Our Great Goal - World Missions - A Call to Full Surrender

I really can't think of a better song to sing as we prepare to look at this subject that we've been looking at for several weeks. That is the subject of missions, the possibility of world missions, the responsibility of world missions. And I believe that not just today, but in the days, weeks and years to come, the Lord is going to call us, and call us, and call us to put our all on the altar to be obedient to the work that He has for us. I know I say this repeatedly, but that is one of my favorite. Brother Keith has done that one for years, and it is very, very powerful. Thank you.

I think that's fitting for where we're going to be this morning. Well, take your Bible this morning. Turn with me to the book of Romans, Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9. We will be in verses 1 through 5 this morning. We will not go in any other portion of scripture. I know that in many of these messages, especially the messages on missions, we've gone in various places, but we'll stay right here in Romans, Romans chapter 9 verses 1 through 5. Now, we've been in this series, messages from the pastor's heart since October.

If you've kept up diligently in your note-taking, you know that we started on October the 30th with these messages that have been on my heart. Now, I think that it is very, very important for you to see that there are times that as your pastor, I see the need to preach and to teach on a particular subject or subjects that must be dealt with in the life of the church and in your life. Usually, this comes in the form of a burden as the Lord is working in me and enabling me to see the need in your life, in my life, and in the life of the church. And that is exactly what's been going on for months in my life.

I have been carrying the burden of these subjects. Therefore, I brought them in the form of this series, messages from the pastor's heart. I've been very burdened for you and your family. I see some very serious spiritual needs in some of your families. I pray for you as men. I pray for you and your families. I pray that the Lord would enable you to have a biblically healthy family. I challenge you to go back and study those notes and listen to those messages, especially you men, because the buck stops with you, stops with me. I've been very burdened about the ministry needs that the Lord has put before us.

God has opened up a door and doors of ministry for us. We have a wonderful ministry to children, not just your children and mine, but children in this community. And we have many, many great needs in your lives and the lives around us. And these are ministries that the Lord has put before us. But then we've also been looking at the burden of world missions. I know that the Lord has been working on me in the area of missions for quite some time, but especially starting in August as it pertains to our church. Now for three weeks, we've been focusing on missions.

I brought us two messages titled, "Our Great Gold World Missions." Now last week, that was interrupted. When we had a guest speaker, we had Brother Steve McAllister come. He is from North Alabama, Grace Life Church of the Shoals in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. That is a Southern Baptist church that God is using in a great way. And through their church, they have a missions arm called Anchored in Truth Ministries. He is what would be considered the associate pastor there. He is the missions pastor there. And we are praying towards partnering with them to have an avenue to do more missions. That's why we brought him here.

And we've been explaining you and teaching you and telling you how we felt led to partner with him. And this is all part of God calling us to this great goal of world missions. This is just parts of the puzzle coming together. Now personally, I really like the title of what we have held on to, "Our Great Gold World Missions." I like it because we have learned that it should be our goal as a church to take the gospel around the world.

If you have not heard these messages, part one, part two, even the message by Brother Steve McAllister, I really challenge you to listen to them because all of these messages come together for one message that the Lord wants us to receive. And I want us to hear these messages and what God wants to do in us as a church collectively. And if you miss out on any of these things, you might find yourself lagging behind in what God is doing. And I want us to be unified here. Now, in part two of our great gold world missions, the end of the message I asked us the question.

And that question was, "Will we offer ourselves?" And I helped us explore this question in four ways. I challenged us to offer ourselves as a church for this task. That is, that we would offer our church for the goal, the task, the job of world missions. Also, that we would offer our lives for this task. You might say, "Pastor me? Yes, you." All of us, that we would offer our lives to be a part of this goal. And then I challenged us to offer our families. Yes, our families. That we could be a part together as families in taking the gospel around the world. And then last, I ask us to ponder the possibility of offering our children.

