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♪ Lord is gracious ♪
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♪ His mercy is everlasting ♪
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♪ And his truth ♪
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♪ Endureth from generation to generation ♪
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♪ For the Lord is gracious ♪
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♪ His mercy is everlasting ♪
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♪ And his truth ♪
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♪ Endureth from generation to generation ♪
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♪ For the Lord is gracious ♪
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♪ His mercy is everlasting ♪
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♪ And his truth ♪
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♪ Endureth from generation to generation ♪
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♪ From generation to generation ♪
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♪ To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ The God whom Heaven and earth adore ♪
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♪ From men and from the angel host ♪
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♪ Be praise and glory evermore ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Good morning, and we are happy that you are here
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worshiping with us in Duke Chapel.
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We have been led in worship by the Alamance Chorale
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and their director Mr. Sam Doyle.
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We always appreciate their visits to Duke Chapel
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and their leadership in our worship,
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and we appreciate the friendship of Dr. Walter Westefer
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who was a member of the congregation in Duke Chapel
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both for his flowers and his help
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in bringing the Alamance Chorale to us today.
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And now let us continue our worship.
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♪ How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord ♪
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♪ Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word ♪
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♪ What more can He say than to you He hath said ♪
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♪ Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled ♪
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♪ Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed ♪
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♪ For I am thy God and will still give thee aid ♪
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♪ I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand ♪
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♪ Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand ♪
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♪ When through the deep waters I call thee to go ♪
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♪ The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow ♪
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♪ For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless ♪
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♪ And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress ♪
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♪ When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie ♪
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♪ My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply ♪
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♪ The flame shall not hurt thee, I only design ♪
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♪ Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine ♪
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♪ The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose ♪
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♪ I will not, I will not desert to his foes ♪
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♪ That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake ♪
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♪ I'll never, no never, no never forsake ♪
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Let us pray.
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Almighty and everlasting God,
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in Christ you have revealed your glory to all the nations,
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preserve the works of your mercy
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that your church throughout the world
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may persevere with steadfast faith
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in the confession of your name
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through your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Amen.
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Please be seated.
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Let us pray together.
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The prayer for elimination.
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Open our hearts and minds, oh God,
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by the power of your Holy Spirit
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so that as the word is read and proclaimed
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we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.
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Amen.
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The first lesson is taken from Micah.
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"Hear, you peoples, all of you
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"hearken, O earth, and all that is in it
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"and let the Lord God be a witness against you,
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"the Lord from the holy temple.
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"Woe to those who devise wickedness
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"and work evil upon their beds.
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"When the morning dawns, they perform it,
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"because it is in the power of their hand.
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"They covet fields, and seize them;
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"and houses, and take them away;
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"they oppress people and their houses,
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"people and their inheritance.
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"Therefore thus says the Lord;
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"Behold, against this family I am devising evil,
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"from which you cannot remove your necks;
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"and you shall not walk haughtily,
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"for it will be an evil time.
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"In that day they shall take up a taunting song against you,
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"and wail with bitter lamentation,
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"and say, we are utterly ruined;
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"the portion of my people has changed;
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"it is removed from me;
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"our fields are divided among our captors.
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"Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot
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"in the assembly of the Lord.
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"Do not preach, thus they preach,
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"one should not preach of such things;
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"disgrace will not overtake us.
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"Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
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"Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?
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"Are these God's doings?
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"Do not my words do good to the one who walks uprightly?
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"But you rise against my people as an enemy;
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"you strip the robe from the peaceful,
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"from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
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"The women of my people you drive out
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"from their pleasant houses;
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"from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
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"Arise and go, for this is no place to rest;
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"because of uncleanness that destroys
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"with a grievous destruction."
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Here ends the reading of the first lesson.
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Please stand for the reading of the psalter.
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Vindicate me, oh God, for I have walked in my integrity
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and I have trusted in God without wavering.
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Prove me, oh God, and try me.
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Test my heart and my mind.
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For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
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and I walk in your faithfulness.
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I do not sit with men of falsehood,
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nor do I consort with hypocrites.
