Robert T. Young - "Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley" (April 7, 1974)

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	(orchestral music)	0:04
	(choir singing harmoniously)	0:54
	♪ Amina ♪	1:57
-	Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.	2:16
-	Hosanna in the highest.	2:21
	(orchestral music)	2:24
	(choir singing harmoniously)	3:06
	♪ Amen ♪	8:11
-	Today we are a church gathered to re-enact and experience	8:27
	something of Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem.	8:31
	We are instantly awed and bowed	8:36
	as we remember who He was and see who we are.	8:39
	We are compelled therefore to confess our sins	8:44
	in order that we may move through ourselves	8:47
	into a sense of wholeness with the Christ.	8:50
	Let us therefore confess our sins corporately.	8:54
	Oh God, we who proclaim with loud Hosannas	8:59
	that Jesus is our Lord,	9:04
	are also people who like Peter	9:06
	will deny this three times and more.	9:10
	We sing our glory and praise with care,	9:14
	but have difficulty being obedient	9:18
	to your love and goodwill.	9:21
	Our confessions are spoiled by our bad memories.	9:23
	We comfort ourselves with a thousand easy slogans	9:28
	and heroic fantasies.	9:32
	We too simply forget those who suffer because of us,	9:35
	we do not really see our involvement in social crime.	9:40
	We substitute benign indifference for active love.	9:45
	Forgive us for our indulgence in all the false myth,	9:50
	which limit our vision and our concern.	9:55
	Teach us the joy of gratitude expressed	9:59
	in waving of the palm branches.	10:02
	And may this joy replace the bitterness	10:05
	of resentment in all our lives.	10:08
	Amen.	10:11
	Let us confess our sins individually.	10:13
	(choir singing harmoniously)	10:50
	Be confident that our God's love is so strong and continual	11:58
	that once more this day,	12:04
	we are a forgiven and a reconciled people.	12:07
	Amen.	12:11
	(orchestral music)	12:16
	♪ Hosanna ♪	12:54
	♪ Hosanna ♪	12:55
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:03
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:04
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:06
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:07
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:09
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:10
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	13:12
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:15
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:18
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:20
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:23
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:27
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:30
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	13:32
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:35
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:36
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	13:38
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:41
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	13:44
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:46
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:48
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:50
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	13:52
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:55
	♪ Hosanna ♪	13:58
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:01
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:05
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:10
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:11
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:13
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:16
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:17
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:19
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:21
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:23
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:26
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:27
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:30
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:32
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:33
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:35
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:37
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:39
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:42
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:43
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:45
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:48
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:51
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	14:54
