Van Bogard Dunn - "That Which Is Your Own" (September 29, 1974)

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	(classical organ music)	0:05
-	Let us worship God, creator, Redeemer, sustainer.	3:17
	Let us pray.	3:23
	Grant us grace, oh God, as we gather with joy and with hope	3:26
	to find here in this place, renewal of our whole selves,	3:31
	body, mind, and spirit,	3:36
	as your word speaks to all that we have	3:40
	and all that we are, through Christ, our Lord, amen.	3:43
	(gentle choral music)	3:51
	(upbeat organ music)	5:18
	(upbeat choral music)	5:56
	(upbeat organ music)	8:06
	(upbeat choral music)	9:04
	Grace to you, and peace from God, our father,	10:04
	and our Lord, Jesus Christ.	10:11
	It is fitting and good to acknowledge our presence	10:14
	before the Lord, God almighty.	10:18
	As we do, let us be aware of God's call and of our response.	10:22
	His will and our ways.	10:28
	Those things we have done which we ought not to have done.	10:32
	Those things we have not done which we should have done.	10:37
	Let us confess our sins as we pray together.	10:42
	Oh God, you have shown us a land of promise,	10:47
	but we keep looking back.	10:52
	You have sent us forth and we have hesitated.	10:54
	You have made us for freedom, and we have been rigid.	10:59
	You have confronted us with people who hurt,	11:04
	and we have pulled down the blinds.	11:07
	You have urged us to intimacy,	11:10
	and we have kept people at arms length.	11:13
	In this holy moment,	11:17
	wipe away our tears for losses long endured,	11:19
	cleanse us from regret for past mistakes,	11:23
	quicken our wills to an instant response to your love,	11:28
	that we may become persons ready to serve	11:32
	in love and joy in your name.	11:35
	Have mercy upon us oh Lord, and grant us your salvation,	11:39
	in the name of Christ, amen.	11:45
	In the privacy of your own self,	11:50
	I invite you to continue with your prayer of confession.	11:53
	Dear friends in Christ, oh, God has been merciful to us.	12:15
	We are free to live, for we are a forgiven people.	12:22
	His word says to us, if we walk in the light,	12:29
	as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.	12:32
	And the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all our sin.	12:39
	Amen.	12:48
	(soft organ music)	12:51
	(upbeat fanfare music)	13:32
	(upbeat choral music)	13:46
	(dramatic choral music)	14:06
	(soft choral music)	16:20
-	Would you stand?	18:25
	Hear the good news.	18:33
	He who is faithful in a very little	18:36
	is faithful also in much.	18:39
	He who is dishonest in a very little	18:42
	is dishonest also in much.	18:45
	If then you have not been faithful in me,	18:49
	in the unrighteous mammon	18:52
	who will entrust you the true riches.	18:55
	If you have not been faithful in which is another's,	18:58
	who will give you that which is your own?	19:02
	No servant can serve two masters,	19:05
	for either he will hate the one and love the other,	19:09
	or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.	19:13
	You cannot serve God and mammon.	19:18
	The Pharisees, who were lovers of money,	19:23
	heard all of this, and they scoffed at him.	19:25
	But he said to them,	19:29
	you are those who justify yourselves before men,	19:30
	but God knows your hearts.	19:34
	For what is exalted among men	19:37
	is abomination in the sight of God.	19:40
	May the Lord bless this reading	19:44
	and hearing of his holy word.	19:46
	(upbeat organ music)	19:50
	(upbeat choral music)	19:58
-	Together let us affirm our faith.	20:30
	We are not alone.	20:34
	We live in God's world.	20:37
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating.	20:39
	Who has come in the true man Jesus	20:45
	to reconcile and make new.	20:48
	Who works in us and others by His spirit.	20:51
	We trust Him.	20:55
	He calls us to be in His church, to celebrate his presence,	20:57
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	21:03
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	21:08
	Our judge and our hope,	21:12
	in life, in death, in life beyond death God is with us.	21:15
	We are not alone. Thanks be to God.	21:21
	The Lord be with you.	21:28
	Let us pray.	21:31
	Oh God, our Father.	21:40
	Loving and good.	21:42
	Gracious and merciful.	21:45
	Ever willing to reach out and accept and forgive.	21:48
	To you we raise our hungering hearts	21:54
	in prayers of hope and joy.	21:56
	Thank you.	22:00
	Thank you for this time to worship, to sing hymns,	22:02
	to be with others who have felt that strange	22:07
	and wonderful feeling in their hearts	22:10
	that can come only from your spirit.	22:12
	Thank you.	22:16
	It is good to be here,	22:19
	to feel in the midst of so much that is strong	22:21
