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Duke University Chapel service of worship.
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September 16th 1979.
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(organ music)
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(piano music)
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(light organ music)
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(choir sings)
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(organ music)
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(choir sings)
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Be seated.
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Oh creator God, your children gather once again as your
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church, the Body of Christ.
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Grant us the presence of Messiah.
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Bearing the gift of the suffering servant.
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Open our hearts to the healing and reconciling power
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of your presence.
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As we offer together our shared prayer of confession.
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Forgive us our sins, oh Lord.
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The sins of the present and the sins
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of the past.
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The sins of our souls and the sins of our bodies.
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The sins which we have done to please ourselves and the sins
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which we have done to please others.
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Forgive us our casual sins and our deliberate sins.
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Forgive us our sins, oh Lord.
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Forgive them all.
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In the name of Jesus the Christ, amen.
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And now oh thou spirit of mercy, hear
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our silent inner yearnings as we lift up to you, our
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burden of personal sins.
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Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "take heart my son, your
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sins are forgiven. Stand up, take your bed and go home.
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Know that this day, this moment, you are freed of the
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torment of the past. You are graciously forgiven and
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reconcile to God and your neighbor.
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Let us give thanks for God is good and God's love
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is everlasting.
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Thanks be to God,
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who's love creates us.
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Thanks be to God, who's mercy redeems us.
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Thanks be to God, who's grace sustains us.
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We welcome all of you today, to this
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beautiful sanctuary on this lovely day.
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Our preacher this morning is the Reverend Robert T. Young,
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minister to the university.
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We would like for you to remember in your prayers, Father
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Bruce Shepard, the former Episcopal chaplain to Duke.
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He has been in the hospital since late in the summer,
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his condition has been getting worse.
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We would like to remind you there will be a Duke University
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parish ministry retreat, this afternoon from two to five in
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the divinity school lounge.
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We urge you all to attend.
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Here will be an opportunity given to become part of the
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planning process for the coming year.
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You may also note that in the bulletin there is an insert
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where you can fill out what you are interested in taking
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part in for the coming year.
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If you would like to leave that at the back of the chapel
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at the hostess desk this would help us, or mail it in.
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There will be an organ recital tonight, here in the chapel
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at seven pm.
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John Mueller of Salem College will be performing.
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(shuffling noises)
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Let us unite our hearts in the
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prayer for illumination.
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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 through Jesus
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Christ our Lord, amen.
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The Old Testament lesson is taken from the 50th chapter of
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Isaiah verses four through nine.
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The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are
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taught.
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That I may know how to sustain with the word, him that is
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weary.
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Morning by morning, he wakens.
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He wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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The Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious.
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I turned not backward.
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I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those who
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pulled out the beard.
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I hid not my face from shame and spitting,
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for the Lord God helps me,
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therefore I have not been confounded.
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Therefore I have set my face like a flint
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And I know that I shall not be put to shame.
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He who vindicates me is near.
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Who will contend with me.
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Let us stand up together.
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Who is my adversary.
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Let him come near to me.
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Behold the Lord God helps me.
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Who will declare me guilty.
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Behold all of them will wear out like a garment.
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The moth will eat them up.
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The epistle lesson is from the second chapter of James,
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verses 14 to 18.
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What does it profit my brethren,
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if a man says he has faith but has not works.
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Can his faith save him.
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If a brother or sister is ill clad and in lack of daily
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food and one of you says to them,
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go in peace be warm and filled,
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without giving them the things that they need for the body,
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what does it profit?
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So faith, by itself, if it has no works,
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is dead.
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But someone will say, you have faith and I have works.
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Show me your faith apart from your works
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and I by my works will show you my faith.
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Here ends the reading from the epistle, amen.
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(organ music)
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(choir sings)
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Will the congregation please
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stand for the reading of the gospel lesson.
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The gospel lesson is from the eighth chapter of Mark,
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verses 27 to 38.
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Hear the word of God.
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And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of
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Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples
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who do men say that I am.
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And they told him, John the Baptist.
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And others say, Elijah.
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And others, one of the profits.
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And he asked them, but who do you say that I am.
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And peter answered him, you are the Christ.
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And he charged them, to tell no one about him.
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And he began to teach them that the son of man must suffer
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many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief
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priests and the scribes.
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And be killed.
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And after three days, rise again.
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And he said this plainly.
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And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, but turning and
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seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter.
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And said, get behind me Satan, for you are not on the side
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of God, but of men.
