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Good morning.
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We'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel
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and a special word of welcome to the parents and families
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that are here celebrating Parent's Weekend with us.
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This morning the choir will be featuring an anthem
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written by Dr. David Arcus, Let All the World.
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The description of the anthem is listed
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on the back of your bulletin
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and we'll hope you will take the time to read that.
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Also, today at two o'clock, we will have our annual blessing
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of the animal service.
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This is a celebration of the ways that God has blessed us
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through the nonhuman creatures of creation
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and you're invited to bring the animals in your care
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for a service of Thanksgiving and blessing.
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Let us continue our worship as you stand for the greeting.
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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And also with you.
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The risen Christ is with us.
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Praise the Lord.
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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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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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Let us pray.
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God of all times and all places.
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Be present to us, your people, gathered at this time
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and in this place.
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Bless all who have gathered here this morning.
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Mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers,
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step-parents and step-children, roommates and friends,
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singled and married, that all might rekindle a vision
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of what is most important in the living out of our days.
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Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, and rest upon the heads
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and hearts of every person within this place,
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that our spirits might be refreshed and you, O God,
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might be better known,
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for it is in Christ's name we ask it, amen.
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You may be seated.
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Let us pray together the Prayer for Illumination.
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Open our hearts and minds, O 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 may hear your message with joy this day.
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Amen.
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The Old Testament reading is from the Book of Jeremiah,
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chapter 32.
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord
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in the 10th year of King Zedekiah of Judah,
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which was the 18th year of Nebuchadrezzar.
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At that time the army of the king of Babylon
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was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah
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was confined in the court of the guard
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that was in the palace of the king of Judah,
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where King Zedekiah had confined him.
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Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me:
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Hanamel son of your uncle Shallum is going to come to you
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and say, Buy my field that is at Anathoth,
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for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.
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Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the court of the guard,
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in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me,
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Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
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for the right of possession and redemption is yours;
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buy it for yourself.
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Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
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And I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel,
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and weighed out the money to him, 17 shekels of silver.
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I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses,
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and weighed the money on scales.
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Then I took the sealed deed of purchases,
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containing the terms and conditions, and the open copy;
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I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah
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son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel,
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in the presence of the witnesses
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who signed the deed of purchase,
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and in the presence of all the Judeans
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who were sitting in the court of the guard.
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And in their presence I charged Baruch, saying,
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
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Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase
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and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar,
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in order that they may last for a long time.
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For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
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Houses and fields and vineyards
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shall again be bought in this land.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Psalm 91, on page 810 in the hymnal.
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Let us stand to sing the Psalm and Glory Responsively.
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♪ Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High ♪
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♪ Who abide in the shadow of the Almighty ♪
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♪ Will say to the Lord ♪
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♪ My refuge and my fortress ♪
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♪ My God, in whom I trust ♪
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♪ For the Lord will deliver you ♪
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♪ From the snare of the fowler ♪
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♪ And from the deadly pestilence ♪
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♪ And will cover you with his pinions ♪
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♪ And under his wings you will find refuge ♪
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♪ His faithfulness is a shield and buckler ♪
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♪ You will not fear the terror of the night ♪
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♪ Nor the arrow that flies by day ♪
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♪ Or the pestilence that stalks in darkness ♪
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♪ Or the destruction that wastes at noonday ♪
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♪ A thousand may fall at your side ♪
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♪ 10 thousand at your right hand ♪
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♪ But it will not come near you ♪
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♪ You will only look with your eyes ♪
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♪ And see the punishment of the wicked ♪
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♪ Because you have made the Lord your refuge ♪
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♪ The Most High your habitation ♪
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♪ No evil shall befall you ♪
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♪ No scourge come near your tent ♪
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♪ For God will give his angels charge over you ♪
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♪ To guard you in all your ways ♪
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♪ On their hands they will bear you up ♪
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♪ So that you will not dash your foot against a stone ♪
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♪ You will tread on the lion and the adder ♪
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♪ The young lion and the serpent ♪
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♪ You will trample under foot ♪
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♪ Because they cleave to me in love ♪
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♪ I will deliver them ♪
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♪ I will protect them, because they know my name ♪
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♪ When they call to me, I will answer them ♪
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♪ I will be with them in trouble ♪
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♪ I will rescue them and honor them ♪
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♪ I will satisfy them with long life ♪
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♪ And show them my salvation ♪
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♪ O glory be to you ♪
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♪ Creator and through Jesus Christ, our Savior ♪
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♪ As it was their time began ♪
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♪ It is now and will be forever more ♪
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Please be seated.
