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  DOING WHAT CHRIST DEMANDS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: A Christian life should be characterized by self-surrender,
faith, and love, as we seek to serve God and others.

Topics: "Self Surrender", "Christian Sacrifice"
Scripture References: Psalm 16:8, Matthew 16:24, Philippians 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Revelation 12:11

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Mary Wilder Tileston, in her sermon, emphasizes the importance of self-
surrender to God, inspired by the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ. She
highlights the need for Christians to be willing to make sacrifices,
whether big or small, in response to all that Christ has done for them.
Tileston points out that true strength and nobility in life come from
this self-surrender, as exemplified by the life of St. Stephen, and that
death, when faced with this surrender, is akin to peacefully falling
asleep in Christ.

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They loved not their lives unto the death.

REVELATION 12:11

Our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together with Him.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:9,10

Be ours the faith that sees Thee stand

Beside the throne of God on high,

To succor with Thy strong right hand

Thy soldiers when to Thee they cry.

Be ours the love, divine and free,

Which asks forgiveness for our foes;

Which draws, in life, its life from Thee,

And, dying, finds in Thee repose.

J. F. THRUPP

"IF He has done so much for me, what can I do for Him?" is the question
which a Christian life should answer. He may ask little or much. He may
demand heroic sacrifices, or He may require only punctual attention to
daily and prosaic duty. But He has a right to make any demands He will,
and it should be a point of honor with every Christian to satisfy Him.
It is this simple self-surrender, in a spirit of love for God and for
the souls of men, which makes life strong and noble, as was the life of
St. Stephen. It is this self-surrender which makes death, whenever or
wherever it may come, a "falling asleep in Christ."

HENRY PARRY LIDDON

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/doing-what-christ-demands/
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