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♪ Alleluia amen ♪
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♪ Alleluia amen ♪
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♪ Let all with heart and voice ♪
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♪ Before His throne rejoice ♪
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♪ Praise in His gracious choice ♪
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♪ Alleluia amen ♪
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(church organ drowning singers)
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Beloved, the reason we are able to sing,
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in Christ, there is no east or west,
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is that the scriptures tell us, truly,
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God hath made of one blood, all nations of men,
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for to dwell on all the face of the earth.
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That is one of the scriptures
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on which we base this service today of worldwide communion.
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There are others.
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"I am the living bread," said Jesus,
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"Which came down from heaven.
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If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
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And the bread which I showed give
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is for the life of the world.
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And it is my flesh."
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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God.
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And he who loves is born of God and knows God.
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In this, the love of God was made manifest among us,
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that God sent his only son into the world
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so that we might live through him.
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Christ our paschal lamb, is offered up for us, once for all.
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When He bore our sins on His body, upon the cross,
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for He is the very lamb of God
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that taketh away the sins of the world.
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Wherefore, let us keep a joyful and holy feast
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with the Lord.
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Let us now sing a joyful and holy hymn of adoration.
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(singing indistinctly)
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The vision of who and what our heavenly father is.
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The vision of who by contrast, we are,
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makes us aware of our sins
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and makes us uncomfortable in our sin.
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We therefore realize our need of confessing them before God.
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Let us join our hearts and our voices together
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in our general prayer of confession, let us pray.
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Almighty God,
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father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things,
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judge of all men.
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We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness,
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which we from time to time,
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most grievously have committed,
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by thought word and deed against thy divine majesty.
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We do earnestly repent and our heartily sorry
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for these are misdoings.
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The remembrance of them is grievous onto us.
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Have mercy upon us.
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Have mercy upon us most merciful father
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for thy son our Lord, Jesus Christ sake.
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Forgive us all that is past.
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And grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee
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in newness of life to the honor and glory of thy name,
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through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Amen.
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In the first epistle of John,
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there are words which form a response
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to our prayer of confession.
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We ask the question,
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what happens when we confess our sins to God
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and ask His forgiveness?
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Here is the answer.
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If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the father,
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Jesus Christ, the righteous.
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And he is the expiation for our sins and not for ours only,
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but also for the sins of the whole world.
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This is what we mean by the word, gospel,
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because that means good news.
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The choir is going to sing about that good news.
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♪ I got a crown up in a that kingdom ain't that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I got a crown up in-a that kingdom ain't that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I'm-a gonna lay down this world ♪
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♪ Gonna shoulder up-a my cross ♪
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♪ Gonna take it home-a to my Jesus ain't that good news ♪
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♪ I got a robe up in-a that kingdom ain't that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I got a robe up in-a that kingdom ain't-a that good news ♪
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♪ I'm-a gonna lay down this world ♪
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♪ Gonna shoulder up-a my cross ♪
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♪ Gonna take it home-a to my Jesus ain't-a that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I got a Savior in-a that kingdom ain't that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I got a Savior in-a that kingdom ain't that good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news ♪
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♪ I'm-a gonna lay down this world ♪
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♪ Gonna shoulder up-a my cross ♪
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♪ Gonna take it home-a to my Jesus ain't-a that good news ♪
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♪ Good news, good news ♪
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♪ Good news, good news ♪
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♪ Aint that good news, good news, good news ♪
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♪ Good news ♪
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Let us again, hear the good news
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as it is recorded first in the Acts of the Apostles 17:22,
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the beginning of Paul's sermon in Athens.
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"So Paul standing in the middle of the Areopagus said,
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'Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way,
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you are very religious.
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But as I passed along and observed the objects
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of your worship,
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I found also an altar with this inscription,
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to an unknown god, whom there for you worship as unknown,
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this, I proclaim to you.
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The God who made the world and everything in it,
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being Lord of heaven and earth does not live in shrines
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made by man,
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nor is he served by human hands
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as though he needed anything.
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Since he himself gives to all men,
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life and breath and everything.
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And he made of one blood, every nation of men
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to live on all the face of the earth,
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that they should seek God
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in the hope that they might feel after him and find him.
