Robert T. Young - "One for the People" (April 4, 1976)

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	♪ Bless thy Lord ♪	0:10
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	0:15
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:24
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	1:58
	(gentle instrumental music)	3:58
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	5:24
	(coughing faintly)	6:16
-	Now says the Lord,	6:21
	you turn to me with all your heart and with fasting,	6:24
	with mourning and render your heart	6:28
	and not your garments	6:30
	and turn to the Lord your God,	6:33
	for God is gracious and merciful.	6:35
	Slow to anger and of great kindness.	6:38
	Therefore, with contrition and joy we come before God.	6:42
	Let us confess our sin.	6:47
-	Oh, holy God	6:50
	you who want the sacrifice of forgiveness and mercy,	6:52
	hear us as we pray.	6:57
	For all of us who don't know	6:59
	the joy of giving and receiving.	7:01
	For all of us in our institutions	7:04
	who rely on power and money	7:07
	to exert influence in the world,	7:10
	for our husbands and wives	7:13
	and all people who no longer have the strength to forgive,	7:15
	nor the humility to be sorry.	7:20
	Forgive us when we push aside any well-intentioned word.	7:22
	When we exploit our family,	7:27
	our friends and those whom we do not even know.	7:29
	Oh loving God, you know our hearts and our intentions.	7:34
	We pray you help us to confess who we are,	7:39
	that we may become more faithful and loving.	7:43
	Hear the promises of God.	7:56
	Ask and it will be given you,	7:58
	seek and you will find,	8:00
	knock and it will be open to you.	8:03
	If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just	8:06
	and will forgive our sins.	8:10
	I announced therefore, in the name of Jesus Christ	8:13
	that we are forgiven.	8:16
	Amen.	8:19
	(gentle instrumental music)	8:22
	♪ Lord take me oh Lord ♪	9:00
	(singing indistinctly)	9:09
	♪ Oh I will sing of thy blessing ♪	9:21
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	9:30
	♪ Lord take me oh lord ♪	9:48
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	9:57
	♪ Do not see (indistinct) ♪	10:08
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	10:18
	♪ Holy (indistinct) ♪	10:32
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	10:39
	♪ Lord take me oh Lord ♪	11:46
	(singing indistinctly)	11:54
	♪ I must promise ♪	12:10
	(singing indistinctly)	12:14
	♪ I must promise ♪	12:34
	(gentle instrumental music)	12:49
-	The Old Testament lesson today,	13:27
	is taken from the book of Genesis,	13:30
	chapter 22 verses one through two	13:32
	and also nine through 14.	13:35
	"It happened sometime later	13:39
	that God put Abraham to the test.	13:41
	Abraham Abraham, he called.	13:44
	Here I am, he replied.	13:47
	Take your son, God said	13:49
	your only child, Isaac whom you love	13:51
	and go to the land of Moriah.	13:54
	There you shall offer him as a burnt offering	13:56
	on a mountain that I will point out to you.	13:59
	When they arrived at the place God had pointed out to him,	14:02
	Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood.	14:06
	Then he bound his son, Isaac and put him on the altar	14:09
	on top of the wood.	14:12
	Abraham stretched out his hand	14:14
	and seized the knife to kill his son.	14:16
	But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven,	14:19
	Abraham, Abraham, he said	14:22
	I am here, he replied.	14:25
	Do not raise your hand against the boy, the angel said.	14:27
	Do not harm him,	14:31
	for now I know you fear God.	14:32
	You have not refused me your son, your only son.	14:35
	Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram	14:39
	caught by its horns in a bush.	14:42
	Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering	14:44
	in place of his son.	14:47
	Abraham called this place Yahweh provides."	14:49
	And hence the saying today,	14:53
	on the mountain Yahweh provides.	14:55
	The New Testament lesson is taken	14:58
	from the Gospel of John, chapter 11 verses 45 through 53.	15:00
	Please rise for the reading of the gospel.	15:05
	"Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary	15:12
	and had seen what he did believed in him.	15:15
	But some of them went to tell the Pharisees	15:18
	what Jesus had done.	15:20
