Clovis G. Chappell - "Road to Greatness" (February 9, 1958)

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-	This one thing I do,	0:02
	forgetting those things which are behind	0:05
	and reaching forth unto those things which are before,	0:07
	I press toward the mark for the prize.	0:11
	It would be next to impossible	0:15
	to exaggerate the man who uttered these words.	0:18
	Whole nations could be dropped into the ocean	0:23
	and not be missed as much as	0:26
	we should miss this one tremendous personality.	0:29
	He has breathed on all the centuries	0:34
	like a reviving springtime.	0:39
	Now, we can't share the secret of his genius,	0:44
	but we can share the secret of his greatness.	0:46
	And the first part of it was	0:50
	that he was a man of one purpose,	0:52
	this one thing I do.	0:54
	It doesn't matter how abundant your gifts may be,	0:58
	if you never make up your mind	1:02
	as to what you're going to do with those gifts,	1:04
	you are likely to squander them for a poor second best.	1:06
	I do not care how	1:12
	excellent your car may be	1:14
	and how abundant may be your supply of gasoline,	1:16
	if you don't know where you are going,	1:21
	you are not likely to reach anywhere they go.	1:24
	I remember years ago, my wife and I were touring	1:27
	the New England states and we came about two o'clock	1:31
	in the afternoon to the Wayside Inn,	1:34
	since destroyed, as ya know.	1:36
	Then, we resumed our journey,	1:40
	and we drove, and we drove, and we drove, and we drove	1:43
	till it was about 10:30 at night.	1:46
	And we saw a light in the distance	1:50
	and agreed that if that should happen to be a hotel,	1:52
	we had better stop for the night, and it was a hotel.	1:55
	It was the Wayside Inn.	2:00
	We had left it eight hours ago,	2:04
	and had driven with all diligence.	2:07
	And we'd got back to where we started.	2:11
	Nothing wrong with the car, nothing wrong with the gasoline,	2:15
	the only trouble was with the man at the wheel.	2:19
	Coleridge had a genius almost equal to that of Shakespeare,	2:24
	if he had written every book that he'd planned to write,	2:28
	he would've filled a small library,	2:32
	and yet all he left behind him was	2:34
	a handful of glittering fragments.	2:36
	He could never say this one thing I do.	2:38
	On the other hand, if you can say this one thing I do,	2:42
	the impossible becomes possible, even for the mediocre.	2:46
	There is no dreaming	2:51
	what one life may do	2:53
	if it's organized	2:55
	around one great central purpose	2:57
	or around one great central personality.	3:00
	While I was pastor in Washington,	3:05
	the government set me down to speak to the operatives	3:06
	in the Canal Zone.	3:10
	I spent nearly two weeks there.	3:12
	I got there just as the canal had been recommissioned.	3:15
	It had been put out of commission for some six months	3:19
	by a landslide	3:21
	at what they call the Culebra Cut.	3:23
	In order that such a calamity might not occur again,	3:27
	they were removing the overhanging mountain.	3:29
	They were not removing it	3:33
	as we should doubtless do today by bulldozers,	3:35
	but they were removing it by hydraulic pressure.	3:38
	I watched them turn streams of water on that mountain, and	3:42
	small trees were uprooted,	3:46
	and boulders would be pushed out of their places.	3:47
	Yet, when that water fell from the heavens,	3:52
	it fell so gently that it wouldn't have hurt a baby's face.	3:54
	But now it was saying this one thing I do,	3:59
	and the mountain was taking to its heels.	4:04
	There is no measuring the power of a life	4:08
	that's properly organized around one great purpose	4:11
	or one great personality.	4:15
	Not only was this man a man of one purpose,	4:19
	but it was a worthy purpose.	4:21
	Oh, so often,	4:24
	we	4:25
	sell out far too cheaply.	4:26
	I went down to perform a marriage ceremony some years ago,	4:29
	and some pranksters had got hold of the honeymoon car	4:33
	that the bride and groom were to leave in,	4:37
	and the whole rear of the car	4:40
	was hidden by an immense placard.	4:42
	Up in this corner was a snarling woman,	4:45
	and down in the lower corner was an equally snarling man,	4:48
	and running across it was this pessimistic motto:	4:54
	"When you get what you want, you don't want it."	4:57
	Well, that's true of more than brides and grooms.	5:04
	Years ago, there was a charming story	5:11
