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Postmarked March 25, 1910

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I.

The coming of Christ was with real sacrifice.  God’s Son, on an equality with the Father.  But he left the courts of glory to dwell among us, subject to life’s limitations and sufferings.

II.

To appear in his glory was his right, or privilege; but he did not; he laid aside his glory, emptied himself of it, and appeared in the likeness of man, becoming a servant.  God clothed in human flesh!  What condescension!

III.

“Humbled himself,” submitted to the scoffs of man and the power of death, even the most shameful men could inflict–all out of love for us poor sinful creatures.

IV.

What must sin be in the sight of God, seeing [that] it required so deep abasement in Jesus Christ to make atonement for it.  Surely we can never again think lightly of sin!

Let us exalt his name, yielding our lives to him to serve one another in his name.

GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT

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Postmarked March 21, 1910

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Phils. 2, 5

I.

Christ Jesus, the divine-human person, is the highest ideal of the race,

1.  Love and goodness,

2.  Humility,

3.  Service–his meat was to do the will of Him who sent him.

II.

We should pattern our lives after him, strive in all things to be like him, catch his spirit and reproduce his life.

“Was Christ a man like us?  Ah! let us see

If we too can be such a man as he.”–Matthew Arnold

Our mental attitudes and our love shape our lives.

May we love like he did and seek to serve as did he, that “the world may see Jesus in us.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT

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Postmarked February 16, 1910

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…behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is he day of salvation.

—Authorized Version

I.

Proneness to forget our need of God.  Things of the world press upon us and demand our attention.  When we do think of him we yield to the suggestion of Satan to put it off.  He urges delay.

II.

We are very dependent on God.  We greatly need his blessings–providential and his his saving power.  We should give him our hearts without delay.  He wants the life–whole life.

(a)  “Remember now thy Creator.”  Don’t put off so great a matter.  Delay is dangerous.  It will add to our indifference, until after a while we will lose all interest in the matter.  Then it will be very difficult to arouse any concern about it all.

(b)  Choosing God as our portion while young, and the younger the better, has great advantages.  (1)  It saves from many offenses and other hurt.  (2)  It gives more time to become more like Christ and become strong.  (3)  It gives us more time in which to do good in his name.

III.

Why spend a day in sin?  There is no need of it.  “Now is the accepted time.  Today is the day of salvation.”  God is ready now.  Begun right now.  He will pardon and save now.

GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT

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Postmarked February 13, 1910

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2 Cor. 8, 9

I.

Before coming to earth Jesus Christ was rich with the Father in heaven.  [He] was equal with the Father and worshiped by the angels–his right.

II.

But he left the courts of glory [and] came to earth, for our sakes.  He became poor, “emptied himself,” that we might be made rich.  How greatly he has enriched us–and especially all who trust him for salvation.

(a)  Our thoughts of God and man have been greatly elevated.  God is our Father and all we are brethren.  This is truly great.  Reverence and godly fear:  proper respect for personality.

(b)  He has given the world religious freedom and culture.  Before the law all men are equal.  Did he not die for all alike?  Hence the care for the unfortunate, the aged, etc., and the educational privileges for all.

(c)  Salvation urged upon men without money and without price.  Who can estimate its worth?

(d)  Grace for every need.  No despair to the Christian–hope of heaven when life ends.

How rich he makes the trustful soul!

Is he yours?

GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT

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Postmarked February 6, 1910

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2 Cor. 6, 1b

…beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

—Authorized Version

I.

Grace–divine favor–here especially that which comes through the death of Christ.  How unsearchable is its fullness–greater than we can ask or think.  It is offered unto all without money and without price.  God proclaims it by his ministers.

II.

Paul begs us not to receive it “in vain.”  It is in vain when we do not receive it by faith and let it produce in us needed results.

(1)  Believe it–accept it as true and respond to it from the heart.  We need just what it will do for us–deliver us from sin and make us more and more like our Lord in (a) love to God and man, (b) that we fall not short of the glory of God.

(2)  Become faithful servants of God–true to him and his cause in the earth.  To prove God’s grace to him had not been in vain; Paul adds:  “I labored more abundantly than they all.”

What reward has God for all he has done for us, if we do nothing for him?

May we respond to his grace and live for him in all things–keep busy serving him.

GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT