Robert T. Young - "The Poor You Have with You Always" (March 29, 1981)

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	(melancholy orchestral music)	0:05
	(moves into lively orchestral music)	5:10
	(moves into somber orchestral music)	11:19
	(moves into slow hymnal music)	19:45
	♪ And thy holy presence ♪	19:46
	♪ Thy holy presence ♪	19:52
	♪ Thy holy presence ♪	19:56
	♪ On high ♪	20:06
	♪ We pray ♪	20:16
	♪ Thy holy presence ♪	20:22
	(moves into lively hymnal music)	20:38
-	Oh magnify the Lord with me	24:51
	and let us exalt God's name together.	24:53
	Now let us test and examine our ways	24:58
	and return to the Lord our God.	25:01
	For the sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit.	25:04
	A broken heart, oh God, you will not despise.	25:09
	Let us pray.	25:13
	Thus says the Lord, "Come, you that are blessed by my God.	25:25
	Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you	25:30
	ever since the creation of the world.	25:34
	I was hungry and you fed me.	25:37
	Thirsty, and you gave me a drink.	25:40
	I was a stranger and you received me in your homes,	25:43
	naked, and you clothed me.	25:47
	I was sick and you took care of me.	25:49
	In prison, and you visited me."	25:52
	(congregation chants in unison)	25:56
	The Lord will reply, "I tell you,	26:19
	whenever you did this for one of the least important	26:22
	of these brothers and sisters of mine,	26:26
	you did it for me."	26:29
	(congregation chants)	26:32
	Give and it will be given to you.	26:34
	Good measure, pressed down, shaken together,	26:37
	running over will be put into your lap.	26:41
	For the measure you give, will be the measure you get back.	26:45
	Amen.	26:49
	(slow hymnal music)	26:56
	Jesus said, "I am the bread of life.	27:43
	You who come to me shall not hunger.	27:47
	And you who believe in me shall never thirst."	27:50
	Let us give thanks for God is good	27:55
	and God's love is everlasting.	27:57
	Thanks be to God, whose love creates us.	28:01
	Thanks be to God, whose mercy redeems us.	28:05
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	28:09
	We welcome you this beautiful spring morning	28:15
	to worship with us here in the Duke University Chapel.	28:18
	Today is the fourth Sunday of Lent	28:22
	and we invite you to participate in a spiritual pilgrammage.	28:25
	Your own journey of faith as we seek again	28:31
	this season to become disciples	28:35
	of our Lord and savior, Jesus, the Christ.	28:38
	We have several concerns that we would like	28:45
	to share with you today by way of announcement.	28:48
	You will note that there is a special offering	28:52
	being received today.	28:54
	All the offering will go to Meals on Wheels.	28:56
	And this will be used in the Durham community.	29:00
	We hope that you will contribute much to this program.	29:03
	They are desperately in need of our assistance at this time.	29:09
	We ask that you read the insert	29:15
	on mental retardation Sunday in the bulletin today.	29:17
	And I would like to share with you that a representative	29:21
	from mental retardation agencies	29:25
	will be available to talk with you to answer any questions	29:28
	you might have about community assistance.	29:32
	She will meet with you after the service today	29:36
	in the memorial chapel.	29:39
	Next Sunday, we will have the Durham Crop Walk.	29:43
	Sunday, April the 5th.	29:46
	Registration will begin at 1 o'clock	29:49
	at the entrance to the Wallace Wade Stadium.	29:52
	You will note that there will be sponsor sheets	29:56
	and more information near the desk	29:58
	at the chapel north X today.	30:01
	If you would like to sign up and find out more about this,	30:04
	you may do so after the service today.	30:08
	1/4 of the moneys collected in the Durham Crop Walk	30:11
	will go toward Durham Meals on Wheels.	30:16
-	Let us pray.	30:26
	Almighty and most merciful God,	30:28
	you have given the Bible to be the revelation	30:30
	of your great love to us	30:33
	and of your power and will to save us.	30:35
	Grant that our study of it may not be made in vain	30:37
	by the callousness or carelessness of our hearts.	30:41
	But that by it, we may be confirmed in penetance,	30:44
	lifted to hope, made strong for service,	30:47
	and, above all, filled with the true knowledge	30:51
	of you, and of your son, Jesus Christ.	30:53
	Amen.	30:56
	The epistle lesson is from Ephesians 5:8-14.	30:58
	For once, you were darkness.	31:05
	But now you are light in the Lord.	31:07
	Walk as children of light, for the fruit of light	31:09
	is found in all that is good and right and true.	31:13
	And try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.	31:16
	Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness,	31:19
	but instead expose them.	31:22
	For it is a shame, even to speak of the things	31:25
	that they do in secret.	31:27
	But when anything is exposed by the light,	31:29
	it becomes visible.	31:31
	For anything that becomes visible is light.	31:32
	Therefore it is said, "Awake, oh sleeper,	31:35
	and arise from the dead and Christ shall give you light."	31:38
	Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson.	31:42
	Amen.	31:44
	(dramatic hymnal music)	31:47
	Will the congregation please stand	35:23
	for the reading of the gospel lesson.	35:25
	The gospel lesson is from Matthew 26:6-13.	35:31
	Now when Jesus was at Bethany,	35:37
	in the house of Simon the leper,	35:39
	a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask	35:41
	of very expensive ointment.	35:44
	And she poured it on his head as he sat at table.	35:45
	But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying,	35:49
	"Why this waste?	35:52
	For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum	35:54
	and given to the poor."	35:56
	But Jesus, aware of this, said to them,	35:58
	"Why do you trouble the woman?	36:01
	For she has done a beautiful thing to me.	36:03
	For you always have the poor with you,	36:05
	but you will not always have me.	36:07
	In pouring this ointment on my body,	36:10
	she has done it to prepare me for burial.	36:12
	Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached	36:15
	in the whole world, what she has done	36:18
	will be told in memory of her."	36:21
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson.	36:23
	Amen.	36:25
	(upbeat hymnal music)	36:26
-	Be seated.	37:19
-	Let us pray.	37:26
	Now Lord, our God, we pray.	37:29
	Take our words and make them your words.	37:32
	Take our thoughts and make them your thoughts.	37:36
	Take our ways and make them your ways	37:40
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	37:44
	Amen.	37:47
	Bailey King is a white man,	37:52
	a poor man,	37:59
	62 years-old,	38:02
	father of 13 children.	38:05
	And as he mused over his belongings recently,	38:10
	he concluded that more than half a century of hard work	38:16
	he concluded that more than half a century of hard work	38:20
	had yielded him three Shetland ponies,	38:24
	a yard full of chickens, mostly biddies,	38:28
	six Guineas, several rusty plows,	38:33
	one dog,	38:39
	and a seldom-seen cat.	38:41
	"Well," King said,	38:45
	as he was thoughtful for a long time,	38:48
	"I been workin' since I was five	38:53
	"and I ain't got no more now than I had then."	38:57
	Bailey King is one of the poor of this Earth.	39:04
	One of those poor that Jesus said	39:10
	we would always have with us.	39:13
	The time is close at hand.	39:20
	The end is near.	39:23
	The cross looms clearer and clearer ahead.	39:26
	Jesus knew that his death was just a few days away.	39:32
	Time, always precious,	39:35
	was tenderly and intimately valuable	39:38
	to him and to those who loved him	39:41
	on this particular occasion,	39:43
	as he went apart to the house of some friends in Bethany.	39:47
	It was a beautiful experience, a memorable moment.	39:53
	I'm sure that all of those who shared in it,	39:56
	never forgot it.	39:59
	And we have not been able to forget that occasion,	40:01
	that experience of Jesus	40:04
	and the gentle, loving, touching act	40:06
	that a woman bestowed on him that day.	40:09
	For Scripture tells us when Jesus was at Bethany	40:15
	in the house of Simon the leper,	40:18
	a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar	40:20
	of very expensive ointment and she poured it	40:24
	on his head as he sat at table.	40:27
	But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying,	40:30
	"Why this waste?	40:33
	For this ointment might have been sold	40:36
	for a very large sum and given to the poor."	40:38
	But Jesus, aware of this, said to them,	40:43
	"Why do you trouble the woman?	40:46
	"For she has done a beautiful thing to me.	40:49
	"For you always have the poor with you,	40:52
	"but you will not always have me with you.	40:54
	"In pouring this ointment on my body,	40:59
	"she has done it to prepare me for burial.	41:01
	"Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel	41:05
	"is preached in the whole world,	41:07
	"what she has done will be told in memory of her."	41:10
	How many times have you and I heard one line	41:16
	of this passage quoted to justify the presence	41:20
	of the poor among us?	41:24
	How many times have we in the church and out of the church	41:27
	used one line as an excuse?	41:30
