Robert T. Young - "Five Minutes after Death" (November 3, 1974)

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	(distant chatter)	0:04
	(orchestral music playing)	0:30
	(soft upbeat music)	6:07
	♪ I dunno how to forgive ♪	6:25
	♪ What to do how to move him ♪	6:31
	♪ I've been changed, ♪	6:35
	♪ Yes really changed. ♪	6:38
	♪ In this past few days when I see myself ♪	6:41
	♪ I seem like someone else. ♪	6:47
	♪ I dunno know how to take this ♪	6:53
	♪ I don't see why he moves me ♪	7:00
	♪ He's a man, ♪	7:04
	♪ He's just a man ♪	7:07
	♪ And I've had so many men before ♪	7:10
	♪ in very many ways ♪	7:16
	♪ He's just one more. ♪	7:21
	♪ Should I bring him down ♪	7:28
	♪ Should I scream and shout ♪	7:31
	♪ Should I speak of love ♪	7:34
	♪ Let my feeling out ♪	7:37
	♪ I never thought I'd come to this ♪	7:39
	♪ What's in all of us ♪	7:45
	♪ Don't you think it's rather funny ♪	7:50
	♪ I should be this position ♪	7:56
	♪ I'm the one who's always lived ♪	8:01
	♪ so calm so cool ♪	8:06
	♪ No lover's fool running every show ♪	8:10
	♪ He scares me so. ♪	8:17
	(orchestral music continues)	8:23
-	Let us pray.	12:30
	Come by here, oh Lord,	12:34
	in the person of thy spirit	12:39
	and prepare our hearts for worship,	12:42
	we would dwell in that tabernacle.	12:47
	We would ascend to thy holy hill	12:50
	so our prayer is that our hands might be clean,	12:53
	that our hearts might be purified	12:57
	so that we made dwell in thy presence.	13:00
	And as we catch a glimpse of thee in thy holiness,	13:04
	we may repent and turn once again to thee.	13:07
	Be with us and bless us in this service.	13:11
	May our hearts be lifted	13:15
	and the anxieties of life be cast from us.	13:17
	May our spirits soar so that we might live	13:22
	and serve thee in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,	13:25
	we pray, Amen.	13:29
	(choir sings)	13:33
	(soft upbeat music)	14:22
	(orchestral music playing)	16:08
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	17:32
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	17:36
	♪ Lord, how I want to be in that number ♪	17:40
	♪ When the Saints go marching in ♪	17:45
	(drum rolls)	17:54
	♪ Oh how I want to be in that number ♪	18:06
	(unclear chatter)	18:10
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	18:14
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	18:18
	♪ Lord, how I want to be in that number ♪	18:22
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	18:27
	(drum roll)	18:31
	(choir sings)	18:43
	♪ Lord, how I want to be in that number ♪	18:51
	(unclear chatter)	18:56
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	19:00
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	19:05
	♪ Lord, how I want to be in that number ♪	19:09
	♪ Oh, when the Saints go marching in ♪	19:13
	(orchestral music continues)	19:17
	(choir sings)	20:05
	Let us say, Amen.	21:09
	Let us say, Amen.	21:37
	We are thankful and grateful to God this morning.	21:42
	For we have obeyed his word	21:50
	to give praise with the lifting of our voices,	21:54
	with the instruments,	21:58
	with the horns.	22:00
	The same God who tells us to give praise,	22:03
	reminds us that all have sinned	22:06
	have come short of his glory.	22:09
	Even if we were to attain righteousness	22:13
	by our own determinations and estimation,	22:18
	it would be no more than filthy rage in his sight.	22:22
	Therefore, let us confess our sin together	22:29
	in our prayer of confession.	22:34
	Oh God, our creator,	22:37
	to whom we call and to whom spirits return.	22:41
	We confess to you our snugness to accept death	22:46
	as a part of your plan for our life.	22:51
	We confess our reluctance to commit	22:55
	to you those whom we love.	22:58
	Oh God, we know that there may be a situation	23:01
	which a worse than death,	23:06
	forgive us when we've heard	23:08
	and destroy our brothers and sisters	23:11
	and the world you have given us	23:14
	by our thoughtless deeds.	23:17
	Our careless action and our lack of love	23:19
	and ive us grace in the presence of death	23:24
	and faith to worship and to trust your care	23:27