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I hate the company of evildoers,
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and I will not sit with the wicked.
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I wash my hands in innocence,
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and go about your altar, O God,
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singing aloud a song of thanksgiving
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and telling all your wondrous deeds.
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O Lord, I love the habitation of your house
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and the place where your glory dwells.
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Sweep me not away with sinners,
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nor my life with those who are bloodthirsty
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and whose hands are evil devices,
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and whose right hands are full of bribes.
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But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
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redeem me, and be gracious to me.
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My foot stands on level ground;
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in the great assembly I bless the Lord.
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♪ Glory be to our Creator ♪
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♪ Praise to our Redeemer Lord ♪
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♪ Glory be to our Sustainer ♪
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♪ Ever three and ever one ♪
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♪ As it was in the beginning ♪
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♪ Now and ever more shall be ♪
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The gospel lesson is taken Saint Luke.
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Hear the word of the Lord.
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"On the way to Jerusalem,
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"Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee
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"and entering a village he was met by 10 people with leprosy
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"who stood at a distance
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"and lifted up their voices and said,
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"Jesus, master, have mercy on us.
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"And seeing them Jesus said,
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"go and show yourselves to the priests.
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"And as they went they were cleansed.
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"Then one of them, seeing that he was healed,
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"turned back praising God with a loud voice
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"and he fell down at Jesus' feet giving thanks.
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"Now that one was a Samaritan.
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"Then Jesus said, were not 10 cleansed?
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"Where are the nine?
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"Was no one found to return and give praise to God
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"except for this foreigner?
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"And Jesus said to him, rise and go your way.
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"Your faith has made you well."
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The word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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♪ The eyes of all wait upon thee ♪
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♪ And thou givest them their meat in due season ♪
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♪ The eyes of all wait upon thee ♪
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♪ And thou givest them their meat in due season ♪
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♪ Thou openest thine hand ♪
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♪ And satisfiest the desire of every living thing ♪
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♪ Of every living thing ♪
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♪ Of every living thing ♪
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♪ The eyes of all wait upon thee ♪
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♪ And thou givest them their meat in due season ♪
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♪ The eyes of all wait upon thee ♪
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♪ And thou givest them their meat in due season ♪
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♪ The eyes of all wait upon thee ♪
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♪ Wait upon thee ♪
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The epistle lesson is taken
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from Paul's second letter to Timothy.
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"Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead,
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"descended from David as preached in my gospel,
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"the gospel for which I am suffering
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"and wearing fetters like a criminal.
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"But the word of God is not fettered.
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"Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect,
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"that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus
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"with its eternal glory.
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"The saying is sure.
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"If we have died with Christ,
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"we shall also live with Christ;
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"if we endure, we shall also reign with Christ;
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"if we make denial, Christ will deny us;
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"if we are faithless, that one remains faithful,
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"for there can be no denying of self.
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"Remind them of this and charge them before the Lord
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"to avoid disputing about words,
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"which does no good but only ruins the heroes.
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"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
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"a worker who has no need to be ashamed,
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"rightly handling the word of truth."
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Here ends the reading of the epistle lesson.
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He owned a hardware store,
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and was a member of my congregation.
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When I moved to that congregation
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somebody had warned me about him.
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"He's usually quiet," they said, "but be careful."
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Because people in the congregation
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still remember that Sunday back in 1968
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when, right in the middle of the sermon,
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the preacher's usual weekly diatribe
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against Nixon and the Vietnam war,
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he had stood up from where he was sitting
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in the congregation, shook his head angrily,
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and said, "Enough is enough."
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And he had walked out the back door of the church.
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Now, he had not walked out on a sermon in 10 years,
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but, nevertheless, you can understand why
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when I preached for the first few sermons there
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I kept on eye on my sermon notes and on eye on him.
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And you can imagine my anxiety on that Sunday
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when, at the end of the service,
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when everyone had filed out of the church and shaken my hand
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he was standing alone there in the narthex
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and approached me gritting his teeth saying,
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"I just don't see it the way you do, preacher."