	An excuse to leave the poor alone.	41:32
	To ignore them.	41:35
	To be indifferent to them.	41:36
	To refuse to offer help or support programs	41:39
	and drives and legislation that would benefit the poor.	41:41
	After all, we say and we hear it said,	41:44
	"Even Jesus said to us,	41:47
	"'The poor you will have with you always.'"	41:49
	The poor you have with you always, therefore.	41:57
	Therefore what?	42:01
	Therefore what are we to do in the name	42:05
	and in the spirit of Christ?	42:07
	It's almost as if we think that Jesus was saying,	42:09
	the poor you have with you always,	42:11
	therefore you might as well not try to help them.	42:13
	Or, the poor you have with you always,	42:17
	you can just leave them alone.	42:20
	For no matter how much you do, you will never do enough.	42:22
	The poor are just part and parcel of the human predicament	42:25
	and you can't do anything to change that.	42:29
	We almost hear Jesus saying words like that.	42:32
	Or, we think we do.	42:35
	Or, we want Jesus to say words like that.	42:37
	It's almost as if we believe that helping the poor	42:42
	is going against the teaching and the word of Jesus.	42:45
	Now, I can't believe that.	42:51
	And I don't think you believe that.	42:55
	I don't think we can believe that	42:59
	and belong to the Christian community.	43:01
	For there's too much evidence	43:04
	in all the rest of Jesus' teaching	43:06
	for us to draw conclusions of indifference	43:09
	and callousness toward the poor.	43:12
	Some of the very first words that Jesus said	43:15
	after he was called into ministry were,	43:18
	"The spirit of the Lord is upon me	43:20
	to preach good news to the poor."	43:22
	Jesus said on one occasion,	43:29
	"Go and sell all that you have.	43:32
	And give to the poor."	43:37
	The very last parable that Jesus taught us said,	43:41
	"I was hungry and you gave me food.	43:45
	"I was thirsty and you gave me drink.	43:48
	"I was a stranger and you welcomed me.	43:50
	"I was naked and you clothed me.	43:52
	"I was sick and you visited me.	43:53
	"I was in prison and you came to me."	43:55
	"Lord when did we see you?"	43:58
	"As you did it unto one of the least of these,	44:01
	"you did it to me."	44:04
	Surely, it must be like Mother Teresa said recently	44:07
	at a conference on hunger at Vancouver, British Colombia.	44:10
	"We in the church today will be judged	44:13
	"by what we have been toward the poor."	44:16
	Today, Jesus is disguised as the poor.	44:19
	A young mother was telling me of kneeling	44:27
	beside her eight-year-old daughter recently	44:29
	to hear her say her evening prayers	44:33
	just before she crawled into bed.	44:36
	And as the mother told me about the wording of the prayer,	44:40
	it went something like this.	44:43
	As the little eight-year-old girl prayed, she said,	44:45
	"Oh God, thank you for my home and my family.	44:47
	"Thank you for all the good things I have.	44:50
	"Help those who do not have, to get what they need.	44:52
	"Help the poor people.	44:56
	"Help those on the bottom to come up to the middle."	44:57
	And she stopped at that moment and looked up at her mother	45:00
	and she said, "But, Mommy,	45:03
	"then there won't be anybody on the bottom."	45:04
	Glory hallelujah.	45:11
	Nobody on the bottom of life.	45:14
	Will that not be when the kingdom has surely come?	45:17
	I have been moved deeply by the story	45:26
	of Bailey King of Quentin, Mississippi.	45:31
	A story told in word and pictures	45:37
	by Phyllis Thompson and Don Rutledge	45:39
	of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board	45:42
	in their magazine "Home Missions"	45:46
	and in another magazine called "Seeds".	45:48
	I invite you to take just a few minutes	45:52
	after the service today	45:55
	and look at the photographs on display	45:57
	in the narthex of the chapel.	45:59
	The pictures and the story about Bailey King	46:03
	have left an indellible mark on my mind and spirit,	46:07
	and I think they will on yours.	46:11
	Bailey King, though poor, obviously is a man of wisdom.	46:15
	Let me share with you a few things that he said	46:21
	to these two people as they spent four weeks in his home	46:24
	and recorded in word and picture	46:29
	some of what was life for him.	46:33
	King says, "Being poor ain't so bad.	46:37
	It's just inconvenient."	46:42
	He said, "My word will never be heard in Washington.	46:47
	"My word will never be heard in the courthouse	46:50
	"'cause nobody wants to hear my word.	46:53
	"I ain't nothing but a poor man."	46:55
	He said, "On special occasions,	47:00
	"people pay $100 for a plate of food,	47:03
	"when I'm happy just to get a sweet potato."	47:06