	written by a Virginian,	5:13
	called Santa Claus Pack That.	5:17
	The hero of the book was a young chap	5:19
	who had started from scratch,	5:21
	and was rapidly becoming rich.	5:24
	And there's no harm in making money given a right motive.	5:27
	It's just as right to make money	5:31
	as it is to go as a missionary.	5:33
	One of the grim jokes that the devil has played	5:36
	on a certain type of church member	5:38
	is to make them think that while money, it is an essential,	5:41
	it's just a little bit vulgar,	5:45
	and when you introduce it, especially in a worship service,	5:48
	the temperature goes down.	5:51
	I've always enjoyed preachin' on money.	5:55
	I love to watch the liberal enjoy,	6:00
	and I love to see the stingy suffer.	6:03
	(audience laughs)	6:06
	And let me say in all sober seriousness,	6:10
	let me steal this quote Paul is	6:14
	saying money is the root of all evil.	6:16
	Paul never said anything of the kind.	6:18
	If he hadda said it, I say in sober reverence,	6:21
	it wouldn't of been true.	6:23
	But, it can be the root of endless evil	6:25
	in the hand of an evil man.	6:28
	It can be the root of endless good	6:30
	in the hands of a good man.	6:32
	Dug from the mountainside, washed in the glen.	6:35
	Servant am I of the Master of men.	6:37
	Earn me, I bless ya; steal me, I curse ya.	6:39
	Grip me and hold me, a fiend shall possess ya.	6:43
	Lie for me, die for me, covet me, take me.	6:46
	Angel or devil, I am what ya make me.	6:48
	Money is a sacred thing.	6:53
	There's nothing under God's stars,	6:56
	more sacred than the so-called secular.	6:57
	And he was making money, and a fine old friend	7:00
	said to him, "What is your ambition?"	7:03
	He said, "I'm gonna be worth a million dollars."	7:04
	He said, "That's fine."	7:06
	But he said, "Why do you wanna be worth a million dollars?"	7:07
	And here was the lay down.	7:11
	He said, "So I can tell the other fella to go to hell."	7:12
	It's not as grim as he sounded.	7:15
	What did he mean?	7:17
	I wanna be worth a million dollars,	7:18
	so I can be absolutely independent.	7:20
	But nobody's absolutely independent.	7:22
	We are bound up in a bundle of life with the other fella,	7:25
	and you can no more unloose yourself from him,	7:28
	than you can unloose yourself from your own shadow.	7:30
	And instead of abundant wealth making you independent,	7:34
	just makes you that dependent on that many more people.	7:37
	If I owned a little grocery store here in Durham,	7:40
	that had 10 customers, I'd be dependent on 10 people,	7:43
	but if I owned a chain of stores,	7:47
	stretching from New York to San Francisco,	7:49
	I'd be dependent on millions of people.	7:52
	I'm not forgetting the self-made man.	7:57
	I've had him in every congregation I ever served,	7:59
	and I agree fully when the only great purpose he serves	8:03
	is to save the Lord of a lot of embarrassment.	8:07
	A covetive of youth was standing some time ago,	8:17
	on the banks of the Tennessee River, when it was at flood,	8:20
	and one of the boys saw a rabbit swim	8:24
	and take refuge	8:27
	on a lumber stack, out some 300 yards from the shore.	8:29
	And knowing the rabbit is not a good swimmer,	8:34
	He said, "I'm going out and catch that rabbit."	8:37
	And he went out and caught him,	8:40
	for the rabbit was less afraid of the boy,	8:41
	than he was of the water,	8:43
	and he knocked his head against the plank,	8:45
	put him down in the pocket of his old, blue overalls,	8:48
	got in his boat, and started back to the shore.	8:51
	But he wasn't skillful in the handling of a canoe	8:53
	and it capsized, and he drowned.	8:56
	And when the drag first bought in	8:59
	and found it three days later,	9:00
	one of his companions came up,	9:03
	and pulled that old, dead rabbit	9:05
	out of his pocket and held it up	9:07
	and said, "That's what he gave his life for."	9:08
	Well, whether it's for a million dollars	9:10
	or an old dead rabbit, it's too cheap.	9:12
	I bargained with life for a penny,	9:15
	and life would give no more,	9:18
	however I begged at evening	9:20
	when I counted my scanty store.	9:22
	Life is a just employer, she gives us what we ask,	9:25
	but once we have set the wages,	9:30
	then we must bear the task.	9:31
	I work for a menial's hire only to learn dismayed,	9:33
	that whatever I'd ask of life, life woulda gladly paid.	9:38
	Always selling out at a big price, what is he after?	9:42
