James T. Cleland - "Let Us Worship God" (March 13, 1966)

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	(choir vocalizing)	0:03
	(bright organ music)	0:27
	(choir vocalizing)	0:55
-	Dearly beloved brethren, the scriptures move with us	3:26
	in sundry places to acknowledge and confess	3:30
	our manifold sins and wickedness.	3:35
	And we should not dissemble nor cloak them	3:38
	before the face of almighty God, our heavenly Father,	3:41
	but confess them with an humble, lowly,	3:46
	penitent, and obedient heart,	3:50
	to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the sin	3:53
	by His infinite goodness and mercy.	3:57
	And now let us humbly confess our sins to almighty God,	4:01
	Almighty and most merciful God, our heavenly Father,	4:06
	we confess that we have grievously send against Thee	4:11
	in thought, in word and in deed.	4:16
	We have come short of Thy glory,	4:19
	we have broken the unity Thy holy church,	4:22
	and we have turned every one of us	4:26
	aside from the way of light,	4:28
	yet do Thou most merciful Father,	4:31
	hear on us when we call upon Thee with penitent hearts,	4:34
	pardon our sins, and grant us Thy peace,	4:39
	confirm us in all goodness	4:43
	that we may serve Thee with a quiet mind	4:46
	and bring us to the life everlasting	4:49
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	4:52
	Amen.	4:55
	Hear what comfortable words our savior Christ	4:57
	said unto all who truly turned to him:	5:00
	"Come unto me, all ye that travel and are heavy laden,	5:04
	and I will refresh you."	5:09
	So God loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son	5:11
	to the end, that all that believe in him should not perish,	5:16
	but have everlasting life.	5:19
	Hear also what's St. Paul said:	5:23
	"This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received	5:26
	that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."	5:30
	Hear also what's St. John said:	5:35
	"If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,	5:38
	Jesus Christ the righteous,	5:42
	and he is the propitiation for our sins."	5:45
	And now we are bold to say,	5:50
	Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;	5:53
	Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done	5:58
	on earth as it is in heaven.	6:02
	Give us this day our daily bread;	6:05
	and forgive us our trespasses	6:08
	as we forgive those who trespass against us;	6:10
	and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	6:14
	For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory	6:19
	forever and ever.	6:24
	Amen.	6:25
	(gentle organ music)	6:29
	(choir vocalizing)	7:04
-	The scripture reading for today comes from Isaiah,	11:06
	the Old Testament, 6:1-8.	11:10
	In the year that King Uzziah died	11:17
	I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up;	11:20
	and His train filled the temple.	11:25
	Above Him stood the seraphim.	11:28
	Each had six wings: with two he covered his face,	11:30
	and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.	11:34
	And one called to another and said:	11:38
	"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;	11:41
	the whole earth is full of his glory!"	11:45
	And the foundations of the thresholds	11:48
	shook at the voice of him who called,	11:50
	and the house was filled with smoke.	11:52
	And I said: "Woe is me!	11:54
	For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips,	11:57
	and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;	12:00
	for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"	12:04
	Then flew one of the seraphim to me,	12:09
	having in his hand a burning coal	12:11
	which he had taken with tongs from the altar.	12:13
	And he touched my mouth and said:	12:16
	"Behold, this has touched your lips;	12:18
	your guilt is taken away, and your sin is forgiven."	12:21
	And I heard the voice of the Lord saying,	12:25
	"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"	12:28
	And I said, "Here I am! Send me."	12:31
	The reading from the New Testament	12:37
	comes from Paul's letter to the Colossians 3:12-17.	12:39
	Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved,	12:51
	compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,	12:54
	forbearing one another,	13:01
	and if one has a complaint against another,	13:03
	forgiving each other;	13:05
