Mewsseis\cee IN GOOD FIRDAY SERMONS All) LENTEN MEDITATIONS,

HILL
THE MEERSRX OF CALVARY WAS JERUSALEM'S EXECUTION HIL]

CIFICALLY FOR THE EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. THE HEBREWS CA!

THE "PLACE OF THE SKULL." IT WAS ON THIS HILL THAT JuSUS

PAIN OF BEING NAILED TO A WOODEN CROSS, IT WAS THERE THA

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AS HIS LIFE SLOWLY DRAINED AWAY=-AND IT WAS THERE THAT HS

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"CHRIST IS RISMI"/THIS IS THE GLORIOUS NEWS THAT GIVES MEA

BUT GREQENTLY IN THE"MEATION OF THIS FACT WE FAIL TO PULL}

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JESUS DIED, WAS CRICIFIED IN THE MANNER OF A COMMON CRIMI
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WHILE SUPPEXING ON THE CROSS JESUS UTTERED SEVEN DIFY

HILL THAT AFTERNOON, NOT ONLY DID OUR LORD SPEAK TO AND Az

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THEY ADORESSED HIM AS THEY SPOKE TO THE CROSS. THI PEOPLH

OF INTEREST T US BECAUSE WHAT THEY SAID THAT DAY NOT ONLY

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L: THE PLACE Sg? ASIDE SPECI-

‘LED IT GALGOTHA WHICH MEANS

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CHRIST ENDURED THE RUTIATING

f HE SUFFERED FOR HOURE
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Wen, Oe s at

DIED. THE MORAVIAN CHURCH

FLING A FELLOW MORAVIAN

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NING TO ALL OF Ja3US LIFE:
REALIZE THE HARSHNESS HTHAT
AL.

THRE WERE OTHERS ON CALVARY'S
QUI THIM FROM HIS CROSS, BUT
WHO SPOKE TO THE CROSS ARE

DEPICTS THEIR INNER FEELINGS

AND ATTITUDES/PUT OURS AS aif BAGINMING THIS SUNDAY I WILL PREACH ON TISSE “WORDS TO

THE CROSS, THE SERIES WILL BY CONTINUED DURING OUR WEDNJSJAY EVENING SERVICES ALSO.

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LAST SUNDAY I URGED YOU TO ATTEMPT SOME SELF EXAMINATL

PN. I HOPE YOU WILL_QON-

TINUE TO DO SO THROUGHOUT THIS SERIES, SESING IN THOSE WHO
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SELVES: HEANING IN THEIR WORDS YOUR OWN,
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THE WORD TO THE CROSS THAT I

CURIOS S

WHO WSRE P4SSING BY, Pai HAPS THEY

YOU ARE THE SON GF GOD, COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS."

THESE

REALLY THES CHRIST HE WOULD SAVS HIMSELF: IF HE REALLY HAD T

SURELY AVOID THIS SHVSELESS SUFFERING. THEY COULD NOT CONC

THAT LOST ITSSLF IN SACH FICE, OF GIVING ITSELF AS A RANSOM
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ITSELF JUST BECAUSE OTHERS WERE BEING SAVED BY THAT INABILI

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CHRIST WITHOUT A CROSS, A RSLIGLON WITHOUT ANY SACRIFICE.
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CHRISTIANLTY WITHOUT SACRIFICE. WANT THE CHURCH
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, BUT

IN TERMS OF TEMS | AND TALENT:

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THE CHURCH'S TEACHING FOR OUR CHILDREN BUT ONLY IF we DO NOT
See Sica

TO JiSUS - "GOME DOWN" DON'T MAKE IT SO HARD FOR US BY DYL

WER JUST sESSS TRAVELIRS

PPOKS TO THE CROSS-YOUR_

WANT TO EXAMINE THIS MORNIING ISSUED FROM PEOPLE

RS. WHAT TifY SAID WAS NIE
mii THOUGHT THAT IF JESUS WAS

is POWER OF GOD HE WOULD
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LEVE OF A DEVOTION TO GOD

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, OF BEING UNABLE TO SAVE

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(f A GHRIST WITHOUT A CROSS:

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“y THE SACRIFICE IT R QUIRES
sche te

A RAINY MORNING, WE WANT

SLEEP. WE TOO SAY

NG Ol A CHOSS."