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:56
	♪ Hosanna ♪	14:58
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:00
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:04
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:08
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:10
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:12
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:14
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:17
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:20
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:21
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:23
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:26
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:27
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:32
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:35
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:36
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:38
	♪ Hosanna ♪	15:39
	♪ Hosanna excelsis ♪	15:40
-	Let us join together in the unison collect.	16:41
	Oh God, this day we remember Jesus's glorious entrance	16:46
	into the city where He was to die.	16:51
	Give us grace to take up our cross and follow Him	16:54
	in the strength of patience and inconstancy of faith.	16:58
	And grant us such fellowship with Him in His suffering,	17:03
	that we may know the secret of His strength and peace.	17:07
	We pray in His spirit.	17:11
	Amen.	17:14
-	The old Testament lesson	17:29
	is taken from the book of Zechariah chapter nine,	17:32
	"Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion,	17:40
	shout aloud O daughter of Jerusalem.	17:44
	Lo your king comes to you.	17:48
	Triumphant and victorious is He,	17:52
	humble and riding on an ass and on the colt,	17:57
	the foal of an ass.	18:01
	I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim	18:04
	and the war horse from Jerusalem,	18:08
	and the battle bow shall be cut off.	18:11
	And He shall command peace to the nations.	18:16
	His dominion shall be from sea to sea	18:21
	and from the river to the ends of the earth.	18:25
	As for you also,	18:29
	because of the blood of my covenant with you,	18:31
	I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.	18:34
	Return to your stronghold oh prisoners of hope.	18:40
	Today, I declare that I will restore to you double."	18:44
	Will the congregation please rise and stand	18:55
	for the reading of the gospel.	19:00
	The gospel lesson is taken from the book of Luke chapter 19.	19:09
	"When He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany,	19:16
	at the Mount that is called Olivet,	19:19
	He sent two of his disciples saying,	19:21
	"Go into the village opposite,	19:23
	where on entering, you will find a colt tied	19:26
	on which no one has ever yet sat.	19:28
	Untie it and bring it here.	19:31
	If anyone asks you, why are you untying it,	19:34
	you shall say the Lord has need of it."	19:36
	So those who were sent went away and found it	19:41
	as He had told them.	19:44
	And as they were untying, the colt its owners said to them,	19:45
	"Why are you on tying the colt?"	19:49
	And they said, "The Lord has need of it."	19:51
	And they brought it to Jesus	19:54
	and throwing their garments on the colt,	19:57
	they sat Jesus upon it.	19:59
	And as He rode along,	20:03
	they spread their garments in the road.	20:04
	And as He was now drawing near,	20:07
	at the descent of the Mount of Olivet,	20:09
	the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice	20:11
	and praise God with a loud voice	20:14
	for all the mighty works that they had seen,	20:18
	saying "Blessed be the king	20:21
	who comes in the name of the Lord.	20:22
	Peace in heaven and glory in the highest."	20:25
	And some of the pharisees in the multitude said to Him,	20:31
	"Teacher rebuke your disciples."	20:33
	He answered, "I tell you if these were silent,	20:37
	the very stones would cry out.""	20:42
	Here, ends the reading of the lesson.	20:47
	May the Lord add His blessing.	20:49
	(choir singing harmoniously)	21:01
	♪ Amen ♪	21:25
	♪ Amen ♪	21:28
-	Let us affirm our faith.	21:34
	We are not alone, we live in God's world.	21:37
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	21:42
	who has come in the true man Jesus	21:47
	to reconcile and make new.	21:50
	Who works in us and others by His spirit.	21:53
	We trust Him, He calls us to be His church,	21:57
	to celebrate His presence, to love and serve others,	22:02
	to seek justice and resist evil,	22:07
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	22:10
	our judge and our hope in life, in death,	22:15
	in life beyond death, God is with us,	22:20
	we are not alone.	22:24
	Thanks be to God.	22:26
	The Lord be with you.	22:29
-	And with you too.	22:31
-	Let us pray.	22:32
	Oh God, creator, sustainer, and Redeemer.	22:42
