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Duke University Chapel.
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Service of worship.
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November 4th, 1979.
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(orchestral warming up music)
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Okay, shh, shh.
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You kids remind me that these cameras are capable
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of picking up flash-sized mustard seeds in the macaws, so--
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with this, don't get at the eye of anything.
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(chair screech)
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(orchestra members talking)
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Why don't we do more one more escape?
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One, one, one, one of four, okay?
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(orchestra members talking)
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And let the B, instead of two each, one each.
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And then one course the course.
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So four times through letter B, then we'll be at E.
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I'll find it in the background, holding the last time.
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The quarter is plus point, only speed, until a mark.
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Can you play the kinwah pattern until the mark?
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Yeah.
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Then, "Saints Go Marching In,"
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And then, "Oh Happy Day."
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I've gotta sort a whole lot on my watch a little bit,
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so I'll try to give you as much time as I can
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to give you on space, speed-dialing--
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(talking from orchestra members)
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There's a reason for that.
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Are we good now?
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(orchestra members talking)
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(orchestra matching pitch with one another)
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One, two, one two three four.
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(lively jazz music, starting with bass fiddle)
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(murmurs from band, congregation)
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(silky, sultry music)
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(murmurs from band, congregation)
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(undulating, expressive music)
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(murmurs from band, congregation)
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(jubilant music, "When the Saints Go Marching In")
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(cheerful music, "Oh Happy Day")
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♪ When the cross be gone the coils shall ♪
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♪ 'round him ransom me no more ♪
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♪ And the forming grace eternal price is paid ♪
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♪ When the Savior first shall gather ♪
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♪ All around me on His shore ♪
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♪ And the glory from a piaster I'll be saved ♪
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♪ When the world ♪
♪ When the world ♪
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♪ Is all about ♪
♪ Is all we have ♪
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♪ When the world ♪
♪ When the world ♪
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♪ Is all that comes ♪
♪ Comes from all we have ♪
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♪ When the world ♪
♪ When the world ♪
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♪ With all of converts ♪
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♪ When the world is all I've got throughout His Hand ♪
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(triumphant organ music)
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♪ For all the saints ♪
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♪ Who from their labors rest ♪
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♪ Who thee by faith ♪
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♪ Before the world confessed ♪
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♪ Thy name O Jesus ♪
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♪ Be forever blessed ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Thou wast their rock ♪
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♪ Their fortress and their might ♪
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♪ Thou Lord their Captain ♪
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♪ In the well-fought fight ♪
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♪ Thou in the darkness ♪
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♪ Drear the one true light ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Oh may thy soldiers ♪
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♪ Faithful true and bold ♪
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♪ Fight as the saints ♪
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♪ Who nobly fought of old ♪
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♪ And win with them ♪
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♪ The victor's crown of gold ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Oh blest communion ♪
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♪ Fellowship divine ♪
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♪ We feebly struggle ♪
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♪ They in glory shine ♪
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♪ Yet all are one ♪
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♪ In thee for all are thine ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ And when the fight ♪
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♪ Is fierce the warfare long ♪
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♪ Steals on the ear ♪
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♪ The distant triumph song ♪
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♪ And hearts are brave ♪
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♪ Again and hearts are strong ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ But lo there breaks ♪
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♪ A yet more glorious day ♪
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♪ The saints triumphant ♪
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♪ Rise in bright array ♪
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♪ The King of glory ♪
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♪ Passes on His way ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Let us remain standing
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and say together our call to awareness.
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[Leader And Congregation] Oh God,
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we worship in your presence.
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You have spoken and given form and beauty to the world.
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You have spoken and forgiven us.
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You have spoken and freed us from the fear of death.
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You have spoken and given purpose to our life.
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Oh Lord, speak to us now.
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Awaken us to the wonder and beauty of life.
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Speak, and let us respond in praise
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and daily service in Christ's name.
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Amen.
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You may be seated.
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Let us offer our corporate confession to Almighty God.
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[Leader and Congregation] Forgive us, Oh Lord,
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for we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common people,
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of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire.
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Who fear the blessing of God,
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the loneliness of the night of God.
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The surrender required, the deprivation inflicted.
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Who fear the injustice of others
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less than the justice of God.
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Who fear the hand at the window, the knock at the door,
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the words of our peers, the threats of the commonplace,
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the conflict with evil, less than we fear the love of God.
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We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault.
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We acknowledge that the sin of the world is upon our heads.
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That the blood of the martyrs and
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the agony of the saints is upon our heads.
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Lord have mercy upon us.
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Christ have mercy upon us.
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Lord have mercy upon us.
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Amen.
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Amen, amen.
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Let us confess our personal sin
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in the silence of our hearts.
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And now, sisters and brothers,
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hear and believe the Good News of the Gospel.
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We are no longer strangers and sojourners,
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but we are fellow citizens with the saints
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and members of the household of the God.
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In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
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Let us forgive one another.