	with confidence through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.	23:32
	And let us continue praying our personal confessions.	23:39
	Give me praise as did the publican,	24:16
	and not as the Pharisee who in his self-righteousness	24:23
	told God of his goodness,	24:30
	how he fasted twice a week	24:33
	and gave times of all he possessed.	24:36
	But as the publican,	24:41
	wouldn't not so much as lift his eyes up to heaven,	24:43
	but prayed Lord have mercy upon me, a sinner.	24:48
	We shall be justified.	24:53
	If we confess our sin,	24:57
	our God is faithful and he will forgive us.	25:00
	Our Lord, without stress arms,	25:07
	declared to those who were within hearing distance	25:11
	of his voice and to those throughout the ages	25:15
	who threw with contrition and broken spirits,	25:20
	stand within hearing range of his voice,	25:24
	"come unto me"	25:28
	all he could labor	25:30
	and I have (mumbles) and I will give you rest,	25:33
	take my yoke upon me and learn of me,	25:39
	rye and weak and lowly in heart	25:44
	and you shall find rich unto your soul.	25:48
	As we confess our sin.	25:54
	Let us remember that we are instructed to so do.	25:57
	We are further instructed to pray for one another	26:02
	as we confess our sin or the effectual fervent prayer	26:04
	of the righteous avail of much.	26:10
	Most of you are aware	26:35
	of the fire which happened	26:39
	in Sam Hammons apartment last Saturday morning,	26:40
	and from which he suffered very severe burns.	26:43
	The word I've just received this morning from Bruce Shepherd	26:49
	is that he is doing better.	26:53
	I hope you will continue to remember him in your prayers	26:58
	with your cards and expressions of concern,	27:02
	but I'm also here to ask	27:07
	that you share with us in another way.	27:09
	Sam had no insurance on the contents of his apartment,	27:15
	and even worse than that,	27:19
	sometime during this past week,	27:20
	someone broke in and ravaged the few remaining goods he had.	27:22
	The music department and the chapel staff	27:28
	are trying to raise funds to help with expenses,	27:32
	which Sam has and will have.	27:36
	If you would like to be a part of this fund,	27:40
	please send your contribution either	27:43
	to the music department,	27:45
	to Dr. Frank Taro or to the chapel,	27:47
	care of Mrs. Ann Kellum or any other member of the staff.	27:52
	And I'm sure your gifts	27:56
	and expressions of support in this way	27:59
	also will be appreciated.	28:01
	This time I also would like to express our appreciation	28:04
	to Mr. John Harding,	28:06
	the members of the UNC jazz lab band,	28:09
	who have led us thus far and will lead us	28:11
	through this service in celebration of this Sunday,	28:15
	after all saints day.	28:22
	Let me mention also that next Sunday morning,	28:26
	we had scheduled to have Dr. Benjamin Mays,	28:28
	president of Emeritus of Morehouse College	28:31
	in Atlanta, Georgia as our guest preacher.	28:33
	He called this week and said	28:36
	that he has been in the hospital for 40 days and 40 nights.	28:38
	Although he said,	28:42
	it all seemed like 40 nights and 40 nights.	28:43
	He has arranged to have his good friend	28:47
	and the outstanding congressman from Atlanta,	28:50
	Congressman Andrew Young,	28:54
	a minister in his own right,	28:56
	and an outstanding leader in the black community	28:58
	and indeed in our country	29:01
	as our preacher for next Sunday morning.	29:03
	So I invite you now,	29:06
	not only to continue to worship God this day with us,	29:07
	but to come next Sunday morning and worship God,	29:09
	as we all will be enriched by hearing Congressman Young.	29:12
-	No, I tell you a mystery.	29:36
	We shall not all sleep,	29:40
	but we shall all be changed in a moment	29:43
	in the twinkling of an eye	29:46
	at the last trumpet,	29:48
	for the trumpet will sound	29:51
	and the dead will be raised imperishable,	29:54
	and we shall be changed for this perishable nature	29:57
	must put on the imperishable	30:03
	and this mortal nature must put on immortality.	30:06
	When the perishable puts on the imperishable	30:12