Yes, our children. They're not ours, they're not yours. They are the Lord's. And we should be willing to offer up our children to the Lord. Did not our father Abraham do that when the Lord asked him, told him, commanded him to offer up his one and only son Isaac? He willingly and gladly, out of a love for his God, bound his son and put him on the altar and raised a knife to slay Isaac for the Lord. And that is what we should be willing to do to offer our all, and being obedient to the call of world missions. Now, this morning's message just comes from that part two. It is a continuation of part two.

And it is a continuation of this question, will we offer our selves? Now, I'll go ahead and give you the title of the message. I have just added to that title that we've carried on all along. Our great gold world missions, a call to full surrender. A call to full surrender. We'll be in Romans nine, like I said earlier, verses one through five. You see the main truth that we're going to look at out of Paul's life. Paul was sincere in his surrender. He was sorrowful in his surrender and he was sacrificial in his surrender. I really encourage you to take notes. I encourage you to develop that habit.

That's part of your responsibility to learn what the Lord is bringing before us. I challenge you to go study your notes in your own personal time so that you would receive all that the Lord wants to say to us today, tomorrow, and in the years to come. So our great gold world missions, a call to full surrender. Now, just as in our first message, I use the church at Antioch as an example. Now, in this last message, I want to use an individual as an example, that being the apostle Paul. Paul, who was originally Saul, was the great persecutor of the church prior to his conversion.

If you know your Bible, you know that he was converted in Acts nine and God changed his name from Saul to Paul. The great persecutor of the church became the great apostle to the church, the great apostle to the Gentiles, and he was appointed that apostle. And yet he never lost his zeal for evangelizing the Jews, his own people. Now, Paul's with me for a minute and think about that. He was appointed as the apostle to the Gentiles, but he never lost his zeal for his own people. And Paul will be our great example for world missions in his full surrender to take the gospel to the Gentiles and the Jewish people.

And that is just what Paul is talking about in these verses. Let's look at our verses together. Romans nine verses one through five, starting in verse one, and I'm telling you the truth in Christ. I am not lying my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh. Those are the Jews there in the end of verse three he's speaking of. Who are Israelites? So he identifies them.

To whom the adoption of sons and the glory of the covenants and the giving of the law and the temple service and the promises whose are the fathers and from whom the Christ or the Messiah, according to the flesh, who is over all God blessed forever a man. So Paul here is expressing his heart and his desire to take the gospel all around the world, even to his own people. You see the main truths that we're going to look at. So let's dive right into the message main truth. Number one, I want us to see Paul was sincere in his surrender. This comes out of verse one. Paul was sincere in his surrender. I am telling you the truth in Christ.

I am not lying my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. Now truthfulness, honesty, those are rare commodities today, even sometimes in the life of the church. I have seen preachers lie for bigger love offerings. I've seen preachers and leaders in the life of the church ignore the truths of the word of God for the right connections to benefit their ministries and bolster their numbers and givings. I've seen we've seen politicians lie for political gain and power. We've known businessmen to lie for money in the next business deal. And in many arenas, it seems that sincere truthfulness is a rarity today.

And it is even in the church, but not with Paul, not with this great apostle Paul. He was sincere in his surrender and truthful in his declaration of this surrender. Now three observations about Paul surrender. This sincere surrender I want us to see out of verse one. First of all, notice that Paul took an oath. What does he say at the beginning? I am telling the truth in Christ. This is Paul's introduction to what he is about to say. He is saying, now listen, I am telling the truth and I'm calling names Christ, the name of Christ in this declaration. He is taking an oath in the name of Christ. Second notice, Paul bore witness.

I am telling the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience bearing me witness. Now question, what is the conscience? What is Paul talking about here as his conscience? Now, your conscience has been given to you by God. And your conscience is that instinctive sense of right and wrong that brings about guilt when it is violated. And it is based on the system of right and wrong that has been given to you. Now, you have been given a system of right and wrong by your parents. It might be warped. It might be twisted. It might be sinful. You've been given a system of right and wrong through maybe your years and growing up in church.

Some of you have been given a system of right and wrong in school. What am I showing you? There are many places where you have been given a system of right and wrong. There is a standard that is within you. And your conscience is that instinctive sense of right and wrong that brings about guilt when that is violated. You children, when you disobey your parents, you violate your conscience. Teenagers, maybe when you watch something on television you should not watch, you violate your conscience and it rises up against you. Some of you when you are at work and you do something you know you should not do, that violates your conscience.

