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We pray you to bless these palm branches
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as today we acclaim Jesus our messiah and king.
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May we reach one day the happiness of the new
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and everlasting Jerusalem by faithfully following Him,
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who live and reigns forever and ever.
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Lord increase the faith of your people and listen
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to our prayers, today we honor Christ, our triumphant king
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by carrying these branches.
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May we honor you everyday by living always in Him,
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for he is Lord forever and ever.
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Listen now, to this gospel reading, taken from the book
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of Mark, chapter 11, beginning with the first verse.
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When they were approaching Jerusalem at Bethphage
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and Bethany, near the mount of olives.
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He sent two of his disciples and said to them,
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go into the village ahead of you and immediately
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as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt
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that has never been ridden, untie it and bring it.
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If anyone says to you, why are you doing this?
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Just say this, the Lord needs it
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and will send it back immediately.
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They went away and found the colt tied near a door
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outside in the street.
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As they were untying it, some of the bystanders said
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to them, what are you doing untying the colt?
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They told them what Jesus had said and they allowed them
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to take it.
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Then, they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks
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on it and he sat on it.
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Many people spread their cloaks on the road
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and others spread leafy branches that they had cut
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in the fields.
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Then those that went ahead
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and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna,
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blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,
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blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David.
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Hosanna in the highest Heaven.
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Then, he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple
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and when he had looked around at everything as
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it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the 12.
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This is the word of the Lord, thanks be to God.
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(organ music)
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(choir singing)
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(triumphant music)
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(choir singing)
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Please be seated.
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Now let us join in the prayer for illumination.
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Open our hearts and minds, oh God, by the power
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of your holy spirit, so that even as Jesus led the disciples
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into Jerusalem, we might follow him
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where he would lead us, amen.
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The epistle lesson this morning comes
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from the book of Philippians, chapter two, verses 5
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through eleven.
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Let the same mind be in you, that was in Christ, Jesus,
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who though he was in the form of God,
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did not regard equality with God as something
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to be exploited, but emptied himself,
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taking the form of a slave,
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being born in human likeness and being found in human form,
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he humbled himself and became obedient
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to the point of death.
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Even death on a cross.
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Therefore, God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name
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that is above every name.
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So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bend,
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in Heaven and on Earth and under the Earth
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and every tongue should confess
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that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father,
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this is the word of the Lord.
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This is the day that Jesus,
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the young prophet about whom we have heard so much,
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led his disciples into the capitol city, into Jerusalem.
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Previously the work of Jesus has been confined
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to the Hinterland and out of the way places like Capernaum.
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Today the small town boy from Nazareth,
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comes into the big city to claim his prize.
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Today is like the day of that Olympic skier,
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that practiced in some out of the way corner
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of Vermont for years, only at to last stand
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at the Olympic podium and receive the gold.
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Crowds go wild,
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as Jesus and his people enter the town.
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They cut palm branches and they wave palm branches,
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a sign of honor, a sign of welcome.
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Hosanna, hail Jesus!
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Hail king Jesus!
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And yet here is the Palm Sunday question,
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are we ready to welcome this Jesus?
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a brave,
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persecuted Russian intellectual.
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From the gulag, he dared to criticize the evils
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of Communism.
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And so one of the big events of the 70's
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was when Solzhenitsyn decided to defect to the West
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and he was welcomed in our country with open arms,
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this persecuted refugee, this intellectual,
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this saint of anti-Communism.
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And he was welcomed here as a triumph of our system
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over their system and when he came here,
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he paraded right to Harvard where he gave a speech.
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And in his speech Solzhenitsyn said
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that he worried about the soul of people under Communism,
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but he had to come to worry more about the soul
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of people under Western Capitalism.
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Solzhenitsyn told us at Harvard, you're going
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to Hell, right behind Lee Iacocca and Mickey Mouse,
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General Motors and Walt Disney.
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And a lot of us decided we like Solzhenitsyn better
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in the Soviet Union.
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(congregation laughing)
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We have this convocation every year
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here in the chapel in the Fall,
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Founder's Day, and usually someone important is invited
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and gives a speech.
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And the speeches are usually of the same theme,
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about how great Duke is and how wonderful it is
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to be here, and how great our founders were
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for getting us started and two years ago,
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we all marched in here in the chapel,
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the president, the various deans, members of the faculty,
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scholarship recipients, and the speaker
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was Reynolds Price, the president got up
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and said how honored we were to have Reynolds Price
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speaking to us, he was one of Duke's finest products,
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he was one of our most noteworthy professors,
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great teacher, wonderful novelist.
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And then Reynolds got up at the podium,
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he was wheeled to the podium and there he was
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in his Oxford robe fur trimmed, he looked all the world
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harmless and he started to speak.