	and the mortal puts on immortality,	30:17
	then shall come to pass the saying that is written,	30:21
	death is swallowed up in victory.	30:26
	Oh, death, where is thy victory?	30:31
	Oh, death, where is thy sting?	30:34
	The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law.	30:39
	But thanks be to God	30:45
	who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.	30:48
	Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable,	30:54
	always abounding in the work of the Lord,	31:01
	knowing that in the Lord,	31:05
	your labor is not in vain.	31:08
	Now as a sign of your joy	31:13
	and anticipation on hearing the mystery of the word,	31:15
	would you please stand for the gospel.	31:19
	One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him saying,	31:35
	"are you not the Christ?	31:39
	Save yourself and us."	31:41
	But the other rebuked him saying,	31:44
	"do you not fear God,	31:47
	since you are under the same sentence of condemnation	31:50
	and we indeed justly,	31:55
	for we are receiving the due reward for our deeds,	31:58
	but this man has done nothing wrong."	32:03
	And he said,	32:08
	"Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingly power."	32:10
	And he said to him,	32:16
	"truly, I say to you today,	32:19
	you will be with me in paradise."	32:23
	(orchestra music continues)	32:37
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, ♪	32:44
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	32:50
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, ♪	32:53
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	32:59
	(choir sings)	33:02
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah, ♪	33:09
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	33:11
	(choir sings)	33:13
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	33:19
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	33:22
	(choir sings)	33:24
	♪ King of kings ♪	34:41
	♪ God of gods ♪	34:48
	♪ King of kings ♪	34:54
	♪ God of gods ♪	35:01
	(choir sings)	35:03
	♪ King of kings ♪	35:18
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	35:20
	♪ God of gods ♪	35:22
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	35:24
	♪ King of kings ♪	35:33
	♪ God of gods ♪	35:35
	♪ King of kings ♪	35:37
	♪ God of gods ♪	35:39
	(choir sings)	35:41
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	35:58
-	Let us pray on our faith together.	36:27
	We are not alone.	36:32
	We live in God's world.	36:35
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	36:38
	who has come in the true man, Jesus,	36:44
	reconcile and make new,	36:48
	works in us and others by his spirit.	36:51
	We trust him.	36:56
	He calls us to be in his church,	36:57
	celebrate his presence to love and to serve others,	37:02
	to seek justice and resist evil,	37:07
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	37:11
	Our judge and our hope,	37:16
	in life, death,	37:19
	life beyond death.	37:22
	God is with us.	37:25
	We are not owned.	37:27
	Thanks be to God.	37:30
	Lord, be with you.	37:33
	(distant chatter)	37:35
	Let us pray.	37:37
	Oh thou, from whose presence we could never flee.	37:48
	Even if we took the wings of the morning	37:57
	and flew to the utmost parts of the earth,	38:01
	our God whose right hand shall sustain us and hold us,	38:05
	whether we be in life or in death,	38:12
	oh God, whose goodness shall be all around us,	38:18
	no matter where we make our bed,	38:23
	no matter what the circumstances	38:26
	and conditions of life might be.	38:28
	We come this morning with thankful hearts.	38:31
	We give thanks for the joy	38:36
	that bubbles up within us like wells of water.	38:39
	We give thanks for this day.	38:43
	As we look out and see the beauty of your earth,	38:46
	shining of the sun that makes everything	38:50
	about us radiant and glowing,	38:52
	beautiful changing of the liage.	38:55
	Even as we come this morning	38:59
	and are led to thy divine worship	39:01
	through music that is played not only upon the organ,	39:05
	but with the different instruments of music I so say,	39:09
	thank you, Jesus.	39:13
	We say, thank you this morning,	39:15
