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Morning,
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and welcome to the service of worship at Duke Chapel
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on this glorious Palm Sunday.
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For those of you who may be wondering how it is we're
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organizing our service this morning,
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we are beginning with an ecumenical blessing of the Palms
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on the main quantal in front of the Chapel
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just in about four minutes.
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At that time, you'll be able to receive your Palm
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as we listen to the reading of the Gospel
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and then all will join in processing together
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during the singing of the hymn
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back into the Chapel.
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You are invited to participate in this service,
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but I did want to explain to you that it will
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be beginning in about 5 minutes,
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you're also free to remain in the Chapel if you so desire,
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because the service will be broadcast inside
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and you can also hear what is going on outside.
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Thank you.
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Good morning and welcome to this service
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on this Palm Passion Sunday.
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As Christians, we gather to commemorate
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and reenact Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
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And now, Mary Pat Folkwin from the Catholic Campus Ministry
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will lead us as we begin.
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Dear friends in Christ,
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for five weeks of lent we have been preparing
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by works of charity and self sacrifice,
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for the celebration of our Lord's Paschal mystery.
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Today we come together, to begin this solemn celebration
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in union with the whole Church throughout the world.
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Christ entered in triumph, into his own City,
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to complete his work as our Messiah.
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To suffer, to die and to rise again.
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Let us remember with devotion this entry
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which began his saving work
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and follow him with a lively faith.
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United with him in his suffering on the cross,
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may we share his resurrection and new life, Amen.
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Let us pray.
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If you would hold the branches up high for a moment.
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Oh mighty God we pray you, bless these branches,
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and make them Holy.
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Today we joyfully acclaim Jesus our Messiah and King.
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May we reach one day the happiness of the new
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and everlasting Jerusalem,
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by faithfully following him who lives forever and ever.
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Amen.
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Keep them up if you will for a moment.
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A reading from the Gospel
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according to Saint Mathew,
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"When they had come near Jerusalem
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"and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives,
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"Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them
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"go into the village ahead of you,
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"and immediately you will find a donkey tied,
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"and a colt with her; untie her and bring them to me.
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"If anyone says anything to you, just say this,
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"'the Lord needs them', and he will sent them immediately.
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"This took place to fulfill what had been
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"spoken through the prophet, saying,
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"'Tell the daughter of Zion, look,
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"your King is coming to you, humble,
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"and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt,
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"the foal of the donkey.'
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"The disciples went and did as Jesus directed them;
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"they brought the donkey and the colt,
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"and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.
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"A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road
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"and others cut branches from the trees
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"and spread them on the road.
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"The crowds that went ahead of him
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"and followed were shouting 'Hosanna to the Son of David!
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"Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
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"Hosanna in the highest heaven!'
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"When he entered Jerusalem the whole City was in turmoil,
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"asking, 'Who is this?'.
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"The crowds were saying, 'This is the Prophet Jesus',
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"from Nazareth in Galilee."
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This is the word of the Lord.
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(in unison, mumbling) I praise God.
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Let us go forth in peace,
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praising Jesus, our Messiah,
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as did the crowds who welcomed him to Jerusalem.