And what do we see here? Paul is bearing witness here. Go back to the verse. I am telling the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience bearing me witness. Paul was not violating his conscience here. And then third, I want you to know the Holy Spirit bore him witness. I am telling the truth in Christ. There is the oath. I am not lying. My conscience is bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. Paul is saying my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. This is the true testimony of God to the very heart of Paul. This is the Spirit of God telling Paul that his surrender is sincere. He is not lying.

His conscience is not violated and the Spirit of God is not grieved that is within him. And the Spirit of God testifies to his own heart that he is truthful. I like a quotation here by Albert Barnes. Albert Barnes was an old Presbyterian commentator, very solid. But listen to what he says here. It kind of sheds some light. I quote, "He does not say that he speaks the truth by or in the Holy Spirit as he had said of Christ, but that the conscience pronounced its concurring testimony by the Holy Spirit." That is conscience as enlightened and influenced by the Holy Spirit.

It was not simply natural conscience, but it was the conscience under the full influence of the enlightener of the mind and the sanctifier of the heart. It was the Holy Spirit that enabled him to speak this testimony. So what do we see here? Paul is taking an oath. He is telling the truth in Christ. He is sincere in his surrender. And the Holy Spirit is testifying to the truthfulness of his surrender. There was no pretense here. There was no hypocrisy here. There was no duplicitous behavior here. He was sincere in his surrender to take the gospel to the Jewish people, his people. So with all of that said, look back at the verse.

I am telling the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. Paul was sincere in his surrender. Now, I want to make application here and I want to make application to the church. And I want to give you an illustration to help flesh this out. Over spring break, my wife and I took our children. We went on a little vacation. Our family has some property. We get to enjoy that property. We get to deer hunt a little, ride four wheelers and play in the creeks and all those good things. Just get away. Well, we went and we had some of those fun times together.

But we went over close to the Mississippi River to a natural area. It's a state park called Clark's Creek. Now, Clark's Creek, I'll go ahead and warn you. It's a very difficult trek. But if you go to Clark's Creek, you will notice that there are two different types of trails. There's some that are wide, some that are almost paved. They have gravel. Me and the girls were hiking and I looked at both of them and I said, "You know, it'd be nice to have the four wheeler here on these trails. We could go up and down with these." Wide, you could tell that even some of the park service individuals might even take trucks into that area.

But if you go off those broad, wide paths, you'll go down narrow, small paths all along the creek. And you know, to really get to the good areas, you got to get off the broad path. Did you know that Christianity is much like that? Listen, Christendom is the broad road. There are many people that walk down the broad road. We call that culturally Christendom. But true Bible Christianity is a narrow, hard path. And listen, to get to the good stuff, you got to get off the broad path and onto the narrow path. That's what Paul is saying here. He says, "I am sincere in my surrender. I'm walking down the narrow path of taking the gospel to my people.

And I am going where Christ wants me to go. And it is a difficult trek. It is hard trek. And I am not going where everyone else is going." Now, if we're not careful as a church, we will make a token surrender to the lordship of Christ as it relates to missions. Or we will allow God to work in us and to change us and to form us. And we will make a sincere surrender to the command of world missions. It's one or the other. And listen, the former is going down the broad path and making a token commitment. But yet, the latter is making the serious commitment, a sincere commitment to world missions.

And listen, one is normal Bible Christianity, and the other one is straight out of the pits of hell. Bible Christianity, Christianity is taught by Christ, is to be obedient to take the call of the gospel around the world. And Paul was sincere in this surrender. Let's move on. I want us to notice truth number two. I want you to see that Paul was sorrowful in this surrender. Verse two, "That I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart." Now, that's a short verse. I'll go back and read it with verse one. I'm telling you the truth in Christ.