	because you've been good to us.	39:18
	You've allowed us to calm	39:20
	and to praise your name one more time.	39:22
	You've lengthened the days of our life,	39:26
	bid our golden moments to rolled on little while longer.	39:28
	And we wanna say, thank you.	39:33
	Even as we give, thanks,	39:36
	we pray that our Tarion here on this mountain of privilege	39:38
	and of praise might bring us in touch	39:44
	and in contact with thee so that the renewing power	39:47
	and virtue of your spirit might surge through.	39:51
	Oh my God,	39:55
	help us to know that the vindication of the presence	39:56
	of thy spirit within us	40:00
	and that which makes us know that indeed it is thy spirit	40:02
	that rules that dwells in our lives	40:05
	is that we preached thy good news,	40:08
	proclaim it to those who in trouble	40:10
	that we ourselves become a living example	40:13
	of what you're trying to be in new world.	40:16
	Open up our hearts,	40:19
	open up our lives,	40:20
	open up our understanding so that from day to day,	40:21
	we might live as those who've been transformed	40:25
	and empowered by your spirit.	40:28
	Oh my God.	40:31
	In these days,	40:33
	where men's hearts are faint,	40:36
	where women are weary,	40:39
	where children are in trouble.	40:41
	Where the prediction is	40:44
	that millions upon millions shall die in starvation.	40:45
	Where the leadership of the land cannot decide	40:50
	whether we're merely having a period of inflation	40:53
	or whether it's recession leading on to depression.	40:56
	Where we are tied up in knots of nervousness,	40:59
	not knowing how we should make our ends meet	41:02
	from month to month.	41:04
	Where the checks we receive just don't stretch over 30 days.	41:06
	Oh, God make us mindful that there are those not far from us	41:11
	who don't receive even half of what we receive.	41:17
	And if we suffer in measures of plenty,	41:19
	that those who receive next to nothing,	41:23
	are live in on the bare margin of life and existence,	41:25
	touch our heart.	41:29
	Let compassion well up to get us.	41:31
	So that we might be obedient	41:34
	and do what you commanded us to do.	41:36
	We pray oh God,	41:40
	for this campus.	41:43
	We pray oh God,	41:46
	for this campus.	41:49
	We pray oh God,	41:51
	that you touch lives here on this panel,	41:55
	move by a power and by your spirit.	41:59
	Oh my God,	42:03
	we pray your blessing upon those who hear this morning,	42:05
	we pray that you've touched them.	42:09
	You know, the needs,	42:11
	You know the anxiety.	42:13
	You've been touched that you've been tempted	42:15
	and tried at all points.	42:17
	Just like we,	42:18
	you know what it's like to try to function	42:20
	and to achieve in an environment	42:23
	where the pressure is great,	42:26
	Where everybody is striving	42:28
	and competing where seemingly goals	42:29
	when struck does have no compassion and understanding	42:31
	for what it must be like to have to go	42:34
	from day to day into study,	42:37
	encourage our hearts.	42:38
	Let us know that you stand beside us,	42:40
	that you'll never leave us nor forsake us.	42:44
	Lead us in the coming week,	42:49
	lead us and guide us by your strong hand.	42:52
	Protect us, go with us.	42:56
	Live in us and give us a vision	43:00
	what our lives can be when they yielded totally	43:04
	and complete to thee.	43:08
	In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord we pray.	43:12
	Our father who at in heaven,	43:18
	hallowed be thy name,	43:23
	thy kingdom come,	43:26
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	43:28
	Give us this day our daily bread	43:34
	and forgive us our trespasses	43:38
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	43:41
	lead us not into temptation,	43:45
	but deliver us from evil for thy is the kingdom,	43:48
	the power and glory forever, Amen.	43:54
	(distant chatter)	44:03
	The man who served as warden at San Quentin prison	44:21
	for a number of years,	44:27
	Mr. Quentin T. Duffy tells about an inmate on death row	44:29
	who was brought to his office one day.	44:34
	"Warden," he asked,	44:39
