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Good morning, and welcome to this service of worship
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on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost here in Duke chapel.
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Call your attention to the announcements and activities
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listed in the bulletin for this week at Duke Chapel.
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Now let us stand for the greeting.
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The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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And also with you.
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The reason Christ is with us.
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Henceforth.
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("All My Hope is Firmly Grounded")
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♪ All my hope is firmly grounded ♪
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♪ In our great and living Lord ♪
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♪ Who, whenever I most need him ♪
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♪ Never fails to keep his word ♪
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♪ Him I must ♪
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♪ Wholly trust ♪
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♪ God the ever good and just ♪
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♪ Tell me, who can trust our nature ♪
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♪ Human, weak, and insecure ♪
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♪ Which of all the airy castles ♪
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♪ Can the hurricane endure ♪
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♪ Build on sand ♪
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♪ Nought can stand ♪
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♪ By our earthly wisdom planned ♪
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♪ But in every time and season ♪
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♪ Out of love's abundant store ♪
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♪ God sustains his whole creation ♪
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♪ Fount of life forevermore ♪
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♪ We who share ♪
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♪ Earth and air ♪
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♪ Count on his unfailing care ♪
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♪ Thank, oh thank, our great Creator ♪
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♪ Through his only Son this day ♪
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♪ He alone, the heavenly Potter ♪
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♪ Made us out of earth and clay ♪
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♪ Quick to heed ♪
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♪ Strong the deed ♪
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♪ He shall all his people feed ♪
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When we gather to praise God,
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we remember that we are God's people but we are people
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who have preferred our wills to God's will.
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Therefore, let us begin by confessing our sin
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to God and to one another.
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Let us pray responsibly, number 890.
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Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned
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against you in thought, word, and deed,
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by what we have done and by what we have left undone.
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We have not loved you with our whole heart,
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we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.
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We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
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For the sake of your son Jesus Christ,
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have mercy on us and forgive us
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that we may delight in your will
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and walk in your ways to the glory of your name, amen.
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Almighty God, have mercy on you,
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forgive all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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strengthen you in all goodness,
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and by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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keep you in eternal life, amen.
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Be seated.
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Let us pray.
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Open our hearts and minds, oh God,
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by the power of your Holy Spirit
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so that as the word be spread and proclaimed,
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we might hear with joy what you say to us this day, amen.
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The first reading is taken from the Book of Job.
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Then Job answered the Lord
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I know that you can do all things
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and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
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Who is this that hides council without knowledge?
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Therefore, I have uttered what I did not understand,
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things too wonderful for me which I did not know.
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Here, and I will speak, I will question you
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and you declare to me I have heard of you
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by the hearing of the ear, but my now eye sees you,
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therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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The second reading is from the letter of James.
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Come now, you who say today or tomorrow
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we will go to such and such a town
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and spend a year there doing business and making money.
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Yet, you do not even know what tomorrow will bring.
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What is your life?
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For you are a mist that appears
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for a little while and then vanishes.
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Instead, you ought to say
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if the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogance.
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All such boasting is evil.
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Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do
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and fails to do it commits sin.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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This reading is taken from the Gospel
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according to Saint Mark.
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John said to him teacher, we saw someone
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casting out demons in your name
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and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.
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But Jesus said do not stop him,
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for no one who does a deed of power in my name
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will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
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Whoever is not against is us for us,
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for truly I tell you whoever gives you
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a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ
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will by no means lose the reward.
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If any of you put a stumbling block
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before one of these little ones who believe in me,
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it would be better for you if a great millstone
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were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.
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If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.
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It is better for you to enter life maimed
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than to have two hands and to go to Hell,
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to the unquenchable fire.
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And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.
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It is better for you to enter life lame
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than to have two feet and to be thrown into Hell.
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And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out.
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It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God
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with one eye than to have two eyes
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and to be thrown into Hell
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where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
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For everyone will be salted with fire,
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salt is good, but as salt has lost its saltedness,
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how can you make it salty again?
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Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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We're at a business meeting,
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the flip chart shows production schedules,
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cost estimates, profit projections,
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and descriptions of several promising locations
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for the new business venture.