	Then the chief priest and Pharisees called a meeting.	15:22
	Here is this man working all these signs they said	15:26
	and what action are we taking?	15:29
	If we let him go on in this way,	15:31
	everyone will believe in him.	15:34
	And the Romans will come and destroy the holy place	15:36
	and our nation.	15:38
	One of them, Caiaphas the high priest that year said,	15:40
	you don't seem to have grasped the situation at all.	15:44
	You fail to see that it is better for one man to die	15:48
	for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.	15:51
	He did not speak in his own person.	15:55
	It was as high priest that he made this prophecy	15:58
	that Jesus was to die for the nation	16:00
	and not for the nation only,	16:03
	but to gather together in unity	16:04
	the scattered children of God.	16:07
	From that day, they were determined to kill him."	16:09
	May the Lord bless this, the reading and hearing	16:13
	of his holy Word.	16:16
	(gentle instrumental music)	16:17
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	16:26
-	We are not alone, we live in God's world.	17:00
-	We believe in God who has created and is creating.	17:04
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus,	17:09
	to reconcile and make new.	17:12
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	17:15
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	17:18
	to celebrate life and its fullness.	17:23
	To love and serve others.	17:26
	To seek justice and resist evil.	17:28
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	17:31
	Our judge and our hope,	17:35
	in life, in death, in life beyond death,	17:37
	God is with us.	17:41
	We are not alone.	17:43
	Thanks be to God.	17:45
-	The Lord be with you.	17:48
	(congregation murmuring loudly)	17:49
	Let us pray.	17:51
	Our loving God, parent of our Lord Jesus Christ	18:00
	and our parent.	18:04
	What do you make of these days?	18:06
	All of our living of it, the injustice and oppression,	18:09
	the trials and tragedies,	18:14
	the torments of heart and the struggles of brain,	18:16
	the fears and confusions that compound our days,	18:20
	be patient, oh God	18:24
	and guide us in our walking	18:26
	that we may do your will.	18:29
	Where we have failed lift us to new strength to try again.	18:32
	Where we have gone forward steady our uncertain steps	18:36
	and guide us to higher ground.	18:40
	Everywhere be our companion.	18:43
	Judge us, inspire us, support us	18:46
	that we may not grow weary in seeking justice	18:50
	or vain in our attempts at well-doing.	18:54
	Liberate us from yesterday's limits.	18:57
	Give us hope for this day	19:01
	and grant us visions for the morrow.	19:03
	Oh Lord, this day began for some of us joyfully	19:08
	for others grimly.	19:10
	Some will spend the hours without anxiety	19:12
	and others will be caught in the web of living pain.	19:15
	Some will exalt its vista of hope	19:19
	and others will carry a burden too heavy	19:22
	to see far beyond the moment.	19:24
	Some of us know thee	19:27
	and some of us do not know if we know thee or not.	19:29
	But all of us, oh Lord have needed thee.	19:33
	And so while there is no one word for all of us,	19:36
	we bow our hearts each a little world in him or herself.	19:40
	If we are weird, strengthen us.	19:46
	If we are proud, humble us.	19:50
	If we are perplexed, enlighten us.	19:52
	If we are torn by inner strife, heal us.	19:56
	If we are lost in meaningless activity,	19:59
	get us with thy purpose.	20:02
	If we are discouraged heart in us,	20:05
	if we have sin teach us how to repent.	20:08
	If we have been sinned against teach us how to forgive.	20:11
	If we feel alone be at our side.	20:15
	If we feel weak, grant thy strength.	20:18
	If we are bewildered grant us thy hope.	20:21
	If we are anxious grant thy peace.	20:25
	If we do not know how we can get to tomorrow	20:28
	grant us thy courage.	20:30
	We are selfish deep in our love for thee and our neighbor.	20:33
	If we are senseless silence our tongues	20:37
	until we learn to understand.	20:39
	If we have tried in vain to pray, grant us patience.	20:42
	Whatever our need be with us	20:47
	and with all those we love	20:50
	and with all your people,	20:52
	as thou art with us,	20:54
	this we pray in the spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord	20:56
	who taught us also to pray.	20:59
