William H. Willimon - "Redeem the Time" (December 3, 1989)

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	(reverent organ music)	0:00
	(reverent choral music)	1:51
	(reverent organ music)	3:34
	(reverent choral music)	3:58
	(reverent organ music)	5:58
	(reverent choral music)	7:47
-	Oh wisdom, breath of the most high,	8:24
	pervading and permeating all creation.	8:27
	(congregation responds)	8:30
	Oh lord of lords and leader of the house of Israel	8:34
	who appeared to Moses and the burning bush	8:38
	and gave him your law on Sinai.	8:41
	(congregation responds)	8:44
	Oh root of Jesse, standing as a signal	8:48
	to the nations before whom	8:51
	all kinds are mute to whom	8:53
	the nations will do homage.	8:55
	(congregation responds)	8:58
	Oh key of David and ruler of the house of Israel,	9:02
	when you open nobody can close,	9:06
	when you close nobody can open.	9:09
	(congregation responds)	9:13
	Oh radiant dawn, splendor of eternal light	9:18
	and son of justice.	9:21
	(congregation responds)	9:24
	Oh king of the nations the ruler they long for	9:29
	the cornerstone binding all together.	9:33
	(congregation responds)	9:37
	Oh Emmanuel, our king and our law giver	9:41
	the anointed of the nations and their savior.	9:45
	(congregation responds)	9:49
	The spirit and the bride say come.	9:52
	(congregation responds)	9:56
-	Let us pray.	10:15
	Open our hearts and minds oh God	10:19
	by the power of your holy spirit	10:22
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed	10:24
	we might be prepared for the advent of our savior, amen.	10:28
	The first lesson is taken from the book of Isaiah.	10:35
	The word which Isaiah the son of Amos	10:40
	saw concerning Judaea and Jerusalem.	10:43
	It shall come to pass in the latter days	10:48
	that the mountain of the house of the Lord	10:51
	shall be established as the highest of the mountains	10:54
	and shall be raised above the hills,	10:58
	and all nations shall flow to it.	11:01
	And many peoples shall come and say,	11:05
	Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,	11:09
	to the house of the God of Jacob,	11:13
	that we may be taught the ways of God	11:16
	and of the God of Jacob.	11:19
	For out of Zion shall come forth instruction,	11:23
	and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.	11:27
	God shall judge between the nations	11:30
	and shall decide for many people	11:33
	and they shall beat their swords into plowshares	11:36
	and their spears into pruning hooks.	11:40
	Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,	11:43
	neither shall they learn war any more.	11:47
	Oh house of Jacob, come.	11:50
	Let us walk in the light of the lord.	11:53
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	11:57
	(joyous organ music)	12:04
	(joyous choral music)	12:25
	The second lesson is taken from Paul's letter to the Romans.	14:22
	Besides this you know what hour it is,	14:27
	how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep.	14:31
	For salvation is nearer to us	14:35
	now than when we first believed.	14:38
	The night is far gone, the day is at hand.	14:42
	Let us then cast off the works of the night	14:45
	and put on the armor of the day.	14:49
	Let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day,	14:52
	not in reveling and drunkenness,	14:57
	not in debauchery and licentiousness,	15:00
	not in quarreling and jealousy.	15:03
	But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,	15:05
	and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.	15:08
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	15:14
-	Paul says in the epistle, you know what time it is.	15:26
	And the gospel speaks	15:33
	of the time in which we live.	15:36
	The gospel is from Matthew.	15:40
	Jesus said, but of that day and hour no one knows,	15:44
	not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,	15:48
	but the Father only.	15:51
	As were the days of Noah, and so will be	15:54
	the coming of the son of man.	15:58
	For as in those days before the flood	16:00
	they were eating and drinking, marrying	16:02
	and giving in marriage, until the day	16:04
	when Noah entered the ark,	16:06
	and they did not know until the flood came	16:08
	and swept them all away, so will the coming	16:10
	of the Son of Man.	16:13
	Then, two men will be in the field, one is taken,	16:15
	one is left, two women will be grinding at the mill	16:18
	and one is taken, one is left, watch therefore.	16:21
	For you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.	16:25