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The board of directors has been discussing
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their marketing strategy for the past several hours
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and are finally at the point of agreeing.
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They're excited about the business plans that they've made
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and about their new venture, and they see great potential
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for success and a hefty profit for each of them.
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It's a common scene, IBM, AT&T,
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Glaxo, Duke University.
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But in this case, it is a Greco-Roman business meeting
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in the Far East in the Hellenistic world
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of the early Christians.
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It involved several well-respected church members
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who we may assume hold positions
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of leadership on the finance committee
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because of their business expertise.
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Their products were most likely wine or spices
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instead of phone systems or computers,
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but the process of business planning and profit projection
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is as old as human enterprise, and it is certainly
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something that each of us here this morning
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would have recognized.
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Admittedly, it was a primitive business meeting,
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and you MBA people or Economics majors
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would have certainly had things to teach them,
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but all of us are familiar with the process
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of engaging in business to make profit.
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After all, most of us have to make a living.
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It's a familiar scene, and a comfortable one
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for most of us because we're experts at planning.
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After all, we've learned how important it is.
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To take the right college prep courses,
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to make the right grades, to join the right clubs
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so that you can go to the right college
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and make the right grades and join the right clubs
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so you can get the right job and make the right salary
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and marry the right person and join the right clubs.
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Well, you know how it goes.
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But something happens that we don't expect.
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James walks into the meeting, looks around,
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gets the gist of what's happening
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and says come now, you who say today or tomorrow,
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we'll go to such and such a city and spend a year there
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and engage in business and make a profit,
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yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
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Well, just what is James saying?
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And why is he criticizing a perfectly
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legitimate business meeting?
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After all, we're not talking about shady dealings here,
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these are good Christians, they're church members.
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They're honest, ethical business people
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who seek to engage in a legal business practice
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to make a reasonable profit, so what's wrong with that?
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Was James saying that being in business is wrong?
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That it's sinful to set goals and plan ahead?
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That it's unacceptable to make a profit?
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Well, he certainly wouldn't have been admitted
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to Duke with that kind of attitude.
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But as we read on in the letter, he says what is your life?
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For you are a mist that appears
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for a little time and then vanishes.
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Now folks, this is frightening stuff.
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It has overtones of the hellfire, brimstone type sermon
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that threatens one with death and eternal damnation
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if one doesn't obey every dictate of God and the preacher.
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I'll never forget attending a Revival
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at my grandparents' church when I was a child.
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It was the Corinth Community Baptist Church,
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it was a little country church
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deep in the woods of north Louisiana,
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and it's where most of my relatives happen to be buried.
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As I set there between my parents,
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I just knew the preacher was looking straight at me
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as he said this may be the last chance
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you have to be saved, are you gonna let it pass you by?
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The Devil is out there waitin' for you
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just around the corner to snatch you up when you leave here
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and throw you into the pits of eternal damnation.
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Well I don't know if I got saved that night or not,
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but my parents had a heck of a time
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convincing me it was okay to get back in the car
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to go to Grandma's house because I just knew
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the Devil was out there waiting for me.
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Now is the author of James using scare tactics
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to try to frighten his readers
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into obedience to some moral dictates?
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Or is there something that he has to teach us
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about the business of life?
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He goes on, you ought to say if the Lord wills,
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we shall live and we shall do this or that.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogance
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and all such boasting is evil.
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James doesn't say business is evil
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or planning is evil,
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or even that making a profit is evil.
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It seems that the problem with our business meeting
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is that the board members have forgotten
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that they're not ultimately in control of life,
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and they have been boasting in their own powers
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and intelligence and planning abilities.
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Remember now, these are good church members
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he's speaking to who faithfully attend worship.
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They serve in positions of leadership in the church
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and they try to live good lives,
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but they have excluded God from their business transactions
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and made their plans as if they alone
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could bring them to fruition.
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They profess belief in Christ,
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but in actuality live as practical atheists.
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They plan their lives as if God doesn't exist,
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or at the very least as if God had no concern
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about how they lived day to day.
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Even worse, they brag about their abilities
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and plans as if they had the power
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to accomplish anything apart from God.