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Amen.
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We would like to welcome all those of you
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who worship here today.
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You who come to the services regularly,
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and those of you who are visitors.
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We are glad you have joined us for this service.
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I would remind you that Communion is being served
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in the Memorial Chapel immediately following this service.
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You are invited to participate in the Lord's Supper.
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And now, let us continue our worship of God.
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(ebullient jazz music, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot")
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Let us pray.
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God of light, spirit of truth,
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we, your people, grope blindly to catch a glimpse of you.
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As we open your word, give us your light,
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that we may see your truth.
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Amen.
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The Epistle Lesson is from the 21st chapter
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of Revelation, verses one through six.
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Then I saw a new heaven, and a new earth,
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for the first heaven and the first earth
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had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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And I saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem,
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coming down out of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying,
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"Behold, the dwelling of God is with men.
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"He will dwell with them and they shall be his people,
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"And God Himself will be with them.
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"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
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"and death shall be no more.
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"Neither shall there be mourning,
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"nor crying, nor pain, anymore.
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"For the former things have passed away."
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And He who sat upon the throne said,
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"Behold, I make all things new."
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Also, He said, "Write this, for these words
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are trustworthy and true.
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And He said to me, "It is done.
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"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
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"To the thirsty, I will give from the fountain
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"of the water of Life without payment."
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Here ends the reading from the Epistle.
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All praise and glory be to God.
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Amen.
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(jubilant, ebullient music)
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ The Kingdom of this world ♪
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♪ Is become ♪
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♪ The Kingdom of our Lord ♪
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♪ And of his Christ ♪
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♪ And of his Christ ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ Forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ Forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ Forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ Forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ Forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ King of Kings and Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And he shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ Forever and ever ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever and ever ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
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♪ And He shall reign forever and ever ♪
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♪ Forever and ever ♪
♪ King of Kings ♪
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♪ And Lord of Lords ♪
♪ Forever and ever ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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Let us pray.
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Now may the words of my lips and the meditations
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of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight,
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Oh Lord, our strength and our Redeemer.
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Amen.
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Anybody who would try to preach
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after hearing the Duke Chapel Choir
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and congregation sing the Hallelujah Chorus,
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I think probably needs to have his head examined.
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Thank you, and you.
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All Saints' Day, in the life of the church,
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is one of those memorable days, like Easter,
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when we recall, remember, and celebrate
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what God has done, is doing, and will do.
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What has been, what is, and what is yet to be.
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Thus today, on the Sunday after All Saints' Day,
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we gather together to rejoice over God's gift to us
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of the saints of the ages, and of the saints of our own day.
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Peter, Paul, John, Mary, Dorcas, St. Augustine,
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St. Francis, St. Thomas, George Fox,
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Brother Lawrence, Joan of Arc, John Bunyan,
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William Law, Teresa of Avila, John Wesley,
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Susanna Wesley, mother of 18 children, no less,
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Thomas R. Kelly, Thomas a Kempis, John Calvin,
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Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pope John XXIII,
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Dag Hammarskjold, Mother Teresa, one of the true saints
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of all ages, and blessed are we
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that she is living in our day.
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These and others in that great cloud of witnesses,
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living and dead, who surround us and support us
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through the love and grace of God,
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day by day and moment by moment.
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Thomas Merton, one of this century's
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true mystics and saints,
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writes in a little book of his entitled, "He is Risen."
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"True encounter with Christ liberates something in us,
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"a power we did not know we had,
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"a hope, a capacity for life, a resiliency,
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"an ability to bounce back, a capacity to grow and change,
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"a power of creative transformation."
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A power of creative transformation is ours
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when we encounter the living Christ.
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And then we read, and hear the word,
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as John's vision in Revelation gives it to us.
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John writes, "These magnificent words
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"which have been read so many, many times
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"through the centuries, and I, John, saw a vision.
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"A new heaven and a new earth, the Holy City,
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"the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
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"and I heard a great voice saying,
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"'The dwelling of God is with men.
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"'He will dwell with them and they shall be his people.
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"'And God Himself will be with them.
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"'Listen, He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
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"'and death shall be no more, neither shall
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"'there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore,
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"'for the former things have passed away.'"
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And then John writes, "He who sat upon the throne said,
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"'Behold, I make all things new.'"
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What a powerful, majestic, moving,
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beautiful word from the Lord our God!
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You really feel like singing and standing
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and singing the Doxology, or just standing
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and shouting to God, "Be the glory!"
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One of the really sad and unfortunate and undesirable
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experiences of our day today, at least for me, anyhow,
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is the realization of how many people have read,
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or are reading, writings by Hal Lindsey and others like him.
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Lindsey's book, "The Late, Great Planet Earth,"
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is supposed to have sold, what, five or six million copies?
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Another book of his, "A New World is Coming,"
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already sold a couple million.
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But in the eyes of most New Testament scholars,
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these writings of his and others like his,
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are pure distortions of the word of God in Revelation.
