Robert T. Young - "For the Living of These Days" (September 28, 1980)

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	(reverent organ music)	0:03
	(peaceful organ music)	4:32
	♪ Beautiful savior, ♪	9:55
	♪ Lord of our nations, ♪	10:04
	♪ Son of God and son of man ♪	10:12
	♪ Glory and honor, ♪	10:26
	♪ Praise, adoration, ♪	10:33
	♪ Now and forevermore be thine ♪	10:39
	♪ Now and forevermore be thine ♪	10:51
	(joyful organ music)	11:15
	(joyful choral music)	11:57
	(upbeat choral music)	13:30
-	Dearly beloved, the scriptures move us	16:00
	to acknowledge and confess our sins	16:04
	before almighty God with a humble,	16:08
	lowly, penitent, and obedient heart	16:12
	to the end that we may obtain	16:17
	forgiveness by his infinite goodness and mercy.	16:19
	Let us therefore as we begin our worship this morning	16:27
	turn unto God and confess our sin before	16:31
	him and one another, let us be seated and let us pray.	16:37
	Oh lord our God, this morning	17:00
	we would do more than celebrate the coming	17:04
	of your spirit, we pray that we will be	17:06
	baptized again with your spirit.	17:10
	We confess that we lack your spirit	17:14
	because we do not bear very well the fruits of your spirit.	17:17
	Love is occasional for us not constant,	17:24
	joy is seasonal like a passing mood,	17:29
	peace is not real within or around us,	17:34
	patience is not what we practice,	17:39
	kindness is only returned for kindness,	17:43
	self control is lost in our self centeredness.	17:48
	Because these fruits of your spirit are not	17:53
	found in abundance in our lives,	17:56
	we pray for your spirit to come and fill us.	18:00
	Teach us to learn how to wait until	18:04
	we receive your promise, spirit,	18:08
	teach us to learn how to watch until	18:11
	we perceive where your spirit is present	18:15
	and at work, teach us to learn how to receive	18:18
	until your spirit is alive and real	18:23
	within us through Jesus Christ.	18:26
	Oh lord as we turn unto you this morning,	18:50
	we ask that you would mercifully hear our prayers	18:55
	and spare all those who confess their sins	19:00
	unto you that they whose conscience is by sin	19:06
	are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved	19:11
	through Jesus Christ our lord.	19:18
	Amen.	19:24
	Let us give thanks for God is good	19:31
	and God's love is ever lasting.	19:35
-	Thanks be to God, whose love is everlasting.	19:40
-	Thanks be to God whose mercy forgives us.	19:44
	Thanks be to God whose promise secures us, amen.	19:49
	We welcome you to this service of worship in Duke Chapel	20:00
	and our hope is that as we join together	20:07
	in this high and holy moment	20:11
	in this very special place,	20:14
	that we will truly be united in the spirit of Jesus Christ,	20:18
	that though we are a large congregation	20:26
	in an imposing place, we may feel	20:29
	the spirit move amongst us	20:34
	and be drawn together.	20:37
	In our shared commitment and in our common faith.	20:43
	We have two special groups this morning	20:50
	that we want to recognize worshiping	20:52
	in our midst at Duke Chapel.	20:54
	One is a group of United Methodist Women	20:57
	from the Charlotte district in North Carolina	21:00
	who have come together today to worship with us.	21:04
	We welcome you, we pray God's blessing upon you,	21:09
	we hope you'll come back often.	21:14
	And another special group that's come a good bit further	21:16
	than Charlotte, we have worshiping with us	21:20
	this morning the Japanese Women's National Gymnastics team	21:24
	and I'm gonna ask them if they will please	21:31
	to stand and let us welcome you, thank you.	21:34
	We are so glad to have you with us	21:42
	and they are going to be doing an exhibition	21:46
	this afternoon and we're glad to have you	21:49
	at Duke University and in Duke Chapel.	21:54
	May God's rich blessings be unto all of us	22:04
	as we worship this day.	22:11
-	Let us pray.	22:21
	Prepare our hearts, oh lord to accept your word.	22:26
	Silence in us any voice but your own	22:31
	that hearing we may also obey your will	22:34
	through Jesus Christ our lord, amen.	22:39
	The Old Testament lesson is from Amos chapter eight	22:45
	verses four through eight.	22:50
	Hear this, you who trample upon the needy	22:54
	and bring the poor of the land to an end,	22:58
	saying, when will the new moon be over	23:01
	that we may sell grain?	23:05
	And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale,	23:07
	that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great	23:11
	and deal deceitfully with false balances,	23:16
	that we may buy the poor for silver	23:19
	and the needy for a pair of sandals	23:23
	and sell the refuse of the wheat?	23:26
	The lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob,	23:30
