All right, today on the podcast, we have back for a second time, Pastor Lyle Phillips out of Nashville, Legacy Church.

What's up? Let's go. We're back. Run it back round two. So good to have you back, man. Thank you, bro. So remind me why you are in

Austin, Texas right now. I was here preaching last night at a church in Round Rock called Oasis.

The pastor of that church, I served for a couple of years in my early 20s.

So it's a big blessing to be invited back.

Feels like I'm coming back home in a sense because this is a pastor that took me to Africa, to the Philippines.

He took me all over the states, preaching and exposed me to ministry, which is what I'm doing now.

Would you talk about there last night? I talked about surrender, bro. Surrender. I talked about surrender like a switch in your spirit.

I use this phrase. The same state in which you are saved is the same state that you're called

to live in. Surrender. Because none of us got saved.

None of us became a Christian because we figured God out. We didn't study the world religions enough

to mentally assent to Jesus. We got saved because one day we surrendered. We waved a white flag

and we say, I give up trying to do this life all by myself. I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know how to do this. God, I give up. I accept what you've done for me on the cross. I surrender. And so my premise is that the same state in which we are saved is the same state that we're called to live in. We're never supposed to turn the surrender switch off. But unfortunately what a lot of Christians do is that after they get saved and they're on fire and

they're radical for about 90s. were never supposed to turn the surrender switch off. But unfortunately, what a lot of Christians do

is that after they get saved and they're on fire

and they're radical for about nine months,

they turn that surrender switch off

and rather go back to what they were doing

before they were saved,

they just warm the bench in a church somewhere

on a church pew.

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