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The New Testament reading is from
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First Timothy, chapter six.
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Of course, there is great gain in godliness
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combined with contentment;
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for we brought nothing into the world,
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so that we can take nothing out of it;
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but if we have food and clothing,
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we will be content with these.
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But those who want to be rich fall into temptation
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and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires
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that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,
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and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away
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from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
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But as for you, man of God,
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shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness,
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faith, love, endurance, gentleness.
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Fight the good fight of the faith;
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take hold of the eternal life,
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to which you were called and for which you were made
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the good confession in the presence of so many witnesses.
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In the presence of God, who gives life to all things,
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and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony
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before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
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I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame
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until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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which he will bring about at the right time,
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he who is the blessed and only Sovereign,
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the King of kings and Lord of lords.
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It is he alone who has immortality
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and dwells in unapproachable light,
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whom no one has ever seen or can see;
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to him be honor and eternal dominion.
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Amen.
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And for those who in the present age are rich,
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command them not to be haughty,
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or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches,
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but rather on God who richly provides us
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with everything for our enjoyment.
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They are to do good, to be rich in good works,
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generous, and ready to share,
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thus storing up for themselves the treasure
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of a good foundation for the future,
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so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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♪ My God ♪
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♪ My God ♪
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♪ My God ♪
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The gospel reading is from Saint Luke, chapter 16.
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There was a rich man who was dressed in purple
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and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
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And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus,
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covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger
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with what fell from the rich man's table;
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even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
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The poor man died and was carried away by the angels
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to be with Abraham.
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The rich man also died and was buried.
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In Hades, where he was being tormented,
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he looked up and saw Abraham far away
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with Lazarus by his side.
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He called out, Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
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and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water
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and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.
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But Abraham said, Child, remember that during your lifetime
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you received your good things,
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and Lazarus in like manner evil things;
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but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.
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Besides all this, between you and us
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a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want
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to pass from here to you cannot do so,
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and no one can cross from there to us.
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He said, Then, father, I beg you to send him
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to my father's house, for I have five brothers,
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that he may warn them, so that they will not also come
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into this place of torment.
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Abraham replied, They have Moses and the prophets;
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they should listen to them.
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He said, No, father Abraham;
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but if someone goes to them from the dead,
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they will repent.
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He said to him, If they do not listen to Moses
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and the prophets, neither will they be convinced
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even if someone rises from the dead.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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(congregation mumbling)
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We've heard a lot about the gaps between the rich
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and the poor in America.
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It's old news that the rich get richer
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and the poor get poorer.
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We've all seen images which dramatize the contrast
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between rich and poor.
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One winter, the Today Show did a story on the homeless
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in Washington D.C., sleeping on the sidewalks
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on top of the steaming street gates
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in front of the White House during subfreezing weather.
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This most public symbol of the wealth
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and power of our nation provided a dramatic backdrop
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for the plight of our nations poor.
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Then, immediately, following the stories,
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the camera shifted to Paris where American socialites
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were selecting designer dresses valued at
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more than $15,000 dollars each.
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The disparity was strikingly obvious.
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As much as we might like to avoid them,
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we're often confronted with images
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of the contrast between wealth and poverty.
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Here at the University, we are surrounded by beauty
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and the signs of wealth and privilege but we don't have to
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travel far outside the university walls before
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we are uncomfortably reminded of the ugliness
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and the closeness of poverty.
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Walk down ninth street and a panhandler is likely
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to hit you up for money.
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Stroll the neighborhoods around East Campus
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and it won't be long before you begin to notice
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a difference in the landscape.
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Poverty, wherever it exists, is strikingly obvious.
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We can't get away from it, even when we're watching
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our favorite television program for a little relaxation
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and forgetfulness.
