James T. Cleland - "David and Goliath: An Unfair Fight" (May 11, 1969)

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	(object clanks)	0:03
	(choir sings)
	(piano music)	0:27
	(choir sings)	3:24
-	Let us join together in the canticle of praise,	4:12
	number 627, in the backs of your hymnals.	4:15
	Blessed art thou, oh, Lord,	4:30
	the God of Israel.	4:32
	(congregation responds)	4:35
	Thine, oh, Lord, is the greatness	4:37
	and the power, and the glory,	4:39
	and the victory, and the majesty.	4:42
	(congregation responds)	4:45
	Thine is the kingdom, oh, Lord.	4:49
	(congregation responds)	4:52
	Both riches and honor come from thee.	4:55
	(congregation responds)	4:59
	In thy hand, our power and might.	5:01
	(congregation responds)	5:04
	And now, we thank thee, our God.	5:09
	(congregation responds)	5:12
	Let us join together in the (indistinct) and prayer	5:16
	of confession and for pardon.	5:19
	Oh, righteous Father,	5:30
	before whose holiness, our hearts tremble.	5:32
	We humbly confess the many sins	5:35
	with which we have dishonored thy name.	5:38
	Our shortcomings in faith, obedience, and love,	5:41
	we confess that we have failed to love our enemies	5:46
	and to do good to those who hate us.	5:50
	We often have behaved as badly as those	5:53
	who are not of the household of faith.	5:56
	We pray thee to forgive us our sins	5:59
	and to enable us to make a gracious witness, Christ,	6:02
	in the world.	6:07
	We pray in His name, amen.	6:08
	Hear now, these comfortable words	6:14
	of assurance from scripture.	6:16
	As the heavens are high above the earth,	6:19
	so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear Him.	6:22
	As far as the East is from the West,	6:27
	so far does He remove our transgressions from us.	6:31
	If we confess our sins,	6:36
	he is faithful and just,	6:38
	and will forgive us our sins,	6:40
	and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.	6:43
	Your sins are forgiven for His sake.	6:46
	(piano music)	6:58
	(choir sings)	7:44
	Scripture reading this morning is found	11:05
	in the first book of Samuel, 17th chapter,	11:07
	beginning with the first verse.	11:11
	Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle,	11:15
	and they were gathered at Socoh,	11:18
	which belongs to Judah.	11:20
	And the camps between Socoh	11:22
	and Azekah, and Ephes Dammim.	11:23
	And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered,	11:26
	and they camped in the Valley of Elah,	11:29
	and drew up in line with battle against the Philistines.	11:31
	And the Philistines stood on the mountain,	11:35
	on the one side,	11:37
	and Israel stood on the mountain, on the other side,	11:39
	with the valley between them.	11:42
	And there came out from the camp of the Philistines,	11:44
	a champion named Goliath of Gath,	11:47
	whose height was six cubits and a span.	11:50
	He had a helmet of bronze on his head	11:53
	and he was armed with a coat of mail.	11:56
	And the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of bronze.	11:58
	And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs	12:02
	and a javelin of bronze slung between the shoulders.	12:05
	And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.	12:09
	And his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron	12:13
	and his shield-bearer went before him.	12:16
	He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel.	12:19
	"Why have you come out to draw for battle?	12:22
	"Am I not a Philistine?	12:24
	"And are you not servants of Saul?	12:26
	"Choose a man for yourselves	12:29
	"and let him come down to me.	12:31
	"If he is able to fight with me and kill me,	12:34
	"then we will be your servants.	12:36
	"But if I prevail against him and defeat him,	12:39
	"then you should be our servants and serve us."	12:43
	And the Philistine said,	12:47
	"I defy the ranks of Israel this day.	12:49
	"Give me a man that we may fight together."	12:52
	When Saul and all Israel heard these words	12:55
	of the Philistine,	12:57
	they were dismayed and greatly afraid.	12:59
	And David said to Saul,	13:05
	"Let no man's heart fail because of him.	13:07
	"Your servant will go	13:10
	"and fight with this Philistine."	13:11
	Then Saul clothed David with his armor.	13:14
	He put a helmet of bronze on his head	13:16
	and clothed him with a coat of mail.	13:19
	And David girded his sword over his armor,	13:22