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Yet, he's not far from each one of us.
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For in him, we live and move and have our being
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as even some of your own poets have said,
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"For we are indeed, his offspring."'"
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And then in Paul's letter to the Galatians 3
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verses 27 and 28.
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"For as many of you as were baptized into Christ,
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have put on Christ.
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There is neither Jew nor Greek.
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There is neither slave nor free.
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There is neither male nor female.
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For you are all one in Christ Jesus."
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Amen and may God bless onto us the reading of his word.
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On the first Sunday of October, that is today,
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more Christians celebrate the Lord's supper
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than on any other Sunday in the year.
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Why?
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Because the first Sunday of October
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has been recognized and observed since 1938,
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as worldwide communion Sunday.
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It is acknowledged by Christians of all races, colors,
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and sex, in remembrance of Jesus, the Christ,
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the Lord of the church.
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The church Catholic ecumenical universal one.
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Let us examine this theoretical though unrealized harmony,
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by looking together at the word, blood.
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One of the two central symbols of the Lord's supper.
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In one important manuscript,
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Greek manuscript of the Acts verse 26 of chapter 17 reads,
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"And God hath made of one blood, all nations of men,
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for to dwell on all the face of the earth."
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That's one sentence from the sermon preached in Athens
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by Saint Paul.
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It was one of his toughest assignments
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because he had been asked to explain
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the unusual story of Jesus, of Nazareth,
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to a group of Epicurean and stoic philosophers,
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the intellectuals of his day.
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He took as his starting point an altar
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dedicated to an unknown god.
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He had seen it on an Athenian street
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and early in that sermon,
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he stated that all men share common blood.
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Now for a Jew, blood was life.
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The seat of life,
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the very stuff of life,
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sacred to God.
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When a covenant was ratified between the Israelites
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and their God, blood was the visible instrument
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in sealing the compact.
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God and the Israelites were, if you like kin by blood.
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I asked the hematologist at Duke,
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if there were any truth to a statement like Paul's
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and he guardedly said, "Yes, if it be accepted poetically."
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He knew that there were different blood types.
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Yet he granted that the idea of all men being of one blood
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was more true than false.
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But we all know that this interpretation of creation
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is unacceptable to many people.
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They don't want to be brothers
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to anyone of a different skin pigment.
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Maybe Paul recognized that for he made another approach
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to the matter of human oneness.
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He mentioned it in a letter to the Galatian church.
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"There's neither Jew nor Greek.
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There's neither slave nor free.
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There's neither male nor female.
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For you're all one in Christ Jesus."
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There's no differentiation because of nationality.
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There's no discrimination because of economic
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or civic status.
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There's no distinction because of sex.
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You all must think that Paul belonged
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to an elderly female liberation society.
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He couldn't quite live up to it though.
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That just proves he was a man, that's all.
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But notice the important words in the verse.
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The last three words, "In Christ Jesus,"
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that is in the church.
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In the church.
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In the world, there were still differences because of race,
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past, sex, but in the church,
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there was quality of status before God,
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it was confirmed in baptism.
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It was confirmed in the Lord's supper,
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when a loaf of bread and a shared cup,
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recall the broken body and the spilled blood of the Lord.
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A celebration of the Lord's supper became for them
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almost a blood transfusion.
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Their common blood through creation
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was enriched by their remembrance and acceptance
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of the sacrificial blood of Jesus, the head of the church.
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And folk like us, who celebrate the Lord's supper together,
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become blood brothers.
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We are kin in Christ Jesus.
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There should be nothing in the world,
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divisive enough to separate us from one another.
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Can we realize the fact about being at one with Christians
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all over the world, in Ireland and in Germany,
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in Palestine and in South Africa
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in India and in Vietnam, in Korea and in New Zealand.
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In Ghana and in Bolivia.
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Some bow down in Gothic structures like this,
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others worship in mission halls.
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Some are being (indistinct)
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from marble alters or wooden tables.
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Still others are receiving the bread and the wine
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from the back of a tank or the hood of a Jeep,
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some are in prison camps or in refugee camps,
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in military hospitals or on lonely outposts.