	How wonderful it is today to affirm the many people	22:46
	who love Jesus and who met Him with waving palms	22:49
	on His entry into Jerusalem.	22:53
	Our love for you and Him makes our identity	22:56
	with that loving crowd very strong.	22:59
	We rejoice in the opportunity of a day like this,	23:03
	in which we can say how very much we love you and Jesus	23:06
	and all your other daughters and sons.	23:10
	We are caught up in the spirit of the festive day.	23:13
	However, this festive day is not only a Lenten day,	23:17
	but also the day before Holy Week.	23:22
	And this adds another dimension to our loving praise.	23:25
	We are praising and rejoicing in the midst of penance.	23:29
	And we are penitential for who we have been	23:34
	for others in the world.	23:39
	We never are able to do all we can for others.	23:42
	And so we lift in love to you,	23:47
	those for whom we have not done enough.	23:50
	We lift in love to you the hungry, the ill-clothed,	23:56
	the ill-housed, those without the basic survival needs.	24:00
	We lift in love to you the sick and lonely,	24:06
	the young and old, those whom we often tend to ignore.	24:09
	We lift in love to you,	24:15
	the victims of racism and sexism and other oppressions.	24:17
	Those whom we see as angry and often hostile.	24:22
	We lift in love to you	24:28
	those who are experiencing the pain of dying	24:29
	or the grief of a loss,	24:33
	those for whom we often have no words.	24:35
	We lift in love to you our beloved ones,	24:40
	our families and friends,	24:43
	those to whom we often give very little of ourselves.	24:46
	And finally we lift in love to you ourselves,	24:51
	for whom we have little love and caring.	24:55
	All this we ask in the name of Jesus,	25:00
	who though loved by many, was also forsaken by many.	25:03
	And who taught us to pray,	25:09
	our father who art in heaven,	25:12
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.	25:15
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	25:20
	Give us this day our daily bread	25:24
	and forgive us our trespasses,	25:28
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	25:30
	And lead us not into temptation,	25:34
	but deliver us from evil,	25:37
	for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory	25:40
	forever and ever.	25:44
	Amen.	25:46
-	Grace to you and peace from God the father	26:00
	and His son, our Lord Jesus Christ.	26:08
	Amen.	26:12
	I can imagine it was a day just like today,	26:14
	not quite as cold, but a beautiful day,	26:19
	warm, perhaps even hot, sunny, wind swept,	26:23
	and the crowd, the multitude gathered and why not?	26:32
	No wonder that the crowd gathered.	26:39
	No wonder that the people yelled and raved and exclaimed	26:43
	over His coming back home to Jerusalem	26:47
	to celebrate with His brothers and sisters	26:50
	of the Jewish tradition, the great Passover Feast,	26:54
	which is also now being celebrated	26:58
	by our Jewish brothers and sisters today.	27:01
	Surely the people would turn out in full force.	27:04
	Jesus was the king, the king of Kings and Lord of Lords,	27:08
	the one who fulfilled the prophecy of the old Testament.	27:14
	The Jewish people had looked for Him as the Messiah	27:19
	for 20 generations or perhaps even more,	27:23
	the Savior, the Redeemer,	27:26
	the one who would restore Israel,	27:29
	and here He came down the road.	27:31
	Why not wave palm branches?	27:36
	Why not throw garments on the road and yell,	27:38
	"Hosanna blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.	27:41
	Hosanna to the son of David,	27:45
	blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.	27:48
	Hosanna in the highest."	27:52
	Yes, why not?	27:54
	He had made women and men whole by forgiving their sins.	27:58
	He had healed the paralytics, the lame, the blind,	28:03
	the bleeding and the sick.	28:06
	He had raised the dead.	28:08
	He had preached the word of God,	28:10
	prophetically and authentically.	28:12
	He had stood against tradition and authority.	28:14
	And for persons,	28:17
	He had brought them into the kingdom of God	28:20
	and showed them what the kingdom of God was really like.	28:23
	Why not exclaim?	28:27
	The king who fulfilled the scriptures.	28:29
	And there they were,	28:32
	the family and friends of Jairus' daughter,	28:34
	whom He had raised from death.	28:37
	The friends from Cana of Galilee,	28:39
	whose wedding feast He had richly enlivened.	28:42
	The customers of Joseph the carpenter	28:47
	who had known Him since he was a boy.	28:49
	The friends and family of Lazarus, His friend,	28:52
	whom He had raised from the dead.	28:55
	The man from Gadarene,	28:58
	who had been filled at one time with demons.	29:00
	The woman taken in adultery, who heard Jesus say,	29:03
	"Let him, who is without sin,	29:07