-	Our father who art in heaven,	21:01
	hallowed be thy name,	21:04
	thy kingdom come,	21:06
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	21:08
	Give us this day our daily bread	21:12
	and forgive us our trespasses	21:15
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	21:17
	and lead us not into temptation,	21:21
	but deliver us from evil.	21:24
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power	21:26
	and the glory, forever.	21:29
	Amen.	21:31
-	You are invited to a celebration of the sacrament	21:40
	of the Lord's Supper,	21:43
	in the Memorial Chapel at 12:15 today,	21:45
	immediately following the service.	21:48
	My name is Leslie Manford.	21:51
	I spent the week of spring break	21:54
	with a team of 15 other students and adults	21:55
	from my hometown,	21:58
	helping to rebuild homes destroyed by the earthquake	22:00
	in the Mayan village of Sara Alto in Guatemala.	22:03
	The work was physically exhausting	22:07
	and the living intense was hard.	22:09
	We left tired and sore and dirty and sunburnt.	22:11
	We also left with the feeling that the week	22:16
	had been the most meaningful and inspiring of our lives.	22:19
	The Indians were the most courageous, energetic	22:23
	and innovative people I'd ever known.	22:26
	They had lost everything.	22:29
	They were trying to rebuild their homes and their lives	22:30
	and to do it before the onset of the rainy season	22:34
	in late April.	22:37
	Yet they had a spirit and a hope for the future,	22:38
	and they had a plan to work toward that future.	22:43
	For instance, all the men in the village	22:46
	had been in divided into construction groups of about eight	22:48
	that were given daily assignments in the rebuilding	22:52
	of the 300 destroyed homes.	22:55
	But the most amazing thing to us	22:58
	was that in spite of their deep personal tragedy,	23:01
	they had a sweetness and a concern for others.	23:04
	They worried about and offered help to their neighbors	23:08
	in the next village of Volodiero.	23:11
	And after the daily trimmers,	23:13
	they always ran to check on their nervous American friends.	23:15
	The day of our departure,	23:19
	all of the people in the two villages	23:21
	turned out to give us a big sendoff.	23:23
	They presented us with a hand painted plaque that read,	23:26
	"Thanks to the North American students	23:29
	from the people of Sara Alto	23:31
	and Volodiero Guatemala, Central America.	23:33
	We are Americans too.	23:36
	We are all Americans.	23:38
	We are all brothers.	23:41
	Today you have an opportunity to remember	23:43
	our Central American brothers and sisters	23:45
	with your offerings.	23:48
	Please be generous."	23:49
-	In the name of God,	24:04
	who creates, redeems and sustains us.	24:06
	Passion Sunday is observed in the Christian church today,	24:12
	the fifth Sunday in the season of Lent.	24:17
	The word passion, has become so perverted and distorted	24:22
	and so stigmatized with lustful destructive sex only	24:28
	and sex at any price connotations	24:34
	that one almost hesitates to use this particular word.	24:37
	But there is power in the message of Passion Sunday.	24:43
	There is power in the meaning	24:47
	of the scripture lessons for today.	24:49
	There is power, power to redeem, to reconcile and to renew.	24:52
	Passion means love, devotion, caring, compassion,	24:59
	offering, giving, sacrifice and perhaps maybe even death.	25:06
	In our Christian faith, our own Christian tradition	25:14
	Passion Sunday is the day on which we observe,	25:18
	remember, recall, relive the loving sacrifice	25:21
	of Jesus the Christ, even to death for all persons.	25:25
	In his little book entitled, "You! Jonah!"	25:31
	Thomas John Carlisle, has some lines caption,	25:34
	"Compassion for compassion.	25:38
	Keep open to pain.	25:42
	His, hers, theirs as well as yours.	25:44
	Threshold deep, wide for ultra and equalized empathizes.	25:49
	Agony can create capacity to respond in kind.	25:56
	Acute heartbreak walks back to gather pieces,	26:01
	to bandage wounds.	26:06
	Sensitive to all living, all suffering,	26:08
	let mercy rise."	26:13
	Passion Sunday observes that passion for compassion,	26:16
	which God has for all persons.	26:20
	Passion Sunday, sacrifice, death, suffering,	26:25
	one for the people as our sermon topic says	26:31