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And he called to him, the multitude with his disciples and
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said to them, if any man would come after me, let him deny
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himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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For whoever would save his life, will lose it.
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And whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospels,
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will save it.
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For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and
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forfeit his life.
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For what can a man give in return for his life.
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For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in the this
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adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the son of man
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also be ashamed.
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When he comes in the glory of his father
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with the holy angels.
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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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[Reverend Robert T. Young] It is good to be here
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this morning.
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Beautiful day indeed.
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As a matter of fact it's been, rather a beautiful weekend
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hasn't it?
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May I offer a word of congratulations to some outstanding
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young men and coaches.
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And to a student body who supported with enthusiasm and
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real joy yesterday's team and a very exciting time
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for all of us.
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A good beginning.
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So it's not only a good day today but it was a
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good time yesterday.
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But it's good to be here in this particular place.
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Last night about 10:30,
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I came over here for a few moments of
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prayer as has become my custom lately on Saturday night
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before I'm to preach on Sunday morning.
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And as I walked through the chapel, there was a young
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woman student here, sitting in the chapel, reading.
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And I spoke to her and said,
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"Hello, it's good to see you again."
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With a smile of deep satisfaction and joy on her face,
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she looked up and said,
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"It's good to be here,
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tonight".
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So it is, good to be here.
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Let us pray.
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And now may the words of my lips and thoughts of our hearts
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all that transpires in the moments that lie immediately
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ahead oh Lord, our God.
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Be acceptable and pleasing in thy sight.
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We pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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We have just heard the gospel lesson for this day.
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Passage from the gospel of Mark Chapter 8
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verses 27 through 38.
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A passage as familiar to us I suppose as any passage
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in the New Testament.
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After having heard those words, may I ask,
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who of us wants a Messiah like this?
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A Messiah who is to suffer, be rejected, be killed and
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rise again.
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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A messiah who said then and says now, deny self take up
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your cross, follow him, lose your life for his sake, yes.
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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Well it's rather obvious to me that Peter did not want a
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Messiah like this, at least at that particular moment,
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he did not.
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For when Jesus talked about his suffering, rejection, death
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and rising again, Mark records that Peter took Jesus aside
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and rebuked him.
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Began to rebuke him.
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There are New Testament interpreters who contend that Peter
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was upset in this moment and that he rebuked Jesus when he
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talked like that because Peter loved Jesus so very much that
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he didn't want anything to happen to him.
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Peter didn't want to see Jesus suffer and die even if Jesus
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did say that he would rise again.
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Well that may well be.
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Probably that is at least partly the reason
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Peter rebuked Jesus.
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But I believe however that there was another very important,
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very personal reason that Peter objected to what Jesus
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had said.
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I believe that Peter was afraid that if Jesus as the Messiah
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was going to suffer and be rejected and die,
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then one could logically reason that surely he and the other
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disciples might well face the very same fate as Jesus.
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In other words, as Peter heard Jesus, Jesus was not talking
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just about his own life and suffering and death.
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But I have an idea that Peter sensed that he was preparing
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the disciples for their own trials and tests and for the
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trauma that lie ahead for them.
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And then after Jesus put Peter in his place by using those
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words which all of us have spoken many times.
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Get thee behind me, Satan.
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After Jesus put Peter in his place, Jesus went on to spell
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out precisely what it was that Peter had been anticipating.
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For in so many words, Jesus then said to Peter and to the
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other disciples and to us, if you are going to follow me,
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then you must deny yourself, you must take up your cross
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and follow me.
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For if you try to save your life you will surely lose it.
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But if on the other hand, you are willing to lose your life
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for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
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then you will find it.
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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Yes, who does?
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Surely not Peter.
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Evidently not any of the other disciples at this moment,
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any of us this morning.
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You, me, anyone here.
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Oh we and they all want a messiah, a messiah that is
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Christ, Christos, savior, redeemer, restorer,
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the anointed one, the Son of God.
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They and we want a Messiah who will restore the
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kingdom, who will bring back the territory.
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Who will give us power and prestige and land and health and
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wholeness and dignity.
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Integrity, prosperity, peace and security.
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They and we want a Messiah who will bring to us, give to us,
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do for us, restore us,
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deliver us.
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But a Messiah who will suffer, be rejected, die
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and even be raised?
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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This is the Messiah who obeyed God.
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The Messiah who, from the beginning of his ministry when
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God's voice said, this is my beloved son and whom I am well
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pleased.