	and he tried in vain to go	13:24
	for he was not used to them.	13:26
	Then David said to Saul,	13:29
	"I cannot go with these	13:31
	"for I'm not used to them."	13:33
	And David put them off.	13:35
	Then he took his staff in his hand	13:37
	and chose five smooth stones from the brook,	13:40
	and put them in his shepherd's bag, in his wallet.	13:43
	His sling was in his hand	13:47
	and he drew near to the Philistine.	13:49
	And the Philistine came on	13:52
	and drew near to David,	13:53
	with his shield-bearer in front of him.	13:55
	And when the Philistine looked and saw David,	13:58
	he disdained him	14:01
	for he was but a youth;	14:03
	ruddy and calmly appearance.	14:04
	And the Philistine said to David,	14:07
	"Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks?"	14:09
	And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.	14:12
	The Philistine said to David,	14:15
	"Come to me and I will give your flesh	14:17
	"to the birds of the air	14:20
	"and to the beasts of the field."	14:21
	Then David said to the Philistine,	14:24
	"You come to me with a sword and with a spear,	14:27
	"and with the javelin,	14:30
	"but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts,	14:32
	"the God of the armies of Israel,	14:35
	"whom you have defied.	14:37
	"This day, the Lord will deliver you in my hand,	14:39
	"and I will strike you down	14:43
	"and cut off your head.	14:44
	"And I will give the dead bodies	14:47
	"of the host of the Philistines this day,	14:48
	"to the birds of the air	14:50
	"and to the wild beast of the earth;	14:52
	"that all the earth may know	14:55
	"that there is a God in Israel,	14:56
	"and that all this assembly may know	14:58
	"that the Lord saves not with sword and spear,	15:00
	"for the battle is the Lord's	15:04
	"and he will give you into our hand."	15:06
	Then the Philistine rose and came,	15:09
	and drew near to meet David.	15:11
	David ran quickly toward the battle line	15:13
	to meet the Philistine.	15:16
	And David put his hand in the bag	15:18
	and took out a stone, and slung it,	15:20
	and struck the Philistine on the forehead.	15:23
	The stone sank deep into his forehead	15:25
	and he fell on his face to the ground.	15:28
	So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling	15:31
	and with a stone,	15:34
	and struck the Philistine,	15:35
	and killed him.	15:37
	There was no sword in the hand of David.	15:38
	Then David ran and stood over the Philistine,	15:41
	and took his sword,	15:44
	and drew it out of its sheath,	15:45
	and killed him,	15:47
	and cut off his head with it.	15:48
	When the Philistines saw	15:51
	that their champion was dead, they fled.	15:52
	May God add His blessing	15:56
	to the reading of His word.	15:57
	(piano music)	16:00
	(congregation sings)	16:07
	The Lord be with you.	16:37
-	And with your spirit.
-	Let us pray.	16:40
	Our father and our God,	16:52
	thou who are the creator	16:55
	and sustainer of all life.	16:56
	We thank thee	16:59
	that we have made it through another night	17:00
	and have been presented with the gift of life	17:03
	for another day.	17:06
	When we reflect our Father,	17:08
	that our very being here this day,	17:09
	is something for which we can take no credit	17:13
	and which we could not ever guarantee in advance.	17:17
	We are mindful that thou has preserved in us,	17:21
	that precarious balance of life	17:24
	which we so callously take for granted day by day.	17:26
	But now as we expose ourselves to thee in prayer,	17:32
	we would not be so callous as to assume	17:36
	that our lives are our own,	17:38
	for the very fact that our existence is preserved	17:41
	from moment to moment.	17:44
	And from day to day is the primary wonder of our world,	17:47
	for which we now render our heart, oh, thanks.	17:53
	Keep us mindful, we pray,	17:57
	that at this primal level,	17:59
	beneath our knowing, beneath our doing,	18:01
	and beyond all our control,	18:05
	the gift of life is constantly offered up to us.	18:08
	And that before ever we make	18:13
	a self-conscious religious choice,	18:15
	we already live and move,	18:18
	and have our being in thee.	18:22
	But that is just the beginning.	18:26
	Our Father, for thou has call us	18:28
	to become free and responsible agents	18:30
	with these lives thus given,	18:33
	indeed to be co-authors of this earthly drama.	18:35
	And that's where we have our big problems.	18:39