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(Organ playing)
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("Hosanna, Loud Hosanna")
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♪ Hosanna, loud hosanna ♪
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♪ The little children sang; ♪
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♪ Through pillared court and temple ♪
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♪ The lovely anthem rang. ♪
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♪ To Jesus, who has blessed them, ♪
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♪ Chose folded to his breast, ♪
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♪ The children sang their praises, ♪
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♪ The simplest and the best. ♪
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♪ From Olivet they followed, ♪
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♪ Mid an exultant crowd, ♪
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♪ The victory palm branch waving, ♪
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♪ And chanting clear and loud. ♪
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♪ The Lord of earth and heaven ♪
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♪ Rode on in lowly state, ♪
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♪ Nor scorned that little children ♪
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♪ Should on his bidding wait. ♪
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♪ "Hosanna in the highest!" ♪
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♪ That ancient song we we sing, ♪
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♪ For Christ is our Redeemer, ♪
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♪ The Lord of heaven, our King. ♪
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♪ O may we ever praise him ♪
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♪ With heart and life and voice, ♪
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♪ And in his blissful presence ♪
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♪ Eternally rejoice. ♪
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("All Glory, Laud, and Honor")
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♪ All glory, laud, and honor ♪
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♪ To thee, Redeemer, King, ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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♪ Thou art the King of Israel, ♪
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♪ Thou David's royal Son, ♪
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♪ Who in the Lord's name comest, ♪
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♪ The King and Blessed One. ♪
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♪ All glory, laud, and honor ♪
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♪ To thee, Redeemer, King, ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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♪ The company of angels ♪
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♪ Are praising thee on high, ♪
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♪ And we with all creation, ♪
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♪ In chorus make reply. ♪
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♪ All glory, laud and honor ♪
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♪ To you, thee, Redeemer, King, ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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♪ The people of the Hebrews ♪
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♪ With palms before you went, ♪
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♪ Our praise and prayer and anthems ♪
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♪ Before you we present. ♪
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♪ All glory, laud, and honor ♪
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♪ To thee, Redeemer, King ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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♪ To thee before thy passion, ♪
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♪ They sang their hymns of praise ♪
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♪ To thee, now high exalted, ♪
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♪ Our melody we raise. ♪
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♪ All glory, laud and honor, ♪
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♪ To thee, Redeemer, King, ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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♪ Thou didst accept their praises, ♪
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♪ Accept the love we bring, ♪
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♪ Who in all good delighted, ♪
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♪ Thou good and gracious King. ♪
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♪ All glory, laud, and honor ♪
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♪ To thee, Redeemer, King ♪
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♪ To whom the lips of children ♪
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♪ Made sweet hosannas ring. ♪
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Let us pray.
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Open our hearts and mind so--
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Your Holy Spirit, so that even as Jesus
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lead his disciples into Jerusalem,
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we might follow him, we lead us.
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Amen.
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This reading is from Paul's letter to the Philippians.
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"Let the same mind be in you, that was in Christ Jesus,
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"Who, though he was in the form of God,
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"did not regard equally with God
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"as something to be exploited.
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"But emptied himself, taking the form as a slave,
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"being born in human likeness.
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"And being found in human form he humbled himself
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"and became obedient to the point of death,
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"even death on a cross.
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"Therefore, God also highly exalted him
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"and gave him the name that is above every name.
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"So that at the name of Jesus,
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"every knee should bend, in heaven, and on earth
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"and under the earth.
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"and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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"to the glory of God the Father.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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(mumbles) I praise God.
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This is Palm Sunday, well, we'll sing, let's stand.
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(Organ playing)
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("At The Name of Jesus")
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♪ At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, ♪
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♪ Every tongue confess him King of glory now. ♪
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♪ 'Tis the Father's pleasure we should call him Lord, ♪
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♪ Who from the beginning was the mighty Word. ♪
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♪ Humbled for a reason to receive a name ♪
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♪ From the lips of sinners unto whom he came, ♪
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♪ Faithfully he bore it spotless to the last, ♪
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♪ Brought it back victorious, when from death he passed. ♪
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♪ Bore it up triumphant ♪
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♪ With its human light, ♪
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♪ Through all ranks of creatures, ♪
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♪ To the central height, ♪
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♪ To the throne of Godhead, ♪
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♪ To the Father's breast, ♪
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♪ Filled it with the flory ♪
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♪ Of that perfect rest. ♪
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♪ In your hearts enthrone him ♪
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♪ There let him subdue, ♪
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♪ All that is not holy, ♪
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♪ All that is not true, ♪
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♪ Crown him as your captain ♪
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♪ In temptation's hour, ♪
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♪ Let his will enfold you ♪
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♪ In its light and power. ♪
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Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,
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did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
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but he emptied himself,
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took the form of a servant.
