William H. Willimon - "Hail, King!" (November 20, 1988)

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	(peaceful organ music)	0:02
	(vibrant organ music)	0:33
	(peaceful solo vocal music)	2:56
	(harmonious choral music)	3:10
	(peaceful solo vocal music)	3:25
	(harmonious choral music)	3:40
	(peaceful solo vocal music)	4:00
	(harmonious choral music)	4:14
-	We welcome you to this service of worship.	4:45
	Particularly we welcome those alumni	4:48
	who are here for the Medical Alumni Weekend.	4:50
	We also welcome our guest conductor	4:55
	of the Duke Chapel Choir today,	4:58
	Doctor Willis Bodine from the University	5:00
	of Florida, who's visiting us today	5:03
	in the absence of Professor Rick Fountain,	5:06
	who has returned to Chicago	5:09
	to conduct in a choral festival there.	5:12
	Remind the congregation that a series	5:18
	of educational activities is being planned	5:20
	throughout the Sundays in Advent at 9:45.	5:24
	They're listed in the Bulletin.	5:28
	If you're a regular attender of Duke Chapel,	5:30
	you may be interested in participating	5:31
	in some of these classes sponsored	5:33
	by the congregation at Duke Chapel.	5:35
	We also welcome those of you who worship	5:38
	with us through the closed circuit television	5:40
	of Duke University, those of you who are in Duke Hospitals.	5:43
	And now, let us continue our worship	5:47
	on this day of Christ the King.	5:50
	(peaceful organ music)	5:56
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	6:39
	(dramatic organ music)	9:00
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	9:55
-	Almighty and everlasting God,	10:45
	who's will it is to restore all things	10:49
	and thy well beloved son, the King of Kings	10:51
	and Lord of Lords.	10:55
	Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth,	10:57
	divided and enslaved by sin,	11:01
	may be freed and brought together	11:04
	under His most gracious rule.	11:06
	Who liveth and reineth with thee and the Holy Spirit,	11:09
	one God now and forever,	11:12
	amen.	11:16
-	Let us pray.	11:29
Congregation	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	11:32
	by the power of your Holy Spirit,	11:35
	so that as the Word is read and proclaimed,	11:38
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day, amen.	11:41
-	The first lesson is taken from Jeremiah.	11:49
	Behold the days are coming, says the Lord,	11:53
	when I will raise up for David a righteous branch.	11:56
	And he shall reign up as king and deal wisely,	12:00
	and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.	12:05
	In his days, Judea will be saved,	12:09
	and Israel will dwell securely,	12:13
	and this is the name by which he will be called:	12:16
	The Lord is our righteousness.	12:20
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	12:23
-	Please stand for the reading of the Salter.	12:31
	The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty.	12:39
Congregation	The Lord is robed;	12:43
	he is burdened with strength.	12:45
-	Yea the world is established.	12:47
Congregation	It shall never be moved.	12:50
-	Thy throne is established from of old.	12:52
Congregation	Thou art everlasting.	12:55
-	The floods have lifted up, oh, Lord.	12:58
	The floods have lifted up their voice.	13:01
Congregation	The floods lift up their roaring.	13:04
-	Mightier than the thunders of many waters.	13:06
	Mightier than the waves of the sea.	13:10
Congregation	The Lord on high is mighty.	13:12
-	Thy decrees are very sure.	13:15
Congregation	Holiness befits thy house,	13:18
	oh, Lord, forevermore.	13:21
	(peaceful organ music)	13:25
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	13:34
-	The second lesson is taken from the Revelation to John:	14:34
	Grace to you and peace from him who is	14:40
	and who was, and who is to come.	14:43
	And from the seven spirits who are before his throne.	14:47
