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William Ernest Henley 1849 –1903 died diseased tuberculosis wrote Invictus Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul Henley avout atheist grit pain adversity courage resilience man defiant rebellion against God refuses God chance will not bow no life after death Christ straight is the gate that leadeth unto life I AM Moses Mt Sinai central lie autonomous masters of our fates existence unbelief spirit of the age Christians on guard fall into functional atheism live in such a way that indicates God does not exist stewardship Sunday steward responsible to manage the property that belongs to someone else belongs to God parable of the talents 75 pounds of gold talent metaphor all that God has entrusted to us time treasure talents skills abilities our lives are not our own we belong to God we have a heavenly Master to whom we have to give an account money in our lives trying to make money all our lives

“Then went the Pharisees, and took council how they might entangle Jesus in His talk.” (Matt. 22:15)

Today we rejoice in two baptisms now in the body of Christ’s church, we celebrate the season of All Saints, remembering the great examples of those who have gone before us to show us the way, putting your trust not in man, but in God, the perfect man Jesus Christ, the One in whom there is no sin. The One who came to redeem us from sin.

Brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. (Eph. 6:10) synopsis Jesus Christ destroy the works of the devil shattered kingdom of satan clutches of the enemy victory manifest in our own lives indwells the one who indwells us is greater than the one who is in the world Christian walk Hymn 553 beware voices astray

St Paul St Luke gentile physician evangelist faithful companion feast day immovable October 18 Luke Acts of the Apostles well educated greek writing literature Colossians

“and he marveled and said, ‘How is it that such power is given unto men?’ ” (Matt. 9:8)

“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, ‘Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ ” (Matt. 22:35-36)

“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called” (Eph. 4:1)

epistle st paul I DESIRE that ye faint not at my tribulations for you which is your glory For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen

ordination God mammon summary of the Law Jesus said unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength This is the first and great commandment And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself sabbath elderly woman deathbed children frail strong voice I have served the Lord for fifty 50 years no regret therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what you will eat or drink or about your body what you will wear is not life more than food and the body more than clothes look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them are you not much more valuable than they who of you by worrying can add a single cubit single hour to his life and why do you worry about clothes consider how the lilies of the field grow they do not labor or spin yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these if that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace will He not much more clothe you O ye of little faith

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