Featured All To Jesus I Surrender?

Please also advise those who took it off-topic. My reply is only for the sake of politeness.

 

You are making the mistake of assuming others share your spiritual condition. You are not the standard of comparison, Jesus is.

 

Would you join a church that violates your conscience. Just for fellowship? Neither would I.

 

Dave you don't seem to grasp the basic grammar of the verse. If one spouse commits adultery, the other spouse is permitted, according to Christ, to divorce them and remarry.

 

Scripture says go to Church Dave.

 

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If every church violates your conscience there is something wrong. Perhaps you are being a Pharisee and not biblical?

 

I cannot sing this song, as I will not be truthful to the Lord if i did!

 

Story Behind the Hymn:
Judson Wheeler Van de Venter (1855-1939) was raised from a Christian home. At age 17, he accepted Jesus as his Saviour. He graduated at the university with a degree in art and was successfully employed as a teacher and administrator of high school art.

He studied and taught music; mastered 13 different instruments, sang and composed music. He was very involved in the music ministry of his Methodist Episcopal church and eventually found himself waver between the challenge of going into Gospel ministry and that of becoming a recognized artist. This struggle within him lasted for almost five years.

Here is how he tells it:

“For some time, I had struggled between developing my talents in the field of art and going into full-time evangelistic work. At last the pivotal hour of my life came, and I surrendered all.

“A new day was ushered into my life. I became an evangelist and discovered down deep in my soul a talent hitherto unknown to me. God had hidden a song in my heart, and touching a tender chord. He caused me to sing.”

The Story Behind this Hymn of Dedication – I Surrender All | Auntyfaith.com

 

You cannot surrender your sinful make-up. But you can surrender obeying it. Martyrs surrender all, but unless you are willing to die upholding Christ's words about loving instead of killing enemies, you cannot fathom it. I did this long ago and live a life free from the fear of death. Jesus indeed separates the men from the boys.

 

If I were to sing only the hymns I perfectly obey, I would be down to a handful, if that.
Do we really mean "lead me to Calvary"?
Or "even thy cup of grief to share"?
Or "send grief and pain, sweet are thy messengers, sweet their refrain" ?
Or "take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold"?
I trow not.

 

Oh please.

 

I surrender all by not killing myself. But I resist lust when it wells up in me. I'm planning a post about the differences between self-denial and denying self? Do you have any thoughts on this?

 

Actually I don't think it is bad theology, it's not a theological statement, but it clarifies what the song is or is not talking about. You have made it something the song is not actually dealing with. It truly is a song of dedication.