“No Turning Back…”
A Sermon Delivered by The Rev. John D. Painter at
Centenary United Methodist Church, Metuchen, New Jersey
March 4, 2007 (The Second Sunday in Lent)
Texts: Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35
Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the ex-ample you have in us. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also en-ables him to make all things subject to himself.
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