	as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.	13:06
	And above all these put on love,	13:11
	which binds everything together in perfect harmony.	13:14
	And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,	13:18
	to which indeed you were called in the one body.	13:21
	And be thankful.	13:24
	Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,	13:26
	as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom,	13:30
	and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs	13:33
	with thankfulness in your hearts to God.	13:37
	And whatever you do, in word or deed,	13:40
	do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,	13:43
	giving thanks to God the Father through him.	13:46
	Amen.	13:50
	(bright organ music)	13:53
	(choir singing)	14:22
-	The Lord be with you.	17:02
-	And with your spirit.	17:04
-	Let us pray.	17:06
	O Lord, the giver of every good and perfect gift,	17:08
	we give Thee unfeigned thanks for all Thy mercies,	17:13
	for our being, our reason	17:18
	and all other endowments and faculties of soul and body,	17:22
	for our health, friends, food, raiment,	17:27
	and all the other comforts and conveniences of life.	17:32
	Above all, we adore Thy mercy	17:37
	in sending Thy only Son into the world,	17:39
	to redeem us from sin and eternal death,	17:43
	and in giving us the knowledge	17:47
	and sense of our duty towards Thee.	17:49
	We bless Thee for thy patience with us,	17:52
	notwithstanding our many and great provocations;	17:56
	for all the directions, assistances,	18:00
	and comforts of Thy Holy Spirit;	18:03
	for thy continual care watchful providence over us	18:07
	through the whole course of our lives,	18:11
	beseeching Thee to continue these these blessings to us;	18:14
	and to give us grace to show our thankfulness	18:18
	in a sincere obedience to Thy laws.	18:22
	O God, at whose Word man go forth to his work	18:26
	and to his labor until the evening,	18:30
	be merciful to all whose duties are difficult or burdensome	18:33
	and comfort them concerning their toil.	18:38
	Shield from bodily accident and harm	18:42
	the workmen at their work.	18:44
	Protect the efforts of sober and honest industry,	18:47
	and suffer not the hire of the laborers	18:52
	to be kept back by fraud.	18:54
	Incline the heart of employers and of those whom they employ	18:57
	to mutual forbearance, fairness, and good-will.	19:02
	Give the spirit of governance and of a sound mind	19:08
	to all in places of authority,	19:12
	especially Thy servants, the President of the United States	19:15
	and the governor of this State.	19:19
	Bless all those who labor in works of mercy,	19:22
	in our schools of good learning.	19:26
	Care for all aged persons, and all little children,	19:30
	the sick and the afflicted,	19:36
	and those who travel by land or by sea or by air.	19:39
	Remember all who by reason of weakness are overtasked,	19:44
	or because of poverty are forgotten.	19:49
	Let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners,	19:52
	and especially our prisoners of war, come before Thee.	19:55
	Give unto our prayer, O merciful God,	20:00
	for the love of Thy dear Son, our Savior Jesus Christ.	20:03
	Amen.	20:09
	(bright organ music)	20:16
	(choir singing indistinctly)	23:09
	♪ And let your joy (indistinct) ♪	23:13
	♪ Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, Almighty God ♪	23:16
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord, Almighty God ♪	23:23
	♪ (indistinct) heaven and earth ♪	23:31
	(choir singing indistinctly)	23:34
	♪ Rejoice in the Lord, Almighty God ♪	24:52
	(choir singing indistinctly)	25:00
	(gentle organ music)	25:22
	♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪	26:08
	♪ Praise him, all creatures here below ♪	26:16
	♪ Praise him above, ye heav'nly host ♪	26:24
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	26:32
	♪ Amen ♪	26:42
-	Pray, all things come of Thee, O Lord,	26:51
	and of Thine own have we given Thee.	26:54
	and of Thine hands, O Lord, we commit ourselves this day.	26:57
	Give to each of us a watchful, humble and diligent spirit	27:01
	that we may seek in all things to know Thy will	27:07
	and whom we know it may perform it perfectly and gladly	27:11
	to the honor and glory of Thy Name,	27:15
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	27:18
	Amen.	27:21
	(gentle organ music)	27:24
-	Let us pray.	27:55
	Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts	27:58
	be acceptable in Thy sight,	28:03
	O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer.	28:08
	Amen.	28:13
	Do you who sit in the pew catching the sermons	28:22
	pitched from the pulpit ever wonder what inspired	28:28
	or at least initiated a particular sermon	28:34
	on a given Sunday morning?	28:39
	I can tell you with the exactness what primed the pump	28:43
	for today's homily.	28:48
	Three weeks ago from this pulpit, Dr. Ralph Suchman	28:52
	quoted a description of worship,	28:59
	which has already found its way	29:02
	into more than one anthology,	29:05
	and which was penned by the late William Temple,	29:09
	once Archbishop of Canterbury.	29:13
	Now that recalled to me that I had used the quotation	29:18
	as the first question in the final exam last May	29:24
	in CW40 the church at worship in the Divinity School.	29:30
	So I turned to the examination and found a note on it:	29:37
	"Preach on this in the Duke Chapel some Sunday."	29:42
	That's what primed the old pump.	29:47
	Now there are three assumptions,	29:52
	which are prerequisite on our part for this sermon.	29:54
	First, we are worshiping together during Lent	30:00
	because of our gratitude for the Christian faith.	30:05
	There is a joy to our worship.	30:11
	Second, we are here because we accept at least in part,	30:16
	the Christian faith.	30:22
	There is an obedience in our worship.	30:25
	Third, there is an enthusiasm for the Christian faith,	30:31
	with a consequent desire for a further understanding of it.	30:36
	There is a commitment of the head	30:43
	as well as of the heart in our worship.	30:46
	So what we shall think now of the church at worship,	30:51
	as a community of believers	30:56
	in the light of Archbishop Temple's interpretation.	30:59
	Now, what did he say?	31:05
	Well, what he said it's published on the second page	31:09
	of the announcement.	31:13
	"To worship is to quicken the conscience	31:18
	by the holiness of God,	31:23
	to feed the mind with the truth of God,	31:27
	to purge the imagination by the beauty of God,	31:34
	to open the heart to the love of God,	31:41
	to devote the will to the purpose of God."	31:47
	Now let us look at these five assertions,	31:54
	somewhat varying the order in our exposition.	31:58
	To worship is to quicken the conscience	32:05
	by the holiness of God.	32:09
	Who is God?	32:14
	God is the ultimate cause and end of worship.	32:16
	He is the creator, sustainer and Redeemer of our lives.	32:24
	He is the Pole Star, or the norm,	32:31
	or the yardstick about daily living.	32:37
	Our worship of Him is our voluntary self-committal	32:42
	to that which, to Him who is ultimately worthwhile.	32:48
	And what do we mean by His holiness?	32:58
	He is absolute spiritual perfection.	33:02
	He is awesome model completeness.	33:07
	He is the completely right whole fact in life.	33:13
	He is the wondrous one	33:20
	before the revelation of whose greatness,	33:22
	the angels veil their faces,	33:25
	Moses takes the shoes from off his feet,	33:29
	Peter collapses in reverence,	33:34
	and we bow down in awful wonder.	33:38
	Worship this devotion to that, which is the holy ultimate.	33:43
	What is conscience?	33:52
	It is the inmost thought, which acts as the touchstone,	33:56
	the criterion, by which we test out words and deeds.	34:01
	Conscience is the government	34:07
	of our daily walk and conversation.	34:09
	Thus the first emphasis in worship	34:14
	is to establish our inmost thoughts by focusing upon	34:16
	and acknowledging the spiritual perfection of Him,	34:23
	who is the ultimately worthwhile fact in our lives.	34:29
	The creature recognizes the creator.	34:36
	We who are temporal and temporary recognize Him	34:42
	who is eternal and permanent.	34:48
	We appreciate who God is and defer who we are.	34:53
	Now as a consequence, a valid order of worship	35:02
	opens with an act of adoration.	35:08
	It may be implemented by a call to worship,	35:13
	a prayer invocation, a hymn on an anthem of homage	35:18
	or a combination of these.	35:26
	This morning, we use two of these items,	35:29
	a call to worship sung by the choir,	35:33
	addressed to us as the congregation,	35:38
	and then an ancient hymn of adoration,	35:43
	a paraphrase of the 100 Psalm.	35:47
	Epictetus, a slave from Asia Minor,	35:54