	But know this, if the house holder had known	16:29
	in what part of the night the thief was coming,	16:33
	he would have watched and would not have let	16:37
	his house to be broken into.	16:39
	Therefore you must be ready for the Son of Man	16:42
	is coming at an hour you do not expect.	16:45
	Who then is the faithful and wise servant	16:49
	whom his master is set over his household	16:52
	to give them their food at the proper time?	16:54
	Blessed is the servant whom his master when he comes	16:57
	will find so doing.	17:01
	Truly I say to you, he will set him	17:03
	over all his possessions.	17:05
	A man I know, a professor at a nearby university	17:13
	has said that he will no longer	17:18
	do any speaking publicly or writing or reading	17:19
	until we get a nuclear arms freeze.	17:24
	The way he sees it,	17:30
	the bomb is so awful, the dangers	17:33
	that the bomb poses to human existence	17:37
	is so terrible that pursuit of normal	17:40
	academic activities is pointless	17:45
	until we do something about the most determinative	17:49
	factor in the modern world.	17:52
	The bomb has rendered pointless	17:55
	every aspect of human life	17:57
	other than that given over to the destruction of the bomb.	18:01
	Now at first glance this single mindedness	18:07
	of my nuclear professor appears to be a faithful	18:10
	response to today's gospel lesson.	18:14
	But of that hour no one knows,	18:18
	says Jesus, not even me.	18:21
	The world shall end in cataclysmic destruction.	18:23
	Now there is no reason to believe that	18:27
	Jesus had nuclear destruction in mind	18:29
	but the possibility of nuclear destruction	18:32
	does have a way of making these	18:35
	ancient, apocalyptic passages of scripture sound modern.	18:38
	Matthew, when he talks about the	18:44
	end of the world sounds vaguely like Carl Sagan	18:47
	when he talks about nuclear winter.	18:50
	Think about the bomb before it's too late	18:53
	of that day and hour nobody knows,	18:55
	the doomsday clock is ticking.	18:58
	As Jesus says, in the days of Noah	19:02
	lots of folk went right on eating and drinking,	19:06
	marrying and giving in marriage until	19:09
	the flood came and just swept them all away.	19:11
	In the days of Noah there were a lot of people	19:15
	that just went right on as business as usual.	19:16
	Studying in the library for exams,	19:20
	eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage.	19:23
	They went right on until that flood	19:29
	came and swept them away like a thief in the night.	19:31
	How trivial.	19:37
	How trivial all that lovemaking and drinking	19:40
	and eating and childbearing and dissertation	19:42
	writing and exam taking appeared after that great flood.	19:45
	Is that the point of my nuclear professor?	19:51
	That manuscript on which you've been working,	19:55
	those children that you have been raising,	19:59
	that wedding you've been planning,	20:02
	all of that is just going to seem trivial	20:05
	when in a moment all of our present	20:08
	is shot through with neutrons.	20:11
	If those primitive people had known	20:14
	the great flood was coming in the days of Noah.	20:16
	If they had known that all of their exam notes	20:20
	would be swept out of the library in the great deluge	20:22
	do you think they would've allowed their lives	20:25
	be caught in such triviality?	20:27
	No, they would've forsaken their trivial pursuit	20:32
	and they would've done something significant	20:35
	like working for a water conservation project.	20:37
	It's all rather scary	20:41
	this talk about the end, the end.	20:44
	Jesus says two men will be working	20:49
	in the field, one is taken, one is left.	20:50
	Two women will be grinding at the mill	20:53
	and one is taken and one is left	20:57
	and you should watch therefore	20:59
	because the day of the Lord is coming	21:02
	at an hour you do not expect like a thief in the night.	21:04
	Watch.	21:07
	And it is right there that I think	21:12
	we see the vast difference between	21:14
	the urgency of this nuclear determined professor	21:18
	and Jesus.	21:23
	Our professor has commended that we	21:26
	have our whole lives determined	21:30
	every waking moment by the bomb.	21:32
	A great bomb.	21:36
	The advent for which he is preparing	21:40
	is not the advent of a savior, judge,	21:43
	and reconciler of the world	21:45
	but rather the advent of the bomb,	21:48
	the great almighty bomb.	21:51
	And his argument is unless we do something	21:54
	about the bomb, then nothing we do has meaning.	21:57
