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Duke University Chapel, service of worship.
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Easter, March 26th, 1978.
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(people chattering)
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(solemn organ music)
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(solemn trumpet music)
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(energetic trumpet music)
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(upbeat trumpet music)
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(solemn trumpet music)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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The Lord is risen.
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The Lord is risen indeed, amen.
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And a voice from the throne said,
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"Behold, I make all things new."
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(congregation speaking indistinctly)
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(solemn organ music)
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♪ Christ the Lord is risen today, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Sons of men and angels say, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Raise your joys and triumphs high, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Sing ye heavens and earth reply, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Lives again our glorious king, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Where oh now is death thy sting, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Dying once our souls to save, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Where's thy victory oh stiff grave, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Loves redeeming work is done, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Fought the fight the battle won, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Death in vain forbids Him rise, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Christ has opened paradise, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Soar we now where Christ has led, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Following our exalted head, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Made like Him, like Him we rise, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, hallelujah ♪
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(organic trumpet music)
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(congregation singing harmoniously)
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The Lord is risen.
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The Lord is risen indeed, amen.
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Our faith in God's power and love,
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which we celebrate this Easter day,
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enables us to acknowledge who we are,
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and to confess our sins before God and our neighbor.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, you have put immortal longings into the hearts
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of us all, and we thank you for them.
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For the ideals which hone us, for the noble desires
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which move us to long for goodness, for the high ambitions
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to make life a beautiful thing, we thank you, oh God.
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Forgive us oh God for everything that keeps us from making
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the ideal into the real,
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for the laziness that will not make an effort,
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for the idleness which loves to do nothing,
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for the procrastination which puts things off
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until it is too late ever to do them,
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for the lack of perseverance, which gives up too easily
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and too soon, forgive us oh God.
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Grant unto us God all that we need
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to make the ideal become real,
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strength of will, steadiness of purpose,
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ability to do, willingness to bow.
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Grant us this, oh God.
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Wisdom to see what we ought to do, courage to begin it,
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fidelity to continue it, strength and skill to complete it.
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Grant us this, oh God.
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And even if we begin and fail,
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help us to know that it is better to attempt and to fail
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in some noble cause rather than not to try at all.
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So grant unto us the vision and the power to make the vision
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into a deed through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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Amen.
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Let us give thanks for God is good,
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and God's love is everlasting.
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(congregation praying indistinctly)
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Greetings in the name of the risen Christ.
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Two special opportunities to celebrate Easter are noted
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in the bulletin.
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Next Sunday at 7:00 PM here in Duke Chapel,
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the school of the arts using music and dance
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will present the passion according to St. Luke,
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a work by Penderecki, which has been called
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the most important passion written during this century.
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Then tonight, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:00 PM,
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the spectacular production of Leonard Bernstein's mass
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under the direction of Ben Smith will be presented
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in Page Auditorium.
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For your convenience, the Page box office will be open
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immediately after the service.
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It is impossible to imagine celebrating Easter
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in Duke University Chapel without the glorious music.
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On your behalf, a very special word of appreciation
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for all of the people who have made this service possible
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and especially the musicians.
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Let us pray.
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Prepare our hearts oh Lord to accept your word.
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Silence in us any voice but your own,
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that hearing, we may also obey your will
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through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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The Old Testament lesson is from the 15th chapter of Exodus,
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verses one through 11.
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"Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song
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to the Lord saying, "I will sing to the Lord,
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for He has triumphed gloriously.
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The horse and his rider, He has thrown into the sea.
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The Lord is my strength and my song,
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and He has become my salvation.
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This is my God and I will praise Him.
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My father's God and I will exalt Him.
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The Lord is a man of war.
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The Lord is His name.
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Pharaoh's chariots and his host, He cast into the sea,
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and his has picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
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The floods cover them,
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they went down into the depths like a stone.
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Thy right hand oh Lord, glorious in power.
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Thy right-hand oh Lord, shatters the enemy.
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In the greatness of thy majesty,
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thou overthrowest thine adversaries.
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Thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.