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Lindsey and other like him have simply done their best
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to ruin or destroy or pervert the power
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and beauty and meaning of the book of Revelation.
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A message of hope has been made by them a message of fear.
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A message of promise has been made by them
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a message of doom.
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A message of life has been made by them
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a message of destruction.
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In John's vision, he hears a great voice say,
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"God will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
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"and death shall be no more.
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"Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore
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"for these former things have passed away.
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"And then, he who sat upon the throne said,
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"'Behold, I make all things new.'"
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Oh, how we need that creative transformation!
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How we need all things to be made new by God in and through
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the power and the grace of Jesus Christ today.
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No more doom, no more destruction, no more misery,
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no more fear, no more threat, no more Hell.
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Here we have, not only a vision of John,
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but a promise, a pledge, a commitment,
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a new covenant of God
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with all of God's children, you and me.
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Let's note carefully two or three things about these verses.
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First of all, whatever happens, John says, it will be new.
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There will be a change, a transformation,
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a re-creation, a new heaven and a new earth.
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The Holy City, the New Jerusalem.
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The old has been tried and tested
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and found unworthy and unwanted.
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It's the new that is needed to fulfill
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God's will for us, and for all people.
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Second, whatever happens, it will happen
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as in a city on the earth, and not as some cloud
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out in the sky, not out there or up there
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or over there, wherever there is.
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The New Jerusalem, the Holy City,
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is to come down from heaven to this earth,
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to the new earth, to the transformed and recreated earth.
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It will be as a city, so that we will know,
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truly know, what community, what living with,
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what being together and being dependent upon,
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is really all about.
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Not city though, as most of us think
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and know of cities as hellholes today,
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but along the lines of St. Augustine's The City of God.
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A city, a community, a place where we know and are known.
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Third, though, this dwelling of God is to be with us.
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That is, with God's people.
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Listen, if you will, to how beautifully,
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and undeniably, and unalterably,
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we are bound to God, and God is bound to us!
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John asserts here, with real daring,
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the glorious fellowship that we are to know
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with God and with one another.
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He says, "The dwelling of God is with men."
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That is, with us.
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Then, so that we will understand clearly,
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he repeats the words, "God will dwell with them."
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Then the hope that John gives us is stated once again.
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"They shall be God's people."
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And then finally, recalling for us the Garden of Eden,
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the Exodus Covenant, the New Covenant of Jeremiah,
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and the everlasting covenant given us in Jesus Christ,
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he says, "God himself will be with them."
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And so, my friends, John's word from God,
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is that whatever God is to do in the new creation
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in the age to come, is, he says, it will be new.
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It will be as a city here on earth,
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and God will be our God, and we will be the people of God.
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But then John goes on.
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For the first time in all of the book of Revelation,
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here in the 21st chapter, with certainty,
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we hear the voice of God, the voice from the throne,
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the voice of power and wisdom and majesty which says--
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remember, this is the first time
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in the whole book that God Himself has spoken--
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"Behold, I make all
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things new."
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This, it seems to me, is the word
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that the saints of the ages have proclaimed
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and witnessed to and lived out,
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that is the word that the saints of this day
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and of every day have tried to get us to know
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and experience and believe and live out.
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I can't help but feel,
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and feel very, very deeply
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this morning, that whoever God is, and wherever God is,
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as God looks upon the face of this earth
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as you and I know it, and as all God's children know it,
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God surely must be saying, "All things on earth
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"really do need to be made new."
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It is true, so very, very true.
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I don't know about other generations,
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I don't know about other days, other times.
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I don't know if this is the most evil,
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the most wicked, the most sinful generation
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that has ever been, and I'm not so sure
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that those who contend that know either.
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But in terms of who we are as a people, how we relate
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to one another, and whether we are truly God's people,
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living according to God's love and way,
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there is no question but what we do,
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individually and corporately, need to be made new.
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And the God who created this universe,
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the God who called it into being, the God who made you
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and me and every other child upon this earth.
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The God who looked out on all that had been made
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and said, "It is good, indeed, it is very good,."
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surely is saying this morning not just,
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"I make all things new," but is surely saying,
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"I must make all things new."
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Tears, death, mourning, crying, pain,
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these former things are to be no more,
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for "Behold," God says, "I will make all things new."
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I want to look at these words in two ways this morning.
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For I believe that God can make things new in this life,
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and God surely can make things new in the life to come.
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First of all, God can make things new in this life.
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There seems to be no way in the life
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which you and I are called to live,
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no way that we can avoid tears and death
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and mourning and crying and pain,
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absolutely no way anyone of us can avoid these.
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I saw some words on the wall of a psychiatrist
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friend of mine recently, where the writing went like this:
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"Life is full of hardship and duress.
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"For everything else, be thankful."
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And so it is, I guess.
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There is no way to avoid a life that does not need
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to be made new this moment, today, right now.