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Therefore, his name, is exalted above every other name.
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And at the name of Jesus,
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every tongue confess, every knee shall bow.
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We never know what to do with this Sunday.
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If you are an Anglican, this is for you Palm Sunday,
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that is what Methodists and Episcopalians
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know this Sunday as.
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Palm Sunday, the day when Jesus
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entered in triumphal procession into Jerusalem.
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However if you're a Lutheran or a Roman Catholic Christian,
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you call this the Sunday of the Passion
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and focus not on palms and joyful parades,
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but focus instead upon whips and nails
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and the gathering clouds,
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which shall break like thunder on Friday
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over a place of the skull.
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Is this Palm Sunday?
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Or the Sunday of the Passion?
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Do we welcome into Jerusalem the one who is King of Kings,
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Hosanna, Lord of Lords, or
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do we note that the one who rides into Jerusalem
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rides on the back of a donkey.
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Do we welcome him, as savor and sovereign,
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or as sufferer and servant?
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Do we crown him Lord of Lords, King of Kings?
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Yes we do crown him on Friday.
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But not with a crown of gold, a crown of thorns.
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We just don't know exactly what to do with this Sunday,
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and of course we do not know either what to do
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with this Jesus on this Sunday or any other.
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Is he the exalted one on the thorn of heaven,
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or is he the one who knees before his disciples,
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basin and towel in hand?
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The sufferer, the comforter of so many.
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What shall we do with Jesus?
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Paul, in speaking about the Christ event,
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quotes an early Christian hymn.
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It was our scripture today from Philippians.
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Christ Jesus, though he was in the form on God,
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he came down, taking upon himself the likeness of humanity.
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This Philippians passage is a kind of dance
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that begins up on high, up there with God,
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and comes down low to suffering humanity
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and then rises back up again.
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Though he was in the form of God, he emptied himself,
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he took the form of a servant, he become obedient,
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even obedient unto death on a cross.
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At Christmas, we celebrated the birth
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of the baby at Bethlehem.
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And if you recall there were few who gathered round
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the manager and said
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"Look, he's in he form of God!"
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There evidently was nothing about the babe at Bethlehem,
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or Jesus the growing child,
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that made anyone say "Look, he's in the form of God!"
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But Paul doesn't say he is in the form of God,
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he said he was in the form of God,
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he was with God.
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Was. Was where? Was when?
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Paul is here in Philippians speaking about Jesus
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before Bethlehem.
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Christ before we knew him.
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He is speaking here about the One who preexisted with God.
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Jesus was with God before he was with us, preexistence.
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Hold onto your hats people, we're going to talk about
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something they did not tell you in Sunday school.
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The preexistence of Christ.
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He was with God before he was with us.
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Preexistence, I've never talked much about this.
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I've always thought we had enough on our plates.
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What with what the earthly Jesus said and did without
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rummaging around in Christian doctrine to find some
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weird notion like preexistence.
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It always seemed to me like us Christians
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had enough to defend as it is,
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what with Jesus turning water into wine,
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and walking on water and rising from the dead,
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we had enough to defend to the modern world
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without pulling out some strange notion like preexistence.
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One day, Martin Luther was lecturing to his class
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and a hand went up in the class and a student asked,
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"Dr Luther, what was God doing
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"before God created the world?
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"If God is enteral and uncreated he must of had
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"a lot of time of his hands before he created us.
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"What was he doing?"
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And an aggravated Martin Luther said,
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"What was he doing?
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"He was gathering sticks,
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"to beat the hell out of people like you
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"who ask such stupid questions."
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(people laugh)
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There's enough going on between us and Jesus
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without weird speculation, about things like preexistence.
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And yet, as today's scripture reminds us,
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preexistence is not some weird, it's a biblical notion,
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it's a major Christian claim.
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He was with God before he was with us.
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And you may know that most of the world's religions
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speak about preexistence.
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Preexistence of humanity, many eastern religions
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teach that we existed before we existed here.