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At the blast of thy nostrils, the waters piled up,
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the floods stood up in a heap,
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the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
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The enemy said, "I will pursue, I will overtake.
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I will divide the spoil.
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My desire shall have its fill of them.
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I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them."
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Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them.
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They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
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Who is like thee oh Lord among the gods?
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Who is like thee, majestic in holiness,
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terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders."
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The epistle lesson is from the 15th chapter
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of 1 Corinthians, verses one through 11.
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"Now I would remind you brethren,
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in what terms I preached to you the gospel,
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which you received, in which you stand,
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by which you were saved.
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If you hold it fast, unless you believed in vain,
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for I delivered to you as a first importance
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what I also received,
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that Christ died for our sins in accordance
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with the scriptures, that he was buried,
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that he was raised on the third day in accordance
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with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas,
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then to the 12,
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then he appeared to more than 500 brethren at one time,
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most of whom are still alive,
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though some have fallen asleep.
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Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
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Last of all, as to one untimely born,
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he appeared also to me, for I am the least of the apostles,
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unfit to be called an apostle,
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because I persecuted the church of God.
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But by the grace of God I am what I am,
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and His grace toward me was not in vain.
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On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them,
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though it was not I, but the grace of God, which is with me.
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Whether then it was I or they,
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so we preach and so you believed."
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Here ends the reading of the epistle, amen.
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(solemn organ music)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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Will you arise to hear the words of the gospel lesson?
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Now, after the Sabbath, toward the Dawn of the first day
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of the week, Mary Magdalen and the other Mary
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went to see the sepulcher.
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And behold there was a great earthquake
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for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came
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and rolled back the stone and sat upon it.
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His appearance was like lightning,
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and his raiment white as snow.
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And for fear of him, the guards trembled and became
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like dead men.
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But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid,
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for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
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He is not here for He has risen as He said.
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Come see the place where He lay,
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then go quickly and tell his disciples that He is risen
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from the dead, and behold He is going before you to Galilee.
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There, you will see him.
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Lo, I have told you."
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So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear
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and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.
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And behold Jesus met them and said, "Hail."
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And they came up and took hold of His feet
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and worshiped Him.
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Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid.
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Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee,
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and there they will see me."
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Here ends the reading from the gospel.
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All praise and glory be to God, amen.
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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Christ the Lord is risen.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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What does the crucifixion, resurrection of Jesus, the Christ
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mean to you?
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What does it mean to me?
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Whoever you are, whatever your theological, philosophical,
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Christological, historical viewpoint,
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whatever your status or rank or position or place
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in life may be,
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wherever you have been, are now, or may be headed,
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however weak or strong your faith,
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overcome by doubts, are shored up by affirmations,
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what does the crucifixion, resurrection of Jesus, the Christ
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mean to you, to me?
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The answer you and I give to this question is at the heart
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and soul of the Christian faith,
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as we know it, as we believe it and as we live it.
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Who is this Jesus the Christ?
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Crucified, buried, raised.
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Who is He to you or to me?
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What do the life, death, resurrection of Christ mean
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on this day to each of us?
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For today is Easter day.
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Christ the Lord is risen today.
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This is indeed a day of Easter celebration.
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But let's go back a few days.
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In the crucible of redemption, a book by Carlyle Marney,
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he writes, "Everything that lives, lives only by running
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the risk of living.
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Everyone who gives birth, every mother runs the gauntlet.
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Every teacher who is a teacher, teaches himself away.
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Every doctor who has a cure rather than a mere healer
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gives himself away in driblets.
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Every brother loses himself in another.
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And unless God is a God who will die to save us,
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we cannot be saved.
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Maybe we have to keep dropping by Golgotha to see if God
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is still there so that our crucifixion is still all right
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for the God who is God gives Himself away."
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It all happened fast, almost too fast to be believed.
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Seven days ago,
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shouts of joy and celebration and acclimation.
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Three nights ago, supper together, 13 men, there were,
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close friends, intimate fellowship, bread, wine, prayers,
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hymns, the Passover feast, God in the midst of them.
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One departs, betrays.
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The other 12 finish the meal, leave singing,
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go to get semini.