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I moved into my best mode of defensive non-defensiveness,
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assuring him that, well, after all, the sermon
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was just one way of looking at it,
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and that perhaps he'd misunderstood what I was trying to say
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and maybe even if he had not misunderstood
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what I was trying to say, maybe I was wrong.
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And then he said something I've always remembered.
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"Don't you take it back," he snapped.
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"I just said your sermon shook me up.
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"I didn't ask you to take it back.
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"You stick by it if you're a real preacher."
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And then be said to me,
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with an almost desperate tone in his voice,
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"Look, preacher, I run a hardware store.
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"And sometimes the only thing
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"keeping me from complete despair
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"is whatever word of God
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I happen to hear in a sermon.
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"Don't dare take it back."
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It is an awesome, well nigh, impossible task
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to preach this word of God.
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Sometimes the only thing saving me
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from complete despair as a preacher
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is your encouragement of me as a congregation
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to dare to speak.
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I think some congregations get the preachers they deserve.
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Today's epistle is taken
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from Paul's second letter to Timothy.
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Paul writes his younger colleague, Timothy,
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from a jail cell.
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The source, by the way,
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of some of the best Christian writing.
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Paul tells Timothy to,
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"Remember Jesus Christ, as preached in my gospel."
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Paul, in jail, cannot be with Timothy
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to guide him,
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to be present with him.
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All that Timothy has now in Paul's forced absence,
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is remembrance of Paul's words.
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And it's just words.
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But it is for these words that Paul says,
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"I am now suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal.
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"But the word of God is not fettered."
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Paul is in chains.
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He is fettered in some Roman Alcatraz.
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But they can't chain Paul's gospel.
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You can chain a man, but you can't chain words.
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You can't fetter words, the Word.
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And so Paul encourages Timothy,
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"Do your best to present yourself to God,
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"a workman who need not be ashamed,
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"rightly handling the word of truth."
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He doesn't tell Timothy to be polite.
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He doesn't urge him to be popular.
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He tells him to handle the Word, the unfettered Word.
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It would appear from Paul's letter here
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that the only thing for which a Christian preacher
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has to be ashamed is in poorly handling "the word of truth."
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So tell me, after the sermon,
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"That didn't make me feel good,"
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or "William Buckley would kill you for that,"
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or "Teddy Kennedy would curse you for that."
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I won't take offense, that's not the point.
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But tell me that I haven't handed over the unfettered word,
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and I'm supposed to go home sick.
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Paul is in chains.
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He cannot be with Timothy.
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He cannot be with the church.
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All he can do is to smuggle out some
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unfettered word.
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Of course there are chains and then there are chains.
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As a preacher, I too am in chains.
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No, nobody's ever threatened me with jail for my preaching.
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But iron bars do not a prison make.
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I like to be liked.
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Oh, I talk a good game of confrontation
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but, all other things being equal,
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I like to get along with people,
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I adore their approval, I pander to their praise.
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Look, I didn't get elected president of my class
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from the seventh to the eleventh grade in school
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by being calloused to what I said to other people.
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And as a preacher, particularly in this setting,
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oh, academic freedom.
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Academic freedom can be fettering for a preacher.
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I want to be academically approved,
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and therefore one mustn't be too simple
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or too trite in speaking.
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Latest books should be cited.
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When told, by one of our choir, last spring after a sermon,
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"That was a typical Willimon sermon,
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"a rather profound idea disguised as triviality."
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Well, I went home and inserted footnotes in my next sermon.
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I want to preach, to speak the word,
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but not in any unbalanced way, not to overstate,
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not to oversimplify complex intellectual matters,
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to lean too far on one side and not the other.
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This is a university pulpit, after all.
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I am chained.
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But the word of God is not
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fettered.
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I've just gotten back from Germany.
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There, 50 years ago,
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the church went through a devastating time,
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a devastating test during the "Hitlerzeit,"
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the "Hitler Time,"
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a test which, for the most part, the church flunked.