	Then he said, "It's good to know how to manage,	47:12
	but I ain't got nothing to manage."	47:17
	What has ruined the world?	47:23
	Nobody cared.	47:27
	That's what ruined the world.	47:31
	And then he quips, "It don't pay to tell all you know.	47:37
	Even though you don't know much."	47:43
	And then he says, "The poor man spends	47:49
	most of his life halfway living."	47:54
	And then, "I'm in bad shape now.	48:00
	"But I have been on other times in sure enough bad shape.	48:04
	"We had a saying, 'The white folks run the world,	48:11
	"and the n---s and the poor folks work it.'	48:18
	"If you got money, you're somebody.	48:24
	"If you don't got money, you ain't nobody.	48:26
	"I have the same number of kids	48:31
	"as Bobby Kennedy when he was killed.	48:33
	"The only difference was he had plenty	48:34
	"and I ain't got nothing."	48:36
	Now, he said, "If the Lord asked you	48:39
	"if I'm telling you the truth, you can tell him yeah."	48:41
	Then King has some choice words for preachers.	48:48
	He says, "Preachers should preach against all sins.	48:52
	"I've heard them preach against	48:57
	"whiskey drunk by the poor man	48:59
	"but that same preacher didn't say nothing	49:01
	"about his members who didn't pay his laborers	49:03
	"what they deserved."	49:06
	"You watch, preachers," he says,	49:09
	"They always get led of the Lord	49:11
	"to bigger and bigger churches.	49:13
	"If they can, they go from around here	49:16
	"to Jackson, Mississippi.	49:19
	"Why does the Lord lead them always	49:21
	"to bigger and bigger churches?"	49:24
	Then he says, "A lot of preachers will read out of the Bible	49:29
	"and will preach hard, but not if it hurts them."	49:33
	Then this word.	49:40
	King says, "Peoples always tellin' us we got choices.	49:43
	"Poor folks ain't got no choices.	49:50
	"A choice is when two things is laying there	49:53
	"and you choose which you want.	49:56
	"If I had a choice, I wouldn't be livin' here."	49:59
	Bailey King.	50:06
	And when Matthew wrote his version	50:10
	of this incident in the life of Jesus,	50:12
	he left out a line that Mark evidently felt	50:14
	was important enough to include.	50:19
	Because Mark tells the story and includes the line this way,	50:21
	"For you always have the poor with you.	50:26
	"And whenever you will, you can do good to them."	50:30
	And whenever you will.	50:38
	There is no way that Jesus ever intended	50:40
	for the statement, "The poor you have with you always"	50:45
	to be an excuse or a justification	50:48
	for us not caring for the poor.	50:50
	And the Bailey Kings of this Earth	50:55
	wait for you and me and the church to reach out and touch.	50:58
	But now go back for me for just a moment, if you will,	51:06
	to the gospel lesson for today.	51:09
	Jesus said to the disciples, "Why do you trouble the woman?	51:12
	"For she has done a beautiful thing to me.	51:16
	"For you always have the poor with you, but..."	51:18
	And in Jesus teachings, it's always the "but"	51:22
	that hooks us, if you recall.	51:26
	"But," he says, "You will not always have me.	51:29
	"Therefore, in pouring in this ointment on my body	51:34
	"this woman has done it to prepare me for burial.	51:37
	"What she has done for me will be held	51:40
	"and told in memory about her	51:44
	"wherever the gospel is preached."	51:46
	Jesus says, "You will not always have me, therefore."	51:49
	Therefore, what?	51:56
	I believe that this woman had found in Jesus	52:00
	the answer to all of her needs in life.	52:05
	She had found in him the hope for her despair.	52:12
	She had found in him the healing for all her wounds.	52:17
	She had found in him the love to overcome all the rejection	52:22
	which she had ever experienced.	52:26
	It's almost as if she were saying some lines	52:29
	that Charles Wesley wrote later,	52:32
	"Thou, O' Christ, art all I need.	52:34
	"More than all in thee, I find."	52:38
	She had found her all in Jesus.	52:43
	So this woman has done a beautiful thing.	52:50
	A costly thing. A good thing.	52:52
	An extravagant thing.	52:54
	A loving, caring, giving thing.	52:56
	Obviously, she has given something very, very precious.	52:59
	Ointment worth some 300 denarii.	53:02
	A full year's wages for the average worker in Jesus' day.	53:06
	Enough to feed a lot of folks for a lot of days.	53:09
	No wonder the disciples were upset.	53:12
	But Jesus rebuked the disciples	53:22
	and he welcomed the woman and her act of love and kindness.	53:26
	A most intimate act.	53:32
	It was as if Jesus were inviting the woman	53:37
	to a tender experience of joy and intimacy with him.	53:41