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Jesus takes Peter, James and John deeper into the garden
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and goes on to pray alone.
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Arrested, forsaken, denied,
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shifted from religious authorities to civil authorities,
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condemned, death by crucifixion.
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"Bare your own cross," He was told.
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Peter burdened with the guilt
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of denying his Lord three times.
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Mary, Mary, and Mary completely bewildered.
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Jesus hanging by hands and feet, dead on a cross,
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all alone, all alone.
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"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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Surely maybe quoting a song, but also uttering a cry
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from the depths of His soul.
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I thirst, it is finished.
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"Love so amazing, so divine.
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Demands my soul, my life, my all," says the hymn writer.
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Arrest, trial, crucifixion.
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Death by mid-afternoon.
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Arrest, trial, crucifixion.
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In the tomb by dark.
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It is finished.
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It is finished.
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John tells us, the gospel of John that is,
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tells us that those were the last words which Jesus uttered
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on the cross.
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Now I know, particularly on a dreary, rainy, wet, cold,
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Easter morning, you did not come here this Easter day
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to hear about death.
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For Easter, for us of the Christian faith is not
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about death, but about resurrection.
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It's not even about immortal life,
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but it is about the resurrection of the body.
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But before resurrection, let's be sure there is death.
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Before resurrection, there has to be death.
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As a matter of fact for Jesus,
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there were many death-feel experiences in his life.
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Lost from his family as a boy,
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tempted by Satan, starving in the wilderness,
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estranged from his mother and his family,
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rejected by his hometown,
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misunderstood even by His best friends,
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betrayed by one of his own, denied by his dearest friend,
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accused recklessly, humiliated by the rulers,
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forced to walk the streets with his cross of execution,
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and finally death between two thieves.
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Death, you see, happened to Jesus and happens to us
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not only at the end of life,
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but at moments of deep pain and loss and rejection
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and separation all along the way of life.
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Indeed, life would be so much easier for us
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if there were only one death, physical,
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when we stop breathing.
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But no, there's the pain of a broken relationship,
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the unbearable hurt of someone disappointing us.
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The deep, deep agony we feel when we have been less
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than the person we know God wants us to be,
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or the bitter sadness of a love longed for,
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or a dream cherished, or a hope yearned for,
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a striving to which we have given our all
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only to find ourselves empty or beaten or broken or alone
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and saying it is finished.
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It would be so much easier if there were only one death.
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So it was with Jesus so much so that the last few days
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of Jesus' life was filled with such painful rejection
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and disappointment that he may well have felt
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as the character in one of John Buchan's novels,
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where it was described that there remained for him,
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only the trivial business of dying.
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It is finished, but not really.
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What seems to be the finish is not really the finish.
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It is finished for our Lord becomes not a stop, but a start,
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not an end, but a beginning,
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not the darkness, but the light,
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not a dead end, but an open door,
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not a brick wall, but a way through.
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Like someone said, many people leave the theater
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before the play is over.
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And here the play of Jesus' life is not over, not at all.
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As it turns out, what has happened thus far is only prelude
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or prologue or preface or introduction.
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Essential, surely it was, but only the beginning.
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For here, the good news is that the bad news of Jesus' death
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will not win out.
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Or as John Claypool, Baptist minister puts it
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reflecting upon the tragic death from leukemia
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of his 11-year-old daughter,
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"The point is," he says,
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"Life never comes to a complete dead end."
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But how often does it seem that it does?
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How often does it happen to us?
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How often do we think it is finished and really feel
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that we have had all that we can take, and that for us,
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the end has come.
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Only defined that there is more that life can go on.
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Indeed life does go on, indeed life will go on.
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For Jesus, after it is finished,
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death had done its worst, life was over and gone.
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The tomb was indeed his resting place.
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There was no life, no breath, no reach, no touch, no word,
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no glance, no hope, and yet there was more.
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This says to me that we really do not know
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when the end is come.
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We really can never be sure when it is finished,
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whatever it may be.
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Job, friendship, interview, examination, chosen career,
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plan of study, sickness, marriage, separation, divorce,
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trial, testing, temptation, death.
