James T. Cleland - "A Patron Saint for Imperfect Christians" (November 2, 1969)
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| (audience hamming) | 0:07 | |
| (piano beats) | 1:50 | |
| (congregational singing) | 4:11 | |
| (feet padding) | 8:20 | |
| Speaker 1 | From time to time, | 8:32 |
| as the words of our prayer of confession, | 8:35 | |
| in the university service of worship, | 8:41 | |
| we use portions of the scriptures, | 8:46 | |
| or the words of confession that were written | 8:52 | |
| by a man who lived many centuries ago. | 8:56 | |
| And sometimes the words that have been written | 9:02 | |
| by undergraduate students, now at Duke University, | 9:06 | |
| there is a great similarity and sameness | 9:14 | |
| between the collections of words. | 9:19 | |
| This testifies to us, | 9:25 | |
| the need which men of all ages have found | 9:28 | |
| to unburden themselves, | 9:34 | |
| of their guilt by confessing it to Almighty God, | 9:37 | |
| and especially in the presence of one another, | 9:42 | |
| asking his pardon and receiving his forgiveness. | 9:47 | |
| So may we join together now, our hearts and our voices, | 9:55 | |
| as we pray a prayer written by John Marks, | 9:59 | |
| let us pray. | 10:05 | |
| Oh eternal God and most merciful father, | 10:08 | |
| we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine majesty | 10:13 | |
| that we are miserable sinners, | 10:19 | |
| that in us, there is no goodness. | 10:23 | |
| But since we are displeased with ourselves, | 10:27 | |
| for the sins that we have committed against Thee, | 10:31 | |
| and do sincerely repent of the same. | 10:35 | |
| We most probably beseech thee for Jesus Christ's sake | 10:40 | |
| to show thy mercy on us, | 10:46 | |
| to forgive us all our sins, | 10:50 | |
| and to increase thy holy spirit in us. | 10:53 | |
| Help us to bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable | 10:58 | |
| to thy most blessed will. | 11:02 | |
| Not because of the worthiness thereof, | 11:06 | |
| but for the merits of thy dearly beloved son, Jesus Christ, | 11:10 | |
| our only savior. | 11:16 | |
| Amen. | 11:19 | |
| Several years ago, | 11:25 | |
| it was a project of mine, | 11:27 | |
| to examine some of the words which we use from scripture, | 11:32 | |
| which we have a tendency to use | 11:40 | |
| only at certain specialized seasons, | 11:43 | |
| to see perhaps if we have been overlooking the meaning | 11:48 | |
| of those words by not using them at other times of the year. | 11:53 | |
| One which I believe is a great and comforting word. | 12:02 | |
| Is a verse which we normally read only at Christmas time. | 12:11 | |
| And therefore, perhaps do not really understand. | 12:20 | |
| At the time of the birth of Jesus, | 12:27 | |
| there was a heavenly announcement, | 12:31 | |
| which according to, the Gospels said, | 12:34 | |
| "Thou shall call his name, Jesus," | 12:39 | |
| and then the reason was given. | 12:45 | |
| "Thou shall shall call his name Jesus, | 12:48 | |
| for he shall save his people from their sins, | 12:52 | |
| so be it". | 13:01 | |
| (soft piano music) | 13:07 | |
| (choir singing) | 14:05 | |
| (singing continues) | 14:41 | |
| (singing fades slowly) | 18:36 | |
| (feet padding) | 18:57 | |
| Speaker 2 | The scripture lesson today is from Acts 18, | 19:07 |
| verses 24 to 28. | 19:12 | |
| "A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, | 19:16 | |
| an eloquent man and well-grounded in the scriptures, | 19:21 | |
| came to Ephesus. | 19:24 | |
| This man had been instructed in the Way of the Lord | 19:27 | |
| and with spiritual favor, | 19:31 | |
| he preached and taught accurately about the life of Jesus. | 19:33 | |