	And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,	14:51
	the first born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.	14:55
	To him who loves us and has freed us	15:00
	from our sins by his blood, and made us a kingdom,	15:03
	priest to his God and Father, to him be glory	15:07
	and dominion forever and ever, amen.	15:11
	Behold he is coming with the clouds,	15:16
	and every eye will see him.	15:19
	Everyone who pierced him,	15:21
	and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him.	15:24
	Even so, amen.	15:29
	I am the alpha and the omega, says the Lord, God,	15:32
	who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.	15:36
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	15:42
	(peaceful organ music)	15:46
	(vibrant orchestral music)	16:11
	(harmonious orchestral and choral music)	16:22
-	Let us stand for the reading of the Gospel.	19:39
	The Gospel for Christ the king is from the Gospel of John:	19:47
	Pilate entered the Praetorium, again,	19:53
	and he called Jesus, and he said to him,	19:56
	"Are you king of the Jews?"	19:59
	Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord?	20:02
	"Or did others say it to you about me?"	20:07
	Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew?	20:11
	"Your own nation and chief priest	20:15
	"have handed you over to me.	20:17
	"What have you done?"	20:19
	Jesus answered,	20:22
	"My kingship is not of this world.	20:24
	"If my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight	20:28
	"that I might not be handed over to the Jews.	20:32
	"But my kingship is not from this world."	20:35
	Pilate said to him, "So, you're king?"	20:39
	Jesus answered, "You say that I am king.	20:45
	"For this I was born.	20:50
	"And for this I have come into the world	20:52
	"to bear witness to the truth.	20:55
	"Everyone who is of the truth	20:58
	"hears my voice."	21:01
	Here ends the lesson.	21:05
	(peaceful organ music)	21:08
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	21:51
	Let's talk politics.	24:15
	Do I detect a groan in the congregation?	24:20
	Say that you're sick of politics;	24:24
	sick of Republicans; sick of Democrats.	24:26
	Well I have a political proposal for you.	24:30
	I couldn't present it during the heat of the campaign,	24:34
	but here we stand on the last Sunday	24:36
	of the Church year, the time is right.	24:38
	My proposal is this:	24:44
	What this country needs is Monarchy.	24:47
	That's right, a king.	24:52
	Think about it, and the problems which beset us	24:54
	are so great, so seemingly insoluble:	24:58
	Thinning ozone, crumbling cities,	25:02
	soaring National Debt.	25:04
	You've seen Presidents come, you've seen Presidents go.	25:08
	Do you really believe that a new administration	25:10
	can take matters in hand?	25:13
	Besides, say the new President really does have a good idea,	25:16
	do you thing Congress is gonna go along?	25:18
	On the other hand, would you think of what a king could do?	25:22
	I mean, a real king, not some polo-playing playboy	25:26
	who dabbles in architecture.	25:29
	But real royalty.	25:32
	Crowned the old-fashioned way by divine right	25:35
	rather than media hype.	25:38
	I realize I've got an uphill battle on this one.	25:41
	The notion of royalty does not come naturally to Americans.	25:45
	For we were born out of the idea that a modern nation	25:50
	does not need kings and queens.	25:54
	Democracy, we believe, is better than monarchy.	25:58
	The democratic supposition is that wisdom	26:04
	is quantitatively, rather than qualitatively derived,	26:07
	something on which nine out of 10 Americans can agree.	26:12
	Something a commodity, available to this creation	26:17
	called the common man.	26:21
	Truth	26:27
	determined by majority vote.	26:28
	In reality,	26:33
	as we have been reminded during the last election	26:35
	what democracy often boils down to	26:38
	is the influence of a lot of money,	26:40
