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Sunday School Lesson (Continued from Page 7) be owns little or much, enter the Kingdom. Rewards of Dlsolpleabip Jesus promised that those who had left home and family and property tor his sake would receive "a hundredfold now in this time. . . . and in the age to come eternal life." (Verses 29 39) Anyone who becomes . a member of the true Christian community finds himself a member of the larger Christian family. There he finds a spirit ual kinship that strengthens and enriches. "Many that are first will be last, and the last first" (Verse 31) Thus Jesus sounds a warn ing against pride. God's judg ment of men may be very dif ferent from the world's judg ment, for he alone knows the motives of men. What the Scripture Says to U* This Scripture is a call for dedicated purpose in every life. It is a call to live life with in tegrity, putting God's will and purpose above all else. Some persons have thought of reununciation as a kind of self amputation, a hatred of the sell. But one who pursues his own pain may be as self-centered as one who pursues his own pleasure. Self Is The Problem The primary problem is not with the pain of denial or the excess of pleasure but with the self all curved in on itself like a flower that refuses to bloom. God wants each of us to blos som, to open our lives to him and to others. He wants us to relax this anxious, worrisome concern about our own safety and preservation, to open up from a tight, knuckle-white fist into an open handshake and | help for humanity, to think of i all men as brothers. Of course, opening ourselves ' to others could be dangerous. It could mean a cross, a sacri fice of our time, talent, and treasure. There is danger in getting in volved in the needs of our neighbors, the sick, the poor, the aged, the mistreated. There is danger of being betrayed, de serted, denied, despised, and re jected by those we love. But it is better to die with a sense of the meaning of existence than to live without it. For Christ's Sake A Christian does more than lose himsell in the service of humanity. Jesus said, "Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it." All of us are against sin, but what are we for? Do you, with Vern Bagley, recognize that we are all supposed to be brothers? Jesus makes clear that my motivation for loving others, for seeking justice, for meeting hu man need is not finally what I can get out of it. It Is not even what the community can get out of It (Continued from Pa?e 4) Electricity helps you see the light. Go in soon and cool it with the air conditioning. Electric helpers make the work electric light. Electric dishwasher working ? wife ready to take it easy. Even while a guy is relaxing at "the best time of the day," we at Duke Power are working to make it an electric world. Electricity keeps helping to inspire new and better ways to get things done, to give people time to take it easy. It's one of the best values people get. In fact, today the average Piedmont Carolina family gets about twice as much electricity for a dollar as it did thirty years ago. That's value ? particularly when you think about how the price of almost everything else has gone way up. Duke Power
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