	As dramatists, we have not displayed much talent,	18:43
	but thou has not withdrawn the command	18:47
	that we become creative agents in the making of our destiny,	18:50
	nor has thou decreased the terrible range	18:55
	of our possibilities,	18:58
	life or death,	19:00
	the demonic or the sublime,	19:02
	heaven or hell.	19:05
	Just now, our Father,	19:08
	our human drama is at some turning points	19:10
	that are as crucial as they are agonizing.	19:13
	Our universities are in great turmoil,	19:17
	and we pray now, especially for them.	19:20
	Do thou, we pray,	19:24
	look upon us who are the actors in that drama	19:25
	and clarify the roles	19:30
	that may open up a better future for us.	19:31
	Keep us from that crowd mentality	19:36
	that makes for mob scenes.	19:38
	These have worked great havoc in past acts of our drama,	19:41
	and the fallout often poisons the future,	19:45
	instead of saving it.	19:48
	Help us, we pray,	19:51
	to discern those positions	19:52
	that do not leave anyone out,	19:54
	but that invite everyone to get into the act	19:57
	as thou has to ordained	20:01
	that we are all part of the cast.	20:03
	And help us to devise those strategies	20:07
	in which no one gets hurt,	20:09
	for thou has to number even the hairs on our heads	20:12
	and thus mark even the fall of a spiral.	20:15
	Let none of us become,	20:19
	for however highly exalted reasons,	20:21
	callous to the cost of our policies	20:24
	and our actions.	20:27
	Sensitize us to the value of life	20:29
	so that we may resist the temptations to stereotype	20:32
	and caricature those who disagree with us.	20:35
	Save us, we pray, from that irresponsible laziness	20:40
	that substitutes slogans for thought	20:44
	and imitations for actions.	20:47
	We do not know our father,	20:51
	the answers to the issues and dilemmas	20:52
	that are emerging in campuses across our country,	20:54
	but we confess that we have not acted on the best	20:58
	that we do know.	21:01
	Grant us the clarity	21:03
	and resolve to do at least that much	21:04
	as we wait upon insights and even inspirations	21:08
	for a truly creative resolution.	21:13
	And our Father, we make a special prayer for peace.	21:18
	As the negotiators in Paris glimpse even faint possibilities	21:22
	for the cessation of fighting in Vietnam,	21:26
	do thou embolden and nerve them	21:30
	to venture much for peace.	21:32
	Kill the pride that keeps us fighting;	21:35
	here, our pride kills hundreds more of thy children.	21:38
	Increase among all men,	21:42
	the hope and the will for peace	21:44
	so that killing and warfare may be dethroned	21:46
	from the noble positions	21:49
	that we have here to for conceited them,	21:50
	and be exposed as the despicable crimes that they are.	21:53
	Remove from us, the naivete,	21:58
	which expects peace to come,	22:01
	before we are converted and committed to it.	22:03
	We all bear our Father,	22:07
	responsibility for the bloodshed	22:09
	that has so abundantly stained the human drama.	22:11
	And we plead for thy aid in changing the types of actions	22:15
	that will be tolerated	22:20
	and encouraged in the future.	22:21
	Our father, our confusions are many and confounded.	22:25
	Our needs exceed our ability to express them.	22:30
	In such times, we return to the prayer of our Lord,	22:34
	in hopes of understanding more fully,	22:38
	just what it is	22:41
	that we should be asking of thee.	22:42
	Our Father who art in heaven,	22:46
	hallowed be thy name,	22:49
	thy kingdom come,	22:51
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	22:53
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	22:58
	and forgive us our trespasses	23:01
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	23:03
	Lead us not into temptation,	23:07
	but deliver us from evil,	23:10
	for thine is the kingdom,	23:12
	and the power and the glory,	23:14
	forever and ever, amen.	23:16
-	Grace to you who worship in this house	23:46
	and to all who worship with us.	23:50
	On this day, the second Sunday in May,	23:56
	in the year of our Lord, 1969,	24:00
	there is a clash in claim for recognition	24:05
	and attention between two competing public events,	24:09
	between the sentimental, commercial, ecclesiastical year,	24:16
	and the (indistinct), academic, ecclesiastical year.	24:23
	The former demands...	24:29
	That is a (indistinct) verb.	24:32
	Demands that this day be honored as Mother's Day.	24:35
