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[Debra Brazzel Assistant Dean] Good morning.
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We welcome you to do chapel,
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and would like to extend a special welcome
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to the fathers who are in our midst.
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As we give thanks for the many ways
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that they have blessed and touched our lives.
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Our guest preacher today is the Reverend Anne Hoque.
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She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church
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and a graduate of Austin College
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and Austin Presbyterian Seminary.
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She's in the process of completing her PhD
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at Princeton Theological Seminary
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and currently serves as an administrator
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in the Duke Divinity School.
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It is our pleasure to welcome her
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in a return visit to Duke Chapel.
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Please stand as we continue our worship with a greeting.
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"We gather, not as rigid keepers of the law,
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"but as responsible people of faith."
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We gather not as (murmurs) and saints
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but as sinners (murmurs).
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"As many of you as were baptized into Christ,
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"have put on the character and outlook of Jesus."
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We are spiritual offspring (murmurs)
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heirs to Christ according to His promise.
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"In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek,
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"slave nor free, male nor female."
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(murmur)
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We are all one in Christ Jesus.
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♪ Rejoice, ye pure in heart ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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♪ Your festal banner wave on high ♪
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♪ The cross of Christ your King ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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♪ Bright youth and snow-crowned age ♪
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♪ Both men and women, raise ♪
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♪ On high your free, exulting song ♪
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♪ Declare God's wondrous praise ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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♪ Still lift your standard high ♪
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♪ Still chanting as you go ♪
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♪ From youth to age ♪
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♪ By night and day ♪
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♪ In gladness and in woe ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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♪ At last the march shall end ♪
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♪ The wearied ones shall rest ♪
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♪ The pilgrims reach their home at last ♪
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♪ Jerusalem ♪
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♪ The blest ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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♪ Praise God, who reigns on high ♪
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♪ The Lord whom we adore ♪
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♪ The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ One God forevermore ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice ♪
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♪ Rejoice, give thanks, and sing ♪
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Let us pray.
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Oh, God of Creation's beauty and power.
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Creator of all things and time and space.
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We praise you.
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Jesus Christ, who had power on earth to calm the seas,
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the winds, and the human spirit.
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We worship you.
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Holy Spirit, source of new creation in our souls.
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We open ourselves to you.
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May our amazement at your creative power
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move us to live on this earth as heirs
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according to your promise.
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As your children, according to your love.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray.
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Amen.
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You may be seated.
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(shuffling)
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Let us pray together
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the prayer for illumination.
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[Congregation And Speaker]
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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 what You say to us this day.
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"Amen."
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The first reading is taken
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from the third chapter of Paul's letter to the Galatians,
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starting with the 23rd verse.
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"Now before faith came,
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"we were imprisoned and guarded under the law
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"until faith would be revealed.
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"Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came,
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"so that we might be justified by faith.
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"But now that faith has come,
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"we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,
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"for in Christ Jesus
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"you are all children of God through faith.
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"As many of you as were baptized into Christ
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"have clothed yourselves with Christ.
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"There is no longer Jew or Greek,
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"there is no longer slave or free,
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"there is no longer male or female;
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"for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
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"And if you belong to Christ,
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"then you are Abraham's offspring,
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"heirs according to the promise."
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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(steps approaching)
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Today's Psalm is Psalm 42.
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Verses 1 through 12 on page 777 in the hymnal.
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Please stand and sing responsively.
