Robert T. Young - "The Gusto of the Gospel" (October 19, 1975)

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-	It is an awesome thing	11:59
	to come into the presence of the living God	12:01
	who is holy love.	12:06
	Therefore, it behooves us to recognize	12:09
	that we are creatures and sinners,	12:12
	and to acknowledge the same with penitence and lowliness	12:16
	to the end that we may be forgiven.	12:23
	For I ask you who are here present	12:29
	to accompany me with sincerity and humility	12:32
	unto the throne of grace in the unison prayer of confession.	12:36
	Let us pray.	12:44
	Almighty and eternal God	12:46
-	who searches the hearts of all people	12:49
	with sorrow we acknowledged before you	12:53
	the faults and failures which haunt our memories.	12:56
	We acknowledge our failure to be true,	13:00
	even to our own accepted standards.	13:04
	Our self deception in the face of temptation,	13:08
	our choosing of the worst when we know the better.	13:12
	We acknowledge our failure	13:17
	to apply to ourselves the standards of conduct	13:19
	we demand of others, our complacence toward wrongs	13:23
	that do not touch our own case,	13:28
	and our over sensitiveness to those that do.	13:32
	Our hardness of heart towards our neighbors faults,	13:36
	and our readiness to make allowance for our own.	13:41
	In your holy presence,	13:45
	we confess our faults and our failures,	13:48
	knowing that they are our sins.	13:52
	Forgive us Lord.	13:55
-	Amen. And now in quietness,	13:58
	let offer unto God personal confession	14:01
	for the sins of commission, anger, dislike, malice,	14:06
	meanness, for the sin of our mission,	14:14
	the good we have forgotten to do.	14:19
	This is the sin which worry Jesus more than any other.	14:23
	And now hear the good news.	14:42
	This statement is completely reliable	14:45
	and should be universally accepted.	14:48
	Christ Jesus entered the waddled to rescue sinners.	14:52
	So, let it be for us.	15:00
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-	The Old Testament lesson	20:30
	is taken from the book of Amos, chapter five,	20:32
	"Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord.	20:38
	Why would you have the day of the Lord?	20:41
	It is darkness and not light	20:45
	as if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him,	20:48
	or went into the house	20:53
	and leaned with his hand against the wall	20:54
	and a serpent bit him.	20:57
	Is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light?	21:00
	And gloom with no brightness in it?	21:04
	I hate I despise your feasts	21:08
	and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.	21:11
	Even though you offer me your burnt offerings	21:15
	and cereal offerings, I will not accept them.	21:18
	And the peace offerings of your fatted beasts,	21:22
	I will not look upon.	21:26
	Take away from me the noise of your songs	21:28
	to the melody of your harps, I will not listen,	21:32
	but let justice roll down like waters	21:35
	and righteousness like an ever flowing stream."	21:39
	The New Testament lesson is taken from the second chapter	21:46
	of the gospel of John. (clears throat)	21:50
	"On the third day, there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee,	21:54
	and the mother of Jesus was there.	21:58
	Jesus also was invited to the marriage with his disciples.	22:01
	When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him,	22:07
	'They have no wine.'	22:11
	And Jesus said to her,	22:13
	"Oh, woman, what have you to do with me?	22:15
	My hour has not yet come.'	22:19
	His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you.'	22:22
	Now six stone jars were standing there	22:27
	for the Jewish rights of purification.	22:30
	Each holding 20 or 30 gallon.	22:33
	Jesus said to them, 'Fill the jars with water.'	22:37
	And they filled them up to the brim.	22:41
	He said to them,	22:44
	'Now draw some out and take it to the steward of the feast.'	22:46
	So they took it.	22:50
	When the steward of the feast tasted the water	22:52
	now become wine and did not know where it came from	22:55
	though the servants who had drawn the water knew,	22:59
	the steward of the feast called the bridegroom	23:03
	and said to him, 'Every man serves the good wine first	23:06
	and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine,	23:11
	but you have kept the good wine until now.'	23:15
	This the first of his signs Jesus did at Cana in Galilee	23:19