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Many of the worlds religions are convinced that this world
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is such a tragic sorrowful place,
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that there was a time before our time
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when we existed before.
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A time in which there was peace and joy,
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and happiness, we preexisted.
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"We're in pain now", say these religions,
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but there was a time when we existed before this time
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when all was right.
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Preexistence.
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Well I dare say, many people in our culture don't
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worry about such thoughts.
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After all, we're well fed and well housed, and well futured.
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For people like us, the world is a generally good place
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in which to live,
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oh we have our occasional setbacks.
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But this world is generally enough for us.
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We need expect no world before or after.
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Which I think leaves us with very little to say,
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to those people, maybe the majority of the world's people,
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who experience this world as a vail of tears,
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we have not had to bury a child, due to death by starvation,
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and so maybe it is easy for us to say give us this world
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as it is, that's enough.
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But for the majority of the world's people,
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such claims are simply the arrogant isolated claims
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of people who have had too much in a world where
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most of our brothers and sisters have too little.
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But for people who know how tragic this world can be,
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the notion of the preexistence of humanity, has made sense.
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Because if God is just and loving,
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then this world is as good as it sometimes is,
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cannot be all that there is.
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There was a time, say the Hindus,
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that was better than this time.
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We preexisted.
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Now, the New Testament, attributes preexistence
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not to human beings, but to Christ.
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The New Testament does not say that we existed before
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our birth, but it does say that Jesus did.
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Preexistence in the Bible is not a notion
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that tells us anything about humanity,
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but it tells us a great deal about Jesus.
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It was what Paul was trying to say to us
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in quoting this hymn from Philippians.
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"Jesus Christ, though he was in the form of God
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"he emptied himself, taking the form of humanity.
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"Becoming obedient, even unto death."
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Or it is said in those well known words in the beginning
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of the Gospel of John,
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"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God,
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"the Word Christ, he was with God,
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"he was God, there was not anything made
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"that was not made through him,
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"and the word was with God, the word was God,
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"and the word became flesh, and dwelt upon us
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"and we beheld his glory."
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John's talking preexistence.
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He was God, before he was with us he was with God.
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In Colossians, Paul says,
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"He is in the imagine of the invisible God,
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"the first born of all creation,
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"in him was everything created."
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They're talking preexistence.
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Christ existed with God, even before Genesis.
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So this means that when Genesis says God began
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creating worlds and creatures,
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Christ was creating with him.
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Or later when it says that God made a covenant with Abraham
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to bless all the peoples of the world through Abraham,
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Christ was blessing with God.
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Or when the spirit of God inspired the prophets
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of old to speak about justice and righteousness,
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Christ was speaking with him.
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The same one who is our savior is our creator.
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This world, in all of it's beauty and complexity,
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and yes, sometimes mystery and misery,
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this world is Christ's world.
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And that makes a difference.
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Sometimes you hear people say in everyday speech when
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some tragedy has happened in life,
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"Well, we've just got to accept this.
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"This is God's will."
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But if Paul is right, if Christ was busy with God
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setting up the world when God set up the world,
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then we might as easily say,
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"Well, this is Jesus' will."
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That makes it a little bit harder to say, doesn't it?
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Jesus, the one who suffered with us,
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the one who healed the sick,
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the one who confronted the demons.
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You know that is is customary for insurance companies
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when there's been a tornado with destruction
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or some natural calamity they will say,
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"This was an act of God."
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But if Paul is right, if Christ was with God
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from the beginning, then we might as well say,
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"This was an act of Christ."
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And that makes it a little harder to make such a claim.
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And yet that's what preexistence says.
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It was Christ, who was there with God from the first,
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up there, out there, wherever you envision God,
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and he came to us,
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he came to us and that makes a difference,
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the word became flesh,
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or as Paul says elsewhere, "Though he was rich,
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"for our sake, he become poor."
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He emptied himself, to stand beside us.