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James reminds them that life
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doesn't always go according to plan,
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that their lives are like the mists,
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vapors, puffs of smoke that appear
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for a little while, and then disappear.
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The insecurity of life stands in stark contrast
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to the secure rationality of their plans.
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But James reminds them that, in actuality,
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they don't know what their lives will be like tomorrow,
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or even if they will be alive.
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He tells them, instead you ought to say if the Lord wills,
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we shall live and we shall do this or that.
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To plan without acknowledging our absolute dependence
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upon God and without seeking God's will
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is not only foolish, but sinful,
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as we put ourselves in God's place.
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As James says in the letter,
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whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it,
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for that person, it is sin.
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You see, our merchants knew that all life
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was created by God and belongs to God,
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remember these are church members,
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he's preaching to the choir.
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James was condemning them because they,
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of all people, should know better.
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He was reminding them that apart from God,
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there is no security in life.
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In a Duke hospital room, a mother sits,
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silently weeping, at the bedside of her child.
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Anxiously awaiting every painful,
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rasping breath
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as evidence that the child still clings to life.
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But the bleeding from a lung pierced by a stray bullet
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in a drive-by shooting just won't stop.
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At another bedside,
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a child sits holding her mother's hand
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as she slips in and out of consciousness
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while the tumor grows larger
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and her grasp on life weaker.
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A phone call in the middle of the night,
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a father awakened, startled, it's 3 o'clock a.m.,
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heart pounding, gut wrenching fear,
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it must be some emergency.
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Are you the parent of?
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Your son has been in a driving accident, driving drunk.
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just feeling a little tired, y'know,
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so many exams and staying up late.
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The doctor's report we'd like to do some additional tests,
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the signs indicate leukemia,
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but of course nothing's definite, yet.
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A hard-working businessman en route to another meeting,
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a diabetic seizure and a coma,
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losing control of the car as it plummets across the median.
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On the other side, a student, excited,
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returning to Duke for the fall semester,
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a PhD finally within his grasp.
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And suddenly, the car is there and there is no place to go,
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no time to react.
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Lives not according to plan.
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These are not scare tactics, we see them daily
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and hear these stories nightly on the news,
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and our newspapers, in the hospital,
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in our own homes and families.
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Whenever we are faced with the unexpected or with tragedy,
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we are reminded uncomfortably of our own mortality.
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How desperately we try to deny or forget our finiteness
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and lack of control over life,
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obsessively planning every detail of our futures.
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It's easier to turn off the news
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or pretend that bad things only happen to other people,
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desperately hoping it won't happen to us
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until we come face to face with some circumstance
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or unexpected tragedy in life.
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How many of us here have already experienced
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some major disappointment or loss?
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How many of us have lives that have
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not turned out exactly according to plan?
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It's so easy to get caught up in our plans
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and puffed up about our futures,
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but whenever we encounter our lack of control
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over other people or over our own lives,
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we are reminded dramatically, though sometimes painfully,
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of our absolute dependence upon God.
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So where do we find meaning or hope
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in the midst of such uncertainty?
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How do we find the courage to face life
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given the reality of our own mortality?
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What plans for the future can we, or should we make
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when we have so little control over life?
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The mistake our board members made was planning without God.
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They gave God control over their Sunday behavior,
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but not their every day, weekday transactions.
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James reminded them and us
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that all of life is dependent upon God.
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God belongs in the boardroom, in the classroom,
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in the bedroom, in the living room.
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We know that life is created by God
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and belongs to God, again we are the choir,
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we are the church that are here.
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Yet, we have a hard time believing
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that God wants to be involved in its day to day operation.
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Ours is a God that has chosen to be involved
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with us in the most intimate way.
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God has taken on human existence
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in the person of Jesus Christ,
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and there is no part of life that God hasn't experienced,
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and there is nothing in life that is insignificant to God.
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This is the God that has even entered
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in to and overcome death for our sakes,
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as we will remember this morning
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as we celebrate Communion here in this place.
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Through Jesus Christ, our lives,
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as fleeting as they might be,
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take on eternal significance.
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When Christ is at the center of all our plans,
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then we need not fear the uncertainty of the future.