	He has said, "I'm out to lay hold of that,	9:46
	for which I have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.	9:49
	Right here is the biggest thing in the universe,	9:52
	far and ahead the biggest: the realization of the fact	9:54
	that God meant something when He created you.	9:58
	That He meant something when He redeemed you,	10:02
	and that you are a priceless personality.	10:05
	You may have read of that	10:07
	pitiful	10:10
	letter written by a suicide in New York.	10:11
	He said, "I don't amount to a thing.	10:14
	"I'm just a peanut,	10:18
	"round	10:22
	"at the baseball park.	10:23
	"I'm gonna step on myself, and end it all."	10:26
	Paul said God had a purpose in my life.	10:31
	I am out for the realization of that purpose.	10:34
	That is the biggest thing that any	10:37
	personality can do,	10:42
	either in time or in eternity.	10:44
	And he went about the achieving	10:47
	of that purpose, in the most sane way.	10:48
	Now, somebody said once that we use less common sense	10:52
	in our religion than we do in anything else.	10:56
	What cynic said that?	10:58
	Jesus.	10:59
	He has said the children of this age,	11:02
	are for their generation, wiser than the children of light.	11:05
	Paul went about this in the sanest possible way.	11:10
	How did he go about it?	11:13
	He kept a wastebasket, and he went through	11:16
	the desk of life day by day,	11:18
	and he threw away anything that he thought would hurt him,	11:19
	and kept what he thought would help him.	11:24
	Now, that's good sense.	11:26
	He's the sanest thing in the world.	11:28
	He put it this way, forgetting the things that are behind.	11:31
	When Paul said, forgetting the things that are behind,	11:34
	of course, he didn't mean that he forgot everything	11:37
	that was behind, that would be	11:39
	at once impossible and immoral.	11:41
	Christians, if you go through the desk of yesterday	11:44
	and find some unpaid bills, don't throw them away.	11:47
	I knew a man who went broke 25 years ago,	11:52
	and paid off 25 cents in the dollar.	11:55
	Since then, he's got rich.	11:57
	He still owes that 75 cents, but he hasn't paid it.	11:59
	You can't cover up dishonesty with illegal verbiage	12:02
	and make God call it white.	12:05
	Don't throw away your vows to the church,	12:09
	or to God and the church.	12:13
	Don't throw away your marriage vows.	12:17
	A great many folks are.	12:19
	Then, don't throw away the kindnesses	12:21
	that have been shown ya.	12:23
	That is so vastly important.	12:25
	For us, not only in our younger years, but all the years.	12:27
	Man said to me some time ago, "Nobody ever did me a favor."	12:31
	I knew two facts about him.	12:34
	First of all, he wasn't tellin' the truth.	12:36
	Second was, he was a grouch.	12:39
	(audience laughs)	12:42
	Well, I've had so many favors, and that from rank strangers,	12:46
	that it just makes me ashamed, that I don't give more.	12:50
	Well, I was going home from	12:54
	an engagement some time ago,	12:57
	and it was about 10:00, 10:30 in the night,	12:59
	and pouring down rain, and I had a puncture.	13:03
	And I pulled outside of the road to	13:06
	exchange my tire,	13:10
	and didn't even have a screwdriver	13:13
	or anything else to take off the hubcap.	13:15
	And there I stood in a pouring rain,	13:18
	thinking I was gonna spend the night,	13:21
	but I hadn't been there, dare I say, two minutes	13:23
	till a light blazed behind me,	13:25
	and a young chap got out, I should say in his early 20's,	13:27
	and he said, "Anything I can do for ya?"	13:31
	I said, "There certainly is.	13:33
	"I haven't any screwdriver to get my hubcap off."	13:35
	He said, "I have one here," and he hurried	13:37
	to get his screwdriver, and he came back	13:40
	to where the light fell a little better upon my face	13:42
	and he saw that I had a touch of Methuselitis, and...	13:45
	(audience laughs)	13:49
	Now, don't you think I'm grieved because I do have,	13:57
	because I'm not.	14:01
	I don't wanna be young.	14:02
	I wouldn't be as young and ignorant	14:04
	as a lot of you, for anything in the world.	14:06
	(speaker and audience laughs)	14:08
	Well, he said, "I'll fix it for ya."	14:16
	and, ya know, he got down there in the rain	14:19
	and fixed my tire, and I started to talk religion to him,	14:22
	and by dog if he wasn't a Baptist. (laughs)	14:27
	(audience laughs)	14:30
