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Grace and peace to you,
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in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We welcome you to this service of worship
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here at Duke University Chapel
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on this tenth Sunday after Pentecost.
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We also extend greetings to those of you
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in our radio and television audiences,
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especially those patients and their families
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at Duke Hospital.
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Our preacher for this morning is
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the Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon, Dean of the Chapel.
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Our lector is Ms. Martha Simmons,
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newly appointed director of The Women's Center
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here at the university.
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Please note the remaining announcements
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as they are printed in your bulletins.
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And now, let us continue our worship.
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♪ [Choir] Praise ye the Lord of hosts, ♪
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♪ Sing His salvation, ♪
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♪ Bless His name, ♪
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♪ Show forth His praise in His holy house. ♪
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♪ (Muffled singing) ♪
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♪ Christ bringeth peace to the earth ♪
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♪ (Muffled singing) ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪
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Oh God, you see how busy we are, with many things.
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Turn us to listen to Your teachings,
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and lead us to choose the one thing
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which will not be taken from us.
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Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
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Amen.
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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 is read and proclaimed
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we might hear with joy,
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what You say to us this day.
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Amen.
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The first lesson is taken from the Second Book of Kings.
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One day, Elijah went on to Shunem,
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where a wealthy woman lived,
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who urged him to eat some food.
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So whenever Elijah passed that way,
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he would turn in there to eat food.
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And she said to her husband,
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"Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God,
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who is continually passing our way.
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Let us make a small roof chamber, with walls,
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and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair,
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and a lamp, so that whenever Elijah comes to us,
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he can go in there."
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One day, Elijah came there and turned into the chamber,
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and rested there.
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And he said to Gehazi, his servant,
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"Call this Shunammite."
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When Gehazi had called her, she stood before him,
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and Elijah said to Gehazi,
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"Say now to her, see?
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You have taken all this trouble for us.
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What is to be done for you?
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Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the King,
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or to the commander of the army?"
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She answered, "I dwell among my own people."
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And Elijah said, "What then is to be done for her?"
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Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no heir,
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and her husband is old."
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Elijah said, "Call her."
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And when Gehazi had called her, she stood in the doorway,
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and Elijah said, "At this season, when the times come round,
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you shall embrace a child."
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And she said, "No, my lord, oh man of God.
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Do not lie to your servant."
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But the woman conceived, and she bore a child
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about that time the following spring,
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as Elijah had said to her.
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This ends the reading of the first lesson.
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Please stand for the reading of this alter.
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For You formed my inward parts.
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You knit me together in my mother's womb.
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I praise You, for You are fearful and wonderful.
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Wonderful are Your works.
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You know me quite well.
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My frame was not hidden from you.
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When I was being made in secret,
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intricately woven in the depths of the earth,
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[Rev. Ferree-Clark] Your eyes beheld
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my unformed substance.
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In Your book were written everyone of them,
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the days that were formed for me,
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when as yet there was none of them.
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How precious to me are Your thoughts, oh God.
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How vast is the sum of them.
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If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
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When I awake, I am still with You.
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♪ Oh, sing unto the Lord, singing a new song ♪
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♪ Sing unto the Lord ♪
♪ Oh sing unto the Lord ♪
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♪ Oh sing unto ♪
♪ Singing a new song ♪
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♪ Oh sing unto ♪
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♪ Oh sing unto the Lord ♪
♪ Oh sing unto the Lord ♪
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♪ Oh sing unto the Lord, blessing His holy name ♪
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♪ Oh sing unto the Lord, blessing His holy name ♪
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♪ Declare His glory ♪
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♪ Declare His glory ♪
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♪ In every nation ♪
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♪ Show forth His salvation ♪
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♪ His salvation, His salvation ♪
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♪ Declare His glory ♪
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♪ Declare His glory ♪
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♪ Declare His glory to the nations ♪
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♪ And to all people ♪
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♪ Declare to all people of His love and His glory ♪
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♪ Show His love ♪
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♪ Show His marvelous glory ♪
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Today's gospel is from the Gospel according to Luke.