	and frightening that it almost overwhelms us.	22:24
	The peace that comes	22:28
	from the presence of our Lord, Jesus Christ.	22:30
	And yet Lord, many of us are tired.	22:35
	Weary down to the very marrow of our bones	22:37
	of being told what we ought to know, what we ought to do,	22:40
	what we ought to give, how we ought to live.	22:43
	And of never being helped to understand why.	22:47
	This which we call church, this of which we are a part	22:54
	seems to reflect much of the world which surrounds us.	22:59
	We're given answers to questions we never ask.	23:04
	And are made to feel guilty about not taking part	23:10
	in plans which we never helped to make.	23:12
	Somehow Lord, yes, Lord.	23:16
	The way of the church doesn't always fit into the joyous,	23:20
	free, explosive, and renewing way that you offered	23:24
	when you walked this earth and that you offer even now.	23:29
	So we come to worship,	23:34
	to hear again the strange and compelling story of Jesus,	23:36
	and of how he cared for ordinary, confused,	23:41
	rejected, searching people.	23:44
	People so very, very much like us.	23:48
	Show us, oh God,	23:53
	the way to that abundant life which you have promised.	23:56
	Help us to receive and to share the love of Christ.	24:02
	Oh God, bless Mrs. Betty Ford	24:08
	with your love and your presence.	24:13
	Be close to her husband and her children.	24:16
	As we pray for them,	24:22
	we recall all others who this day suffer from pain,	24:23
	illness, disease, hunger, loneliness.	24:27
	Those who this night	24:32
	will sleep only on beds of pain and misery.	24:34
	God be merciful to all in Honduras	24:41
	who still suffer from the ravages of the hurricane.	24:43
	As we pray for others,	24:49
	help us to be willing to give of ourselves, to serve them.	24:52
	Oh God, as we look at ourselves,	24:57
	we know and must admit and say to you	24:59
	that we have received much, and therefore we know that	25:01
	from us much is expected.	25:06
	Help us to give freely and joyfully through Jesus Christ,	25:09
	who gave his very all for each of us,	25:16
	and for all others we pray.	25:19
	And we pray together now the prayer	25:23
	which our Lord has taught us to pray.	25:24
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	25:27
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	25:33
	on earth as it is in heaven.	25:37
	Give us this day our daily bread.	25:40
	Forgive us our trespasses	25:43
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	25:46
	Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	25:50
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power,	25:55
	and the glory, forever.	25:58
	Amen.	26:01
	I'd like at this moment to mention two opportunities,	26:08
	which I invite you to give of yourself.	26:14
	The administrative committee of the chapel	26:20
	has given me permission to say to you	26:23
	that all of the offerings received	26:26
	in the service of worship this day	26:28
	will go for a special offering to be sent	26:32
	to church world service	26:36
	or to some other appropriate church agency	26:37
	for the relief of those who suffer in Honduras.	26:40
	If you did not come prepared to give	26:45
	and to give generously this morning,	26:48
	I invite you simply to send an offering to the chapel	26:49
	during the course of this week.	26:52
	And to return next Sunday with a very special gift	26:55
	to give for this same purpose.	26:58
	The administrative committee has approved	27:02
	the offering both this Sunday and next Sunday	27:06
	to go for this very, very desperate purpose.	27:10
	So in the name of Christ, I invite you this morning,	27:15
	not for my sake or even for your own,	27:20
	except for the satisfaction of having helped to give	27:23
	and to give generously,	27:27
	so that some of those still living and suffering	27:30
	may be relieved even partially.	27:35
	Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,	27:40
	from 11 to 4:30 in the Duke Indoor Stadium,	27:41
	the Cameron Indoor Stadium, the blood mobile will be here.	27:44
	It only takes a few minutes to give a pint of blood.	27:50
	So let me encourage you to mark your calendar	27:56
	either for Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday.	27:59
	And if you are physically able,	28:03
	and most of you I'm sure are,	28:05
	encourage you to go to the indoor stadium,	28:08
	even if you've never done it before, or even if you have,	28:14
	and give for the sake of someone else.	28:20
	Two opportunities for giving this day.	28:26
	Let me invite those who are members of the chapel staff,	28:32
	the music staff, the hostesses, the secretaries,	28:39
	the ministers and all, and your spouses,	28:42
