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My friends, the scriptures call us to confession
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in these words.
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Let the wicked forsake his way
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and the unrighteous man his thoughts,
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and let him return unto the Lord.
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And he will have mercy upon him,
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and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.
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Let us join in the unison confession.
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Oh Lord, most holy, you have found us wanting
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and yet you have not forsaken us.
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Deliver us in these days of Lent and devotion
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from all the luxuries and comforts
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of a smug private righteousness.
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We confess our insincerities,
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our self-righteous poses and our dubious devotions.
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Lift up our hearts as we recall the labor of our Lord
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and grant us His grace to take upon ourselves
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the burden of life's sin
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which darkens our time, and will not be lightened
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except by the cross of suffering.
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If we confess our sins, He is faithful
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and just to forgive us our sins,
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and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Jesus said, he who comes to me I will not cast out.
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In His name, I declare unto you
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as you have confessed, so you're forgiven, amen.
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The scripture lessons this morning
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are taken from the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel,
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verses seven through 16.
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The first letter of John,
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the second chapter verses one through three
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and 15 through 17.
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And from the gospel according to Mark,
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the first chapter verses nine through 12.
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Here are the word of God.
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So you Son of Man,
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I have made a watchman for the house of Israel.
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Whenever you hear a word from my mouth,
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you shall give them warning from me.
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If I say to the wicked, O wicked man,
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you shall surely die,
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and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way
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that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,
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but his blood I will require at your hand.
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But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way,
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and he does not turn from his way,
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he shall die in his iniquity,
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but you will have saved your life.
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And you Son of Man, say to the house of Israel,
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thus have you said our transgressions and our sins
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are upon us, and we waste away because of them.
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How then can we live?
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Say to them, as I live, says the Lord,
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I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
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but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
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Turn back, turn back from your evil ways
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for why will you die, O house of Israel.
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And you Son of Man, say to your people,
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the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him
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when he transgresses.
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And as for the wickedness of the wicked,
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he shall not fall by it
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when he turns from his wickedness.
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And the righteous shall not be able to live
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by his righteousness when he sins.
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Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live
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yet if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity,
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none of his righteous deed shall be remembered
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but in the inequity that he has committed, he shall die.
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Again, though I say to the wicked, you shall surely die,
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yet if he turns from his sin and does
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what is lawful and right,
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if the wicked restores the pledge,
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gives back what he has taken by robbery
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and walks in the statutes of life, committing no inequity,
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he shall surely live.
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He shall not die.
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None of the sins that he had committed
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shall be remembered against him.
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He has done what is lawful and right.
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He shall surely live.
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My little children,
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I am writing this to you so that you may not sin.
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But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the father,
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Jesus Christ, the righteous,
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and He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only,
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but also for the sins of the whole world.
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And by this, we may be sure that we know Him
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if we keep His commandments.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world.
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If anyone loves the world,
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love for the Father is not in him.
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For all that is in the world,
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the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes
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and the pride of life is not of the father,
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but is of the world.
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And the world passes away and the lust of it,
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but he who does the will of God abides forever.
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Please stand for the reading of the gospel.
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In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee
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and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
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And when He came up out of the water, immediately,
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He saw the heavens open and the Spirit descending
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upon Him like a dove.
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And a voice came from heaven.
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"Thou art, my beloved son.
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With thee I am well pleased.
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The Spirit immediately drove Him out into the wilderness.
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Thus ends the reading of the scripture.
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We live in God's will, we believe in God
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who has created and is creating,
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who has come in the true man, Jesus
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to reconcile and make new,
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who works in us and others by His spirit.
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We trust Him.
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He calls us to be His church, to celebrate His presence,
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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.
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In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.
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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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Almighty God, thou who art the creator of our lives
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and the savior of our souls,
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make us aware of thy presence
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as we lift our hearts to thee in prayer.
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Speak to us each according to his own need.
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Forgive our way waywardness,
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and give peace to our hearts.
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By thy grace, make us more Christ-like in our relationships,
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not given to fault-finding and sharp speech,
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but generous and kindly in our conversations.
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Bring comfort to the sorrowing and courage
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to the fearful of heart.