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Now, as they went on their way, He entered a village,
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and a woman named Martha received Him into her house.
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And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet
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and listened to His teaching.
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But Martha was distracted with much serving,
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and she went to Him and said, "Lord, do You not care
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that my sister has left me to serve alone?
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Tell her then, to help me."
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But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha,
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you are troubled with many things.
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One thing is needful, and Mary has chosen the good portion,
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which shall not be taken away from her."
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Here ends the lesson.
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A few weeks back I was invited to speak
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at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
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And I left Durham on the last flight for Philadelphia.
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The plane was late in getting in.
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And then after a one hour, hair raising,
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fifty dollar cab ride
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through the darkened streets of Philadelphia,
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I was deposited at the front door of the Lutheran Seminary.
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Everything was dark.
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It was now nearly midnight.
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I had no idea where I was supposed to stay.
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And so I wandered through the drizzling rain,
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in the darkness, Willy Loman like, suitcase in hand,
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knocking on this door and then that door,
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hoping that someone would let me in.
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But everything was shut up tight, and it was dark.
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I saw one light still burning in a home
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on the edge of campus.
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And in desperation I went to that door,
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banged on the back door.
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A woman peered out at me through the closed door.
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And through the closed door I tried to explain to her
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who I was and what I was doing there.
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As it turned out, she opened the door,
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her husband was the only person I knew
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at the Lutheran Theological Seminary,
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John Vannorsdall, its president who had preached here.
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And Pat Vannorsdall graciously let me come in,
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and she made phone calls in my behalf,
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and eventually got me where I was supposed to go.
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But before she did, Pat said,
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"You know, this is a tough neighborhood,
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and I would never normally open the door for someone
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when John isn't at home.
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But I looked out and could tell that you were harmless."
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(laughter)
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Harmless.
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A Methodist preacher roaming around Philadelphia
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at midnight.
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Harmless.
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But I can tell you this, if you're a woman alone,
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you be careful how you open your door to strangers.
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For it can be great to be on the receiving end
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of hospitality offered a stranger,
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but sometimes it is not all that great
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to be on the giving end of hospitality.
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Which brings us to our scripture lessons for today.
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For both of the scripture lessons from the Old Testament
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and from the Gospel, speak of women
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who open their door to traveling strangers.
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And for these acts of hospitality they were surprised.
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First, there was this wealthy woman over in Shunem.
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And any time that Prophet Elisha happened to be in town,
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she always invited him over for lunch.
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For fried chicken, and gravy, and rice, and squash.
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It's in the Bible, Second Kings.
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One day she said to her husband, "I tell you Abe,
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this bald headed preacher is a prophet of God.
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We ought to do something nice for him,
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like build on a room.
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And then whenever he comes through town
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he can stay here with us."
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And this she did.
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And Prophet Elisha loved that room.
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Loved it as much as he loved that woman's cooking.
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In my grandmother's house there was a room,
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in the front of the home,
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that my grandmother used to refer to
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as the Prophet's Chamber.
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It had been built many many years ago,
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and it was a bedroom set aside
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for itinerating Methodist preachers
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who happened to be traveling across the country side.
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This is where they got the name, the Prophet's Chamber.
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Here from Second Kings,
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this room that the woman set aside for Prophet Elisha.
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And he loved that room.
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He loved it so much he said to the woman one day,
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"I want to repay you for your hospitality.
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You name anything you want and it's yours.
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If I can do a favor for you at court,
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or do something in your behalf."
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Now I told you that this woman was rich.
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She was well fixed.
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She was old.
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And she said, "What do I need?
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I live here. I got everything I need."
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So Elisha asked his servant in desperation,
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"Now what can you give an old lady whose got everything?"
