In this sermon I Am Determined, there a commodity that certain individuals seem to possess. No monetary value can be place on it but it is the most valuable possession they have. It is called determination. Scattered throughout the Gospels, the writers give the readers a distinct view of the different faces of the Lord. One of the faces that the Lord expresses is the face of genuine joy.  One notes this particularly in the Sermon on the Mount. -One of the faces that the Lord expresses is the face of genuine joy.  One notes this particularly in the Sermon on the Mount. One man has said, “The measure of a man’s success is in his ability to give himself totally away.”  There will be no giving oneself totally away until a man finds his life consumed with a higher purpose than what he can see.  The large measure of how much we give, depends on what we can see.