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And they, and we, are 20th century disciples of Jesus.
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Knowing that, believing that,
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committed to that,
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let us come to the table, spread for our benefit.
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Those who serve us in his name are of different races
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and places and even sex.
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But in this place, we are all of one blood,
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of his blood.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, who in the common things of daily life,
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givest to us thy very self.
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Making of bread and wine
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the sacrament of thy sustaining presence,
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strengthen and refresh us
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that we may remember thee faithfully
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seek thee eagerly,
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find thee surely and serve thee joyfully.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To make the wounded whole ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To heal the sin-sick soul ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To make the wounded whole ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To heal the sin-sick soul ♪
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♪ Sometimes I feel discouraged ♪
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♪ And think my work's in vain ♪
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♪ But then the Holy Spirit ♪
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♪ Revives my soul again ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To make the wounded whole ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To heal the sin-sick soul ♪
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♪ If you cannot sing like angels ♪
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♪ If you cannot preach like Paul ♪
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♪ You can tell the love of Jesus ♪
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♪ And say, He died for all ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To make the wounded whole ♪
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♪ To heal the sin-sick soul ♪
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♪ There is a balm in Gilead ♪
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♪ To make the wounded whole ♪
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♪ To heal the sin-sick soul ♪
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♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪
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♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host ♪
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♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Almighty God,
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we all focus our attention here upon this altar,
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the symbol of thy presence here in this service
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and in our hearts,
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for the purpose of dedicating this money,
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which the congregation has given,
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for the purpose of dedicating these communion elements,
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which the congregation has prepared.
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the dedication of these things would be meaningless
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without the dedication of ourselves.
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to make our own dedication meaningful
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along with the dedication of these elements
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and this money for thy glory and the good of Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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Lift up your hearts.
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We lift them up unto the Lord.
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Let us give thanks unto the Lord.
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It is indeed right that we do.
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Ye that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins
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and are in love and charity with your neighbors
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and intend to lead a new life,
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following the commandments of God
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and walking from henceforth in his holy ways,
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draw near with faith and take this holy sacrament
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unto your comfort, meekly kneeling upon your knees.
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The body of the Lord, Jesus Christ
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was broken for thee.
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Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee,
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and be thankful.
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The blood of the Lord, Jesus Christ was shed for thee.
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Drink this in remembrance that Christ died for thee
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and be thankful in thy heart.
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♪ Let us praise God together on our knees ♪
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♪ On our knees ♪
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♪ Let us praise God together on our knees ♪
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♪ On our knees ♪
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♪ When I fall on my knees ♪
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♪ With my face to the rising sun ♪
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♪ O Lord ♪
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♪ Have mercy on me ♪
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In spite of our sins and wickedness of the past,
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our Lord Jesus Christ has forgiven us
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and invited us to come to his table, which we have now done.
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And having feasted on the spiritual food
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of our Lord Jesus Christ in fellowship with one another.
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In a fellowship, which is of the blood
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and knows no race or nation.
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We do have very much to be thankful for, don't we?
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So may we unite our hearts and voices
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in our unison prayer of thanksgiving and dedication.
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Let us pray.
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Almighty and ever living God.
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We most heartedly thank thee
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that thou dost vouch (indistinct) to feed us
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who have duly received these holy mysteries
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with this fresh spiritual food,
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the most precious body of blood,
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thy son our savior, Jesus Christ.
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And dost assure us thereby of thy favor
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and goodness toward us.
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And that we are very members in corporate
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of the mystical body of thy son,
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which is the blessed company of all faithful people
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and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom
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by the merits of his precious death and passion.
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And we humbly beseech thee oh, heavenly father,
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so to assist us with thy grace,
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that we may continue in that holy fellowship.
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our souls and bodies to be a reasonable,
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holy and lively sacrifice unto thee.
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Humbly beseeching thee that all we who are partakers
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of this holy communion may be filled with thy grace
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and heavenly benediction
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through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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by whom and with whom in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
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all honor and glory be unto thee,
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O father almighty,
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world, without end.
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Amen.
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Let us stand and receive the benediction.
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Now may the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
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keep our hearts and minds and the knowledge
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and love of God and his son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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