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♪ As a deer longs for flowing streams ♪
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♪ So longs my soul for you, oh God ♪
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♪ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God ♪
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♪ When shall I come and behold the face of God ♪
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♪ My tears have been my food day and night ♪
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♪ While people say to me continually ♪
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♪ Where is your God ♪
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♪ These things I remember as I pour out my soul ♪
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♪ How I would go in procession ♪
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♪ To the house of God ♪
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♪ With glad shouts and songs of His praise ♪
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♪ A multitude keeping festival ♪
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♪ Why are you cast down ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ And why are you disquieted within me ♪
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♪ Hope in God ♪
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♪ Who yet I shall praise ♪
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♪ My help and my God ♪
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♪ My soul is cast down within me ♪
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♪ Therefore I remember you ♪
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♪ From the land of Jordan and of the Hermon ♪
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♪ from Mount Mizar ♪
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♪ Deep calls to deep ♪
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♪ At the noise of your cataracts ♪
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♪ All your waves and billows ♪
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♪ Are gone over me ♪
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♪ By day the Lord commands His steadfast love ♪
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♪ And at night God's song is with me ♪
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♪ A prayer to the God of my life ♪
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♪ I say to God, my rock ♪
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♪ Why have you forgotten me ♪
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♪ Why do I mourn ♪
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♪ because of the oppression of the enemy ♪
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♪ Like a deadly wound in my body ♪
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♪ My adversaries taunt me ♪
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♪ They say to me continually ♪
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♪ Where is your God ♪
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♪ Why are you cast down ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ And why are you disquieted within me ♪
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♪ Hope in God ♪
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♪ For because I shall praise ♪
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♪ My help and my God ♪
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♪ All glory be to You ♪
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♪ Creator ♪
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♪ And to Jesus Christ our Savior ♪
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♪ And to the Holy Spirit ♪
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♪ As Trinity ♪
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♪ As it was ere time began ♪
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♪ It now and will be forever more ♪
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This reading is from the Gospel
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according to Saint Luke, Chapter 9.
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Beginning with the 18th verse.
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"Once when Jesus was praying alone
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"with only the disciples near Him, he asked them,
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"'Who do the crowds say that I am?'
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"They answered, 'John the Baptist; but others Elijah;
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"and still others, that one of the ancient prophets
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"has arisen.'
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"He said to them, 'But, who do you say that I am?'
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"Peter answered, 'The Messiah of God.'
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"He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone.
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"Saying, 'The Son of Man must undergo great suffering
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"and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and scribes,
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"and be killed and on the third day be raised.'
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"Then he said to them all:
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"'If any want to become my followers,
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"let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily
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"and follow me.
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"For those who want to save their life will lose it,
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"and those who lose their life for my sake, will save it.'"
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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(angelic voices in chorus)
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This lesson is from the first book of Kings,
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the 19th Chapter, beginning to read at the 9th verse.
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"At Mount Horeb he came to a cave
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"and spent the night there.
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"Then the Word of the Lord came to Elijah saying,
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"'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
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"He answered, 'I have been very zealous for the Lord,
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"the God of Hosts.
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"For the Israelites have forsaken your covenant,
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"thrown down your altars,
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"and killed your prophets with the sword.
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"I alone, am left,
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"and they are seeking my life to take it away.'
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"He said, 'Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord,
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"for the Lord is about to pass by.'
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"Now, there was a great wind.
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"So strong that it was splitting mountains
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"and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord.
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"But the Lord was not in the wind.
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"And after the wind an earthquake,
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"but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
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"And after the earthquake a fire,
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"but the Lord was not in the fire.
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"And after the fire
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"the sound of sheer silence.
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"When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle
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"and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.
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"Then there came a voice to him that said,
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"'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
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"He answered, 'I have been very zealous for the Lord
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"the God of Hosts.
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"For the Israelites have forsaken your covenant,
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"thrown down your altars,
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"and killed your prophets with the sword.
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"I alone am left and they are seeking my life
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"to take it away.'
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"Then Lord said to him,
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"'Go. Return on your way,
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"to the wilderness of Damascus.'"
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Earth quake, wind, and fire;
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they are the stuff of religious drama.
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Earth quake, wind and fire;
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they are the environment of God.
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Violently heaving earth,
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madly rushing wind,
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wildly raging fire
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are the heralds of God's presence.
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The advanced announcers of God.
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Like the drum roll that announces a star entertainer,
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they are the advanced notice.
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Straight from the holocaust of Mount Carmel,
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LIVE: Here is God.
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Through the thick of it,
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and it is like that sometimes,
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I suppose.
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Did not some people hear the rolling thunder
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when Jesus could have sworn it was God talking?
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According to the Gospel of John.
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And sober citizens of Jerusalem
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thought the followers of Jesus
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had been drinking too much 'fire water',
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when the disciples just knew.
