James T. Cleland - "On Preaching from the Old Testament" (February 27, 1972)

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	(choir singing)
-	Grace be to you and peace from God, our Father,	5:18
	and from the Lord, Jesus Christ.	5:22
	We have come as the people of God	5:26
	in the presence of Almighty God, our Father	5:29
	and the whole company of heaven	5:32
	to make confessions of our sins,	5:34
	to set forth his praise,	5:37
	to hear his word,	5:40
	to declare our common faith	5:42
	and to ask for ourselves and for all men,	5:45
	those things necessary for the body and for the soul.	5:48
	Therefore, let us continue his worship	5:54
	as we acknowledge and confess together our sins.	5:56
	Let us pray.	6:01
	Almighty God, our heavenly Father	6:06
	who stand us beyond both the darkness and the light,	6:09
	who are hidden by the names we he give to you.	6:15
	And yet who moves in mystery to touch us to life.	6:19
	Grant us we ask in this hour,	6:24
	the glory and the power of your presence.	6:27
	Most merciful Father before thy holiness,	6:35
	we admit that we have done little	6:39
	to forward your kingdom in this world,	6:41
	to foster the brotherhood of men	6:45
	and to establish love as a law of life.	6:48
	We have allowed self to blind us,	6:53
	pains to embitter us.	6:56
	We have forgotten that whatsoever is done	6:59
	to one of the least of your children is done unto you.	7:03
	Pardon our shortcomings we ask.	7:09
	Forgive our neglect.	7:13
	Give us a pure heart intent upon pleasing you.	7:17
	Help us in all our seeking to seek first your kingdom	7:22
	and your love and your righteousness.	7:26
	And make us to come as your son Jesus Christ,	7:30
	not to be ministered unto,	7:34
	but to minister and to serve.	7:37
	All of which we ask through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	7:41
	Amen.	7:47
	Let us hear these assuring words from holy scripture.	7:50
	Jesus said, "Be of good cheer.	7:58
	Your sins are forgiven.	8:02
	Go and sin no more."	8:05
	And these words from St. Paul,	8:09
	"For the love of Christ leaves us no choice.	8:12
	When once we have reached the conclusion	8:16
	that one man died for all,	8:18
	and therefore all mankind has died.	8:21
	His purpose in dying was for all men	8:24
	while still in life	8:28
	that they might cease to live for themselves	8:30
	and should live for him,	8:33
	who for their sake died and was raised to life.	8:35
	From now on, therefore we regard no one	8:40
	from our human point of view,	8:43
	even though we once regarded Christ	8:46
	from a human point of view,	8:48
	we regard him thus no longer	8:50
	for when anyone is united in Christ,	8:53
	there is a new world.	8:58
	The whole, the old has passed away and the new has come."	9:01
	May we continue our worship of God	9:08
	by using the Psalm of Praise, number five, sevens,	9:10
	this five in the back of our handbook.	9:16
	Let us offer this Psalm to God in thanksgiving	9:26
	for the truth and the power of grace.	9:32
	Praise is due to thee oh God in Zion	9:37
	and to thee shall vow to be perform.	9:41
	Oh thou who hears prayer to thee shall all flesh	9:45
	come on, count of sins.	9:49
	When our transgressions prevail over us,	9:52
	God does forgive them.	9:54
	Blessed is he whom do us choose and bring near	9:57
	to dwell and thy courts.	10:01
	We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,	10:04
	thy holy temple.	10:07
	By dread deeds thou does answer us with deliverance.	10:09
	Oh God, of our salvation, who are the hope	10:13
	of all the of the ends of earth and of the far,	10:16
	the seas who by thy strength	10:19
	has to established the mountains,	10:22
	being guard with Mine who does still	10:25
	the roaring of the seas,	10:28
	the roaring of their waves and the tumult of the peoples.	10:30
	So that those who dwell at Earth's farthest bound are afraid	10:34
	of thy signs.	10:38
	They'll make us the outgoings of the morning	10:40
	and the evening to shout for joy.	10:43
	They'll visit us the earth and water it.	10:46
	They'll greatly enriches it.	10:50
	They'll provide us their grain for so thou has prepared it.	10:52
	They'll waters it furls abundantly settling its ridges,	10:57
	softening it with showers and blessing its growth.	11:02
	Thou crowns the year with thy bounty,	11:06
	the heels spread themselves with joy,	11:09
	the Middles cloth themselves with flocks,	11:13
	the valleys deck themselves with grain,	11:16
