James T. Cleland - "Rabboni" (April 5, 1970)
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(choir singing in foreign language) | 0:04 | |
- | Beloved let us unite our hearts, | 0:38 |
and our voices in our prayer of confession. | 0:41 | |
Let us pray. | 0:45 | |
Oh, most merciful Father who will us | 0:48 | |
not the death of any sinner, | 0:51 | |
but rather that he should return onto the, and be saved. | 0:54 | |
Comfort us who are aggrieved by the weight of our sin. | 0:58 | |
We confessed to thee, and we have been slow to believe | 1:02 | |
the good news made known in Jesus Christ. | 1:06 | |
We confess that like the disciples of old, | 1:10 | |
we have not expected great things to happen to us. | 1:13 | |
We have doubted the power | 1:17 | |
of Christ's resurrection in our lives. | 1:19 | |
Forgive us for believing that the triumph | 1:22 | |
of right is too good to be true. | 1:24 | |
Restore us through thy I pardoning grace | 1:28 | |
to a child by faith. | 1:31 | |
We pray in Jesus name. | 1:34 | |
Amen. | 1:37 | |
Contrary to our unwillingness to believe the good news. | 1:41 | |
The words of assurance come to us from the scriptures | 1:49 | |
from a day when there was as much doubt as there is now. | 1:53 | |
And they were spoken to people | 1:59 | |
who had as much doubt as we do, | 2:01 | |
who like us, whereas slow to believe the good news, | 2:04 | |
but the words of scripture tell us that Christ | 2:10 | |
was not permanently dead when he was crucified, | 2:14 | |
that he was alive again, that he is alive evermore, | 2:18 | |
and that he is alive now. | 2:24 | |
What comforting indeed, | 2:27 | |
what thrilling words these are. | 2:29 | |
It is for us to pray for grace to believe them, | 2:33 | |
and to act upon them. | 2:37 | |
Amen. | 2:40 | |
(soft music) | 2:47 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 3:45 | |
The reading of the scripture this morning comes | 15:23 | |
from John 20, verses one through 16. | 15:25 | |
Now on the first day of the week, | 15:29 | |
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early | 15:31 | |
while it was still dark | 15:33 | |
and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. | 15:34 | |
So she ran and went to Simon, Peter, and the other disciple, | 15:38 | |
the one whom Jesus loved and said to them, | 15:41 | |
"They have taken the Lord out of the tomb | 15:44 | |
"and we do not know where they have laid him." | 15:46 | |
Peter then came out with the other disciples | 15:49 | |
and they went toward the tomb. | 15:51 | |
They both ran, but the other disciple, | 15:53 | |
outran Peter and reached the tomb first | 15:55 | |
and stooping to look in. | 15:57 | |
He saw the linen cloths lying there, | 15:59 | |
but he did not go in. | 16:01 | |
Then Simon Peter came following him | 16:03 | |
and he went into the tomb | 16:05 | |
and saw the linen cloths line, | 16:06 | |
and the napkin which had been in his head, | 16:08 | |
not lying with the linen cloth, | 16:10 | |
but rolled up in a place by itself. | 16:12 | |
Then the other disciple who reached the tomb first, | 16:15 | |
also went in and he saw and believed. | 16:18 | |
For his yet they did not know the scripture | 16:21 | |
that he must rise from the dead. | 16:23 | |
Then the disciples went back to their homes, | 16:26 | |
but Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. | 16:29 | |
And as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb. | 16:32 | |
And she saw two angels in white sitting where | 16:36 | |
the body of Jesus had laid. | 16:38 | |
One at the head and one at the feet, | 16:40 | |
they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" | 16:42 | |
She said to them, | 16:46 | |
"Because they have taken away my Lord, | 16:47 | |
and I do not know where they have laid him." | 16:49 | |