	a founder of the Stoic philosophy,	36:01
	an advisor to the Roman emperor Hadrian, once wrote,	36:05
	"If indeed I were a nightingale,	36:11
	I should sing as a nightingale,	36:16
	if a swan, as a swan,	36:20
	but as I am a rational creature, I must praise God.	36:25
	This is my task and I do it.	36:34
	And I will not abandon this duty	36:39
	so long as it is given to me."	36:42
	And I invite you all to join in this same song.	36:46
	Now second, to worship is to purge the imagination	36:56
	by the beauty of God.	37:04
	There is or there should be an immediate reaction	37:09
	to the act of adoration,	37:13
	the quickening of the conscience by the holiness of God.	37:16
	While the conscience leaps, the whole being is shaken,	37:21
	for it is no casual experience to expose ourselves to God.	37:29
	Temple describes the reaction by the phrase,	37:39
	"to purge the imagination by the beauty of God."	37:42
	Beauty is an interesting word to use of God.	37:51
	Beauty is applied to that,	37:58
	which excites the keenness pleasure, not only of the senses,	37:59
	but of the mind and the spirit or of the imagination,	38:04
	which may be Temple's overall word	38:09
	for the senses, mind and spirit working in conjunction.	38:12
	Perhaps an analogy will help us to understand	38:17
	what we should mean by the beauty of God.	38:21
	The Greeks formed a word for a gentleman	38:27
	by combining two adjectives: kalos, which means beautiful,	38:34
	and agathos, which means good.	38:43
	When they wished to describe someone	38:49
	who had a flair for the good,	38:52
	who linked a graciousness with uprightness,	38:55
	they called him Kalos kagathos,	39:02
	a courteous man of rectitude.	39:07
	And David Livingston, the Scottish missionary	39:13
	and explorer in Africa had a similar idea in mind.	39:16
	He wrote in his journal, January 14th, 1856	39:22
	of being tempted to abandon a journey	39:28
	because of the hostility of the natives.	39:32
	He went on, "But I read that Jesus said:	39:36
	all power is given unto me in heaven and earth.	39:42
	Go ye therefore and teach all nations	39:48
	and lo, I am with you always,	39:52
	even unto the end of the world."	39:57
	And Livingston added, "It is the word of a gentleman,	40:02
	of the most strict and sacred honor.	40:09
	So there's an end of it. I shall stay.	40:13
	I feel quite calm now. Thank God."	40:19
	For Livingston, the Holy God revealed in Jesus	40:24
	is Kalos kagathos, a gentle man.	40:30
	Now what does this idea do to us?	40:39
	It shatters us.	40:42
	Maybe we could stand, stand erect, even as humble creatures,	40:46
	in adoration before the holiness of God, reverencing Him.	40:54
	But His beauty, His gracious loveliness	41:00
	drives us to our knees because we out unworthy	41:06
	of His courteous goodness.	41:12
	So a prayer of confession follows: we are sinners,	41:16
	our imagination needs to be purged.	41:24
	It can be purged by the acknowledgement of sin,	41:29
	sin, which is our lack of at-oneness with God,	41:35
	especially if such confession is followed,	41:41
	as it was followed this morning,	41:45
	and is regularly followed in this chapel,	41:47
	by the comfortable words of the announcement of forgiveness,	41:50
	the assurance of a God who self-imposed day in, day out,	41:56
	voluntarily accepted us, as to bring folk like us	42:05
	back into right relations with Himself.	42:13
	Third, to worship is to open the heart	42:20
	to the love of God.	42:26
	The love of God is His good-will in action,	42:32
	His good-will in action,	42:38
	which is the theme of the entire Bible,	42:40
	from Genesis to Revelation,	42:45
	spoken by law givers, prophets and psalmists,	42:49
	made conspicuously clear by Jesus, experienced today	42:55
	in the working of the Holy Spirit in our heart.	43:02
	But it is experienced on one condition:	43:06
	that we open our heart to God's love.	43:12
	Abraham knew it.	43:18
	So did Hosea.	43:21
	Paul wrote about it from personal experience.	43:24
	Augustine was turned upside down by it.	43:30
	Luther shook the United Catholic church by preaching it.	43:35
	Wesley glowed with it at Aldersgate.	43:43
	It sent Livingston and Schweitzer to Africa,	43:48
	it sent Grunfeld to Labrador,	43:52
	it kept Kagawa in Japan,	43:56
	and returned Bonhoeffer to Germany.	44:00