	pressure from political pacts and special interest groups,	26:43
	a mess of caucuses, all managed by someone	26:47
	called a Madison Avenue image consultant,	26:50
	looking for the 10-second sound byte.	26:54
	But on the other hand, consider monarchy.	26:59
	You know, constitutional monarchies	27:01
	have a amazingly good track record.	27:03
	Why not let those rule who were born to rule?	27:07
	I know I never agreed with those people	27:11
	who said that George Bush would make a bad President,	27:12
	simply because he was a privileged aristocrat.	27:15
	I mean, privileged aristocrats have made	27:18
	the rest of us commoners, some pretty good leaders	27:20
	in the past; I'm thinking of the Roosevelts,	27:22
	Washington, Jefferson.	27:25
	I tell you, there is something to be said	27:29
	for rule by monarchy, by royalty.	27:31
	I suspect, though, that no Fergie and Di,	27:37
	no polo-playing kings or pocketbook clutching queens	27:40
	will move you.	27:44
	We can hardly afford a President, much less a king.	27:46
	You don't want a king.	27:49
	Yet the difficulty is that all of today's lessons agree,	27:54
	Jesus is a king.	27:59
	Jeremiah lifted up his sights out of the political mire	28:03
	of Israel of his day.	28:07
	Israel led by a bunch of inept shepards,	28:10
	as Jeremiah calls them.	28:13
	And he prophesied, the days are coming	28:16
	when I will raise up for David a righteous branch.	28:20
	He shall reign as king and deal wisely	28:24
	and execute justice and righteousness.	28:27
	For Christians, this king is Jesus.	28:32
	Who in Revelations' words is Ruler of Kings on Earth.	28:37
	Of course, being a king really meant something	28:44
	in Jesus' day.	28:46
	A king, the most powerful human being on earth,	28:48
	a king was the very source	28:53
	of a nation's domestic tranquility and justice,	28:55
	the only means of securing order and peace.	28:59
	But as your preacher, the question I'm struggling with,	29:06
	you see, this morning is:	29:09
	Can King Jesus mean anything	29:11
	in our	29:15
	democratic day?	29:17
	Remember, you don't really believe that you need a king.	29:20
	You may be a Republican or a Democrat,	29:24
	but who is a monarchist?	29:26
	When we think of kings and queens today,	29:30
	we're apt not to think of omnipotence,	29:33
	but we're apt to think of Charles and Di.	29:35
	A pleasant woman with an omnipresent purse.	29:39
	We don't think of power, sovereignty	29:43
	when we think monarchy.	29:46
	The Dutch are fond of saying,	29:49
	whenever someone belittles someone else,	29:52
	well, trix	29:55
	ist nix.	29:58
	Beatrix, the Dutch Queen	30:00
	is also a nobody.	30:02
	In other words,	30:06
	we've done to kings and queens what we've done	30:08
	to every other source of authority in our lives.	30:11
	Everything has been rendered common,	30:15
	everyday, impotent,	30:18
	nothing, nobody,	30:21
	rules.	30:24
	Okay, you don't want a king,	30:27
	but the question is:	30:29
	Do you need a king?	30:31
	For if we ridicule modern royalty,	30:35
	consider how they ridiculed King Jesus.	30:38
	The setting of today's Gospel from John	30:43
	is Pilate's trial of Jesus.	30:46
	In the Praetorium, the head of the Roman occupation forces	30:51
	in Judea, Pilate,	30:54
	asked Jesus a political question:	30:58
	Are you king of the Jews?	31:01
	Are you king?	31:06
	I think he snickered when he asked it.	31:06
	A bedraggled, half-naked Jew standing before him,	31:10
	back still bloody from a nasty whipping.	31:14
	A group of soldiers had planted a crown of thorns	31:16
	and placed it on his head to ridicule him.	31:19
	Are you	31:23
	King?	31:25
	Now, Pilate's question to Jesus	31:29
	is preceded in John's Gospel	31:32
	by Annas' interrogation.	31:35
	Annas was High Priest, cousin to Caiaphas,	31:38
	who John says was High Priest in Israel for that year.	31:42
	The High Priest was supposed to be High Priest for life.	31:48