	surely I will never forget any of their deeds.	23:33
	Shall not the land tremble on this account,	23:38
	and everyone mourn who dwells in it,	23:42
	and all of it rise like the Nile,	23:46
	and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?	23:49
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament, amen.	23:55
	(solemn organ music)	24:06
	(solemn choral music)	25:07
	The Epistle lesson is from the first letter	27:11
	of Paul to Timothy, chapter two verses one through eight.	27:13
	First of all, then, I urge that supplications,	27:20
	prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings	27:24
	be made for all men, for kings and all	27:29
	who are in high positions,	27:33
	that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life,	27:36
	godly and respectful in every way.	27:40
	This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight	27:44
	of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved	27:47
	and to come to the knowledge of the truth.	27:52
	For there is one God, and there is one mediator	27:56
	between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,	28:00
	who gave himself as a ransom for all,	28:04
	the testimony to which was born at the proper time.	28:09
	For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle.	28:13
	I am telling the truth, I am not lying.	28:18
	A teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.	28:21
	I desire then, that in every place men should pray,	28:27
	lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling.	28:32
	Here ends the reading of the Epistle lesson, amen.	28:38
	(joyful organ choral music)	28:45
-	Let us pray.	29:47
	Now may the words of my lips	29:50
	in the meditations of our hearts	29:52
	be acceptable in thy sight, oh lord	29:55
	our strength and our redeemer, amen.	29:58
	One of the truly great hymns of the church	30:05
	is the hymn that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote	30:12
	to be sung at the occasion	30:17
	of the service of dedication	30:19
	for the great River Side Church in New York City.	30:23
	I offer it this morning somewhat as a prayer	30:29
	of supplication and of intercession for us	30:32
	and for all God's children.	30:36
	God of grace and God of glory,	30:40
	on thy people pour thy power.	30:43
	Crown thine ancient church's story,	30:47
	bring her bud to glorious flower.	30:51
	Grant us wisdom, grant us courage	30:54
	for the facing of this hour.	30:57
	Lo the hosts of evil round us	31:01
	scorn thy Christ assail his ways,	31:04
	fears and doubts too long have bound us.	31:08
	Free our hearts to work and praise.	31:11
	Grant us wisdom, grant us courage	31:15
	for the living of these days.	31:18
	For the living of these days.	31:21
	The writer first Timothy says to us	31:25
	first of all then that is of primary	31:27
	and utmost and of vital importance	31:31
	I urge that is I exhort or I plead	31:33
	or I implore, first of all I urge	31:37
	that supplications, prayers, intercessions	31:41
	and thanksgiving that is prayers prayers prayers	31:44
	and more prayers be made for all men	31:47
	that is for all persons, men, women, youth, children	31:50
	everybody, everyone, everywhere for kings	31:55
	and all who are in high positions.	31:58
	Why? These prayers are to be offered	32:01
	for all persons for all men, for all persons	32:04
	in high positions and for everyone	32:07
	so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life,	32:09
	godly and respectful in every way,	32:14
	this is good and it is acceptable in the sight of God.	32:20
	There is one message, it seems to me,	32:26
	that comes bursting forth from these	32:28
	words of scripture, one word that longs	32:30
	to be heard, one song that must be sung,	32:33
	one sermon that must be preached	32:35
	and that is this that God's love and concern	32:38
	are for the good of all persons everywhere.	32:41
	That is why I believe that our hard	32:49
	and fast borders, our sectional and divided,	32:51
	our closed in and closed out ways of looking	32:54
	at ourselves geographically must go	32:58
	and perhaps someday soon.	33:02
	That is why our nationalistic self-serving,	33:05
	my country, right or wrong ways of looking at ourselves	33:09
	politically must go and perhaps someday soon.	33:12
	That is why our sectarian, parochial,	33:19
	self-seeking and self-righteous ways	33:23
	of viewing ourselves religiously must go	33:26
	and perhaps someday soon.	33:30
	That is why the message,	33:35
	the message we need for the living	33:38
	of these days is one world, one people,	33:40
	one lord, one God who made us all,	33:43
	one God who claims us all and calls us all,	33:46
	one God who loves us all.	33:49
	Yes, God's love and concern are for the good	33:53