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As Karl Barth wrote,
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"When it came time for the German church to say no,
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"it was about 200 years too late,
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"the church having said yes to so much."
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The greatest theological minds of the German church
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had been enlisted to convince the church
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that the greatest task facing contemporary Christians
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is to communicate with the modern world.
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The modern world.
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But in leaning over to speak to this modem world,
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the church had fallen in.
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We had succeeded in preaching not only in a way
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that was acceptable to Copernicus and Darwin
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but also to the Nazis.
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Karl Barth was horrified that the church now lacked
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the theological resources to stand against Hitler.
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But having spent decades telling itself
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that the Bible is just one book among others,
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that the Jewishness of Jesus really wasn't that important,
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that Christianity is just one moment
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in the long march of the progress
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of all the world's great religions,
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there was nothing left wherewith to take a stand.
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We had lost means to resist,
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we had lost the means even to know
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that there was something worth resisting.
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"Jesus was not really a Jew," they had said.
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The important thing about Jesus
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is he is the greatest example
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of the highest and best of all humanity,
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the teacher of noble ideals.
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And it was a short step from the liberal Christ
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the-highest-in-humanity to the Nazi Superman.
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But the good news was that there was still some
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within the German Church, who remembered.
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Even in those self-wrought chains they remembered.
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In 1934 Karl Barth wrote The Barmen Declaration which began,
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"Jesus Christ, as he is attested in Holy Scripture,
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"is the one Word of God to which we have to listen
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"and trust in life and death.
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"And we reject as false doctrine
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"that the church would have to acknowledge
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"as a source of proclamation
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"apart from and besides this one Word of God,
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"other events, and powers, and figures and truths,
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"as God's revelation."
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You see, when the church was bereft of leaders,
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and power, and government protection,
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only one thing was left, there was only thing.
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The Word of God.
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The one Word of God, thank God, was not fettered.
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It is a fearful thing to be left,
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abandoned to our own devices,
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orphaned,
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in a world where there is not one person left
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to speak the unfettered word.
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Powerful social forces conspire
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to tempt the church to adopt, to adapt, to conform.
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Reinhold Niebuhr, as a young pastor,
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said that when he became a young pastor,
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he thought that there were so many tame,
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innocuous, trivial, little preachers
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because pastors feared that, if they spoke in the wrong way,
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they would get fired.
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Later, Niebuhr said, after he became a preacher,
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he learned the real truth.
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It is love of a congregation,
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rather than fear of them,
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that tames a preacher.
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"It is hard to speak unpleasant things
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"to people whom one has learned to love," said Niebuhr.
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And yet today's text reminds me
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that if I, as preacher, am silent out of love,
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if I chain the Gospel it's a false love,
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because the Word of God is just not fettered.
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Paul is in chains, but not his gospel.
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As long as there was just one person let loose,
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just one person to remember the word,
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one young preacher named Timothy still loose.
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I was serving in a little southern town
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when the racially segregated schools were integrated.
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And one night there was a meeting,
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and the meeting was attended
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by everybody in town of a certain color,
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and it was at the town's high school
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to decide what to do to save our schools.
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What could be done to keep them out of our schools?
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And one by one, angry speakers rose to call for boycott,
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to call for resistance, to call for violence even
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if that were necessary
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to protect ours from theirs.
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At the meeting there was this old,
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half-broken down Baptist preacher,
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and I think he had baptized or married or buried
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just about everybody of a certain color in that town
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at one time or another.
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He was old.
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His once clear bass voice
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now reduced to a whine and a crack.
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Just an old preacher, ready to be put out to pasture.
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He came late to the meeting that night,
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and he stood silently at the back and he listened.
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And after the meeting had gone on for some time,
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he moved silently to the microphone,
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and people passed to let him through,
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this honored old preacher.
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He stood before the microphone for a long moment in silence,
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his eyes swept across the gathered throng.
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And then he spoke in measured, sure, certain cadence.
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"There is neither male nor female.
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek,
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"slave nor free, white nor black.
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"There is one Lord.
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"And one faith.