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And then these words, my friends,
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how painfully, how tragically aware
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we must be this morning,
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of our need to be made new as a people,
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for I'm sure that most all of us have seen the news
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and have read the papers, showing the tragic,
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senseless, barbaric slaughtering,
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killing of four persons,
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by whomever, and whoever they are,
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they are sick and torn and insane,
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surely.
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It makes one ask the question,
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"What is there in the heart and soul of us, of any of us,
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"that would allow that sort of behavior to take place?"
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In one sequence which I saw
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on the 11 o'clock news on channel 11 last night,
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it showed a man running away from two or three other men.
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And as he ran, he had two guns,
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one in each hand and he was firing
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at those from whom he was running,
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and they were no more than 8 or 10 feet away.
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How in God's name
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can one human being
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do that to another human being?
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What is going on?
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And last night, and this morning as I reflected on that,
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the question came to my mind, "Are we as a people
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"in this land going to relive the '60s
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"all over again as we begin the '80s?"
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God forbid.
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Vividly, painfully, plainly, tragically,
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sadly, brokenheartedly, we see and know and surely
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believe that things really need to be made new in this life.
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What can we do?
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I know, no one here this morning
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really had anything directly to do
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with what happened in Greensboro yesterday.
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All of us are brokenhearted and sick.
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So we ask, not why did it happen but what can we do?
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One thing I believe is that when the call comes,
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and it will in the next few days,
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for those of us who believe in right
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and justice and human dignity to stand up
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for those who were attacked,
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every one of us here, and every other person
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that we can influence can stand clearly
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and firmly for two things.
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One is that we believe that those who did
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the shooting and the attacking yesterday
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should be brought to trial quickly,
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and kept in custody
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so that other human beings may be safe.
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A second thing is that equal protection under the law
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by the police should be provided for all persons.
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If the Klan gets police protection,
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and it has every time I have ever seen
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a news clipping of any of their parades or demonstrations,
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if the Klan gets protection from the police,
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then those who protest the Klan should be protected as well.
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No, my friends, we do not have to look very far.
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Just yesterday, and just next door,
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to see how desperately we need
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for things to be made new.
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But then it may not be possible for things
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to be made new in this life, that may be out for some of us.
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Indeed it may be out for all of us.
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It just may be that it will have to be in the life to come
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that all things will be made new.
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Perhaps that is why the old Negro spirituals
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from the South of another generation
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had much otherworldly theology in them.
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They knew that there was no hope under their slave masters,
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under the system as they had to live it,
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but when that chariot swings low,
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and someone comes to carry me home
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where all God's children has shoes,
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I'm gonna put on my shoes, and you got shoes,
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I got shoes, all God's children got shoes,
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and we're gonna put on our shoes
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and walk all over God's heaven.
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Perhaps it was because they knew
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that there was no hope in this life
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that the theology did have an otherworldliness to it.
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Or maybe it's because we realize that the fullness of life
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that is home must be somewhere else.
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00:56:42.940 --> 00:56:46.277
Hermann Hesse, the German poet, writes,
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"Across the sky the clouds move,
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"Across the fields the wind,
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00:56:52.697 --> 00:56:55.187
"Across the fields the lost child
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00:56:55.187 --> 00:56:57.737
"Of my mother wanders.
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00:56:57.737 --> 00:57:00.557
"Across the street, leaves blow,
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00:57:00.557 --> 00:57:03.787
"Across the trees, birds cry--
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00:57:03.787 --> 00:57:07.097
"Across the mountains, far away,
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"My home must be."
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Somewhere across,
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00:57:13.988 --> 00:57:17.700
my home must be.
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00:57:17.700 --> 00:57:19.710
Or perhaps it's like Carlyle Marney
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00:57:19.710 --> 00:57:21.623
wrote John Claypool one day.
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00:57:22.600 --> 00:57:25.550
John Claypool is a Baptist minister.
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His daughter was 10 years old and was dying with leukemia.
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Marney wrote Claypool just a note,
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and in it, he admitted that he had absolutely no word
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to say about the suffering of the innocent.
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He never had had, and probably never would have.
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But he said, "I fall back
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on the idea
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that God someday will have a whole lot
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to give account for."
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And I believe that, I really do.
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Or, to put it in John's words,
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"I believe that someday, some way,
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"some place, somehow, God will make all things new."
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Every time I walk down the halls,
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or go in the wards of the Veterans Administration Hospital,
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every time I am around the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
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or the Center for Mentally Retarded Children at Butner,
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00:58:29.140 --> 00:58:31.210
every time I go to the city jail,
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00:58:31.210 --> 00:58:33.143
or come near the Guess Road Prison,
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00:58:33.990 --> 00:58:37.960
every time I go in or drive by
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the Cerebral Palsy Hospital and see
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00:58:39.950 --> 00:58:42.490
those children playing out front,
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00:58:42.490 --> 00:58:44.660
every time I see pictures of children
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or hungry masses of people starving,
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00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:50.580
every time I see somebody whose body or mind
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or spirit is warped or broken or not whole,
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every time I'm around someone who is
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struggling to breathe with emphysema,
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or is dying with leukemia or some other cancer.