	Since the bomb threatens everything we do	22:03
	with utter destruction.	22:06
	All that anxiety that you're feeling	22:10
	now about your organic exam,	22:12
	or whether or not your children	22:15
	will get in Duke, or if your Sunday	22:17
	roast will be overdone by the time you get home,	22:19
	all that is going to look rather silly,	22:23
	rather pointless, if by the time	22:24
	you get home somebody somewhere has pushed	22:27
	the wrong button and the roast that is overdone is you.	22:30
	And I can still remember	22:36
	I can still remember how guilty	22:38
	I felt as a student in New Haven	22:40
	when one Saturday we were on our way	22:43
	to the Harvard Yale football game	22:45
	and we passed a group of our fellow students	22:47
	who were protesting the Vietnam War.	22:50
	I mean what was I doing going to a fall football game	22:54
	when there was a war on.	22:58
	As they said back then	23:01
	if you're not working for a solution,	23:03
	you're part off the problem.	23:04
	My attendance at that football game	23:07
	was not just moral insensitivity to the greatest	23:09
	ethical issue of the day, it was downright complicity.	23:12
	Had a miserable time at the game.	23:17
	Suddenly it just seemed to be the wrong thing	23:20
	to be doing at the time.	23:22
	And yet as Duke's Stanley Hauerwas has noted	23:26
	such totally absorbed moral earnestness,	23:29
	though it appears to be the height	23:32
	of morality on the surface, is totalitarian.	23:33
	For isn't it the nature of all totalitarian	23:41
	regimes to reduce everything you do in life,	23:43
	even the very smallest things you do	23:47
	as a matter of loyalty or disloyalty	23:52
	to the totalitarian regime.	23:56
	We were in east Germany a couple of years ago	23:59
	and I noted that East Germany, the government	24:02
	has signs telling you that breaking	24:05
	in line at a bus stop or dropping	24:07
	a pice of paper on the sidewalk, or snipping a flower	24:09
	in the Marx Rose Garden is not just	24:12
	a matter of churlishness, it's a matter of treason	24:14
	to the regime, to the socialist paradise.	24:17
	Just as in South Africa, a joke about apartheid	24:22
	can be considered treasonous because	24:26
	everything is supposed to be subservient	24:28
	to the biggest issue of the day, race.	24:30
	In other words, to let the bomb determine	24:35
	every breath we take and move we make	24:40
	is to cast ourselves into a totalitarian situation	24:43
	where the bomb is now bigger than God.	24:48
	And I think that such nuclear thinking	24:53
	collides with Matthew 24	24:55
	because there Jesus warns us not on the basis	24:58
	of human catastrophe but of divine advent.	25:01
	You must be ready.	25:06
	The son of man is coming at an hour you don't expect.	25:10
	Christians are those who have been schooled	25:16
	to fear not that the bomb will be dropped	25:21
	and we won't have done anything to stop it	25:25
	but that God will come	25:29
	and we'll be caught wasting our time	25:31
	doing that which is insignificant to God.	25:34
	The flood we fear, the thief for whom	25:39
	we await, the night visitor whose advent	25:44
	wakes us is God, not the bomb.	25:48
	Here I think is the whole subflooring	25:55
	for Christian ethics, fear of God.	25:57
	Not fear of destruction.	26:02
	I mean as Christians we can't fear destruction.	26:05
	Since God has told us in many passages of scripture	26:09
	like Matthew 24, if not just observation	26:14
	of life itself that none of us	26:18
	is gonna make it out of here alive anyway.	26:20
	The basis for our behavior therefore	26:24
	cannot be to do that which will enable us	26:26
	to hold on to what we've got,	26:29
	since in Matthew 24 Jesus clearly tells us	26:32
	that God is the thief who has come	26:35
	to take everything we've got.	26:38
	The basis for our ethics is our determination	26:42
	so to live that God might come and find us	26:45
	engaged in lives which are pleasing to God	26:48
	rather than to ourselves.	26:54
	I think if you listen, you heard this in today's epistle.	26:57
	First you heard poor old stuffed shirt, St. Paul	27:02
	saying, let us conduct ourselves becomingly,	27:05
	not reveling in drunkenness nor in debauchery	27:09
	and licentiousness, not in quarreling or jealousy.	27:12
	A rather conventional attack among life among the SAEs	27:15
	but the main reason that Paul is down	27:20
	on alcohol abuse and the main thing	27:23
	he's got against sexual promiscuity	27:25
	is that if we really knew what time it was	27:27