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And the servant said, "Well, she's got everything,
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but she doesn't have children."
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And Elisha said, "Great idea.
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I'll give her a child.
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Call her in, I'll give her the news."
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And so Elisha says to her,
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"Before this year is out,
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you shall, when the time comes, embrace a son."
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"Embrace a what?" She said, as she turned up the volume
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on her hearing aid.
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"Young man, do you know how old I am?
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Have you ever gotten a look at my husband?"
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But nine months later, the Thursday afternoon book club
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really had something to talk about.
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(laughter)
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Moral of the first story,
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you be careful about being nice to prophets.
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Maybe a cup of tea, a light lunch,
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but you be wary of overnight sleepovers.
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Which brings us to the second story.
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There were a couple of sisters who lived over in Bethany.
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And one was named Mary, and Mary just loved to sit around
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and discuss the great ideas of the western world.
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And then there was Martha, who owned the house.
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Martha, who loved to throw big dinner parties
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and make cakes from scratch.
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Now Jesus was on the road traveling one day.
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And Martha invites Jesus in for a big meal.
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Does this remind you of the story of Shunammite woman?
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Now the first thing is to put this visit of Jesus
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to Martha's house in context.
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In the context of the Gospel of Luke.
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How many of you were here last Sunday?
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You remember what the story was last Sunday?
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The one immediately preceding this in the Gospel of Luke?
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The story of the Good Samaritan.
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Jesus says there was a man traveling,
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from Jerusalem to Jericho.
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He fell among thieves.
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They beat him up, they leave him in the ditch half dead.
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Down the road, also traveling, come a priest,
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and a pious lay person, who both pass by on the other side,
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leaving this man half dead.
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Then down the road comes a third traveler.
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A lousy, Samaritan.
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And surprise, it was the Samaritan who stopped
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and helped the man in the ditch.
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The Samaritan.
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And then Jesus ends the story by saying,
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"Now, go, and do likewise.
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Do likewise."
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So let's just say that maybe Martha heard that story
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of the Good Samaritan, and she took it to heart.
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Here is Jesus, a lonely traveler out on the road,
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down toward Jerusalem.
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And so Martha, taking the story to heart says,
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"Jesus, come over to our house.
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I'll fix you, in less than an hour,
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the best kosher meal you ever ate in your life."
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You see, Martha has simply done what Jesus said to do.
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She has gone and she has done likewise.
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She's received this hungry, needy, stranger into her home.
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And there she is in the kitchen, she's working like a dog.
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This was before the days of Cuisinart or Kenmore.
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But then there's her sister, Mary,
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lounging at Jesus' feet, as Jesus explains to her
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the finer points of the Nicene Creed.
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"Hey", says Martha, wiping her dishpan hands on her apron,
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as she comes out of the kitchen.
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"Hey, Jesus.
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Would you please tell that egghead sister of mine
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to get in here in the kitchen and help me with this meal.
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Remember, go, do likewise, right Jesus?"
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"Wrong, Martha", says Jesus.
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"Settle down.
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Let's talk.
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Now doing is okay,
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but there's sometimes as much to be said for doing nothing.
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For just listening.
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For getting the point.
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And Mary knows.
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Mary knows.
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I'm not just passing through town on my way to Jerusalem.
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I'm on my way to a place called Calvary.
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I'm passing through life, to death.
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A few weeks and I'm outta here for good.
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And then you're gonna need the Word
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more than you need food.
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Your fresh baked yeast rolls are great, Martha,
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but as somebody said, you can't live alone by bread."
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Now these are tough words to speak to your host.
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And Jesus has spoken these tough words to busy Martha
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just a few verses after Luke chapter nine.
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Jesus takes a sharp left turn and heads toward Jerusalem.
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Towards Calvary.
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Towards death.
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This strange man of God that Martha has invited in
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for dinner, happens to have a cross on his back.