	For Jesus was surely aware	53:47
	that his body faced death momentarily.	53:49
	And here she was, as an angel of mercy and love,	53:53
	preparing his body, anointing his body for death.	53:58
	A beautiful thing she was doing for his body.	54:06
	And yet, as was often the case with the disciples,	54:10
	they did not understand.	54:14
	Their views often were not the views of Jesus.	54:16
	Their values often were not the values of Jesus.	54:19
	Their priorities often were not the priorities of Jesus.	54:22
	It is as if the disciples were saying,	54:26
	"Jesus, we know what is right and what is best.	54:28
	"We know what is wasteful and what is helpful.	54:31
	"This woman is wasting her goods.	54:33
	"Why do you, why do we allow this waste?"	54:36
	And Jesus, knowing them and hearing them	54:39
	and understanding where they're coming from, says,	54:42
	"Who are you to judge the deeds of another?	54:45
	"That is not for you to do.	54:50
	"That is for me to decide.	54:53
	"And I say to you, my dear friends,	54:57
	"this woman	54:59
	"has done a beautiful, beautiful thing."	55:01
	Strange, isn't it?	55:07
	That the disciples would object to this loving act.	55:10
	For, as I can recall the life of Jesus--	55:16
	and I've tried to reflect without actually going back	55:20
	and reading all four gospel stories this week word-for-word	55:22
-	-but as I can recall the life of our Lord	55:29
	as he lived on this earth,	55:32
	there were very, very few beautiful acts done to him.	55:36
	Now, we know that he went around	55:41
	doing beautiful and good and helpful and holy	55:43
	and healing things for other people.	55:46
	He did many, many beautiful things for other people.	55:48
	But there aren't many instances	55:54
	when somebody else did something beautiful for him.	55:56
	And yet, even though, there were few beautiful things	56:04
	done for him, the disciples still objected.	56:08
	Strange, isn't it?	56:16
	But we must understand the cost, the price, the value	56:20
	of this ointment to this woman.	56:23
	It cost her dearly.	56:28
	And perhaps the real point of this story,	56:33
	perhaps the real point of this story is that	56:36
	if we want any close, personal, intimate,	56:43
	lasting relationship with Christ,	56:47
	it will cost us something.	56:50
	It's sort of like Loren Eiseley tells about	56:56
	in his book "The Night Country":	56:59
	in Bimini, on the old Spanish Main,	57:03
	a Black woman told Eisely,	57:09
	"Those as hunts treasure	57:15
	"must go alone and at night.	57:20
	"And when they find a treasure,	57:26
	"they have to leave a little of their blood behind."	57:30
	Those of us as wants	57:39
	a treasure of a relationship with Christ	57:45
	will have to go in search.	57:50
	And, if and when we find it,	57:54
	we'll have to leave a little something very precious	58:00
	behind with him.	58:05
	A story is told of the old black woman,	58:10
	just freed from slavery, standing by the side of the road	58:15
	the day the funeral entourage	58:25
	of the assassinated president,	58:27
	Abraham Lincoln, rolled by.	58:31
	And as the horse-drawn carriage bearing the body	58:40
	of the slain president made its way toward her,	58:43
	the ex-slave woman reached down beside her and picked up	58:50
	her little two- or three-year-old granddaughter	58:54
	and put her up on her shoulder,	58:57
	and then took a shaky forefinger	58:59
	and pointed to that procession	59:02
	as the President's body made its way by.	59:05
	And she said, "Take a long, long look, honey.	59:08
	"This man died for you and me."	59:14
	My friends, this holy Lenten season	59:23
	as the presence of the Christ draws nigh,	59:29
	I invite you,	59:37
	take a long, long look, honey.	59:39
	This man died for you and me.	59:44
	A beautiful thing he has done.	59:50
	A beautiful thing shall we do?	59:55
	Amen.	1:00:08
	I'd like to ask you to sing a special hymn	1:00:12
	for me following this sermon.	1:00:14
	Hymn number 107, the first and the last stanzas.	1:00:17
	And let us sing the words as if Jesus really is calling us.	1:00:26
	Let us sing.	1:00:36
	(cheerful hymnal music)	1:00:38
-	As the body of Christ, let us affirm what we believe.	1:04:22
	(congregation in unison with speaker)	1:04:27
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating.	1:04:28
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:04:32
	to reconcile and make new.	1:04:36
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:04:39
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church	1:04:42
	to celebrate life and its fullness.	1:04:47
	To love and serve others.	1:04:50
	To seek justice and resist evil.	1:04:53
