Look up each of the verses below and write down Bible principles that you can learn from them about this virtue. A “principle” is a “truth you can live by.”
1. God wants us to totally surrender our lives to Him. In what ways did the following Bible characters evidence total surrender?
1a) Noah Ge 6:22
1b) Caleb and Joshua Nu 32:12
1c) Elisha 1Ki 19:20
1d) Josiah and his Subjects 2Ki 23:3 23:25
1e) Job Job 1:21
1f) David Ps 40:8
1g) Isaiah Isa 6:8
1h) Christ Joh 4:34
1i) Paul (at salvation) Ac 9:6
1j) Paul the Apostle Php 3:7,8
2. What are Christians to present to God as a mark of true surrender to God? Ro 12:1
3. How are Christians to present themselves to God? Ro 12:2
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4. What does surrender require that a Christian NOT be? Ro 12:2
5. Instead, what IS a surrendered Christian to do? Ro 12:2
6. What three things will a surrendered Christian prove (by experience) about the will of God? Ro 12:2
7. Looking at it from a different perspective, what did Jesus say that surrender required? Lu 9:23
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8. If we are truly surrendered to God, what ought our heart’s desire be?
8a) Ps 19:14
8b) Ps 86:11
8c) Col 3:1-5
8d) Jas 4:15