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It was the tongues of fire
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alighting as God's Spirit burned within them.
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And did not God
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chase Jonah all over the sea?
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Hurling a great wind
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and hauling Jonah in after a 'fishy' trip.
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Yes,
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sometimes the voice of God.
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The word of the Lord.
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God's tangible presence,
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is thick.
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Almost touchable.
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The psalmist knew it.
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Then the earth reeled and rocked.
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The foundations, also, of the mountains
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trembled and quaked
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because God was angry.
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Smoke went up and devouring fire,
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glowing coals flamed forth.
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Is there any doubt about Whom the psalmist is speaking?
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God rode on a cherub, flew through the air,
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swooped on the wings of the wind.
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God made darkness, His covering.
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His canopy, thick clouds dark with water.
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Out of the darkness there broke through the clouds
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hailstones and coals of fire.
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The Lord also thundered in the Heavens,
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and the Most High uttered His voice.
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Earth quake,
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wind,
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and fire.
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You bet, the heralds of God warn us,
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shake us up
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and God's presence is thick and heavy.
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Elijah knew such thick times of God's presence.
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In the Mount Carmel holocaust appearance of God,
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it was fantastically thick, this presence.
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Elijah was locked in contest with the prophets of Ba'al.
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To see who's god was real.
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The prophets of Ba'al tried all day
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to get fire to come out of the heavens
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and burn up their sacrificial offering.
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They danced.
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They shouted, and they cut themselves.
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And nothing.
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"Although, it was like beating a dead horse"
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writes Frederick Buechner in "Peculiar treasures".
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Elijah couldn't resist getting in a few digs.
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"Maybe Ba'al has flown away for the weekend."
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He said, "Maybe, Ba'al is taking a nap."
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The prophets whipped themselves
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into greater and greater frenzies under Elijah's goading,
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but by mid-afternoon
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the sacrificial offering had begun to get a little high
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and there was still no sign of fire from above.
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Then, it was Elijah's turn
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to show what Yahweh could do.
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First, he had a trench dug around the fire,
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the altar;
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and he filled it with water.
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Then he organized a bucket brigade.
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And just to make sure that pile was wet,
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he had them douse it.
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Not once, but three times.
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By the time they'd finished,
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the whole place was awash
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and Elijah looked like he'd been swimming.
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He then gave Yahweh the signal
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to put on a show
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and he jumped out of the way.
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Lightning flashed,
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the water in the trench fizzed
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like spit on a hot stove.
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Nothing was left of the offering
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but a pile of ashes
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and a scent like the fourth of July.
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The onlookers were beside themselves with enthusiasm;
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and at the signal from Elijah,
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all of those prophets were demolished,
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to the very last one.
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Nobody could say who's victory
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was the most magnificent.
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Yahweh's or Elijah's.
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Earthquake, wind and fire.
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They are indeed the stuff of religious drama
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and the environment of God.
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And through thin,
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sometimes,
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yes sometimes,
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through thick.
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And then there is always
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the rest of that old expression
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that traces back to Chaucer.
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"Through thick and through thin."
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Elijah is now going to learn
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about the thinness, too.
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God's abiding presence with us
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is not always in the thickness of things.
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In the midst of life, heavy with God's voice
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and a sense of God's guidance,
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there is that other side,
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that thin edge.
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Elijah is on the run.
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The prophets of Ba'al
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were also the prophets of Queen Jezebel,
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and she isn't hot on Elijah's trail.
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Elijah is scared.
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Convinced that he alone is faithful
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and upset that God is apparently
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not staying with the:
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earthquake, wind and fire routine;
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which was so successful at Mount Carmel.
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So, like Moses before him and Jesus after him,
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Elijah wanders in the desert wastes
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for 40 days.
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He wanders,
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but not aimlessly.
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He knows exactly where he is going,
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Mount Horeb.
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Why, Horeb?
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Because that is where God spoke before,
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and God's silence is driving Elijah wild.
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Maybe at Mount Horeb God will speak,
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as God spoke to Moses before.
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Elijah crawls into a cave,
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probably very similar to the cliff Moses hid in
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when he was hiding from God's powerful,
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awesome presence.
