Preacher Unknown - Good Friday Service Part 2 (April 20, 1962)

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	(opera music)	0:03
-	Let us attend the reading of the gospel.	6:22
	According to Saint John 19:25-27.	6:25
	"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother	6:34
	and his mother, sister, Mary	6:38
	the wife of Clophas and Mary Magdalene.	6:40
	When Jesus therefore saw his mother	6:45
	and the disciple standing by whom he loved	6:48
	he saved unto his mother, 'woman, behold thy son'	6:52
	then said he to the disciple 'behold thy mother.'	6:58
	And from that hour that disciple took her	7:04
	unto his own home."	7:08
	May God bless the reading of his holy words.	7:11
	Let us direct our attention	7:19
	to the tragic death of Jesus on the cross	7:21
	for its knowledge value.	7:24
	For this tragedy certainly has such knowledge value.	7:26
	Let us seek the knowledge contained	7:31
	in the lesson taught by the master teacher	7:33
	as he spoke the third of the seven last words	7:36
	from the cross.	7:39
	The theme from the scripture's recording	7:43
	of the third word from the cross	7:45
	seems to be that of love.	7:48
	Jesus because of his very nature	7:52
	and while suffering on the cross could not do otherwise	7:55
	than express himself concerning	7:59
	the inherent basic human needs for love.	8:01
	The love needs he was expressing are of two dimensions.	8:07
	The first dimension is that of the giving of love.	8:11
	And the second dimension is that of the receiving of love.	8:16
	He undoubtedly was feeling the forces of love	8:21
	emanating both from his mother	8:25
	and from the disciple whom he loved.	8:27
	Because he was receiving their love	8:32
	it was very natural for Jesus at this time	8:34
	even under very stressful circumstances,	8:38
	not only to remember, but also to feel the need	8:40
	to give his unselfish, unpossessive love	8:45
	to those who stood by the cross.	8:49
	Thus, he spoke to his mother, "Woman behold thy son"	8:53
	and to the disciple, "Behold thy mother."	8:59
	As a great teacher Jesus practiced what he taught,	9:05
	even at what we might think of	9:10
	as one of the most physically painful times in his life.	9:12
	Jesus taught the lesson concerning the needs for love	9:16
	by utilizing what we consider today	9:20
	to be very sound teaching techniques.	9:23
	First, he behaviorally demonstrated his sublime love	9:27
	for all of mankind by making the supreme sacrifice	9:32
	of suffering the mental and physical anguish	9:36
	of being crucified.	9:39
	Secondly, he verbally expressed the mutual need	9:43
	for his mother and the disciple to love	9:47
	and care for one another.	9:50
	This is the kind of to teaching which man needs	9:54
	in order for there to be any certainty in his knowledge.	9:57
	If reality were impersonal	10:02
	teachers may not be very necessary in the educative process.	10:05
	However, reality is personal.	10:10
	In fact, very personal to the learner	10:13
	and therefore the teacher is central	10:15
	when he is a living and vital mediator	10:19
	through whom knowledge which leads to truth	10:21
	may be communicated.	10:26
	The teacher knows that only the learner	10:29
	can experience the learning which the teacher hopes	10:31
	will result from his teachings.	10:34
	In harmony with his great wisdom,	10:38
	Jesus so taught the importance of the love needs	10:40
	realizing that each of us must experience	10:45
	the learning within and for ourselves.	10:48
	This lesson he taught contained few words,	10:53
	but is most complex and therefore requires many insights	10:56
	and sensitivities if we hope to grasp the full meaning of,	11:02
	and the multitude of implications	11:06
	for the importance of the love needs to men.	11:09
	This lesson concerning the basic love needs	11:14
	and the insights generated there from	11:17
	had been basic to man from his creation,	11:20
	Jesus was not teaching a new idea,	11:24
	he was teaching an old lesson.	11:26
	A lesson that is included in many of the writings	11:30
	of the Old Testament.	11:33
	As I analyzed the lesson Jesus taught	11:36
	concerning the needs for love.	11:39
	I must see it as a law of God	11:41
	written into the constitution of the universe.	11:45
	This law of God manifests itself in man's basic needs.	11:49
	This leads me to know that	11:56
	in any attempt to depict my present situation	11:58
	concerning human knowledge and human behavior	12:02
	and in order to interpret their significance	12:05
	I must acknowledge my dependence upon the Christian faith.	12:09
	How do present day psychologists view	12:15
	the importance of love.	12:17
	In the psychology of motivation or the why of behaviors	12:20
	love or one of its many equivalents	12:25