I'm not lying my conscious, bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. Paul was sorrowful in his surrender. Now, sorrow is something we associate with pain. Sorrow is something that we see as bad, maybe negative, something we shy away from, even run away from. Maybe we associate sorrow with the death of a loved one or some great crisis, which comes in our life. But we normally see sorrow as something bad or negative, not Paul, and not with many of the greats that we find in the Bible. Paul did not see this sorrow as something to run from, but as something to embrace.

Two observations about Paul's sorrow I want us to see. First of all, Paul had a great sorrow. He says that I have a great sorrow. The King James reads great heaviness. The New American that I'm reading from says great sorrow. I love the amplified version. It reads a bitter grief. So Paul, Paul here had a bitter grief, a great heaviness, and intense sorrow. It was not that Paul was walking around crying all the time, but that when the subject was at hand, he was burdened with a great sorrow. This was not a take it or leave it sorrow. This was not a take it or leave it grief. This was a sorrow. This was a grief. This grief dominated his life.

It was always permeating everything about his life. This was a great sorrow. Second, I want you to see he had an unceasing grief. Paul had an unceasing grief that I have a great sorrow, an unceasing grief in my heart. The amplified says insistent anguish. The English standard reads unceasing anguish. Paul had already said earlier, the had a great sorrow. That's the depth of the sorrow. Now he is saying the as an unceasing sorrow agree. That's the length of it. So Paul gives us the depth and the length, the breadth of this sorrow. So what do we see here? Paul was sorrowful in this surrender. But notice how he communicates this.

Paul seems to be piling up words. To communicate what is in his heart. Although he does not mention the source of his great sorrow, just how he describes this great sorrow. That continual sorrow and anguish was just a fall away. He never gets past it. He never gets over it. He never can escape it. It is always there in this sorrow dominates his life. I'll give you an example to help illustrate this. This one from history. I know that I've used it a time or two in different settings. So if you've heard it, please forgive me.

But in days gone by in our American history, our Southern history, during the days of the great Civil War, the Confederacy had a very flamboyant and successful general. His name was Jeb Stuart. He was born in 1833 and he died in 1864. He was 31 years old and he died at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Now, if you do a little study on Jeb Stuart, he was married, married for nine years, and he's married to a woman named Flora Stuart. Now, if you do a little more study about his wife, she lived as a widow for 59 years. Now, Flora Stuart went on to have a very successful life. She was a very influential educator. She taught school.

But if you notice how Flora Stuart lived her life, she always wore black all of the days, the remaining days of her life. Now, in that day, in that culture, when you were in mourning, maybe you lost your husband or your wife, there was an appropriate time to mourn and you wore black as a symbol of that mourning. But she wore black all of the remaining days of her life. All of her life, she kept pictures. She kept momentos of her husband who had died so many years before. As a matter of fact, all throughout the days of her life, she desired to be called Mrs. General Stuart.

Now, although she was successful, although she was influential, she always carried a grieving, sorrowful heart. It never went away. Her husband and the memory of her husband was a heartbeat away, a thought away. She lived a successful life, but always under the cloud of the loss of her husband. It was a great sorrow and an unceasing grief, and it dominated every aspect of her life. And that's just a little example that might help us see how Paul lived with this burden. A sorrowful surrender. Now an application. Could we as a church, could we live with great sorrow? Could we live with an unceasing sorrow?

Because there are people in the world who do not know Christ, but more specifically, more personally, if I can narrow it down, if God were to reveal to us a region of the world, a city in the world, or a group of people in the world, if God were to personalize a group such as that, that did not know Christ, and if God were to personalize that for us, could we embrace a sorrowful surrender such that Paul had in his life? Could we? Could we live with an unceasing grief? Because there are some who have never heard of Christ. I think about Nehemiah that we've been learning so much about in our Sunday evening messages.

He heard the news that the walls were broken down, the gates were burned. No doubt he knew some of those fellow Jews. No doubt he did not. And what happened? There was a personalized call in his life. There was a burden from God, and that great burden changed his heart. And he lived with a sorrowful surrender to go back and engage in kingdom work. Could we carry such a sorrowful surrender? Because there are those who are lost and without Christ. Let's continue main truth number two. I want us to see that Paul was sacrificial in this surrender. Paul was sacrificial in this surrender. Look at verse three.