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The images of starving children in Africa
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and Latin America flash across our TV
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before we can hit the remote control
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and change the images to more pleasant pictures.
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We know that there is a great disparity between
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the wealthy and the poor but we don't like to dwell on it.
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The statistics overwhelm us.
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Between 15 million
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and 20 million people die of starvation
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and hunger-related illnesses each year
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today.
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Today, Sunday,
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October 1st, 1995,
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World Communion Day,
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over 40,000 people will starve.
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30,000 of them children.
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Over one billion people on the planet live
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in a state of absolute poverty.
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Some of them in our own city.
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And each year, 250,000 children are blinded
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simply because of a vitamin deficiency in their diet.
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For the most part, we feel helpless to do anything
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about such massive need,
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so we try not to think about it at all.
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We might give occasionally to efforts for relief of famine,
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we might donate some old clothes to the homeless shelter,
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we might even make an annual contribution to the United Way
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or some other charity but, for the most part,
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we keep our distance from poverty.
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It's harshness and ugliness and magnitude
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make us uncomfortable, so it's natural that we try to
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avoid it when we can.
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The rich man in the parable was no different than we are.
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He didn't like to be reminded of what was ugly
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and painful in life.
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He built high walls around his estate
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to keep out the undesirables.
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Inside, everything was beautiful
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and pleasing to the eye and desirable.
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Outside, was everything that was unpleasant and miserable
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and unclean.
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When he left his estate, we can imagine him
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in a long limousine with tinted windows, a driver,
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and soft, relaxing music.
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It's not difficult to avoid looking upon the face of poverty
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if you have the means to surround yourself
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with what is lovely and pleasant.
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With a few bold images, Jesus painted a vivid picture
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of this rich man.
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It's amazing how much you can tell about a person
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by the cut and make of their clothes.
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The rich man projected an image of opulence and wealth,
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he was habitually aborned and adorned in the best finery,
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nothing but designer fashions.
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His undergarment of fine linen was made of an expensive,
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Egyptian product that was often called woven heir.
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It was the same fabric that was used to bind
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the mummified bodies of the Pharaohs
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and was prized as highly as gold.
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His outer garments were purple,
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the color which signified royalty or extreme wealth,
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for the dye had to be meticulously extracted
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from oyster shells and was prohibitively expensive
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to all but the most wealthy and powerful.
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He also lived in a manner consistent with his clothes.
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In the NRSV, the text says he feasted sumptuously every day.
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Another translation says,
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he was feasting every day brilliantly and magnificently.
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His was no ordinary fare of bread and lentil soup.
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The daily menu read more like Antoine's of New Orleans,
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pheasant under glass, Oysters Rockefeller,
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Beef Wellington, caviar, and perfectly aged wine.
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No food was too exotic, no table too lavish,
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with these few images, Jesus portrayed a vivid picture
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of someone who had made it to the top of
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the economic ladder, someone who lived with limitless
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wealth and indulgent prosperity.
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Then with equal clarity, Jesus painted the image of Lazarus
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lying at the rich man's gate.
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In the Greek, the word (speaking foreign language)
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implies that he was flung there with contempt and roughness
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to beg for crumbs from the wealthy man's table.
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The word for gate, (speaking foreign language),
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intensifies the sense of contrast between Lazarus
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and the rich man, for it was used to describe
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a gate of magnificent artistry and exquisite beauty,
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offering a hint of the opulence of the estate
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inside the gates.
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The gate and the mansion provide a startling backdrop
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for Lazarus' pitiful plight.
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He lay there, day after day, covered with oozing sores,
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an image that's disgusting to us, begging for scraps
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of bread which fell from the rich man's table.
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He was sick, starving, and filthy,
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a pitiful site which no doubt moved passersby
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to throw a few coins in the cup
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but also to walk quickly away,
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lest they have to smell him or look into his eyes.
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It's not hard to imagine the rich man avoiding Lazarus
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at his gate, it wasn't a pleasant sight.
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The text says that the dogs would come and lick his sores,
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that doesn't tell us whether the dogs were a nuisance
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or a comfort to him but I prefer to think of them
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as one, small comfort offered to him in his misery.