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I'm claiming that the preexistence of Christ is
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not some weird subject fit for episodes of The Twilight Zone
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or the ruminations of Miss Shirley MacLaine.
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I'm claiming that it makes a difference,
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it makes a difference to us.
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It's interesting that Paul's main references to the
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preexistence of Christ occur when Paul is in the heat
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of a congregational squabble.
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Once, when Paul is trying to get the Christians at Colassae
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to take up an offering for the poor,
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and another time in Philippians when he's trying to
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get the Philippian Church to quit squabbling and
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start acting like the Church.
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He refers to preexistence of Christ.
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Christ was before the beginning, he has created the world.
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And I think in so doing, Paul was trying to say,
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"People, this thing between us and Jesus is big."
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It's a lot bigger than your little life,
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your little aches and pains.
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This thing that God is busy doing in Jesus is cosmic.
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It's beyond time and space.
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What God was doing in Jesus began long before
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even the world began,
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and it shall continue long after we're gone.
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He is alpha and omega, bringing everything together in him.
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And when he empties himself, and takes on our human form,
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and stands beside us,
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it's God standing beside us.
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God, the creator of the universe, the one who set the stars
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and the courses and created the whales.
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It's God beside us.
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And that makes a difference.
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As Paul says,
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"None of the rulers of this age understood this.
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"Else wise they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of Glory."
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And it's hard for us to understand it, too.
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How are we to understand the great, almighty God,
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coming down, with us,
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to be born as we must be born.
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To suffer as we sometimes suffer, to die as we must.
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But though we cannot understand it,
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knowing that God has come
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and stood beside us makes a difference.
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We don't understand this, we stand under it.
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He humbled himself, he took the form of a servant.
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And became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
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Furthermore, he didn't just come down and
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dirty his royal hands a bit in the human condition,
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stand beside us in empathetic,
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yet essentially ineffective resignation, no.
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He returned, to the glory from which he came,
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having humbled himself taking on the form of flesh
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he went back and sat down to rule all of creation.
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God has therefore highly exalted him
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with a name that is above every other name
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that at the name of Jesus Christ every knee shall bow,
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every tongue confess that he is Lord.
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It makes a difference.
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This past week I was talking to one of you,
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did not spend spring break down at the beach,
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but spent it in the Honduras, working in the Chapel
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sponsored mission project down there.
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It was your first confrontation with
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pervasive, complete, total, unrelenting poverty.
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And what do you say when you encounter human misery?
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That can not be alleviated,
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even by a group of Duke students
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giving up their spring vacation and going down,
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and doing some work, it won't be alleviated by that.
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What can you do about all that heartache
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and sadness that's still left over
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after all of the good deeds
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and righteous works done in the world.
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What do you say?
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Well you can say,
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that the one who entered Jerusalem on this day,
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bouncing on the back of a donkey,
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the one who was forsaken by his own people,
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stripped naked, beaten, and hung up on a cross to die,
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that this one now rules.
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The one who knows what it's like to be human
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at all of it's depths,
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is the one who went back and scaled the heights of God.
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And that makes a difference.
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Or is it more significant that the one who rules
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is the one who suffered?
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Or that the one who suffered is now the one who rules?
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We don't know what to do.
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That the one who sits on the throne
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is also the one who hung on a cross.
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Should we crown him Lord of Lords, King of Kings?
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Or should we welcome him as friend and fellow sufferer?
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Is this Palm Sunday? Or are we getting ready
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to celebrate Passion Sunday?
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We just never know what to do with Jesus.
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But the good news is, he knows what to do with us.
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In the beginning was the word,
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and the word was God,
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and the word became flesh and dwelt among us,
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and we beheld His glory.