Saying this she turned around and saw Jesus standing, | 16:52 | |
but she did not know it was Jesus. | 16:54 | |
Jesus said to her, | 16:57 | |
"Woman, why are you weeping, whom do you seek?" | 16:58 | |
Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, | 17:02 | |
"Sir, if you have carried him away, | 17:04 | |
"tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." | 17:07 | |
Jesus said to her, "Mary." | 17:10 | |
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni." | 17:13 | |
Which means teacher. | 17:16 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 17:20 | |
The Lord be with you? | 18:02 | |
- | Amen. | 18:04 |
- | Let us pray. | 18:06 |
All mighty God, our intelligent heavenly Father. | 18:17 | |
We offer our prayers of gratitude for many favors, | 18:22 | |
for every sign of spring, | 18:27 | |
for every indication that the grip of winter is broken. | 18:30 | |
That new life will indeed replace the old and the dead. | 18:34 | |
We thank thee for every sign that Easter | 18:40 | |
has happened again this year in our hearts, and lives. | 18:43 | |
For every sign of the resurrection | 18:48 | |
of civil rights, of equality, of brotherhood. | 18:50 | |
We thank thee for every sign that peace will come | 18:55 | |
to our torn world and for those who make these signs. | 18:58 | |
We offer our hearty thanks under thee, | 19:06 | |
for the life and service to Duke students, | 19:08 | |
all thy servant, Dean, Mary Grace Wilson. | 19:11 | |
As her retirement approaches. | 19:16 | |
We are mindful of many years of Christian devotion | 19:18 | |
to the welfare of tens of thousands of young women. | 19:22 | |
We thank thee that she has had great love for people, | 19:27 | |
that she never confused hating sin with hating the sinner, | 19:31 | |
and that she has inspired all who know her | 19:37 | |
to be true to their best selves. | 19:39 | |
All mighty God, we offer unto thee our prayers | 19:45 | |
of intercession for all thy children. | 19:47 | |
We pray for Terry Sanford as he begins, | 19:51 | |
the awesome duties of the presidency. | 19:54 | |
Grant unto him, the continuation | 19:58 | |
of that grace under stress, | 20:01 | |
which he has received from thee | 20:04 | |
in such abundance in the past. | 20:06 | |
Grant unto him here, associates, faculty, students, | 20:10 | |
and trustees who will have the fairness | 20:16 | |
to cooperate with him, | 20:19 | |
to believe the best about him and to give him a chance | 20:21 | |
to help make this a great university. | 20:26 | |
Grant unto him, wisdom, | 20:30 | |
courage, and a sense of humor. | 20:32 | |
Oh Lord, we pray for those who are newly married, | 20:37 | |
that they may be patient with each other as well as loving. | 20:41 | |
Gradually give them that happiness, | 20:45 | |
which comes to those who love others | 20:48 | |
as they love themselves. | 20:50 | |
We pray for that growing number of thy children | 20:54 | |
who are addicted to drugs, | 20:56 | |
who cannot plan for tomorrow because of slavery today. | 20:59 | |
Grant unto the leaders of the people that wisdom, | 21:05 | |
and that concern for the welfare of others, | 21:08 | |
which will lead them to solve this human problem. | 21:10 | |
Heavenly Father, as we pray for others, | 21:16 | |
we pray also for ourselves that our technology, | 21:18 | |
and engineering maybe direct it demands better life, | 21:22 | |
rather than to his early destruction. | 21:26 | |
We pray thee O God to deliver us | 21:31 | |
from the monstrous hypocrisy of imprisoning students | 21:33 | |
who defy the law for conscience sake. | 21:37 | |
While we reward postal workers | 21:40 | |
and air controllers for defying the law | 21:43 | |
by granting unto them pay increases and no prison. | 21:45 | |
Give us O God, at least the grace to treat people equally | 21:50 | |