	The latter requests...	24:42
	That is a gentler verb.	24:45
	Requests that somehow, becomingly and fittingly,	24:48
	attention be drawn to the fact	24:53
	that at 8:30, this evening,	24:56
	in this place,	24:58
	the chapel choir with orchestra will present	25:00
	the symphonic Psalm, King David,	25:04
	by Arthur (indistinct).	25:08
	The fact that there was the chance	25:13
	of a choice, delighted me.	25:15
	King David, one without any bother.	25:20
	But then, the homiletical troubles began.	25:26
	Moses and David are the two stalwarts	25:31
	of the Jewish race;	25:34
	exemplars without equal cultural heroes (indistinct).	25:37
	But David occupies so many pages in Biblical history,	25:45
	that one is baffled as to what to do with him	25:50
	or what to tell about him in one sermon;	25:54
	his relations with Saul,	25:58
	with Jonathan, with Bathsheba, with Absalom.	26:01
	Shall we concentrate on his military prowess?	26:09
	His skill in music and samadhi,	26:13
	his political acumen,	26:16
	his generous virtues,	26:19
	his self-centered vices.	26:22
	It seems simplest to me and for you	26:26
	to look again at that well-known passage	26:30
	which we first heard	26:33
	and rejoiced over as children;	26:35
	the story of David and Goliath.	26:39
	One of the most unfair fights in history.	26:42
	We know the folk tale read in our hearing as the lesson,	26:48
	one of the longest lessons ever read in the chapel.	26:53
	And you recall the usual interpretation of it.	26:57
	Goliath, a Philistine was usually pictured	27:02
	as something like an overgrown Roman legionnaire in armor.	27:05
	And David, the unusual champion of Israel,	27:14
	was portrayed as a diminutive boy scout,	27:18
	clad only in his underwear.	27:22
	Now, there was much surprising information	27:26
	to decorate the basic picture.	27:29
	As I hung on a Sunday school teacher's words,	27:32
	vivified by a strong Glasgow accent,	27:37
	I was told that giants were big men in the days.	27:41
	Anything from 10 to 14 feet high in their (indistinct).	27:47
	And then the sentence I shall never forget:	27:53
	David let fly with a chuckie stone from a sling	27:57
	and hit Goliath in the forehead.	28:02
	Goliath was so surprised.	28:05
	Such a thing had never entered his head before.	28:09
	(congregation laughs)	28:13
	(preacher chuckles)
	There is (indistinct) that David, the wee boy,	28:18
	became the toast of Israel and Scotland.	28:22
	And the Sunday school model focused on verse 43:	28:28
	"The Philistine cursed David."	28:33
	And the deduction was, "Don't use bad language	28:37
	"or you may get your (indistinct).	28:41
	"You may even lose your head."	28:44
	Now, along with you,	28:47
	I would take a second look at this stark.	28:48
	I agree with my early indoctrination	28:53
	that this was the most unequal contest,	28:57
	but I would submit that it was Goliath	29:01
	who never had a chance.	29:06
	I would offer four reasons.	29:10
	First, the contestants were not	29:13
	as unevenly matched in height as tradition suggests.	29:16
	Goliath certainly was tall enough to qualify	29:23
	for a basketball scholarship	29:27
	even if we cut them down to seven feet, six inches.	29:30
	How tall was David?	29:35
	Who offered him his armor?	29:39
	So why did David refuse it?	29:42
	Not because it was too large,	29:47
	but because he wasn't used to it.	29:51
	How tall was Saul?	29:55
	A head taller than any of his people.	29:58
	So David was no Pygmy.	30:04
	He was one of the two biggest men in Israel.	30:08
	Second, David had good training for his bout.	30:13
	In justifying his right to answer Goliath's challenge,	30:19
	he pointed out to Saul that as a shepherd,	30:22
	he had killed both lions	30:25
	and bears in defense of his flock.	30:27
	"Why be too worried about an uncircumcised Philistine	30:32
	"after spatting partners like that?"	30:37
	David was in good shape, great shape.	30:41
	Third, David had the right equipment.	30:45
	Goliath was (indistinct) to the nth degree.	30:50
	He was literally weighed down.	30:53
	He was a military dinosaur.	30:57
	Or should I say (indistinct)?	31:00
	Let me put it this way:	31:03
	he was an ancient marginal line become flesh.	31:04
	David was a commando	31:10
	who used his sling like a machine gun.	31:12
	He could maneuver around Goliath like a tank,	31:17
	fighting at his own chosen range.	31:21
