Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus! A call to Christians

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2. Stand up, Stand up for Jesus!
3. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! ye soldiers of the cross;
   Lift high His royal banner, it must not suffer loss:
   From vict’ry unto vict’ry, His army shall He lead,
   Till every foe is vanquished, and Christ is Lord indeed.
4. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! The trumpet call obey:
   Forth to the mighty conflict, in this His glorious day;
   Ye that are men now serve Him against unnumbered foes;
   Let courage rise with danger, and strength to strength oppose.
5. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! Stand in His strength alone,
   The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own;
   Put on the gospel armor, and watching unto prayer,
   Where calls the voice of duty, be never wanting there.
6. Stand up, stand up for Jesus! the strife will not be long;
   This day the noise of battle, the next the victor’s song;
   To him that overcometh a crown of life shall be;
   He with the King of glory shall reign eternally.
7. We all know the hymn and we've all sung it at least once in our lifetime, born-again or
   

   
   

   unsaved. But have we every truly saturated ourselves with the truth of the words?  Look at stanza three... "Stand up, Stand up for Jesus! Stand in His strength alone, The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own. How many times do we fail to recognize our weakness in the midst of a world that purports ultimate strength, technological, medical, and military prowess. How often are we complacent to follow the fad rather than our Father? Have we forgotten the Great Commission? 
8. 16 But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful. 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 [a]Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you [b]always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:16-20).
9. What about the warnings of Christ and the Apostles about the dangers of the allurements of this world? John 15:18-16:4, 1 Timothy 1:3-4, 2:9, 4:7 6:9-11, 6:20, 2 Timothy 2:15-17, 3: 1-5, 4:3-4
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1.  We stand in line for things we want. But we fail to stand in line for Christ. We fail to tell people the Good News. We aren't called to have the newest i-Thingy or doohickey wingding. We are called to give up the things of the world for the furtherance of the Gospel. Because Christ didn't die for technology or music, or movies or books, or food or pets or trees and rocks and things. Jesus didn't die for the sake of things...He DIED FOR YOUR SAKE. John 3:16 says that God so loved the world that He gave is only begotten Son for it (paraphrased)  and in the Matthew verse reference above HE tells us what we are to do.
2. So I must, must, must entreat you my dear friends to take your commission from Christ seriously. Lives depend on it.
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