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(Organ plays)
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("Ride on, King Jesus")
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus ♪
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♪ No one will hinder you. ♪
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus ♪
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♪ Ride, King Jesus, ride to me. ♪
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(Male and female choirs sing differing repetitive lyrics)
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♪ When I look around me to find ♪
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♪ Someone who's gentle and kind, ♪
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♪ Someone to show me the way, ♪
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♪ I look to Jesus, and I pray. ♪
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus ♪
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♪ No one can hinder you. ♪
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus ♪
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♪ Ride, King Jesus, ride to me. ♪
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♪ When I need someone to hear, ♪
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♪ To help me conquer my fear, ♪
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♪ When I can't find the way, ♪
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♪ I look to Jesus, and I pray. ♪
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ♪
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♪ No one can hinder you. ♪
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♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ♪
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♪ Ride, King Jesus, ride to me. ♪
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(Male and female choirs sing differing repetitive lyrics)
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♪ Ride on. ♪
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The lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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(singing) In peace, let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Faithful God, we stand before you, saints and sinners,
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seeking your deliverance,
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let your faith shine on your servants
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and save us with your stedfast love.
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Teach us to trust you
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and help us to be worthy of one another's trust.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Gracious God,
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you created the human family in your imagine.
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Teach us to honor you in and our brothers and sisters.
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Help us to respect our differences as we acknowledge
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our common humanity.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Creating God, you made the heavens and the earth,
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bless the produce of our land and the work of our hands.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Everliving God, you sent your son into our world,
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revel him to others, through his life in us.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Forgiving God, you forgave the thief on the cross,
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bring to all penitence and reconciliation.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Redeeming God, you were rich,
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yet for our sake became poor.
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Move those who have wealth to share generously
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with those who are poor.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Sustaining God, you cured by your healing touch and word.
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Heal the sick, and bless all who minister to them.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Loving God, you were unjustly
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condemned by pontinus Pilate.
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Strengthen our brothers and sisters,
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who are suffering injustice and persecution.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Reconciling God, you gave us your peace,
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bring all the peoples of the world to live in true community
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and concord.
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(singing) Let us pray to the Lord.
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(singing) Lord have mercy.
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Teach us O God, to know the mind of Christ
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and to live by his example of humble obedience.
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Let your face shine on us even in the shadow of the cross
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where we feel lost and forsaken.
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We entrust our lives to your unveiling hands.
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Amen.
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As forgiven and reconcile people,
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let us offer our gifts and ourself unto God.
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(Organ playing)
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("Wondrous Love")
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♪What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, ♪
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♪ What wondrous love is this, O my soul! ♪
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♪ What wondrous love is this that causes the Lord of bliss, ♪
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♪ To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, ♪
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♪ To bear the dreadful curse for my soul! ♪
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♪ When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, ♪
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♪ When I was sinking down, sinking down; ♪
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♪ When I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown, ♪
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♪ Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul, ♪
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♪ Christ laid aside his crown for my soul! ♪
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♪ To God and to the Lamb, I will sing, I will sing, ♪
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♪ To God and to the Lamb, I will sing; ♪
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♪ To God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM, ♪
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♪ While millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing, ♪
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♪ While millions join the theme, I will sing! ♪
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♪ And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing ♪
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♪ And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on; ♪
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♪ And when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be, ♪
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♪ And through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on, ♪
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♪ And through eternity I'll sing on! ♪
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♪ What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, ♪
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♪ And through eternity, I'll sing on, I'll sing on! ♪
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(Organ playing)
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Please stand for the Gospel.
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"And as soon as it was morning
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"the chief Priests, with the elders and scribes,
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"and the whole council held a consultation.
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"And they bound Jesus and lead him away
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"and delivered him to Pilate.
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"And Pilate asked him,
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"'Are you the King of the Jews?'
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"And he answered him,
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"'You have said so.'
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"And the chief Priests accused him of many things.
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"And Pilate again asked him,
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"'Have you no answer to make?
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"See how many charges they bring against you.'
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"But Jesus made no further answer,
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"so that Pilate wondered.
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"Now at the feast, he used to release for them one prisoner
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"for whom they asked.
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"And among the rebels in prison,
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"who has committed murder in the insurrection,
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"there was a man called Barabbas.