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JiSUS MADE IT C

DISCIPLINE THAT MAKES A CHRISTIAN.

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FOLLOWERS THAT THEY MUST MSHT CERTAIN CONDITLONS OF DISCLPL

COME ASTE Mi, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS A

IN ALL OF THE GOSPELS HE

THAT FOLLOWING HIM ENTAILS DISGLPLENS, AND THAT IT IS THE S

MAKES IT CLZAR TO HIS

BOP. "LF ANY MAN WOULD

W FOLLOW ME." / CONSIDER

HOW MUCH eA SIER IT WOULD

UNDERSTOOD FULLY THEIR RESPONSIDILITI£S. HOW MUCH EASIER
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THERE TO ¥

SHOUT ABOVE THE CROWD "MASTER, WE ARE STILL HERE

HAVE BEEN FOR JeSUS TO DIE ON CALVARY HAD HIS DISCIPLES

P PETER WOULD HAVE BEEN
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WETH YOU" OR IF THOMAS
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AND RICICULE

HAD BEEN T > TO CRY OUT ABOVE THE LAUGHTER

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JESUS DIED NOT KNOWING WHETHER HIS DIscI

WIN THE VICTORY."
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WHEN THE CHIPS WERE DOW, WHEN IT CAME TIME TO TRULY SACRLI

WITH WHOM HE HAD SPENT ALL OF HIS TIM, WHO HE
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WANDERING 5 SACRIFICE" WHY THIS SUFFERING" PERHAPS

HOW Ji&SUS MUST HAVE LONGED FOR THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HIS DISCL

MUST LONG VOR THE
THE WORD CROSS IS A DIF FICULT WORD TO UNDERSTAND TODAY

CROSS TO MANY THINGS THAT ARE NOT CHOSSES AT ALL IN THE CHR

WH SPEAK

WWE

STILL BELIEVE YOU WILL

PLS UNDERSTOOD HIM OR won, /

ECE THEY HAD FLED. THE MEN

TAUGHT AND np TURD WERE NOW HIDING

if ISN'T TH CRHIST.

PLS UNDERSTOOD. HW HE

EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE_UNDER?TO0D THE RQTRIMWTS OF HIS GOSPEL.

WE HAVE GLYEN THE NAME

LSTIAN SENSE OF THE WORD.

OF A CLAMITY OR TRAGEDY AS A CROSS _Wi§ MUST BEAR:/ WE CALL HEAVY BURDENS CROSSES.
— — ——_—_— =

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WE SPEAK OF OUR HANDICAPS AS THE CROSS WE MUST CARRY.

WE MUST PATIENTLY ENDURE

THE CROSS FR JESUS WAS HIS DELIBERATE CHOLCE OF GIVEL
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IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT IT COST oe OR WHAT DISCIPLIME IT RE

UP THE CROSS ALSO NEASS THE DELISERATE CHOICE TO TRY TO FOL,

LIVES, TO TAKE A STEP WE ARE UNDE! COMPULSION TO TAKE, BU

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MEANS PUTTING OURSELVES WITHOUT RESERVATION AT THE SERVICE.

—_—

PUTTING OURSELVES IN THE STRUGGLES AGAINST EVIL, WHATSVEn TH

WHEN WE COMALT OURSELVES TO GOD, THERE I5 DANCER,

THAT LIFE WELL BE UPSET WITH THE BURDENS OF OTHESS, DANGER

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SUS DID NOT COME DOWN FRO

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SHIRK, WHEN WE HESITATE TO J N_SACHL FICE WE TOO ARE
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CALVARY'S HILL.