for the same offense. | 21:54 | |
Grant unto us the vivid realization | 21:58 | |
that final exams will soon be upon us | 22:00 | |
so that we may not waste precious hours. | 22:04 | |
May we realize that the last great judgment | 22:07 | |
will soon be upon all of us. | 22:11 | |
When everyone shall stand before the righteous judge | 22:14 | |
to give an account of this brief life, | 22:17 | |
and then enter either into heaven or hell. | 22:20 | |
Grant unto us the wisdom | 22:24 | |
and grace to choose unfailingly Jesus Christ as Lord, | 22:25 | |
Lord of this life. | 22:31 | |
And as our advocate in the life to come. | 22:32 | |
We make our prayer in his name, | 22:37 | |
remembering the better prayer | 22:39 | |
he has taught his disciples to pray, saying. | 22:41 | |
Our Father who art in heaven, | 22:45 | |
hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. | 22:47 | |
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 22:51 | |
Give us this day, our daily bread, | 22:55 | |
and forgive us our trespasses. | 22:58 | |
As we forgive those who trespass against us. | 23:00 | |
And lead us, not into temptation, | 23:04 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 23:06 | |
For thine is the kingdom, | 23:08 | |
and the power and the glory forever. | 23:10 | |
Amen. | 23:13 | |
- | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all. | 23:41 |
The biblical narratives of Easter | 23:49 | |
offer no uniforms starting. | 23:53 | |
It's dark for whether the written testimony | 23:57 | |
would stand in any court of law. | 24:00 | |
But one affirmation is universal | 24:05 | |
and emphatic in the language of the King James Version. | 24:09 | |
It was not possible | 24:15 | |
that Jesus be holden of death. | 24:18 | |
Now this morning, | 24:25 | |
we shall concentrate on that one word in one incident | 24:26 | |
of that first Easter, | 24:30 | |
it should delight the hearts of those of you who are members | 24:34 | |
of any woman's liberation society. | 24:37 | |
That according to all the gospels, | 24:42 | |
it was a woman who first saw the risen Christ. | 24:45 | |
Like a woman she mistook him for the gardener | 24:52 | |
until he called her by name, "Mary." | 24:58 | |
She turned and said to him, "Rabboni." | 25:04 | |
Thomas When first confronted with the risen Christ | 25:10 | |
called him my Lord and my God. | 25:14 | |
Mary Magdalene use the old Hebrew | 25:21 | |
or Aramaic word for teacher. | 25:23 | |
Even in the hour of his vindication. | 25:28 | |
She addressed him as the rabbi of the pre crucifixion days. | 25:33 | |
And I'm glad. | 25:41 | |
Let's look together at this word rabbi. | 25:46 | |
It means literally my great one, | 25:49 | |
my great one. | 25:55 | |
And Rabboni is according to the scholars, | 25:58 | |
either the Aramaic form of rabbi | 26:01 | |
or an intensified form of rabbi. | 26:06 | |
It was, and it is a title of respect | 26:11 | |
for teachers of the law. | 26:15 | |
At the least, it is the equivalent of the English, sir. | 26:18 | |
And it's sometimes translated | 26:25 | |
in the New Testament as master. | 26:27 | |
It is a normal synonym for teacher. | 26:31 | |
If he be our religious teacher, | 26:35 | |
teacher is regularly used of Jesus. | 26:38 | |
It's used by him over himself. | 26:42 | |
Rabbi was always a word of honor. | 26:47 | |
It was used to learned layman. | 26:51 | |
It was even used of God himself | 26:55 | |
as the teacher of Moses. | 27:00 | |
Moses was to the Jews, the exemplar of a rabbi, | 27:03 | |
but he was the teacher (mumbles). | 27:09 | |
He was called Moshay Rabbino. | 27:14 | |
Our teacher Moses, | 27:17 | |
now Leo Rosten in his erudite and chuckling volume, | 27:22 | |
"The Joys of Yiddish," says that, | 27:28 | |
the authority of a rabbi rests on his learning, | 27:31 | |
his character, | 27:37 | |
