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  PREPARED FOR GREAT SACRIFICE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of love and serving
others, and how developing the habit of making small sacrifices can
prepare us for great sacrifice when needed.

Topics: "Selfless Love", "Christian Service"
Scripture References: Matthew 20:28, Romans 12:10, Galatians 5:13, Philippians 2:4, 1 John 3:18

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of serving one another in
love, highlighting how fulfilling the law is encapsulated in loving our
neighbors as ourselves. She warns against the dangers of selfishness and
the benefits of living for the sake of others, leading to a gracious and
noble character. Tileston encourages the practice of making sacrifices
in small things to prepare for greater acts of service when needed,
urging the congregation to address personal weaknesses like temper,
pride, and indulgence to be ready for moments of significant love and
service.

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By love serve one another. For all the law is ful-filled in one word,
even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

GALATIANS 5:13,14

A MAN who habitually pleases himself will be-come continually more
selfish and sordid, even among the most noble and beautiful conditions
which nature, history, or art can furnish; and, on the other hand, any
one who will try each day to live for the sake of others, will grow more
and more gracious in thought and bearing, however dull and even squalid
may be the outward circumstances of his soul's probation.

FRANCIS PAGET

It is the habit of making sacrifices in small things that enables us for
making them in great, when it is asked of us. Temper, love of
preeminence, bodily indulgence, the quick retort, the sharp irony,--in
checking these let us find our cross and carry it. Or, when the moment
comes for some really great service, the heart will be petrified for it,
and the blinded eyes will not see the occasion of love.

ANTHONY W. THOROLD

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/prepared-for-great-sacrifice/
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