An Absolute Yielding to God.

Surrender. Now, whether you like that or not, it is right; it is true, whichever word you prefer: surrender or yielding. 

The New Testament seems to use 'yielding' more than surrender. 

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification." 

Note: sanctification; yielding unto sanctification.

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 

Rom 6:19  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Now, what does this yielding or surrendering carry with it?

Romans 12:1: "Present, yield your bodies", there is a first connection. 

1 Cor. 6:19,20: "Know ye not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost?" 

2Co 5:15  And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Now I am putting the emphasis on this because it is here that the emphasis is not always put and not sufficiently put.
 
We perhaps very often accept the surrender or yielding of what we call our "hearts" to the Lord, or our spirit to the Lord.

And we think of consecration or sanctification (or surrender or yielding) as something that is inward; and rightly so.

But it is the whole being God claims: spirit, soul and body - that is what is meant by entire consecration - by entire sanctification, that the whole man or woman, spirit, soul and body is given to the Lord.

And to me it is a tremendous thing that God says, "Your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit" and not just in the sense that the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts and our hearts are in our bodies and in that way logically our bodies become a temple of the Holy Spirit.

No, in a more direct and immediate way God demands that these bodies should be wholly under the control, government, and sanctifying beauty of the Holy Spirit; that we cannot do one thing with our bodies and another thing with our souls and spirits, that we cannot be Christians somewhere inside and otherwise outside - that the whole being is God's.

~T. Austin Sparks~