	All these folk talked about the holy love of God.	44:06
	They do not separate holiness from love.	44:11
	They think of them as one.	44:14
	Love is not the primary quality of God.	44:17
	It is His essence, His very being.	44:23
	And what staggered these men	44:29
	was that it was given gratis, for free to the undeserving.	44:31
	Man cannot pay for it.	44:46
	It's their to be accepted like sunlight and bird song.	44:50
	And yet, once it has been accepted by man,	44:57
	it must be shared with his friends	45:00
	and with his enemies.	45:04
	It is the appropriation, the giving,	45:08
	and the living of good news of glad tidings, of great joy.	45:13
	I've read that this note occur liturgically	45:22
	in an order of worship.	45:25
	It occurs in an act of thanks giving	45:28
	sometimes in the first anthem, or always in a prayer.	45:32
	This is our acknowledgement of the love of God,	45:39
	but it doesn't stop there.	45:42
	It goes out to others in the prayer of intercession	45:44
	for all kinds and conditions of men	45:50
	as this morning's prayer, for young and old,	45:54
	rich and poor, sick and well, at home and abroad.	45:58
	And then, when we have prayed for others,	46:07
	we may present our own petitions	46:12
	in a prayer of supplication.	46:16
	And the proper way to end this container of thanks giving,	46:19
	intercession and supplication	46:24
	is with the Lord's prayer offered in unison.	46:27
	Fourth, to worship is to feed the mind	46:34
	with the truth of God.	46:39
	The truth of God, that is by a priori definition,	46:44
	truth pure, complete, and undefiled.	46:52
	He is the one who confirms to reality.	46:59
	He is reality.	47:04
	His omniscience enables Him to see all particular aspects	47:07
	of truth in one coherent system.	47:12
	He is truth as He is love.	47:16
	The name for His opposite is adversary, the devil,	47:21
	is the father of lies.	47:27
	The Liar.	47:32
	Even the Lie.	47:35
	The Christian faith has interpreted the preposition	47:40
	in the phrase, "the truth of God,"	47:43
	in two complementary ways.	47:48
	First, it is the truth from God.	47:51
	He has given it to man, He has shared it with man.	47:57
	Ours is a religion of revelation.	48:02
	But second, it is the truth about God.	48:06
	And we apply our minds to understand it and Him.	48:12
	Jesus told us to love God with the strength of our minds,	48:20
	as well as with the strength about hearts and souls.	48:25
	There is a place for the intellect,	48:30
	the understanding in the worship of God.	48:33
	There is a pursuit of the truth of God.	48:39
	And it will make us free or mad.	48:45
	Feeding the mind with the truth of God has a legitimate,	48:53
	a necessary place in a service of worship.	48:59
	It occurs in the reading and hearing of the scripture lesson	49:04
	and in the preaching and hearing of the sermon.	49:09
	One should never talk of worship and sermon.	49:14
	One may talk of worship with sermon	49:21
	or worship without sermon.	49:24
	A sermon per se is never tacked on to worship.	49:28
	A sermon is part of the structure of worship.	49:34
	And I am convinced, though many disagree with me,	49:40
	that the intent of the sermon set in worship	49:44
	is primarily to teach.	49:49
	I have a sister-in-law, brought up a Congregationalist,	49:54
	who became an Episcopalian in middle life.	50:00
	She is exacting in her attendance	50:05
	at early communion on the Lord's day.	50:10
	But after breakfast,	50:15
	she listens to two sermons on radio and TV.	50:17
	She must needs feed her mind with the truth of God.	50:25
	The sermon may not be the channel of grace,	50:35
	as to many of the reformed churches think it is,	50:40
	but it is a channel of grace,	50:43
	And if it be a valid sermon,	50:47
	it is in itself the Word of God.	50:53
	And then fifth, to worship is to devote the will	51:02
	to the purpose of God.	51:08
	This clause and Archbishop Temple's description	51:13
	probably refers to the post service aspect of worship.	51:16
	It points up to the effect of worship	51:22
	in the life of the Christian,	51:26
	as he returns to his work in the world	51:28
	from the church service.	51:32
	Do you remember the scathing words of indictment?	51:35
	"Your deeds speak so loudly but I cannot hear what you say."	51:40
	If our corporate worship has been the real thing,	51:51
	then that fearful dictum should become "your deeds	51:56