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And what's more, in opening her door to Jesus,
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and asking Him in, this is more than just a matter
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of whipping up a few nice things for the visiting preacher.
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It's a matter of Martha taking up her cross, as well.
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Now does this story remind you at all
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of the story of Elisha and the Shunammite woman?
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You open your door to a man of God, you might get surprised.
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Because unlike, say, my intrusions,
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God's intrusions are not harmless.
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"Look,
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all I wanted was a little food,
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a little polite conversation, the tinkling of crystal,
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linen napkins", said the old lady.
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But what she got was a trip from the geriatric ward
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to the maternity ward.
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"Jesus, look, we were supposed to have a nice,
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social evening, a little chit chat.
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Perhaps a collection of canned goods and old clothes
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for the less fortunate among us.
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But you have to go and spoil everything
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with this depressing talk of death.
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How much is this meal gonna cost me anyway, Jesus?"
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You open your door to God, that's okay.
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But just remember,
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this is a real God.
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This is a living, great God.
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Not some pale, make believe, tame, toned down,
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housebroken image of ourselves.
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This isn't some little deity you can bring over
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for cookies and a chat.
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You break bread at the table of the Living God,
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and you just don't know how you're gonna be surprised.
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It's in the Bible.
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That Shunammite woman.
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Suppose a lot like us.
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She was well fixed.
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She was well fixed.
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But her life was still fixed.
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Well fixed can be, well, fixed.
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The diamonds are nice,
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and the spring cruise to the Bahamas with the girls.
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But at her age, with no child,
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which in that part of the day, and that world
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meant absolutely no future.
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About all that was left for her was
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just to settle down with what is.
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To adjust to the status quo, put a new carpet in the den,
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add a wing on for the nice, new, young preacher.
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Her life was fixed.
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And then she opened her door one day
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to that bald headed prophet,
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and finds that Reverend Elisha is more a man of God
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even than she imagined.
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And Elisha gave her more than her heart's desire.
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He gave her what she did not ask for,
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because she dared not ask for it.
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She couldn't even conceive of a future different
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from the one that she was fixed in.
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God's presence sometimes intrudes,
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not always giving us what we ask for,
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but sometimes giving us more than even we conceived of.
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Martha opened her door to similar divine intrusion.
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Conventional rabbis in that day
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did not go to the homes of unmarried women.
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Much less
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spoil and throw away their sacred teaching
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on the ears of women.
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But there is Jesus, visiting in this woman's house,
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teaching them.
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In other words, He has just made Mary and Martha
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His disciples.
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And when He makes them His disciples,
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He's not going to patronize them.
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He isn't going to spoon feed them
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with a bunch of silly little religious platitudes.
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He's going to give them His teaching with both barrels.
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He is going to tell them everything there is to know.
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Even though what there is to know about Him,
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this truth is not easily followed or lived,
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is ambiguous, and sometimes difficult to understand,
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He's giving them what He has, as His disciples.
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And so Martha, just like her Shunammite sister,
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receives a gift from God.
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But like that given to the one woman in Shunem,
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it wasn't the gift that Martha expected.
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She just thought she was going to have this man over,
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and do what Near Eastern women
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are supposed to do for Near Eastern men.
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To serve them.
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But to her surprise, she ends up getting served.
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She, with her sister Mary, is taken seriously.
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Given opportunity to be a full disciple
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of the one who proclaims this intruding,
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barrier breaking truth of God.
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The living God.
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And so the moral of the lesson is,
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be careful to whom you open your door.
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Be careful whom you invite to sit at your table.
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A pastor in Florida told me of how her congregation
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had become involved with the city's homeless in her town.
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She said that we knew that we had a homeless problem.
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We often left church meetings in the evening,
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and we could see these homeless people
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sleeping on the sidewalk just outside of the church.
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One night there was a terrible tragedy
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and one of the homeless men was killed.
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Right outside our church door.
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So she said to her congregation,
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"Why don't we do something nice for homeless people?