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Until moments after the crucifixion when the Roman soldier
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cried, surely this man was the son of God.
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This is the one who lived a life of total and radical
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obedience to the Lord our God.
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And who wants a Messiah like this?
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This is the one who said, I have come to do the will of
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my father who sent me.
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The one who said, I must go even unto Jerusalem.
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The one who said nevertheless oh Father, not my will but
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thy will be done.
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Why, who knows.
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A Messiah who obeys radically and totally like this may
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even expect those of us who follow him to obey that way.
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This is the Messiah who prayed to God.
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The Messiah who from the time of his temptation and testing
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in the wilderness, when surely he was in constant prayer
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and with our Lord God.
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From that moment until the night before his death when he
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prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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This is the one who lived a life of constant prayer and
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communion with God.
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Jesus went apart to pray and Jesus went up on the mountain
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to pray.
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And going on a little further, Jesus began to pray and
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taking Peter, James and John with him on the mountain,
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he began to pray and when you pray he said, you are to say
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our Father.
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Jesus prayed, about his calling, his teaching, his healing,
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his final commitment even unto death.
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About his disciples and about those who he said at that
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moment were not a part of his fold.
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Why, who knows?
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A Messiah who prays this often and intensely and seriously
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and expectantly.
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Why, a Messiah who prays like that may even expect those
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who follow him to pray also, may he not.
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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This is the Messiah who served and suffered.
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The Messiah who from the very beginning of his ministry
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when he suffered 40 days and 40 nights of temptation in the
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wilderness.
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Until the last moment of suffering on the cross when he
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cried, my God, my God why has thou forsaken me?
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The Messiah who lived a life of constant struggle and
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sacrifice and suffering.
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Who said no one takes my life from me,
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I lay it down of my own.
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Who said he who would be master of all must be
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servant of all.
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The first should be last and the last, first.
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The son of man came not to be ministered unto but to
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minister.
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Even as I have suffered, he said you too will suffer
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many things.
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Yes, Jesus suffered for a cause.
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He suffered for others, he suffered for his calling,
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he suffered even unto death.
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Why, who knows?
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A Messiah who suffers because of his calling,
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his conviction, his commitment.
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Why, a Messiah who suffers like this may even expect some
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of those of us who follow him to suffer also.
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May he not?
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Who wants a Messiah like this?
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Raising this question, who wants a Messiah like this,
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over the past several days, has caused me
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to stop and reflect and to ask myself,
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what kind of Messiah
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do I really want,
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anyhow?
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Well.
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Let me tell you.
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A Messiah who is holy,
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divine,
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and yet human and real.
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One who is mystery and transcendence and yet visible and
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present.
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One who knows when I want a Messiah to be far away and when
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I want the Messiah to be very near.
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A Messiah who has some characteristics like the ideal
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mother, some other characteristics like the ideal father and
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other characteristics like the ideal companion or friend.
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A Messiah who consoles me when I cry.
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Who comforts me when I hurt, who supports me when I am
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weary, who disturbs me just a little bit
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when I get comfortable.
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Who calls me but on my schedule.
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A Messiah who celebrates
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with me in my joys, is happy in my laughter, who feels good
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when I am content and satisfied.
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A Messiah who stimulates my mind, who warms my spirit, and
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keeps my hopes alive.
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Who guarantees me meaning in this life and the ultimate in
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meaning in the life to come.
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I want a Messiah who lets me plan my own agenda.
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One who will let me chart my own course.
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Select where I go
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and what I do.
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A Messiah who will always be nice and kind to me, who will
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help me when I need it, who will not ask or expect
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too much of me.
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A Messiah who will assure me of good health, a happy life,
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loyal friends, a comfortable home, good food,
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security and safety.
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A Messiah who will give me light in my darkness, tranquility
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in the midst of the storm, and food along the way.
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One who provides me support and strength and peace of mind.
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A Messiah who assures me a good education and a growing and
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open mind.
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One who gives me understanding and helpful and
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caring friends.
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A Messiah who lets me pick and choose when I will obey and
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when I will pray and when I will suffer.
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So the question comes back haunting me again, yes who among
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us wants a Messiah like this? Jesus -- for Jesus said,
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if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take
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up his cross and follow me.
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For whoever would save his life will lose it and whoever
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will lose his life for my sake in the gospel's sake will
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find it.
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For you see Jesus never minced any words, he never made any
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bones about the radical nature of his call to obedience,
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did he?