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Some of us have known the loyalty and concern of a pet
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who stayed with us through an illness or who tried
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to comfort us when we were upset.
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And this afternoon, hundreds of people who've been blessed
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by the animals in their lives will bring them
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to the Chapel Quad for a blessing of Thanksgiving.
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Sometimes, animals show more pity and compassion
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than human beings, so perhaps the dogs
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were a comfort to Lazarus.
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No one else was.
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With a few descriptive phrases,
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Jesus strikingly portrayed the discrepancy between
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the life of the rich man and Lazarus.
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Then he shifted the narrative to death,
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the great equalizer.
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Both men died.
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The rich man was buried and though the Scripture doesn't
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give us any detail, we know that his status in life
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would have afforded him an opulent funeral.
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On the other hand, because of his poverty and status
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as one unclean and outcast,
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Lazarus would have been thrown naked onto the fires
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outside the city walls where the garbage was burned.
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One was buried with honors,
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the other burned with ignominy.
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But the next scene in the drama reveals a startling reversal
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in their positions.
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Lazarus is in the bosom of Abraham
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and the rich man is in the agony of flames and Hades.
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Lazarus is on the inside
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and the rich man is on the outside,
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looking across a great chasm, begging for mercy.
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Now, some preachers have interpreted this parable
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as a literal depiction of the righteous in heaven
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and the evil in hell and preach it as a stern warning
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about the eternal hellfires of damnation.
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But as with all parabolic language, this vision of heaven
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and hell should not be taken literally but symbolically.
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Through this parable, Jesus offers us a window
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in which the curtain of time is pulled back
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and we have the opportunity to glimpse eternity.
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In eternity, God's kingdom,
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things get rearranged
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and those who appear to be powerful and on top of it all
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sometimes find themselves on the bottom
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and those who appear to be weak and powerless and least
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sometimes find themselves on top.
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In the kingdom of God, appearances pass away
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and the truth about life is revealed.
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It is evident who is close to God
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and who is far away.
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What was true but hidden in life is revealed
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through the parable.
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Several interpretations have been offered
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for the reversal of the circumstances
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between Lazarus and the rich man.
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Some have said that it is a great squaring of accounts,
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the rich man got what he deserved, justice at last.
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The implication is that there's something inherently wrong
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with being rich and that those who are rich in life
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will be punished and that those who are poor and miserable
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in life will be rewarded but that's too simplistic
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in interpretation,
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it doesn't take into account Abraham,
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Abraham in whose arms Lazarus is comforted,
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the patriarch who was blessed with land, animals,
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and great wealth.
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Having wealth is not what condemned the rich man.
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Others have pointed out that this parable has sometimes
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been used with the evil motive of reconciling
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the miserable to their lot.
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The message is, hang on, accept whatever life gives you,
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and you'll be rewarded in the next life.
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In Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple,
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Celie spouses this view when she tells Sofia,
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her daughter-in-law,
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that she lets Mister beat her
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because, after all, this life is fleeting
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and she believes that in the end, she'll be rewarded
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in heaven which lasts eternally.
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Always one to take hold of her own destiny,
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Sofia tells Celie that she'd be better off
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busting Mister's head and letting heaven
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take care of itself.
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There is nothing inherently good about being poor
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and powerless and there is nothing inherently evil
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about being rich and powerful.
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So, what does the parable mean?
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The key to unlock the meaning of this parable
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is in the exchange between Abraham and the rich man.
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Still used to having people at his beckon call,
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the rich man begs Abraham to send Lazarus to dip his finger
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in the water and cool the tip of his tongue.
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In response, Abraham tells him to remember.
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Remember his life and relationship to Lazarus.
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Remember that he had nothing but good things.
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Remember that Lazarus had nothing but evil things.
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Through remembering, he saw the truth of his life
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in relationship to Lazarus for the first time.
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In life, Lazarus was powerless to bridge the distance
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between them, he was on the outside of the gates,
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looking across a chasm,
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longing for a share of life's blessings.
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The rich man could easily have crossed the chasm
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but he chose to insolate himself against having
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to see Lazarus' need.
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The distance between them which had been determined in life
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became fixed in death.