	And I've thought more of the whole	14:37
	waterlogged lot ever since.	14:40
	(speaker and audience laughs)	14:42
	Somebody ran an arm through yours when you walked alone,	14:48
	sent you a flower when everybody else	14:52
	just seemed to have forgotten.	14:54
	Put it away in a book, look at it sometime,	14:56
	with eyes of appreciation, and it'll bloom again.	14:59
	Then, don't forget the mercies of God.	15:07
	You may have had some rough sledding,	15:10
	but,you know, even when	15:14
	your skies were black, you weren't alone.	15:17
	Paul found himself in many a hard and harsh situation.	15:21
	I can see him writing in a prison cell	15:26
	and fumbling behind him as he shivered	15:28
	for his old coat that he had forgotten.	15:31
	Not enough clothing could keep him warm,	15:35
	but he had enough gratitude always, to keep his heart warm.	15:38
	Don't throw away your sense of the mercies of God.	15:42
	But there's some things you oughta throw away.	15:45
	One of 'em I suggest is: your failures,	15:47
	except as they help ya.	15:49
	Now failures, educate some people.	15:51
	They paralyze others.	15:54
	Years ago, when I was quite a young preacher,	15:57
	as Shakespeare said, it was in my salad days,	16:02
	when I was green in judgment.	16:04
	I was preaching on gossip,	16:07
	wouldn't hardly dare it now, but,	16:11
	And I started to quote the witches' cauldron in Macbeth,	16:17
	as the gossips' cauldron,	16:21
	Double, double, toil and trouble;	16:24
	Fire burn and caldron bubble.	16:25
	Filet of a fenny snake,	16:27
	I forgot that whole pile of verbiage,	16:31
	and I jumped over them and ran for my honeyed life.	16:34
	I never have found out till this day,	16:39
	whether	16:41
	anybody knew I'd forgotten or not, but I knew it.	16:44
	And for the next six months to a year,	16:48
	whenever I had to start to quote anything,	16:49
	I'd feel the blood run to my face	16:51
	and I'd say, "What about if I were to forget this?"	16:53
	Now, memory is no mark of great intelligence,	16:56
	but it's a great convenience.	16:59
	Throw away your slights, ya get some of 'em sometime,	17:03
	those petty injuries that come to us	17:08
	in the daily grind of living.	17:11
	Paul was a wise man when he said,	17:15
	don't let the sun go down on your wrath,	17:17
	because if you do, your anger will,	17:19
	little by little, harden into hate,	17:22
	and hate will harden into hell.	17:24
	Don't carry round the grudges.	17:27
	Collect stamps if ya want to, but don't collect grudges.	17:28
	There's some people good at it.	17:34
	I used to tell my congregation, when I was a pastor,	17:37
	that, "If any of you wanna insult me, go ahead,	17:41
	"but after you get the job through,	17:42
	"you better take me to one side and explain it to me	17:45
	"because I'm not lookin' for it,	17:47
	"and the chances are, you'll be wastin' your time."	17:50
	I used to get a lot of anonymous letters.	17:54
	Oh, some of 'em were as sweet and tender as sea music,	17:56
	and some of 'em were gaslit.	18:00
	The worst one I ever had, I think,	18:04
	came to me while I was pastor of First Church, Memphis.	18:05
	It oughta been written on asbestos.	18:09
	(audience laughs)	18:11
	I don't see how it got through the post office	18:15
	without setting the building on fire.	18:17
	And, you know, I read it, and	18:21
	I went, then hurried down and opened up my safe deposit box	18:24
	and put it carefully in there,	18:28
	and went down and reread it every morning,	18:32
	just to keep myself mad. (laughs)	18:34
	(audience laughs)	18:37
	No,	18:40
	didn't have that little sense.	18:42
	You know, I read it over and I said, "Why this chap,	18:44
	"is trying to get under my skin, but I'm already there.	18:48
	(audience laughs)	18:54
	"And I'm not gonna move over." (laughs)	18:58
	(audience laughs)	19:00
	And I'm telling you a sober truth,	19:02
	I don't know who signed that letter.	19:04
	I couldn't tell for the life of me,	19:05
	whether anybody signed it or not.	19:07
	Pet a canary if you want to, but don't pet a vulture.	19:09
	Throw away your little grudges,	19:12
	and then your sins,	19:14
	your sins.	19:17
	We don't think as much about them,	19:17
	maybe, as our fathers used to,	19:20
	but we're just as guilty of that.	19:21
	And whatever you may be,	19:24
	your attitude towards your own.	19:25
	Of all the things that I could possibly say	19:27
	to you this morning, there's nothing	19:30