	and those who are members of the religious life staff,	28:47
	the chaplains to the university,	28:49
	those who are present this morning	28:51
	to stand for just a moment, if you will.	28:52
	Members of the chapel staff, and religious life staff,	28:57
	and your spouses.	29:00
	Some of these persons are new with us	29:06
	on the chapel staff or the religious life staff this year.	29:08
	So to give you an opportunity to meet and speak with them	29:14
	and to give them an opportunity to meet and speak with you,	29:17
	we've arranged to have some coffee or tea or lemonade	29:20
	or whatever it is on the south lawn	29:24
	immediately following the service of worship.	29:27
	And Dr. Dun has also agreed to remain there	29:30
	for a few minutes following the service	29:33
	so that you might speak with him.	29:34
	So let me invite you to come	29:36
	to have a cup of coffee or whatever,	29:39
	and to meet those on the chapel staff	29:41
	and the religious life staff,	29:44
	and to meet Dr. Van Bogart Dun.	29:46
	Thank you.	29:48
	And so I welcome back home to duke this morning,	29:50
	in your behalf, the Reverend Dr. Van Bogart Dun.	29:54
	He did his divinity school studies here.	29:59
	He completed his doctoral work here.	30:03
	For a number of years he has been Dean	30:06
	of the Methodist theological school in Delaware, Ohio.	30:08
	An outstanding churchman, writer, preacher.	30:13
	A man who has been a friend to many persons	30:18
	in and outside the church.	30:21
	A man who has close personal and family ties with Duke.	30:25
	And it's a pleasure to welcome him back home.	30:29
	And in case you had not noticed it,	30:32
	his daughter was the lector for today,	30:34
	also a Duke graduate and currently a first year student	30:37
	at UNC law school.	30:40
	So we're glad to make this a family affair.	30:41
	And in the name of God, Bogey,	30:44
	we welcome you back and we hear you now	30:47
	as you proclaim his word to us.	30:49
-	The text for the morning is written	31:03
	in the 16th chapter of Luke, at the 12th verse.	31:04
	If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,	31:10
	who will give you that which is your own?	31:15
	We gather here because Jesus raises questions	31:22
	which probe the depths of our lives.	31:25
	The text for today is an example.	31:30
	The subject is money,	31:34
	a basic and inescapable necessity of all our relationships.	31:37
	Neither persons nor institutions	31:44
	can avoid the elementary economics of a balance sheet.	31:46
	How much is coming in and how much is going out?	31:51
	What items hold priority in the budget?	31:56
	Why is getting and spending an issue of ultimate importance?	32:00
	The words of the text are open-ended.	32:07
	They stimulate hard questions.	32:10
	To whom does money belong?	32:14
	What is faithfulness in the use of money?	32:18
	How does the use of money determine our destiny?	32:23
	Money, in the context of this chapter,	32:29
	is clearly understood as that which is another's.	32:33
	Money is not ours in any absolute sense.	32:37
	It is always held in trust.	32:40
	References to riches and stewardship	32:44
	in the parables and sayings of Jesus	32:46
	are not used to instruct us	32:50
	about our limited responsibilities to other men,	32:52
	but rather to reveal to us	32:57
	that all our riches belong to God.	32:59
	Money is not a peripheral concern in the New Testament.	33:04
	It is a central issue in the teaching of Jesus,	33:10
	because he always sees it in the larger context	33:15
	of God's power and presence in human history.	33:18
	You and I will never understand what he is talking about.	33:24
	We will never understand that our money	33:31
	comes under the absolute and unconditioned ownership of God,	33:34
	unless we are enlightened by his experience.	33:40
	That is our Lord's experience	33:44
	of God's ruling action in the whole creation.	33:47
	If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,	33:53
	who will give you that which is your own?	33:58
	There is a radical claim in this text.	34:03
	The radical claim is clarified	34:06
	not by the deadly legalism of the letter,	34:09
	but by the lively poetry of the spirit.	34:13
	Hear the words of the Shamish,	34:17
	the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof,	34:21
	the world, and those who dwell therein,	34:26
	for he has founded it upon the seas	34:30
	and established it upon the rivers.	34:33
	Since God's ownership of the world	34:37
	and those who dwell therein	34:40
	is the fundamental fact of our existence,	34:43
	you and I are temporary trustees of our wealth,	34:46
	accountable to God for its use.	34:50
	What is at stake in our relationship to riches	34:54