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He really didn't.
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He was clear, straightforward, direct about what being
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a disciple would mean.
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Here was and is a Messiah with startling
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and staggering honesty.
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So if you or I follow Jesus under the misconception that it
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is to be a life of ease and comfort, the kind of life that
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I was describing that I wanted, then it is our own fault
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and it is not the fault of Jesus or of Scripture because
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the call, the words of Jesus and the word in Scripture
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are very clear.
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If you obey, you will suffer.
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So may I suggest that if you or I fail to respond, or to
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heed the call of Jesus the Christ, then let's do not say
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that we don't understand but let's simply acknowledge
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our unwillingness to obey.
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For here is a Messiah who came not only to give
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but expecting us to give.
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Who came not only to sacrifice but expecting us to
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sacrifice.
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Who came not only to serve but expecting us to serve.
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Who came not only to obey but expecting us to obey.
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Who himself not only prayed but expects us to pray.
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Who himself not only suffered but is expecting us to suffer.
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Who himself not only loved but expects us also to love.
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Here is a Messiah who offers not much security.
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Not much security save that which assures us that underneath
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are the everlasting arms.
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Here is a Messiah who offers not much peace,
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save that which hears
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my peace I give unto you.
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Not as the world gives do I give to you, let not your
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hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
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Here is a Messiah who offers not much comfort,
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save that of knowing.
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As he said, look at the birds of the air.
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They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet
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your heavenly father feeds them.
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Are you not of more worth than they?
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Here is a Messiah who offers not much satisfaction, save
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that of our knowing that
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whoever is faithful unto death
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will receive the crown of life.
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So I ask this morning who among us wants a Messiah
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like this?
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A Messiah who really does participate fully and totally
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in life as God gives it to you and to me.
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Even as he participated fully and totally in the life of
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those with whom he lived and walked.
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Showing us how God really
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has come to be a part of our life
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and our way.
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Elie Wiesel,
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in his book, "Night",
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tells of the hanging in Auschwitz one evening at dusk
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of two adults
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and a young boy.
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Because the two adults were heavy,
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the two of them died
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on the gallows very quickly.
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But the little boy whom
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Wiesel said the folks in
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the concentration camp had affectionately called
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the sad-eyed angel,
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was much lighter than the adults, and he dangled for
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a long time on the gallows between life and death.
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And the Jews in the camp in that particular moment, that
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particular day, were forced to march around the three of
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them as they were hanging on the gallows.
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As they marched,
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Wiesel
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heard a voice
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muttering from someone behind him,
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"Where is God?
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Where is God?"
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They marched
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on and around and around.
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Finally, Wiesel said he heard the voice cry out again,
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"Where is God? Where is God now?"
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And then from somewhere deep within his own soul, he heard
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some voice speaking inside him saying,
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"Where is God?
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Here he is.
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Hanging on the gallows."
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Who wants
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a Messiah
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like this?
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A Messiah who shows us how lovingly and deeply God
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participates in life as you and I know it.
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A Messiah who is with us in the joy and the agony, the
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heartbreak and the celebration.
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The life and death that all of us know as
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we live moment by moment.
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And then God calls us, to be and to do the same
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with others.
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This is the promise, this is the call, and this is the claim
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from the Messiah, our Messiah, your Messiah.
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But really,
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who wants
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a Messiah like this,
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today?
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Let us pray.
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We give you thanks, oh God.
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For the coming of your son, our savior, our Messiah even
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Jesus the Christ.
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Help us, oh Lord our God.
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To be open and responsive to the claims that Christ makes
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on us.
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To be willing to say yes, I want a Messiah
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who is Jesus the Christ.
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To say in the words of the hymn writer,
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have thine own way, Lord.
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Have thine own way.
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Amen.
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Our Hymn of Consecration this morning,
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will be that hymn,
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rather than the one you find listed in the order of worship
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in the bulletin, will you turn to hymn number one, 54.
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And in a prayerful, meditative mood, let us sing together.
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Have thine own way Lord.
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Have thine own way, please stand.
