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To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to preach to
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the Gentiles the insurgable riches of Christ, Ephesians chapter 3 verse 8.
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The Apostle Paul felt it a great privilege to be allowed to preach the gospel.
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He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery, but he entered upon it with intense delight.
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Although Paul was thankful for his calling, his success in it greatly humbled him.
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The fuller of ship becomes the deeper it sinks in the water.
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Idlers may indulge a fond conceit of their abilities because they are untried, but the
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earnest worker soon learns his own weaknesses.
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If you seek humility, try hard work.
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If you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus.
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If you want to feel how utterly powerless you are, apart from the living God, attempt
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especially the great work of proclaiming the unsurczable riches of Christ, and you will
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know as you never knew before what a weak, unworthy thing you are.
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Although the Apostle thus knew and confessed his weakness, he was never perplexed as to
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the subject of his ministry.
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From his first sermon to his last, Paul preached Christ and nothing but Christ.
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He lifted up the cross and extolled the Son of God who bled on it.
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Follow his example in all your personal efforts to spread the glad tidings of salvation and
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let Christ and Him crucified be your ever-recurring theme.
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The Christians should be like those lovely spring flowers that when the Son is shining
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open their golden cups as if saying, fill us with your beams.
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But when the Son is hidden behind a cloud, they close their cups and droop their heads.
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So should the Christian feel the sweet influence of Jesus.
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Jesus must be His Son and He must be the flower that yields itself to the Son of righteousness.
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Oh, to speak of Christ alone, this is the subject that is both seed to the sower and
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This is the live coal for the lip of the speaker and the master key to the heart of the
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