	and manifested his glory.	23:25
	And his disciples believed in him."	23:28
	May God bless this reading of his holy scripture.	23:32
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	♪ Amen ♪	24:10
	♪ Amen ♪	24:12
-	Let us affirm our faith in unison.	24:19
-	We are not alone.	24:24
	We live in God's world.	24:26
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	24:29
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	24:35
	to reconcile and make new,	24:38
	who works in us and others through the spirit.	24:42
	We trust God who calls us to be the church	24:46
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	24:51
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	24:55
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen our judge and our hope	25:01
	in life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.	25:08
	We are not alone.	25:16
	Thanks be to God.	25:18
-	The Lord be with you.	25:21
	(congregation speaking faintly)	25:24
	Let us pray.	25:25
	And our first prayer be one of thanksgiving and homecoming.	25:35
	Almighty God whose blessing son, Jesus	25:42
	did sit lowly in the midst of the doctors,	25:46
	both hearing them and asking them questions.	25:50
	We give the thanks for our university,	25:55
	for it's honorable history	26:00
	and for the unbounded promise of it's future.	26:03
	Especially on this day,	26:09
	do we remember its sons and daughters	26:10
	who have come home to renew old memories,	26:14
	to revive old loyalties.	26:19
	We give the thanks for their interest in us, students,	26:23
	administration, faculty, for their faith in the college,	26:28
	in the graduate and professional schools	26:35
	and for their confidence that the glory of the university	26:39
	has begun to appear.	26:44
	Keep ever before them and before us,	26:48
	the vision of the pass	26:51
	of an education in partnership with religion,	26:54
	which will be an instrument in thy hands ooh, God,	27:00
	for our good and for a benediction to our fellows.	27:04
	We commend our alumni to thee,	27:10
	as they scatter and return to their accustomed places,	27:12
	praying that thy will keep in their heart	27:17
	the memory of this Chapel as a symbol of thy presence	27:19
	in the university yesterday, today, and forever.	27:25
	And let us offer a prayer of intercession.	27:34
	Oh God, the creator and sustainer of all mankind,	27:38
	we pray for all thy family upon earth	27:41
	and for every agency of world cooperation.	27:45
	(speaks faintly) grow in usefulness and power	27:50
	for the universal church,	27:55
	for the world organization of nations,	27:58
	for international federations	28:02
	of labor industry and commerce.	28:04
	We beseech thee for the departments of state,	28:07
	for all ambassadors, ministers, diplomats,	28:12
	for all prophets and pioneers	28:17
	who have seen the promised land (speaks faintly) far off	28:19
	and dedicated their lives to it's service.	28:23
	For the common folk in every land	28:27
	who long to live in peace and quietness.	28:31
	We beseech thee.	28:35
	Hasten the day when all shall dwell together	28:38
	in mutual helpfulness and love, for thine is the world,	28:40
	and thine is the kingdom through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	28:46
	And let us offer a short prayer of supplication	28:54
	for ourselves.	28:57
	Lord, temper with tranquility, our manifold activity,	28:59
	that we may do our work for thee,	29:09
	with very great simplicity.	29:12
	And the prayer of dedication,	29:16
	our father God, by whom we live	29:19
	and on whom our hopes are built,	29:22
	grant us ears to hear, eyes to see, wills to obey,	29:25
	hearts to love.	29:31
	Then declare what thy will,	29:34
	reveal what thy will, command what thy will,	29:38
	demand what thy will, and let each one of us answer.	29:44
	Speak Lord for thy servant here.	29:52
	And now, let us sum up our prayers	29:59
	in the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples,	30:01
	saying, "Our Father	30:04
-	who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	30:08
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	30:15
	Give us this day our daily bread	30:19
	and forgive us our trespasses	30:22
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	30:25
	And lead us, not into temptation,	30:29
	but deliver us from evil.	30:31
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	30:34
	and the glory forever. Amen.	30:37
