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No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a “white funeral”–the burial of the old life.
From Romans 6:4: “Therefore we have been buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
From Mark 12:29-31: “Jesus answered, ‘The first is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.'”
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In many communities across America, traditional Memorial Day ceremonies have included a public reading of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. This solemn tradition honors the lives given by all American military personnel. Here is the address in its entirety:
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
This speech was delivered by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at the commemoration of the National Cemetery at the Civil War battlefield. In less than 275 words, Lincoln perhaps gave the greatest speech ever presented by an American President.
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Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith.
From 1 Timothy 2:7: “For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.”
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Through it all, God is with us, leading us, teaching us, humbling us, preparing us.
From Psalm 91:1-2: “You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.'”
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Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
From Isaiah 43:18-19: “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
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There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks.
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
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We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character.
From Galatians 5:22-25: “By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Seek freedom and become captive to your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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