	To love...	1:04:56
	To seek justice and resist evil.	1:04:59
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	1:05:02
	Our judge and our hope in life, in death,	1:05:06
	in life beyond death, God is with us.	1:05:10
	We are not alone.	1:05:15
	Thanks be to God.	1:05:17
	The Lord be with you.	1:05:19
-	And with your spirit.	1:05:21
-	Let us pray.	1:05:23
	Oh spirit of God, you are the bond of everlasting love.	1:05:36
	You are our longing for love, for friendship,	1:05:42
	for relationships that last.	1:05:47
	Now for this little while, empower us	1:05:50
	with the impact of your presence.	1:05:53
	For we hunger for you, oh gift-giving spirit	1:05:56
	of love and of life.	1:06:00
	Gracious God, teach us to trust what we do not understand.	1:06:04
	So much senseless suffering.	1:06:11
	So much spoiled potential.	1:06:15
	It seems that such a lack of meaning	1:06:19
	meets us at every turn.	1:06:21
	And yet, we know, oh God, that faith means still believing	1:06:25
	in the midst of our unbelief.	1:06:30
	Faith means that in you there is understanding.	1:06:33
	And you alone are the truth for which we hunger.	1:06:37
	Oh Jesus, the Christ, you are the bread of life.	1:06:42
	Bread broken in order to mend all our broken dreams,	1:06:48
	all broken people, all broken homes and hearts.	1:06:53
	Break now to us the good news gently	1:06:59
	to suffering, struggling spirits.	1:07:03
	Break to us the fact that you are nourishment	1:07:07
	to anyone who is hungering for life.	1:07:11
	Remember us this day, oh God.	1:07:17
	For we are that new creation	1:07:20
	that you once called forth from clay.	1:07:22
	Reborn, redeemed, and revisited.	1:07:26
	Reflecting the very image of your saving word and deed.	1:07:30
	We hunger now to know you well.	1:07:35
	To experience your nearness	1:07:39
	in these intensely troubled times.	1:07:41
	May we all be your children.	1:07:45
	And may your will be done throughout the Earth.	1:07:48
	For we pray in the name of Jesus the Christ,	1:07:52
	who taught us to pray saying,	1:07:56
	"Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	1:07:59
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	1:08:05
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:08:09
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:08:11
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:08:14
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:08:17
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	1:08:21
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power,	1:08:26
	and the glory forever.	1:08:29
	Amen."	1:08:32
	(dramatic hymnal music)	1:08:42
	(moves into "Doxology")	1:16:03
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	1:16:56
	♪ Praise him all creatures here below ♪	1:17:05
	♪ Praise him above ye heavenly host ♪	1:17:14
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	1:17:24
	♪ Amen ♪	1:17:35
-	Oh Lord, our God, send down upon us your holy spirit.	1:17:47
	We beseech you to cleanse our hearts,	1:17:51
	to hallow our gifts, and to perfect the offering	1:17:55
	of ourselves to you through Jesus Christ our Lord.	1:17:58
	Amen.	1:18:03
	(upbeat hymnal music)	1:18:05
	Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit you.	1:22:09
	And the blessing of God Almighty,	1:22:14
	creator, redeemer, sustainer, be upon you	1:22:17
	and remain with you always.	1:22:20
	(airy hymnal music)	1:22:31
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:32
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:40
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:48
	♪ Amen ♪	1:23:05
	♪ Amen ♪	1:23:19
	♪ Amen ♪	1:23:35
	(bell chimes)	1:23:50
	(slow hymnal music)	1:24:04
	(congregation chats)	1:24:09

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Title:

Robert T. Young - "The Poor You Have with You Always" (March 29, 1981)

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Sermon start time: 37:26. Sermon end time: 1:00:12.
Preaching on the story of the woman who poured perfume on Jesus' feet, the preacher speaks about poverty and generosity. He urges the congregation to take the example of the poor woman and give of ourselves to Jesus. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "There is no way that Jesus ever intended for the statement, 'The poor you have with you always' to be an excuse or a justification for us not caring for the poor."

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March 29, 1981

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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Duke University. Chapel

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