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And he told us, that Duke students in the 50's
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were 10 times more interesting intellectual
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than Duke students in the 90's
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and he called the Duke faculty a bunch of laggards
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and sluggards for not demanding enough of our students
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and he spoke of the glazed over eyes in his seminar classes
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and the inane comments that were made.
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And he challenged us, get on the bus between East
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and West campus any day and I challenge you to try
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to hear one more interesting conversation
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than simply, I can't believe how drunk I was last night.
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(clears throat)
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I had a great view from where I was sitting
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of the faculty.
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You could see the deans, as their faces got redder
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and redder, one dean's face got so red, you could
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have roasted wieners on it.
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(congregation laughs)
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And after the speech, as Reynolds was wheeled back next
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to me, there was sort of polite,
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but decidedly restrained applause.
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He leaned over to me, he said, do you think they're
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going to kill me for that?
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And I said no, but I wouldn't count
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on being invited back a second time.
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(congregation laughs)
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(clears throat)
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A few years ago, my family and I, I was teaching
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out in Southern California, and one Sunday we went
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to the Crystal Cathedral and to our surprise,
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the customary preacher at the Crystal Cathedral
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was not in residence, I think he was
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out spreading the gospel in Hawaii or something.
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And so they said they would have a guest preacher.
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And to my consternation, the guest preacher was none other
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than Charles Colson, reborn Evangelical of Watergate fame.
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Great, I thought, I've come all the way out here,
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I'm at the Crystal Cathedral
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and here's some jail bird friend of Richard Nixon stand
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up and preach.
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Well there was this glowing introduction,
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and the person told about how Charles Colson
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had after his serving his time, he had been born again,
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how Jesus had transformed Charles Colson's life,
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how he was now had founded an international prison ministry.
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Colson began his sermon by thanking people
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at the Crystal Cathedral.
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Telling them what a great honor it was for him
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to preach at such a beautiful building
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and such an attractive congregation arrayed before him.
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Such a glorious setting.
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He told them that it was quite a contrast
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from where he had spent yesterday.
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Yesterday, he said, all day Saturday, I was
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at the Los Angeles prison camp
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and there I did not see nice people, coats and ties,
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Sunday best.
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There, I spoke with rapists and murderers and thieves.
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Sort of a pause, Colson said,
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of course you know
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in which setting Jesus would have felt most comfortable.
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You know if Jesus were given a choice
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between speaking at the Crystal Cathedral
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or working out at the Los Angeles prison camp,
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you know where he would be, don't you?
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And then for the next 30 minutes, he had us by the throat.
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He worked us over right and left, he told us we ought
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to be ashamed of sitting there in our Sunday finery
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while little children starve.
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He told us the only the difference between that congregation
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and the congregation he saw at the prison camp
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was we happened to make most of our money legally.
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On the way out, I managed to shake Mr. Colson's hand.
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I told him that I hope he enjoyed his first sermon
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at the Crystal Cathedral, because I thought
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it would probably be his last at the Crystal Cathedral.
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I saw him a couple years later in Raleigh
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and I remembered that event and he said,
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you know it was my last.
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Now Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is a great turning point
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in Mark's gospel.
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There is sort of a pivot that occurs right here,
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chapter 11, Mark's gospel.
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Heretofore, all of the action has been out
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in the Hinterlands, out back, in little backwater towns
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like Capernaum.
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Thus far, Jesus' great revolution has been little more
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than a rag-tag bunch of poor fisherman and tax collectors
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and others trotting around after Jesus
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out in dusty little towns.
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But, now you get the feeling that the pace is quickening.
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You get the feeling that everything is coming
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to a head.
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Previously, Jesus walked.
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But, now Jesus commands a colt to be secured.
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Before Jesus has confined himself to the alleyways
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of small hick towns like Nazareth.
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Now, he rides into the capitol city.
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Time was, Jesus would perform some spectacular miracle
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and then he would tell his disciples,
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don't tell anybody about this, keep it quiet.
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But, now he openly displays himself, riding
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into Jerusalem, the crowds are shouting,
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people are claiming that he is the long awaited king.
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He rides up Pennsylvania avenue, the crowds go wild,
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hailing the coming kingdom of our ancestor, David,
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royal enthronement psalms from the Old Testament
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are quoted.
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Jesus is riding in like some victorious, conquering general.
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He is hailed with waving palms, and shouting crowds
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and little children hailing the one who comes
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in the name of the Lord.
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The conqueror is come to town to seize his prize,
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ride on king Jesus!
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And what happens next,
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is a shock.
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Jesus re-enters Jerusalem,
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not on Palm Sunday.
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But, he strides into the chapel, the temple.
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He disrupts the service with shouts,
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he turns over the tables, he curses the people there.
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He tells them a nasty little story about the parable
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of the wicked tenants.