	is not a new set of rules for commercial activity.	34:59
	They really won't work that way,	35:05
	but a new attitude toward everything.	35:09
	The expression "that which is another's"	35:13
	is really a trivial matter	35:17
	unless it is the occasion for our confession	35:20
	that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.	35:24
	This is no new note in the church.	35:30
	Christian faith has always emphasized	35:34
	the importance of money,	35:37
	because money is a part of everything we do.	35:40
	The quality of every realm of our existence,	35:45
	whether it be family, church, school, or nation,	35:49
	is decisively determined by our attitude toward money.	35:53
	When we insist, as we often, do that our money is ours,	35:59
	absolutely, unconditionally, to use as we see fit,	36:04
	then all that we do in the whole range of our relationships	36:11
	is perverted by the poison of self-service.	36:16
	One of the reasons we have difficulty understanding	36:21
	the biblical warnings about idolatry	36:24
	is that we define idolatry in the wrong way.	36:28
	The idolatry of our age is not the worship of some object,	36:32
	but the rejection of the basic truth,	36:37
	that money is that which is another's.	36:41
	The atheism which really corrupts us	36:45
	is not the intellectual denial of God's existence,	36:49
	but rather the practical rejection of his Lordship	36:54
	by the use of our money as if it were really ours to spend	36:58
	according to our pleasure.	37:02
	I would like to see some things changed in my home,	37:07
	in my church, in the school that I serve,	37:11
	and in this nation.	37:14
	But the fact is this:	37:18
	there can be no real change in my home, or church,	37:20
	or school, or nation without a change in budgets.	37:23
	If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,	37:30
	who will give you that which is your own?	37:35
	If the text functions this morning to lead you to confess	37:41
	that money, like everything else,	37:44
	is owned absolutely to God,	37:48
	then how is this faith demonstrated	37:52
	in what we do with our wealth?	37:54
	What does it mean to be faithful in that which is another's?	37:58
	Faithfulness in the use of money is more	38:04
	than the prudential morality of keeping exact records,	38:08
	of accounting for every penny,	38:13
	of honoring the law enough to stay out of jail.	38:16
	If it were not more than all of these things,	38:20
	it would hardly be worth our time this morning.	38:23
	Some of the greatest ripoffs in our society	38:27
	are committed not by organized crime,	38:31
	but by respectable individuals and institutions	38:35
	operating on the assumption that the only criteria	38:39
	for investing capital or the use of money	38:42
	is the question of profits.	38:46
	For instance, there will never be any effective control	38:50
	of strip mining in this country	38:55
	until the management of the coal companies,	38:58
	their stockholders, and the consumers of power	39:02
	are more concerned	39:05
	with the conservation of human and natural resources	39:06
	than with a high yield on invested capital.	39:10
	To be faithful in that which is another's is to use money.	39:15
	To use it for a purpose.	39:21
	To use it to achieve God's purpose among men.	39:24
	In the gospel of Luke,	39:29
	God's intent for his children is no secret.	39:31
	It is disclosed early on in the gospel,	39:35
	when Jesus quotes the prophet Isaiah	39:39
	to identify himself with the purpose of God.	39:41
	"The spirit of the Lord is upon me	39:45
	because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.	39:49
	He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives	39:53
	and recovering of sight to the blind.	39:57
	To set at liberty those who are oppressed.	40:00
	To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."	40:03
	The purpose of God in Luke, in the entire Bible	40:08
	is not a theological abstraction.	40:15
	It is not a matter for idle debate.	40:18
	It is a program of action.	40:21
	It is a response to the poor, the captives, the blind,	40:24
	the oppressed, not in some far off future,	40:30
	but in the immediate present of actual suffering.	40:34
	We begin to understand the radical nature	40:39
	of Jesus teaching about money	40:42
	when we experience the claim made upon all our riches	40:45
	by the poor, the captive, the blind, the oppressed.	40:49
	The 16th chapter of Luke closes with the familiar parable	40:57
	of the rich man and Lazarus.	41:01
	The rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen,	41:05
	and who feasted sumptuously every day,	41:10
	ignored Lazarus who lay at his gate, full of sores.	41:14
	They both died.	41:19