his personal quality. | 27:39 | |
The authority of a rabbi rests on his learning, | 27:41 | |
his character, his personal quality. | 27:45 | |
He is not a priest, an intermediary between God and man. | 27:49 | |
He is a scholar, who as Rosten says shares his knowledge | 27:55 | |
with the less learned. | 28:02 | |
And then add to this delightful note. | 28:05 | |
He even teaches little boys their A, B, C. | 28:07 | |
Now is this what rabbi meant to Mary of Magdala | 28:15 | |
when she addressed Jesus as my teacher | 28:21 | |
on that first Easter morning, long, long ago. | 28:26 | |
And is this what Jesus means to us? | 28:32 | |
However, we must face one shocking fact about Jesus. | 28:39 | |
For many of our young contemporaries. | 28:44 | |
He was over 30 years of age | 28:49 | |
when he began his public teaching. | 28:53 | |
Now that almost automatically blackballed him for them, | 28:57 | |
though understandably not for me. | 29:04 | |
In fact, sometime back a group of divinity students asked me | 29:07 | |
if there were, but one thing they should remember | 29:11 | |
about Jesus, what was it? | 29:14 | |
I told them that it was, | 29:18 | |
he kept his mouth shut till he was 30. | 29:19 | |
And then I added quite gratuitously that they might well go | 29:23 | |
and do likewise, | 29:27 | |
(preacher chuckles) | 29:30 | |
but they didn't. | 29:31 | |
But now let's pick up Leo Rosten's three points regarding | 29:35 | |
the authority of a rabbi and find if Jesus qualified, | 29:38 | |
A man of learning was the first emphasis. | 29:44 | |
Jesus was able on more than one occasion to cite the law, | 29:49 | |
and the prophets to his opponents discomfiture. | 29:53 | |
He could argue like a scribe, | 29:59 | |
that is like an exegetical expert | 30:03 | |
when confronted with the Pharisees. | 30:07 | |
But this was neither his primary interests | 30:10 | |
nor his preferred method. | 30:13 | |
He was a synagogue Jew who learned | 30:17 | |
and loved the tradition of his people. | 30:21 | |
But he constantly sought for the spirit behind, | 30:25 | |
and within the letter of the law, | 30:30 | |
rather than enforcement of the literal application. | 30:33 | |
When he was reminded that the punishment for adultery | 30:38 | |
was stoning to death, | 30:42 | |
he conceded the fact. | 30:45 | |
Then he suggested the impossible. | 30:49 | |
That the man without sin | 30:54 | |
cast the first stone. | 30:57 | |
And those who heard him gas | 31:02 | |
and went away without pitching. | 31:07 | |
He talked about God and he made God an everyday matter. | 31:13 | |
This was partly a matter of style | 31:17 | |
because he associated God with stories about | 31:22 | |
a strayed sheep and a mislead coin. | 31:25 | |
And two lost boys who happened to be brothers. | 31:29 | |
He was always talking about the kingdom of God, | 31:35 | |
but he described it in terms of farmers planting, | 31:39 | |
and fishermen on the job and trees in the vineyard. | 31:42 | |
And yeast at work in a batch of dough | 31:47 | |
and 10 bridesmaids, | 31:52 | |
five of whom never made the wedding. | 31:54 | |
And two men praying in the temple, | 31:58 | |
neither of whom really knew who he was. | 32:01 | |
This is God in the commonplaces, | 32:06 | |
in the here and now | 32:10 | |
and not somewhere back in the time of Moses | 32:13 | |
or David or Amos. | 32:17 | |
This is God alive and present, | 32:21 | |
not embalmed in a holy scroll | 32:24 | |
for purposes of adoration. | 32:29 | |
Jesus the rabbi knew as a universal truth. | 32:32 | |
If not as a linguistic fact, | 32:37 | |
the the Latin verb doceo, | 32:40 | |
to teach like its Greek counterpart, didasko. | 32:44 | |
That verb governance two accusative, | 32:51 | |
the subject taught, | 32:56 | |
and the person taught never one without the other, | 32:58 | |