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The time for response was past and there was nothing that
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he could now do to establish a relationship between them.
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It isn't that the rich man was harshly condemned
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or indicted because he was rich.
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It isn't that he persecuted Lazarus or deliberately refused
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him food or sponsored legislation to rid his gates
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of the poor.
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No, the key is that he never even saw Lazarus.
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The difficulty with their relationship all those years
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on earth is that he never saw Lazarus, though he passed
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him by every day.
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His wealth had so distorted his vision
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that he was unable to perceive the plight of the beggar
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at his gate to identify with his suffering
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and ease his predicament.
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In shutting his eyes to human need,
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he had also shut out the God who is consistently
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portrayed in Scripture as a friend of the poor,
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a helper of the weak, and a comfort to the needy.
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This is the great danger in wealth.
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It can so easily cause blindness.
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Prosperity has a way of limiting our perspective,
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of pulling down the shades on the distasteful,
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so as not to disturb our enjoyment of life.
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And when we close ourselves off from human need,
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no matter how distasteful, we also close ourselves
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off from God who is most often
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found close to those in need.
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It is not a new story but an age old one.
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The rich man who was now the one powerless
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to change his own circumstances, pleaded with Abraham
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to send Lazarus to warn his brothers to change their
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lifestyle, lest they also come to the place of torment.
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Abraham replied that they already had Moses
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and the prophets but the rich man pressed the point.
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That's not enough.
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I didn't listen to Moses and the prophets
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and neither will they.
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The implication is that if he'd had a more dramatic warning,
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he would have changed.
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Likewise, if someone should go to his brothers
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from the dead, they would be convinced
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and they would repent but Abraham responded,
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if they do not listen to Moses and the prophets,
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neither will they be convinced
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even if someone should rise from the dead.
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As James Denney paraphrased it,
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if they can be inhuman with the Bible in their hands
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and Lazarus at their gate, no revelation of the splendors
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of heaven or the anguish of hell
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will ever make them anything else.
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God's revelation in the Scriptures was available
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to the five brothers as it had been for the rich man.
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They, too, would be accountable for whether they lived
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according to its principles of love and justice.
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God invites but does not compel belief.
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Everything necessary for salvation has already been given.
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In our case, we have Moses and the prophets
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and even the one who was raised from the dead.
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But none of these can compel belief or faithful living.
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Jesus knew that even after his death and resurrection,
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it would still be easy for us to ignore the demands of love.
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It is still just as easy for us to shut our eyes to misery.
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We miss the point of the parable if we simply sit
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in judgment on the rich man for all of us are rich
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and at some point must face the question of whether
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we've turned a blind eye to the needs of our neighbors.
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How easy it is for us to plan our lives in such a way
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that we never have to come face to face with the poor.
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We may read about the latest crime in the Projects
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or the increase in the homeless population
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or even walk quickly past the beggar on the street
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but we rarely if ever meet them face to face.
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Like the rich man, we're afraid to come too close to misery.
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We're especially afraid of the sight of poverty
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for it is always a challenge to our style of life.
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It has a way of waking the gloss off our standard of living
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and making us reexamine our values.
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The sin of the rich man was not deliberate mistreatment
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of Lazarus but simply not seeing him.
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Every day he and his friends walk past this charity case,
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maybe even stepping over the destitute man
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but he was so absorbed in selfish indulgence,
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he never really saw a fellow human being hungry and in pain.
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Because he never noticed this neighbor on his doorstep,
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he cut himself off from God and humanity.
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For the Scriptures demand that if we would love God,
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we must also love our neighbor.
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If we would be close to God, we must also be close
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to those who are in need because God is there with them.
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In another parable, Jesus said,
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whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.
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The statistics of poverty bear witness to our failure
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to love God or neighbor adequately.
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The starving masses or vivid testimony to how we've treated
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the least of these but when we focus only upon
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the statistics, when we keep the poor anonymous,
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it can blind us to Lazarus on our own doorstep.
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In this parable, Lazarus wasn't simply one of the anonymous
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suffering masses, he wasn't simply a nameless statistic.
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In fact, in the story, he was the only one given a name.