	You see what John is doing there?	31:52
	He was High Priest for that year.	31:54
	It's John's caustic comment on what the Romans	31:58
	had done to religious leaders in Jesus' day.	32:00
	Just let somebody be High Priest for that year.	32:05
	He really isn't a High Priest,	32:08
	he's a quisling for the government,	32:10
	a lackey for the Roman overlords.	32:11
	They'd let him be priest just for that year.	32:14
	Back in the Praetorium, Pilate shows himself	32:20
	to be weak, indecisive little man.	32:23
	What good is a Roman governor if he can't keep	32:26
	these uppity Jews in their place?	32:28
	In contrast to Pilate, the prisoner Jesus is calm,	32:32
	self assured, decisive,	32:38
	in control, while everybody else is rushing back and forth,	32:41
	checking with the mob outside,	32:46
	checking to see what's going on.	32:47
	"Are you king of the Jews?" Pilate asked in sarcasm.	32:51
	"Do you say that of your own accord?" Jesus asks,	32:58
	"Or has somebody else said it about me?"	33:01
	In other words, he asked Pilate,	33:04
	are you talking for yourself now,	33:06
	or are you just checking the public opinion polls again?	33:07
	To see what you're supposed to think.	33:10
	"So, you are really king?" asked Pilate.	33:16
	"You're the one who keeps saying I'm king," says Jesus.	33:24
	"My kingdom is not of this world," says Jesus.	33:30
	See, Pilate thinks he's in control.	33:35
	He keeps raving about power,	33:38
	but in reality is have very little of it.	33:40
	He thinks he's in charge, but obviously,	33:43
	this bedraggled Jew before him is in charge.	33:45
	When Jesus says, "My kingdom is not of this world,"	33:52
	he isn't talking about heaven,	33:57
	about some other place in time.	34:00
	Rather,	34:04
	he means that now,	34:06
	his kingdom, unlike that of Pilate or Caiaphas or Annas.	34:08
	His kingdom is not dependent upon	34:15
	or grounded in the methods and means	34:17
	of Caesar's kingdom.	34:20
	Jesus calls the shots,	34:23
	not because he's got some certificate	34:26
	from Caesar in Rome, but because he is true royalty.	34:28
	Now, would you come with me outside from the Praetorium,	34:35
	outside in the courtyard where another trial	34:39
	is taking place.	34:42
	The trial of the lead Disciple, Peter.	34:45
	John devotes about as much space to the trial of Peter	34:50
	out in the courtyard by the maid,	34:53
	as he devotes to the trial of Jesus	34:56
	by Pilate in the Praetorium.	34:59
	Jesus is facing Pilate,	35:04
	the most powerful person in Judea, and he is in charge.	35:07
	Peter, on the other hand,	35:12
	is having a conversation with a serving woman	35:14
	out in the courtyard, and things are not going well	35:16
	in that trial at all.	35:18
	I mean, think about the power of that woman	35:21
	out in the courtyard.	35:24
	What was she doing out in the courtyard at three a.m.	35:27
	with a group of Roman soldiers?	35:29
	She wasn't a Red Cross woman handing out coffee and donuts.	35:33
	She was out there making a living.	35:38
	She was a woman of the night.	35:42
	A person of the world; she knew how the world works.	35:44
	"You were with him," she says.	35:48
	And Peter, the rock of the Church, the rock,	35:50
	before dawn	35:54
	will deny Jesus three times,	35:56
	"I never even knew him," he says.	35:59
	Here's a two-level drama, you see?	36:05
	A two-level trial: Inside Jesus is supposed to be on trial.	36:07
	But Jesus is asking the questions	36:13
	and putting Caesar on trial.	36:14
	Outside, the followers of Jesus, the Disciples,	36:19
	the Church, us,	36:24
	out in the darkness.	36:28
	We are being questioned by the world	36:31
	and we are literally falling apart.	36:33
	I will strike the shepard and the sheep will scatter.	36:37
	Are you king?	36:45
	It's an important, fundamental question	36:47
	because you see, it's a question about sovereignty,	36:50
	it's a question about rule.	36:53