| But all the baptism he knew was that of John. | 19:38 | |
| In the synagogue, he was very outspoken at first, | 19:43 | |
| where upon Priscilla and Aquila who had been listening, | 19:47 | |
| invited him to their home | 19:51 | |
| and explained more accurately to him, | 19:53 | |
| what the way of God really meant. | 19:55 | |
| Then as he had made up his mind to cross over into Greece, | 19:59 | |
| the brothers wrote to the disciples in Corinth, | 20:02 | |
| begging them to give him a kindly welcome. | 20:06 | |
| On his arrival, | 20:10 | |
| he proved source of great strength | 20:11 | |
| to those who had believed through grace | 20:14 | |
| for with great force, he came out ahead | 20:18 | |
| in his public discussions with the Jews, | 20:20 | |
| making clear from the holy scriptures, | 20:22 | |
| that Jesus is the promised savior". | 20:25 | |
| And again, from 1 Corinthians three verses one to seven. | 20:30 | |
| "Fellow Christians, | 20:37 | |
| I could not talk to you as men with spiritual insight, | 20:38 | |
| I had to treat you as creatures of flesh and blood, | 20:43 | |
| merely baby Christians. | 20:46 | |
| I gave you milk to drink, not meat to eat. | 20:48 | |
| You were unable to digest meat in those days. | 20:53 | |
| And even now, you still have to be fed on milk | 20:57 | |
| for you are still of a worldly attitude. | 21:01 | |
| For there is among you jealousy and strife. | 21:05 | |
| Are you not worldly minded? | 21:09 | |
| And do you not behave like the unconverted? | 21:12 | |
| For while you are crawling | 21:17 | |
| about whether I am greater than Apollos | 21:18 | |
| and dividing the church, | 21:22 | |
| you showed that lower nature to be still alive, | 21:24 | |
| and that you are guided by human standards. | 21:28 | |
| Who then is Apollos? | 21:32 | |
| What then is Paul? | 21:34 | |
| Just servants through whom you came to have faith, | 21:37 | |
| each doing the work that God allotted to him. | 21:40 | |
| I did the planting, | 21:45 | |
| Apollos did the watering, | 21:47 | |
| but it was God who kept the plants growing, | 21:50 | |
| so that neither the planter, nor the waterer | 21:54 | |
| deserves the credit, | 21:57 | |
| but only God who gives the growth". | 21:59 | |
| (organ playing) | 22:06 | |
| (choir singing) | 22:18 | |
| Speaker 1 | You and I now greet each other in the passion | 23:01 |
| that has been practiced by Christians | 23:05 | |
| through all the centuries of Christendom. | 23:09 | |
| I say first to you, | 23:12 | |
| the Lord be with you, | 23:15 | |
| (congregation answers) | 23:18 | |
| Let us pray. | 23:20 | |
| Almighty God, we are thankful that we can greet each other | 23:32 | |
| in your name. | 23:40 | |
| That we can greet each other as children | 23:44 | |
| of one who is our common father. | 23:49 | |
| We come to express our thanks also for old friends | 23:55 | |
| who have been away, | 24:04 | |
| but whose faces we are delighted to see again. | 24:07 | |
| To express our thanks, | 24:15 | |
| for the stimulating experiences of each new day, | 24:19 | |
| for the stimulating resources of a great library at hand, | 24:26 | |
| stored with treasures of information and of wisdom, | 24:33 | |
| simply waiting for us to go and receive them. | 24:39 | |
| For the stimulation of a great faculty, | 24:48 | |
| each one of whom knows something | 24:52 | |
| that the rest of us do not know. | 24:57 | |
| And who would impart this knowledge to us, | 25:02 | |
| if we are humble and teachable, | 25:07 | |
| willing to learn. | 25:11 | |
| Our father, we express our thanks. | 25:16 | |
| The (indistinct) of all truths, | 25:20 | |
| whether biology of psychology or theology. | 25:25 | |
| And we are especially grateful | 25:32 | |