all was both simultaneously. | 33:04 | |
A rabbi knows his stuff, | 33:07 | |
and he knows his pupil. | 33:12 | |
He does not just teach a subject. | 33:16 | |
He does not just teach disciples. | 33:19 | |
He teaches both at once. | 33:22 | |
He is the first mark and the prime secret of good teaching. | 33:26 | |
Jesus was our rabbi who knew God | 33:34 | |
and the common people of Galilee | 33:40 | |
Leo Rosten also stressed the personal qualities of the rabbi | 33:45 | |
and their impact on his listeners. | 33:50 | |
Now, as a Jew, Jesus was both practical and picturesque. | 33:53 | |
There were times when he called a spade a spade. | 34:02 | |
There were even times when he called a spade a shovel. | 34:06 | |
As when he addressed Peter as Satan. | 34:11 | |
And yet he could paint word pictures of the realm of God | 34:16 | |
that left these hearers, wet eye and longing for more. | 34:20 | |
He used humor about a man hunting for a speck of sawdust | 34:25 | |
in his brother's eye. | 34:31 | |
When there was a plank sticking out in his own eye. | 34:33 | |
How close can you get to a person | 34:38 | |
with a plank sticking out of your optic? | 34:40 | |
And remember, it's a carpenter who's talking about this. | 34:44 | |
He was clear and colorful and relevant, | 34:49 | |
less of word, and fun, and sane, and serious, | 34:53 | |
then all together worthwhile | 34:59 | |
he had personality. | 35:03 | |
And so he was a personality. | 35:06 | |
Here are two opinions about him as a teacher. | 35:09 | |
The first is the conclusion of the temple police | 35:12 | |
who had gone to arrest him and came back without him, | 35:16 | |
nobody ever speak | 35:21 | |
as this man speak. | 35:25 | |
And the second is tacked on to the end | 35:29 | |
of the Sermon on the Mount. | 35:31 | |
He taught them as having authority, | 35:33 | |
and not as the scribes. | 35:38 | |
Which may be interpreted he knows what he's talking about. | 35:42 | |
He's not like the average preacher, | 35:49 | |
perhaps I'd better just leave it at that for that point. | 35:53 | |
There was a third point in Leo Rosten's analysis | 35:59 | |
of the rabbi character. | 36:02 | |
This is other than personality, | 36:05 | |
which is the obvious output effect one has on others. | 36:09 | |
Character is inward. | 36:14 | |
It is that which is engraved on the inner depths | 36:17 | |
of a person's personhood. | 36:22 | |
The Greek word, (speaking in Greek) means | 36:25 | |
the engraver, worldly engraving tool | 36:27 | |
or that which is engrave. | 36:32 | |
So that becomes the peculiar | 36:35 | |
and distinctive nature of a person. | 36:37 | |
Jesus character was | 36:42 | |
a goodwill accepted from God, | 36:46 | |
and given to others, all others. | 36:49 | |
That was what was engrave on his heart | 36:54 | |
and spoke through his personality. | 36:59 | |
So that others sense the impact of it, | 37:03 | |
and loved him or hated him | 37:08 | |
because he was so powerful | 37:13 | |
that he could not be ignored or poo-pooed, or sidetrack. | 37:16 | |
Had to be accepted or rejected | 37:22 | |
that rabbi had to be followed or done away with, | 37:26 | |
because he presented an example of conscience inaction. | 37:31 | |
Conscience inaction | 37:39 | |
that was the character. | 37:42 | |
The character instinct, not of his teaching. | 37:45 | |
Learning personality character, | 37:51 | |
Jesus was rabbi, | 37:55 | |
my teacher for many people in Galilee and Judea. | 37:58 | |
Now how do we respond to this interpretation | 38:04 | |
of the role of Jesus? | 38:08 | |
Well, it depends some book on our cultural heritage. | 38:10 | |
If we are Jews, | 38:15 | |
we can understand even appreciate why Jesus | 38:16 | |
would be called rabbi. | 38:20 | |
If we are Scott, | 38:24 | |
we would agree why not a Scott's Presbyterian | 38:26 | |