	they shall and sing together for joy.	11:19
	(gentle orchestral music)	11:26
	(choir singing)	12:17
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	(choir singing)	16:29
	Today's scripture lesson is taken from the book	17:14
	of Matthew fifth, chapter 13th through the 20th.	17:17
	You are the salt of the earth,	17:23
	but if salt has lost its taste,	17:25
	how shall it softness be restored.	17:28
	It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out	17:30
	and tied underfoot of men.	17:33
	You are the light of the world.	17:36
	A city set on a hill cannot be hide nor do men light a lamp	17:38
	and put it under a bushel, but on a stand.	17:42
	And it gives light to all in the house.	17:45
	Let your light so shine before men that they may see	17:48
	your good works and give glory to your Father	17:51
	who is in heaven.	17:54
	Think not that I have come to abolish the law	17:55
	or the prophets.	17:58
	I have not come to abolish them,	18:00
	but to fulfill them for truly,	18:02
	I say to you to a heaven and earth pass away,	18:05
	not in thy order, not a dot will pass	18:08
	from the law until all is accomplished.	18:10
	Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments	18:14
	and teaches men so	18:18
	shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven,	18:20
	but he who does them and teaches them	18:24
	shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.	18:27
	For I tell you,	18:30
	unless righteousness exceeds that of the Scribes	18:32
	and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.	18:35
	Thus end of the lesson.	18:39
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	(choir singing)	18:53
-	The Lord be with you. Let us pray.	19:29
	Let us offer unto God,	19:38
	our prayers for others and for ourselves.	19:39
	Oh God of mercy and of love	19:47
	who has commanded us to care for or one another.	19:51
	As you do care for us,	19:54
	here are our intercession for our brothers	19:57
	and our sisters in need throughout your world we ask,	20:00
	but it's offer unto God,	20:08
	a prayer for the families of the world.	20:09
	Oh Lord, we call on your spirit	20:14
	and we ask your presence and your power for families.	20:17
	It is your way of God to build great things out of small	20:22
	maintain, we ask each family against all suspicions	20:28
	and anxieties so that it might become an example	20:32
	and a building block in the home	20:38
	of us all, that the new mankind,	20:40
	which you are bringing in through Jesus our Lord	20:44
	may be truly built.	20:48
	Oh Lord we would remember before the broken families.	20:53
	Oh God, you knew the pain of a once uncomprehending family	21:00
	in Nazareth.	21:08
	Take up all broken families in your arms we ask,	21:10
	break the chain of misunderstanding and provocation,	21:15
	teach parents and children gentleness,	21:21
	bring the alienated together by building them	21:25
	into your new community of love we ask,	21:30
	our Father, we call on your spirit	21:36
	and we ask your presence for the elderly.	21:38
	We pray for our fathers and mothers,	21:44
	our grandfathers and grandmothers	21:46
	who'll see only by hope and trust the new things	21:50
	which you are doing in our world.	21:55
	Help them understand that their strange children are born	21:58
	of their bone flesh of their flesh.	22:03
	That the catechism of good,	22:08
	they taught in their churches has not been forgotten	22:10
	by their sons and their daughters.	22:15
	Oh God of peace.	22:20
	Give peace, we ask to all trouble hearts,	22:22
	deliver the tempted,	22:26
	comfort those in this land who mourn	22:28
	heal those who are lying worn with sickness	22:32
	and receive, oh merciful God,	22:36
	the souls of all those who die this day,	22:40
	Eternal God, our Father,	22:47
	nourish words before they're on our tongues.	22:50
	Hear us as we lift before thee, our supplications,	22:55
	we pray, oh Lord, for reverence,	23:01
	for life and for sensitiveness to all creation about us.	23:04
	We ask our Father to be delivered from unwanted	23:13
	destructiveness, from wasting the good gifts from you,	23:16
	from physical cruelty and from that mental brutality,	23:23
	that cripples life, that stunts human growth and murders,	23:27
	the young shoots of idealism and of effort in ourselves	23:34
	and in others.	23:39
	Oh Lord, we pray for a wholesome attitude to physical life	23:42