	Who is in charge?	36:57
	When the world is dark and falling apart	37:00
	and things are unglued.	37:03
	Who is in charge?	37:07
	You see, I'm betting that that is still	37:10
	the fundamental human question.	37:12
	I'm betting that that's your question.	37:14
	Who's in charge?	37:19
	The crowd answered, we've got no king but Caesar.	37:22
	Today that is still	37:27
	a very popular response.	37:29
	Politics.	37:34
	Politics has become our most socially acceptable	37:37
	form of transcendence.	37:40
	The answer to every human problem.	37:43
	We expect politics	37:47
	to make our world secure,	37:51
	to protect us, to give us safe streets	37:53
	and drug-free children.	37:57
	We have, it would seem, no means of securing our lives.	38:00
	We have no king,	38:05
	except Caesar.	38:09
	At the same time, witness our shock	38:13
	when we find out that those who we elect to lead us	38:17
	are really quite ordinary people.	38:23
	As we learned during the last Presidential campaign,	38:27
	our kings make gaffs and goofs and Cs in college.	38:31
	And who wants to be ruled by people	38:37
	who are just as ordinary as we are?	38:38
	Pilate, big powerful Pilate,	38:43
	is revealed to be a rather pitiful, inept little man,	38:45
	who can't even manage his own marriage, much less Israel.	38:50
	He thinks he's putting Jesus on trial,	38:54
	when in reality,	38:57
	Jesus has put Pilate and the whole Empire in the dock.	39:01
	It's enough when you see how puny are our politicians,	39:10
	how they look just like us, in other words.	39:16
	It's enough to make you wonder, who is in charge?	39:20
	I mean, you see, if you push the political question	39:26
	far enough, if you push the political question far enough,	39:29
	before long, you're asking religious questions.	39:32
	You're in God questions.	39:35
	Who is in charge	39:41
	for you?	39:44
	One hot July afternoon	39:49
	I trudged up a walkway to visit a man	39:52
	who had not been active in our church for a number of years.	39:54
	I was the new pastor at that church.	39:59
	I thought I'd go around and visit the inactive members,	40:00
	see if I could get 'em active.	40:02
	The church was unsure of just why he wasn't active.	40:05
	Some people said he was inactive because	40:09
	of the Methodist Church's stand on South Africa.	40:11
	Others said, no, no, it wasn't that.	40:14
	It was the debate we had over homosexual rights.	40:16
	Anyway, I went up, knocked on his door,	40:19
	he greeted me sullenly, I told him, "I'm your new preacher."	40:22
	And I could tell he really didn't want a new preacher	40:25
	or an old preacher, but he was good enough	40:27
	to let me inside; we went in, we sat down,	40:30
	chatted for a few minutes, and then I asked him,	40:32
	"Why aren't you active in the church anymore?"	40:35
	Was it the thing over homosexual rights?	40:37
	Was it the support of the National Council of Churches?	40:40
	I mean, we wanna get these things straight.	40:42
	What was it?	40:44
	Well, it wasn't just any one thing, he said to me.	40:46
	It was a lot of things.	40:49
	"What things?" I ask.	40:53
	And he began to talk.	40:56
	He spoke of fears.	40:59
	Fears	41:01
	that his country was falling apart.	41:03
	Nobody would stay in place.	41:07
	Crime was rising; people were being murdered	41:09
	right in their beds.	41:11
	He had voted for Reagan, oh, he had thought	41:13
	maybe Reagan could take matters in hand, make a change.	41:15
	But what, good things were worse than they were	41:18
	when he took office.	41:21
	I felt anger rising in me.	41:24
	Was this any way for a Christian to talk?	41:28
	You ought to be ashamed talking like that	41:31
	about other people, that was what I was thinking.	41:33
	But I noticed the man's voice was becoming louder,	41:38
	his raving was becoming more bizarre.	41:40
	He said, "A few years ago, I didn't even own a gun.	41:44