	cast the first stone on this woman."	29:09
	The woman at the well.	29:14
	The woman who touched His garment.	29:15
	Simon's mother-in-law one of the first persons Jesus healed.	29:18
	The woman of the city who poured ointment on Him	29:22
	and who heard Him say,	29:24
	"Your faith has made you whole go in peace."	29:25
	The crowd, or crowds, who had heard the sermon on the Mount	29:30
	all together or in its many parts,	29:33
	what preaching they had heard.	29:35
	The leper.	29:38
	Those made whole by forgiveness of their sins,	29:39
	the paralytic, His mother and others in His own family,	29:42
	Mary and Mary Magdalene, Nicodemus, Zachias,	29:46
	all there thrilled, excited, yelling,	29:50
	"Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."	29:54
	I wonder if these folks ever heard a song	30:02
	like Wallace Hornbrook's,	30:05
	"Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley."	30:08
	I'm sure they did.	30:13
	Because there's a song that goes,	30:15
	"The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.	30:17
	He makes me down to lie.	30:21
	My soul, He doeth restore again.	30:23
	Even though I walked through death's dark veil.	30:25
	I fear no ill.	30:28
	Thy rod and staff, they comfort still."	30:30
	Jesus walked this lonesome valley.	30:33
	He had to walk by Himself.	30:37
	Listen, feel, hear, let the words touch you	30:40
	when the choir sings this Anthem in just a few minutes,	30:44
	because I'm convinced that these people	30:47
	were there for many reasons,	30:49
	but one reason many of them were there	30:52
	is that Jesus transformed their lonesome valley	30:54
	into a valley with a presence of concern.	30:58
	This is the message that the stones would cry out.	31:03
	There is a truth here that will not be silenced.	31:07
	There is a truth here that all nature knows,	31:11
	even those dead stones.	31:14
	There is a message here that God wants proclaimed.	31:16
	There is a word here that must be spoken,	31:19
	hear it, know it, believe it, Luke writes.	31:22
	Jesus has walked this lonesome valley.	31:26
	Your lonesome valley and mine, He has walked it with us.	31:32
	This Jesus with us, dear daughters and sons of God	31:39
	is God Emmanuel, God with us.	31:43
	Here is the message the stones would cry out,	31:48
	God is in Christ Jesus walking	31:51
	this lonesome valley of life today, with us.	31:54
	And life is a lonesome valley for all of us, sometime.	32:01
	Robert and Taylor Campus minister	32:09
	at the university of Illinois,	32:10
	writes about the frame of mind	32:14
	that a student may find himself in at times,	32:15
	he says some gray morning,	32:18
	when he hasn't seen his girl for a month,	32:21
	when his roommate is depressed,	32:24
	and an exam is around the corner,	32:27
	he may bitterly question whether he has anything other	32:28
	than a statistic and cry out.	32:31
	"Does anybody really care?"	32:33
	This lonesome valley.	32:37
	Or you may identify with the little old gray haired lady	32:40
	I saw sitting in the airport in Atlanta one day,	32:43
	the crowds swirled around her, people running to and fro,	32:47
	noise and conversation and hustle and bustle filled the air.	32:50
	And she sat over in the corner blank expression on her face,	32:53
	looking empty, heartsick and weary, this lonesome valley.	32:57
	Or listen to the plaintiff words of another elderly lady.	33:04
	She was one of a group of five women	33:08
	that I saw at a local restaurant having dinner one evening,	33:10
	obviously celebrating her birthday.	33:13
	And in the midst of the gaiety,	33:15
	I overheard her as she stopped with a painful look	33:17
	on her face and said,	33:20
	"Well, I hope we're all here this time next year,"	33:21
	lonesome valley.	33:27
	Or here are the words of the Brooklyn college co-ed	33:30
	when she said,	33:32
	"If people are right in telling me	33:33
	that these are the best years of my life,	33:37
	I'm not so sure I wanna stay around for the rest,"	33:39
	lonesome valley.	33:47
	Maybe the real message of Palm Sunday will come through	33:51
	if we look to see how Jesus walked	33:53
	through this lonesome valley.	33:56
	Jesus walked through this lonesome valley, caring.	33:57
	He cared for others.	34:02
	He cared throughout His life.	34:04
	He cared for the blind whom He made to see.	34:07
	He cared for the paralytic,	34:10
	whom He forgave and made to walk.	34:12
	He cared for the leper whom He cleansed and made whole.	34:14
	He cared for the prostitute	34:18
	whom He received as a real person.	34:20
	He cared for Lazarus and His family with whom He wept.	34:23
	He cared for a little child and said,	34:27
	we should all become as little children.	34:30
	He cared for the thief with whom He'd die.	34:33
	He cared for His mother, as He died.	34:37
	Jesus cared about persons and He cared about them,	34:41
