Howard C. Wilkinson - "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" (April 25, 1965)
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- | That's weekend at Duke University. | 0:03 |
That means that we are honoring the fathers | 0:09 | |
of our sophomore coeds. | 0:12 | |
I mentioned this in the very beginning of the sermon | 0:16 | |
for purposes of clarification, | 0:19 | |
because if the present rate of early student marriages | 0:23 | |
continues we may need to have a special celebration | 0:27 | |
of sophomore male students who have already become dads. | 0:32 | |
Sophomore dads weekend. | 0:37 | |
As a text for the sermon on this special occasion, | 0:42 | |
I have chosen the fifth of the 10 commandments. | 0:47 | |
In spite of the fact that it is almost irrelevant | 0:52 | |
to the life of a 20th century christian. | 0:57 | |
Now here is the commandment in full. | 1:01 | |
Honor thy father and thy mother | 1:04 | |
that thy days may be long upon the land, | 1:08 | |
which the Lord thy God giveth thee. | 1:12 | |
That's found in Exodus 20:12. | 1:16 | |
And is a part of the morning scripture lesson | 1:19 | |
which was read by my Penny Cunningham. | 1:22 | |
Now, there are two reasons why this ancient commandment | 1:26 | |
is almost irrelevant to your and my life today. | 1:31 | |
The first reason is that the problem | 1:35 | |
to which it was addressed, | 1:38 | |
is relatively non existent in our nation today. | 1:42 | |
When we study the circumstances in Moses time, | 1:48 | |
we can see this commandment in a new perspective | 1:53 | |
perhaps different from what we have seen it in. | 1:58 | |
As we have simply read the words. | 2:02 | |
Historically understood, this was not a commandment | 2:06 | |
given for the purpose of properly rearing young children. | 2:11 | |
Since in Hebrew homes of that era | 2:18 | |
the young were strictly required | 2:20 | |
to obey and respect their parents. | 2:23 | |
A mosaic commandment to this effect | 2:27 | |
was really quite unnecessary. | 2:30 | |
It was almost like commanding thy must breathe air. | 2:34 | |
They would do it in any case | 2:39 | |
whether Moses commanded it or not. | 2:41 | |
Actually the problem which existed in Moses time | 2:45 | |
and to which this commandment spoke, | 2:50 | |
had to do with adult children of aged and helpless parents. | 2:53 | |
The custom in some societies | 3:02 | |
of which the Hebrews had knowledge, | 3:06 | |
was to send the elderly and helpless away out of camp. | 3:09 | |
And they were soon set upon by wild beast | 3:16 | |
or they died from exposure to the elements. | 3:18 | |
It is quite evident as we read the book of Psalms | 3:23 | |
that the Psalmist had witnessed such tragedies as this | 3:26 | |
because he was moved on one occasion to pray. | 3:30 | |
Cast me not off in the time of old age. | 3:35 | |
Forsake me not, when my strength failed. | 3:39 | |
Well, you see the mosaic law came to forbid | 3:44 | |
such cruel treatment. | 3:48 | |
It spoke a commanding word to any Hebrew man | 3:52 | |
who might be contemplating the introduction | 3:55 | |
of the this pagan practice into the camp of the Israelites. | 3:58 | |
But it was more than a stern and severe word, | 4:04 | |
more than just a harsh commandment. | 4:08 | |
It had a bargaining dimension to it. | 4:11 | |
An aspect of enlightened self-interest. | 4:15 | |
It seemed to be saying, if you will establish the practice | 4:20 | |
of seeing to it, that your parents are protected | 4:27 | |
and nourished, as long as they can live, | 4:31 | |
this practice will later result in your own life | 4:36 | |
being lengthened. | 4:39 | |
The fifth commandment appeared to be coaxing. | 4:42 | |
Remember, one day you will be old too. | 4:46 | |
So don't turn your elderly parents out of camp now, | 4:50 | |
unless you want to be treated that way yourself. | 4:55 | |
It was an almost commercial quid pro quo. | 5:01 | |
Do A and receive B. | 5:05 | |
Now, do you get the emphasis? | 5:10 | |
Honor thy father and thy mother | 5:13 | |
that thy days may be long upon the land, | 5:15 | |
which the Lord thy God giveth thee. | 5:19 | |
The prospect of ones being cared for himself | 5:25 | |