	is considered a basic psychogenic or psychological need.	12:28
	In contemporary psychology the love needs	12:34
	involved both the giving and the receiving of love.	12:37
	This is as it should be not only in accordance	12:42
	with past and present research findings	12:45
	and clinical observations	12:48
	but also in accordance with the teachings of Jesus.	12:50
	On the basis of the detailed study of the individual,	12:57
	one learns that the thwarting of the love needs	13:01
	is the most common core in cases of maladjustment	13:04
	and more severe psychopathology.	13:08
	Practically all theorists of psychopathology	13:12
	has stressed the thwarting of love needs	13:15
	as basic in the developmental picture of maladjustment.	13:17
	The professional work with delinquent children	13:23
	supports the view that a tendency toward healthy development	13:26
	will assert itself in a favorable environment	13:30
	where the importance of the love needs	13:34
	are recognized and expressed	13:36
	through understanding, forgiveness and acceptance.	13:39
	Thus, I am led to believe that human personality	13:44
	is of the nature of God made in his image	13:48
	and subject to change in the direction	13:52
	of better adjustment when human relationships	13:54
	are more in keeping with the highest	13:58
	and best we know in personality, that is God.	14:00
	Some psychologists and psychiatrists state	14:08
	that we are an erotic society.	14:10
	According to A. H. Maslow's theory of motivation	14:13
	we are experiencing the frustration of	14:18
	or the arrested development of	14:21
	the gratification of the love needs.	14:24
	Maslow gives equal emphasis to the dual aspects	14:27
	of the love needs.	14:31
	That is the giving and the receiving of love,	14:33
	this frustration or arrested development	14:38
	of the love needs prevents us	14:41
	from moving in the direction	14:43
	of greater psychological growth,	14:45
	that is towards self actualization.	14:47
	Self actualization is considered the highest level	14:52
	in the hierarchy of human needs.	14:56
	One who has reached the self-actualization level	15:00
	is described as having achieved optimum psychological health	15:03
	with characteristic behaviors that are considered	15:07
	to be desirable by the great teachers	15:11
	of the Christian faith.	15:13
	A few of the behavioral characteristics	15:16
	of this self actualized person are	15:18
	continued freshness of appreciation	15:22
	of the infinite richness and variety of nature,	15:25
	a democratic character structure	15:29
	and feelings of deep sympathy, loyalty, and affection	15:32
	for humanity despite its manifest theories.	15:37
	That the ability to give and receive love	15:42
	begins in a healthy infant mother relationship	15:46
	is emphasized in current psychological theory and practice.	15:51
	Jesus evidently had gained this insight	15:56
	through the relationship with his mother	15:59
	and thus having developed this ability	16:02
	to give and receive love was capable	16:04
	of behaviorally expressing unselfish,	16:08
	unpossessive love for mankind.	16:12
	Through his behavioral expressions of the love needs,	16:16
	Jesus was capable of achieving	16:20
	the highest level of development	16:22
	which we presently describe as self actualization.	16:24
	The full relevance of childhood gratification	16:31
	of the love needs to adult character formation	16:34
	is inadequately suggested by our present	16:38
	experimental research findings and observations gained	16:41
	through clinical practice.	16:44
	However, it appears quite clear	16:46
	that many characteristics of the healthy adult	16:49
	are positive consequences of childhood gratification	16:53
	of the love needs.	16:57
	Some of these positive consequences	17:00
	resulting from the gratification of the love needs are	17:03
	the ability to allow independence to the loved one,	17:07
	the ability to withstand the temporary lack	17:13
	of receiving love and still give love,	17:16
	and the ability to love without giving up autonomy.	17:20
	Gratification of the love needs	17:27
	permits the appearance of such personal characteristics	17:29
	as affectionateness, sympathy, self respect,	17:33
	self confidence, security and so forth.	17:38
	One step removed from these immediate	17:43
	characterological consequences	17:45
	of need gratifications are such general traits	17:49
	as kindliness, generosity, unselfishness, equanimity,	17:52
	serenity, happiness, contentment, and the like.	17:59
	These seem to be the broad and general consequences	18:04
	or byproducts of early gratification of the love needs,	18:09
	and therefore contribute greatly	18:15
	for allowing for the development of a fuller	18:17
	and richer psychological life for the individual.	18:21