	He blitzkrieged the almost immobile Philistine.	31:24
	David was in complete control	31:29
	of both strategy and tactics.	31:31
	And fourth, David had a psychological advantage	31:34
	because the contest was fought on Israelite soil.	31:40
	It was a home game	31:45
	for David of Bethlehem.	31:47
	It was an away game	31:50
	for Goliath of Gath.	31:51
	And why was that such an advantage?	31:54
	Because in those days,	31:57
	it was believed that the gods were local	31:58
	and had no power,	32:03
	no influence outside the geographical limits	32:06
	of a nation or a tribe.	32:09
	Yaweh, the Lord, God of Israel, was standing	32:12
	alongside David, invisibly,	32:16
	but for certain, in David's mind.	32:21
	Dagon the fish	32:27
	or Green God of Goliath was back	32:29
	in the Gaza Strip or in Ashdod.	32:33
	It was two against one,	32:37
	and David knew it.	32:41
	He went on the strength of it.	32:42
	He made use of it.	32:44
	He had his reply to the the Philistine's curse:	32:46
	"You come to me with a sword,	32:51
	"and with a spear, and with a javelin,	32:53
	"but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts,	32:56
	"the God of the armies of Israel,	33:02
	"whom you have defied.	33:04
	"This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hands,	33:07
	"for the battle is the Lord."	33:12
	And the battle was the Lord.	33:16
	David either killed Goliath with one pebble	33:18
	or having stunned him with a slingshot.	33:23
	He added the further indignity	33:26
	of cutting off the giant head	33:29
	with Goliath's own sword.	33:31
	He also commandeered	33:34
	and stole the giant's armor.	33:37
	Goliath never had a chance.	33:39
	It was an unfair fight.	33:43
	Now, having shared all this research with you,	33:48
	honesty compels me to tell you	33:52
	that according to another biblical passage,	33:56
	it was Elhanan of Bethlehem,	34:00
	and not David,	34:03
	who slew Goliath of Gath.	34:05
	That reference is 2 Samuel 21:19.	34:09
	It however, is countermanded	34:13
	by a later statement, 1 Chronicles 25,	34:15
	which everse that Elhanan slew Lahmi,	34:20
	the brother of Goliath, the Gittite.	34:24
	So there was a, "How do you do?"	34:28
	By the way, for good measure,	34:31
	David's nephew, Jonathan,	34:33
	also killed a giant from God,	34:35
	who was unique in that he had six fingers on each hand	34:38
	and six toes on each foot.	34:43
	Now, why do I tell you all this?	34:48
	Well, it's partly as a preview,	34:51
	a come on,	34:54
	or a spoken advertisement for the choir's rendition	34:55
	of (indistinct) King David in this place	34:59
	at 8:30 this evening.	35:01
	You know what our choir and its director,	35:04
	and our organist, and the variety of musicians,	35:09
	are doing to make exciting	35:11
	and thrilling our university service of worship.	35:13
	Our presence tonight will both be a thank you to them	35:18
	and a spiritual involvement	35:23
	for us who watch and listen.	35:25
	But there's another reason.	35:29
	You hope so and rightfully so.	35:31
	Here it is.	35:34
	We who are heirs of,	35:37
	and participants in the Judeo-Christian tradition	35:41
	should take the Bible seriously,	35:47
	but not literally.	35:51
	For most of us here,	35:56
	it would be difficult to take the Bible seriously	35:59
	if we must also take it literally.	36:04
	We must understand the why	36:08
	and the (indistinct) of the various intents	36:11
	of different authors and dissimilar editors.	36:14
	There are all kinds of contradictions in (indistinct):	36:18
	two divergent accounts of creation	36:22
	and of the flood.	36:25
	Contradictory dates for the cleansing	36:27
	of the temple by Jesus.	36:30
	No unanimity in the four gospels	36:32
	as to who saw Jesus first on the first Easter Sunday.	36:35
	Now, this does not say	36:40
	that we should discard the book	36:41
	as fiction or as inconsistent fact.	36:43
	It makes us bring the head	36:47
	to bear on questions behind the text.	36:50
	For example, what kind of a man at (indistinct) was David,	36:54
	so that the Goliath incident was attached to him?	37:03
	He must've had some reputation as a bonny fighter.	37:09
	What kind of a lover of music was David	37:14
	that he was and is popularly believed	37:18
	to be the author of all the Psalm?	37:21
	What kind of a king was David	37:27
	that for centuries, the Jews believed	37:30
	and some still do,	37:33