IN A ROCENT MAGAZINE ARTICLS ENTITLED "WHERE ARS THEAY

THERE

BUT THIS IS NOT TAKING UP OUR CROSS.

E ARS MANY MISKRTUNES THAT
NG HIMSELF FOR OTHER PEOPLE.
QUIRED. FOR US TAKING
Low GOD'S WILL FOR OUR
f TO ENTER FREELY: IT

DF CHRIST: IT MEANS

CosT.

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THE PANGER OF A CROSS, THE DANGER

(HAT Wii WILL BE CALLED UPON
HM THE CORSS, AND WHEN WE

LIKE TH’ PASSERS BY ON
— See:

5 OF YESTERDAY" THE AUTHOR

PLEADS FOR THE RETURN OF SIMPLICITY AND THE LACK OF ADORNMEN
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st

T THAT arkeyhovanm SING

OF ALL 4485 APPSARENG LONG AGO IN THE LONDON TIMES.

AT THE EVD OF THE ARTICLE HS GITES WHAT HE CALLS THE GREATEST AD

IT PRDPMPTED REPLIES FROM ALL

ov
nal

ER ENGLAND AND HAD NO HY PICTUME OR TRICKY PHRASE.
OVER ENGLAND AND HAD NO CATCHY PICTU@ OR TRICKY PHRA

(GNED BY AN ANTARTIC

EXPLORER ITREAD " MEN WANTED, MAJOR JOURNEY, LONG HOURS, CHALLENGING WORK, XTREYS

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DANGER, POSIBLE FAME." IT MIGHT WELL BE AN AD FOR CHRISTIA

NITY. . JESUS NEVER MEN TONED

ANYTHING ABOUT THE COMPORT OF CHRISTIAN LIVING, HE NEVER SA

TD THAT THE CHRISTIAN

WILL ENJOY UNHEARD OF LUXURY, HE N vanfaone SED RELIGION WITHOUT A CROSS, @RerFER

AND DEVOTION,

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AT THIS POLNT LET US ASK THE QUES

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FISST PLACE", L&T US JOIN THE PASSSRS BY AND SAY " IF YOu

» HE NEVER PROMISED A NEW
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LIFE WITHOUT SELF SACRIMCE
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TON JESUS DISCIPLE ASKED "WHY THE CROSS JN THE

Saye

DOWN_FRIM THAT CROSS."

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IT IS GOD WiO GIVES US THE CROSS, AND THE CORSS WHICH

GIVES US GODL

AN 11TH CENTURY POET PICTURES GOD AS SITTING ON A MOUN

TAIN, QOLLING DOWN AT THE

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GRAVEST OFFENSES AND SINS OF MEN, REGARDING THS% AS NAUGHTY PUPPIES PLAYING ON THE

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GRASS BENEATH HIM. FOR FOR THIS MAN, GOv DOES NOT CARE, Ha

BUT GOD DOES CAR CORSS 1S THE SUPRE
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ca | MEN LIVE. AND THE

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TS NOT DISTHIBED BY THE
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ME EVIDENCE OF HIS CARYING,

THE DYING SAVIOR IS OUTRIGHT PROOF OF HOW MUCH GOD CARES Al

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TO GO TO REDEEM US. THE GERMAN WRITER GOETHE IN A MOMENT d

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"IF I WERE GOD, THIS WORLD OF SIN WOULD BREZK MY HEART."

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IN THS CROSS WE SEE THAT GOU

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elt aaeiaaaainny:

CONCERNED THAT

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WAS WILLING T

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MAKE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

diy

, THS CORSS OF

F JBST ONCE SAID
JESUS CHRIST
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LOVES SO MUCH AND 15 SO

: HE WAS WILLING THAT THE

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THE CROSS 15 THE LOV

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CHRIST M.GHT DIE, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.