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He tells them that God's vineyard is gonna be taken
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away from you and given to somebody else.
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He accuses the clergy of vile corruption.
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He threatens the inhabitants of Jerusalem
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with doom.
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He curses the department of religion for being a bunch
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of ignorant fools without a clue.
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And finally, he tells everybody, have a good time
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today in the chapel because every stone of this building
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will be turned upside down.
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How would you feel if you had been in the Palm Sunday parade
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that day?
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Talking about wearing out your welcome about,
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to having rolled out the red carpet,
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only to have it besmirched by Jesus.
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To have their town and their religion and every thing
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that they cherished, trashed
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by this ungrateful intruder.
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How would you feel?
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You can almost feel it right now in this service.
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This service is starting to turn right about now.
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And we're starting to wonder if it's such a good idea
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to have invited Jesus into our world.
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Couple of Falls ago, I had Jesus at not one
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of his better moments.
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I had to preach Jesus' parable, the story of Jesus
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and the rich, young ruler.
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And, if you notice in this story, it's where
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this upwardly mobile, nice, talented young man is called
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to follow Jesus.
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It's just Jesus says, I want you to do one little thing.
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I want you to go sell everything you have, give it
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to the poor, then come follow me.
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And Luke says, it was that, the young man slumped down
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and got real depressed and left.
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And Jesus says, it is hard to get one of these rich people
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in my kingdom.
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And I just kind of retold the story.
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I just kind of left it like that.
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Monday morning, I was in the U room for breakfast,
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with the students.
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I was moving through the cafeteria line.
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Professor in the department of religion comes to me and says
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well what happened yesterday?
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And I said, excuse me?
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And he said, well just sort of got it all out on the table,
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did not know what to do with it, did we?
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Just sort of couldn't think of an ending for the sermon,
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could we?
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And I said, really?
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And he said, well don't worry about it, you're normally
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quite adequate on Sunday mornings, you can't be good
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every Sunday, can you?
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(congregation laughs)
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And I said, okay, before I could get
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through the line, ran into a professor
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from the divinity school and he said to me,
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well I felt sorry for you yesterday, I tell you,
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after that dead anthem by the choir, there was nothing
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you could do in the sermon to redeem that service, right?
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I mean, you know, of course the sermon was gonna be flat
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and dead, but I mean after that anthem.
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You've got to tell those musicians kinda to help you.
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I felt sorry for you up there, just dying up there.
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I staggered over there, took my seat.
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This sophomore, he said to me
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after we started eating breakfast,
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I wanted to talk to you about the sermon yesterday.
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I said, look kid, don't mess with me.
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(congregation laughs)
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I might have to take this off some people,
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I don't have to take it off sophomores, all right?
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He said, you know, I just, I went home just sick.
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I just went home ill.
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I said, really?
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I went home and had lunch.
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What was the problem?
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He said, I just, I had this religious experience
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when I was a freshman and I just I wanted
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to give my life to God, I wanted to serve Jesus
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and I just said, Jesus, what the heck do you want from me?
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Is it not enough that I try to love you, that I pray
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to you, that I try to serve you as best I can?
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What do you want?
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I mean, I've got a bicycle, can I keep the bicycle?
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What is it you want?
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I just felt sick.
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You'd think he'd make it a little easier,
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you'd think it would be.
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I said to him, you see that aging man, sitting
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over there having breakfast across from us?
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I wish you could go over there and sort of explain it
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to him.
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I think you got the point.
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I think you kinda know what it's like
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to have Jesus intrude.
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The Jesus whom we welcome with loud Hosannas
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and waving palms, is not the Jesus we get.
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The kingdom whose advent we so excitedly proclaim
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with Hosanna, is not the kingdom we receive.
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It is a rude intrusion into our kingdoms
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and that's why now you get the impression
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this service has shifted
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from Palm Sunday joy to a foretaste of Good Friday grief.
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That's why when we sing this last hymn, it's hard to know
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whether it's to be sung, it's hard to know
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whether you're supposed to dance or you're supposed
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to rend your garments in grief.
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What will you do with this Jesus?
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Later this week, down at the courthouse,
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the judge will ask us,
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what will you have me do with this Jesus?
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What will we do with this Jesus?
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We shall see as this week progresses,
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what shall become of Jesus.
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♪ Ride on King Jesus ♪
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♪ No man can-a-hinder you. ♪
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♪ Ride on King Jesus. ♪
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♪ Ride King Jesus ride to me... ♪
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(choir singing)
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The Lord be with you.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, we welcomed you today with shouts of Hosanna.
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But, you know how quickly our accolades of praise
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turn into words of condemnation.
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We welcomed you as a king who could give us what we want,
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but you confront us as a God who exposes the truth
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about our lives and calls us to be what you intend us
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to be.