	Lazarus was carried to Abraham's bosom	41:23
	and given the comfort he was denied on earth.	41:25
	But the rich man was sent to Hades,	41:29
	and tormented by his separation from Abraham and Lazarus.	41:32
	There are no more terrible words of judgment	41:39
	in the entire Bible	41:42
	than these spoken by Abraham to the rich man.	41:44
	"Son, remember that you, in your lifetime,	41:49
	received your good thing,	41:55
	and Lazarus, in like manner, evil things.	41:58
	But now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.	42:02
	And besides all this, between us and you	42:10
	a great chasm has been fixed	42:13
	in order that those who would pass from here to you	42:17
	may not be able,	42:21
	and none may cross from there to us."	42:23
	This is more than a fantasy about comfort in heaven	42:30
	and torment in Hades.	42:34
	It is a parable about faithfulness in the use of money.	42:38
	The rich man was tormented,	42:44
	not because he failed to support	42:47
	religious practices and institutions,	42:49
	but because he failed to use his wealth	42:53
	to relieve the suffering of a poor, starving man.	42:57
	You and I, personally and as representatives of our family,	43:03
	church, school, and nation,	43:09
	are custodians of immense wealth.	43:12
	We cannot claim ignorance as an excuse.	43:17
	We are taught by the best teachers of all,	43:22
	the suffering poor at our gates.	43:25
	The decisive question for us and for our institution	43:29
	is how we use our wealth, here and now, in this life.	43:34
	To preach good news to the poor,	43:40
	to proclaim release to the captives	43:43
	and recovering of sight to the blind,	43:46
	to set at liberty those who are oppressed.	43:49
	If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,	43:54
	who will give you that which is your own?	43:59
	The power of the text lies in its contrast,	44:06
	and its contrast between that which is another's	44:10
	and that which is your own.	44:14
	What does "that which is your own" mean?	44:18
	It refers, of course, to true riches.	44:22
	Treasure in the heavens that does not fail,	44:27
	where no thief approaches, and no moth destroys.	44:30
	Clearly then the contrast is not between money	44:36
	and some other thing, but rather between money	44:39
	and a reality infinitely more precious	44:45
	than any possession.	44:48
	That which is your own	44:51
	is nothing less than God's gift of himself.	44:54
	And the reason unfaithfulness in the use of money	44:59
	determines our destiny is that it reveals a fatal choice,	45:03
	a decision to live in dependence upon money	45:08
	instead of in dependence upon God.	45:12
	Trust in money deprives us of the confidence and integrity	45:17
	which come only from trust in God.	45:22
	Faith is an exclusive relationship.	45:26
	It does not tolerate two objects.	45:30
	No servant can serve two masters,	45:34
	or either he will hate the one and love the other,	45:38
	or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.	45:42
	You cannot serve God and money.	45:47
	The text really raises a question	45:53
	about how we understand ourselves.	45:55
	How do we identify ourselves?	45:59
	What defines our worth?	46:01
	What is the nature of our security?	46:04
	All of these questions are answered	46:08
	by the clarifying action of God on our behalf.	46:10
	We are the poor who are rich	46:16
	in the good news of God's care for us.	46:20
	We are the captives who are released	46:24
	by the forgiveness of our sin.	46:27
	We are the blind, who are brought	46:31
	from darkness to light by the reality of grace.	46:34
	We are the oppressed, who are freed from anxiety	46:38
	by the miracle of trust.	46:42
	We are God's little flock,	46:46
	established and sustained by our Father's good pleasure,	46:49
	by his gifts of gospel, release, sight, and liberty.	46:54
	That which is our own is not some thing	47:00
	that we have in addition to other things,	47:03
	but rather it is the realization	47:07
	of God's gracious purpose in our lives.	47:09
	It is the gift of our being.	47:13
	If we do not understand ourselves in this way,	47:18
	then inevitably we will misunderstand others.	47:23
	The important discernment	47:27
	in looking upon the starving poor at our gates	47:30
	is not the assessment of the difference between them and us,	47:35
	but the insight into the fundamental solidarity	47:41
	which binds us together.	47:44
	When we do not use our money for them,	47:47
	we fail to be what God intends,	47:51
	and therefore reject the gift of that which is our own.	47:55
	Awful punishment of those of us who are unfaithful	48:01
	in the use of money	48:08
	is the loss of that which is our own true riches.	48:11