	we would wake up and stop wasting our time	27:31
	and get with it and be ready for that old thief.	27:33
	That's not a very nice thing to say about God	27:37
	but that thief who comes to break in	27:39
	to our little house and steal everything	27:42
	that we have so feverishly worked	27:45
	to accumulate and which we will so murderously defend.	27:46
	Christians are those who call God by names	27:52
	not only as redeemer, and sustainer, and creator but thief.	27:55
	And therefore Christians are those who are peculiar people,	28:02
	who know something that even Carl Sagan doesn't know.	28:05
	Namely that in Jesus Christ,	28:09
	the world has ended.	28:11
	All those old conventional values are destroyed.	28:14
	Everything that we thought had enduring value	28:19
	just crumbles to dust.	28:23
	All to which we so ruthlessly cling,	28:27
	money, human potential, aspirations to run	28:30
	the world on our own, all of that	28:34
	just gets ripped off by that old thief, God.	28:38
	Therefore because we know something	28:44
	that the world does not know, namely	28:48
	that our end and our beginning	28:49
	is hid with God in Christ	28:51
	that the endurance and significance	28:56
	of our lives is not a matter	28:58
	of our achievement but of Gods' grace.	29:01
	That tends to put things in a different focus.	29:04
	And when it's put in different focus	29:09
	suddenly the things that the world considers so trivial,	29:11
	become important.	29:15
	What do we do in the mean time?	29:17
	Seemingly trivial human past times	29:21
	like getting ready for an exam	29:24
	and going to class and raising children	29:28
	and washing dishes and celebrating	29:31
	communion with friends.	29:34
	These seemingly trivial unimportant acts	29:36
	become meaningful because we are told	29:40
	they have meaning to God.	29:42
	We are told that they are fitting human responses	29:46
	to what God wants us to do in the mean time	29:49
	between God's first advent in the babe	29:52
	at Bethlehem and God's second advent	29:54
	as the thief in the night	29:57
	when the trumpet sounds on that awesome morning	29:59
	when the stars begin to fall.	30:01
	Because the ironic thing	30:05
	is that people often build bombs	30:08
	and sometimes people work	30:11
	to destroy bombs for the same idolatrous reasons.	30:13
	Namely our innate human presumption	30:18
	that our fate and the future of the world	30:21
	is solely in our hands, that it is	30:24
	left up to us to save ourselves	30:27
	or we won't be saved.	30:29
	For nearly 50 years now we've been building atomic bombs	30:32
	to ensure our survival but now	30:35
	many feel that this is an unworkable national strategy.	30:38
	So now we ought to dismantle our bombs, why	30:43
	to ensure our survival.	30:46
	But look at us, here we are stuck	30:49
	on the first Sunday of Advent	30:51
	with a scripture text that clearly	30:53
	asserts that God is unwilling for us	30:55
	to survive as we are anyway.	30:57
	Left to our own devices as Jesus says,	31:01
	we will blissfully go right on	31:04
	eating and drinking, marrying, and giving marriage	31:05
	building bombs, working to destroy bombs	31:07
	until that old God thief in the night	31:10
	sweeps in in this great flood of divine judgment.	31:12
	But my point here is not to argue you out of working	31:18
	against the bomb, I mean what rational	31:23
	person would argue that.	31:25
	Rather my point is derived, I hope, from scripture.	31:28
	The source of Christians thinking,	31:32
	the point that when we live	31:35
	as if the bomb made all the difference,	31:38
	we've ascribed to yet another human creation,	31:43
	this time the bomb that which Christians	31:46
	ascribe only to God.	31:49
	And when we do that we Christians	31:53
	have blown and forfeited the only	31:55
	means that we know of living both truthfully and peacefully.	31:58
	Because you see we believe that peace	32:04
	is not the result of energetic response	32:07
	to human fear, not something that we create	32:10
	as a means of self defense and survival	32:15
	and holding on to what we've got	32:18
	the way we built the bomb.	32:21
	Peace, the peace that passes all understanding	32:24
	is the result of our refusal to order	32:28
	our lives on any other basis than fear of God.	32:32
	The assigned homework is to go home	32:39
	and read the interview in Time magazine	32:41
	with Mother Teresa this week.	32:43
	And there you find a revolutionary old lady	32:46
	who just thinks that in our world	32:50
	that there's nothing more important	32:54