	"what happens tomorrow after I,"	44:42
	the warden knew what he was trying to say.	44:49
	"After I die?"	44:51
	Thinking that the man was worried	44:54
	about the disposition of his body	44:56
	the warden and said,	44:59
	"don't worry about that.	45:00
	The government has it all arranged."	45:01
	"Yes, I know that."	45:07
	The man facing death said with a strange, weird,	45:10
	fixed smile on his lips.	45:15
	"What I want to know is where do I go when it's all over?	45:19
	Five minutes after death,	45:27
	where do I go when it's over?"	45:31
	Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.	45:35
	Oh, I tell you a mystery.	45:40
	We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed.	45:42
	One Sunday, my wife and I were in a Sunday school class	45:48
	at Trinity United Methodist Church here in Durham.	45:51
	Class, then being taught by Dr. Ray Petri,	45:55
	beloved Professor of Church History	45:58
	and the Divinity School now retired	45:59
	and living in the state of Washington.	46:01
	Dr. Petri said one morning,	46:04
	"if you could ask one question of any person now living	46:06
	or any person who has ever lived at all of history,	46:12
	what question would you ask and of whom would you ask?"	46:15
	Think about that a moment.	46:19
	My wife Jackie,	46:23
	sat there a few moments.	46:24
	Her father was not living.	46:27
	She thought for a minute and then said,	46:30
	"if I could ask one question of anybody whoever lived	46:34
	or was now living,	46:38
	I'd asked my dad,	46:40
	"daddy, how are you getting along?"	46:42
	Jackie went on to say that to get an answer to that question	46:50
	would not only tell her how her dad was,	46:53
	to something very important to know.	46:58
	She would also know if life after death was real	47:03
	and what it was really like.	47:07
	And so on this Sunday after all Saints day,	47:12
	when we gather as Christians to celebrate	47:14
	with thanksgiving and hope and assurance,	47:16
	those who have lived and died into faith,	47:19
	these questions come to my mind,	47:22
	where do I go when it's over?	47:24
	Dad, how are you getting along five minutes after death?	47:26
	What then?	47:31
	This morning, there are three things	47:33
	I wanna talk about in this sermon.	47:34
	One, life is precious and passing	47:36
	that death is real and total.	47:41
	Resurrection is personal and full.	47:44
	Life, death, and life beyond death.	47:48
	My friends in Christ,	47:51
	if there's any one thing	47:52
	that I really want you to hear this morning,	47:53
	it is this that each moment of life we have is precious.	47:56
	It is given to us by God.	48:01
	How long is life?	48:03
	Not very long at its outer limits.	48:05
	Life expectancy for males	48:09
	in this country right now is 70 years,	48:10
	for females it is 74 years,	48:14
	three score years and 10 and oh my how they work.	48:16
	HL Mencken once wrote that,	48:22
	this life is off that death is the bitter end.	48:24
	Clarence Darrow of monkey trial theme	48:30
	once declared there is no meaning to life	48:32
	and death is a release from it all.	48:36
	Bertrand Russell has said, sadly,	48:39
	that life is simply an unfortunate collocation of atoms.	48:41
	Life, these and others say is nothing,	48:46
	only pessimism and despair.	48:49
	Often, how often we come to unawareness	48:52
	of the real value of life when we find,	48:57
	when we face and accept the reality of death.	48:59
	When we know that our moments hours	49:03
	and days will not go on forever.	49:08
	When we know that time,	49:11
	like a never rolling stream bears us all away.	49:13
	I read recently a sermon by Dr. Francis Cunningham.	49:19
	And some of you know Dr. Cunningham is Minister	49:22
	at Bethel United Methodist Church	49:27
	in Spartanburg, South Carolina.	49:29
	He learned in September here in Duke Hospital	49:31
	that he has terminal cancer.	49:34
	The sermon which I read was preached	49:36
	just after he learned this.	49:38
	And it's entitled 'Some Discoveries in the Valley'	49:40
	in which he talks about discoveries he has made	49:43
	in the valley of the shadow of death.	49:45