"For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh, who are the Israelites there at the beginning of verse four, and all of the remaining verses there, go on and describe who the Israelites were." So notice that to this point up till now, we have not seen the object of the great sorrow, this great unceasing grief that dominated his life. We've not seen the object. We have not seen the object of this full surrender. Unless we move on into verses three, four, and five. Now, like sorrow, sacrifice is something that we normally turn from in our culture.

There are some who have embraced sacrifice, even some today. I think about those who serve our country in the military, maybe in law enforcement. And they are sacrificial in their life. But it seems that most people today are sacrificial for personal gain and for personal glory. Not Paul. He was truly sacrificial in this surrender. Four observations that I want to make about this sacrificial surrender. First of all, I want you to see the object of his sacrifice. What does he say in verse three? "These are my kinsmen, according to the flesh, who are the Israelites." These were his brothers. These were his fellow Jews.

He was related to these people. This is the object of the great sacrifice. Then notice the depth of his sacrifice. "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ." Paul is saying that he wished that he could be cut off from Christ. That means eternally lost on his way to hell for their sake. In the original language, it reads in anathema, which means devoted to destruction in hell. Of course, this is an impossibility, but this expresses the lengths he was willing to go for his own people, the Jews. He was willing to be cut off from God if that would possibly bring them to Christ.

Paul is basically saying, "I'll go to hell if they can be saved." That's the depth of his sacrifice. And then third, I want you to notice the pain of his sacrifice. If you noticed in verses 3 through 4, we do not see the word pain, but there was pain. To see the pain of his sacrifice, you would have to know the pain of Paul's journey. Paul was converted in Acts 9, and his apostleship was spoken of there. He identified immediately with the other apostles and the Christians, and then he spent three years in Arabia being trained by Christ. And then we know that he was marked off.

He was set aside in Acts 13 while he was there with the church there in Antioch. But I want to give you a taste of what Paul's journey was like. I want to give you a glimpse about what Paul's journey was like after his conversion. And this will help us to see the pain of his sacrifice. In Acts 9, verse 29, it states, "And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews, but they were attempting to put him to death." That was shortly after his conversion.

Acts 13, verse 50, "But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of the district." Acts 14, verse 5, "And when an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to mistreat and stone them." Acts 14, 19, "But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead." The crowd rose up in Acts 16, verse 22, "Against them and the chief magistrates tore their robes from them, and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods." Acts 18, 12, "But while Gallio was pro-counsel of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat." Acts 21, verse 36, "For the multitude of people kept following them, shouting, 'Away with them!

Away with them!'" Acts 22, 22, "They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, 'Away was such a fellow from the earth, he should not be allowed to live, because he was preaching Christ.'" Acts 23, 10, "And as a great dissension was developing, the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks." Then we go on into the book of Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 4, 12, "And we toil, working with our hands, when we are reviled, we bless.

When we are persecuted, we endure." 2 Corinthians 4, 9, "Persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed." 1 Corinthians or 2 Corinthians 11, 24, "Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes." 2 Timothy 2, 9, "For which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal, but the word of God is not imprisoned." In 2 Timothy 3, 11, "Persecutions and sufferings such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord has rescued me." Now, what do we see? The pain of his sacrifice. In his labor to take the Jews, the gospel, they continuously sought to kill him.

All along, his own countrymen hated him. And all along, he desired to take the gospel to them. That is the great pain of this sacrifice. And then the purpose of the sacrifice was to win the Jews. To take them Christ. Now, what was Paul's habit? If you study the acts of the apostles, he would go to the Jews first, and most all of the time they would kick him out and revile him, and then, then he would take the gospel to the Gentiles. So, what do we see here? Paul was truly Christ-like in his heart for his own people who rejected and persecuted him. This was not a verbal sacrifice.