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Stand by thy children who for weary months
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have anxiously cared for the sick.
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To those who pass through the valley of the shadow of death,
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give the touch of thy hand that they may fear no evil.
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Look in tenderness and pity upon thy children
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in the lands of starvation,
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and give us the grace that we may reach out
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hands of helpfulness and love to them.
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Grant thy blessing upon the president of the United States
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and all who represent us in government.
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Imbue them with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth,
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and so rule their hearts and bless their endeavors
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that justice and peace may everywhere prevail.
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Guide our nation as we seek to conserve our resources
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and organize our way
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that the wounds of our people may be healed.
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In all things, draw us to the mind of Christ
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that thy lost image may be traced again,
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and that we may be one with thee.
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And now hear us as with one voice we pray,
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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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And lead us not into temptation,
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but deliver us from evil.
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For thine is the kingdom and the power
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and the glory forever, amen.
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I wanna call your attention to an announcement
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on the back.
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I come, sort of asking with a special announcement.
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My name is Drick Boyd,
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and I am a sort of chairman right now
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of the Duke University Christian Council Hunger Committee.
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And a number of you will remember the fast
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we had last November for hunger relief,
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and a number of you participated in that.
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Well, this semester we're having a one-meal-a-week fest,
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Asking people to give up one regular meal a week
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and then donate that money they would have spent on food
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for that particular meal to a fund for the hungry.
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Now your money will either go to Oxfam America,
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which was the group we used last in November,
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in the past November,
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for overseas relief or for a fund that is being collected
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for the hungry and malnourished here in Durham.
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When you make the donation, you make the choice.
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Yu have a choice.
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The money we collected on Thursday,
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now I realize for a number of you,
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that's sort of inconvenient
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'cause you're not around campus.
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Just send it in the care of the chapel and indicate,
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that it is for the fast,
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and then whether you would want it to go to Oxfam America
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or for Fund for Durham.
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I would really urge you all to participate in this
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for at least a couple of reasons.
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One, I think we have a tendency
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to sometimes forget that just how affluent
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we are here in America.
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I just read a statistic the other day
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that America has 6% of the, excuse me,
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6% of the world's resources
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or uses 6% of the world's resources.
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Ah, excuse me.
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6% of the world's population and uses
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50% of the world's resources.
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So the rest of the world,
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the 94% get the rest of it,
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the rest of the resources that the world has to offer.
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And this puts a great responsibility on us
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because we have a lot of wealth.
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And so, to them that much is given, much is required.
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And I would just ask you all to really consider
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just how well off we are, and to give just one meal a week
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to some of those who could really use that food
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to just survive.
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If anybody has any questions or anything,
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I'll be down in the Memorial Chapel
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and will be willing to talk to anyone, thank you.
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May I add a word of support to Drick's announcement?
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Many of you participated enthusiastically and generously
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in the efforts last fall.
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Let me encourage you to do the same again now.
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Drick will be available.
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For those of you who might be interested
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in working with the hunger committee,
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he will be available in the Memorial Chapel
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to talk with you following this service,
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and we will be pleased again
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to act as an instrument to handle any contributions
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you might wish to make to this cause.
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You have no way of knowing this,
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but it's a human interest kind of thing
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that I like for us to know and be aware of.
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We had a, have a grandfather,
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granddaughter leading us in worship today, Bishop Garrison,
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who is on the faculty of the Divinity School,
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retired Bishop of the Dakotas area
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and his granddaughter, Kim LaPratt,
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who is a member of the worship committee of the chapel
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and a member of the class of '76 of Trinity College.
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I know you share with me the appreciation we have
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of their leadership of our worship this morning.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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I wonder how many of you this morning can identify with me
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to my difficulty in seeing myself as a real sinner.
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When we pray as we do every Sunday,
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the prayer of confession, does this really involve you?
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When we talk of lent as a time of repentance and confession,
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do you think that this is a time for this for you?
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When Jesus says all have sinned,
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does this speak to you?
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When John writes, if anyone sin,
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do you say I sin?
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About a year ago now I was riding to Atlanta
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with three other ministers from the university here.
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And among many other things, which we said and which I said,
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at one point in our trip, I said,
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one of my real problems as a human being
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is that I have a hard time seeing myself as a real sinner.