	Life he says has taken on a new, a different,	49:48
	a more valuable meaning for him now.	49:53
	He now, he says has a better perspective on life.	49:56
	And awareness of life for him has become sharper.	50:04
	He now hears and sees more clearly and values have changed.	50:06
	He realizes that some things in life are precious.	50:11
	And life may I say to you,	50:15
	itself is precious for you,	50:18
	me and all others.	50:21
	I re-read recently Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'.	50:25
	In a weird kind of presentation, Wilder,	50:29
	drives home the very point I want to make here.	50:31
	This plate takes place	50:35
	in a little town called Grover's Corners	50:36
	in New Hampshire.	50:38
	The last act is in the graveyard of Grover's Corners.	50:39
	Emily, at the age of 26 has just died	50:44
	and gone to the graveyard	50:47
	and the wall of the other dead towns.	50:49
	People now in the graveyard warned her not to ask for it	50:51
	and not to do it.	50:54
	Emily asks for,	50:56
	and is given the opportunity to relive one day of her life	50:57
	and the day she selects is the day of her 12th birthday.	51:01
	But the only problem is that she must relive it exactly	51:05
	as it happened.	51:07
	She cannot change any part of that day's experiences.	51:08
	So on this day we live,	51:13
	which she is given,	51:16
	Emily's goes back to her town,	51:17
	back to where she looks over familiar sites	51:20
	and goes to her home.	51:23
	It's early in the morning.	51:25
	Her mother is there busy over the kitchen stove.	51:26
	Her father, a local businessman has been back	51:30
	to his alma mater to speak to a college gathering.	51:32
	He's just arrived on the morning train	51:35
	and is worn out from his trip.	51:37
	Emily walks back to her one day,	51:40
	"mama I'm here.	51:44
	I've grown up.	51:47
	I love you all.	51:48
	Everything, I can't look at everything hard enough."	51:50
	Her mother's busy with plans for birthday number 12.	51:55
	Though, no one in the kitchen of her home can hear her.	51:59
	Emily cries out.	52:02
	"Oh, mama, just look at me one minute	52:03
	as though you really saw me.	52:07
	Mama 14 years have gone by I'm dead.	52:09
	You're a grandmother mama,	52:14
	but just for a moment now,	52:15
	we're all together.	52:17
	Mama, just for a moment we're happy.	52:19
	Let's look at one another."	52:23
	And her mother business herself with the gifts	52:27
	and with other matters.	52:29
	Finally, Emily bursts forth.	52:31
	"I can't go on.	52:33
	Oh, it goes so fast.	52:35
	We don't have time to look at one another."	52:39
	She breaks down sobbing.	52:42
	Then she pleads with the stage manager who stands beside,	52:45
	"oh, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you."	52:48
	Then through her tears,	52:54
	she turns abruptly to the stage manager and asks,	52:55
	"do any human beings ever realize life	52:59
	well while they live it every minute?"	53:03
	Do we?	53:10
	Do we ever realize life while we live it	53:13
	every, every minute?	53:18
	Do we?	53:21
	Do you?	53:23
	As we think about death,	53:25
	life becomes precious.	53:27
	But then death comes.	53:30
	Death is real and total.	53:32
	Most of us probably feel like Pogo, who says,	53:36
	"I hate death.	53:39
	In fact, I could live forever without it."	53:41
	But death comes and there are at least three views	53:47
	as to what happens to a person at death.	53:51
	One view is it nothing happens.	53:53
	Death is the end.	53:55
	There is no more now or ever.	53:56
	Another view is that at death the body dies,	54:00
	but the soul goes on forever.	54:02
	This is traditionally called the grief view of death.	54:05
	There's one man puts it the personality of the soul.	54:09
	The being that really is the person lives on.	54:13
	The soul is that something about a person	54:17
	that is the real person.	54:19
	The body of course dies and decays goes back to dusk,	54:21
	but certainly the personality or the soul lives on.	54:24
	A third view is that body, soul, mind, spirit,	54:29
	all that there is of a person dies.	54:33
	There are not two parts, one body,	54:38