	for a proper regard for human personality,	23:48
	for the ability to delight in beauty,	23:52
	without wishing to possess it.	23:56
	Oh God give us power and courage to rebel	24:00
	against all that corrupts the relationship of men and women	24:05
	and against all that exploits the curiosity	24:11
	and the growing awareness of the young.	24:15
	Oh Lord, we pray to be saved from possessive about people	24:21
	and things for the spirit that delights	24:27
	to share and spend and give.	24:31
	We pray for freedom from inquisitiveness and greed.	24:36
	We pray that thou might enable us to dedicate ourselves	24:42
	to simplicity of life,	24:49
	to the discipline of desire and to the fullest use	24:52
	of those talents and abilities	24:56
	that have been given from you.	25:00
	Oh Lord let the world, which is ours be good.	25:06
	Make the world, you may be the world as you intended,	25:13
	make the man you created be the creation you will replace	25:19
	in our lives, lethargy with life,	25:26
	turn aspiration into action and our thoughts into deeds.	25:31
	Oh Lord, near the end of winter	25:37
	we ask for hope for tomorrow,	25:41
	give us spring at the end of winter	25:45
	love of at the end of strife,	25:49
	peace at the end of war and a home at the end of the exile.	25:53
	Give us that you have those who have followed you	26:01
	in all ages,	26:04
	freedom after imprisonment, Canaan after Egypt,	26:05
	Easter after land, give the earth	26:11
	we inhabit a strong present tense,	26:17
	strengthen and renew creation	26:20
	we ask by what we are doing by what we are saying,	26:22
	and by what we are celebrating, as your people.	26:27
	Save us, we ask, oh Lord in our day, show us who we are,	26:31
	how we are and why we are in Jesus Christ	26:38
	our only Lord and Master,	26:44
	who taught us that we might pray together	26:49
	as Christian saying,	26:50
	our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name	26:53
	thy Kingdom come thy will be done on earth	26:58
	as it is in heaven, give us this day	27:02
	our daily bread and forgive us our tresses	27:06
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	27:10
	and lead us, not into temptation,	27:14
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the Kingdom	27:16
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	27:21
-	Sometime ago, a letter reached me	27:52
	from an Episcopal rector in the north	27:56
	who was writing a thesis on the significance	28:00
	of the Old Testament for Christian preaching.	28:04
	I wrote a brief article	28:10
	on the topic and I sent him a copy	28:13
	as my reply to his letter.	28:17
	Then I decided to share my thoughts with you,	28:22
	because some of you may be wondering about the valid	28:27
	of the Old Testament in a Christian service.	28:31
	The church Catholic reformed Roman Catholic	28:37
	has always assumed a unity of some kind	28:44
	between the Testaments.	28:49
	Why not?	28:52
	The Old Testament was the Bible,	28:55
	the book of the early church,	28:59
	though it was shorter than our Old Testament.	29:04
	Why? It contained only law and the prophets.	29:09
	The third great section known as the writings,	29:17
	including such books, this is the Psalms, Ecclesiastes	29:21
	and Job were not accepted as canonical.	29:26
	That is officially approved by the authorities,	29:32
	Jewish authorities until the Senate of Jamia	29:38
	around '90, '80, the law and the prophets made up	29:42
	the Bible of Jesus and the 12 and St. Paul	29:49
	for then it was thee book.	29:56
	And then around 140AD there arose within the church,	30:03
	a fascinating and able scholar by the name	30:10
	of Marcian, Marcian,	30:15
	who has the distinction of being runner up	30:19
	for the title Arch Heritage.	30:23
	He decided that the God of Jesus was far removed	30:28
	from the angry, blundering Creator, God	30:33
	of the Old Testament.	30:38
	So he rejected the Old Testament as his Bible	30:40
	and offered an alternative the Gospel,	30:45
	according to St. Luke and 10 of the letters of St. Paul	30:50
	as amended and censored by Marcian.	30:59
	Orthodoxy, rose in its wrath, squashed him and then realized	31:05
	that there was some merit in his contention	31:14
	and thus began the formation of an official New Testament.	31:19
	But notice this, it was united with the Old Testament,	31:27
	the two becoming for Christendom, the Holy Bible,	31:35
	and with variations minor rather than major the Bible,	31:42
