dcrau002720001.wav / Robert T. Young - "But if Anyone Does Sin, We Have" (February 16, 1975) / Duke Digital Repository

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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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all that we ought to have done and have not done,

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all that we ought not to have thought and yet have thought,

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all that we ought not to have spoken and yet have spoken,

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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)

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