is either a New Testament Jew | 38:31 | |
or an Old Testament Christian. | 38:35 | |
The four men who used to dominate | 38:39 | |
the life of the Scottish villages, | 38:41 | |
where the laird, that is the landowner, | 38:43 | |
the doctor, | 38:47 | |
the dominie, that's the schoolmaster, and the minister. | 38:49 | |
They made up the quadrumvirate | 38:55 | |
which stamped a rural community with its distinctiveness. | 38:58 | |
We used to be strapped to school, | 39:03 | |
a leather belt on the palm regularly, daily, | 39:05 | |
thrice daily, and often, | 39:11 | |
or anything and everything being late, | 39:14 | |
being unprepared, looking bored, | 39:16 | |
dipping the girls pigtails into inkwells, | 39:20 | |
speaking too loudly, speaking too softly. | 39:24 | |
Did we ever tell anyone at home | 39:29 | |
that we had been strapped at school? | 39:31 | |
Don't be silly. | 39:34 | |
We would have been crashed at home | 39:36 | |
for being walloped at school. | 39:38 | |
(audience laughing) | 39:40 | |
Our parents believed in the teacher much more | 39:42 | |
than they believed in their children. | 39:46 | |
I found the same attitude in Japan, | 39:49 | |
sitting cross legged on the floor in an ancient | 39:52 | |
Tokyo eating house with an old and my student. | 39:55 | |
He and I were served by our own maidservant | 40:00 | |
who sat before us. | 40:03 | |
At one point in the long meal, | 40:06 | |
my friend began a conversation with our maid | 40:09 | |
in fluent Japanese. | 40:12 | |
During it the waitress began to look at me | 40:16 | |
until she finally turned, | 40:20 | |
and bowed her forehead to the floor | 40:23 | |
in front of my knees. | 40:26 | |
Now, what was I supposed to do? | 40:28 | |
Pass it on the head. | 40:33 | |
I recalled some words of John Buchan Tweedsmuir | 40:37 | |
or the Governor General of Canada. | 40:40 | |
If there's no good reason for moving, | 40:43 | |
there's a good reason for standing still. | 40:46 | |
I sat, immovable. | 40:50 | |
She straightened up, | 40:53 | |
gave me the loveliest smile and then went on to serving us. | 40:55 | |
I asked my students what it was all about. | 41:01 | |
He told me that he had told her | 41:05 | |
that I was his teacher from America. | 41:07 | |
Hence her gesture of reverence for me, | 41:11 | |
the order of pre-sentence in Japan was the emperor, | 41:16 | |
the parent, the teacher. | 41:20 | |
Now there is no Jewish, no rabbinical influence there. | 41:24 | |
This is just a general deduction from life. | 41:29 | |
The teacher is a hurdle of great right. | 41:35 | |
Is this true in the USA? | 41:41 | |
Yes, spottily, | 41:43 | |
more spottily today than before. | 41:46 | |
But read after determines, Mark Hopkins sat | 41:50 | |
on one end of a log and a firm boy on the other. | 41:53 | |
Read Robert P Tristram Coffin, | 41:58 | |
america was schoolmasters. | 42:00 | |
I think of Jim Muilenburg of Union Seminary in New York. | 42:04 | |
So exciting his class with a lecture on Moses, | 42:09 | |
taking off his shoes at the burning bush. | 42:13 | |
That next morning, outside the classroom | 42:16 | |
were 40 pairs of shoes, | 42:18 | |
neatly arranged down the hall, | 42:22 | |
and on the steps of the great curving staircase. | 42:25 | |
While the students sat inside in their stocking. | 42:29 | |
So Pastor Muilenburg was a rabbi. | 42:33 | |
He still is. | 42:38 | |
So why don't you resolve that you will sit at the feet | 42:41 | |
of Jesus as your rabbi this Eastertide. | 42:44 | |
Read the gospels where the commentary, | 42:50 | |
read a biography of Jesus they are all kinds, | 42:55 | |
and someone in the divinity school, | 42:58 | |
or in the department of religion | 43:00 | |
or on the chaplain stuff will help you select one. | 43:01 | |
To begin with concentrate on the parables, | 43:06 | |