when he should become old | 5:30 | |
was the sugar coating on the pill | 5:31 | |
of being commanded to feed extra mouths | 5:35 | |
and to cloth extra bodies of persons, | 5:38 | |
no longer able to hold their own | 5:41 | |
in the struggles for survival | 5:43 | |
in that primitive day. | 5:45 | |
This commandment therefore might just as easily have read, | 5:49 | |
honor thy father and thy mother | 5:53 | |
that their days may be long upon the land | 5:56 | |
which the Lord their God giveth them. | 6:00 | |
Except, that the problem which Moses | 6:05 | |
would have faced immediately in that case | 6:09 | |
would have been that many of the non elderly adults | 6:12 | |
of his day would have responded to it | 6:16 | |
by saying so what, who cares? | 6:18 | |
At that point in human history, it apparently was necessary | 6:24 | |
to appeal almost entirely to the motive of self-interest. | 6:29 | |
As Jesus said later, concerning Moses in divorce. | 6:35 | |
He prescribed what he did | 6:39 | |
because of the hardness of their hearts. | 6:41 | |
The Christ had not yet come in Moses day | 6:47 | |
declaring his doctrine of our need to love | 6:50 | |
because we have first been loved | 6:54 | |
beyond what we can ever deserve or repay. | 6:57 | |
But now you can see how that in 20th century America | 7:04 | |
with its plans for retirement income, | 7:08 | |
endowment insurance policies, | 7:11 | |
homes for the aged and social security | 7:13 | |
to mention only a few. | 7:17 | |
These visions of elderly parents being torn limb from limb | 7:20 | |
by wild animals or starving to death | 7:25 | |
out on a bleak mountainside, do seem just a bit unreal. | 7:28 | |
Nothing at all, which I think or plan or do | 7:35 | |
for example about my parents | 7:39 | |
who are in their middle and late seventies, | 7:41 | |
is done because of any anxiety that I have | 7:45 | |
either about their or my starving to death in old age. | 7:49 | |
The last United States census, | 7:55 | |
showed that 77%, | 7:58 | |
77% of all people over 65 years of age | 8:01 | |
in the United States | 8:09 | |
are living in homes of their own relatively independent | 8:10 | |
of their adult children. | 8:15 | |
So you can see the difference between Moses day and our day. | 8:17 | |
Now, the second reason why this fifth commandment | 8:24 | |
is almost irrelevant to the life of a 20th century Christian | 8:26 | |
is the fact that we do not live under the requirements | 8:31 | |
of any of the 10 commandments. | 8:36 | |
The Christian is totally free from the mosaic law. | 8:40 | |
Absolutely. | 8:44 | |
It has no required bearing at all | 8:46 | |
upon his actions from day to day. | 8:49 | |
The Christian is not bound by the commandment | 8:53 | |
against stealing. | 8:55 | |
The old Testament command against murder | 8:58 | |
does not apply to the Christian. | 9:00 | |
Laws against drinking and drunkenness do not govern | 9:03 | |
the true Christian's behavior. | 9:06 | |
What the mosaic law says, | 9:10 | |
in prohibiting fornication and adultery | 9:12 | |
does not control what the sincere Christian does on a date. | 9:15 | |
And in similar fashion, the fifth of the 10 commandments | 9:21 | |
honor thy father and thy mother | 9:25 | |
is not a law binding the Christian. | 9:30 | |
Well if at this point you are ready to conclude | 9:36 | |
that the Duke University chaplain | 9:39 | |
has utterly gone out of his mind. | 9:42 | |
You should be cautioned by the reminder | 9:46 | |
that this doctrine comes straight from the New Testament. | 9:49 | |
Indeed, the setting forth of this doctrine, | 9:56 | |
occupies a significant portion of the writings | 9:59 | |
of the apostle Paul, for example and in particular. | 10:03 | |
Paul's theology at this point | 10:09 | |
can at least be stated briefly, if not stated simply. | 10:10 | |
Here it is. | 10:16 | |
God revealed his righteous and holy nature to man. | 10:18 | |
And in the Old Testament law commanded us | 10:25 | |
to be righteous also. | 10:28 | |
But the empirical discovery, which both man and God made | 10:31 | |
is that unregenerate man does not seem to measure up | 10:38 | |
to God's law. | 10:41 | |
This is true, not merely of some humans, but of all men. | 10:44 | |