| that we are free to learn any and all truth | 25:34 | |
| without being afraid that this truth | 25:40 | |
| may be irreverent, | 25:44 | |
| or ultimately upsetting. | 25:47 | |
| We express our thanks for enough of uncertainty | 25:53 | |
| about what we may discover | 25:58 | |
| or about what may happen tomorrow. | 26:01 | |
| So that we can greet each new day with fresh expectation. | 26:06 | |
| Lord, we thank thee for enough certainty | 26:13 | |
| about thy providential care of the future, | 26:17 | |
| so that we can face the future with faith and hope. | 26:22 | |
| We offer our prayer of thanks for pioneers | 26:29 | |
| who point the way to more Christian relationships, | 26:32 | |
| whether in the home, | 26:36 | |
| or in the classroom, | 26:39 | |
| the office, | 26:41 | |
| the market place, | 26:43 | |
| or the halls of government. | 26:45 | |
| We thank the Supreme leader that while we were yet sinners | 26:49 | |
| Christ died for us. | 26:53 | |
| And we blessed for the hope of the fire of righteousness | 26:57 | |
| and of life everlasting through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 27:02 | |
| And now father, we offer under Thee, | 27:11 | |
| our prayers of intercession, | 27:14 | |
| where our fellows and our petitions for ourselves, | 27:16 | |
| where we all stand in need of thy grace. | 27:23 | |
| We intercede for those who were unemployed | 27:28 | |
| for those who were underemployed, who have skills to offer, | 27:34 | |
| and the willingness would cut off, | 27:42 | |
| find opportunity to apply their skills | 27:45 | |
| to the needs of society. | 27:47 | |
| We intercede for those who are overworked | 27:53 | |
| or those who have had more responsibility | 27:58 | |
| dumped on their shoulders than can be discharged in a day, | 28:01 | |
| but who are expected | 28:08 | |
| to fulfill their responsibilities regardless. | 28:09 | |
| Give them grace to forgive their tormentors. | 28:15 | |
| Give them patience to endure | 28:20 | |
| and the strength to do the best they can. | 28:24 | |
| Our heavenly father, | 28:31 | |
| we pray for those who are pushed aside because they're poor, | 28:32 | |
| whose ideas are not listened to | 28:39 | |
| because their financial Wade is not impressive. | 28:42 | |
| Whose personalities are blind to because | 28:47 | |
| they are regarded as inferior on account of their poverty. | 28:50 | |
| We intercede for those who are discriminated against | 28:59 | |
| because they are wealthy, whose dedicated labor | 29:02 | |
| and sacrificial devotion to their fellow man | 29:08 | |
| or sell them appreciated | 29:13 | |
| because of our blind prejudice against anybody | 29:16 | |
| who has more of this world's goods than we have. | 29:21 | |
| Grant them grace to forgive. | 29:26 | |
| The patients, | 29:29 | |
| to continue their dedicated labors | 29:30 | |
| and the strength to achieve well. | 29:34 | |
| Help us all (indistinct)to be less critical of others. | 29:39 | |
| More critical over ourselves, less calm general lives. | 29:45 | |
| More inclined to be helpful. | 29:52 | |
| Oh God, we offer our prayers for those who were friends, | 29:57 | |
| who are students who have died recently, Mike Chaplin, | 30:02 | |
| Jimmy Man, (indistinct) owl. | 30:08 | |
| Let the holy spirit comfort their parents, | 30:14 | |
| their brothers, their sisters, their fellow students, | 30:18 | |
| their professors, friends loved ones. | 30:25 | |
| Grant to all these may find the kind of divine | 30:32 | |
| and human friendship, | 30:37 | |
| which shall deliver them from falling victims to bitterness | 30:39 | |
| or loneliness or unrelieved, guilt, or anxiety. | 30:44 | |