	as our scripture lesson says,	26:34
	one for all who needs this.	26:35
	Who?	26:39
	You?	26:40
	Me?	26:41
	Anyone, everyone, if there is no sin	26:43
	then there is no need for a savior.	26:48
	If there is no brokenness,	26:51
	then there is no need for a healer.	26:52
	If there is no guilt, then there is no need for forgiveness.	26:55
	If there is no wrong, then there is no need for sacrifice.	26:59
	If there is no estrangement between God and us,	27:02
	then there is no need for a mediator	27:06
	to bring us together again.	27:08
	If there is no death, then there is no need for life.	27:11
	But I believe that there is present among us,	27:15
	among us who are God's own children's sin and brokenness	27:18
	and guilt and wrong and estrangement and death.	27:22
	Therefore we need the greatest possible outpouring	27:26
	of God's grace and that we have	27:30
	in Jesus Christ, the crucified.	27:33
	We need this Jesus Christ, the crucified	27:38
	to help make us one with ourselves,	27:43
	one with one another and one with God.	27:45
	As John Calvin, once wrote,	27:49
	"Christ did actually come to redeem us from sin	27:51
	and that is enough."	27:54
	That is enough.	27:58
	That is enough.	28:00
	That is the good and glorious word that I have for all of us	28:02
	from God's word today.	28:06
	But that's enough for this line of thought for the moment,	28:10
	for this is the end of the story.	28:14
	This is where we are today.	28:16
	Let's go back.	28:19
	Let's look at the passages of scripture used	28:20
	as the lessons for Passion Sunday.	28:23
	And let me tell you first off	28:25
	that if you heard much of the message	28:27
	as the lessons were read,	28:29
	you know already that these are weird, strange, perplexing,	28:30
	hard to understand passages of scripture.	28:35
	In Genesis chapter 22,	28:39
	Abraham is told by God to gather up his things,	28:41
	to take whatever is necessary	28:46
	to get his son in hand and to go up to the mountain	28:49
	and make of his beloved son, Isaac, a sacrifice to Him.	28:52
	That is to Jehovah, to Yahweh, to God.	28:58
	Isaac, you remember who, Issac was?	29:02
	For years Abraham had longed for a son	29:06
	by his beloved wife, Sarah	29:09
	but he was growing old.	29:12
	And one day God promised to Abraham that he and Sarah	29:13
	would indeed bear a son.	29:17
	And then for 10 more long years they waited.	29:19
	Finally Abraham did have a son	29:23
	but this son was by Hagar, his Egyptian woman slave.	29:24
	But then God gave to Abraham and Sarah a son, Isaac.	29:30
	They rejoiced where they were well on in their years.	29:35
	Indeed, Abraham we are told was a hundred years old	29:38
	when Isaac was born.	29:41
	And then the word comes to Abraham,	29:42
	take your son, your only son, Isaac,	29:44
	whom you love and offer him as a burnt offering.	29:47
	Then in John chapter 11, Caiaphas has gathered	29:54
	all of the chief priests and the Pharisees	29:56
	together with him.	29:58
	There are concerned about this man, Jesus	30:00
	who had been performing many signs,	30:02
	who had been teaching and preaching to the multitudes	30:04
	and who had been moving out	30:06
	among the strange people all across the land.	30:08
	The raising of Lazarus from the dead by Jesus	30:11
	is told in the verses of chapter 11	30:14
	immediately preceding our lesson for today.	30:16
	And oh what a glorious story this is.	30:19
	The story of love and friendship and caring	30:22
	and touching and healing and weeping and rejoicing.	30:25
	It is in these earlier verses that Jesus says to Martha	30:29
	and to all of us Martha's who have followed questioningly	30:33
	and yet faithfully in her train.	30:37
	I am the resurrection and the life,	30:39
	he who believes in me though he were dead	30:42
	yet shall he live.	30:44
	No wonder the chief priests	30:46
	and the Pharisees were concerned.	30:49
	They had cause to be concerned about this man, Jesus.	30:51
	Then Caiaphas being the chief high priest	30:55
	prophesy to them that one man should die	30:59
	for are all the people and not just for the nation,	31:02
	but for all the children of God's scattered abroad.	31:06
	What kind of God is this my friend?	31:10
	Who is this God who will give to an old man	31:18
	and his wife there long for son	31:23
	and then will tell the father to go make a burnt offering	31:25