The apostle Paul wrote to the Romans and here are his words. | 10:51 | |
There is none righteous. | 10:56 | |
No, not one. | 10:58 | |
There is none that seek it after God. | 11:00 | |
There is none that do it good. | 11:03 | |
No, not one. | 11:06 | |
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. | 11:09 | |
So what? | 11:14 | |
So this, Paul continued. | 11:16 | |
So this is my experience of the law. | 11:18 | |
I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage. | 11:22 | |
Now, the conclusion to which Paul came | 11:30 | |
after this very devastatingly, | 11:32 | |
honest exercise in soul searching, | 11:35 | |
was a very gloomy one. | 11:39 | |
He said, therefore, by the deeds of the law | 11:42 | |
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. | 11:47 | |
The whole human race stands under judgment | 11:55 | |
by reason of our failure to be what we were created to be | 11:58 | |
or to do what we were commanded to do. | 12:03 | |
But Paul taught that God not only | 12:08 | |
is infinitely righteous and holy, | 12:13 | |
but infinitely loving as well. | 12:16 | |
We find in 2 Peter, words which would beautifully express, | 12:22 | |
not only Paul's theology, | 12:26 | |
but that of the entire New Testament, just here. | 12:28 | |
The Lord is long suffering | 12:32 | |
not wishing that any should perish | 12:35 | |
but that all should come to repentance. | 12:39 | |
And for all persons who recognize their guilt, | 12:44 | |
admit their own inability to save themselves | 12:48 | |
are willing to die to sin and throw themselves | 12:52 | |
on the mercy of God through Christ. | 12:55 | |
There is forgiveness, acceptance, regeneration | 12:59 | |
and a new life here, | 13:05 | |
as well as eternal life hereafter. | 13:07 | |
The apostle Paul taught that this new life in Christ | 13:12 | |
is radically different | 13:15 | |
from the old life under law and judgment. | 13:18 | |
He wrote to the Romans these words, | 13:21 | |
there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus. | 13:24 | |
The law of the spirit brings the life | 13:30 | |
which is in Christ Jesus. | 13:35 | |
And that law has set me free from the law of sin and death. | 13:37 | |
The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the law, | 13:45 | |
so that you might belong to another | 13:50 | |
to him who was raised from dead | 13:53 | |
for when we were unspiritual, | 13:55 | |
the sinful cravings of the body, | 13:58 | |
excited by the law were active in our members | 14:02 | |
and made us fruitful unto death. | 14:06 | |
But now we are done with the law | 14:09 | |
so that we might serve in a new way | 14:12 | |
not under the written code as of old, but in the spirit. | 14:14 | |
The true Christian thereby becomes a joyful witness | 14:23 | |
to God's act of reconciliation. | 14:27 | |
And he enters a life of grateful obedience | 14:31 | |
under the beckoning of spirit | 14:34 | |
rather than under the lash of the law. | 14:36 | |
He therefore needs no commandment against murder | 14:40 | |
because he loves his neighbor as himself. | 14:43 | |
And one does not kill a person whom he loves. | 14:46 | |
He needs no commandment against fornication | 14:51 | |
or adultery or lying or stealing and all the rest. | 14:53 | |
Because in answer to God's prior love, | 14:58 | |
he lives in terms of a spirit which knows no harm | 15:02 | |
to anyone and which negate any selfish use of others. | 15:07 | |
Well, if we say that the Christian | 15:17 | |
does not need the sixth commandment | 15:19 | |
that is the one against murder | 15:21 | |
because his Christian life of love takes care of all that. | 15:23 | |
In what way does a Christian life | 15:28 | |
of take care of what the fifth commandment covers? | 15:31 | |
In other words, what does it mean for a Christian | 15:38 | |
sophomore co-ed to honor her father and her mother? | 15:41 | |
And what does it mean for a father of a duke co-ed | 15:46 | |
to honor his elderly father and mother? | 15:50 | |
I said in the beginning of this sermon | 15:56 | |
that the fifth commandment was almost irrelevant | 15:57 | |
to the life of the 20th century Christian. | 16:01 | |