| Maybe we who survive, learn lessons, | 30:52 | |
| their deaths should teach us. | 30:57 | |
| And then resolve that the good features in their lives | 31:01 | |
| shall be heightened in ours. | 31:07 | |
| We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, | 31:13 | |
| who has taught all of his disciples everywhere | 31:19 | |
| when they pray to say, "Our father who art in heaven, | 31:23 | |
| hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, | 31:30 | |
| thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 31:35 | |
| Give us this day, | 31:40 | |
| our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive | 31:42 | |
| those who trespass against us and lead us, | 31:48 | |
| not into temptation, | 31:52 | |
| but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom | 31:54 | |
| and the power and the glory forever. | 31:59 | |
| Amen". | 32:04 | |
| (man coughs) | 32:24 | |
| The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with her soul. | 32:31 | |
| Yesterday, November 1st, was the feast of all Hallows | 32:40 | |
| on all (indistinct), | 32:49 | |
| which probably means less than nothing in the sweet lives | 32:53 | |
| of most of us. | 32:59 | |
| The day before was Halloween, | 33:03 | |
| which is a feast off a different menu. | 33:08 | |
| Another talk conducted with scenes of any order, | 33:13 | |
| but with God (indistinct) | 33:20 | |
| However, since this is a safely season, | 33:27 | |
| it seemed good to me that we should think | 33:34 | |
| about a (indistinct) | 33:36 | |
| If possible, pink from C at this service, | 33:39 | |
| what are wanted to say, who fulfilled to the requirements. | 33:48 | |
| First, he should be some hard at home | 33:57 | |
| in an academic atmosphere. | 34:02 | |
| This is a university chapel. | 34:06 | |
| Second. He showed appeal to worshipers who are not Orthodox | 34:12 | |
| either by intention or by default | 34:20 | |
| in the main, | 34:28 | |
| most of us are either God fearers | 34:29 | |
| or sermon and music taster. | 34:34 | |
| Now I think I found, a saved for us. | 34:40 | |
| His name is Apollos. | 34:45 | |
| We heard about him in the lesson. | 34:50 | |
| I commend him as a possible patron saint for the duke chapel | 34:55 | |
| for three reasons. | 35:03 | |
| First I commend Apollos because he does seem | 35:06 | |
| to be something like us. | 35:13 | |
| He was surely an intelligent person. | 35:18 | |
| Maybe a university man. | 35:24 | |
| That is not explicitly asserted | 35:29 | |
| but a reasonableness assumption from the state mark left. | 35:34 | |
| He was a native of Alexandria | 35:41 | |
| and a man of culture. | 35:46 | |
| Alexandria was not only a Greek (indistinct) city. | 35:53 | |
| It was the seat of a distinguished university, | 36:01 | |
| and the home of one of the greatest libraries in the world. | 36:07 | |
| It was one of the three centers or Judaism | 36:15 | |
| along with Babylon and Jerusalem. | 36:21 | |
| There in Alexandria, | 36:27 | |
| the old testament had first been translated from Hebrew | 36:30 | |
| into Greek. | 36:37 | |
| There (indistinct) Judeas | 36:40 | |
| about the time of Jesus at (indistinct) | 36:44 | |
| to reconcile Greek philosophy and Jewish (indistinct) | 36:48 | |
| In that kind of an atmosphere, Apollos was born | 36:57 | |
| and surely shares his culture. | 37:01 | |
| He's our kind. | 37:07 | |
| Moreover, he was not a perfect Christian. | 37:13 | |
| For one thing, he did not have all the knowledge | 37:20 | |
| about Christianity, | 37:24 | |
| but he should have had. | 37:26 | |
| Neither have we. | 37:29 | |
| But he was willing to know and he did. | 37:32 | |
| Aquila and Priscilla a wonderful, new Testament, | 37:40 | |