	of this very very special son?	31:28
	Who is this God who will send his own son into the world	31:32
	to be born of Joseph and Mary	31:37
	and will call him his beloved son	31:39
	on the day of his baptism	31:41
	and then allow the very high priest	31:43
	to proclaim that this beloved son must die.	31:45
	What kind of God?	31:48
	Who is this God?	31:50
	What is going on in God's mind?	31:53
	Does God not care?	31:55
	First God gives and then God takes away.	31:57
	Is this the way God works with his children?	32:01
	Walter Russell Bowie,	32:07
	in writing about the Abraham Isaac experience says,	32:08
	"Here there is embedded the fact that	32:11
	once men not only practiced human sacrifice,	32:14
	but they did it at what they thought was divine command."	32:18
	Suppose they did that now.	32:22
	Then he says, the story of Abraham going out	32:25
	to sacrifice, Isaac may either seem incredible	32:28
	or else profoundly disturbing to children in Sunday school	32:32
	or to adults who hear it read in church,	32:36
	unless they know what to sift out	32:39
	in order that the real truth may appear.	32:43
	It is incredible, absurd, unbelievable.	32:47
	What a testing?	32:53
	what kind of God?	32:54
	And then D.M Bailey, in his profound theological treat us,	32:59
	God was in Christ rights for the early Christians.	33:05
	The crucifixion might well seem	33:11
	to be the final reduction odd absurdism,	33:13
	of the belief that the world	33:18
	is governed by a gracious providence.	33:20
	If God was good,	33:23
	how could he have allowed such a dreadful thing	33:26
	as the crucifixion of their Lord and master	33:29
	to have happened?	33:32
	There could be no doubt about the goodness of Jesus	33:33
	or of his love for others	33:36
	that had been made plainer than ever before.	33:38
	But how could they believe any longer in the love of God?	33:40
	Incredible, unbelievable, absurd.	33:47
	What kind of God?	33:51
	Who is this God?	33:54
	This God, who asks for sacrifice	33:58
	from the ever obedient Abraham	34:02
	and who calls for sacrifice from his ever obedient son	34:05
	is one in the midst of our pain and suffering and sacrifice.	34:08
	And he won even in the midst of our death.	34:12
	God is not above it all or away from it all	34:15
	or aloof from it all but God is in it all.	34:18
	That is the affirmation from Abraham and Isaac.	34:24
	That is the affirmation from Jesus the Christ.	34:28
	That is the affirmation of Passion Sunday for all people.	34:32
	Charles Allen Densmore writes,	34:38
	"There was a cross in the heart of God,	34:41
	long before there was one planted on the green hill	34:45
	outside Jerusalem."	34:49
	Pierce Plowman questions, who suffers more than God,	34:53
	Horace Bushnell once preached,	35:03
	it is as if there were a cross unseen	35:06
	standing on its undiscovered hill,	35:09
	far back in the ages	35:12
	out of which were sounding always just the same deep voice	35:14
	of suffering, love, and patience	35:20
	that was heard by mortal ears	35:23
	from the sacred hill of Calvary.	35:25
	Or as someone has said,	35:29
	there is no end to anything until God finishes it.	35:30
	We do not know the end of these things	35:37
	until God finishes with them.	35:40
	Who is this God, one who suffers?	35:44
	Who is this God, one who speaks to us personally	35:50
	and one who demands obedience?	35:54
	It was God's will that Abraham should go and offer Isaac.	35:57
	It was God's will that Jesus should be the one to die	36:02
	for the people.	36:05
	Abraham and Jesus were called to obey God.	36:07
	I'm convinced that both Abraham and Jesus	36:11
	could have said no I won't go.	36:15
	For Abraham was no mindless patriarch	36:19
	and Jesus was no helpless victim,	36:22
	but they didn't.	36:26
	They did not say no, they sought God's will.	36:27
	And when they became aware of God's will,	36:31
	they obeyed it and they followed it.	36:33
	These experiences of these men with God's will say to me,	36:37
	that in God's will there is risk.	36:41
	There is the unknown, there is danger and uncertainty.	36:45
	There is death, but there is also freedom and power,	36:49
	freedom to decide and power to act.	36:53
	As for me and perhaps for some of you	36:58
	and perhaps for many others,	37:01
	we don't often find this will of God.	37:03