	that the Messiah, the one who will establish Israel,	37:36
	will be of David's seed,	37:41
	the fruit of his loins?	37:43
	These are the interesting questions,	37:46
	the penetrating questions,	37:48
	the revealing questions,	37:51
	the serious questions,	37:52
	which are not content with a little acceptance	37:56
	of the written word,	38:00
	but probe and test,	38:01
	and then rejoice with new truth	38:05
	and the wisdom,	38:08
	which is more than the fruit of knowledge.	38:09
	To understand the Jewish saga,	38:12
	David must be taken very seriously,	38:15
	even though the stories about him	38:20
	are not necessarily accepted at face value.	38:23
	But you rightly asked me, "Does this principle hold for us	38:29
	"who are post Jewish-Christians?"	38:34
	Yes, and it certainly applies	38:39
	when we think of it in connection with Jesus,	38:43
	whom one of our hymn writers has described	38:47
	as great David's greater son.	38:51
	If we think of this person,	38:57
	we're going to find ourselves in real trouble	38:59
	if we try to hold simultaneously	39:02
	as objective statements of fact,	39:05
	the genealogies which trace his ancestry	39:09
	through Joseph to David,	39:12
	and the Virgin birth stories which deny	39:17
	that Joseph was his father.	39:21
	But the difficulty begins to be resolved	39:26
	when we realize	39:29
	that these were two different ways put forward	39:30
	by different types of Christians,	39:34
	all of whom wanted to say seriously, very seriously,	39:37
	that this man Jesus was no ordinary mortal,	39:42
	but uniquely related to God.	39:47
	Words and phrases like Messiah,	39:50
	born of a Virgin, Son of the Father,	39:54
	Lord of occult,	39:57
	are not to be understood literally, but seriously.	39:59
	They are valued judgments passed by the church	40:05
	to express its wondering gratitude	40:10
	for this man, Jesus.	40:15
	And in like manner,	40:17
	His teaching has to be taken by us, by us.	40:18
	Seriously, rather than literally,	40:25
	do we literally turn the other cheek?	40:28
	Do we literally sell all out of goods and gifts	40:31
	to the poor?	40:34
	Do we literally take no thought for the moral,	40:36
	with exams beckoning many of us.	40:40
	Christianity maybe foolish,	40:44
	but it isn't intended to be stupid.	40:47
	Yet do we take seriously the teaching	40:52
	about turning the other cheek	40:57
	and giving to the poor,	40:58
	and taking no thought for the moral?	41:00
	I was drawn up with a start recently when I saw	41:03
	and heard on television,	41:06
	Adam Clayton Powell replying two words to a question,	41:08
	I think at Princeton:	41:12
	"What is the future of non-violence?"	41:15
	He answered, "No future."	41:20
	Two words: "No future."	41:26
	No future for courteous love and chivalrous mercy,	41:31
	and sympathetic concern.	41:37
	No future for conversation	41:41
	and exchange of views,	41:44
	and peaceful solutions.	41:47
	No future for taking Jesus seriously,	41:50
	no future for great David's greater son.	41:56
	The answer isn't far for us to give.	42:03
	Well, come together tonight	42:08
	and listen to our (indistinct) interpretation of King David.	42:11
	But so that we may be doers of the word	42:17
	as well as hearers of them,	42:19
	let us sing the 23rd Psalm,	42:22
	the shepherd Psalm which David could almost have written.	42:25
	The hymn 68.	42:32
	(piano music)	42:35
	(choir sings)	42:57
	(piano music)	46:10
	(bell tinkles)	46:35
	(choir sings)	46:46
	(choir sings)	50:00
	(bell dongs)
	(choir sings)	52:25
	(choir sings)	53:46
	(bell tinkles)
	(piano music)	57:15
	(choir sings)	57:40
-	Eternal God, giver of every good and perfect gift,	58:15
	who seek us above all thy gifts	58:19
	to give thy self to us.	58:21
	Granted with these gifts of our hands,	58:24
	we may more fully give ourselves,	58:27
	(indistinct) obedience and service,	58:29
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	58:31
	Now, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,	58:37
	the love of God	58:40
	and the communion of the Holy Spirit,	58:42
	rest upon and abide with you,	58:45
	now and evermore.	58:47
	(choir sings)	58:53

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "David and Goliath: An Unfair Fight" (May 11, 1969)

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May 11, 1969

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

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