	If we agree that the psychological life of the individual	18:26
	is enriched through the gratification of the love needs	18:30
	can't we then reason from the particular to the general	18:33
	and state that the gratification of the love needs	18:38
	should contribute in multiple fashion	18:41
	to the enrichment and improvement	18:44
	of the sociological life of man kind.	18:46
	In summary, we learn from the readings of the scriptures	18:52
	that Jesus was wise, kind, forgiving and unselfish,	18:56
	even at a very trying and painful time in his life.	19:02
	At this tragic time in his life, he offered to teach us	19:07
	both through his behavior at that moment	19:11
	and through the spoken words, a very important principle	19:15
	concerning man's basic needs for both the giving	19:19
	and the receiving of love.	19:23
	He left for each of us the individual task	19:26
	of learning the meaning of this lesson	19:29
	and making the applications of these meanings	19:32
	to our daily living.	19:35
	Let us pray.	19:39
	Almighty God, we thank you for your help	19:44
	in this and all our undertakings.	19:47
	We thank you for your unselfish devotion	19:51
	as a teacher of profound truths	19:54
	concerning man's basic needs.	19:56
	We thank you for your sacrifices	19:59
	so that we and the people of the world	20:01
	may have rest by your sorrow and life by your death.	20:04
	Help us to gain more profound understandings	20:10
	of the many wise principles which you taught	20:13
	so that we can apply these principles	20:16
	to our daily behaviors.	20:18
	Strengthen our ability to comprehend thy word	20:21
	so that we can develop a deeper understanding	20:24
	of our individual and collective responsibilities	20:27
	to you and to our fellow men.	20:32
	Help us realize the significance of the love needs	20:36
	as well as the commandment	20:40
	that we should love one another.	20:42
	Strengthen our realization	20:45
	that the eternal lessons of life	20:47
	which you taught are basic to an understanding	20:49
	of man's inherent nature.	20:53
	Strengthen our eyes to see, our ears to hear,	20:55
	our hearts to understand the behavioral principles	21:00
	contained in your teachings,	21:05
	help us recognize that the synoptic view of man	21:08
	as offered by your teachings	21:11
	is the most comprehensive and penetrating	21:14
	that has ever been offered.	21:17
	And that its validity is supported	21:19
	by an impressive background of knowledge gain	21:21
	through the application of the scientific methods	21:24
	and empirical observations.	21:27
	Grant to us, Lord, the ability to think and do	21:31
	always such things as our right	21:35
	so that we may work toward living and teaching	21:38
	with the same unselfish devotion and love	21:41
	with which you lived and taught.	21:45
	Amen.	21:49
	(orchestra music)	21:55
	Let us pray.	23:57
	Dear heavenly Father,	24:01
	help us especially this day to pause	24:04
	and come before thee in reverence and in solitude.	24:06
	In these hours of the despair and loneliness,	24:12
	which often beset us.	24:14
	We can forget our personal desires,	24:17
	which seem so meaningful and turn our thoughts	24:19
	to him on the cross.	24:22
	Father forgive us, forgive us for associating ourselves	24:26
	with those who persecuted our Lord.	24:32
	Help us to lose our hardness of heart,	24:37
	our ignorance, our contempt of thy word.	24:40
	When we come to the foot of the cross	24:46
	we cannot help but bow with shame,	24:50
	but we too have persecuted and have slandered thy name.	24:53
	Give us the strength to feel the impact	25:00
	of the meaning of the cross,	25:03
	the resurrection of Jesus Christ,	25:05
	not just today but each day.	25:09
	Let us be ever aware of thy mercy	25:14
	and of thy unmistakable presence	25:17
	to be reassured we only have to walk outside	25:21
	in the sunshine and observe the springtime rebirth	25:23
	of all nature's splender.	25:28
	Oh father grant that someday we may live together on earth	25:32
	under the one shepherd who suffered for us on the cross.	25:39
	Amen.	25:44
	(opera music)	25:48
-	The reading of a fourth word as recorded by Mark,	32:06
	"And when the sixth hour had come	32:14
	there was darkness over the whole land	32:16
	until the ninth hour.	32:18
	And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice	32:21
	'Eloi, Eloi Lama Sabaktani'	32:25
	which means my God, my God why has thou forsaken me."	32:30
	This impassioned cry rung from the lips of a dying man,	32:39
	echoes the cries of men throughout the ages.	32:43
	The cries of men who have been plunged	32:47
	into the very depth of physical and spiritual torment.	32:50
	It is a cry born of physical pain of pervading sorrow	32:55
	and of a profound sense of loneliness.	33:01
	With this cry, Jesus Christ the son of God	33:06