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For even in the midst of tragedy or death,
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we discover that Christ has gone before us,
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that Christ stands beside us,
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and that Christ is ahead of us preparing the way.
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Christ has died, Christ is risen,
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Christ will come again.
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And we can rejoice that there is nothing
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in life or death that can separate us
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from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
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Thanks be to God.
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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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Let us pray.
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Loving God, every time we come to the table,
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to eat and to drink, we are reminded of how dependent,
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how utterly daily dependent we are upon your Grace.
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Now we plan and we set goals,
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but you hold our lives in the palm of your hand.
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Without you, we are nothing.
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And that is why we pray,
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setting the needs of suffering humanity
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before your loving heart.
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We pray for all those brothers and sisters
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who perish from too little to eat,
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for little children who go to bed
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every night with knowing hunger,
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and for those who have so much food
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that we fail to recognize what a great gift
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and responsibility is something
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so ordinary and necessary as bread.
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We pray for children around the world,
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the little ones whom you love so much,
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children whose vulnerability and poverty
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reminds us of our denial of our own.
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Particularly do we pray for the suffering children of Iraq,
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of Northern Ireland, Lebanon,
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Azerbaijan,
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Serbia,
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Croatia,
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and the forgotten children of American's inner cities,
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and the overplanned, over program children
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of America's suburbs.
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We pray for those whose lives have been recently disrupted,
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whose plans have been set aside due to death,
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or the loss of a job, or a bad quiz grade,
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or children growing up, or friendship rejected.
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Be with them, oh God,
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and bring them through this difficult time
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with your sustaining presence.
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We've come here this morning, oh God,
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with needs, needs too near at hand to speak them aloud.
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For those needs, we pray.
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And for those whose needs we forget
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in our preoccupation with our own needs,
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we pray.
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Bless us, amen.
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Today's scripture admonishes us
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to be at peace with one another.
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Jesus said if you come and offer your gift
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at the altar and there's something between you,
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your brother, or your sister,
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first make peace and then offer your gift.
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Therefore, let us stand and offer
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one another signs of God's peace.
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(assembly clamoring)
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And now, as if forgiven and reconciled people,
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let us offer our gifts to God.
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("Hide Not Thou Thy Face")
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♪ Hide not thou thy face from us, oh Lord ♪
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♪ And cast off thy servant in Thy displeasure ♪
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♪ For we confess our sins unto thee ♪
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♪ And hide not our unrighteousness ♪
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♪ For thy mercy's sake ♪
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♪ For they mercy's sake ♪
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♪ Deliver us from all our sins ♪
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♪ Deliver us from all our sins ♪
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♪ For thy mercy's sake ♪
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♪ For they mercy's sake ♪
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♪ Deliver us from all our sins ♪
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♪ Deliver us from all our sins ♪
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(bright organ music)
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(upbeat organ music)
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♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
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♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪
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♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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Lift up your hearts.
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We lift them up to the Lord.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
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It is right and just.
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It is a right and good and joyful thing
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always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
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Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth,
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you formed us in your image, even when we turned away
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and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.
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And so, with your people on Earth
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and all the company of Heaven,
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we praise your name and join in there unending hymn.
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(bright music)
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♪ Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts ♪
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♪ Heaven and earth are full of your glory ♪
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♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪
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♪ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord ♪
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♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪
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Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ.
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Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,
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to proclaim release to the captives,
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to set at liberty those oppressed and to announce
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that the time had come when you would save your people.
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He healed the sick, he fed the hungry,
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he ate with sinners.
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By his baptism of suffering and death and resurrection,
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you gave birth to your church, you delivered us.
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When the Lord Jesus ascended,
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he promised to be with us always
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by the power of your word and Holy Spirit.
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On the night in which he gave himself up for us,
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he took bread, he gave thanks to you,
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broke the bread, gave it to his disciples,
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and said take, eat, this is my body given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me.