| couple through whom St. Paul was devoted, | 37:46 | |
| heard Apollos preach and decided to take him home | 37:52 | |
| where the quote expanded to him, | 38:02 | |
| the word of God, more accurately and (indistinct). | 38:09 | |
| They probably told him about the holy spirit. | 38:18 | |
| Since the only baptism he knew, | 38:23 | |
| was the baptism of John the Baptist, | 38:26 | |
| who'd probably be dividends or religious life | 38:32 | |
| to be better acquainted with the holy spirit. | 38:39 | |
| Apollos is like some, | 38:47 | |
| if not all of in the fact that the peace of God, | 38:49 | |
| did not all follow in his week. | 38:56 | |
| We can see this from the first letters of Paul | 39:02 | |
| to the church at Qaran. | 39:07 | |
| The Christian community there had split into for clicks, | 39:11 | |
| each with a personal slogan of Paul, of Apollos, of Peter. | 39:17 | |
| And then that interesting group just said | 39:28 | |
| they were of Christ. | 39:31 | |
| The idea of Christianity was ever unified. | 39:36 | |
| Catholic, with small "c" | 39:45 | |
| is not merely a myth it's a falsehood. | 39:49 | |
| However, Paul and Apollos got along well. | 39:57 | |
| Peter was Paul's problem. | 40:03 | |
| Now it's comforting to know | 40:08 | |
| God could work with below Paul academicians. | 40:10 | |
| He had better. | 40:18 | |
| It was all he has for earthly partners, | 40:22 | |
| men and women not unlike Apollos. | 40:29 | |
| He was an intelligent person | 40:36 | |
| who didn't know everything about Christianity | 40:40 | |
| but was willing both to work for Jesus | 40:44 | |
| and learn more about him. | 40:50 | |
| Luke (indistinct) for Luke wrote down in his travel diary, | 40:56 | |
| which was later incorporated into the Acts of the apostles, | 41:05 | |
| his opinion of Apollos, a man of culture. | 41:12 | |
| Sprong in his knowledge of the scripture. | 41:21 | |
| Instructive in the way of the Lord. | 41:28 | |
| He preached and taught about Jesus with order and accuracy. | 41:35 | |
| Now Paul an epitome, for any Apollos in any century. | 41:46 | |
| Second, I commend Apollos to you because of the gospel, | 41:59 | |
| he believed. | 42:09 | |
| He preached and taught about Jesus, | 42:12 | |
| Jesus was central. | 42:19 | |
| That's where they up to being in Christianity. | 42:23 | |
| (indistinct) free sites. | 42:28 | |
| All right. Yes. | 42:33 | |
| All right. Yes, Jesus. | 42:36 | |
| And yet that doesn't sound quite right. Does it ? | 42:42 | |
| God had to be central in any religion. | 42:47 | |
| God is the hope, and the hope | 42:55 | |
| but this sensible man realized that God must be interpreted, | 43:02 | |
| exhibited for ordinary, everyday purposes, | 43:10 | |
| for ordinary, everyday people. | 43:15 | |
| And for Him, Jesus was the interpreter. | 43:19 | |
| More than that, God is not (indistinct), | 43:27 | |
| what Jesus said he was. | 43:33 | |
| God is in character and in (indistinct) what Jesus was, | 43:38 | |
| in character and in (indistinct). | 43:47 | |
| God is like Jesus. | 43:52 | |
| That is the (indistinct) at the heart of Christianity. | 43:56 | |
| Jesus in himself reveal the heart | 44:03 | |
| and will of God. He let her see me. | 44:08 | |
| See the father. | 44:14 | |
| No, Apollos, didn't grasp it all at first, | 44:20 | |
| but he grasped it sufficiently | 44:25 | |
| to make him excited to tell it to others. | 44:27 | |
| And having laid hands on that, | 44:31 | |
| he surely grasped something else. | 44:33 | |
| As a Christian should live, must live as far as he can. | 44:38 | |
| The life that Jesus lived in that, the christian too | 44:50 | |
| must review God. How? | 44:57 | |
| By living with that practical goodwill, | 45:06 | |