	one by one.	34:45
	Today, I'm afraid we are too accustomed	34:47
	to thinking large numbers, hundreds, thousands,	34:50
	maybe even millions, but to Jesus the Christ,	34:53
	it is the one who counts.	34:56
	For when someone hurts, she hurts as one,	35:00
	not as a multitude.	35:05
	When someone is lonely, he is lonely as one, not as a crowd.	35:08
	When someone is sad, she is sad as one, and not as many.	35:14
	When someone is dying, he faces his death,	35:20
	not that of the masses.	35:25
	To the caring Christ, it is the one who really counts.	35:28
	And so it should be for those of us	35:32
	who call ourselves by the name of Jesus Christ.	35:34
	Collin Morris writes in his little book,	35:38
	"Include Me Out!"	35:40
	About the church,	35:41
	"This whole massive structure we call a church,"	35:43
	he writes "With all its history, theology and worship,	35:46
	and witness is a great pyramid on a point,	35:50
	all of this is meant to be brought	35:55
	to focus upon any one person's need.	35:57
	That is what all the singing and praying	36:01
	and bishops and sacraments and preaching is about.	36:03
	It is about the paramount significance to God,	36:06
	of a single human being.	36:09
	And if we fail in meeting that single human beings need,	36:11
	we fail in everything."	36:15
	All of this church, singing this choir,	36:18
	this place here where we gather today, praying, giving,	36:22
	building all the other paraphernalia,	36:26
	all of this is to be brought	36:28
	to focus upon any one person's need,	36:30
	and just to show the great significance to God	36:33
	of one human being.	36:36
	Oh the tenderness, the compassion, the care, the love,	36:39
	the concern that God has for one person.	36:45
	Sound absurd?	36:50
	Sure it does, surely it does.	36:53
	Unless your little child	36:59
	is the one who needs the healing hand of the doctor,	37:00
	and then one person is very important.	37:04
	Or unless it is your mother who has become husband-less	37:09
	and she needs comfort and understanding,	37:14
	and then one person becomes very important.	37:17
	Or unless it is your roommate who has failed	37:21
	to get into law school or med school,	37:24
	or who has received a dear John,	37:27
	or who has found out that she is going to have a baby,	37:29
	and then one person is very important.	37:33
	The love and tenderness of God and His concern	37:38
	and care for one person is like that of the little old lady	37:42
	who knocked on the preacher's study door one Sunday morning,	37:48
	about two minutes before 11 o'clock	37:51
	and the preacher opened the door.	37:54
	And the little old lady was standing there	37:56
	with a tiny fluttering bird in her hands.	37:58
	And she said, "He was hurt and I had to pick him up."	38:02
	And the preacher said,	38:10
	"Oh yes, that's nice of you Mrs. Jones,	38:11
	I'm sorry about the little bird."	38:13
	And he hurried off to the sanctuary for the worship service.	38:16
	And reflecting later, the preacher said,	38:21
	"Oh, if only I had had sense enough	38:23
	to let that little old lady preach the sermon that day,	38:27
	to let her stand in the pulpit	38:31
	and just open up her hands and show everybody,	38:32
	how much she cared for a little old bird."	38:35
	The love and care and concern of God is just like that.	38:42
	In his little book entitled "Meditations in Universe,"	38:47
	Paul Monka says, "When all is said, nothing is done."	38:51
	And too many of us are sayers, talkers,	38:59
	word mongers, and not doers, carers, lovers.	39:03
	Preachers are taught to talk, to preach,	39:09
	and not really to listen.	39:13
	Professors are trained to tell,	39:15
	and always not to hear from others.	39:18
	Students are instructed to deal with content,	39:23
	not always to care about persons.	39:27
	The engineering student or med student or law student	39:30
	or divinity student or education student	39:33
	is taught skills and methods and materials,	39:35
	and not often helped to be sensitive to people.	39:39
	Oh, how we need carers today.	39:43
	This is a lonesome valley.	39:47
	This is what that changed list expression of the coed says,	39:51
	as she walks from one side of this campus, to the other,	39:54
	never changing expressions and often never even looking up.	39:58
	This is what the senior in his last semester means	40:03
	when he says,	40:06
	"I really don't know what I'll do	40:07
	four graduate schools have turned me down I don't know,	40:08
	even know where I'm going to get a job," lonesome valley.	40:11
	This is what the first semester, mid year freshmen says,	40:18
	when he remarks, "This place is cold, it's unfriendly,	40:20
	it's hard to feel at home here."	40:27
	This is what the senior citizen means when she says to me,	40:30
	"Bob, you haven't been to see me in a long time."	40:33