	one soul, one which dies and he has no more.	54:42
	And the other which lives	54:45
	and does not die and lives forever in this view.	54:46
	In first Corinthians 9:15-22,	54:51
	Paul writes,	54:54
	"as in atom, all die,	54:57
	even so in Christ shall all be made alive."	54:59
	This means that I believe as I believe	55:03
	that all persons die surely.	55:06
	And also I believe that all of every person dies surely.	55:11
	Thus, for a Christian,	55:23
	for every human being death is real and total.	55:24
	Nashville, Tennessee United Methodist Church	55:30
	recently had a survey on views of life after death,	55:32
	105 adults were questioned.	55:35
	They were given the choice of which of two views	55:39
	of what happens at death.	55:42
	They preferred either when death comes the body dies,	55:43
	but the soul lives on,	55:50
	or when a person dies,	55:52
	that person is dead all over,	55:56
	but we'll be restored to life at some time in the future.	55:58
	The results, 99 of the 105 preferred the first,	56:02
	only six persons believe that death is full and total.	56:08
	We do prefer the idea that we never completely die.	56:12
	Paul Tillich once wrote,	56:20
	"it is our destiny and the destiny	56:21
	of everything in our world to come to an end.	56:23
	We, you and I,	56:28
	or to come to an end."	56:31
	Does this sound preposterous?	56:34
	I hope not.	56:37
	My friends, I believe that when Jesus died on the cross,	56:40
	he died all the way.	56:44
	Every bit of it,	56:47
	his entire being body, soul,	56:48
	mind, and spirit.	56:51
	When he said it is finished,	56:52
	he meant among other things,	56:54
	I am finished, holy.	56:56
	There was no soul of Jesus that lived it through	57:00
	and departed from the body at the crucial moment of death,	57:03
	he died all of it.	57:05
	Dr. Carlyle Marney, and his book,	57:10
	'Faith in Conflict' writes about this.	57:12
	Faith has no choice,	57:15
	but to be bluntly biological about death.	57:17
	Death is not asleep.	57:21
	It is more and deeper and darker.	57:22
	Death sweeps clean as it goes and lives nothing behind it	57:26
	to speak a word of meaning or hope.	57:29
	Death is without mercy.	57:32
	Nothing that lives can evade it for very long.	57:34
	And the more complex the living thing is	57:37
	the more vulnerable it is to death.	57:39
	Death wins everything.	57:42
	This faith concedes,	57:44
	and this is why faith ultimate plane must deal with death,	57:46
	to faith there is no valid ethic	57:51
	that does not face, admit, defeat	57:53
	and pass by death.	57:56
	Death real and total.	57:58
	Thanks be to God who gives us the victory	58:04
	in our Lord Jesus Christ.	58:08
	Death is not the end.	58:10
	Death though universal full total	58:13
	and real for everyone does not have the last word.	58:16
	Death wrote John Donne,	58:21
	"be not proud.	58:23
	Death thou shall die.	58:24
	Death is the most terrible evil and it too shall die."	58:27
	I believe that it is from life to life,	58:34
	with death the way through.	58:40
	That is why we celebrate when the saints go marching in	58:44
	for now and forever.	58:48
	That is why we breached Christ	58:50
	and Christ raised from the dead.	58:52
	Paul puts the totality of our Christian faith	58:54
	on the line at this point.	58:57
	He writes, "if Christ has not been raised	58:59
	in our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.	59:02
	If for this life only have we hoped in Christ,	59:06
	We are all persons most to be pitted,	59:09
	but in fact,	59:12
	Christ has been raised from the dead.	59:14
	Whereas by a man came death,	59:17
	by a man came also resurrection of that is,	59:19
	whereas in Adam hauled high.	59:23
	So while also in Christ shall all be made alive	59:25
	and there you have it.	59:28
	There it is my friend.	59:32
	That's why we sing as we will in a few moments.	59:36
	When we been there 10,000 years,	59:41
	bright shining as the sun,	59:46
	we've no less days to sing God's praise	59:48
	than when we first begun.	59:51
	That's why we sing,	59:56
	mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord	59:57