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(organ music)
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♪ Have thine own way, lord ♪
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♪ Have thine own way; ♪
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♪ Thou art the potter, ♪
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♪ I am the clay. ♪
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♪ Mould me and make me ♪
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♪ After thy will, ♪
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♪ While I am waiting, ♪
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♪ Yielded and still. ♪
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♪ Have thine own way Lord, ♪
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♪ Have thine own way; ♪
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♪ Search me and try me, ♪
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♪ Master, today. ♪
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♪ Whiter than snow, Lord, ♪
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♪ Wash me just now, ♪
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♪ As in thy presence ♪
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♪ Humbly I bow. ♪
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♪ Have thine own way, Lord, ♪
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♪ Have thine own way; ♪
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♪ Wounded and weary, ♪
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♪ Help me I pray, ♪
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♪ Power, all power, ♪
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♪ Surely is Thine, ♪
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♪ Touch me and heal me, ♪
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♪ Savior divine. ♪
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♪ Have thine own way, Lord, ♪
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♪ Have thine own way; ♪
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♪ Hold o'er my being, ♪
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♪ Absolute sway. ♪
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♪ Fill with Thy Spirit, ♪
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♪ Till all shall see, ♪
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♪ Christ only, always, ♪
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♪ Living in me. ♪
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♪ Amen. ♪
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Let us affirm what we believe.
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We believe in God, who has created
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and is creating.
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Who has come in the truly human Jesus to reconcile and make
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new.
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Who works in us and other 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 it's fullness.
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To love and serve others.
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To seek justice and resist evil.
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To proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen.
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Our judge and our hope, in life and death.
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In life beyond death.
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God is with us.
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We are not alone.
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Thanks be to God.
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Will the congregation be seated.
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The Lord be with you.
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With your spirit.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God of the universe.
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Our creation, our history and of majestic silence.
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Accept our gratitude for the gift of this day.
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Here our songs of praise for the wonder of awe of your
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creation.
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Open our eyes to the marvelous complexity and beautiful
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simplicity of nature.
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Make us aware of the interconnectedness of all of existence.
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Of the seamless web of the world.
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Oh God of persons.
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Give us the insight and energy to grasp the opportunities
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and accept the limitations of ourselves and our unique
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situation.
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Help us grown into true service, to your glory through our
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bodies, intellect and imagination.
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Let us never weary in well doing.
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Christ has told us, anyone who wants to be a follower of
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mine must leave self behind, take up his cross
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and follow me.
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We pray today, oh God, to give us the strength to respond
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to that call to follow the messiah, not in imitation
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but innovation.
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Help us to recognize messiah in the unexpected.
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The gift of the radically new, breaking in like a dawn
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on our weary circling.
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Oh God of mercy, come and be with those who suffer.
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In the hurts of body, mind and spirit.
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Remember particular, your servant, Bruce Shepard.
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Touch with your healing power, all those who ache with the
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grief of losses through death and separation.
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Lift up the bruised and wounded who obediently suffer
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insult for your sake.
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Empower with renewed courage and burning, unquenchable hope,
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those who are lonely, shunned, imprisoned.
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Bring to them the healing knowledge that messiah comes most
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surely to the outcast, the victim, the oppressed,
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the despised and finally, oh God of life.
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God of death overcome.
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Teach us the modesty of stewardship of this fragile earth.
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Impress upon all your children that if we do not see this
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small globe as a home for all the people's of this world,
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we will have no home at all.
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Give us the wisdom to demand less of the bounty of the
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earth.
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To seek greater and greater understanding and acceptance
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of other people, race and cultures.
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Save us from the horror of nuclear holocaust by the
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awakening of your aroused children who must cry out,
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holt for the madness of nuclear arms race.
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All these petitions we boldly and humbly ask in the name
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of the messiah, our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
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Who taught us to pray together.
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Our Father, who art in heaven.
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Hollowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
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on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us, our
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trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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(organ music)
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(choir sings)
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(choir sings)
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(organ plays)
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(organ music)
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(choir sings)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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We come before your presence with
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thanksgiving, God.
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Accept these tokens of our blessed life.
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We return to you but a small portion of whole gift of our
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lives.
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Bless and sanctify these gifts of money so that your
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servant church can continue to live, die and be renewed
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by serving the suffering world.
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By the power of the spirit, amen.
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(organ music)
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(choirs sings)
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(organ music)
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(choir sings)
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Jesus said peace is my parting gift to
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you.
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My own peace such as the world cannot give.
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Set your troubled hearts at rest and banish your fears.
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Go forth into the world, confident in your faith.
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Be ready to act prayerfully as though in love and to pray
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in view of an act to come.
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An act of love, even of heroic love.
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In the name of the creator, the liberator and our advocate,
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amen.
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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(choir sings)
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(organ music)
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(crowd making noises in background)