-	The minister to the university	30:45
	has asked me to draw your attention	30:48
	to the little slip about choir robes project.	30:52
	It's 25 years since the choir had new robes cutter.	30:59
	Worse than that, the other Sunday,	31:06
	when we were number 180 in the choir,	31:08
	we could give them a cutter or a robe, not both.	31:10
	(speaks faintly) like giving a shirt or a pair of trousers.	31:13
	(congregation laughing)	31:16
	You would think that the university would pay for the robes	31:19
	just as they pay football uniforms, but not yet.	31:22
	(congregation laughing)	31:26
	However, we have a distinguished and friendly member	31:31
	from Allen floor, the second floor,	31:34
	and maybe he'll take our desire to them	31:37
	and tell them we think we should be robed by them	31:39
	to the glory of God.	31:42
	See what happens?	31:44
	But in case they don't, will you send us $50 per robe?	31:45
	If you can't give it today, send it in latter.	31:50
	And then come and see them dressed properly	31:54
	and singing as gloriously as ever.	31:57
	Thank you.	32:00
-	It is good to see you here this morning,	32:11
	homecoming weekend.	32:15
	And I greet you in the name and in the spirit of our Lord	32:17
	and savior Jesus Christ.	32:20
	Grace and peace to you.	32:22
	John writes, "Now six stone jars were standing there	32:29
	for the Jewish rights of purification.	32:33
	Each holding 20 or 30 gallons.	32:37
	Jesus said to them, 'Fill the jars with water.'	32:41
	And they failed them up to the brim.	32:45
	He said to them, 'Now draw some of it out	32:49
	and take it to the steward of the feast.'	32:51
	So, they took it.	32:55
	When the steward of the feast	32:57
	tasted the water now become wine	32:58
	and did not know where it came from	33:01
	though the servants who had drawn the water knew,	33:03
	the steward called the bride groom and said,	33:07
	'You have kept the good wine until now?'	33:09
	This the first of his signs Jesus did at Cana of Galilee	33:14
	and the disciples believe."	33:19
	Gusto is a word defined by the dictionary	33:23
	as meaning taste, keen enjoyment, or zest.	33:27
	And my friends, that's what I want us to see today.	33:34
	The taste, the keen enjoyment,	33:38
	the zest of the gospel of Jesus, the Christ.	33:41
	The flavor, the deep pleasure.	33:45
	The vitality of God's love given to us through Jesus Christ.	33:48
	Now, Gusto is a word quite familiar to you,	33:54
	to us who watch television.	33:58
	You get real Gusto in a great light beverage	34:00
	advertised frequently and tantalizingly.	34:05
	If you listened to that,	34:10
	there's a theological psychological appeal	34:10
	to this particular commercial, but there's even more	34:13
	of this psychological theological religious appeal	34:17
	to this same product's latest jingle	34:21
	which goes something like.	34:24
	♪ You only come round this way once in life ♪	34:25
	Oh.	34:29
	♪ Grab all you can as you go ♪	34:30
	And so, Gusto has the kind of ring to it	34:34
	that I want you to hear and to experience this morning.	34:38
	The Gusto, not of slits,	34:41
	but the Gusto of the gospel of Jesus Christ, our Lord	34:43
	and our savior.	34:47
	There is Gusto in the gospel for you and for me.	34:48
	Let's see if we can see.	34:54
	William Barclay tells us in writing about this passage,	34:56
	that the rabbis of Jesus' day had a saying	35:00
	that was accepted as true by all good Hebrew families.	35:03
	The saying went, "Without wine, there is no joy."	35:07
	"Without wine, there is no joy."	35:11
	So, they had run out of wine, therefore, no joy.	35:15
	Now, you began to see the important role	35:20
	that Jesus was to play at this wedding feast	35:22
	for He was the one who was called by his mother	35:25
	to bring joy back again to the wedding feast that Cana.	35:28
	But wait a minute.	35:34
	Wait just a minute, if you will.	35:37
	Well, I want us to become conscious	35:40
	of how important John evidently feels	35:43
	that this little story is.	35:46
	John has written up to this point only 50 verses	35:48
	before he writes the first word of this story.	35:51
	Only one chapter so far	35:53
	and what a magnificent chapter it is.	35:55
	His awesome, all inspiring prologue on Jesus as the logos,	35:58
	the word become flesh and dwelling among us.	36:04
	The powerful testimony of John the Baptist,	36:07
	as he tells the inquisitive Pharisees	36:10
	that he, John, is to prepare the way of the Lord.	36:12