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We got this big building here.
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We got this nice fellowship hall.
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Hey, why don't we just invite them into
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the fellowship hall in the evening and let them stay here?"
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Why not, it seemed like a good Christian thing to do.
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They opened the doors of their fellowship hall
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on that first evening,
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and fifty five homeless men showed up.
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Now she told me, she said,
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"You put fifty five homeless men
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in the basement of your church,
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and something's gonna happen."
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She said, "For the first thing we found out,
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is that we'd never actually met any homeless men.
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We could afford to go out and be so nice to them,
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'cause we didn't know who they were."
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"The first thing" she said, "we discovered is,
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that many of these people are homeless for a reason."
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Anybody else, a family would have said,
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"Uncle George, you're down on your luck,
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why don't you stay with us and the kids
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until you can get yourself back on your feet?"
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No, these were people who had been told by their families,
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"Uncle George, you're crazy.
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We have had it with you.
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Get out."
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So she said, "We had a basement full of fifty five
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Uncle George's."
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Somebody went down one night to fix some supper,
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had her pocket book stolen.
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Somebody else went down to kind of keep order,
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ended up being assaulted.
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It was tough.
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We drew back.
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We said, "Wait a minute, we just wanted to go out
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and do something nice for some deserving people.
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What are we gonna do?"
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She said, "Our church was faced with two options.
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Option one, kick them out of the church, lock the doors.
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Option two was,
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could we be the sort of church
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who is able to welcome in fifty five needy strangers
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into our house, and live through it?
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By the grace of God, she says, we chose the latter.
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In the next few weeks we devised medical care,
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and counseling services, and food bank,
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and hand holding,
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and our church got born again.
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We were transformed from just a nice little, pleasant,
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religious club, polishing our little club house,
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to an honest to God church, that could take bold,
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risky moves, and receive the stranger.
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Those homeless men forced us to be a church.
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And when we let them in the door of our fellowship hall
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somebody else came in with them.
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You know who it was?"
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And I said, "Was it the One who said,
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in as much as you've done it unto the least of these,
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my brothers, you do it to me?"
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"Right", she said.
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Now I wonder, if in your life right now,
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there could be a knock at the door?
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I wonder, I'm just asking, I wonder if where you're living
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there is some stranger waiting for you to open up.
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Maybe some tug at the heart, or tap upon your door.
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Would you let Him in?
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If you do, be careful.
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Behold, I stand at the door and I knock.
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Amen.
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(organ music)
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(muffled singing)
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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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Oh God of earth and alter, Creator of the universe,
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we bow before Thee in humility and in hope.
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Thy ways have not been our ways,
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neither have Thy thoughts been our thoughts.
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We are too busy managing the affairs of our own lives
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to be receptive to Thy word.
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Yet Thou hast not forsaken us,
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even as we live in our tangled web of anxiety,
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and distractions.
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In Thy mercy grant us Thy light, and Thy truth.
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Let them lead us from the path of confusion,
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toward the way of the cross.
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Oh God, who are the hope of the ends of the earth,
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hear us while we pray.
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Let us pray for those who practice hospitality,
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and are sensitive to the needs of others.
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For all who live lives committed to service,
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and for those who provide every day services
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in our own communities, seen, but not often heard.
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Let us pray for all who are hindered in the race of life
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through no fault of their own.
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For the disabled, the handicapped, and the weak.
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Let us pray for all whose livelihood is insecure.
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For the hungry, the hopeless, and the destitute.
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For those who are overworked, downtrodden,
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and disappointed in life.
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Let us pray for children whose surroundings
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hide them from Your love and beauty.
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For those who suffer because of strife at home,
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and for those who struggle to maintain peace
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within their families.
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Let us pray for prisoners and captives,
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and for all who live within war torn countries.
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For all who are suffering
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because of their faithfulness to truth,
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and for those who have to bear their burdens alone.