	We don't often discover this or know this	37:05
	or hear this, or see this, or understand this	37:08
	or appropriate this will of God for our own lives.	37:13
	It's very rare that I feel that	37:16
	I am acting out the will of God.	37:23
	But when we do,	37:27
	we then become willing to fight any cause	37:29
	or go to any battle or face any army	37:32
	or be burned at any stake or to sacrifice a loved one,	37:34
	or even to go to death ourselves.	37:37
	Or I'm convinced that when a person knows, understands,	37:40
	and accepts and acts on God's will	37:43
	that person can endure any experience on earth	37:46
	or in heaven or even in Hell.	37:51
	D.T. Niles, the great Christian Saint	37:55
	of the church of south India says,	37:58
	"To live by faith is to live by the faithfulness of God."	37:59
	So when we know God's will and act on it	38:03
	we live not just by our faith,	38:05
	but by the faithfulness of God.	38:07
	Thus these experiences of these man with God	38:09
	tell me that there must be in God's will	38:11
	a peace and a contentment and a tranquility of soul.	38:14
	There must be in the will of God hope and assurance	38:18
	and promise of spirit in God's will	38:22
	there is a tomorrow.	38:24
	How else could Abraham or Jesus have endured?	38:26
	Oh, to know God's will and to live in it.	38:30
	Who is this God, one who suffers with us and for us?	38:39
	One who speaks to us personally and demands obedience.	38:46
	Then this God is one for the people, one for all the people.	38:51
	John says Jesus is the one who should die for people	38:57
	for all the children who are scattered abroad.	39:00
	D.T. Niles in this book of his entitled, "This Jesus,"	39:05
	talks about two ways of knowing	39:09
	that Jesus Christ is the savior.	39:12
	He writes, the only reason that Charles Wesley gave	39:14
	or believing Jesus is sufficient for anyone,	39:18
	is it Charles Wesley believed that Jesus	39:22
	was sufficient for him.	39:24
	Wesley knew that he was not an exceptional person	39:28
	and that what was true for him	39:32
	was true for all other person.	39:34
	Now says then,	39:38
	"But the truth which I am seeking to convey	39:41
	is the opposite of this.	39:44
	It is that what was true for all persons was	39:46
	and is therefore true for me.	39:49
	For me it has made the final difference	39:53
	to my own happiness that I know that God loves	39:55
	all people equally.	39:59
	God's love is for all and therefore it is for me."	40:02
	God's love is for me and therefore is for everyone.	40:06
	So whether you want to believe first that God loves you	40:12
	and therefore must love all people,	40:15
	or whether you want to believe that God loves all people	40:18
	and therefore must love you,	40:21
	it really leads to the same end	40:22
	that God loves us one and all.	40:24
	So there is this communal or corporate or community word,	40:30
	this inclusive word which I want us to hear this morning.	40:36
	Jesus is the one from God, for all the people.	40:40
	If Jesus is not for everyone,	40:43
	then I wonder is Jesus for anyone.	40:45
	I believe that we have overstressed individuality	40:52
	in Christianity.	40:56
	We have put too much emphasis on the singling out	40:58
	of God's children.	41:01
	We have over individualized and separated ourselves	41:03
	into nice little Christian isolates	41:07
	of one person for far too long.	41:11
	For what is this life without others?	41:14
	What is Christianity without Christ	41:21
	and other Christians?	41:25
	Indeed, what is eternal life alone?	41:28
	What if as one young person said to me recently,	41:35
	all we really have after all is personal relationships.	41:38
	What is the I without a we?	41:43
	what is the mine without an our?	41:45
	How then can one, even God die for all the people?	41:49
	I do not know.	41:58
	I cannot understand,	42:01
	but perhaps it is as Henry Nowan says,	42:03
	"No one can help anyone without becoming involved,	42:07
	without entering with one's whole person	42:12
	into the painful situation,	42:15
	without taking the risk of being hurt,	42:17
	wounded or even destroyed."	42:20
	So Christ did entered into the painful situation	42:26
	with his whole person even unto to death.	42:30
	This is the word for all the people.	42:34
	And I believe that somehow, sometime, some way,	42:39
	all God's children will know and experience	42:45