	of all persons everywhere.	33:57
	That is why the little song that many	34:01
	of us sung in Sunday school	34:03
	planted a message inside us	34:05
	far deeper and far more profound	34:07
	and far more lasting than those who taught us	34:10
	and far more lasting and far more	34:13
	profound than even those of us	34:15
	who learned to sing it ever knew.	34:17
	Red and yellow, black and white,	34:19
	all are precious in God's sight.	34:22
	Jesus loves the little children of the world.	34:24
	Jesus loves, God loves, the Holy Spirit loves,	34:32
	the one God loves all God's children all over the world,	34:35
	yes God's love and concern are	34:41
	for all the people of the world.	34:43
	That is why the story that I read	34:47
	and I'm sure that many of you read	34:51
	about what the reverend Bailey Smith said	34:52
	seems so absolutely unthinkable to me.	34:56
	Unthinkable for anyone to make such	35:01
	an audacious, presumptuous, arrogant, self righteous boast	35:03
	as the Reverend, Mr. Smith made.	35:07
	He currently serves as the pastor of	35:11
	First Baptist Church in Del City, Oklahoma	35:12
	and was recently elected president	35:15
	of the Southern Baptist Convention,	35:18
	the head of 13 and a half million southern Baptists.	35:20
	Speaking to a gathering of fundamentalist	35:27
	Christians recently he said,	35:29
	with all due respect to these dear people,	35:32
	my friends, God almighty does not hear	35:35
	the prayers of a Jew.	35:38
	How unthinkable.	35:44
	How unbelievable that one could read	35:48
	God's word and not know that God's love	35:52
	and God's concern are for all people.	35:55
	And that every prayer, unuttered or expressed	35:59
	by any child of God is surely heard by the Lord God.	36:04
	First Timothy reads, I urge that supplications,	36:12
	prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings	36:16
	be made for all, for all that is why	36:18
	we need wisdom and courage for the living	36:21
	of these days, that is why war,	36:23
	rumors of war, threats of war, build up for war	36:27
	preparation for war are so disturbing today	36:30
	it was the late great statesman Sir Winston Churchill	36:33
	who once said if you prepare for war	36:37
	and prepare for war sooner or later you will get war.	36:39
	God's concern is for all these days.	36:45
	That's why the threat of another nuclear holocaust	36:50
	is so frightening and so disturbing to so many of us.	36:53
	Dr. Harvey Cox is Professor of Theology	36:56
	at Harvard Divinity School said not too long ago,	36:59
	that he could hardly believe a recent	37:02
	California poll which revealed that 84%	37:04
	of those persons interviewed believed	37:09
	that a nuclear war is likely and further	37:11
	believe that they will not survive it, 84%.	37:16
	Shocked at the results of this poll in California,	37:22
	Dr. Cox took a survey of his own Divinity School	37:25
	students and he found that the majority of them	37:28
	feel exactly the same way.	37:31
	The man was absolutely right.	37:37
	The man I heard the other day who said	37:40
	we want the morning paper but we're afraid	37:42
	to go and pick it up.	37:46
	God's love and concern are for all people	37:51
	that's the word that must be heard this morning.	37:54
	Surely today we live in a world	37:57
	that is too small for anything but honesty,	38:00
	too busy for anything but truth,	38:03
	and too dangerous for anything but love.	38:06
	Surely, Gunner Murdough, the sociologist	38:11
	is right when he says about all of us,	38:14
	behind all outward dissimilarities,	38:18
	behind their contradictory evaluations,	38:23
	rationalizations, vested interests,	38:26
	group allegiances and animosities,	38:30
	behind fears and defense constructions,	38:34
	behind the role they play and the masks they wear,	38:37
	people are all much alike on a fundamental level	38:41
	and they are all good people.	38:46
	They want to be rational and just.	38:49
	Yes we all do want to be good people don't we,	38:56
	we all do want to be rational and just	39:00
	and perhaps that is why the word of God	39:03
	simply reminds us over and over again	39:05
	to be rational and just.	39:09
	And the word does remind us to be rational and just	39:13
	but perhaps this is why Reinhold Niebuhr in his book	39:17
	Justice and Mercy tells us, it's very difficult	39:21
	to preach the gospel honestly.	39:25
	And Dr. Niebuhr said this near the end	39:28
	of a long and brilliant career of teaching	39:30
	and preaching, it is very difficult	39:32
	to preach the gospel honestly for it means	39:34
	to preach the severity of God to the proud	39:38
	and the mercy of God to the broken hearted.	39:41
	Sure it does.	39:45
	There are times when we are too proud	39:47
	and we need the severity of God preached to us	39:50