	that would offend you so completely,	19:32
	there's nothing else that would	19:34
	so completely alienate you,	19:36
	as this: for me to stand here and say I have never sinned.	19:39
	No, we all have 'em.	19:43
	What are we gonna do with 'em?	19:45
	Leave 'em at the foot of the cross, and then forget them,	19:47
	in the realization that remorse	19:50
	can be just as deadly and damning as impenitence.	19:53
	That was the insight of the greatest of the prophets.	19:57
	I will forgive their iniquities.	20:01
	Thy sin will I remember no more.	20:04
	I don't know of any promise in all the Word of God	20:08
	that's so startling, and yet, to me so comforting.	20:11
	How Jesus illustrated it.	20:16
	I know the story's a critical story.	20:18
	When they brought	20:21
	a woman into His presence once and flung her down,	20:23
	and they said, "There she is,	20:27
	"taken in the very act of shame."	20:28
	Moses said, "Stone her to death; what do You say?"	20:31
	And Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground.	20:35
	A rather intelligent woman	20:38
	asked me some time ago, what Jesus wrote.	20:40
	Your guess is as good as mine.	20:43
	I don't think He wrote anything.	20:45
	I simply think He was stooping down	20:47
	and marking on the ground to keep from looking at her.	20:50
	Everybody else was staring	20:54
	and the poor creature was dying of sheer shame,	20:56
	and He wouldn't look at her, and the fold thought	21:00
	they had Him on the run and they said, "C'mon now,	21:03
	"C'mon, Moses said stone her.	21:06
	"What do You say?"	21:08
	And then He raised up and said, "Alright,	21:10
	"stone her by all means, provided, provided,	21:12
	"provided that you have never sinned yourself,	21:16
	"not the same sin.	21:18
	"Don't lump that in, it's not that.	21:19
	"Any sin."	21:21
	But what could be more absurd	21:23
	than for one sinner to stone another sinner?	21:25
	That is utterly ridiculous.	21:28
	And they were honest enough to face it, then.	21:31
	The leading Pharisee turned to his comrade,	21:33
	and said, "Well, that lets me out,"	21:37
	and so he started out, and the second one said,	21:39
	"Let's me out too,"	21:41
	and the third one, and the fourth one,	21:42
	and if I'da been there, I'da trooped along	21:44
	behind that last one, and when I looked behind me,	21:47
	I would have expected to have seen	21:51
	a regular, academic procession. (laughs)	21:52
	(audience laughs)	21:56
	The only thing about you that God ever forgot was your sin.	22:02
	He never forgot a single upward look,	22:07
	never forgot a single, courageous stand,	22:10
	never forgot a single hand outstretched to help.	22:13
	The only thing He ever forgot about you, is your sin.	22:17
	Since He forgot it; you forget it.	22:22
	Oh, you say, but how?	22:26
	Well, I'll tell you how not.	22:27
	You'll not forget by simply saying, "I got to.	22:31
	"I'm gonna forget."	22:34
	You can't make your mind a vacuum.	22:36
	Now and then, I go to bed thinking about a sermon,	22:39
	and I see that, that sermon is gonna do for me,	22:42
	what it might not do for my congregation on Sunday,	22:44
	and that is keep me awake.	22:48
	(laughs)	22:49
	And I said, "I've got to forget this sermon."	22:52
	I done forget it by thinking about something else.	22:54
	I start decoding Scripture for instance,	22:57
	and by and by, I'm off to sleep.	22:59
	Paul forgot what is behind by	23:03
	fixing his hopes, and purposes, and dreams, and loves	23:06
	on what is still ahead.	23:10
	What are some of the values that are still ahead?	23:13
	Whether you're nine, 19, or 90,	23:16
	nevermind what your age,	23:21
	if you're a Christian, far and ahead, the best is yet to be.	23:24
	First of all, just to mention a value too, as I close,	23:29
	God is ahead.	23:32
	You haven't run past Him yet.	23:34
	Run past many a good chance, maybe, but not past God.	23:37
	The old geographers, after they had drawn a map,	23:42
	for the known world, used to put way out there,	23:45
	in the vacant places,	23:50
	such inferences as these:	23:51
	here are dragons, and here are demons that devoured men,	23:54
	but, you know, the author of a certain Psalm	24:00
	who lived way back in that day,	24:02
	had a sunnier reading of things.	24:06
	It is that, even out yonder in the unknown, is God.	24:09
	Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?	24:13