	The glorious affirmation of John	36:15
	when he looks up and sees Jesus and says,	36:18
	"Behold the lamb of God	36:20
	who takes away the sins of the world"	36:22
	And then John writes of Jesus' first experiences with Andrew	36:25
	and Peter and Phillip and Nathaniel.	36:29
	And then these words on the third day,	36:31
	there was a wedding feast at Cana of Galilee	36:34
	and God in Christ was there.	36:37
	This God who called the universe into being,	36:41
	this God who called Abraham to go into a land unknown,	36:44
	this God who brought down the 10 commandments	36:48
	at Mount Sinai,	36:50
	this God who touched Isaiah in the glory of the temple,	36:51
	this God who lifted the deceitful king David	36:55
	and made him whole again,	36:58
	this God who called Amos and Micah and Jonah,	37:00
	the God of all people, all places, all times	37:03
	here at a wedding feast saying,	37:06
	"Fill the pots with water."	37:09
	Here He is, Jesus, at a party, at a wedding party.	37:11
	And here we see the place	37:18
	that the man Jesus of Nazareth field	37:20
	in his family and community life.	37:23
	Jesus was invited to a party.	37:27
	Not only Jesus,	37:31
	but all of the disciples were invited also at a party	37:32
	where wine was being served.	37:35
	Can you imagine that? No?	37:38
	That probably doesn't fit into our picture of Jesus	37:45
	or at least many of us have a hard time imagining that,	37:49
	because if you're going to have a party	37:52
	where there may be real exuberance and loudness and joy	37:55
	and celebration, the very last person	37:59
	that you would think of inviting would be someone	38:02
	who most of us would think of as the real true blue,	38:04
	honest to goodness Christian.	38:07
	And for Pete's sake, you'd never invite a preacher.	38:09
	We'd spoil the whole of faith, but not Jesus.	38:14
	Jesus was right there.	38:22
	And so, were all of his first disciples	38:23
	and the wine was being drunk by all.	38:26
	Wine was not only present and consumed at the wedding feast	38:28
	when they read out Jesus changed six pots full of water	38:31
	into wine so they could drink	38:34
	and the wedding party could continue.	38:37
	And my friends do you know what the first thing	38:41
	that this humble human little incident tells me?	38:43
	It is that Almighty God is concerned about us	38:48
	and our common everyday activities and affairs	38:53
	like wedding feasts.	38:56
	Here he comes, God Almighty in Jesus, the Christ	38:59
	with time to spare for going to a wedding feast	39:03
	and with power to spare, to make water become wine	39:07
	so the guests could continue to have a good time.	39:13
	This one little incident alone	39:16
	makes a mockery of much of our long faced somber, solemn,	39:19
	sad, sour puss behavior,	39:24
	which many of us piously and poorly pass off	39:26
	as the way Christians are to be.	39:30
	Now, we can behave this way if we want to,	39:33
	but let's not demean the majesty and the glory of Christ,	39:36
	joy and his happiness by calling our behavior	39:40
	if it's that the kind of behavior that is Christ life. No.	39:43
	Sadness and salvation are not one and the same .	39:48
	Stiff-necked living was not the way of life for Jesus	39:52
	or his family or his disciple.	39:56
	John has just told us of the eternal logos,	40:02
	the word which has become flesh in Jesus.	40:06
	He has just told us of the lamb of God	40:11
	who takes away the sin of the world.	40:13
	And now John links this eternal word,	40:17
	the savior of all persons with the joy of a wedding feast.	40:19
	Oh, if we could only do that.	40:24
	Oh, if we could only do that.	40:28
	If we could only link together the sacred and the secular,	40:29
	if we could only combine the eternal with the everyday,	40:35
	if we could only connect the happiness of life	40:39
	with the joys of Christ, but no, not many of us anyhow.	40:42
	We would go to parties, to clubs, to movies, to dances,	40:50
	or to place for a good time.	40:57
	And we think we're to go to church to be somber,	41:00
	and serious, and sad.	41:02
	We think that Jesus spirit is here	41:03
	and not at the movie or the party or the nightclub.	41:06
	One of the most important things John says	41:09
	in his entire gospel,	41:12
	he says, "Right here in this little story	41:13
	that God is present everywhere.	41:16
	That God's concern is in every place.	41:19
	That God's power is available to all persons	41:22