	and there are times indeed when we are	39:53
	broken hearted and we need the mercy of God preached to us.	39:55
	Perhaps John Keats, the poet, was correct	40:00
	when he wrote, the essential problem is	40:02
	that we live close together without meeting one another.	40:05
	God wants us not only to live close together	40:13
	but God wants us also to meet one another,	40:15
	God's love and concern, my friends this morning	40:18
	surely are for all people.	40:21
	We are to make supplications, prayers,	40:25
	intercessions, and thanksgivings for all	40:27
	so that we might have the wisdom, the courage	40:29
	for the living of these days,	40:32
	we pray for all kings and others including	40:34
	all who are in high places that we might	40:37
	lead a quiet and peaceable life,	40:39
	godly and respectful in every way	40:44
	for this is pleasing to God, four simple things	40:47
	for the living of these days,	40:52
	four simple things that's all most of us	40:55
	in this world want anyhow isn't it?	40:58
	Some of the simple things of life.	41:01
	Not many of us want fame or fortune	41:04
	nor brilliance, nor affluence,	41:06
	we do not want riches or power,	41:09
	we do not want to live in mighty palaces	41:12
	nor have golden wardrobes, nor feasts of food,	41:14
	nor appear on front page articles.	41:17
	Most of us want just the simple things of life.	41:21
	That's all, my friends this morning, that the people	41:25
	of Afghanistan and Russia surely want.	41:27
	Isn't that all the people of Iran and Iraq want today?	41:32
	The people of El Salvador and Guatemala?	41:38
	Of Chile, and Brazil, of Zimbabwe, and Ghana?	41:41
	That's all the people who live down the hall	41:48
	from you or across the hall from you,	41:50
	or who live in the same room with you	41:54
	or down the street from you, that's all they want isn't it?	41:57
	Just the simple but the lasting things of life.	42:01
	Food and clothes and shelter, and good health	42:09
	the simple things of life.	42:14
	Pray to God then that we might lead	42:17
	a quiet life, not hurried or frantic,	42:19
	not frenzied or frenetic, not lives	42:22
	constantly disturbed or intruded upon.	42:25
	Psychologists and psychiatrists today	42:29
	are telling us how very very important	42:31
	it is for each one of us to have	42:33
	some time and some space that is all our own,	42:35
	some quiet time when we can	42:38
	do as the psalmists said when we can be still	42:41
	and know that God is really God.	42:44
	Howard Thurman who preached here	42:50
	a year or so ago, beautifully tells us	42:52
	the profoundest disclosure	42:56
	in the religious experience is the awareness	42:59
	that one is not alone.	43:03
	Live a quiet life.	43:10
	A quiet and simple life.	43:14
	Knowing that one is not alone.	43:17
	Pray to God for all that we might live peaceable lives.	43:22
	In a book of Thomas Langford's that's soon	43:29
	to be published where he talks about the	43:32
	fruits of the spirit, he talks about	43:34
	how peace is love at its depth.	43:37
	Peace is love at its depth, I believe,	43:42
	it is love at its depth and its breadth.	43:46
	A peaceable way of living is that peaceful	43:53
	feeling that comes at its depth	43:55
	that comes to me or to you deep down	43:57
	inside when I know and believe that I am	44:00
	of some worth, that it is God who	44:03
	has created me and it is God who	44:06
	has placed inherent and eternal value in me	44:08
	and that it is God's spirit speaking	44:12
	to my spirit to say peace be still,	44:14
	peace within your soul.	44:17
	To live peaceable though also means	44:21
	not only knowing peace at its depth	44:23
	it also means knowing peace at its breadth.	44:27
	And peace at its breadth is that peace	44:32
	that can look at any child of God	44:34
	or can be aware of any child of God	44:37
	anywhere upon the face of this Earth	44:39
	and know that that child is just	44:42
	as precious in God's sight as any one of the rest of us.	44:44
	Surely God has created each one of us	44:48
	Imago Dei in the image of God,	44:51
	and if there is value and beauty and goodness	44:53
	and meaning in any one of us	44:56
	that same value and beauty and meaning and goodness	44:57
	are in every child of God. And so love	45:00
	at its depth means that I believe that for myself	45:04
	and I understand it deep within my soul,	45:06
	love at its breadth that kind of peace	45:08
	comes when I can acknowledge that and claim that	45:11
	and believe that about my brother and my sister	45:13
	whoever they may be.	45:16
	To live peaceable lives.	45:19
	Pray to God that we may all live respectful lives.	45:25
	This summer I was in a group where we were	45:32
	talking about the brokenness that we all	45:34
	experience in this day in which you and I live.	45:37
