Christ for Me

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Christ for Me
Hymn 331
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Whom have I Lord, to help, but thee?None but
thee! None but thee!And this my song through
life shall be.Christ for me! Christ for me!He
hath for me the winepress trodHe hath redeemed
me by his bloodHe reconciled my soul to
GodChrist for me! Christ for me!
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I envy not the rich their joysChrist for me!
Christ for me!I covet not earths glittring
toys!Christ for me! Christ for me!
Earth can no lasting bliss bestowFading is
stamped on all belowMine is a joy no end can
knowChrist for me! Christ for me!
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Though poor and humble be my lot.Christ for me!
Christ for me!He knoweth best I murmur
notChrist for me! Christ for me!
Though vine and fig tree blight prevail,The
labor of the olive fail,And death oer flocks
and herds prevail,Christ for me! Christ for me!
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Though I am now on hostile ground,Christ for me!
Christ for me!And foes beset me all
around,Christ for me! Christ for me!Let earth
her fiercest battles wage,And foes against my
soul engage.Strong in his strength, Ill stand
their rageChrist for me! Christ for me!
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Taste Before Serving
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Self Examination
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2 Corinthians 135

• Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith
  prove ye your own selves.

• What do we examine?
• How do wedo this examining?

• What isthe faith
• How do we prove our own selves?

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Psalm 262 (ASV)

• Examine me, and prove me try my heart and my
  mind.

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My Memorial Experience

• Two Nights Before Memorial I was in the Hospital
• Having Insomnia, I Reviewed the Passover Mentally
• I Reviewed the Pros and Cons of Controversial
  Questions
• This Was Not What the Passover Was About
• It was About Jesus Death for the Sins of All in
  Adam
• The Disciples Quibbled on the Way to the Last
  Supper
• Every Year We Seem to Quibble Also
• Then I Examined my Spiritual Life

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Here is What I Found
Too LittleJudgment
Too MuchKnowledge
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Romans 141 (NKJ)

• Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to
  disputes over doubtful things.

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1 Timothy 14 (20th Century)

• Nor to devote their attention to legends and
  interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise
  to argument rather than further that divine plan
  which is revealed in the Faith.

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1 Corinthians 22

• For I determined not to know anything among you,
  save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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I Also Found
Too LittleApplication
Too MuchUnderstanding
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1 Corinthians 132

• And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
  understand all mysteries and though I have all
  faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have
  not charity agape love, I am nothing.

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James 123-25

• But if any be a hearer of the word, and not a
  doer he is like a man beholding his natural
  lit.,face of birth face in a glass for he
  beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
  straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
  was. But whosoever looketh into the perfect law
  of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not
  a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this
  man shall be blessed in his deed.

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Two Mirrors Contrasted
The Law was perfect, man was not. Therefore,
frustrated, they forgot the obligations or kept
them in form only.
The Gospel judges by heart intent, therefore
encourages believers to transformation of
character.
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2 Corinthians 318

• But we all, beholding with open face as in a
  glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the
  same image from glory to glory, even as by the
  spirit of the Lord.

From one stage of heart development to another
making the necessary progress to be ready for the
final stage when we shall share his glory.
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Romans 121,2

• I beseech ye, therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service. And be not
  conformed unto this world but be ye transformed
  by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
  what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
  will of God.

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Outline of Romans 12

• Verse 1 Consecration
• Verse 2 Transformation (Sanctification)
• Verses 3-8 Evaluation of Our Role
• Verses 9-21 Application
• Especially Good in Phillips Translation

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I Also Found
Too LittleSpirituality
Too MuchFormality
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Matthew 2323-26

• Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
  for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
  and have omitted the weightier matters of the
  law, judgment, mercy, and faith, these ought ye
  to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
  Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and
  swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the
  outside of the cup and of the platter, but within
  they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind
  Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the
  cup and platter, that the outside of them may be
  clean also.

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Hypocrites

• Strongs 5273, An actor under an assumed
  character.
• It was a custom for Greek and Roman actors to
  speak in large masks with mechanical devices for
  augmenting the force of the voice hence the word
  is used metaphorically of a dissembler, a
  hypocrite.-- Vines Expository Dictionary

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Matthew 157-9

• Ye hypocrites, well did Esais prophesy of you,
  saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with
  their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips but
  their heart is far from me. But in vain they do
  worship me, teaching for doctrines the
  commandments of men.

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The Pharisee In Us

• Guardians of Divine Law and Ancestral Customs
• Kept Separate from Those of Questionable
  Integrity
• Prided Themselves in Denouncing Impurity
• Set Up Man-Made Rules to Prevent Breaking of Law
• Gave Equal Weight to These Laws and Scripture
• Were Rigid and Unyielding
• Took Pride in Their Righteousness Being
  Recognized
• Looked Down on Those They Regarded as Inferior
  The
  Herald, September-October 1988

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John 423,24

• But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
  worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
  and in truth for the Father seeketh such to
  worship him. God is a spirit and they that
  worship him must worship him in spirit and in
  truth.