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Lord, open us to receive you as the pushy, confronting,
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transforming God that you are.
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Rather than the obliging, giving king that we expected.
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Enlarge our narrow vision of your kingdom,
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free us from small hearts and closed defensiveness.
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Open our hearts and minds and lives to you
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that we might hear what we would rather not hear.
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And see what we would rather not see.
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Help us see the truth about our lives,
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reveal the stark truth about our selfishness and greed.
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Expose our self centeredness and self righteousness.
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Show us the idols that we serve,
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disrupt our complacency,
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intrude upon our settled lives and tell us
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what you want of us.
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What do you really want of us?
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And give us the courage to follow.
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Help us hear what we would rather not hear,
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and see what we would rather not see.
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Open our ears to the cries of the needy
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and despairing in our midst.
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Show us the homeless who live in cardboard shacks
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under our bridges,
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the children with distended stomachs and hopeless eyes,
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the multitude of prisoners who are throwaways
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from our society,
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the unwelcome refugee and immigrant,
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the lonely neighbor.
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Help us hear what we would rather not hear,
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and see what we would rather not see.
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For we know that it is your desire not to condemn us,
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but to save us and to free us for abundant life.
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Show us the vision that you have for each one
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of us and for our world.
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Give us the courage to follow you wherever you lead,
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even to the cross.
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Help us not fear being crucified with you.
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That we might also rise with you to new life.
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Reveal the possibilities for abundance
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that you have seen
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that our lives and our gifts might be used
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to establish your righteous realm,
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in the name of our Lord, and our savior,
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Jesus the Christ, amen.
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Let us offer ourselves and our gifts in praise
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and thanks giving.
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(organ music)
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(choir singing)
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(organ music)
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As soon as it was morning, the chief priests
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held a consultation with the elders and scribes
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and the whole council.
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They bound Jesus, led him away
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and handed him over to Pilate.
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Pilate asked him, are you the king of the Jews?
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He answered him,
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you say so.
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Then the chief priests accused him of many things.
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Pilate asked him again,
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have you no answer?
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See how many charges they bring against you.
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But, Jesus made no further reply so that Pilate
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was amazed.
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Now, at the festival, he used to release a prisoner
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for them, any one for whom they asked.
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Now a man called Barrabas was imprisoned
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with the rebels who had committed murder
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during the insurrection so the crowd came
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and began to ask Pilate to do for them according
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to his custom.
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Then, he answered them, do you want me to release
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for you the king of the Jews?
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For he realized it was out of jealousy
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that the chief priests had handed him over.
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But, the chief priests stirred up the crowd
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to have him release Barabbas for them instead.
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Pilate spoke to them again, then what do you wish me
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to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?
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They shouted back,
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Crucify him!
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Pilate asked them, why?
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What evil has he done?
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But, the shouted all the more.
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Crucify him!
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,
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released Barrabas for them.
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And after flogging Jesus, he handed him over
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to be crucified.
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Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard
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of the palace.
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That is, the governor's headquarters,
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and they called together the whole cohort,
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and they clothed him in a purple cloak,
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and after twisting some thorns into a crown,
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the put it on him and they began saluting him.
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Hail, king of the Jews.
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And they struck his head with a reed, spat
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upon him and knelt down in homage to him.
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After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak,
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and put his own clothes on him.
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Then, they led him out to crucify him.
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They compelled a passerby, who was coming
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in from the country to carry his cross.
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It was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
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Then, they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha,
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which means the place of a skull.
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And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh,
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but he did not take it.
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And they crucified him and divided his clothes among them,
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casting lots to decide what each should take.
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It was nine o' clock in the morning
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when they crucified him.
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The inscription of the charge against him read,
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the king of the Jews.
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And with him they crucified two bandits,
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one on his right and one on his left.
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Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads
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and saying,
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Ah, You who are going to destroy the temple
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and build it in three days, save yourself
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and come down from the cross.
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In the same way, the chief priests,
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along with the scribes were also mocking him
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among themselves and saying,
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he saved others, he cannot save himself.
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Let the messiah, the king of Israel, come down
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from the cross now, so that we may see and believe.
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Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.
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When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land
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until three in the afternoon.
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At three o' clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
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Eloi, eloi!
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Lema sabachthani!
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Which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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When some of the bystanders heard it,
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they said listen!
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Listen he is calling for Elijah!
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And someone ran, filled the sponge with sour wine,
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put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink, saying
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wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.
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Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and breathed his last.
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And the curtain of the temple was torn in two
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from top to bottom and when the centurion
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who stood facing him saw that, and in this way,
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he breathed his last, he said, truly this man
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was God's son.
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(choir singing)
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And now may the peace of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ
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and the love of God be with us now and ever more, amen.
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(organ music)