	in all circumstances."	41:25
	I'm hearing John say that God is having a good time,	41:27
	that Jesus had good time	41:32
	and that God wants us to have a good time too	41:33
	that he wants us to live life to it's fullest.	41:36
	I'm hearing John say that God's love is present everywhere,	41:39
	at a party, at a brawl, at a bar, at a jail,	41:42
	at a house of prostitution, at a homosexual bar,	41:46
	at a nightclub or a beer joint.	41:49
	Just the same as God's love is present in this Chapel	41:51
	or in a church, or in a prayer meeting,	41:54
	or in a Bible study group.	41:56
	I hear John saying this coming of God	41:59
	is in all of life, to all of life, for all of life.	42:03
	This Jesus, the eternal word	42:09
	at a wedding in Cana of Galilee.	42:13
	Do you hear him?	42:20
	Do you really hear what John is saying to us here?	42:23
	I think it was Eric (speaks faintly) who once said,	42:30
	"Many people die before they ever begin to leave."	42:32
	God does not want that to happen to you or to me,	42:41
	God does not want any child to die	42:46
	before he or she begins really to live.	42:50
	It was Meister Eckhart who lived in road	42:56
	in the 13th and 14th centuries who once wrote,	42:58
	"To get at the core of God at his greatest,	43:02
	one must get into the core of himself at his least	43:06
	for no one can know God who has not first known himself.	43:11
	Go to the depths of the soul,	43:16
	the secret place of the most high,	43:19
	to the roots, to the heights	43:22
	for all that God can do is focused there."	43:24
	That's how important you are.	43:31
	God wants you to live before you die.	43:35
	God has focused his all on you.	43:41
	All that God can do has been made available	43:46
	in Jesus, the Christ.	43:49
	Here is love in its fullest	43:52
	as lifeless and inert,	43:59
	and powerless as H2O as water you and I are,	44:04
	but wonder of all wonders...	44:12
	And as Hugh Anderson used to say in this Chapel,	44:15
	"And every wonder true	44:17
	the grace of God can take this water and make it into wine,	44:21
	God's grace can take your life and mine empty, weak,	44:29
	and hurt, powerless, lifeless, joyless,	44:33
	and make it full of zest and meaning, radiant and joyful."	44:35
	The Gusto of the gospel is yours and mine for the asking.	44:40
	How do I know that?	44:46
	How dare I to make such a statement as that?	44:47
	Well, I think that's exactly what this story	44:50
	in the gospel of John is trying to say to us.	44:52
	He says, "You take six large jars of water.	44:56
	Each of these big jars holding 20 to 30 gallons of water.	44:59
	Fill these jars up to the very brim.	45:03
	Add the power of Jesus, the Christ,	45:06
	and you have 120 to 180 gallons of wine."	45:08
	Now, what in the world will all those folks do	45:13
	with 120 or 180 gallons of wine?	45:17
	There's no wedding feast around either now	45:22
	or surely even then	45:24
	that would consume 120 or 180 gallons of wine.	45:26
	That's not the absurd.	45:30
	Is this what John really wants us to hear and to understand?	45:32
	I don't think so.	45:38
	How about this?	45:40
	You use water because water is as plain and ordinary	45:43
	and powerless as any element you can find.	45:46
	You feel the jars up to the very brim	45:50
	to be sure that no other substance is present,	45:52
	but water and the power of Jesus.	45:54
	No hanky-panky going on.	45:56
	You make 120 to 180 gallons of wine available	46:01
	not to overload the wedding host,	46:04
	but to show that God's grace is limitless	46:07
	and boundless and overflowing.	46:10
	No need on earth can exhaust the grace of God.	46:13
	There is a glorious, super abundance to the grace of God.	46:18
	If we read this story,	46:25
	as if it tells us only of water and wine,	46:27
	we may miss the personal message that it has for us.	46:32
	Sure John talks about water and wine,	46:36
	but he's also telling us about life and living.	46:39
	Sure he tells us what happened then	46:44
	even 40 years before he actually wrote,	46:46
	but he's saying that this is for now.	46:50
	And I believe that what happened then	46:53
	if that is not also for now, then it's for no time at all.	46:55
	Or it's the present that counts to you and me.	47:00
	I could not care less,	47:04
	really whether or not Jesus actually turned water into wine.	47:06
	John says he did.	47:11
	Okay, I believe it.	47:12
	But my whole life is at stake when I hear John telling us	47:15