	identifies himself also as the son of man.	33:12
	Which one of us has not in the face of tragic circumstance	33:19
	let forth the cry of anguish and perhaps of despair.	33:23
	As we see the want and cruelty of man toward his fellow men,	33:28
	as we witness the heartless toll in lives	33:33
	taken by nature in the rampaging storms and avalanches,	33:36
	as we see the ravaging effects of poverty	33:42
	and disease among untold millions of our fellow men.	33:45
	We too are driven to ask why?	33:51
	why must these things be?	33:56
	When with stunning force tragedy	34:00
	invades our personal lives depriving us	34:02
	of bodily or mental health,	34:05
	destroying our financial security or robbing us	34:07
	of our loved ones.	34:11
	We find ourselves crying from the depths of our distress.	34:13
	Why does God let such things happen to me?	34:18
	What have I done to deserve this?	34:22
	Oh God, if there is a God, why? Why?	34:25
	Yes, the cry of Jesus from the cross	34:30
	is indeed the cry of suffering humanity throughout the ages.	34:33
	It echoes for a moment, the great fear	34:40
	with which men face a faltering	34:42
	of their confidence in God himself.	34:45
	It echoes our fear of being deserted,	34:48
	of being alone in the vastness of the universe.	34:52
	How much more fully must of the sensitive spirit of Jesus	34:58
	have felt anxiety concerning apparent rejection by God.	35:01
	Since the days of his youth	35:08
	Jesus had held an unwavering faith in his divine mission.	35:10
	He had accepted as his work,	35:15
	the inauguration of God's kingdom here on earth.	35:18
	In his baptism he had dedicated himself	35:22
	and affirmed his vision.	35:26
	It is true that he had fled to the desert	35:28
	to fight the temptation to try the easy path.	35:31
	Why should he not use supernatural power	35:35
	to inaugurate the kingdom of God?	35:37
	By turning stones into bread	35:40
	he could meet man's basic physical needs	35:42
	and achieve a personal popularity	35:45
	that could have made him king indeed.	35:47
	Why not do it? By so doing he could fit well	35:50
	the popular expect of a Messiah	35:55
	who would with his might overturn the social order in a day	35:58
	and replace the Romans with the Jews in positions of power.	36:04
	And Jesus knew the answer to that one,	36:09
	he rejected the temptation.	36:12
	As his ministry began he prayed frequently to God,	36:16
	never had there been such communion	36:21
	between God and mortal man.	36:23
	Men flocked to hear the word of God is preached	36:27
	by this simple but inspired carpenter's son.	36:30
	Crowds followed him wherever he went,	36:33
	he was accorded a warm and a thrilling reception.	36:37
	And yet even as his popularity grew	36:40
	so did the opposition to him.	36:43
	As time went on the scribes and the Pharisees	36:46
	their pride and their pet beliefs injured	36:50
	and their jealousies inflamed scheme against him.	36:52
	His mother and his brothers thinking him beside himself	36:58
	for preaching such strange things	37:02
	sought to take him home with them.	37:04
	Alone with God in prayer,	37:07
	he renewed his faith in his mission and went on.	37:09
	Then came the triumphal entry into Jerusalem,	37:14
	the palm leaves and flowers, the shouts of Hosanna	37:18
	only to be followed by betrayal by one of his chosen 12.	37:20
	Only to be deserted by the others and to be denied	37:27
	by his closest friend, Peter.	37:31
	The mock trial and the sentencing by a stacked jury	37:35
	must have hurt are less than this.	37:38
	Deserted by man, deserted perhaps also by God.	37:42
	The question is a natural one to be asked by a son of man.	37:50
	The times revealed with an apocalyptic tension.	37:56
	The Jews expected that with a great show	37:59
	of unusual phenomena.	38:02
	God would bring the old world to an end	38:04
	and that a Messiah would triumphantly usher in the kingdom.	38:08
	They expected this to happen at any moment,	38:12
	could this mild seeming carpenter be the Messiah?	38:15
	No, the authorities had declared him an imposter.	38:20
	This man far from saving the world	38:23
	could not save even himself.	38:26
	It is easy to see how the mobs viewed him	38:29
	and why they deserted.	38:33
	But what about his disciples?	38:36
	They had sat at his feet, had lived and worked with him	38:39
	and had shared his vision for three years.	38:44
	Why had they deserted?	38:47
	We need look only into ourselves to find the answer.	38:50
	Fear, fear of social ridicule and fear of death	38:55
	formed an add mixture, which lent wings to their feet.	39:01
	Who then was with this son of man	39:06
	who called himself the son of God,	39:10
	as he bore the cross toward Calvary.	39:11
	His captors yes, but little comfort were they?	39:14