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And Elijah waits.
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Waits for God to speak.
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To say anything,
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and then almost as if on queue, it started.
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The earthquake, the wind and the fire;
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his old friends, were there.
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"And behold, the Lord passed by.
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"And a great and strong wind rent the mountains.
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"And broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord.
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"But the Lord was not in the wind.
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"And after the wind an earthquake,
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"but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
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"And after the earthquake a fire,
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"but the Lord was not in the fire."
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The old ways were useless.
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The mighty climatic events had failed to teach Elijah
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what God wants all of us to learn.
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Elijah had a job to do,
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but he was hiding.
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Earthquake, wind and fire.
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God was not in any of them,
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truly.
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"And after the fire
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a still small voice."
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A still small voice.
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What did Elijah hear?
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Different translations of the Bible put it differently,
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"After the fire there came the sound of a gentle breeze."
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"A low murmuring sound."
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Another translation puts it even better.
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"And after the fire
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"the sound of thin silence."
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What they all are saying
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is that Elijah heard utter silence.
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There are times like that.
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Many of them
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when God's voice,
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God's word to us
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is thin silence.
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Would it not be better if we faced that?
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Would it not be more helpful
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to admit that there are thin times as well as thick times?
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And in those thin times,
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the thin edge of utter silence
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is what we all hear from God.
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And what do we do then?
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Well,
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we go on the last word we heard from the Lord
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if we have no knew word.
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Or we listen to our reaction to the situation
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and do what we can.
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What Elijah heard, according to one commentator,
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was his own gut response to the silence.
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And, he knew he better get back down off the mountain
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and into Damascus to do his job.
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The point of the story is, I believe,
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to help us see
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that we are not to expect
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the supernatural and spectacular
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in-breaking of God into history.
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Anticipated in the storm
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and wind and fire.
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Rather,
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we find it in intelligible revelation.
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It is God's direction
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in the ordinary course of our daily lives.
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It is in the thin silence of ordinary living
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that we are called upon
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to act upon God's last word.
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God's word of love
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in Jesus Christ to us.
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After all, has not humanity learned,
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really learned
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from all the earth quake, wind and fire
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of the 20th century holocausts,
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that God is not in them?
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"And behold,
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"the Lord passed by."
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Last week, a group was in Kentucky
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helping a family repair their home.
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The husband and father
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is a victim of three different debilitating diseases.
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I was shocked at how a robust looking man
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could not even use his hands.
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I was angry at the diseases
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and what they were doing
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to a gentle poor mountain man.
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I was offended
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because I was reminded
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of my own frailty and weakness.
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I thought I heard the Lord pass by
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in the silence of that man's wonderful smile.
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A sibling who lives a long distance,
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calls to say,
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"Dad had a heart attack, but he's going to be all right."
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And, in knowing that a trip is impossible
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and "what could you do if you got there anyway?"
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Maybe the Lord passes by
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in all our 'could not's.
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The sad and somewhat homely person who works the day,
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next to you, is waiting for a smile.
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Some encouragement,
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an acknowledgment of worth from you.
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And behold,
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the Lord is passing by.
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We want to hear and meet God in the music of the anthem.
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The sound of the mighty organ.
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The pios moments of prayer.
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The uplifting movements of worship.
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The rushing wind.
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The raging fire.
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And the reeling and heaving of earth.
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And that is not always the way God comes to us.
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And behold,
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the Lord passes by.
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And we still have a job to do.
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The Lord passes by
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in another's need.
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In the thin edge of someone's desperation.
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And behold, the Lord passes by
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and God is with us,
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as with Elijah
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through the thick and through the thin.
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Amen.
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(cheerful organ music)
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(choir and congregation sing)
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(organ music crescendo)
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The Lord be with you.
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And also be with you.
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Let us pray.
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Oh, God of awesome power and disquieting silence.
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We bow in adoration before You.
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How often we have sought Your voice
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in the wind, the earthquake and the fire.
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In heavenly displays of power and might,
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yet You most often wait for us in silence
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and stillness.
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Help us, oh God, to slow the pace of our lives
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so that we might learn how to listen.
