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  MEMBERS OF THE KINGDOM
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: As members of the Kingdom of God, we are called to be conscious
workers, contributing to its advancement, and finding consolation in
failure through our membership.

Topics: "Kingdom Of God", "Christian Living"
Scripture References: Matthew 6:33, Luke 17:21, 1 Corinthians 3:9, Philippians 3:20, Colossians 1:13

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the Kingdom of God within us,
emphasizing the importance of being conscious workers in God's Kingdom
with our unique individuality and surroundings. She highlights how our
work, no matter how small, can contribute to the advancement of God's
Kingdom, giving even the humblest tasks a sense of consecration.
Tileston encourages the idea that being part of God's Kingdom provides a
source of comfort and consolation, surpassing any worldly success or
failure.

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Who hath delivered us from the power of dark-ness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

COLOSSIANS 1:13

IT is right that we should have an aim of our own, determined by our
individuality and our surround-ings; but this may readily degenerate
into exclusive narrowness, unless it has for a background the great
thought that there is a Kingdom of God within us, around us, and above
us, in which we, with all our powers and aims, are called to be
conscious workers. Toward the forwarding of this silent, ever-advancing
Kingdom, our little work, whatever it be, if good and true, may
contribute something. And this thought lends to any calling, however
lowly, a consecration which is wanting even to the loftiest self-chosen
ideals. But even if our aim should be frustrated and our work come to
naught, yet the failure of our most cherished plans may be more than
compensated. In the thought that we are members of this Kingdom, already
begun, here and now, yet reaching forward through all time, we shall
have a reserve of consola-tion better than any which success without
this could give.

JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/members-of-the-kingdom/
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