	His one last friend was God himself	39:19
	for with Jesus, God strode to Calvary.	39:25
	Why then the anguished cry from the cross.	39:33
	My God, my God why has thou forsaken me.	39:37
	A lover of fine music experiences	39:44
	his greatest thrill on hearing beautiful tones.	39:48
	He also feels most poignantly	39:54
	even the slightest of discords.	39:57
	The man whose experience of God	40:01
	gives the greatest faith is the man most sensitive	40:02
	to the appeal of doubt.	40:06
	Great faith is for most men	40:09
	built out of agonizing periods of doubt.	40:11
	And Jesus was the son of man.	40:16
	The cross brought him to the depths of physical pain,	40:19
	his abandonment by his followers and friends	40:22
	plunged him to the depths of spiritual anguish.	40:26
	His mission which now depended on them seemed doomed.	40:30
	Jesus the son of man felt terribly alone.	40:36
	My God, my God why has thou forsaken me, why?	40:41
	Some Christians say in the apostles creed	40:50
	He descended into hell.	40:54
	On the cross Jesus did exactly that.	40:57
	He descended into the deep, deep hell	41:02
	of utter loneliness, of separation,	41:04
	not only from his fellow man, but from God himself	41:08
	As a human being, he experienced	41:12
	what has been called the dark night of the soul.	41:15
	Job knew such a night when he exclaimed,	41:19
	"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there	41:23
	and backward, but I cannot perceive him."	41:27
	It is significant that even at this moment	41:33
	of agonized questioning, Jesus did not curse God.	41:36
	Rather he addressed God in prayer.	41:42
	"My God, my God," he said, in his darkest hour	41:48
	the son of man identified himself as the son of God.	41:53
	He spoke to his father in prayer.	41:57
	Perhaps this prayer conveyed more	42:02
	than the audible words stated.	42:04
	Jesus knew well, the great poems of his people,	42:06
	including that of the ancient psalmist	42:09
	whose words he had a uttered.	42:12
	"My God, my God why has thou forsaken me?	42:14
	Why aren't thou so far from helping me	42:20
	from the words of my groaning?	42:23
	Oh my God I cry by day but thou does not answer	42:26
	and by night, but find no rest.	42:31
	Yet, thou art holy inthrowned on the praises of Israel	42:36
	in thee our fathers trusted,	42:43
	they trusted and thou didst deliver them	42:46
	to thee they cried and were saved,	42:49
	in thee they trusted and were not disappointed.	42:52
	All the ends of the earth shall remember	42:56
	and turn to the Lord.	42:59
	And all the families of the nations	43:00
	shall worship before him.	43:02
	For dominion belongs to the Lord	43:05
	and he rules over the nations."	43:08
	Yes, perhaps Jesus in uttering the opening words	43:12
	of this song which he knew so well	43:17
	was acknowledging the Lordship of God his father,	43:21
	perhaps through this means he asserted again	43:25
	his faith in his mission in God's purpose, in God's wisdom.	43:28
	Yes, even if as Jesus the son of man	43:35
	made his lonely descent into hell.	43:37
	He began as the son of God	43:40
	his ascent into heaven.	43:43
	Let us pray.	43:48
	Oh God, our God, thou who art the Lord	43:53
	and father of all mankind.	43:59
	We praise thee for thine inscrutable wisdom	44:03
	and thine infinite compassion and mercy.	44:08
	We thank thee for thy son, Jesus Christ our Lord.	44:13
	We ask that his sacrifice of himself	44:19
	on the cross for us	44:22
	may inspire us to carry forward the holy mission	44:25
	which was his, this we pray in his name, Amen.	44:29
	(piano music)	44:37
	Let us pray.	47:21
	Almighty my God,	47:24
	whose most dear son, what not up to joy,	47:27
	but first just take upon himself our sins	47:31
	and suffered human pain.	47:36
	And ended up not into glory before he was crucified	47:39
	Most of we are glad that we walking	47:44
	in the way of the cross may find it	47:46
	none other than the way of life and peace.	47:49
	O' Lord, increase our faith, renew our courage	47:54
	and by thy spirit, make us victory	48:02
	over the things that beset us	48:07
	by giving us utmost to the highest.	48:10
	May the blessing rest upon us all	48:15
	to give water to others who thirst	48:19
	because they belong to Christ.	48:22
	Show us that in every walk, thou art still with us	48:26
	that in every sorrow, thou art still loving us,	48:33
	even unto the utter most.	48:37
	And may our faith stand firm in thy faithfulness.	48:40
	As thou has been with us may we also be with thee.	48:47
	Our Lord Jesus Christ and savior.	48:52
	Amen	48:56
	(opera music)	49:02

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Preacher Unknown - Good Friday Service Part 2 (April 20, 1962)

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