	particularly in the kind of world that we live in	32:55
	than to spend tie caring for dying people.	32:57
	And the reporter wants to know,	33:01
	well what good does that do?	33:03
	She doesn't know, she just knows	33:05
	that's the kind of God that's created this world.	33:08
	And when you think about it it's really	33:12
	amazing in the world we live in	33:13
	that there's still people running around loose	33:15
	who take the time to	33:18
	raise children, because what takes more time than children	33:20
	or dying people.	33:25
	How dare we bring children into a nuclear world?	33:28
	How dare with the world in the shape it's in	33:33
	people still waste their time caring	33:34
	for people who are dying?	33:37
	Because we believe as Christians	33:41
	that little everyday acts that the world	33:43
	does not value, acts like getting married	33:45
	and having babies and spending all afternoon	33:49
	today in the library studying for exams	33:52
	or all afternoon here in the chapel making	33:54
	music in Messiah, such seemingly trivial past times	33:56
	take on new significance when seen	34:01
	as Christian clench fisted protest as faithful	34:04
	refusal to have our lives determined by anything	34:09
	as insidious and evil as the bomb.	34:13
	The anti nuclear professor is right.	34:18
	And his claim that with the world in the shape that it is	34:22
	it makes a real difference how you spend your time,	34:24
	what you do with your money and what you do	34:27
	this afternoon, but he's wrong	34:30
	in his claim that it is the bomb	34:34
	which determines the value of how you spend your life.	34:36
	One way you can work for peace is by doing	34:41
	things that are peaceful, like making babies,	34:44
	getting married, and singing hymns,	34:48
	and studying for exams.	34:51
	Because such seemingly trivial, insignificant acts	34:53
	become significant as living courageously	34:57
	and peacefully today in the light	35:00
	of what you know about tomorrow.	35:03
	How dare we Christians in a fearful world	35:05
	cower under the shadow of the bomb	35:09
	and waste our time in such silly	35:12
	diversions as drunkenness and promiscuity	35:14
	when it is our privilege by what we do	35:17
	this afternoon to witness to the world	35:20
	that God not the bomb is the most important	35:23
	thing in the world.	35:26
	That the supreme event which has occurred	35:28
	in our history is not the advent	35:31
	of the atomic age but the advent of the gospel age.	35:34
	With something so significant as a baby	35:40
	being born in an out of the way place like Bethlehem	35:42
	whose significance for our lives we are still	35:46
	struggling to grasp.	35:49
	What time is it?	35:53
	Now when St. Augustine was the age of many of you	35:57
	he lived a pretty wild life.	35:59
	He had a mistress, he fathered a child	36:02
	outside of marriage, but when he got	36:04
	to the age of many of the rest of us	36:07
	he was sitting in his garden	36:11
	one day not doing anything in particular	36:12
	and he heard this little child	36:15
	in another garden singing a little children's song.	36:16
	Take up and read, take up and read	36:18
	and right in front of him there	36:21
	was a copy of Paul's letters and he just	36:22
	picked it up and he flopped it open	36:25
	and the book flopped open to today's epistle lesson.	36:27
	Romans 13:13, let us conduct ourselves not in reveling	36:32
	and drunkenness, not in debauchery	36:38
	and licentiousness but you put on the Lord Jesus Christ.	36:41
	He read that verse, and in a moment	36:49
	his whole life got into focus.	36:52
	Shortly after that he and his now teenage son	36:55
	were baptized, well it's Advent.	36:59
	And all over the world the days are growing shorter	37:05
	and so are the days in your life.	37:10
	Night comes,	37:13
	well what time is it?	37:17
-	Christ invites to his table all who love him	37:34
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	37:37
	Let us stand and offer each other	37:40
	signs of God's peace and love.	37:42
	As a forgiven and reconciled people	38:06
	let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God	38:09
	with thanksgiving.	38:12
	(gentle organ music)	38:28
	(upbeat music)	39:07
	(joyful music)	41:52
	(reverent choral music)	45:19
-	Let us pray, the lord be with you.	46:15
	(congregation responds)	46:19
	Lift up your hearts.	46:20
	(congregation responds)	46:22
	Let us give thanks to the lord our God.	46:23
	(congregation responds)	46:26
	It is right in a good and joyful thing always	46:27