	both Testaments is the Holy Textbook of the Word of God	31:49
	for Christendom.	31:57
	But as you might guess,	31:59
	the matter does not rest there or end there.	32:02
	Still to the fore is Marcian's nagging question	32:08
	which kept on nagging and still does granted that Jesus,	32:15
	the Christ is the Supreme revelation of God	32:23
	even equated with God.	32:29
	Then why not as such the superiority of the New Testament	32:33
	to Old and concentrate on it.	32:38
	So far as the Christian, as a worshiper is concerned,	32:44
	the Old Testament is interesting, oh yes,	32:49
	sometimes much more interesting than the New,	32:53
	but it is not basic for Christian faith and behavior	32:57
	And brother and I guess that most of us here	33:04
	this morning feel that way.	33:07
	We are 20th centuries, Century Marcianites	33:12
	though most of us don't have is fascination.	33:18
	Nevertheless, the powers that be in the major streams	33:23
	of Christendom keep the new two Testaments bound together.	33:26
	How then does one relate the Old and the New Testaments	33:33
	to each other, or there's a variety of answers?	33:38
	Let's look at a few.	33:43
	There is the allegorical method, the allegorical method	33:46
	where one sees the Christian message of salvation	33:52
	foreshadowed in the earlier volume.	33:58
	If one has just enough imagination or should I say fancy	34:02
	more than one preacher down the centuries has based a sermon	34:11
	about the holy Trinity on, listen to this Genesis 1:26,	34:15
	Then God said, let us, us make man in our image,	34:25
	a committee of three with the Father in the chair.	34:34
	You see what's happened.	34:40
	One reads into the text	34:43
	what one would like to find there,	34:47
	that's known as "Eyes to Jesus."	34:50
	And then pretends that one reads it out of the text,	34:53
	which is ex of Jesus.	34:58
	This is not unusual pulpit device, even in this pulpit.	35:00
	And then there is typology,	35:08
	the doctrine that events and people	35:11
	in the Christian dispensation are symbolized,	35:13
	prefigured, typed In the Judith dispensation.	35:18
	The sacrifice of Christ in Calvary	35:24
	is typed by the sacrifice of the Pascolum at the Passover.	35:28
	The mosaic mount of the law anticipates the New Testament,	35:35
	Mount of the Sermon, Joseph persecuted by his brothers,	35:41
	but saving them in Egypt is the type of Jesus despised	35:48
	and rejected of men.	35:54
	But their savior.	35:56
	Well, maybe what do you think?	36:00
	Or does the unity between the Testaments lie	36:06
	in the more common view	36:09
	that the old is preparatory to the new,	36:12
	that the new fulfills that which is promised in the old,	36:17
	oh, many of us accept this view.	36:22
	Prophecy then is equated with foretelling	36:26
	and enumerable Old Testament versus	36:33
	are connected with Jesus.	36:37
	Isaiah 7:14, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son,	36:40
	Isaiah 53:3.	36:48
	He was despised and rejected of men,	36:51
	a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief	36:54
	and so on and on and on.	36:59
	But it is neither honest nor wise to equate prophecy	37:04
	with foretelling or to confuse the prophet and the seer,	37:11
	prophecy is not second sight.	37:21
	Do I have any view of my own about the relationship	37:27
	of the two Testaments?	37:30
	Yes I do.	37:32
	And I'm gonna share it with you now	37:34
	so that you may understand my approach to the Bible.	37:36
	For me, the intimate relationship, yes.	37:42
	Even the unity of the two Testaments lies in the character,	37:48
	will and action of God, who is the same yesterday,	37:55
	today and forever.	38:02
	And therefore the same in both testaments.	38:05
	Let me say that again, for me, the intimate relationship,	38:11
	even the unity of the Testaments lies in the character, will	38:16
	and action of God who is the same yesterday,	38:23
	today and forever.	38:28
	And therefore the same in both Testaments.	38:29
	The central insights of both are the same	38:35
	as they present to us the eternal drama of how God	38:40
	and man react to each other.	38:45
	That's the theme of the whole Bible interpreted,	38:49
	reinterpreted, misinterpreted by the host of authors	38:55
	who wrote and edited this little library,	39:01
	which we call the Bible.	39:05
	And it is interpreted, reinterpreted and misinterpreted	39:08
	by me too.	39:15