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I'm not mean or cruel or heartless.
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I've not killed anyone, or robbed a bank, or raped anybody.
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I don't slander or gossip or lie.
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I believe in God and goodness, love and caring for others.
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I'm a pretty good husband, father and family man.
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I try to be responsible in my work
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and treat my fellow workers right.
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I try to be kind and helpful and understanding.
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I believe in right and wrong,
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and I think I support the right and oppose the wrong.
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I'm a rather decent, honest, good citizen,
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probably the good old typical quote,
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middle-class American Christian.
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And so I have a hard time seeing myself as sinful.
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I guess I often think I'm like the person described
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in the book of Revelation where God says,
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would that you were either hot or cold, but you are neither.
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And I will spew you out of my mouth.
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Would that I were either hot or cold,
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and yet lent comes and I search my soul and I know full well
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that I am a sinner,
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perhaps even among the most dangerous kind.
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Those who feel self-assured and secure and do not know
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the true state of their own souls.
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This is why John's words
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which Kim read for us a while ago
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from the first epistle of John, really speak to me today.
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It's not only what he says, but it's the way he says it.
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For you see, John could have come on strong,
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like Jesus' first sermon.
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You remember Jesus said, repent and believe
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the good news for the kingdom of God is at hand.
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Or John could have brought us all up short like Isaiah
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in the temple when he said, woe is me for I am undone,
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I am a man of unclean lips,
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and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
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Or John could have been very direct,
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like the psalmist who wrote, my sin is ever before me.
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I have been wicked from my birth,
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a sinner from my mother's womb.
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Yes, John could have been very abrupt and straightforward,
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like most of the preaching I grew up hearing
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and much of the so-called evangelical preaching today,
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which goes like this.
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You are a sinner condemned to hell,
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you must repent and confess your sins,
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you must believe in God as revealed in Jesus Christ
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or you are doomed to eternal damnation.
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That's the way I've heard it.
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Now I know there is some truth in this approach
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to the gospel,
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but I also know that there is some danger in this approach
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and that I do not need.
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That's precisely why John's way touches me this morning.
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John's words have a poignant personal appeal.
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My little children,
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I am writing this to you so that you may not sin,
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but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous,
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and He is the expiation for our sins.
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And not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.
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My little children, tender, touchy, warm,
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human, kind, caring, loving, compassionate.
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The kind of words that have given this writing
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a special appeal for the church from the very beginning,
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with the picture of the aged John,
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the last survivor of the 12
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giving his repeated and unvarying counsel
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to a new generation of believers in Christ.
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Little children, love one another.
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My little children, I am writing this to you
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so that you may not sin.
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John's writings appeal to us
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because of his recurring testimony that God is love,
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and that love is the way of life for us.
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So this passage is most appropriate for lent
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and for the first Sunday in lent.
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For this is the time for self-examination,
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for penitence, for repentance,
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for confronting one's sinfulness,
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for confession, then for forgiveness and newness of life.
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It is a time when the harshness of God's judgment
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and the demands of obedience to God,
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and our failures can become very real to us.
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A hard time, a painful time,
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a trying and testing and traumatic time,
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or at least it has the potential to be.
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Listen to these words of the psalmist
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as he laments his condition.
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Have mercy on me, O God.
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Wash me through and through from my wickedness
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and cleanse me from my sin,
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for I know my transgressions only too well
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and my sin is ever before me.
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Against you only have I sinned and done
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what is evil in your sight.
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Indeed, I have been wicked from my birth,
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a sinner from my mother's womb.
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Take away my sin and I shall be pure.
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Wash me and I shall be cleaner than snow.
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John surely knew the reality of sin
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and its toll on the human soul.
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But he addresses it for all of us
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with real tenderness and sensitivity.
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Sin, our sin, my sin is hard to face.
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My sin is hard to accept.
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My sin is hard to admit,
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hard to acknowledge, hard to confess.
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It is difficult for us as children of God
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to confront our brokenness,
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and our failure before God and one another.
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And John knows that.
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That's why he begins, my little children.
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It's like my dearest wife,
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or my dear son, or my loving dog,
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or my beloved Bran.