This was not a monetary sacrifice, but a sacrifice of the heart and the life. He laid his life on the land for Jew and Gentile alike, and ultimately, it did cost him his life. He sacrificed from the very moment he was converted to the very day he died, all through a sincere and sorrowful surrender to Christ to take the gospel to the Jews, his people who did not want him. Now, in application, many of us like to read of great missionaries. I like to. I like to use illustrations in my sermons. I love to recommend their books. I like to give their books away. But let's just get honest. Would we be willing to make the sacrifices that they made?

Would we be willing to make the sacrifices that their churches made? There were churches who sent out these great missionaries that we know and love. Would we be willing to make the sacrifices that their parents made? Would we be willing to put them on the plane, knowing good and well they might not never return home? I think about John Patton. John Patton, some say, some pronounce his name that way, the great 19th century missionary to the New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific, a great godly family. And if you read the story of his life, his mom and his dad willingly, but with great pain sent their son to the cannibals.

Sacrificial surrender. The list goes on and on throughout church history. Would we be willing to make a sacrificial surrender like Paul? And if you do the study on so many unreached peoples, they do not want us to come. They hate the message of the gospel, and they will hate us if we bring it. So what do we see? What are we looking at? Paul was sincere in his surrender, he was sorrowful in his surrender, and he was sacrificial in his surrender. As we move away from the text, I want to say that this will be the conclusion of the message, but I believe the beginning of a work.

This is the conclusion of a message, but I believe and brother Keith and I both believe that this is the beginning of the work. Now what do we have? We have the command. We have seen the command. I mean, we see the heart of God from Genesis all the way through the book of Revelation, and we have the command for the church to take the gospel around the world. We see the goal. The goal is before us. The goal has been laid out for you and for me and for Nola Baptist Church. All of the goals that we have in the life of the church is to take the gospel around the world and be obedient to the command.

Now the key to the whole thing is our motivation. We don't do it out of duty. We do it out of love. We do it out of worship. We worship the God that saved us and we love him. So therefore we are obedient to the command and he forms that love in us. So therefore we have the ability to obey that command. And then we want to participate. God stirs in us and we want to participate. Look, it's like athletics. If we're on the team, we want to participate. If we're on the team, we want the coach to put us in the game. Look at our example of the church at Antioch.

The spirit of God worked in them and called them to send out Paul and Barnabas and they were willing to be a part of what God was doing. And we want to participate in taking the gospel around the world. Then we offer ourselves. Here we are Lord, unfold the plan for us. Show us where to go. Show us what to do. Do a work in us that will personalize this work of the command to take the gospel around the world. We offer ourselves. But then there is a danger. When we get to this point, there is a danger.

We could jump up in our good old American ingenuity, roll up our sleeves and we can try to do this work in our strength and with our flesh and that would be sin. Because listen, we need God to change us and give us a heart like Paul. Did you know that God had to give Paul that heart? It took a work of God to give him that heart. And in that we will have a sincere surrender, a sorrowful surrender and yes, a sacrificial surrender. Now practically as your pastor, let me help you see what this looks like. I've enjoyed listening to some of you ask questions and make comments, especially in light of having Steve McAllister last week.

I was talking to one of the men of the church this week and he had a good idea of what this was looking like. And he just wanted to hear it from my heart. What we are looking for and partnering with Anchored in Truth and Grace Life Church of the Sholes is we're looking for ways that we can be engaged in world missions or missions even in our country to the lost. We are looking for where God would call us. I guess if I can use this example, we're fishing spiritually. We're fishing. We're fishing. And then when the Lord does the work, he'll put the work on the line and he'll reel us in. And God burdens us and God unfolds that work for us.

It'll be a work in your heart, my heart, our heart, and we'll gladly be drawn into the work. One of you ask if this will affect our work in India as it relates to Luke. No, it would not. We still believe in Brother Luke. This is just part of the plan of God that we have out there and we believe God has out there for us. So we are walking by faith. We are seeking to be obedient to the goal, motivated by love, desiring to participate, wanting to offer up ourselves, and wanting God to develop a heart in us that is much like Paul. A heart of full surrender in you, in me, and corporately in us. So what do we see?

Our great goal of world missions, a call to full surrender. We conclude the message, but this is part of the beginning of the work. Let's pray together as we...