Classic Sermon Outlines
Surnender to God's Call cheerful giver, a cheerful offerer. In all acts of obedience to the calls of God and assistance to the work of God we must be free and forward as those who know that we serve a good Master and His work is honorable and glorious.
B. His Resolution.
1, It ts firm and fixed. The prophet gives not only a free consent; but he is firm and fixed in it; he does not hesitate or waver, but is ready both to swear by it and to perform it; and he will not be beaten off it no more than the people of Israel, when they said, "Nay, but we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:21); or Ruth, when she said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to turn from following after thee" (Ruth 1:16).
2. It is to abide by the service to the end, even through great difficulties. Here am I, not only ready to go, but resolved in the strength of divine grace to encounter the greatest difficulties and to abide by the service to the end. Send me and I will adhere to it whatever it cost me and will never draw back. And good reason have we thus to serve Christ for with such a steady and unshaken resolution did He undertake to save us. Those who thus set out with resolution may depend upon God to bear them out.
C. His Referring Himself to God.
His expressing himself thus, "Here am I, send me," intimates this: Lord, employ me as Thou thinkest fit; cut out what work thou pleasest for me. | will never prescribe, but ever subscribe. Here am I, ready to go to whom and on what errand Thou wilt, whatever objections may be made against it. Lord, I am at Thy service, entirely at Thy disposal. Let the will of God be done by me and done concerning me.
1. To have God's will done by him.
2. To have God's will done concerning him.