	But the unity remains let's think about it.	39:18
	The unity is not a superficial one.	39:24
	There are both continuity and discontinuity	39:28
	between the Testaments.	39:32
	The Old Testament has disagreements within itself.	39:35
	If you were asked,	39:42
	what was God's attitude to Nineveh the oppressive capital	39:44
	of the Assyrian empire,	39:51
	you have a choice of answers In the Old Testament,	39:55
	Naim, who wrote superb and vivid poetry,	40:01
	perhaps the most glorious poetry in the Old Testament.	40:07
	He said that God was blasting Nineveh to smothering it.	40:11
	But if you turn to the Prophet Jonah,	40:20
	that funny little man kind of Old Testament, Phi Beta Kappa	40:24
	who was more knowledgeable than he was wise.	40:31
	He was peevishly angry because God forgive Nineveh.	40:37
	Now you've bought the Bible. You've got your pick.	40:45
	Do you wanna need Him?	40:47
	Do you want Jonah?	40:49
	Which destruction or pardon was the true	40:53
	or true or word of God?	40:58
	Ezra, the Ecclesiastical lawyer after the return	41:02
	from the Babylonian exile,	41:07
	decreed that Jews must separate themselves	41:09
	from their non-Jewish wives.	41:15
	The race must be kept pure.	41:19
	And about the same time,	41:25
	an unknown author retold an old folk tail	41:27
	about how David, the Great King,	41:33
	the supposed ancestor of the Messiah	41:39
	had foreign blood in his veins.	41:43
	His great-grandmother was Ruth a Moabitess.	41:48
	Now, do you choose Ezra or the author of Ruth	41:56
	as God spokesman?	42:01
	Why? Do you side with the Deutronomic Theory	42:04
	that goodness guarantees prosperity?	42:09
	Goodness guarantees prosperity or do you side with Job?	42:15
	The most impatient man in the Bible who blasts and decries	42:22
	this theory in his own particular case,	42:29
	which? Why?	42:33
	How do we go about answering such questions with consistency	42:37
	or come at this matter of unity from another angle?	42:45
	What are the key words?	42:49
	(preacher coughing)	42:51
	What are the key words of the New Testament?	42:53
	There is grace.	42:57
	The freely given unmerited love of God to sinful man.	42:59
	And yet, can you think of a better example of grace	43:07
	than the call of Isaiah?	43:13
	When he never confessed these sins,	43:16
	he just ejaculated them and said, "It's all up with me.	43:19
	I've seen the King."	43:23
	And the angel touched his lips and said,	43:26
	"You're, iniquitous forgiven.	43:28
	Your sins are taken away."	43:29
	New Testament grace.	43:33
	The date of that is 770 years	43:34
	before Jesus began to speak that's faith.	43:39
	Man's grateful acceptance of the grace,	43:44
	the graciousness of God.	43:48
	And yet when Paul thinks of the man of faith,	43:51
	he goes all the way back to Abraham.	43:54
	Beginning of Genesis,	43:58
	there is mercy compassion toward the suffering.	44:00
	And one remembers Hosea's gentleness to his wife	44:07
	who had become a prostitute.	44:14
	And whom he took back into his home,	44:17
	making the amazing spiritual deduction.	44:23
	If I can love a woman who has betrayed me,	44:26
	surely God can do as much for Israel,	44:33
	which has gone a worrying after idols.	44:38
	The Old and the New Testaments speak the same language.	44:42
	Let's listen to Jesus on this.	44:49
	When a lawyer asked him,	44:52
	"What kind of commandment was utterly basic, primary,	44:53
	preeminent final."	44:59
	Do you know what Jesus did?	45:02
	He answered by bringing together two half	45:03
	versus from the Old Testa,	45:08
	"First, you will love God with everything that's in you."	45:12
	That's from Deuteronomy.	45:17
	Second, "You will love your neighbor	45:19
	as much as you love yourself."	45:22
	That's from Leviticus.	45:25
	And then he added,	45:27
	"There is no other commandment greater than these."	45:29
	And in the passage read is our lesson.	45:35
	Jesus said,	45:38
	"Think not that I am come to abolish the law	45:39
	and the prophets."	45:43
	That is the Jewish Bible.	45:45
	"I not come to abolish them,	45:48
	but to fulfill them not to abolish yet,	45:52
	not necessarily to keep, to fulfill,	45:56
	to express in its full significance,	46:00
	to grasp the heart of the matter,	46:04
	to appreciate the spirit behind the letter."	46:06
	And at that point,	46:11
	Jesus places himself in the prophetic tradition.	46:11
	So amid discontinuity, there is a genuine continuity.	46:17