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Every time I see any child of God
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not living life to the full, not experiencing life
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in its wholeness, not knowing the goodness
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and joy and blessing of life,
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I say and believe and know that the God in whom I believe,
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the God of the Old and New Covenants of Love and Life,
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the God of Moses and Jesus and John,
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the God of you and me someday, somehow,
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some way, will make all things new.
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Surely, my friends,
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it is an amazing grace.
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Amazing grace that comes from God
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to us through Jesus Christ.
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It gives us life.
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Life in the now,
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and life that will be
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full and whole
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in that age to come.
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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
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through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come.
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Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
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and grace will lead me home.
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When we've been there 10,000 years,
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bright shining as the sun, we've no less days
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to sing God's praise
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than when we first begun.
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01:00:54.660 --> 01:00:57.217
And the voice from the throne said,
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01:00:57.217 --> 01:00:58.050
"Behold,
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I make all things new."
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01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.183
And to God be the glory.
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Amen and amen.
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(courageous music, "Amazing Grace")
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♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound, ♪
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♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪
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♪ I once was lost but now am found ♪
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♪ Twas blind but now I see ♪
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♪ Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪
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♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪
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♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪
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01:03:00.787 --> 01:03:05.787
♪ The hour I first believed ♪
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01:03:09.499 --> 01:03:14.499
♪ Through many dangers toils and snares ♪
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01:03:18.316 --> 01:03:23.316
♪ We have already come ♪
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01:03:27.364 --> 01:03:32.364
♪ Twas grace that brought me safe thus far ♪
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01:03:36.646 --> 01:03:41.646
♪ And grace will lead me home ♪
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01:03:45.946 --> 01:03:50.946
♪ The Lord has promised good to me ♪
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01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:59.840
♪ His Word my hope secures ♪
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01:04:04.104 --> 01:04:09.104
♪ God will my Shield and Portion be ♪
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01:04:13.482 --> 01:04:18.482
♪ As long as life endures ♪
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01:04:22.554 --> 01:04:27.554
♪ Yea when this flesh and heart shall fail ♪
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01:04:31.722 --> 01:04:36.722
♪ And mortal life shall cease ♪
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01:04:41.183 --> 01:04:46.183
♪ I shall possess within the veil ♪
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01:04:50.503 --> 01:04:55.503
♪ A life of joy and peace ♪
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01:05:00.154 --> 01:05:05.154
♪ When we've been there 10,000 years ♪
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01:05:09.674 --> 01:05:14.674
♪ Bright shining like the sun ♪
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01:05:18.903 --> 01:05:23.903
♪ We've no less days to sing God's praise ♪
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01:05:28.802 --> 01:05:32.552
♪ Than when we'd first begun ♪
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01:05:40.514 --> 01:05:42.431
♪ Amen ♪
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Let us unite in this historic confession
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01:05:58.280 --> 01:05:59.473
of the Christian faith.
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01:06:01.926 --> 01:06:03.110
[Leader and Congregation] I believe in God
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01:06:03.110 --> 01:06:07.780
the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
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01:06:07.780 --> 01:06:11.560
and in Jesus Christ, His only son our Lord,
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01:06:11.560 --> 01:06:14.850
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
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01:06:14.850 --> 01:06:19.850
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
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01:06:19.860 --> 01:06:23.260
was crucified, dead and buried.
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01:06:23.260 --> 01:06:26.420
The third day He rose from the dead.
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01:06:26.420 --> 01:06:29.360
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth
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01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:33.100
at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
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01:06:33.100 --> 01:06:36.563
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
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01:06:37.540 --> 01:06:42.540
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,
655
01:06:42.870 --> 01:06:47.530
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
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01:06:47.530 --> 01:06:51.943
the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
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01:06:52.780 --> 01:06:54.002
Amen.
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01:06:54.002 --> 01:06:55.263
You may be seated.
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01:07:04.870 --> 01:07:06.223
The Lord be with you.
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01:07:07.130 --> 01:07:08.380
And also with you.
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01:07:08.380 --> 01:07:09.530
Let us pray.
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01:07:12.530 --> 01:07:17.320
Mighty God, we give you thanks for all those saints
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01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:20.820
and servants of yours who have acted justly,
664
01:07:20.820 --> 01:07:24.573
loved mercy, and walked humbly in your way.
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01:07:26.020 --> 01:07:28.220
There have been those who have done amazing
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01:07:28.220 --> 01:07:30.583
and startling things in their ministry.
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01:07:31.670 --> 01:07:35.070
And there have been those who are meek and lowly,
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01:07:35.070 --> 01:07:37.783
ministering quietly from day to day,
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01:07:39.330 --> 01:07:42.303
for all these we give thanks, oh God.