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And when the supper was over,
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he took a cup, gave thanks to you,
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gave it to his disciples and said drink from this,
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all of you, for this is the blood of the new covenant,
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poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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And do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
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And so, in remembrance of these,
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your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,
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we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving
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as a holy and living sacrifice
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in union with Christ offering for us
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as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
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♪ Christ has died ♪
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♪ Christ is Risen ♪
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♪ Christ, You come on High ♪
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Pour out your Holy Spirit on us
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gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
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Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
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that we may be for the world the body of Christ.
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By your Spirit, make us one with Christ
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and one with each other until Christ comes
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in final victory and we feast as his Heavenly banquet.
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Through your son, Jesus Christ,
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with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,
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all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father,
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now and forever.
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ A, amen ♪
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Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be they name,
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your kingdom come, your will be done,
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on earth as in Heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread,
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and forgive us our trespasses,
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as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom, the power,
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and the glory forever and ever, amen.
533
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When we break the bread,
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is it not a means of sharing the body of Christ?
535
00:43:43.670 --> 00:43:45.040
When we give thanks over the cup,
536
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is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?
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The body of Christ,
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the blood of Christ.
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Come to the Lord's table.
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As we commune, the congregation will join
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the choir in singing Hymn 614.
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("For the Bread Which You Have Broken")
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♪ For the bread, which You have broken ♪
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00:44:55.167 --> 00:45:00.167
♪ For the wine, which You have poured ♪
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00:45:00.607 --> 00:45:05.607
♪ For the words, which You have spoken ♪
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♪ Now we give You thanks, oh Lord ♪
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♪ By this promise that You love us ♪
548
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♪ By Your gift of peace restored ♪
549
00:45:24.789 --> 00:45:29.789
♪ By Your call to Heaven above us ♪
550
00:45:30.282 --> 00:45:35.282
♪ Hallow all our lives, oh Lord ♪
551
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♪ With the saints who now adore You ♪
552
00:45:43.553 --> 00:45:48.553
♪ Seated at the heavenly board ♪
553
00:45:48.993 --> 00:45:53.993
♪ May the Church still waiting for You ♪
554
00:45:54.641 --> 00:45:59.641 line:15%
♪ Keep love's tie unbroken, Lord ♪
555
00:46:02.366 --> 00:46:07.366 line:15%
♪ In Your service, Lord, defend us ♪
556
00:46:08.112 --> 00:46:13.112
♪ In our hearts keep watch and ward ♪
557
00:46:13.497 --> 00:46:18.497
♪ In the world to which You send us ♪
558
00:46:18.989 --> 00:46:23.072
♪ Let Your kingdom come, oh Lord ♪
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(singing in foreign language)
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Please stand.
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May the Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
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go with you and be with you now and always.
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♪ Amen ♪
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00:55:50.968 --> 00:55:55.968
♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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00:56:25.181 --> 00:56:28.681
("How Firm a Foundation")
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♪ How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord ♪
570
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♪ Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word ♪
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00:57:11.541 --> 00:57:16.541
♪ What more can He say than to you He hath said ♪
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♪ To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled ♪
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00:57:28.476 --> 00:57:33.476
♪ Fear not, I am with thee, oh be not dismayed ♪
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00:57:35.803 --> 00:57:40.803 line:15%
♪ For I am thy God and will still give thee aid ♪
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00:57:43.762 --> 00:57:48.762 line:15%
♪ I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand ♪
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00:57:51.467 --> 00:57:56.300
♪ Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand ♪
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♪ When through the deep waters I call thee to go ♪
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00:58:09.155 --> 00:58:14.155
♪ The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow ♪
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00:58:16.713 --> 00:58:21.713
♪ For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless ♪
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00:58:24.640 --> 00:58:29.640
♪ And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress ♪
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00:58:34.664 --> 00:58:39.664
♪ When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie ♪
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00:58:42.316 --> 00:58:47.316
♪ My grace all sufficient shall be thy supply ♪
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00:58:49.831 --> 00:58:54.831
♪ The flame shall not hurt thee, I only design ♪
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00:58:57.238 --> 00:59:02.238
♪ Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine ♪
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00:59:07.753 --> 00:59:12.753
♪ The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose ♪
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♪ I will not, I will not desert to its foes ♪
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♪ That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake ♪
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♪ I'll never, no never, no never forsake ♪