	to give thanks to you almighty father	46:30
	creator of heaven and Earth,	46:33
	you formed us in your image and breathed	46:35
	into us a breath of life when	46:36
	we turned away your love never failed,	46:39
	you delivered us from captivity	46:42
	you spoke to us through your prophets	46:44
	who look forward to that day	46:46
	when justice shall roll down like waters in righteousness	46:47
	as an ever flowing stream,	46:50
	when nations shall not lift up sword against nation	46:53
	neither shall they learn war anymore	46:56
	and so with your people on Earth	46:59
	and all the company of heaven	47:01
	we praise your name and join	47:02
	their unending hymn.	47:04
	(joyful choral music)	47:08
	Holy are you and blessed is your son Jesus Christ	48:20
	whom you sent in the fullness of time	48:22
	to be light for the nations.	48:25
	To scatter the proud and the imagination	48:27
	of their hearts and have mercy on those	48:29
	who fear you, you put down the mighty from their thrones	48:32
	and exalted those of low degree.	48:35
	You fill the hungry with good things.	48:37
	And the rich you sent empty away.	48:40
	Your own son came among us as a servant	48:42
	to be Emmanuel, your presence among us.	48:45
	On the night he gave himself up for us	48:48
	he took bread, gave thanks to you,	48:50
	broke the bread, gave it to his disciples	48:53
	and said take, eat, this is my body given for you.	48:55
	Do this in remembrance of me.	48:59
	And when the supper was over he took the cup,	49:02
	he gave thanks to you and gave it to his disciples	49:04
	and said drink from this all of you.	49:07
	This is my blood and the new covenant	49:10
	poured out for you and many for the forgiveness of sins.	49:12
	Do this as often as you drink it	49:15
	in remembrance of me, in remembrance	49:18
	of these your mighty acts of Jesus Christ	49:21
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving	49:24
	as holy and living sacrifice	49:26
	in union with Christ offering for us	49:28
	and reclaim the mystery of faith.	49:31
	(reverent music)	49:34
	Pour out your holy spirit on us	49:55
	gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine,	49:57
	make them to be for us the body and blood of Christ.	50:00
	By your spirit make us one with Christ	50:03
	and one with each other and one	50:05
	in ministry to all the world through	50:08
	your son Jesus Christ with the holy spirit	50:10
	in your holy church glory and honor is yours	50:12
	almighty God now and forever.	50:15
	(reverent music)	50:18
	For the confidence of children let us pray.	50:40
	Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.	50:43
	Your Kingdom come, your will be done on Earth	50:47
	as it is in Heaven.	50:51
	Give us this day our daily bread	50:52
	and forgive us our trespasses	50:55
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	50:57
	and lead us not into temptation,	51:00
	but deliver us from evil	51:03
	for thine is a kingdom, the power,	51:05
	and the glory forever and ever, amen.	51:08
	Bread that we break is it not a means	51:11
	of participating in the body of Christ.	51:14
	The cup which we bless is it not a means	51:18
	of participating in the blood of Christ.	51:20
	Come to the lord's table.	51:24
	(solemn music)	51:40
	(reverent music)	57:14
	Go in peace to serve God and your neighbor	1:04:00
	in all that you do.	1:04:02
	The grace of the lord Jesus Christ	1:04:06
	and the love of God in the communion of the holy spirit	1:04:08
	be with you all.	1:04:11
	(reverent choral music)	1:04:14
	(joyful music)	1:04:47
	(reverent organ music)	1:07:55

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "Redeem the Time" (December 3, 1989)

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Sermon start time: 17:13. Sermon end time: 37:21.
The preacher argues that the promise of the second Advent of Christ, which marks the end of the world, should wake people up from their worldly trivialities and call them to live a God-fearing life, so that they are ready for the unexpected coming of God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Peace, the peace that passes all understanding, is the result of our refusal to order our lives on any other basis than fear of God.”

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December 3, 1989

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Willimon, William H.

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Duke University. Chapel

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