and the dialogues between Jesus, | 43:10 | |
and folk like the woman at the well, | 43:12 | |
and Nicodemus, who came to Jesus under cover of darkness, | 43:15 | |
and Martha and Mary. | 43:21 | |
Don't start with the Sermon on the Mount. | 43:22 | |
That's a post-graduate course in Christian ethics. | 43:26 | |
Perhaps you'll come to know him as his disciple, | 43:31 | |
and then maybe as an adherent in his party. | 43:37 | |
And per chance finally, | 43:42 | |
as a fellow worker in his course. | 43:45 | |
And if you won't listen to me, | 43:50 | |
suggesting such a study perspective on life, | 43:53 | |
and what do you make of this paragraph? | 43:58 | |
There are certain things that are age needs, | 44:02 | |
and certain things it should avoid. | 44:05 | |
It needs compassion and I wish that men should be happy. | 44:09 | |
It needs the desire for knowledge, | 44:16 | |
and the determination to wish to pleasant myth, | 44:17 | |
needs above all courageous hope. | 44:22 | |
And the impulse creativeness, | 44:26 | |
the root of the matter is a very simple | 44:30 | |
and old fashioned thing. | 44:34 | |
I think so simple that I'm almost ashamed to mention it | 44:37 | |
for fear of the derives of smile | 44:42 | |
with which why syndics will greet my word. | 44:44 | |
The thing, I mean, please forgive me for mentioning it, | 44:49 | |
is love, Christian love or compassion. | 44:55 | |
If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, | 45:03 | |
a guide in action, | 45:09 | |
a reason for courage, | 45:11 | |
an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. | 45:14 | |
The thing, I mean, please forgive me for mentioning it, | 45:22 | |
is love, Christian love or compassion. | 45:25 | |
If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, | 45:29 | |
a guide in action, a reason for courage, | 45:33 | |
an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. | 45:36 | |
Why are you so embarrassed to recommend it, | 45:40 | |
because he's Bertrand Russell, | 45:44 | |
no professing Christian in any Orthodoxy, | 45:48 | |
writing on the impact of science, on society, | 45:54 | |
the sermon as you realize, but other than | 45:59 | |
to some extent, | 46:02 | |
to confess to your fatigue, | 46:03 | |
and a vowel of my confidence in the teaching ministry, | 46:06 | |
even from, especially from the pulpit, | 46:11 | |
it is a declaration of the unending satisfaction | 46:17 | |
of being a disciple of the rabbi Jesus, | 46:22 | |
my teacher, my master, | 46:26 | |
my great one. | 46:30 | |
Do you recall what the original meaning of rabbi was? | 46:32 | |
My great one. | 46:35 | |
I like that. | 46:37 | |
Which not exactly Son of God, a very good, a very good. | 46:39 | |
What he's looking in the same direction satisfies me. | 46:46 | |
I'm glad that on the first Easter morning, | 46:52 | |
Mary spontaneously called him rabboni. | 46:56 | |
It's a good name. | 47:02 | |
Let's sing a hymn to him. | 47:05 | |
Number 75. | 47:08 | |
Thou are the way the truth, the life. | 47:11 | |
Amen. | 47:16 | |
(soft instrumental music) | 47:17 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 47:39 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 51:08 | |
All mighty God, | 1:03:00 | |
we quiet our hearts, | 1:03:02 | |
lifting them as thine before thee, | 1:03:05 | |
insofar as we are able to dedicate thy whole creation | 1:03:10 | |
to thy glory. | 1:03:14 | |
The animals and the birds, our technology, our money, | 1:03:16 | |
more importantly our loyalties and our selves | 1:03:22 | |
for the glory of Christ. | 1:03:27 | |
Now may grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, | 1:03:35 | |
and the Lord Jesus Christ be among us, | 1:03:39 | |
and rest upon us evermore. | 1:03:43 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 1:03:50 |