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WORLD _OF SIN AND EVIL,

i OF GOD ENCIRCLING OUR

JESUS CHRIST ON THE CORSS IS NOT SIMPLY A GOOD MAI’ THAT WAS
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KILLED IN A MOMENTOUS ERROR: RATHER HEIS THS INCARNATION QF ALMIGHTY GOD DYING TO

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RECONCILE MEN TO HIMSELF,

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THE SINFUL NATURE OF MB
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, OF YOU AND I, IS NOT EASILY HBALED: PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND

INDDFFERENCE ARE SCARS THAT MAIR US TO THE QJICK. AND SON
ere ee)

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HAD. GOD IN J&SUS CHRIST HAS PROVIDED THAT CURE: IN HIS Di

SIBILITY OF FORGLV ISS

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REFLECTED: AND SIMULTANEOUSLY THE PO:
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CROSS BUT WE ALSO SEs THAT J

WE SE THAT SALVATION IS FREE,

GOD. JESUS FORTUNATELY DID NOT COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS,
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IF WE AR& TO FOLLOW, MUST BS WILLING TO TAKE UF

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IT IS BY LOSING ONE'S LIFE IN COMPLETE COMITMENT TO CE

THERE NO RAL RELIGION Wl THOUT A GRC

IS

.
SURRENDER OF ALL OF LIFE. d&SUS
—_—

SPEAKING OF HIS OWi LIFS HE SAID i NO ONE TAKES IT FROM MR

) CASUAL CURE QOULD BE

ATH WE SEE OUR OWN SIN

AND ETERNAL LIFE. IN THE

T WAS NOT CHEAP, NOT FOR
FORTUNATELY FOR US. AND
A CROSS OF OUR OWN.
RIST THAT ONE FINDS

6S, WITHOUT HE WILLING

DELIBERATELY CHOSE THIS WAY, THE WAY OF THE CROSS.

, BUT I LAY JT Dow oF

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TH

WN TOOK HIS LIFE BUT TX]

T ir
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MY OWN ACCORD."

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S IS NOT SO, HE SURRENDERED

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IT wWLLIIGLY. AND IN THIS #@ SURRENDMDRK HE TURNE

D DEATH I)

T) LIFE. ON CALVARY JESUS

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TURNED UPSIDE DOW
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LIFE WAS TO LOSE IT IN @MMITMENT TO GOD AND TO FSLLOWMAN. r ALL THE

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THE POPULAR NOTION THAT LIVING 1S iN¢

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ENT NONE IS MORS IMPORTANT THEAN "WHO BVER WOULD Sy

OYING ALL THE LUXURIES MONEY
THAT THE WAY TO HAVE

PHRASES IN THE

VE HIS LIFE wOULD Los}

IT, AND WIOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL FIND IT™

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CROWN OF JOY TAKE Ul

aaeery

HAPPINESS TRY SENVICE: IF YOU WANT THE
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NOW BE SURE THIS IS DIFFICULT FOR US TM DO IN CONTE

WE ARE IN THE calouS POSITION

IF HAVING A R&LIGION THAT IS
fe er

AT TH’ SAME TIME LIVING IN A WORLD THAT GOES ALL OUT TO RELI

(Md

TT. 16:25) IF YOU WISH FOR

JHE CROSS OF SACHI FICE.

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PORARY LIFE. AS CHRISTIANS

M4ARACTERIZED BY A CROSS, AND

VE THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF

—

R APPROACH TO

CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE Ij

LARD, IF I CAN BY GUARANTSED THE COM

—s

S IN THE PRAYER " I'LL GO WHERE

FORTS I AM ACCUSTOMED TOL"

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ris

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2 IMs.

HOW OFTEN LIKE WE ARB RLALLY LIVING IF WE HAVE JUST

OR HAVE PURCHASED A NEW AUTOMOBILE. HOW FREQUENTLY OUR DEFT]

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MURKED OF HIS GENERATION " SOUL'S EXTINCT, STOMACH'S WELL 4

RaC

EIVE) A BOBSTER IN SALARY,

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v1. TION

1S CARLYLE WHEN HE

LLIVE!"