	We talked about separation and estrangement,	45:42
	we talked about loneliness and hunger	45:45
	and disease and poverty and illness	45:47
	and sickness of all kind, we talked	45:49
	about all sorts of personal and societal	45:51
	and institutional brokenness that is all around us	45:55
	and that we experience all of us	45:59
	in some way or other most all the time.	46:02
	The leader of the group said think for just	46:05
	a few minutes and try to see if you can	46:08
	verbalize what you believe are some of the root	46:12
	causes of the brokenness that we live with	46:15
	and that surround us and that are a part of us	46:17
	and so we did, we sat and reflected for a few moments.	46:19
	And I said then and I say to you this morning	46:28
	that I believe that one of the most serious root causes	46:30
	of brokenness as you and I know it	46:38
	and as others around us know it is	46:41
	the basic lack of respect for one's own personhood,	46:44
	and a concomitant basic lack of respect	46:52
	for the personhood of others.	46:56
	We do some very damaging and destructive	47:01
	and degrading things to ourselves	47:03
	that I believe we would not do	47:05
	if we really believed and if we really respected	47:06
	our own selves, the personhood of ourselves.	47:10
	Surely we do many damaging, degrading,	47:15
	and destructive things to one another	47:18
	that we could not do, that we would	47:21
	not dare to do if we did respect the personhood	47:22
	and the value and the worth of each other.	47:27
	Someone said recently that	47:37
	most people think that it is love	47:39
	that holds a good marriage, a healthy marriage together,	47:41
	and this person said it's not love at all.	47:47
	Of all the healthy, good, lasting marriages	47:50
	that I have known this person said	47:52
	the thing that has been most prominent	47:54
	in them is a basic respect that each	47:57
	person had for the other.	48:00
	And I think that's true of any lasting	48:03
	personal relationship, any good healthy	48:05
	relationship it is that there is	48:08
	within it a basic respect for one another.	48:10
	Pray to God that we might all live godly lives.	48:16
	My friends this morning let us claim again	48:23
	for ourselves and for others	48:26
	and for the world a godly	48:31
	dimension to life, a right dimension, a holy dimension.	48:34
	Let us claim a character of holiness,	48:41
	of goodness, of rightness, of righteousness,	48:43
	of beauty, of loveliness, of kindness,	48:46
	justice and mercy, let us claim again	48:50
	something of the godly for life.	48:54
	Ours and others.	48:59
	Part of the travesty and the tragedy	49:02
	that I see in so much that I observe	49:04
	going on in this world	49:06
	disturbs me and breaks my heart	49:09
	not because much of what I see	49:11
	is necessarily immoral or evil or sinful.	49:14
	But perhaps the thing that is really	49:23
	blasphemy to God and to God's presence in our midst	49:25
	is that in many ways in our living	49:32
	every day we have trivialized what is holy	49:34
	and godly and good and right and beautiful.	49:40
	Sex for example,	49:46
	it's not that pornographic movies	49:50
	and books and magazines and television shows,	49:52
	even those that are on at prime time	49:58
	it's not that these are necessarily	50:00
	immoral, or evil or sinful.	50:02
	But what has happened and is happening	50:08
	is that something godly and beautiful	50:11
	and holy and lovely and full of goodness	50:13
	is being treated trivially	50:20
	and in a common, trashy way.	50:26
	That we might live godly lives.	50:32
	Where our lives can reflect something	50:37
	of the goodness, and the holiness,	50:39
	and the rightness, and the beauty of God.	50:41
	Pray for all, for all kings	50:48
	and all who are in high positions	50:51
	that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life	50:53
	godly and respectful in every way	50:58
	for this is good and it is acceptable	51:01
	in the sight of God our savior	51:04
	who desires that we all should be saved.	51:07
	God of grace, god of glory,	51:14
	on us thy people pour thy power.	51:20
	Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,	51:26
	for the living of these days.	51:31
	Amen.	51:37
	(reverent organ music)	51:50
	(reverent choral music)	52:18
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	54:20
	We believe in God who has created	54:25
	and is creating who has come	54:28
	in the truly human Jesus,	54:32
	to reconcile and to make new,	54:34
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	54:38
	We trust God who calls us to be the Church,	54:42
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	54:47
	to love and serve others,	54:51
	to seek justice and resist evil,	54:54