	or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?	24:16
	If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there.	24:20
	If I make my bed in hell,	24:24
	behold, Thou art there.	24:27
	If I take the wings of the morning,	24:30
	and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;	24:33
	even there,	24:37
	even there,	24:39
	even there,	24:40
	shall Thy hand lead me,	24:41
	and Thy right hand shall hold me.	24:44
	Tragedy's ahead for some of us:	24:47
	bigger and better Sputniks with bigger and better fears,	24:49
	bigger and better terrors,	24:54
	the withering of the body, the coming on of old age,	24:57
	a thousand things that we should like to avoid perchance.	25:02
	But there's one thing, I speak to you soberly,	25:07
	that steadies me: that whatever is in tomorrow,	25:11
	God is in tomorrow.	25:15
	I can get along without much else.	25:17
	You remember when they rushed a fanatic to old Emerson,	25:20
	and said Mr. Emerson, "The world's a comin'	25:24
	"to an end next Friday."	25:28
	He said, "Very well. I can get on without it." (laughs)	25:31
	(audience laughs)	25:35
	Eternity's ahead.	25:39
	You may not like it.	25:41
	While I was a student at Harvard,	25:44
	a young, brilliant younger person said one day,	25:45
	"Sometimes I think there is such a thing as immortality.	25:48
	"Frankly," he said, "When I get through with this life,	25:52
	"I've lived as long as I wanna live."	25:55
	Never thought he was quite telling the truth.	25:57
	There's life. (mumbles)	26:01
	'tis life not death by which we pass.	26:04
	But whether ya like it or not, life goes on.	26:08
	You're going to always be you,	26:12
	and I'm going to always be I.	26:14
	God's going to always be God.	26:17
	You got eternity in your hand, all your hands.	26:19
	And because God and the eternity are ahead,	26:22
	if you're facing in the right direction,	26:25
	perfection is ahead.	26:27
	Sometimes, we Christians are not very impressive,	26:29
	but we're becoming something, and the power to become	26:33
	is so tremendous that it makes the atomic bomb look cheap.	26:36
	There's nothing equal to the power to become.	26:39
	Beloved,	26:42
	know ye the sons of God, and it has not yet	26:44
	been made manifest what we shall be,	26:47
	but we know that when He shall appear	26:50
	we shall be like Him,	26:53
	for we shall see Him as he is.	26:55
	With God,	26:58
	eternity,	26:59
	and perfection ahead,	27:01
	we can go steadily on.	27:03
	And I'll tell you, it'll do this for ya.	27:07
	It did it for Paul.	27:08
	It'll hang your sun forever in an eastern sky,	27:10
	and give you the privilege	27:16
	constantly,	27:19
	to brush the dewy flowers of life's morning.	27:20
	Such a man can never get old.	27:25
	Now to stand.	27:30
	Oh, Lord for the riches of grace	27:38
	in Christ Jesus, we give Thee humble thanks.	27:41
	Blessing Thy holy name for the way	27:46
	this faith has worked out in other lives.	27:49
	Blessing Thee, for the way this faith	27:54
	is working out in the lives of many here present.	27:57
	May every one of us give it a chance to work.	28:01
	The Lord bless you and keep you.	28:05
	Lord make His face to shine upon you	28:09
	and be gracious unto you.	28:11
	The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,	28:14
	and give you peace.	28:17

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Title:

Clovis G. Chappell - "Road to Greatness" (February 9, 1958)

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The greatness of Paul's life consisted in his singularity of focus and his forgetting the things that laid behind him and reaching forward toward the love of God. We ought to, then, focus our purpose on one thing, forget our sins, and look forward to the best that is yet to come. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 00:02. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 28:22.
Key quotation: “Right here is the biggest thing in the universe: the realization of the fact that God meant something when He created you, that He meant something when He redeemed you, and that you are a priceless personality.”

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Date:

February 9, 1958

Speaker:

Chappell, Clovis G.

Biblical Book:

Philippians

Chapter and Verse:

Philippians 3:13-14

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Duke University. Chapel

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