	for his coming his glory for now and forever.	1:00:02
	That is why we are called to proclaim as our creed says,	1:00:08
	Jesus crucified and risen.	1:00:13
	That is why we celebrate on all saints today.	1:00:18
	Celebrate that great cloud of witnesses,	1:00:23
	which surrounds us.	1:00:27
	And assures us of life.	1:00:29
	New life in Christ given to one and to all	1:00:33
	for now and forever.	1:00:37
	"Welcome sister death," said,	1:00:41
	St. Francis of Assisi.	1:00:45
	For death you see is a part of the process	1:00:48
	by which we become who we are created to be,	1:00:51
	through Jesus Christ Our Lord.	1:00:56
	With Dr. Colin Maurice who spoke here on Tuesday	1:00:59
	and Wednesday of this week,	1:01:02
	I must say,	1:01:05
	as he did,	1:01:06
	I am a child of the third day of the Easter day.	1:01:09
	I am a resurrection Christian	1:01:16
	or the final word is yes in Jesus.	1:01:21
	The final word is yes in God who revealed himself	1:01:28
	to us in Christ	1:01:32
	or as a friend of mine said just this week,	1:01:35
	"I trust God who gives us life,	1:01:37
	I trust God gives us death.	1:01:43
	I am persuaded that neither death,	1:01:49
	nor life, nor angels,	1:01:52
	nor principalities, nor things present,	1:01:54
	nor things to come,	1:01:56
	nor powers, nor height, nor depth,	1:01:58
	nor anything else in all creation	1:02:00
	will be able to separate us	1:02:05
	from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.	1:02:06
	That is why we sing and he shall reign forever and ever,	1:02:11
	and ever, and ever.	1:02:17
	Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Amen.	1:02:18
	(orchestral music playing)	1:02:50
	♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪	1:03:27
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	1:03:35
	♪ I once was lost, ♪	1:03:43
	♪ But now I'm found ♪	1:03:47
	♪ Was blind, but now I see ♪	1:03:51
	♪ Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪	1:03:59
	♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪	1:04:07
	♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪	1:04:16
	♪ The hour I first believed ♪	1:04:24
	(unclear chatter)	1:04:33
	(orchestral music continues)	1:04:51
	♪ The Lord has promised good to me ♪	1:05:05
	♪ His word my hope secures ♪	1:05:13
	♪ He will my shield and portion be ♪	1:05:21
	♪ As long as life endures ♪	1:05:29
	(orchestral music continues)	1:05:37
	(soft upbeat music)	1:06:17
	(choir sings)	1:08:43
	(orchestral music continues)	1:09:20
	(choir sings)	1:09:56
	(orchestral music continues)	1:10:32
	Receive, oh God,	1:12:37
	these gifts that we bring,	1:12:40
	may they represent an extension of ourselves	1:12:43
	and an expression of our willingness to serve thee,	1:12:48
	to give ourselves to thee,	1:12:51
	to be resurrected through thee,	1:12:54
	and to live our lives in ways	1:12:57
	that are pleasing to thee,	1:12:59
	now take these our gifts,	1:13:01
	bless them and sanctify them,	1:13:03
	or they are building of thy kingdom,	1:13:06
	the tearing down of the strongholds of Satan, Amen.	1:13:08
	(soft upbeat music)	1:13:20
	(choir sings)	1:14:14
	For the benediction.	1:17:56
	Now, the God of peace who brought a gain from the dead,	1:17:59
	our Lord Jesus,	1:18:02
	that great shepherd of the sheep	1:18:04
	through the blood of the everlasting covenant,	1:18:06
	make you perfect in every good work to do as well,	1:18:09
	working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight,	1:18:12
	through Jesus Christ who enables us to be resurrected	1:18:16
	while even in life.	1:18:20
	So that when the trumpet sounds our feet	1:18:22
	may be swift to answer,	1:18:26
	and our hearts may be jubilant in our obedience.	1:18:28
	Wherefore, we can cry glory hallelujah,	1:18:32
	glory hallelujah, glory, hallelujah.	1:18:35
	His truth is marching on.	1:18:42
	(choir sings)	1:18:44
	(upbeat music)	1:19:03

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Robert T. Young - "Five Minutes after Death" (November 3, 1974)

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November 3, 1974

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