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Let us pray for those who are in doubt,
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and must endure the dark night of the soul.
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For those who are blinded by mistrust and cynicism.
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And for those who suffer through their wrongdoing,
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or self pity.
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Let us pray for the sick, and the infirm.
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For all who are growing weary with the journey of life.
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For all who are passing through the valley of death.
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And for those who walk with them.
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Let us pray for those burdened with the weight of malice
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and ill will.
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For those harboring deep resentments,
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who know not the grace of forgiveness.
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Let us pray for all who suffer because of natural disasters
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or other unexpected hardships,
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and for the victims of recent air disasters
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on United and Philippines airlines
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and for their families.
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Let us pray for the unspoken needs of this congregation,
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and for all who are forgotten by us, but dear to Thee.
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Oh kind and gracious God, we beseech Thee to grant us hope,
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which will rise above frustration,
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patience which will endure the strain of waiting,
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and openness to Thy word,
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which enables us to open our hearts unto Thee.
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This we pray for Thy loves sake.
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Amen.
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And now in the spirit of Thanksgiving,
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let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God.
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(organ music)
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♪ - Draw near all ye people ♪
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♪ Come to Me ♪
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(Organ music)
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♪ Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ♪
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♪ This day let it be known ♪
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♪ That Thou art God ♪
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♪ And I am Thy servant ♪
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♪ Lord God of Abraham ♪
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♪ Oh shew to all this people ♪
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♪ That I have done these things ♪
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♪ According to Thy word. ♪
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♪ Oh hear me, Lord ♪
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♪ And answer me ♪
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♪ Lord hear me God, and answer me. ♪
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♪ Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ♪
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♪ Oh hear me, oh hear me, and answer me ♪
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♪ And shew this people that Thou art Lord God ♪
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♪ And let their hearts again be turned. ♪
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♪ Oh shew this people that Thou art Lord God ♪
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♪ And let their hearts again be turned. ♪
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♪ Ohhhhhh ♪
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♪ And let their hearts, ♪
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♪ and let their hearts again be turned ♪
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♪ Cast thy burden upon the Lord ♪
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♪ And He shall sustain thee ♪
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♪ He never will suffer the righteous to fall ♪
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♪ He is at thy right hand ♪
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♪ Thy mercy, Lord, is great, ♪
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♪ and far above the heavens, ♪
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♪ Let none be made ashamed, ♪
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♪ that wait upon Thee. ♪
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(organ music)
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(muffled signing)
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia, ♪
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(muffled singing)
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia, ♪
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♪ Alleluia, Alleluia, ♪
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♪ Alleluia, ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Accept oh Lord, our thanks and praise
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for all that You have done for us.
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We thank You for the splendor of the whole creation
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and for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life
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and for the mystery of love.
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We thank You for the blessing of family and friends,
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and for the loving care
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which surrounds us on every side.
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We thank You for setting us at tasks
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which demand our best efforts.
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And for leading us to accomplishments
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which satisfy and delight us.
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We thank You, also for those disappointments and failures
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that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on You alone.
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Above all, we thank You for your Son, Jesus Christ,
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and the truth of His word, and the example of His life,
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for His steadfast obedience,
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by which He overcame temptation.
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For His dying, through which He overcame death,
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and for His rising to life again,
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in which we are raised to the life of Your kingdom.
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Grant us the gift of Your spirit,
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that we may know Him, and make Him known,
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and through Him, at all times, and in all places,
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may give thanks to You in all things.
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This we pray in the name of the One
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who taught us boldly to pray.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by They name,
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Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
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on earth, as it is 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, amen.
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(organ music)
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(muffled singing)
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And now go forth in peace, and be of good courage.
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Hold fast that which is good,
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rejoicing in the power of the Holy Sprit.
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And may the blessings of God,
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
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be with you all, now and forever more.
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Amen.
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♪ Alleluia, amen, amen ♪
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(organ music)