| which the new Testament calls law. | 45:11 | |
| And that isn't easy. | 45:16 | |
| You remember what neighbor called Christian love? | 45:22 | |
| "The impossible possibility." | 45:28 | |
| Christian love is goodwill and action, | 45:35 | |
| constantly being realized, | 45:39 | |
| and never being completely realized. | 45:41 | |
| That is why a life lived in love | 45:46 | |
| is ought the joy and the despair of a Christian. | 45:54 | |
| That then is the gospel we preach. | 46:03 | |
| Jesus, as the revelation of God's character and purpose | 46:06 | |
| which is express, reincarnated by man in active goodwill. | 46:15 | |
| This has always been the living gospel with its vertical | 46:25 | |
| and it's horizontal dimensions. | 46:30 | |
| Vertically it is the revelation of God. | 46:33 | |
| Climaxed in Jesus the Christ, continued in the holy spirit, | 46:37 | |
| as interpreted by the Jesus of the gospel. | 46:45 | |
| Horizontally it is the inner compassion | 46:50 | |
| of the believer to live life out the good life on earth, | 46:55 | |
| under the awesome inspiration or Goodwill. | 47:02 | |
| I was not time to develop or to apply that thought | 47:09 | |
| for the present day. | 47:13 | |
| We know it in part, we at sip in pot, | 47:16 | |
| we even tried to live it in part. | 47:25 | |
| That's why most of us are here this morning | 47:30 | |
| or this morning (indistinct)for us | 47:36 | |
| to examine the third reason, | 47:39 | |
| for appreciating Apollos, | 47:42 | |
| because it is the exciting part about this Christian Jew. | 47:45 | |
| (indistinct) then I commend Apollos | 47:56 | |
| because of the heresies, which he avoided. | 48:02 | |
| He not only preached and taught about Jesus. | 48:10 | |
| He did it with order and accuracy, | 48:15 | |
| one of Dr Moffitt's happiest translations. | 48:20 | |
| Now either quality by itself at Paul accuracy | 48:26 | |
| is actual lead to Heresy. | 48:35 | |
| What is heresy? | 48:40 | |
| It is not a lie. | 48:43 | |
| Per say, it is an overall persists | 48:45 | |
| of one aspect of the truth. | 48:51 | |
| It is proof with a bias because it contains truth. | 48:56 | |
| It is hard to combat. | 49:08 | |
| For example in politics, the resergions | 49:12 | |
| of isolationism because of Vietnam. | 49:17 | |
| For example in religion, | 49:24 | |
| some forms of (indistinct) success | 49:27 | |
| proof is a sphere, heresy over which in one sector, | 49:33 | |
| so that it doesn't run through. | 49:43 | |
| Now what heresies did Apollos avoid? | 49:48 | |
| That is the heresy caused by order. | 49:53 | |
| There are some people in every movement of intense passion, | 50:00 | |
| there're always doing something about something. | 50:08 | |
| They never seem to tire. | 50:14 | |
| One wants to go to bed on their behalf | 50:19 | |
| and the kind of vicarious sleep. | 50:24 | |
| Their devotion is of the heart and of the will | 50:29 | |
| with a minor priest from behind. | 50:36 | |
| They are obviously enthusiastic. | 50:39 | |
| This is the danger of fundamentalism. | 50:45 | |
| In every field, it steals by twin stars, | 50:49 | |
| authority and antiquity, | 50:57 | |
| and would be tied anyone who crosses | 51:02 | |
| its passion of thought. | 51:08 | |
| The (indistinct) is so sure that he is right. | 51:12 | |
| The true ones committed to the saints is his and only his | 51:19 | |
| to broadcast. | 51:26 | |
| His, his truth without vengeance. | 51:30 | |
| That's all (indistinct) | 51:36 | |
| in the struggle fundamentalism in the Bible, | 51:37 | |
| jewel with these off the blocks (indistinct). | 51:42 | |
| The author of the book of Ruth were the followers of Ezra. | 51:47 | |