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01:07:44.120 --> 01:07:46.640
We are especially thankful today
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01:07:46.640 --> 01:07:49.730
for those whom we have known and loved,
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01:07:49.730 --> 01:07:52.150
who have shown us the way as they walked
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01:07:52.150 --> 01:07:53.903
in the footsteps of Jesus.
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01:07:55.040 --> 01:07:58.360
Their names fill our memories, and our memories
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01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.583
fill this place with their spirits.
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01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:05.613
For their guidance and comfort, we give you thanks.
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01:08:07.850 --> 01:08:10.963
With all these witnesses around us like a cloud,
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01:08:11.860 --> 01:08:13.870
we thank you that you have bound us
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01:08:13.870 --> 01:08:16.263
together with them in one fellowship,
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01:08:17.130 --> 01:08:19.510
and that you have founded a church,
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01:08:19.510 --> 01:08:21.060
and have revealed your loving,
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01:08:21.060 --> 01:08:24.373
and kindness, and truth in every age.
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01:08:25.390 --> 01:08:28.610
Make your people loving, and kind,
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01:08:28.610 --> 01:08:32.573
and committed to serve you in righteousness and reverence.
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01:08:34.230 --> 01:08:37.010
We pray today for those who know suffering
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01:08:37.010 --> 01:08:38.723
and who need our caring.
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01:08:40.020 --> 01:08:44.573
As we look at our world, words of Jesus haunt us.
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01:08:45.730 --> 01:08:47.363
For we see Him hungry.
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01:08:48.660 --> 01:08:50.470
In the faces and lifeless eyes
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01:08:50.470 --> 01:08:53.623
of the hungry of the world, we see Jesus.
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01:08:54.530 --> 01:08:56.300
And we pray that our commitment
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01:08:56.300 --> 01:08:58.253
is great enough to feed them.
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01:09:00.310 --> 01:09:02.843
We see Him a stranger, and naked,
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01:09:03.790 --> 01:09:06.020
in the areas where disasters have struck
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01:09:06.020 --> 01:09:09.410
and people have the necessities of life,
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01:09:09.410 --> 01:09:12.690
we see Jesus, and we pray that our commitment
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01:09:12.690 --> 01:09:14.570
is great enough to meet their needs
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01:09:14.570 --> 01:09:17.623
for food, shelter, and clothing.
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01:09:19.831 --> 01:09:21.660
We see Him in the faces of those
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01:09:21.660 --> 01:09:24.610
who work for justice for all people
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01:09:24.610 --> 01:09:27.273
even at the expense of their own lives.
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01:09:28.250 --> 01:09:30.630
And we pray that our commitment is great enough
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01:09:30.630 --> 01:09:34.600
to move into areas where even angels fear to tread,
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01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:38.580
to work to bring about love, justice,
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01:09:38.580 --> 01:09:43.150
reconciliation, peace, and understanding,
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01:09:43.150 --> 01:09:46.410
in situations like the one in Greensboro,
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01:09:46.410 --> 01:09:48.840
where at this moment, little makes sense,
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01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:50.373
and we are confused.
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01:09:52.420 --> 01:09:54.923
We see Jesus sick, and in prison,
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01:09:55.890 --> 01:09:58.770
in those places where folk through political turmoil
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01:09:58.770 --> 01:10:00.710
have been displaced from their homes
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01:10:00.710 --> 01:10:05.670
and held in camps of poverty and misery, we see Jesus.
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01:10:05.670 --> 01:10:07.810
And we pray that our commitment is great enough
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01:10:07.810 --> 01:10:09.550
to open our arms and our hearts
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01:10:09.550 --> 01:10:11.853
to them in their despair and fear.
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01:10:13.601 --> 01:10:16.420
In the lives of those known to us who are ill,
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01:10:16.420 --> 01:10:20.740
bereaved, and lonely, we see Jesus,
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01:10:20.740 --> 01:10:22.880
and we pray that our commitment is great enough
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01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:27.880
to stand by them, to bring words of healing and comfort,
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01:10:28.460 --> 01:10:31.173
to wipe away tears from their eyes.
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01:10:32.750 --> 01:10:35.440
And now, oh God, may a glimpse of that New Jerusalem
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01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:38.403
call us to begin its building in this world now.
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01:10:39.550 --> 01:10:42.710
Grant to us an understanding, that we live
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01:10:42.710 --> 01:10:46.710
to make each day new, even in the midst of death.
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01:10:46.710 --> 01:10:50.420
To hope, even in the midst of despair.
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01:10:50.420 --> 01:10:54.193
To love, even in the face of apathy and hate.
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We pray in the name of Him who came to make all things new,
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01:11:00.190 --> 01:11:02.370
and who gave to us a model of newness
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01:11:02.370 --> 01:11:04.363
in the prayer He taught us to pray.