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"And one baptism.
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"Galatians three.
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"Go home, and read your Bibles!"
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And then he walked out.
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And the meeting was over.
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Oh, they tried to get things started up again,
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but one by one people quietly slipped out.
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And the schools integrated that fall without incident.
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You see, we have our chains.
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But the Word of God is unfettered.
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This past summer, we drove down to a place
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between Lake City and Coward, South Carolina.
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I bet that some of you don't know where that is.
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We drove down to hear my father-in-law
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preach his third farewell sermon
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as he prepared to retire from the Christian ministry
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for the third time.
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After his first retirement, 10 years ago,
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he was sent by the bishop to some tiny little rural churches
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nobody else wanted to go to.
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But this year he told them that now, at last,
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he really was going to retire.
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He was going to retire for good
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and move to the mountains at Hendersonville
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to live among the Floridians.
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A hot Sunday summer sun rose over green tobacco fields
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and the service began in this beautiful little white church
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nestled there in a little grove of pine trees.
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And for the occasion he had asked a quartet
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of sweet, soprano voices to sing his favorite song,
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the 90 and Nine.
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If you've ever heard it, it's an old Irish song I think.
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It's about the story that Jesus told about a shepherd
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that leaves the 90 and nine,
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and goes out and looks for the one lost sheep.
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And they sang so sweetly.
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"There were ninety-and-nine, safe in the fold
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"and the shepherd goes out,
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"and looks for the one lost sheep."
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And they sang beautifully.
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I don't think I'd heard it since I was a child.
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Don't think it's ever been sung in Duke Chapel.
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But after they sang, he preached.
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Before he set off for the mountains of Hendersonville,
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Carl Parker preached.
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His text?
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Some other words from Paul about the depth and the height,
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and the breadth and the width of the love of God.
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And it was Father's Day,
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so he managed to work into the sermon
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a little bit about fathers
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and how beautiful it is to see
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how much fathers love their families
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and how much they cherish their children.
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And he said, you know, God loves us even more than that,
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even the greatest love we can imagine of a father,
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God's love is greater.
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And then abruptly right in the middle of the sermon,
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he started talking about a man who was to die the next day
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in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina.
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And I'd heard about the man
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because on the nightly news on the Saturday before,
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I'd seen a picture of this man who was on death row
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and somebody somewhere in South Carolina
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had held a worship service in remembrance
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for the victims of this man's criminal activities
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and their families.
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He had killed a couple of people,
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maimed a couple of others for life,
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in his rampage of terror.
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And the preacher at that worship service
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had declared that this man deserved more than any to die.
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The preacher had gotten carried away
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and said he wish he could go to Columbia
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and he just wished that he could take hold
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of that switch on that electric chair
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and throw the switch
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and dispose of this piece of human refuse.
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Well, Mr. Parker went into lurid detail
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describing this man's crimes.
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And then he said, "And yet, today's scripture,
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"and the sweet song which we have just heard,
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"says that God loves that man on death row,
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"that God values that man's soul
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"as much or more than he values ours."
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And the congregation got real quiet.
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"Why, according to Jesus' story of the Lost Sheep,"
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the preacher continued,
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"God will gladly leave the 90-and-nine
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"who are gathered here this morning safe in the fold."
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I think there were about 90-and-nine of us there.
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"And he will go all the way to Columbia
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"and sit beside that man on death row,
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"just to get hold of that one lost sheep.
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"And Jesus said that when God gets him,
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"there is more joy in heaven over that
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"than over the 90-and-nine gathered here today.
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"The safe ones here in church."
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I noted at the end of the service
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the congregation seemed a lot more willing
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for preacher Parker to go on and retire to Hendersonville.
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Oh, he's old, he's long past time for decent retirement.
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They've got him now safely stored
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among the Floridians in Hendersonville.
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They're safe.
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He won't be preaching much anymore.
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But the Word of God is unfettered.