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We really never know when it is finished,
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whatever it may be.
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As James Russell Lowell puts it in his poem, Columbus,
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"One day with life and heart is more than time enough
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to find a world, and so it is."
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No one, perhaps not even Jesus had any idea
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that there was anything beyond Friday,
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or at least if the disciples did have any notion
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of something beyond, in the way of a resurrection,
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they surely didn't act like it.
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They stayed away Friday, Saturday,
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and even on Sunday morning, they were miles away.
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The remaining 11 disciples had such little faith
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that they locked themselves into an upper room in Jerusalem.
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Their response was about like that
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of the man facing surgery.
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The hospital chaplain was talking with a middle-aged man
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who was soon to have various serious surgery and asked him,
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"You got much waiting for you when you leave the hospital?"
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The man replied, "Nothing and nobody, just hard work."
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If we had asked the disciples on Friday,
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as they were gathered somewhere nearby,
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"You got much waiting for you after Golgotha?"
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They would have said, "Nothing and nobody,
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just an empty life.
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It is finished."
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That was their answer, their speculation,
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their hopelessness, their futility, their faithlessness.
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They had forgotten what we often forget
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that God has the final fulfilling word.
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We often lose our sense of the transcendence of God
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that God really is in control.
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And as Ernest Campbell puts it, "When in your life and mine,
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we are void of the transcendent,
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then we sink into the absurd."
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They had forgotten that Jesus said,
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"On the third day I will rise again."
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Or at least they had ignored that,
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or they had never heard it,
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or they didn't believe it at all.
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We often forget the promises of God.
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Job.
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Then Job answered the Lord,
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"I know that thou canst do all things and that no purpose
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of thine can be thwarted.
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Therefore, I have uttered what I did not understand,
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things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,
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but now my eyes see thee."
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"It is finished," Jesus cried.
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But God said, "No, there is more, much more, more for you,
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more for your beloved, more for all my children."
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And the word I hear from God here is,
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"Never think that you have reached the end."
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What seems to be finished may be only a beginning,
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even rejection, even suffering, even misunderstanding,
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even death.
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And just because we think it is finished,
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does not mean that we know the full story
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or have the whole picture or have the complete answer.
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God does.
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And in the meantime, between the time we think
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it is finished and the time we really begin to understand,
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God's grace sustains us and upholds us.
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Thus in the meantime, on the morning of the first day
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of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
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went to the place where Jesus lay.
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But it turned out to be not just a casual stroll
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in the garden,
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not just an everyday walk down the primrose path.
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Listen, there was a great earthquake.
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An angel came, rolled back the stone and sat up on it.
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His appearance was like lightning,
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raiment white as snow,
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guards trembled and became like dead men.
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The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid,
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for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
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He is not here, for He has risen.
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Go tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead."
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They departed quickly from the tomb with fear
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and with great joy, with mixed feelings of fear
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and great joy and ran to tell His disciples.
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And behold Jesus met them and they came up and took hold
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of His feet and worshiped Him.
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And Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid."
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It is not finished.
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If we read the gospels carefully, we begin to get some idea
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of after it is finished, what then?
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What then, death turned to life, despair become hope,
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doubt become faith, fear become joy.
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What then?
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Easter, life, reunion, communion, fellowship,
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breaking bread, eating fish, recognition, words of peace
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and experience of a presence,
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hope for the present, promise for the future.
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A word, a look, an invitation, a walk on the beach.
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A composite of Jesus' words spoken after the resurrection
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would include these words, "Peace, shalom, do not be afraid,
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peace be with you, receive the Holy Spirit, follow me,
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feed my sheep, tend my lambs, tend my sheep.
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Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of this age."
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After it is finished, what then?
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Life, Christ, God, tomorrow, forever.
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Hugh Prather writes, as his wife lay sick beside him,
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in his writings entitled, Notes to Myself,
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"I must accept the justice of death
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and the injustice of life.
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I have lived a good life longer than many, better than most.
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I have had 32 years, I couldn't ask for another day.
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What did I do to deserve birth?
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It was a gift.
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But now it's morning.