Almost, but not entirely. | 16:04 | |
The commandment against stealing for example | 16:08 | |
is partially relevant | 16:11 | |
as a school master to bring us | 16:15 | |
to the Christian doctrine of the sacredness | 16:20 | |
of the possessions of others. | 16:23 | |
It is relevant to that extent. | 16:27 | |
The old Testament law which established tithing | 16:31 | |
is not totally useless. | 16:34 | |
If it teaches us to understand and accept | 16:37 | |
the Christian doctrine of the stewardship | 16:40 | |
of our possessions. | 16:44 | |
So now on the one hand, | 16:49 | |
the Christian should not to quickly forget the law. | 16:50 | |
Lest he prematurely sever the umbilical cord | 16:55 | |
which historically and theologically | 16:59 | |
connects the law and the gospels. | 17:02 | |
But on the other hand, he should, by all means | 17:06 | |
not regard the commandments | 17:09 | |
as either a leash to hold or a lash to drive us | 17:11 | |
to any kind of legalism in religion. | 17:15 | |
Now, by this reasoning, we come to see the partial relevance | 17:21 | |
of the commandment, honor thy father and thy mother. | 17:26 | |
We see it as a guide pointing toward a relationship of love | 17:32 | |
and respect and honor. | 17:37 | |
Not circumscribed by any kind of legalism | 17:41 | |
and not motivated by any enlightened self-interest. | 17:45 | |
But motivated by a love which springs | 17:52 | |
from the wholesome experience of having first been loved. | 17:55 | |
And that is the important thing. | 18:01 | |
Now, having come to this point in our thinking | 18:05 | |
we must be very careful. | 18:09 | |
It would be easy as we move forward from here | 18:13 | |
to generalize, to glamorize, to idolize, to over draw, | 18:16 | |
to overstate and to embroider the ideal relationship, | 18:23 | |
which should exist between parent and child. | 18:28 | |
So much so that we would reach the point | 18:32 | |
that we would soon discover ourselves | 18:34 | |
be floating high in the atmosphere | 18:36 | |
on a vast cloud of modeling and reality. | 18:38 | |
I have seen this done. | 18:43 | |
Regard against that. | 18:47 | |
Let us turn our attention now for a couple of minutes | 18:49 | |
to certain stubborn facts. | 18:52 | |
This is a threatening word to some people. | 18:58 | |
A Trinity College student, | 19:04 | |
came up to me in the middle of the week | 19:07 | |
after seeing the now sermon titled for today. | 19:09 | |
And he said, chaplain, I won't be with you in Chapel Sunday. | 19:12 | |
This sermon topic is too threatening. | 19:16 | |
I'll be in my room, listening in on the radio | 19:19 | |
so I can cut out on you if it gets too bad. | 19:21 | |
Are you still with me, buddy? | 19:25 | |
A first of these stubborn facts, | 19:31 | |
is that every son or daughter who achieves personhood, | 19:34 | |
every son or daughter who achieves personhood, | 19:42 | |
who becomes an individual and is enabled to stand | 19:45 | |
on his own feet | 19:49 | |
must go through a transition period. | 19:51 | |
When he or she rebels to some degree against parents, | 19:56 | |
this is normal. | 20:04 | |
This is necessary. | 20:06 | |
This is right. | 20:08 | |
But this is almost always is shocking | 20:10 | |
when it happens so far as the parent is concerned. | 20:13 | |
And parents almost always draw alarming conclusions | 20:19 | |
and generalize from it that the entire younger generation | 20:24 | |
is going to the dogs. | 20:28 | |
Let me read you something. | 20:31 | |
There is a book entitled Kids, Crime and Chaos | 20:33 | |
which was written by Dr. Tunley. | 20:38 | |
And here is a quotation, which he has in his book. | 20:41 | |
This quotation is from a parent. | 20:46 | |
"Youth is disintegrating. | 20:50 | |
"The youngsters of the land have a disrespect | 20:53 | |
"for authority in every form. | 20:55 | |
"Vandalism is rife and crimes of all kind | 20:58 | |
"a rampant among our young people. | 21:01 | |
"The nation is in dire peril." | 21:04 | |
Do you know who wrote that? | 21:07 | |
And Egyptian father who lived 2000 years before Christ. | 21:10 | |
Let me read you another one from a man who wrote | 21:17 | |
many many years later. | 21:20 | |
"Our youth loved luxury. | 21:23 | |