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♪ O Spirit of the living God ♪
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♪ Thou light and fire divine ♪
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♪ Descend upon thy church once more ♪
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♪ And make it truly thine ♪
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♪ Fill it with love and joy and power ♪
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♪ With righteousness and peace ♪
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♪ Till Christ shall dwell in human hearts ♪
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♪ And sin and sorrow cease ♪
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♪ Blow, wind of God, with wisdom blow ♪
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♪ Until our minds are free ♪
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♪ From mists of error, clouds of doubt ♪
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♪ Which blind our eyes to thee ♪
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♪ Burn, winged fire, inspire our lips ♪
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♪ With flaming love and zeal ♪
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♪ To preach to all thy great good news ♪
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♪ God's glorious commonweal ♪
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♪ Teach us to utter living words ♪
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♪ Of truth which all may hear ♪
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♪ The language all may understand ♪
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♪ When love speaks loud and clear ♪
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♪ Till every age and race and clime ♪
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♪ Shall blend their creeds in one ♪
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♪ And earth shall form one family ♪
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♪ By whom thy will is done ♪
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♪ So shall we know the power of Christ ♪
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♪ Who came this world to save ♪
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♪ So shall we rise with him to life ♪
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♪ Which soars beyond the grave ♪
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♪ And earth shall win true holiness ♪
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♪ Which makes thy children whole ♪
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♪ Till, perfected by thee, we reach ♪
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♪ Creation's glorious goal ♪
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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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Gracious and everliving God,
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by your apostle you taught us to pray
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not only for ourselves but for others.
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Guide us by your Holy Spirit
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that our prayers for others may serve your will
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and reveal your steadfast love through Christ our Lord.
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Silently let us pray for the church.
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Loving God, who have called us to be
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the faithful church of Jesus Christ
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inspire us with your spirit of unity
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that we may be one in faith, hope, baptism and service.
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Grant us the courage to tell forth your good news
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to an unreceptive world,
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that all may come to know your love
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and live to show forth your glory
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let us pray silently for the world.
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Creator God, in your wisdom you made all things,
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the earth in its fullness reveal your glory.
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We pray for the whole of creation.
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Direct the leaders of the nations,
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disturb those who perpetuate injustice,
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satisfy those who thirst for justice and liberation
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00:47:56.170 --> 00:48:00.200
and relieve those who are hungry or impoverished
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so that all your children may enjoy and share
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the good earth that you have made
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let us pray for the unemployed and the homeless.
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Almighty God, we pray for those who are fearful and anxious
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because they have no work,
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or because they have no shelter.
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Guide the people of these land and this community
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to use their resources
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so that all may find meaningful employment
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and adequate housing
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let us pray for the sick and infirm.
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Compassionate God, in Jesus Christ you healed
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and cared for those who were sick.
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By your grace, heal those who are ill
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in mind, body or circumstance,
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working in them wonders beyond their expectations
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00:49:34.660 --> 00:49:36.633
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Eternal God, accept the prayers of your people
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and strengthen us to do your will
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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With glad and thankful hearts,
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let us present our offerings of life and labor to the Lord.