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So that we might learn to hear Your small still voice
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in the ordinary times and places of our lives.
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Teach us the beauty of silence, especially in Your presence,
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until we learn the ways of divine human dialogue.
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Break down the barriers which separate us from You,
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so that You might become a very real
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and guiding force in our lives.
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For we know that as the barriers
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between You and us are broken down,
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so also will the barriers between all Your human children,
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come tumbling down.
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Only then will the vision of humanity
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that You have revealed to us through Jesus Christ our Lord,
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become a reality.
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We pray this morning
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for that time when all people will be one in Christ.
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When all people will live as Your children.
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Oh God, we also come before You, thanking You
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for Your faithfulness to us through thick and through thin.
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When things are going well in our lives,
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it's easy to believe in Your providential care.
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It's easy to give You thanks
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for our abundance,
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health,
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jobs,
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families.
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For, we know that none of this would be possible
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a part from You.
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It is harder for us to recognize Your presence
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and Your providential care
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when things aren't going well in our lives.
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When we've lost our jobs.
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When we face illness or want.
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When our families betray us.
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When we feel loneliness and despair.
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Oh God, remind us that You stand waiting for us
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with arms outstretched to give comfort and strength
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in these difficult times of our lives.
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We often forget or deny that our faithfulness to You
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and Your faithfulness to us,
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does not mean freedom from pain or trouble.
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Pain and trouble are part of life just as the wind,
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the earthquake and the fire are part of life.
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Jesus told His disciples
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that all who would become His followers
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must pick up their cross daily and follow Him.
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All of us have crosses that we must bear,
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but You have also promised that we do not bear them alone.
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And, Jesus the Christ has shown us the way of the cross
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that leads through the pain, through the suffering,
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even through death; to life abundant.
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Help us to trust in Your providential care
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through thick and through thin.
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In the name of our Lord and Savior, we pray.
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Amen.
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As heirs of God, all thing are ours.
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God makes it possible for us to be generous.
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Bring your gifts with joy.
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(soft organ music)
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(communion tray rustling)
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(soft organ music)
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(male choir singing)
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(angelic choir singing crescendos)
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(sopranos dramatically sing)
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(angelic choir sings softly)
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(organ decrescendo)
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(organ music crescendo)
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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 ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host ♪
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♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, we give thanks for all that You have given to us.
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We come to Your altar, grateful that You are with us
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in all the circumstances of our lives,
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through thick and through thin.
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We want to lend our support
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to others facing trying days and difficult decisions.
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Use our offerings to that end, we pray.
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And equip us to be instruments of Your truth and Your love.
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"Our Father, who art in heaven,
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"hallowed be Thy Name,
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"Thy kingdom come,
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"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
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"who trespass against us.
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"Lead us not into temptation,
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"but deliver us from evil.
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"For thine is the kingdom,
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"and the power, and the glory,
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"for ever.
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"Amen."
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God sends us into the world to accept the cost
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and to discover the joy of being God's children.
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Therefore go, carrying with you the peace of Christ,
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the love of God, and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
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(organ music)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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(organ music "Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer")
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♪ Guide me, O thou great redeemer ♪
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♪ Pilgrim through this barren land ♪
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♪ I am weak, but thou art mighty ♪
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♪ Hold me with thy powerful hand ♪
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♪ Bread of heaven, bread of heaven ♪
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♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪
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♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪
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♪ Open now the crystal fountain ♪
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♪ Whence the healing stream doth flow ♪
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♪ Let the fire and cloudy pillar ♪
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♪ Lead me all my journey through ♪
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♪ Strong deliverer, strong deliverer ♪
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♪ Be thou still my strength and shield ♪
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♪ Be thou still my strength and shield ♪
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♪ When I tread the verge of Jordan, ♪
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♪ Bid my anxious fears subside; ♪
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♪ Death of death, and hell's destruction ♪
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♪ Land me safe on Canaan's side ♪
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♪ Songs of praises ♪
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♪ Songs of praises ♪
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♪ I will ever give to thee ♪
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♪ I will ever give to thee ♪
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(organ crescendo)
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(soft joyful organ music)