	The chasm fixed between us and the poor,	48:17
	between us and Lazarus, is more than a mythological motif.	48:21
	It is a psychological and sociological reality	48:27
	of separation from self and labor.	48:30
	Seeking to save our lives by trusting money,	48:34
	we have succeeded in losing them.	48:38
	No man can give us what we have lost.	48:42
	In terms of what men may do,	48:46
	the word of judgment is final between us and you.	48:49
	That is between the comforted poor and the tormented rich,	48:56
	a great chasm has been fixed,	49:04
	in order that those who would pass	49:08
	from here to you may not be able,	49:10
	and none may cross from there to us.	49:14
	But in terms of what God does,	49:23
	the word of judgment is qualified by the word of hope.	49:26
	The good news of God's gracious purpose for us,	49:32
	no matter how we have loved money	49:37
	and used our wealth to serve ourselves,	49:39
	God's good pleasure is to give us that which is our own,	49:43
	and his good pleasure remains unchanged	49:48
	as the most powerful force in the world.	49:51
	The chasm between arrogant riches and suffering poverty	49:55
	is bridged by Him who for our sakes became poor.	49:59
	This is not an event in the past,	50:05
	but is the action of the living word of God	50:08
	voiced in the text now in the acceptable year of the Lord.	50:10
	If you have not been faithful in that which is another's,	50:17
	who will give you that which is your own?	50:21
	When we receive the gift that God intends,	50:27
	the gift of our life conformed to his purpose,	50:33
	God's power is working in us.	50:38
	A few weeks ago, a friend of mine,	50:43
	a 90-year-old retired Methodist preacher, suffered a stroke.	50:46
	Because he lived alone it was several hours	50:52
	before he was found and taken to the hospital.	50:54
	I went to see him.	50:58
	I expected him to be preoccupied	51:00
	with his physical condition,	51:03
	worried about the cost of medical care,	51:05
	concerned for the uncertainty of his future.	51:09
	But his first words were	51:13
	"Bogey, I'm worried about the people	51:16
	who are starving to death.	51:20
	Something has gone wrong in a world	51:24
	where a few help so much while many are in want."	51:26
	And then he went on to say,	51:33
	"If I had my ministry to live over,	51:35
	I might not stay very long in one church,	51:39
	but I would preach more plainly and more urgently	51:43
	about our obligation to feed the hungry."	51:48
	That old man had received the gift of that which is his.	51:54
	Quietly, imperceptibly, the gospel does its work among us.	52:04
	Although no man can bridge the chasm of separation	52:13
	created by our unfaithful use of money,	52:16
	God reaches us now and then with His love.	52:20
	Our lives are open to that which is our own:	52:24
	true riches, treasure in the heavens that does not fail.	52:28
	So the text teaches us something that we know.	52:36
	It teaches us that money, like everything, belongs to God.	52:41
	And Jesus's gracious words	52:46
	enable us to receive it thankfully,	52:48
	and to use it faithfully.	52:51
	Money offers us the opportunity,	52:55
	the gracious opportunity to work with God,	52:57
	to preach good news to the poor,	53:01
	to proclaim release to the captives	53:04
	and recovering of sight to the blind,	53:06
	to set at liberty those who are oppressed.	53:09
	When we are faithful in that which is another's,	53:13
	then we receive the gift of that which is our own.	53:18
	In the name of the Father,	53:28
	and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.	53:29
	(upbeat organ music)	53:38
	(upbeat choral music)	54:11
	(soft organ music)	56:43
	(dramatic choral music)	57:43
	(upbeat organ music)	1:02:17
	(upbeat choral music)	1:02:42
	Oh Lord our God, send down upon each of us	1:03:42
	your Holy Spirit to cleanse our heart,	1:03:46
	to hallow our gift, and to perfect the offering	1:03:50
	which we make of these gifts and of ourselves.	1:03:55
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Redeemer, amen.	1:04:00
	(upbeat organ music)	1:04:08
	(upbeat choral music)	1:04:48
	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.	1:07:51
	The love of God, the Father.	1:07:57
	The communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:08:00
	be with you this day and forevermore.	1:08:04
	(gentle choral music)	1:08:11
	(classical organ music)	1:09:25

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Title:

Van Bogard Dunn - "That Which Is Your Own" (September 29, 1974)

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September 29, 1974

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Dunn, Van Bogard

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