	This is what the young faculty member means when he says,	40:38
	"I've been coming to the chapel regularly for months now,	40:40
	but I don't know anybody there yet."	40:46
	Lonesome valley.	40:50
	Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes,	40:53
	"The church is truly the church	40:54
	only when it exists for others."	40:57
	Jesus cared.	41:01
	This is a lonesome valley, but God is present.	41:03
	This is what the incarnation is all about.	41:08
	That God comes in His fullness to in all of our all.	41:11
	This is what the crucifixion is all about.	41:17
	That there are death filling, moments of anxiety	41:20
	and fear and despair for all of us, but God is there.	41:25
	This is what the resurrection is all about,	41:31
	that God comes to us in any death moment or fear moment	41:34
	and despair moment and brings us to life again.	41:38
	But it's fleeting.	41:43
	Karl Harmonie reminds us,	41:45
	"It's time we really face this harsh reality," he says,	41:46
	"Truth is seldom wholly nice,	41:50
	and faith is never wholly certain	41:54
	for more than a moment at a time.	41:57
	Faith has to deal to live with contradictions	42:01
	and uncertainty and death.	42:04
	Faith is a gamble, not a reason deduction.	42:07
	Faith is puzzled by this life."	42:11
	Lonesome valley, but God is there.	42:16
	This week we have remembered the life	42:21
	of Martin Luther king Jr.	42:24
	On the occasion, the sad occasion	42:28
	of the sixth anniversary of his assassination,	42:31
	his last sermon, like many others	42:35
	had some powerful words in it.	42:39
	Perhaps though as we read them now	42:43
	they have more meaning to us	42:45
	because we know what he did not know at the time,	42:46
	namely that death was just a few hours away for him.	42:49
	The last paragraph of his last sermon includes these words,	42:53
	"Well, I don't know what will happen now,	42:57
	we've got some difficult days ahead,	43:02
	but it really doesn't matter to me now	43:05
	because I've been to the mountain top, and I don't mind.	43:07
	Like anybody. I would like to live a long life,	43:13
	longevity has its place,	43:17
	but I'm not concerned about that now,	43:20
	I just want to do God's will.	43:22
	And He has allowed me to go up to the mountain	43:26
	and I've looked over and I've seen the promised land.	43:29
	I may not get there with you,	43:33
	but I want you to know tonight that we as a people	43:34
	will get to the promised land, so I'm happy tonight.	43:38
	I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man.	43:41
	Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."	43:45
	No wonder they stood and shouted,	43:52
	"Hosanna glory to God in the highest,	43:55
	our eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."	43:59
	In the name of the Father,	44:07
	and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.	44:09
	Amen.	44:15
	(orchestral music)	44:30
	(choir singing harmoniously)	45:11
	(orchestral music)	48:24
	♪ Jesus walked this lonesome valley ♪	52:14
	♪ He had to walk it by Himself ♪	52:23
	♪ Oh, nobody else could walk it for Him ♪	52:33
	♪ He had to walk it by Himself ♪	52:45
	♪ We must walk this lonesome valley ♪	53:13
	♪ We have to walk it by ourselves ♪	53:23
	♪ Oh, nobody else can walk it for us ♪	53:33
	♪ We have to walk it by ourselves ♪	53:46
	♪ You must go and stand your trial ♪	54:05
	♪ You have to stand it by yourself ♪	54:14
	♪ Oh, nobody else can stand it for you ♪	54:24
	♪ You have to stand it by yourself ♪	54:37
	♪ You have to stand it by yourself ♪	55:10
	♪ You have to stand it by yourself ♪	55:25
	(orchestral music)	56:02
	(choir singing harmoniously)	56:59
	♪ Amen ♪	57:34
-	Oh, God of who's gifts we have all received,	57:42
	accept this offering of your people.	57:47
	Remember in your love those who have brought it	57:50
	and those for whom it is given.	57:53
	And so follow it with your blessing	57:55
	that it may promote peace and justice among all people.	57:58
	Amen.	58:02
	(orchestral music)	58:05
	(choir singing harmoniously)	59:20
	Please be seated.	1:03:15
	Go out in peace to serve God and your neighbor	1:03:22
	in all that you do.	1:03:26
	The blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son,	1:03:29
	and Holy Spirit is with you always.	1:03:33
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:39
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:48
	♪ Amen ♪	1:03:58
	♪ Amen ♪	1:04:15
	♪ Amen ♪	1:04:26
	♪ Amen ♪	1:04:45
	(bells chiming)	1:05:07
	(orchestral music)	1:05:20

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Robert T. Young - "Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley" (April 7, 1974)

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April 7, 1974

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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