Robert T. Young - "To You Is Born a Savior" (December 23, 1973)
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| Man | In which I am living | 0:03 |
| and in which you're going to continue to live | 0:04 | |
| because you will have turbulence and confusion, | 0:06 | |
| but then Jesus said, | 0:09 | |
| "You can live with this too." | 0:10 | |
| Be filled with assurance. | 0:15 | |
| Sure, my friends, | 0:18 | |
| you're going to have tribulation, | 0:19 | |
| but hold your heads up | 0:22 | |
| for I have overcome the world | 0:24 | |
| and the same power that has been available to me | 0:26 | |
| to overcome the world is available to you | 0:29 | |
| to overcome the world." | 0:32 | |
| I don't know many of you personally, | 0:36 | |
| but I dare say that each of us lives in a situation | 0:40 | |
| where there is turmoil and trial and tension. | 0:43 | |
| And what Jesus is saying | 0:49 | |
| is that we can live in these experiences | 0:50 | |
| with the assurance that God's love is present with us, | 0:53 | |
| that He wants us to be whole persons, | 0:57 | |
| that our lives really can hold on when things are tough | 1:00 | |
| and that we can live, at least partially, | 1:04 | |
| in tune with God's will. | 1:07 | |
| Also, we can be persons who are changing the world. | 1:11 | |
| We can be instruments in God's plan to change the world | 1:17 | |
| to a better place. | 1:20 | |
| I have a poster on the wall in my study | 1:23 | |
| that has a beautiful scene of a meadow | 1:29 | |
| and beautiful green hills in the background. | 1:31 | |
| And on this poster are the words, | 1:36 | |
| "If we change the world, | 1:38 | |
| let it bear the mark of our intelligence." | 1:41 | |
| This is often a suffering serving task, | 1:49 | |
| but for this purpose, | 1:53 | |
| God has created the church. | 1:55 | |
| To this task, | 1:58 | |
| God has called us | 1:59 | |
| to declare that God is still at work | 2:02 | |
| to make better the world, even now. | 2:07 | |
| I was reading a letter just recently | 2:11 | |
| from a young person, | 2:13 | |
| who wrote, "Christ saved me, | 2:18 | |
| but does this salvation mean that I am to sit back | 2:25 | |
| content to be a part of society | 2:28 | |
| whose only objective is for me | 2:31 | |
| to spend all the time I can | 2:33 | |
| making all the money I can | 2:36 | |
| to have all the comfort and pleasures I can? | 2:38 | |
| Or does this salvation say to me that I now have it made | 2:42 | |
| and possess a one-way ticket to heaven? | 2:46 | |
| And that all that is required of me | 2:49 | |
| is to learn a few Bible passages | 2:51 | |
| and ask a few people to come to Jesus? | 2:53 | |
| Or did He save me in order that I may be a recruit | 2:57 | |
| to work for Him, to work with Him, | 3:00 | |
| in changing persons and conditions. | 3:04 | |
| So that in Washington DC | 3:08 | |
| or in New York City | 3:10 | |
| or in Los Angeles or in Orlando or in Durham, | 3:12 | |
| if need be, we may in His name, | 3:16 | |
| be able to rescue people from ideas and behavior | 3:20 | |
| by which lives are being ruined | 3:23 | |
| and be able to eliminate," | 3:26 | |
| listen to this, " those despicable conditions | 3:28 | |
| like the one where two children sit huddled together | 3:32 | |
| in a tenement house | 3:36 | |
| with one eating a cockroach | 3:39 | |
| and the other, holding a dead rat in his hand | 3:42 | |
| and saying, 'Mine, doggy, mine, doggy.'" | 3:46 | |
| This young person goes on. | 3:54 | |
| "Christ has saved me, | 3:55 | |
| and my lips can never praise Him enough for doing this, | 3:59 | |
| which I could not do for myself. | 4:03 | |
| He has saved me for eternity, | 4:07 | |
| but He has also saved me so that I may serve Him | 4:11 | |
| and others in the here and the now." | 4:15 | |
| To you is born a savior. | 4:21 | |
| The world's heartbeat | 4:28 | |
| may come alive again. | 4:33 | |
| Oh, God, | 4:41 | |
| help us to hear, | 4:45 | |
| to receive and to live out the good news, | 4:48 | |
| which came in Jesus Christ, | 4:55 | |
| to you, which means to me. | 4:58 | |
| To each of us is born a savior, | 5:03 | |
| even Christ the Lord. | 5:08 | |
| Amen. | 5:13 | |
| (gentle organ music) | 5:17 | |
| ♪ My soul ♪ | 6:55 | |
| ♪ Doth magnify the Lord, ♪ | 7:01 | |
| ♪ And my spirit hath rejoiced ♪ | 7:12 | |
| ♪ In God my Savior ♪ | 7:28 | |
| ♪ For He hath regarded the low estate ♪ | 7:43 | |
| ♪ Of His faithful servant ♪ | 7:51 | |
| ♪ For behold from henceforth all generations ♪ | 7:57 | |
| ♪ Shall call me blessed ♪ | 8:07 | |
| ♪ For He that is mighty ♪ | 8:22 | |
| ♪ Hath done to me great things ♪ | 8:29 | |
| ♪ And holy is His name ♪ | 8:45 | |
| ♪ And His mercy is on them that fear Him ♪ | 9:00 | |
| ♪ From generation to generation ♪ | 9:20 | |
| ♪ He hath shewed strength with His arm ♪ | 9:45 | |
| ♪ He hath scattered the proud ♪ | 9:52 | |
| ♪ In the imagination of their hearts ♪ | 9:58 | |
| ♪ He hath put down the mighty from their seats ♪ | 10:07 | |
| ♪ And exalted them of low degree ♪ | 10:18 | |
| ♪ He hath filled the hungry with good things ♪ | 10:35 | |
| ♪ And the rich He hath sent empty away ♪ | 10:44 | |
| ♪ He hath holpen His servant Israel ♪ | 10:57 | |
| ♪ In remembrance of His mercy ♪ | 11:05 | |
| ♪ As He spake to our fathers ♪ | 11:20 | |
| ♪ To Abraham ♪ | 11:35 | |
| ♪ And to His seed forever. ♪ | 11:51 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 13:03 | |
| (organ music) | 13:24 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:16 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:19 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:23 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:38 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:41 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:44 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:47 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 14:56 | |
| Lady | All mighty God | 15:06 |
| giver of every good and perfect gift. | 15:08 | |
| Help us rightly to render to thee all that we have | 15:11 | |
| and all that we are. | 15:16 | |
| That we may praise thee, not with our lips, | 15:18 | |
| but with our whole lives, | 15:22 | |
| turning the duties, the sorrows and the joys of all our days | 15:24 | |
| into a living sacrifice to thee. | 15:29 | |
| Amen. | 15:33 | |
| (organ music) | 15:35 | |
| (choir singing) | 16:09 | |
| Unto to God's gracious, mercy and protection we commit you. | 18:36 | |
| And the blessing of God almighty | 18:42 | |
| the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit | 18:44 | |
| be upon you and remain with you always. | 18:48 | |
| Amen. | 18:52 | |
| (bell chiming) | 18:54 | |
| (organ music) | 19:07 |
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