	not about Jesus changing water into wine,	47:20
	but about Jesus life changing power.	47:22
	Changing water is nothing at all, changing your lives,	47:25
	your life and mine is everything.	47:29
	Here is the message that John is trying to get us to hear.	47:34
	And then I have this final word.	47:41
	The only reason that this story of Jesus	47:46
	at the wedding feast is important.	47:49
	Only reason at all,	47:52
	is that that same Jesus who rejoiced that Cina	47:55
	also showed us how to love ultimately	47:59
	and totally on Calvary.	48:02
	The same Jesus who was at Cana also was at Calvary.	48:06
	This story would have been lost long ago.	48:11
	It would have been told as so much fun and games	48:14
	and faded from the scene, as it tells about the love of God,	48:17
	humanly revealed at Cana.	48:21
	If it had not been for the love of God,	48:23
	supremely revealed at Calvary.	48:25
	Edmund Steimle, professor of preaching	48:29
	at Union Seminary in New York writes in one of his books,	48:31
	"Some words which end the sermon as I want it to end,	48:35
	and I invite you to listen.	48:39
	What is its timely rights that attracts you to Christ?	48:42
	What draws you to Christ in curiosity and wonder?	48:47
	Perhaps it is his gentleness with the outcasts	48:53
	and the unlovely that draws you to him at first.	48:56
	Or perhaps it is his courage in the face of opposition	49:00
	and betrayal and death.	49:03
	Or perhaps it is his impatience with rules and regulations	49:07
	and the (speaks faintly) integrity of the spirit.	49:12
	Or perhaps it's the disturbing, probing, presence of love	49:15
	broken on a cross.	49:23
	The haunting notion that here is the clue	49:26
	to ultimate reality,	49:30
	to what's at the center of this baffling existence of hours	49:32
	to give it purpose and meaning.	49:36
	"Your (speaks faintly)," he says the painter	49:39
	who has never been inside the doors of a church	49:43
	has yet painted the crucifixion	49:46
	over and over and over again,	49:48
	and violent even brutal color and form.	49:50
	And he probes is reported to have said,	49:54
	"I don't know what the crucifixion means,	49:57
	but if there is meaning anywhere at all,	50:02
	I suspect it is there."	50:06
	The Gusto of the gospel runs from Cana to Calvary	50:13
	for you and for me.	50:21
	Meaning I, suspect if it is anywhere at all, it is there.	50:25
	And may the Gusto of the gospel be yours.	50:35
	Amen. Amen.	50:43
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	(choir singing faintly)
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	(choir singing faintly)
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:11
	(gentle pipe organ music)	59:16
	(choir singing faintly)
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:29
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:32
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:35
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:39
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	59:43
	(bright pipe organ music)	59:51
	(choir singing faintly)
-	All things come of thee ooh, God	1:00:04
	and of thy known have we given thee, amen.	1:00:08
	(bright pipe organ music)	1:00:19
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	(choir singing faintly)
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	(choir singing faintly)
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	(choir singing faintly)
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	(choir singing faintly)
	(bright pipe organ music)	1:04:25
-	Unto God's gracious mercy, and protection	1:05:00
	do I commit you.	1:05:06
	May the blessing of God come upon you abundantly,	1:05:08
	may it keep you strong and tranquil	1:05:13
	in the truth of his promises through Jesus Christ our Lord.	1:05:17
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:26
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:35
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:46
	♪ Amen ♪	1:06:01
	♪ Amen ♪	1:06:13
	♪ Amen ♪	1:06:28
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	(bright pipe organ music)	1:07:03
	(gentle pipe organ music)	1:07:34

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Robert T. Young - "The Gusto of the Gospel" (October 19, 1975)

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October 19, 1975

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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