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"And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate
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"to do as he was want to do for them.
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"And he answered them,
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"'Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?'
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"For he perceived that it was out of envy
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"that the chief Priests had delivered him up.
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"But the chief Priests stirred up the crowd
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"to have him released for them Barabbas instead.
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"And Pilate again said to them,
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"'Then what shall I do with
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"the man you call the King of the Jews?'
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"And they cried out again,
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"Crucify, crucify Him!
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"So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,
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"released for them Barabbas.
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"And having spurred Jesus,
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"he delivered him to be crucified.
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"And the soldiers lead him away inside the palace
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"that is the Praetorium,
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"and they called together the whole Praetorium,
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"and they clothed him in a purple cloak
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"and plating a crown of thorns they put it on Him
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"and they began to salute Him.
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"Hail, King of the Jews.
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"Hail, King of the Jews.
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"And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon Him,
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"and they knelt down in amage to him.
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"And when they had mocked him,
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"they stripped him of the purple cloak
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"and put His own clothes on Him.
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"And they lead him out to crucify him.
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"And then they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrenian,
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"who was coming in from the country,
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"the father of Alexander and Rufus to carry his cross.
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"And they brought him to the place called Golgotha,
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"which means, the place of a skull.
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"And they offered him wine, mingled with myrrh,
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"but he did not take it.
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"And they crucified him, and divided His garments among them
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"casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
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"And it was the third hour when they crucified him.
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"And the inscription of the charge against Him read,
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"'The King of the Jews.'
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"And with him he crucified two robbers,
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"one on His right, and one on His left,
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"and those who passed by derided Him,
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"waging their heads and saying,
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"Aha! Aha!
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"Save yourself! Come down from the cross!
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"So also the chief Priests mocked him to one another
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"with the scribes saying,
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"He saved others, he cannot save Himself.
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"Let the Christ, the King of Israel,
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"come down now from the cross.
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"That we may see and believe.
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"Those who were crucified with him also reviled him,
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"and when the sixth hour had come there was darkness over
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"the whole land until the ninth hour.
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"And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
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"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
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"Which means,
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"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?
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"And some of the bystanders hearing it said,
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"Behold, he is calling Elijah.
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"And one ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar
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"put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying,
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"Wait, let us see whether Elijah comes to take Him down
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"And Jesus muttered a loud cry and breathed His last.
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"And the curtain of the temple was torn in two
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"from top to bottom, and when the centaurium,
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"who stood facing Him, saw that he thus breathed His last,
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"he said,
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"Truly, this man was the son of God.
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(Lord of The Dance)
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♪ I danced in the morning when the world was begun, ♪
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♪ And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun, ♪
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♪ And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth: ♪
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♪ At Bethlehem I had my birth. ♪
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♪ Dance, then, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. ♪
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♪ I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee, ♪
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♪ But they would not dance and they wouldn't follow me; ♪
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♪ I danced for the fishermen, for James and John; ♪
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♪ They came with me and the dance went on: ♪
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♪ Dance, then, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. ♪
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♪ I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame: ♪
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♪ The holy people said it was a shame. ♪
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♪ They whipped and they stripped and they hung me on high, ♪
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♪ And they left me there on a cross to die: ♪
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♪ Dance, then, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. ♪
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♪ I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black; ♪
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♪ It's hard to dance with the devil on your back. ♪
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♪ They buried my body and they thought I'd gone; ♪
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♪ But I am the dance, and I still go on: ♪
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♪ Dance then, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. ♪
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♪ They cut me down and I leapt up high; ♪
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♪ I am the life that'll never, never die. ♪
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♪ I'll life in you if you'll live in me: ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he. ♪
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♪ Dance, then, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ I am the Lord of the dance, said he, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, ♪
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♪ And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. ♪
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May Jesus Christ, who for our sake became obedient,
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unto death, even death on a cross,
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keep you and strengthen you on this day and forever more.
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Amen.
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(Organ playing)