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	54:57
	our judge and our hope.	55:02
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	55:05
	God is with us.	55:10
	We are not alone, thanks be to God.	55:12
	The lord be with you.	55:18
-	And with your spirit.	55:20
-	Let us be seated and let us pray.	55:22
	Great art thou, oh Lord, and greatly to be praised,	55:37
	thou hast made us for thyself,	55:48
	and our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.	55:53
	Give us grace in this hour	56:00
	to open our hearts and receive thy holy spirit	56:05
	and hear thou our prayers.	56:13
	Let us pray for this university	56:18
	in which our lives take place.	56:23
	Oh God look upon Duke	56:31
	with thy continuing favor and sustaining grace.	56:36
	Help us as an institution of higher learning	56:45
	to claim the heritage that is ours	56:50
	which ever unites proper trust and faith	56:54
	in thee with advanced research and scholarship.	57:00
	That our learning may be purposeful	57:08
	and directed unto the good of thy people.	57:13
	And let us pray for the church of Jesus Christ.	57:21
	Oh God deepen the influence of your church	57:28
	extend her power for good,	57:35
	in a world that needs that power so very much	57:40
	and let us pray for our beloved land.	57:48
	Oh god for our leaders and governors,	57:53
	for all those who have part in public service,	57:57
	make them pure in motive, wise in council	58:06
	and strong in action	58:09
	that this land in which we live	58:16
	may be a good and blessed place.	58:22
	And let us pray this morning for our distraught	58:29
	and fevered world,	58:32
	our attentions are directed, oh god	58:38
	especially to the Middle East,	58:40
	but we know that it's not only in the Middle East	58:47
	but in every place where mistake and ambition	58:50
	and selfish passion threatens the peace of the world.	58:54
	Oh God remove suspicion and bitterness from	59:03
	among the nations and bring them to peace and concord	59:06
	by the redeeming love of Jesus Christ	59:12
	and let us pray this morning for all those	59:17
	who are passing through sore trial	59:20
	especially for the poor, the sick,	59:23
	the anxious, the oppressed,	59:27
	those who are in danger,	59:32
	those who are troubled for whatever reason,	59:35
	inspire in us and in our fellow men and women	59:40
	the will to help our suffering brethren.	59:44
	Heal, protect and strengthen them	59:49
	according to their need, especially	59:52
	do thou comfort those in sorrow	59:55
	with the comfort which is in Jesus Christ our lord.	59:59
	Many of us are separated from those	1:00:06
	most dear unto us,	1:00:08
	wherever they are surround them by love.	1:00:12
	We remember our families,	1:00:17
	and pray that they may abide in safety and peace.	1:00:21
	All these things we ask in the name	1:00:30
	of Jesus Christ our lord who taught	1:00:32
	his church to pray together.	1:00:34
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	1:00:37
	hallowed be thy name.	1:00:40
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	1:00:43
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	1:00:47
	Give us this day our daily bread.	1:00:50
	And forgive us our trespasses,	1:00:53
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:00:56
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:01:00
	but deliver us from evil.	1:01:02
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power,	1:01:05
	and the glory, for ever and ever, amen.	1:01:08
	Let us respond to God's grace as we share that	1:01:13
	which we have received from him.	1:01:18
	(joyful choral music)	1:01:43
	(joyful choral music)	1:07:29
	Accept this money, oh God	1:08:29
	as true symbols of our desire and intention	1:08:35
	to rededicate ourselves unto you, amen.	1:08:41
	(solemn organ music)	1:08:51
	(solemn choral music)	1:09:31
	And now unto God's gracious mercy and protection	1:13:23
	we commit you and the blessing of God almighty	1:13:27
	the father, the son, and the holy spirit	1:13:30
	be with you both now and forevermore, amen.	1:13:33
	(joyful choral music)	1:13:39
	(solemn organ music)	1:14:00

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Title:

Robert T. Young - "For the Living of These Days" (September 28, 1980)

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Sermon start time: 30:05. Sermon end time: 51:38.
This sermon names the source of many social problems: humans' tendency to lack respect for the image of God in one another. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "God's love and concern are for the good of all persons everywhere."

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September 28, 1980

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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