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01:11:05.693 --> 01:11:08.670
[Leader And Congregation] Our Father, who art in heaven,
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hallowed by thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done,
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01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:17.400
on earth as it is in heaven.
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01:11:17.400 --> 01:11:20.410
Give us this day our daily bread,
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and forgive us our trespasses,
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01:11:23.040 --> 01:11:26.383
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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01:11:27.220 --> 01:11:29.950
And lead us not into temptation,
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01:11:29.950 --> 01:11:34.470
but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom
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01:11:34.470 --> 01:11:37.393
and the Power and the Glory, forever.
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01:11:38.349 --> 01:11:39.182
Amen.
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01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:45.659
(celebratory organ music)
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(bright, spiritual orchestral music)
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♪ Oh what a magical Lord ♪
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01:15:06.522 --> 01:15:08.965
♪ Spirit to behold ♪
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01:15:08.965 --> 01:15:12.136
♪ You are my Savior ♪
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01:15:12.136 --> 01:15:17.136
♪ He has become man ♪
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♪ A glorious fall ♪
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♪ He would suffer ♪
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♪ Aaaaaaaah ♪
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♪ Aaaaaaaah ♪
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♪ Aaaaaaaah ♪
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01:15:30.071 --> 01:15:35.071
♪ Aaaaaaaah ♪
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01:15:35.093 --> 01:15:36.753
♪ In the face of death ♪
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01:15:36.753 --> 01:15:38.101
♪ In the face of death ♪
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01:15:38.101 --> 01:15:39.762
♪ In the race of death ♪
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01:15:39.762 --> 01:15:43.743
♪ In the race of death ♪
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01:15:43.743 --> 01:15:45.874
♪ Aaaaaaaah ♪
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01:15:45.874 --> 01:15:49.576
♪ He would die ♪
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01:15:49.576 --> 01:15:54.576
♪ He had to find me ♪
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01:15:54.896 --> 01:15:57.696
♪ Come to raise me ♪
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01:15:57.696 --> 01:16:00.616
♪ Come create me ♪
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01:16:00.616 --> 01:16:02.843
♪ Were He ♪
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01:16:02.843 --> 01:16:06.074
♪ The man to feed me ♪
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01:16:06.074 --> 01:16:08.736
♪ Man to bring some ♪
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♪ Man to bring some ♪
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01:16:12.321 --> 01:16:17.321
♪ He knew spirit in His life ♪
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♪ He knew value from the fight ♪
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01:16:28.652 --> 01:16:33.069
(choir singing muffled by orchestra)
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♪ And til the sun eclipse the sea ♪
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♪ Til then ♪
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01:16:41.964 --> 01:16:46.415
♪ He has helped His servants inland ♪
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01:16:46.415 --> 01:16:51.415
♪ And made us upon His mainland ♪
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01:16:51.444 --> 01:16:53.991
♪ We see ♪
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01:16:53.991 --> 01:16:56.074
♪ Oh God ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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01:17:22.102 --> 01:17:24.796
♪ He is powerful ♪
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01:17:24.796 --> 01:17:27.605
♪ He is wonderful ♪
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01:17:27.605 --> 01:17:30.376
♪ God my Savior ♪
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01:17:30.376 --> 01:17:35.376
♪ He stands beside me ♪
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01:17:35.944 --> 01:17:38.676
♪ The creator ♪
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01:17:38.676 --> 01:17:41.806
♪ Jesus' Father ♪
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01:17:41.806 --> 01:17:44.509
♪ He holds the future His will ♪
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01:17:44.509 --> 01:17:47.377
♪ God makes a mocking death for ♪
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01:17:47.377 --> 01:17:51.729
♪ It seems that He can cost me ♪
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♪ Long years in gain ♪
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♪ In gain ♪
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♪ In gain ♪
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♪ Long years in gain ♪
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(regal organ music)
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♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
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01:18:36.282 --> 01:18:41.282
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪
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01:18:41.353 --> 01:18:46.353
♪ Alleluia alleluia ♪
792
01:18:47.782 --> 01:18:52.782
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly Host ♪
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01:18:52.833 --> 01:18:57.833
♪ Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost ♪
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01:18:57.894 --> 01:19:02.894
♪ Alleluia alleluia ♪
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♪ Alleluia alleluia ♪
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01:19:08.953 --> 01:19:13.953
♪ Alleluia ♪
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01:19:17.494 --> 01:19:19.411
♪ Amen ♪
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Mighty God, send down your Holy Spirit
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upon us, we pray, to cleanse our hearts,
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01:19:36.810 --> 01:19:40.210
hallow our gifts, and perfect the offering
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01:19:40.210 --> 01:19:42.980
of ourselves unto you.
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Amen.