	"Now I own 20 guns; I sleep with two rifles beside my bed.	41:47
	"And I'll tell you, by God, when they come up	41:51
	"and try to take what's mine, I'm gonna be ready."	41:53
	I realized that his raving had gone beyond	41:59
	mere reactionary opinions.	42:01
	I was in the presence of a deeply troubled man.	42:06
	"I tell you," he said,	42:12
	"I tell you,	42:15
	"nobody's in control.	42:17
	"Everything is just cut loose, nobody is in charge!"	42:20
	See, what I was about to do as a preacher,	42:26
	I was about to minister to the symptoms of his illness	42:29
	without getting to the source.	42:32
	All that resentment and hate	42:37
	had its source in a deeper fear:	42:38
	Nobody's in charge; nobody's in control.	42:43
	I tell you, life can be very confusing when it gets dark,	42:50
	and nobody's in control.	42:56
	The Feast of Christ the King, which we celebrate today,	43:03
	was invented in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.	43:07
	1925, get it?	43:13
	A festival to celebrate Christ Kingship in the modern world.	43:17
	1925 with lights going out all over Europe,	43:22
	and chaos reigning in the streets,	43:26
	and serpents' eggs ready to hatch by the 30s,	43:30
	Pope Pius proclaimed, the Lordship of Christ,	43:34
	the goal of human history, the joy of hearts,	43:38
	the fulfillment of human aspirations,	43:41
	the consummation of history	43:44
	to put all things under his feet.	43:46
	When the lights go out in your life,	43:52
	it's a great help to know who's in charge.	43:57
	Many of the problems which beset us	44:02
	do lend themselves to political solutions.	44:04
	But some of our problems are deeper.	44:10
	Sometimes what's happening in your own life	44:15
	is so chaotic, confusing, frighteningly out of control,	44:17
	that you need somebody to take charge.	44:25
	You need to know that the one who hung the stars	44:31
	and set the planets in motion	44:34
	and laid the foundations of the earth	44:38
	is there,	44:41
	for you.	44:44
	A Jew stands before us,	44:48
	scorned by the world and its rulers.	44:51
	When the lights go out,	44:57
	and everything is cut loose,	44:59
	when you feel like Peter on trial out in the darkness,	45:03
	it's just real good to know who sits on the throne.	45:08
	Crown him,	45:14
	Lord of all.	45:16
	(peaceful organ music)	45:22
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	45:58
	(peaceful organ music)	48:10
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	48:31
-	The Lord be with you.	50:09
Congregation	And also with you.	50:11
-	Let us pray.	50:12
	Oh, eternal God,	50:26
	from everlasting to everlasting,	50:29
	the alpha and the omega of this vast creation,	50:32
	we worship thee.	50:36
	As we have heard thy Word proclaimed,	50:39
	we acknowledge the power and dominion which is thine	50:41
	and thine alone.	50:44
	Thus we turn to thee in our time of need,	50:47
	knowing that thou hast heard our prayer before we speak,	50:51
	and answered before we know our need.	50:55
	Let us pray for the Church of Jesus Christ,	51:00
	that begun, maintained, and inspired by thy Spirit,	51:04
	it may be faithful,	51:10
	true, and unafraid.	51:12
	Let us pray for those who do not believe,	51:16
	who are driven by doubt, or have turned against thee.	51:20
	Open their eyes to see beyond the frailties of the Church,	51:26
	the power of thy love revealed in Jesus Christ,	51:30
	and to follow his call.	51:34
	Let us pray for peace in our world.	51:38
	Disarm our weapons,	51:42
	settle our disputes,	51:44
	and destroy ancient hate	51:47
	that smolders still from one generation to the next.	51:50
	Create a spirit of good will among every race and nation.	51:56
	Let us pray for all who are hungry	52:02
	or who have no place to call home.	52:06
	Increase in us and all who prosper	52:10
	concern for the disinherited.	52:14
	Let us pray for all social outcast,	52:18
	for those excluded by their own militants,	52:22