	the passionate, caring love of Christ.	42:48
	You say to me, Bob, you mean all people everywhere?	42:51
	Someday, sometime will know and experience the love of God.	42:54
	I believe, yes.	42:58
	It may not be in the ways in which you and I now know.	43:00
	It may not even be on this side of death.	43:05
	Indeed it was James Matthews	43:09
	when he was writing about his father's death,	43:10
	who gave to me for the first time	43:13
	the conception that God loves us even beyond death	43:15
	and may redeem many of us, not on this side of death	43:18
	but beyond death and from that point on	43:21
	through all eternity.	43:23
	Oh.	43:27
	In some mysterious way,	43:33
	in the eternal plan of God all the people will of God	43:36
	will know and experience this amazing love.	43:40
	For the word of God my friends is too consistent	43:44
	and too repetitious on this theme for it not to be true.	43:46
	Listen to just a few passages which I can quote for you	43:49
	and you can recall many.	43:53
	Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of who?	43:54
	The world.	43:57
	I will be your God and you, plural	44:00
	you will be my people.	44:03
	For God so loved not individuals,	44:06
	but the world that he gave his only son.	44:09
	God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.	44:14
	God commanded his love toward us	44:19
	in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.	44:22
	God did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all.	44:27
	Here in is love, not did we love God	44:33
	but that he loved us	44:36
	and sent his son for the propitiation of our sins.	44:39
	Oh, what a glorious gospel.	44:45
	Power, not for me but for all God's children.	44:49
	The love of God not only lasts forever it is for everyone.	44:57
	Someone has said,	45:06
	risen Christ, if God were good	45:08
	he could not look up on the sin of and misery of man	45:11
	and live his heart would break.	45:14
	And the church points to the cross and says,	45:17
	God's heart dead, break.	45:20
	Risen Christ, born and reared in sin as we are,	45:25
	how can we keep from sin?	45:30
	It is the creator who is responsible.	45:32
	It is God who deserves to be punished.	45:34
	The church kneels by the cross and whispers,	45:37
	God takes the responsibility and bears the punishment.	45:39
	Risen Christ, who is God?	45:47
	What is God?	45:48
	The name stands for the unknown.	45:49
	It is blasphemous us to say that we know him.	45:51
	The church kisses the feet of the dying Christ and says,	45:54
	we must worship the majesty we see.	45:59
	The majesty of the crucified.	46:02
	The majesty of love,	46:04
	the majesty of suffering where love gives itself	46:07
	for our sake.	46:11
	It was for our brokenness,	46:16
	our brokenness that the healer came.	46:19
	To God be the praise and the glory forever and ever.	46:25
	Amen.	46:33
	(gentle instrumental music)	46:40
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	47:25
	Accept these offerings now placed upon your alter	56:07
	oh gifter of every good and perfect gift.	56:10
	Granted they may be symbols of our love and of ourselves	56:14
	now offered more fully to you.	56:18
	Use these gifts to the end that your will is done	56:20
	and your kingdom of justice, liberation,	56:24
	unity and the wellbeing of all people's come.	56:26
	Through Jesus Christ on a cross we pray.	56:30
	Amen.	56:34
	(gentle instrumental music)	56:37
	(congregation singing indistinctly)	57:08
	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ	1:00:17
	and the love of God	1:00:19
	and the fellowship of the holy spirit, be with you all.	1:00:21
	♪ Amen ♪	1:00:28
	♪ Amen ♪	1:00:41
	♪ Amen ♪	1:01:02
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:01:22
	(congregation murmuring faintly)	1:04:09
	(indistinct)	1:04:21
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:04:23
	(murmuring faintly)	1:05:20
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:05:27
	(murmuring faintly)	1:06:17
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:06:24
	(murmuring faintly)	1:07:04
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:07:22
	(murmuring faintly)	1:07:28

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Robert T. Young - "One for the People" (April 4, 1976)

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