| Jesus and Paul, with the Sadducees | 51:53 | |
| on the matter of the resurrection. | 51:58 | |
| (indistinct) diagnosed the disease or fundamentalism. | 52:03 | |
| Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring dope, | 52:09 | |
| Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring (indistinct). | 52:19 | |
| There's not a reason why there's not to do die | 52:27 | |
| or worse to kill. | 52:36 | |
| The result of the heresy of one aspect to be truth, | 52:41 | |
| the relegation of the head | 52:47 | |
| to an inferior position to that of the heart and the will. | 52:50 | |
| Highest and (indistinct) inaccurate traditional belief | 52:57 | |
| picks the place of an enlightened and reasonable fee. | 53:03 | |
| There's no need for me to illustrate this today, | 53:09 | |
| you know what I mean? | 53:13 | |
| Oh, brethren it's well to remember | 53:16 | |
| (indistinct) in Christianity. | 53:19 | |
| Here we see through a glass darkly. | 53:25 | |
| Now I know. In fact, that's a word to the wise there, | 53:30 | |
| the overemphasis of all that is a heresy. | 53:39 | |
| It's not this type of man that Apollos was. | 53:43 | |
| Apollos also avoided the heresy caused by accuracy. | 53:47 | |
| There are people in every movement | 53:56 | |
| of a (indistinct) meticulosity. | 54:00 | |
| They are painful pain sticking icely cold | 54:05 | |
| and statistically default, | 54:11 | |
| they're very reserved, | 54:17 | |
| very tentative, very (indistinct) but wonderful to relieve. | 54:19 | |
| They are very (indistinct) about the tentativeness. | 54:27 | |
| In our accuracy is the heresy | 54:33 | |
| that the scientific method has popularized. | 54:38 | |
| The figure the man of science | 54:44 | |
| so dominates superficial and even our serious thinking | 54:47 | |
| that some of us are at to forget | 54:54 | |
| that all other approaches to the understanding of life, | 54:57 | |
| through the park, the artist, | 55:03 | |
| the philosopher, the prophet, yes, I'm the priests. | 55:07 | |
| And we are the losers. | 55:15 | |
| We strip illusion of a veal. | 55:18 | |
| We vivisect the Nightingale to probe the secret over note. | 55:24 | |
| And what happened? | 55:34 | |
| The muse in alien ways goes wonder, | 55:36 | |
| we vivisect a Nightingale, | 55:45 | |
| to probe the secret of an (indistinct). | 55:49 | |
| And the muse in alien ways cause wondering. | 55:53 | |
| Now that's not wise, for the good life, | 55:59 | |
| we need the muse. | 56:04 | |
| As well as the laboratory technician one said, | 56:07 | |
| " (indistinct) the two objects of land's contemplation | 56:13 | |
| were the moral law within and the star heavens without", | 56:18 | |
| and you have listened to this 20th century jingle, | 56:29 | |
| twinkle twinkle little star. | 56:34 | |
| I don't wonder what you are. | 56:38 | |
| You will be cooling down the passes, | 56:41 | |
| forming into solid passes | 56:44 | |
| core there right (indistinct) | 56:48 | |
| now has the (indistinct) is the truth about the rules. | 56:55 | |
| All the brides who carry roses and her bouquet | 57:10 | |
| of a sick friend to whom the bride sends her | 57:18 | |
| bouquet of roses of each of them at different times | 57:24 | |
| or all of them in harmony. | 57:33 | |
| Now this heresy of accuracy, as you well know, | 57:38 | |
| in Duke university has come into religion. | 57:41 | |
| Modernism is one name on it. It's still with us. | 57:48 | |
| The modernist is the spiritual scientist. | 57:53 | |
| He mixed post-mortem examinations of the prophets, | 57:59 | |
| priests and saints. | 58:04 | |
| It's even more that he sometimes kills them | 58:07 | |
| for the joy of the autopsy. | 58:12 | |
| And then he gets a PhD in religion for writing it up. | 58:16 | |