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He was a particular individual with particular needs
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on a particular rich man's doorstep.
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If we are ever to learn to be neighbors to one another,
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if we are ever to get past our fear
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and avoidance of poverty,
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we must take the risk of putting faces on the needy.
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We must learn to see those on our own doorstep.
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It's not enough to send in our check to charity
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but that is part of what is needed.
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Sharing our resources is a good thing
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but it doesn't take the place of face-to-face contact.
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It is only when we truly see Lazarus,
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the particular person in need at our gate
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that a relationship can be established between us.
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It is only when we look into one another's eyes
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that we can begin to see each other as human beings
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and neighbors.
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We can be overwhelmed and paralyzed by the scope
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of human need and yet all that is required is that we become
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a neighbor to Lazarus.
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It means establishing relationships and bridging chasms
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one by one.
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We can't change the whole world
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but we can make a difference in our part of it
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and God can take and multiply our small efforts
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until our families and communities and nations
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and systems are transformed into a more humane world.
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All around us, I see signs of hope.
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I know students that spend two afternoons a week
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tutoring children from deprived backgrounds.
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I know a religious life group that has made a year long
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commitment to be involved with the homeless shelter in town.
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I know congregation members who have helped
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a family build a house.
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I know recent graduates that are living with mentally
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and physically handicapped adults in the L'Arche community.
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I know students that spend their spring break
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getting up close and personal with the poorest
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of the poor in Honduras, Lumberton, Atlanta, Washington D.C.
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I know a doctor who vacations with his family in Haiti
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doing mission work.
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The amazing thing is that each time people meet
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face to face, the chasm of economics
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and education and race and language,
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whatever separates them, begins to collapse
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and they discover that they are neighbors,
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human beings who share in the blessings
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and burdens of life.
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You and I are the five brothers in the parable.
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It is not too late for us to learn to see.
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We have Moses and the prophets
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and Jesus to show us what is required.
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Lazarus is at our gate.
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How will we respond?
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(soft organ music)
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(muffled choir singing)
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You may be seated.
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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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Let us pray.
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God who created this world with such variety
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and complexity, we can scarcely comprehend it.
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We come before you this morning to pray
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on behalf of all creation.
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For those who have much and for those who have little
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and for those who do not know what they have,
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Christ in your mercy, hear our silent prayers for these.
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For this earth, its beauty and its majesty
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as well as its ugly hurting places,
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God, in your mercy, hear our silent prayers for these.
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For the powerful and the powerless,
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and for those who do not know their own power,
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God, in your mercy, hear our silent prayers for these.
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For those who have lost their way
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and for those who we have lost upon our way,
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for those who do not yet know how lost they are,
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Christ, in your mercy, hear our silent prayers for these.
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For those whose bodies are not well,
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for those whose minds are confused,
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for those whose wounds whether physical, emotional,
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or spiritual, have not been bound up,
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O Christ, in your mercy, hear our silent prayers for these.
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And now O Spirit of the living God,
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utter for us those prayers which have no words
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but which can only be felt.
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O Spirit in your mercy, pray for us.
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For it is in Christ's name we pray, amen.
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You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor
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so that by his poverty, you may be made rich.
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Come, let us worship God,
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let us bring to God our tithes and our offerings.
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(soft organ music)
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(dramatic organ music)
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ To the glory of their king ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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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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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(soft organ music)
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(soft organ music)
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(muffled choir singing)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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(muffled choir singing)
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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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O gracious God, help us to know the things
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that money can buy
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and the things that money cannot buy
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that in the clarity of these two realms,
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we can respect money and yet seek for the fruits
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of the spirit, faith, hope, and love, and now hear us,
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O God, as together we pray.
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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, thy will be done
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on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day, our daily bread,
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and forgive us our trespasses
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as we forgive those who trespass against us
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and lead us not to temptation but deliver us from evil
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for thine is the kingdom and the power
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and the glory forever, amen.
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(soft organ music)
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(muffled choir singing)
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(dramatic organ music)
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Go forth in peace to serve God and your neighbor
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in all that you do.
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By the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
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and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
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be with you and keep you.
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(muffled choir singing)
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(soft organ music)