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A DYING LORD SHOWS US THAT THIS IS NOT LIFS, THIS IS JUST
Sees,

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TO A NiW LIFE, AR LFS THAT MAY BE HAD

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#iis

OF CALVARY POINTS

H LIFE

rT

THE CRO:

wihhl wre
WHEN WW doe

NDERSTAND THAT
ict,

&.

IT WAS THE PASSMiS BY THAT SAID TO JESUS, IF YOU ARE THE CHRIST, COME DOwN FROM

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THE CROJUS. ARE WE PART OF THAT CROWD. ARE WE A PART OF THELNUMDSR WHO DID NOT

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KNOW THE CHRIST, WHO DID NOT UNDERSTAND WIY HE WILLINGLY DIEb THAT HORRIBLE DEATH? OUR

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REACTIONS ARE STIKINGLY SIMILAR TO THEIRS AT TIMES WHEN OUR PAITH MAKES DEMANDS ON

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US. ("SI with A CHRISTIAN" WE SAY, 2 {UT DON'T PUSH ME: JUST DON'T AS! TOO MUCH OF ui"

—

"DON'T TRY TM MAKE THIS SET OF BELIEFS HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE WAY I LIVE."

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THE NEW CREATION THAT I DESCRISED LAST WEEK IS CHARACT 60 MAINLY BY THIS
vVve—reo—§-"

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REALIZATION, THAT THSRE IS MORE TO EXISTENCE THAN GETTING ANp BUYING, THAT TRUE JOY

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$% FOUND IN GIVING OF OUR SELViS, IN SACRIFICING OUR PHiSUNAL WHIMS AND DESIRES FOR A

GRATER GOD. A NSW BELNG DOES NOT HIDE FROM SACRIFICE AND BELF NEGATION BUT GLADLY

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GIVES OF HIMSELF WHENEVER NEEDED. THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS POES NOT AVALL ITSELF

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OPENLY T US ALL, IT CAN COME ABOUT AS YOU STRUCGLE WITH A FRIEND IN NEED, SHARING
— oor —_——

—_— —

HIS EVERY AGONY AND DISPAIR, IT CAN CoME ABU)T WHEN YOU JOIN| ANOTHER IN A TIME OF
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EXTREME JOY AND HAPPINESS, BEING HAPPY BECAUSE HE 1S HAPPY. | IT CAN BE THE SEMUINGLY

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ok
SIMPLE TASK OF Al XTRA HOURGR SO A WESK DEVOTED TO THE MINESTRY OF YOUR CHURCH.

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WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE CHRIST OF

De

CALVARY DOES NOT {OF PER WELL BEING AND COMFORT.

WIF YOU WOULD COM@ AFTER ME, TAKE UP YOUR CROSS"

JESUS CHRIST DID NOT COME DOWN FROM TH

rans
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CHRISTIAN? IF HE HAD AVOIDED THUE SACRIF
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TO OUR PLEAS OF "COME DOWN" "DO NOT ASK US TO SACRIFIC!
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ION IS A CALL FOR SACRIFICE.

fo YOU NOw BE A

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& CROSS—IF HE H4

5 CHURCH ?

ht HE STRETCHES OUT A

HAND, A HAND DRIVEN THROUGH WITH A NAIL, A HAND STREAK&D WIT BLOOD AND GAYS. I

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HAVE DONE THIS FOR YOU, I HAVE DISD THAT YOU

r WILL YOU DO FOR Mi? _ AMEN

{ fu
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MIGHT LIVE, WHA’

CRAMER

HUwnK 22
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THINK

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"SEE FROM HIS HEAD, HIS HANUS, HLS FEE
SORROW AND LOVE FLOW MINGLED DOWN:

DID E'ER SUCH LOVE AND SGiROW MEET,

OR THORNS COMPOSE SO RICH A CROWN

HAT WERE A PR SENT FAR TOO SMALL,

“W
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SOUL, MY LIFE, MY ALL."

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PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE WRDS OF THE LAST TWO VERSES:

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