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01:19:50.191 --> 01:19:55.191
(mournful music, "Mine Eyes Seen the Coming of the Lord")
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01:20:55.772 --> 01:20:57.701
♪ Mine eyes have seen the coming ♪
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01:20:57.701 --> 01:21:00.481
♪ Of the glory of the Lord ♪
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♪ He is trampling out the vintage ♪
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♪ Where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪
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♪ He hath loosed the fateful lightning ♪
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♪ Of His terrible swift sword ♪
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♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:21:22.599 --> 01:21:27.599
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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♪ I have seen Him in the watch fires ♪
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♪ Of a hundred circling camps ♪
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♪ They have builded Him an altar ♪
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♪ In the evening dews and damps ♪
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♪ I can read His righteous sentence ♪
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♪ By the dim and flaring lamps ♪
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♪ His day is marching on ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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♪ He has sounded forth the trumpet ♪
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♪ That shall never call retreat ♪
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♪ He is sifting out the hearts of men ♪
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♪ Before His judgment seat ♪
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♪ Oh be swift my soul to answer Him ♪
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♪ Be jubilant my feet ♪
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♪ Our God is marching on ♪
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01:22:44.885 --> 01:22:49.885
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:22:50.271 --> 01:22:55.271
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:22:55.698 --> 01:23:00.479
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:05.479
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:08.887
♪ In the beauty of the lilies ♪
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♪ Christ was born across the sea ♪
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♪ With a glory in His bosom ♪
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♪ That transfigures you and me ♪
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01:23:17.189 --> 01:23:19.807
♪ As he died to make men holy ♪
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01:23:19.807 --> 01:23:22.616
♪ Let us die to make men free ♪
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♪ While God is marching on ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:39.399
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:23:40.046 --> 01:23:44.749
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:23:44.749 --> 01:23:49.749
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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♪ He is coming like the glory ♪
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♪ Of the morning on the wave ♪
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♪ He is wisdom to the mighty ♪
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♪ He is honor to the brave ♪
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♪ So the world shall be His footstool ♪
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♪ And the soul of wrong His slave ♪
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♪ Our God is marching on ♪
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♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:24:19.588 --> 01:24:24.588
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:24:24.909 --> 01:24:29.909
♪ Glory glory hallelujah ♪
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01:24:30.410 --> 01:24:33.993
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
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Let us join together in the prayer
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of commemoration and commitment.
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Let us pray.
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[Leader and Congregation] Eternal God,
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help us this day to remember the unseen cloud
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of witnesses who compass us about,
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those who in every age and generation,
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witness to their faith, in life and in death;
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those who by their courage and their sacrifice,
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won for us the freedom and the liberty we enjoy;
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those who have served, and those who continue to serve,
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01:25:19.570 --> 01:25:23.680
others at the cost of pain, of persecution,
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01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:28.100
and of death; those living martyrs who now suffer
872
01:25:28.100 --> 01:25:31.400
at the hands of oppressors and dictators,
873
01:25:31.400 --> 01:25:33.940
and yet remain faithful to Christ
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01:25:33.940 --> 01:25:38.300
in obedience and in witness; those whom we love,
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01:25:38.300 --> 01:25:43.283
and have gone to be with You, and whose lives live on in us.
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01:25:44.500 --> 01:25:47.060
Help us to walk worthily of those
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01:25:47.060 --> 01:25:51.520
in whose unseen presence our lives are lived.
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01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:54.370
Help us to commit our lives to Christ
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01:25:54.370 --> 01:25:59.370
in such a way that we may their courage in danger,
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01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:02.610
their steadfastness in trial,
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their perseverance in difficulty,
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01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:09.150
their loyalty when loyalty is costly,
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their love which nothing can change,
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01:26:12.310 --> 01:26:14.873
their joy which nothing can take away.
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So grant to us in this life never to forget those
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01:26:20.280 --> 01:26:24.880
who have gone before, so that in the life to come,
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we may share with them in their joy and blessedness,
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01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:31.043
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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01:26:32.917 --> 01:26:34.610
And now, may the God of hope
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fill you with all joy and peace and believing,
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that you may abound in hope,
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01:26:39.930 --> 01:26:42.267
and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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♪ It would be life in Christ ♪
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(triumphant music, "Jesus Christ Superstar")
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(anticipatory music, "Blood Money")
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01:29:26.809 --> 01:29:31.476
(energetic music, "I Only Want to Say")
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01:30:14.024 --> 01:30:18.941
(energetic, anticipatory orchestral music)
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01:33:04.799 --> 01:33:08.549
(slowing, melancholic music)
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01:34:01.935 --> 01:34:06.935
(tender, tentative music, "I Don't Know How to Love Him")
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01:36:43.141 --> 01:36:46.474
(clapping and cheering)
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01:37:11.793 --> 01:37:13.804
Does everyone have their cars parked
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01:37:13.804 --> 01:37:15.673
pretty close here so like, all together?
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01:37:15.673 --> 01:37:18.223
Let's all just take the stuff back and put it away.
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01:37:20.732 --> 01:37:22.142
Nice job!
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(sounds of congregation leaving, band leaving)