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(soft organ music)
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♪ O come, let us sing unto the Lord ♪
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00:51:29.819 --> 00:51:34.819
♪ Let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation ♪
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00:51:42.151 --> 00:51:47.151
♪ Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving ♪
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00:51:48.453 --> 00:51:53.453
♪ And shew ourselves glad in him with psalms ♪
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00:51:57.674 --> 00:52:02.674
♪ For the Lord is a great God ♪
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00:52:03.171 --> 00:52:08.171
♪ And a great King above all gods ♪
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00:52:11.295 --> 00:52:16.295
♪ In his hand are all the corners of the earth ♪
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00:52:18.567 --> 00:52:23.567
♪ And the strength of the hills is his also ♪
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00:52:29.202 --> 00:52:34.202
♪ The sea is his, and he made it ♪
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00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:41.840
♪ And his hands prepared the dry land ♪
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00:52:42.218 --> 00:52:47.218
♪ The sea is his, and he made it ♪
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00:52:47.902 --> 00:52:52.902
♪ And his hands prepared the dry land ♪
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00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:02.239
♪ O come, let us worship and fall down ♪
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00:53:05.279 --> 00:53:09.779
♪ And kneel before the Lord our Maker ♪
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♪ For he is our God and we are his people ♪
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00:53:30.982 --> 00:53:35.815
♪ He is our shepherd and we are his flock ♪
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00:54:03.323 --> 00:54:08.323
♪ O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness ♪
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00:54:14.712 --> 00:54:19.712
♪ Let the whole earth stand in awe of him ♪
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00:54:23.161 --> 00:54:28.161
♪ In awe of him ♪
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♪ For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth ♪
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00:54:42.717 --> 00:54:47.717
♪ And with righteousness to judge the world ♪
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00:54:52.266 --> 00:54:57.266
♪ And the peoples with his truth ♪
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00:54:58.475 --> 00:55:01.225
♪ With his truth ♪
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00:55:16.686 --> 00:55:21.686
♪ O come, let us sing unto the Lord ♪
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00:55:22.588 --> 00:55:27.588
♪ Let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation ♪
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00:55:30.441 --> 00:55:35.191
♪ For he is the Lord ♪
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♪ For he is the Lord our God ♪
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00:55:41.523 --> 00:55:46.037
♪ Our God ♪
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00:55:46.037 --> 00:55:48.204
♪ Our God ♪
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♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
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00:56:27.153 --> 00:56:32.153
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪
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00:56:33.127 --> 00:56:36.293
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:56:36.293 --> 00:56:40.780
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:56:40.780 --> 00:56:45.780
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪
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00:56:47.031 --> 00:56:52.031
♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪
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00:56:53.356 --> 00:56:56.257
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:56:56.257 --> 00:56:59.453
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:56:59.453 --> 00:57:02.673
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:57:02.673 --> 00:57:06.092
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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00:57:06.092 --> 00:57:10.108
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Let us pray.
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Almighty and compassionate God
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00:57:26.260 --> 00:57:29.793
from whom comes every blessing and every good gift,
684
00:57:30.810 --> 00:57:33.590
we give you thanks for the goodness and mercy
685
00:57:33.590 --> 00:57:35.700
which you have bestowed upon us
686
00:57:35.700 --> 00:57:37.753
and upon all that you have made.
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00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:41.770
We praise you for your immeasurable love
688
00:57:41.770 --> 00:57:45.393
revealed in the redemption of the world by Jesus Christs.
689
00:57:46.908 --> 00:57:50.130
Grant us such an awareness of your mercies
690
00:57:50.130 --> 00:57:52.530
that with truly thankful hearts
691
00:57:52.530 --> 00:57:55.230
we may show forth your praise,
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00:57:55.230 --> 00:57:59.580
not only with our lips but also in our lives
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00:57:59.580 --> 00:58:02.800
by giving ourselves up to your service
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00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:06.113
and by walking in your paths all of our days.
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00:58:06.980 --> 00:58:09.200
Through Jesus Christ our Lord
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00:58:09.200 --> 00:58:11.860
who taught us to pray saying.
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Our Father, who art in heaven,
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00:58:15.240 --> 00:58:17.620
hallowed be thy Name,
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00:58:17.620 --> 00:58:21.300
thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
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00:58:21.300 --> 00:58:24.280
on earth as it is in heaven.
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00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:27.520
Give us this day our daily bread.
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00:58:27.520 --> 00:58:30.290
And forgive us our trespasses,
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00:58:30.290 --> 00:58:33.823
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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00:58:34.712 --> 00:58:39.650
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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00:58:39.650 --> 00:58:41.250
For thine is the kingdom,
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00:58:41.250 --> 00:58:45.770
and the power, and the glory for ever.
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00:58:45.770 --> 00:58:46.603
Amen.
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00:58:48.210 --> 00:58:52.360
The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
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00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:57.344
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
710
00:58:57.344 --> 00:58:58.177
Amen.
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00:59:43.397 --> 00:59:46.730
(imposing choral music)
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(soft organ music)