"They have bad manners. | 21:26 | |
"They have contempt for authority | 21:28 | |
"disrespect for older people. | 21:30 | |
"Why children nowadays are tyrants. | 21:33 | |
"They no longer rise when their elders enter the room, | 21:35 | |
"they contradict their parents. | 21:38 | |
"They chatter before a company, | 21:40 | |
"they gobble their food and terrorize their teachers." | 21:41 | |
You know, who wrote that? | 21:45 | |
Socrates. | 21:47 | |
Only 500 years before Christ. | 21:51 | |
Well, parents do get alarmed. | 21:55 | |
Sometimes properly, so. | 22:00 | |
But generalize, usually beyond the particulars. | 22:03 | |
Now we need to go another step further | 22:09 | |
and recognize another stubborn fact. | 22:13 | |
And that is that many parents, frankly | 22:15 | |
do not deserve the respect of their children. | 22:19 | |
Either the father or the mother | 22:24 | |
or both have been unfaithful | 22:25 | |
to their family responsibilities. | 22:28 | |
A few years ago, I spent a week on another campus. | 22:32 | |
I heard a young woman describe how her mother | 22:36 | |
was a fashionable prostitute. | 22:39 | |
Her father was a prosecuting attorney | 22:41 | |
who often was successful in getting men sent | 22:43 | |
to the roads for drunkenness, | 22:46 | |
but who himself frequently came home drunk in a taxi cab | 22:48 | |
and gave his children a very hard time all evening. | 22:51 | |
Some parents, perhaps they don't know any better, | 22:57 | |
will threaten to withdraw their love | 23:01 | |
from their small children, | 23:04 | |
if the children do anything to displease them. | 23:07 | |
This is extremely damaging to a small child. | 23:11 | |
More than a few child psychologists have pointed out | 23:17 | |
that the young have two needs | 23:20 | |
which are very important to their welfare. | 23:23 | |
But which often run a foul of each other | 23:28 | |
in a home where parents do not understand | 23:30 | |
these two basic needs. | 23:33 | |
The first is a need to express their hostilities. | 23:35 | |
And the second is a need to feel that they are loved. | 23:42 | |
Now, the problem arises at the point | 23:47 | |
that parents often require things of small children | 23:49 | |
which the small children resent. | 23:53 | |
Go wash the dirt out of your ears, pick up your toys. | 23:57 | |
Don't pet that strange dog. | 24:00 | |
Turn down the volume on the TV, | 24:02 | |
eat your spinach, come in out of the rain. | 24:04 | |
Now the child does not want to obey | 24:08 | |
any of these instructions. | 24:11 | |
And if required to do so | 24:13 | |
he will certainly feel hostilities | 24:15 | |
which he will wish to express. | 24:18 | |
The wise parent will require | 24:21 | |
that the instructions be obeyed, | 24:24 | |
but will allow the child to express any hostile feelings | 24:28 | |
which this requirement generates. | 24:32 | |
But when an unwise parent leads the child to believe | 24:36 | |
that he will stop loving him, | 24:40 | |
if he says anything unpleasant | 24:43 | |
or does anything which displeases the parent, | 24:45 | |
the child generally will outwardly conform | 24:49 | |
in order to retain the love of the parent | 24:53 | |
which the child desperately needs. | 24:56 | |
But will store up a treasure house full of bitterness | 25:01 | |
of hostility and resentment, | 25:06 | |
which will have to be dealt with later on. | 25:10 | |
If that child ever matures | 25:13 | |
into a happy and well adjusted person. | 25:15 | |
When a student editor begins to hunt for flaws | 25:20 | |
and inconsistencies in the college administration, | 25:23 | |
and when he finds nothing but flaws and inconsistencies | 25:27 | |
most psychiatrists would agree | 25:32 | |
on what the probable explanation of this is. | 25:33 | |
They contend it is less likely | 25:37 | |
that the college administration | 25:40 | |
is actually cruel and crotchety. | 25:42 | |
And it is more likely that the editor is revealing | 25:45 | |
a poor relationship to his own parents. | 25:48 | |
And he probably has a hatred of his father | 25:52 | |
which he's transferring to the college administration. | 25:55 | |
Several years ago, | 26:01 | |
