Out of Captivity (2) Pizza Slice or Bicycle Hub? Treasures Sunday (Lent 2013)

Pizza Slice or Bicycle Hub?

1. Full submission  Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God… But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Rom 13:1,14

2. Every good Gift is from Him  16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. Jas 1:16-18

3. St Paul Transformation  14 Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’ Acts 22:14-16

Pope Cyril VI  Be sure that He who has chosen the beginning of the road for you, will not leave you on the middle of it.

4. On Earth or in Heaven?  19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt

5. Eat, drink and Put On?  24 “ No one can serve two masters ; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Matt 6:24,25

6. Exclamation?  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Matt 6:30

St Cyril of Alexandria This excerpt from Saint Cyril of Alexandria's commentary on the Second Letter to the Corinthians (Cap. 5, 5-6, 2: PG 74, )  Since Christ has in this way become the source of life for us, we who follow in his footsteps must not think of ourselves as living in the flesh any longer, but as having passed beyond it.