	The New Testament gospel is not entirely new.	46:24
	You see, then what we need a norm, a creed,	46:29
	an affirmation of faith drawn up from both Testaments	46:36
	to be used to test any part of the Bible	46:41
	as an instance of God in action,	46:46
	God in action for man salvation.	46:49
	And here is how a class in the divinity school	46:53
	some years ago worded such a touchstone,	46:55
	God, the Creator and Sustainer of life.	47:00
	Has so purposed in his love	47:04
	that man being right relations with him,	47:06
	that of his own free will he overcomes the power	47:10
	and he raises the guilt of sin,	47:13
	which separates man from God.	47:16
	This was always his effective purpose,	47:20
	always in the Old Testament.	47:23
	But it was uniquely manifested and dramatized	47:27
	in the birth life, death and resurrection of Jesus.	47:30
	He's acknowledged as the son of God,	47:34
	because he supremely reveals the will and nature of God.	47:37
	This redeeming activity of God is perpetuated	47:42
	by the working of the Holy Spirit	47:45
	those who believe this are bound	47:48
	in an eternal fellowship whose daily life on earth	47:50
	is marked by faith, love and hope.	47:54
	Next year's class picked this up and said, "Sir,	48:00
	you better have something said about those	48:02
	who don't believe this."	48:04
	I said, "Will you write it?"	48:06
	Students wrote the first part.	48:08
	Well, that class split down the middle	48:09
	half of them believed in hell more vehemently	48:12
	than they believed in Heaven.	48:15
	They even knew who was going there,	48:17
	which is more than His holiness	48:20
	the Pope would claim to know.	48:22
	The other half were Universalists. Everybody will be saved.	48:24
	And they said, "Sir, you are the professor.	48:28
	You bring together these two points you in one sentence."	48:30
	So I did.	48:34
	Those who refuse to believe this	48:38
	are under the judgment of God's love here and hereafter.	48:41
	And that left it to God,	48:46
	which seemed to me the safest place to leave.	48:47
	Now with such an affirmation of faith,	48:53
	one tests the Bible passages,	48:56
	and for example, prefers Jonah to Nahum	48:59
	on the issue of Nineveh and Ruth to Esra	49:03
	on the matter of matrimonial segregation.	49:08
	One rejoices that grace and faith and mercy and love,	49:11
	are at home in the Old Testament is in the New.	49:16
	One rejoices that Jesus appreciated his heritage,	49:21
	even though he was not unaware of its infirmities,	49:26
	then is there nothing new in the New Testament?	49:29
	Of course there is.	49:32
	There is the rabbi Jesus	49:35
	who loved God and his neighbor even unto death.	49:39
	There is Easter, the real birthday of the Christian faith.	49:46
	And there is Paul of Tarsis,	49:53
	who transformed a sect of Judaism into an independent	49:56
	and interracial religion.	50:02
	But what I seek to stress today is the validity	50:06
	of the Old Testament for Christian preaching.	50:10
	As we worship the God who is the same from Genesis	50:15
	to revelation, from Christmas unto Easter,	50:19
	and even to this day.	50:24
	And so let a sing a hymn to Him,	50:27
	the 30th hymn, a Jewish hymn full of Christian thought,	50:29
	hymn number 30.	50:36
	(orchestral music)	50:49
	(orchestral music)	51:33
	(choir singing)
	(gentle orchestral music)	55:59
	(orchestral music)	56:28
	(choir singing)
	(orchestral music)	59:26
	(orchestral music)	59:49
	(choir singing)
	Oh God, of all that is receive and sanctify,	1:00:47
	we ask for your loving purposes,	1:00:52
	these gifts of our life's labor and the allegiances	1:00:55
	of our hearts to the end that your will,	1:01:00
	may be faithfully done in this congregation,	1:01:03
	in this university, in this city, in the world,	1:01:08
	in the name of Christ, we ask it, amen.	1:01:15
	Go forth now to be God's apostles of great in the world	1:01:20
	and made a peace, the love and the grace of God, the Father,	1:01:26
	the Son, and the Holy Spirit go with you.	1:01:32
	(choir singing)	1:01:41
	(bell ringing)	1:02:55
	(orchestral music)	1:03:16
	(indistinct)	1:03:38
	(group chatter)	1:03:46

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "On Preaching from the Old Testament" (February 27, 1972)

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February 27, 1972

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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