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I Also Found
Too LittleCompassion
Too MuchService
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Luke 1040-42

• But Martha was cumbered with much serving, and
  came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care
  that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid
  her therefore that she help me. And Jesus
  answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou
  art careful and troubled about many things but
  one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that
  good part, which shall not be taken away from
  her.

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Mark 631-34

• And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart
  into a desert place, and rest a while for there
  were many coming and going, and they had no
  leisure so much as to eat. And they departed into
  a desert place by ship privately. And the people
  saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran
  afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent
  them, and came together unto him. And Jesus, when
  he came out, saw much people, and was moved with
  compassion toward them, because they were as
  sheep not having a shepherd and he began to
  teach them many things.

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2 Timothy 42

• Preach the word be instant in season,out of
  season reprove, rebuke,exhort with all
  longsuffering and doctrine.

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Reprint 3189

• It was in season for the multitude, because
  they were gathered there, and their attention
  was riveted upon him. Had Paul consulted his
  own convenience he would have said that it was
  very much out of season for himself that
  he was in no condition to speak, his nerves were
  excited and his body was bruised.

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I Also Found
Too LittleLove for Man
Too MuchWitnessing
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Matthew 2315 (Emphatic Diaglott)

• Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites
  because you go about the sea and the dry land,
  to make one proselyte, and when he becomes, you
  make him a son of Gehenna, double of you.

Double Greek diploo, from which we get our
English word duplicate. Do we seek to make a
Christian or a Bible Student?
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Romans 91-3

• I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
  conscience also bearing me witness in the holy
  spirit, that I have great heaviness and continual
  sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself
  were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my
  kinsmen according to the flesh.

Pauls Compassion
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Romans 931, 102

• But Israel, which followed after the law of
  righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
  righteousness. . . . Brethren, my hearts desire
  and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might
  be saved. For I bear them record that they have a
  zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Pauls Compassion
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Jeremiah 209

• Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor
  speak any more in his name. But his word was in
  my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
  and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not
  stay.

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Ezekiel 317-19

• Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the
  house of Israel therefore hear the word at my
  mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say
  unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die and thou
  givest them not warning the same wicked man
  shall die in his iniquity but his blood I will
  require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the
  wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, not
  from his wicked way, he shall die in his
  iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul.

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I Also Found
Too LittleListening
Too MuchDisputation
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Proverbs 1813

• He that answereth a matter before he heareth it,
  it is folly and shame unto him.

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Proverbs 2617

• He that passeth by, and meddleth with a struggle
  belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a
  dog by the ears.

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Pauls Advice to Timothy

• Neither give heed to fables and endless
  genealogies, which minister questions, rather
  than godly edifying which is in faith so do.
  1 Timothy 14
• He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
  questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh
  envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings. 1
  Timothy 64
• But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
  knowing that they do gender strifes, 2 Timothy
  223
• TO TITUS But avoid foolish questions, and
  genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about
  the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
  Titus 39

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Wise Words from a Wise Man

• Only by pride cometh contention but with the
  well advised is wisdom. Proverbs 1310

A fools lips bring strife, and his mouth
invites a flogging. -- Proverbs 1826 (RSV)
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Jude 3

• Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto
  you of the common salvation, it was needful for
  me to write unto you that ye should earnestly
  contend for the faith that was once delivered
  unto the saints.

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I Also Found
Too LittleSubstance
Too MuchTrivia
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Get to the Point

• And further, my son, by these be admonished of
  making of many books there is no end and much
  study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear
  the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God, and
  keep his commandments for this is the whole duty
  of man. Ecclesiastes 1212,13
• Ever learning and never coming to the knowledge
  of the truth. 2 Timothy 37

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The Devil is in the Details
Questions on Details Can Divert from the Main
Point
Time Spent on Details is Time Not Spent on Main
Point
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All Scripture is Important

• All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
  and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness.
  2 Timothy 316
• But he answered and said, It is written, Man
  shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
  that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
  Matthew 44

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Style Follows Substance
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And the Substance Is

• Man, created perfect, fell into sin in Eden
• Therefore all were born into a sinful state
• Christ died to redeem Adam and his entire race
• God has called out of man a bride for his Son
• Christ has returned for his church and to set up
  his kingdom
• The Church is to receive a heavenly reward
• All men will be resurrected on earth
• All the Rest are Details

In the simplicity of the plan and not every
minutia of detail.
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Brethren . . .

• We are preparing a feast of fat things for the
  entire world let us taste it first to make sure
  we serve it just right!

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Only Thee
Hymn 213
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Only Thee, my souls Redeemer!Whom have I in
heaven beside?Who on earth, with love so
tender,All my wandring steps will guide?
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Only thee, only thee, Loving Savior, only thee.
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Only thee! No joy I covet,But the joy to call
thee mine Joy that gives the blest
assurance,Thou hast owned and sealed me thine.
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Only thee, only thee, Loving Savior, only thee.
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Only thee! I ask no otherThou art more than all
to mePresent life, or present comfort I
resign them all to thee.
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Only thee, only thee, Loving Savior, only thee.
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Only thee! Whose blood has cleansed me,Would my
raptured vision see,While my faith is spreading
upward,Ever upward, Lord, to thee.
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Only thee, only thee, Loving Savior, only thee.