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Tuesday 31st
Week OT
St. Luke’s Institute
November 4, 2014
COURAGE TO FOLLOW
CHRIST +++++++++++++++++++
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At times I wonder if I have courage 2 follow
Christ
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It’s not that I think I’m called 2B a missionary
or undertake a dangerous mission as some of U have
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What gives me pause is this: I want 2 have “same
attitude” that was in Christ J,
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But I don’t want 2B poor, & I don’t want 2B fearful
or apprehensive at thought of being empty
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Nor do I think I’m alone on this
CHRIST’S EMPTYING +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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J we heard “didn’t
regard equality w/ G something 2B grasped,”
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But we seem to have insatiable need 2 grasp at
those things that ennoble our stature
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Everything in us longs 2B in control, feel safe,
think well of selves
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& 2 have others think well of us
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This then is R poverty which is different from Jesus’
OUR EMPTYING +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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We want 2B powerful & we want G 2B powerful
on R behalf
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But central message of this Philippians passage
is God doesn’t work that way
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G could’ve healed human sin w/o painful
suffering of his Son
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But chose a different way, way of emptiness,
poverty, & hiddenness
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He who could’ve overshadowed us w/ power chose
way of cross, so that G’s power be manifest thru us
CONCLUSION
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Let’s not forget then, J gave up everything for
us
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He submitted even to “death on a cross” & the ultimate, stunning poverty of
abasement
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Looking at that cross is best way 2 overcome r fear
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What we most fear might come 2 pass,
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But when it does, R hearts & ears will B open
2 hear invitation 2 that great dinner 2 which, in R frail humanity, we’ve been
invited
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