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I have been given another day,
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another day to hear and read and smell and walk
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and love and glory.
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I am alive for another day."
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It is finished sounds so final, so definite, so sure,
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so certain, so much like the end, but there is more.
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And so the question comes back again,
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what then does the crucifixion, resurrection mean to you
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and to me?
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That even when we cry, "It is finished."
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God says, "There is more.
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There is life for you, for now and for forever."
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Easter then, my friends, is yes.
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Easter then is life, Easter then is the touch of a friend,
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Easter then is people, people partying and people meeting.
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Easter then is promise, promise given and promise fulfilled.
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The resurrection is a sign the other half
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of the Bethlehem star.
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Not a hearts and flowers routine we go through once a year
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to cheer ourselves up,
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but rather an authentic word of who we are and of life
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that cannot be destroyed regardless of the death
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of our physical bodies.
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Easter is a promise and Easter is yes,
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but there is a choice.
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We must choose whether to believe the star and the sign,
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or to cry ourselves to sleep,
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to split the sky with our praises,
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or to waste ourselves in resentment and fear.
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We must choose between death and adoration, and so we do.
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Easter is memories and talk.
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It is two people trusting each other.
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Easter is laughter, Easter is life.
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Easter is yes.
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Easter is yours and mine with all its joy and beauty
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and goodness and hope.
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All we need to do is to claim it, and to claim it
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in the name and in the the spirit of Jesus Christ,
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our risen Lord.
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Christ the Lord is risen.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Amen.
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(drum rolling)
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(solemn organic music)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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Let us affirm what we believe.
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We believe in God who has created and is creating,
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who has come in the truly human Jesus to reconcile
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and make new, who works in us and others by the spirit.
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We trust God, who calls us to be the church,
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to celebrate life and its fullness,
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to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil.
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Our judge and our hope, in life and death
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and life beyond death.
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God is with us, we are not alone.
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Thanks be to God.
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The Lord be with you.
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Let us pray.
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Oh, loving God,
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oh sovereign God,
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we bow before you lifting to your love
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all of your children who suffer,
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who wait for the word of hope.
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Comfort those who are weighed down with the grief
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and despair of their life.
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Write in their hearts your words of eternal hope.
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Nourish those oh God who are cast down because of poverty
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or hunger, because of illness or death of loved ones,
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or death of ideas or dreams or relationships.
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Help us not to forget these who you love.
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Oh God, source of comfort, companion of the lonely,
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be with those who by neglect or willful separation
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are left alone.
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Fill the empty places with love.
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You have bound us together in life.
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Give us grace to understand how our lives depend upon
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the courage and industry and honesty and integrity
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of our brothers and sisters.
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And may we be mindful of their needs,
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grateful for their faithfulness
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and faithful in our responsibilities to them.
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Send us your spirit oh God so that each of us may grow
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in our ability to care for your children and your creation.
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Help us to rediscover our compassion, our sensitivity,
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our ability to feel another's pain.
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Oh God, raise our broken spirits, our weak faith,
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our downcast hearts, our broken relationships.
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And may we have the courage to live as fully as Jesus did,
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serving others with generosity and joy.
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Hear us now as we pray the prayer our Lord taught us.
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Our father, who art in heaven,
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hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come.
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Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread,
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and forgive us our trespasses,
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as we forgive those who trespass against us,
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lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.
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Forever and ever, amen.
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Amen.
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(lady singing soulfully)
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(solemn organic music)
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(lady singing soulfully)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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(organic music)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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Oh God, we rejoice in the hope which comes from you
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every day but especially on this Easter day.
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We give thanks that you have created us through your power,
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recreated us through your mercy,
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that you sustain us to the spirit of our risen Lord.
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To you oh God of love, we bring our selves,
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our failures, our compromises, our fears, our joys,
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our hopes, our commitment.
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Use us, use our gifts to express your love
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for those who are in great need.
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We pray in the spirit of the risen Christ, amen.
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(solemn organic music playing)
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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May the God who raised Jesus from the dead,
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sustain you and comfort you from this day forever more.
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(choir singing harmoniously)
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(solemn organic music)