HERE I AM. SEND ME.

2. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO FULLY SURRENDER TO GOD?

A) A REAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

Isaiah 6:1 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

Isaiah 6:3 - And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”

B) A REAL AWARENESS OF YOUR SINFULNESS.

Isaiah 6:5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

C) A REAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOD’S GRACE.

Isaiah 6:6-7 - Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah 6:8 - “Whom shall I send?… “Here am I. Send me!”

HOW DO WE LEARN TO DIE DAILY TO OUR FLESH SO OUR SPIRIT WOULD LIVE?

• WHAT WE FEED GROWS AND WHAT WE STARVE DIES.

1 Corinthians 15:31 - I die every day — I mean that, brothers — just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Next Steps: Sign up for a Community Group or lead a group (1-19-25), Growth Pathway (2-2-25), and/or become a Change Maker (see the Serve card).