	speak so loudly that I now can hear	52:01
	what you are trying to say."	52:07
	We worship here together so that together or separately	52:11
	we may continue the service of God	52:16
	through service to man, suffering, sinful,	52:20
	lost, confused men and women and children,	52:26
	living lives of quiet or noisy desperation.	52:33
	Many of you do serve God through service to those in need.	52:41
	Thanks be to you, and glory be to God.	52:49
	It is the proper ending about being together in His house	52:55
	for an hour on the Lord's day.	53:01
	And yet, yet, there is a proper place	53:05
	for such a devotion of the will to the purposes of God	53:14
	in the liturgy of the morning service.	53:19
	We do not make a proper use of it here in the chapel,	53:24
	to my way of thinking, though some of you,	53:29
	many of you, will disagree with me.	53:33
	There should be following the sermon,	53:38
	an act of rededication	53:43
	when corporately we recommit ourselves	53:47
	to God's job for us in the world.	53:52
	It could be effected by a hymn, an anthem,	53:58
	a prayer of rededication.	54:03
	Yet the act should be symbolized,	54:08
	so that we may see it as a corporate transaction.	54:11
	And that could be accomplished by moving the offering	54:17
	to a post-sermon spot in the service.	54:24
	Then it would be a manifest deed of rededication.	54:29
	It would be a human sacramental act,	54:35
	the outward and visible sign	54:39
	of the inward and invisible grace of God's working in us	54:43
	and our response.	54:49
	One minister of my acquaintance	54:52
	made the offering such a knack	54:55
	by using these words in the prayer of dedication,	54:58
	as he placed the offering on the table:	55:02
	"Here we offer an present unto Thee	55:05
	our minted and our printed blood."	55:10
	Our minted and our printed blood.	55:18
	The money signifies the sacrifice of ourselves.	55:25
	And it is only a sacrifice	55:32
	that can transform that table into an alter.	55:34
	There is no alter, unless there is a sacrifice.	55:40
	And this is our sacrifice, or it could be.	55:45
	The proper rather than paper and the coins	55:54
	represented the devotion of the will to the purpose of God.	56:00
	Let's pull this whole sermon together.	56:07
	There are really two major aspects to worship.	56:10
	One is homage, the re-swearing of allegiance to the God	56:14
	who has created, sustained and redeemed us,	56:22
	who has given us in the church the body of Christ,	56:27
	who works in us for good through His Holy Spirit.	56:31
	That's why in Paul's words, read in our hearing,	56:35
	we sing songs and hymns	56:39
	and spiritual songs with thankfulness.	56:41
	The other aspect is fealty, the observance of obligation,	56:46
	as we go from this place to live amid the furniture of earth	56:55
	with the good news of God in our hearts.	57:01
	That is why in Isaiah's words, also read in our hearing,	57:05
	each of us may say, "here am my, send me,"	57:10
	when God asks us in His temple, "whom shall I send	57:18
	and who will go for us?"	57:24
	Worship is homage, that is why we are here.	57:27
	Worship is fealty, that is actually tested when we leave	57:33
	after the benediction.	57:42
	Worship is a scent followed by fidelity.	57:45
	The two are complementary	57:51
	and together they are our reasonable service.	57:55
	Amen.	58:04
	Let us pray.	58:06
	Almighty God, Father of all mercies,	58:13
	we beseech Thee Give us that due sense of all Thy mercies	58:16
	that our hearts may be infinitely thankful	58:21
	and that we show forth Thy praise not only with our lips,	58:25
	but in our lives and by walking before Thee	58:31
	in holiness and righteousness all our days	58:35
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	58:39
	And may the blessing of God come upon you abundantly,	58:42
	may it keep you strong and tranquil	58:47
	in the truth of His promises through Jesus Christ our Lord.	58:50
	♪ Amen ♪	59:01

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "Let Us Worship God" (March 13, 1966)

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March 13, 1966

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Cleland, James T. (James Tough), 1903-1974

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Duke University. Chapel

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