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My little children, he says.
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And he speaks tenderly and lovingly to us.
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It reminds me of some words that I heard
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the Reverend Willie Wright say one Sunday
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in Wardlaw Hill, Church of Scotland,
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where I worked as associate to this saint of a man
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who had served in this church
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and in this particular community for 35 years,
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I've known him to have as many as three funerals in one day
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or seven weddings on another.
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One Sunday after he had struggled
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and suffered particularly hard with this people all week,
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I heard him stand in that pulpit and say,
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"My dear friends,
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the longer I am with you", and he was 72 at that time.
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"The longer I am with you,
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the less I want to speak in condemnation
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and judgment of you.
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And the more I want to speak in compassion
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and support of you."
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My little children, I'm writing this to you
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so that you may not sin,
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personally, tenderly, lovingly.
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That's the word for today.
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"Whatever Became of Sin" is the title of a timely
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and insightful book by psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger.
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In it, he talks of this sin,
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which John was writing to have his little children avoid
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and what has become of sin in our day.
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Menninger writes, has the sense of morality vanished
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from the people?
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Has the rue of expediency, of success,
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of technological triumph
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replaced the necessity for moral integrity?
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Everything was succeeding for a while.
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Progress was the order of the day.
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But now the new God seem to have failed us
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while the old God is said, at least by some, to be dead.
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Things are all wrong.
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And so we turn angrily seeking someone to blame
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who started the wretched interminable war,
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who ruined our air and oceans,
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who filled our beautiful lakes and rivers with filth,
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who beggared our paupers,
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who crushed our blacks, who alienated our youth,
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who corrupted our business morals, our politics,
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our judicial systems, no one?
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Who is the evil designer against the welfare of man?
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Is no one to blame when so much is wrong?
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In all of the laments and reproaches
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made by seers and prophet today,
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one misses any mention of sin.
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It was a word once in everybody's mind,
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but now rarely if ever heard.
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Does that mean that no sin is involved in all our troubles?
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Sin, Menninger says, with an eye in the middle,
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is no one any longer guilty of anything?
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Guilty perhaps of a sin that could be repented
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and repaired or atoned for?
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Is it only that someone may be stupid or sick
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or criminal or asleep?
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Wrong things are being done we know.
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Tears are being sewn in the wheat field at night,
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but is no one responsible?
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No one answerable for these acts?
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Anxiety and depression, we all acknowledge
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and even vague guilt feelings,
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but has no one committed any sins?
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What is this sin
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which is hard and painful to face, to confess?
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Which our society seems to gloss over and refuse to admit
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which John is writing his little children to avoid.
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Again, to quote Menninger, "Sin" he says,
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"Is behavior that violates the moral code
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or the individual conscience or both.
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It is behavior which pains or harms or destroys
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my neighbor or me.
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Webster tells us that sin is transgression
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of the law of God.
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Disobedience of the divine will, moral failure.
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Sin is failure to realize in conduct and character,
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the moral ideal,
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at least as fully as possible under the circumstances,
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failure to do as one ought toward one's fellow man.
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Dr. Seward Hiltner, psychologist,
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theologian at Princeton says that Christian theology
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has seen sin and these complimentary ways as rebellion,
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as a strangement, and as error in performance.
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Well, now, as I think of our world
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and our community,
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and even closer of my home and my family and myself,
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in the light of these descriptions of sin,
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I'm beginning to have less difficulty
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seeing myself as sinful.
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Now, the words of John, come to me again,
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my little children,
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I'm writing this to you so that you may not sin.
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Let's stop there. Okay.
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I sin,
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I am sinner,
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I am sinful,
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I can enumerate the acts and can describe the condition.
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What now, John?
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But if anyone does sin,
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we have an advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ, the righteous,
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and He is the expiation for our sins.
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That's it.
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There we have it.
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That's the way,
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there is the hope.
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There's a current popular song that includes the words,
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There's a page that aches
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for a word which speaks on a theme
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that is timeless.
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Here is a theme that is timeless.
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As L. Harold DeWolf writes,
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whatever else may be true of God
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beyond all we can know or think,
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in the mystery to us, the utter mystery of His greatness,
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at least this is true of Him.
