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  YOUR CROWN OF GLORY
  by Charles E. Cowman
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Summary: Your crown of glory lies in the heart of your current
hardships, and you must be willing to pay the price of hardship to
achieve great things.

Topics: "Triumph Over Trials", "Crown Of Glory"
Scripture References: Matthew 20:22, 2 Timothy 2:12, James 1:12, 1 Peter 4:12, Revelation 12:11

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Charles E. Cowman preaches about overcoming challenges through the blood
of the Lamb and the willingness to sacrifice one's life for Christ. He
emphasizes that hardships and trials are essential for achieving victory
and receiving the crown of glory from God. The sermon encourages
believers to face their current difficulties head-on, as these struggles
are designed by God to lead them to their ultimate triumph.

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"They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb . . . and they loved not
their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12:11).

When James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to give
them the best place in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request, but
told them it would be given to them if they could do His work, drink His
cup, and be baptized with His baptism.

Do we want the competition? The greatest things are always hedged about
by the hardest things, and we, too, shall find mountains and forests and
chariots of iron. Hardship is the price of coronation. Triumphal arches
are not woven out of rose blossoms and silken cords, but of hard blows
and bloody scars. The very hardships that you are enduring in your life
today are given by the Master for the explicit purpose of enabling you
to win your crown.

Do not wait for some ideal situation, some romantic difficulty, some
far-away emergency; but rise to meet the actual conditions which the
Providence of God has placed around you today. Your crown of glory lies
embedded in the very heart of these things--those hardships and trials
that are pressing you this very hour, week and month of your life. The
hardest things are not those that the world knows of. Down in your
secret soul unseen and unknown by any but Jesus, there is a little trial
that you would not dare to mention that is harder for you to bear than
martyrdom.

There, beloved, lies your crown. God help you to overcome, and sometime
wear it. --Selected

"It matters not how the battle goes,

The day how long;

Faint not! Fight on!

Tomorrow comes the song."

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/charles-e-cowman/your-crown-of-glory/
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