I asked a student editor, | 26:03 | |
what he understood the Latin phrase | 26:05 | |
in loco parentis to mean. | 26:07 | |
He replied, "It means that students | 26:11 | |
"have parents at home | 26:14 | |
"and deans and other administrators | 26:16 | |
"at college who substitute for parents. | 26:18 | |
"And that both sets of parents are local." | 26:20 | |
Now, what is far more helpful | 26:27 | |
than having the maturing young person vent his startup wrath | 26:31 | |
on persons who had nothing to do | 26:37 | |
whatever with the origin of his wrath, | 26:39 | |
is to have him deal with it constructively and creatively | 26:43 | |
in a counseling relationship | 26:47 | |
with a trained pastor or therapist. | 26:51 | |
Very often I sit in my office | 26:55 | |
and listen to a torrent of hot words, | 26:57 | |
being poured out by a student | 27:00 | |
who is trying to find a wholesomeness of being | 27:03 | |
and a sense of justice which will permit him | 27:08 | |
to believe in the fairness of God | 27:11 | |
and the possibility of integrity on earth. | 27:14 | |
So I listen, | 27:18 | |
I listen to some acid denunciation of parents | 27:21 | |
without any trace of disapproval or criticism. | 27:25 | |
Until the story has been fully told, | 27:31 | |
and the young woman or the young man feels | 27:35 | |
that in some sense | 27:38 | |
he has had his day in court for the first time. | 27:39 | |
But if without such an opportunity | 27:46 | |
this young woman is told by the church | 27:48 | |
that in addition to being saddled with a prostitute mother | 27:51 | |
and a drunken hypocrite father | 27:55 | |
she has the religious duty to honor both of them. | 27:56 | |
She is placed in an emotionally impossible situation | 28:01 | |
which may destroy her indeed. | 28:05 | |
And I do not propose to do that or be a party to it. | 28:10 | |
Honor thy father and thy mother. | 28:15 | |
Always? | 28:18 | |
How and in what sense? | 28:21 | |
Well, for many of you this is no problem at all. | 28:26 | |
You have a fine relationship with a fine set of parents. | 28:30 | |
You may even be in almost complete agreement | 28:34 | |
with your parents on most of the questions of life. | 28:38 | |
You respect them. | 28:42 | |
You love them. | 28:44 | |
You agree with them. | 28:46 | |
You honor them, you are sensitive to their needs. | 28:47 | |
But let me suggest | 28:52 | |
that you still can honor your father and your mother, | 28:54 | |
if you don't agree with them. | 28:58 | |
And even if you do not fully approve of what they do, | 29:01 | |
if you honor someone you regard him with respect | 29:06 | |
for what he is. | 29:09 | |
Furthermore, if you yourself | 29:12 | |
rise to the highest achievements of which you are capable | 29:16 | |
you bring honor to those who made you what you are. | 29:21 | |
And the two people who are of course, basic to what you are | 29:27 | |
are your father and your mother. | 29:34 | |
And in achieving your highest possibilities | 29:37 | |
you do honor your father and your mother. | 29:40 | |
I commend to you the example of the late John F. Kennedy | 29:45 | |
President Kennedy, loved his father deeply. | 29:50 | |
He respected him. | 29:54 | |
He listened to him and he learned many things from him. | 29:56 | |
He radically disagreed with him | 30:00 | |
on almost all the answers to political questions. | 30:03 | |
Still, he honored his father | 30:08 | |
and his father knew that he did. | 30:10 | |
Not primarily because he became president | 30:13 | |
of the United States. | 30:16 | |
But primarily because he followed the light | 30:18 | |
of his conscience. | 30:22 | |
And he did the right as God gave him to see the right. | 30:24 | |
And so let me suggest that you too, | 30:31 | |
all of you, Honor thy father and thy mother. | 30:34 | |
Eternal God, our heavenly father, | 30:46 | |
we thank thee for the example of divine parenthood | 30:49 | |
which thou has set for us. | 30:52 | |
May those of us who are parents, | 30:56 | |
follow thy example, | 30:58 | |
and those of us who are sons and daughters | 31:01 | |
honor both thee and our earthly parents. | 31:04 | |
And now may the grace of the Lord | 31:09 | |
Jesus Christ be with you all. | 31:11 |