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He knows us and cares for us.
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To use John's words,
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loves us with an everlasting love.
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If anyone does sin,
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John is not accusing here.
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He says, if.
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So this is for you and for me to decide.
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He's really calling us to a life of sinlessness,
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a life lived in love of God and love of one's neighbor.
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But, if anyone does sin,
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it is an individual personal matter.
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If anyone, now mind you,
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he doesn't say if the church or if the crowd
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or if the university administration, or if the student body,
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or if the community, or if our country,
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but if anyone.
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Does anyone?
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Do you? Do I?
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Do you answer that for yourself as I most for myself?
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But if you or I do sin, we have an advocate,
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which means a friend, a supporter, a defender,
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one who will stand by us, argue our case,
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defend our cause and carry us through.
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This advocate is Jesus, the Christ and more.
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He is the expiation for our sins,
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and I've heard that word ever
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since I was a little bitty boy.
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And I just learned what it means.
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He's the purifier.
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The one who cleans out the soiled spots, removes the taint,
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expunges all the evidence, but not for us only,
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but also for the whole world.
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Notice, will you, that the possibility for sin is singular,
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but if anyone sin, so it is your,
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or my single individual personal decision and act.
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But the assurance of forgiveness and redemption is for all.
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We have an advocate.
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The expiation for our sins and not for ours only,
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but for the whole world.
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This is that theme, which is timeless.
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God was in Christ, reconciling us to God
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and to one another,
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bringing us in our brokenness back to God
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and back to one another.
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It is Christ accepting us as we are
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and showing us God as God is.
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This is the atonement.
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God in Christ for us and our sins,
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this is what advent and Christmas and Ash Wednesday and Lent
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and crucifixion and resurrection,
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Good Friday and Easter are all about.
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God in Christ on the cross
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for any little child who may sin.
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The cross, Paul Scherrer says,
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is where I must look up into the face
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of God's eternal judgment on my sins
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and into the face of His eternal mercy on my soul.
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This Christ is the advocate, the expiation for my sins,
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the Christ of the cross.
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GA Studdert Kennedy was an Anglican priest in World War I.
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He was known as Woodbine Willie in some of his poems.
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Written from the frontline trenches
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are the most moving I've ever read.
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He wrote another poem.
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It speaks to me this morning and may say something to you
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as we face ourselves,
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and as we seek new life on this first Sunday in advent.
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It's entitled "Come Unto Me".
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"Come Unto Me".
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It sounds like mockery.
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A voice that calls a wounded man across a weary space
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he cannot travel for,
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for we would come to thee.
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We long to see thy face, but we're wounded sore,
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and evermore our weakness binds us.
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Darkness blinds us.
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We stretch our hands out vainly toward the shore
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where thou are waiting for thine all.
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We groan and try and fail again.
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We cannot come.
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We are but children.
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Come thou to us, O Lord.
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Come down and find us shepherd of the sheep.
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We cannot come to thee.
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It is so dark, (indistinct)
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I hear a voice that sounds across the sea.
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I come to thee.
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My little children,
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I'm writing this to you
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so that you may not sin.
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But if anyone does sin,
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we have an advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous.
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Let us pray.
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Dear God,
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all that we ought to have thought and have not thought,
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all that we ought to have said and have not said,
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00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:48.333
all that we ought to have done and have not done,
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00:47:50.200 --> 00:47:53.833
all that we ought not to have thought and yet have thought,
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00:47:54.950 --> 00:47:58.933
all that we ought not to have spoken and yet have spoken,
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00:48:00.260 --> 00:48:04.113
all that we ought not to have done and yet have done,
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for thoughts, works and words, we pray,
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O God, for forgiveness
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and repent with penance.
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Through Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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(organ music)
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(hymnal music)
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(organ music)
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All things come of thee, O Lord
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and of thy known have we given thee, amen.
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(organ music)
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The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,
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the love of God,
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the fellowship of the Holy Spirit abide with you
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now and forever.
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Amen.
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♪ A-a-a-a-men ♪
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♪ A-a-a-a-men ♪
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♪ A-a-a-a-Men ♪
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(organ music)