	or by the judgment of others.	52:25
	Give us grace to accept those the world deems unacceptable.	52:28
	Let us pray for the sick,	52:35
	for all who suffer pain in body or in mind	52:38
	and cry out for healing.	52:41
	May they be comforted in thy care.	52:44
	Let us pray for the dying as they face the final mystery.	52:49
	May they greet death unafraid,	52:54
	believing in thy saving grace.	52:57
	Let us pray for those who are lonely and afraid,	53:01
	who have no one to call a friend.	53:05
	May they be remembered and reassured of thy love.	53:08
	All these things and whatever else	53:15
	thou knowest that we need,	53:18
	grant us, oh God, for the sake of him who died	53:20
	and rose again, and now lives and reigns with you	53:24
	for all eternity,	53:28
	amen.	53:30
	In this season of thanksgiving,	53:35
	let us offer our gifts unto the one who made us.	53:38
	(peaceful organ music)	53:43
	♪ Then it shall be brought to pass ♪	54:38
	♪ The same that is written ♪	54:42
	♪ Death is swallowed up ♪	54:46
	♪ In victory ♪	54:51
	(vibrant orchestral and choral music)	54:57
	♪ Oh death oh death ♪	55:01
	♪ Where where is thy stay oh death ♪	55:03
	♪ Where is thy stay ♪	55:05
	♪ Where is thy victory ♪	55:08
	♪ Where is thy victory ♪	55:11
	♪ Oh death oh death ♪	55:14
	♪ Where is thy stay ♪	55:16
	♪ Oh pray where is thy victory ♪	55:19
	♪ Oh pray oh death ♪	55:22
	♪ Where is thy stay ♪	55:27
	♪ Oh pray oh pray ♪	55:30
	♪ Where is thy victory ♪	55:34
	♪ Oh pray ♪	55:38
	♪ Where is thy victory ♪	55:41
	♪ The sting of death ♪	55:44
	♪ The sting the sting of death ♪	55:46
	(vibrant orchestral and choral music)	55:51
	(peaceful organ music)	58:32
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	59:14
	Oh, mighty God, who crownest the year with thy goodness,	1:00:19
	we thank thee that the bounty of thy blessing	1:00:23
	is poured out upon us in seed time and in harvest.	1:00:25
	We bless thee for the order and constancy of nature,	1:00:29
	for the beauty of creation and for those who have gathered	1:00:33
	in the fruits of the earth.	1:00:36
	Most especially, we thank thee for the eternal riches	1:00:38
	of thy grace, in Jesus Christ our Lord,	1:00:41
	to who with thee, oh God, and the Holy Spirit,	1:00:45
	the all glory and honor and worship forever and ever,	1:00:49
	and in who's name we pray:	1:00:53
Congregation	Our Father, who art in heaven,	1:00:55
	hallowed be thy name.	1:00:58
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	1:01:00
	on earth as it is in heaven.	1:01:03
	Give us this day our daily bread	1:01:05
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:01:08
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:01:10
	And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,	1:01:13
	for thine is the kingdom, the power,	1:01:18
	and the glory forever, amen.	1:01:20
	(peaceful organ music)	1:01:26
	(harmonious organ and choral music)	1:02:05
-	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ	1:06:05
	be with you now and always, amen.	1:06:08
	♪ Glory to God ♪	1:06:14
	♪ And to the Son ♪	1:06:19
	♪ And to the Holy Ghost ♪	1:06:22
	♪ As it was in the beginning ♪	1:06:26
	♪ Is how it ever shall be ♪	1:06:31
	♪ World without an end amen ♪	1:06:36
	(vibrant organ music)	1:06:46

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "Hail, King!" (November 20, 1988)

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Sermon start time: 24:15. Sermon end time: 45:19.
The preacher reminds his audience that democracy is never the remedy to the problems of this world; Jesus is our King who laid the foundation of the world and has dominion over it. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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November 20, 1988

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Willimon, William H.

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