| (laughs) | 58:21 | |
| Holy scripture in the hands of some critics | 58:25 | |
| is just a playground for intellectual gymnastics. | 58:30 | |
| The place that formally blossom like the rose | 58:37 | |
| becomes a wilderness. | 58:44 | |
| All they know that Isaiah like God | 58:47 | |
| is divided into three parts. | 58:52 | |
| First, second, and third Isaiah. | 58:56 | |
| But they have never grasped the insight of Isaiah 53. | 59:00 | |
| "Surely, he has (indistinct) our grieves | 59:07 | |
| and pattied our sorrows yet we did this steam him, | 59:11 | |
| stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. | 59:17 | |
| But he was wounded for our transgressions. | 59:23 | |
| He was bruised for our iniquities". | 59:29 | |
| They can prove to their satisfaction, | 59:36 | |
| and as a matter of fact I believe the answer. | 59:40 | |
| That the fourth gospel was written by a disciple | 59:44 | |
| of a disciple of the beloved disciple who was not John. | 59:51 | |
| I think they're probably right, | 1:00:00 | |
| but the insight of John 14, | 1:00:03 | |
| "In my father's house | 1:00:10 | |
| are many rooms. | 1:00:14 | |
| If it were not so, would I have told you | 1:00:18 | |
| that I'll go to prepared a place for you?" | 1:00:24 | |
| It's one on the head and none of the heart. | 1:00:29 | |
| It's cammy and often imputed. | 1:00:33 | |
| That's why this couplet is more right than wrong, | 1:00:38 | |
| though I hate to admit it. | 1:00:43 | |
| Fundamentalism is wrong, but it works. | 1:00:46 | |
| Modernism is right, but it doesn't work. | 1:00:53 | |
| The (indistinct) of accuracy is a heresy, | 1:00:58 | |
| it's not this type of man that Apollos was. | 1:01:02 | |
| You know how Apollos avoided both heresies. | 1:01:06 | |
| He did it efficiently by linking together the two aspects. | 1:01:10 | |
| He welded both qualities | 1:01:21 | |
| into one in the service of his faith. | 1:01:24 | |
| He taught about Jesus with order and with accuracy. | 1:01:29 | |
| Think of it, he had the capacity for linking together | 1:01:37 | |
| enthusiasm and truth, (indistinct) and precision. | 1:01:43 | |
| The gometry and the geometry of life. | 1:01:50 | |
| Macaulay once described the best arbitrary | 1:01:56 | |
| in the British parliament as reason | 1:01:59 | |
| penetrated and made red hot with passion. | 1:02:05 | |
| Reason penetrated and made red hot with passion. | 1:02:13 | |
| That's the sign of a living message. | 1:02:19 | |
| And that was Apollos'. | 1:02:22 | |
| For all due is necessary, | 1:02:25 | |
| no movement gets anywhere without enthusiasm. | 1:02:27 | |
| And accuracy is necessary no movement wins, | 1:02:32 | |
| intelligent people unless knowledge and faith | 1:02:36 | |
| brought together. | 1:02:40 | |
| This is one reason for a devenaty school, | 1:02:42 | |
| to instruct committed men. | 1:02:46 | |
| Apollos study deeply | 1:02:52 | |
| in order to reveal Jesus enthusiastically. | 1:02:54 | |
| And (indistinct) his successors Augustine, | 1:02:58 | |
| (indistinct), Luther, (indistinct) Wesley, (indistinct). | 1:03:04 | |
| They had good lives and sympathy with loyal hearts | 1:03:13 | |
| and driving wheels devoted to the God reveal by | 1:03:18 | |
| and in Jesus. | 1:03:25 | |
| Such a person is a whole (indistinct) of great price | 1:03:28 | |
| in my church. | 1:03:32 | |
| I hope in the pulpit or in the pew, | 1:03:34 | |
| I'd like to think of Apollos. | 1:03:39 | |
| This will pick from sin to (indistinct). | 1:03:42 | |
| An intelligent man, | 1:03:47 | |
| who was not a perfect Christian, | 1:03:49 | |
| but one willing to go on learning and apply. | 1:03:53 | |
| I'd like to think of-- | 1:04:00 |
