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