Robert T. Young - "What Happens if Peace Breaks Out?" (October 8, 1978)

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	(hymnal singing)	0:03
-	Duke University Chapel,
	service of worship.	0:05
	October 8th, 1978.	0:08
	(organ music)	0:19
	(organ music)	5:04
	(organ music)	7:37
	(organ music)	9:43
	(organ music)	10:39
	(organ music)	11:18
	(hymnal singing)	14:37
	(organ music)	16:12
	(hymnal singing)	16:35
-	May I greet you in the name of our lord and savior,	20:05
	Jesus Christ and welcome you to Duke Chapel.	20:07
	There are people standing today, if you can move	20:11
	to center of the aisle and provide some seating,	20:14
	it will be a courtesy genuinely appreciated.	20:17
	Let us humbly confess our sings to almighty God,	20:38
	praying that he will make us to know the faults	20:42
	we have not known.	20:45
	And that he will show us the harmful consequences	20:47
	of those things in us	20:50
	which we have not cared to control.	20:52
	Let us pray.	20:56
	You have made a covenant with us,	20:59
	but we have turned it into law.	21:01
	(congregation in unison)	21:05
	You have given us the promise of faith,	21:08
	but we have turned it into the privilege of possession.	21:12
	(congregation in unison)	21:16
	You have spoken to us in the language of love,	21:19
	but we have turned it into the language of logic.	21:24
	(congregation in unison)	21:28
	Oh God,	21:56
	the God of all goodness and grace,	21:58
	who art worthy of a greater love	22:01
	than we can either give or understand.	22:02
	Fill our hearts, we beseech thee	22:07
	with such love toward thee that nothing	22:11
	may seem too hard for us to do or suffer	22:13
	in obedience to thy will.	22:16
	That we may become daily more like thee	22:20
	and dwell more and more in delight of thy presence.	22:24
	Through the grace and mercy	22:30
	of our lord, Jesus Christ.	22:34
	Amen.	22:37
	In the name of Jesus Christ,	22:40
	your sins are forgiven.	22:43
	Let us give thanks.	22:48
	For God is good and God's love is everlasting.	22:50
	(congregation in unison)	22:55
	Amen.	23:07
	A special word of welcome to all who are part of the	23:11
	family of Duke and come to this worship service as parents.	23:13
	We're glad you are here.	23:18
	May we call attention to that brochure that invites	23:20
	you to be a friend of Duke Chapel.	23:23
	Friends is a word that suggests interest and enrichment.	23:27
	Your personal participation in the friends of Duke Chapel	23:31
	will provide enrichment to the chapel	23:35
	to all the friends and to all others who seek meaning	23:38
	and hope through the ministry of Duke University.	23:41
	May I also call attention to the organ recital	23:48
	scheduled for 7:00 p.m.	23:52
	In the chapel this afternoon,	23:54
	Jane L. Lynch,	23:57
	Associate Organist here at Duke	24:00
	will be offering the recital.	24:03
	You're invited to be here.	24:04
-	Let us pray.	24:18
	Prepare our hearts, oh lord	24:23
	to accept your word.	24:26
	Silence in us any voice but your own.	24:29
	That hearing we may also obey your will	24:33
	through Jesus Christ, our lord.	24:37
	Amen.	24:41
	The Old Testament lesson is from the fourth chapter	24:43
	of Micah, verses one through five.	24:46
	It shall come to pass in the latter days	24:51
	that the mountain of the house of the lord	24:54
	shall be established as the highest of the mountains	24:57
	and shall be raised up above the hills	25:01
	and people shall flow to it and many nations shall come	25:04
	and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the lord,	25:08
	to the house of the God of Jacob.	25:13
	That he may teach us his ways	25:16
	and we may walk in his paths.	25:19
	For out of Zion shall go forth the law	25:21
	and the word of the lord from Jerusalem.	25:24
	He shall judge between many peoples	25:27
	and shall decide for strong nations afar off	25:30
	and they shall beat their swords into plowshares	25:34
	and their spears into pruning hooks.	25:37
	Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.	25:40
	Neither shall they learn war any more.	25:43
	But they shall sit every man under his vine	25:47
	and under his fig tree	25:50
	and none shall make them afraid.	25:52
	For the mouth of the lord of hosts has spoken.	25:55
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament,	25:59
	amen.	26:02
	(organ music)	26:07
	(hymnal singing)	27:35
	The epistle lesson is from the fourth chapter of James,	35:15
	verses one through 12.	35:21
	What causes wars and what causes fightings among you?	35:27
	Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?	35:32
	You desire and do not have so you kill	35:37
	and you covet and cannot obtain.	35:42
	So you fight and wage war.	35:45
	You do not have because you do not ask.	35:49
	You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly	35:53
	to spend it on your passions.	35:58
	Unfaithful creatures,	36:00
	do you not know that friendship with the world	36:03
	is enmity with God?	36:06
	Therefore whoever whishes to be a friend of the world	36:08
	makes himself an enemy of God.	36:12
	Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says,	36:16
	he yearns jealously over the spirit	36:19
	which he has made to dwell in us?	36:22
	But he gives more grace.	36:26
	Therefore, it says,	36:28
	God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.	36:30
	Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.	36:35
	Resist the devil and he will flee from you.	36:38
	Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.	36:42
	Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts,	36:47
	you men of double mind.	36:51
	Be wretched and mourn and weep.	36:53
	Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy	36:57
	to dejection.	37:00
	Humble yourselves before the lord	37:02
	and he will exalt you.	37:04
	Do not speak evil against one another, brethren.	37:07
	He that speaks evil against a brother	37:10
	or judges his brother,	37:13
	speaks evil against the law and judges the law.	37:15
	But if you judge the law,	37:19
	you art not a doer of the law but a judge.	37:21
	There is one lawgiver and judge.	37:25
	He who is able to save and to destroy.	37:28
	But who are you that you judge your neighbor?	37:32
	Here ends the reading from the epistle.	37:37
	All praise and glory be to God.	37:40
	Amen.	37:43
	(organ music)	37:45
	(hymnal singing)	38:01
-	Around the year 750 BC,	38:58
	Micah wrote,	39:02
	and they shall beat their swords into plowshares	39:06
	and their spears into pruning hooks.	39:09
	Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.	39:14
	Neither shall they learn war anymore.	39:18
	Around the year 30 AD, Jesus said,	39:24
	Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called	39:29
	the children of God.	39:34
	Around the year 100 AD, James wrote,	39:38
	what causes wars?	39:42
	You desire and do not have, so you kill.	39:44
	You covet and cannot obtain so you fight and wage war.	39:49
	Do you suppose it is in vain that the Scripture says	39:55
	God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble?	39:58
	Around the year 1200 AD,	40:05
	St. Francis of Assisi prayed,	40:08
	Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.	40:10
	Where there is hatred, let me sow love.	40:15
	Where there is injury, pardon.	40:19
	Where there is doubt, faith.	40:21
	Where there is despair, hope.	40:24
	Where there is sadness, joy.	40:27
	Where there is darkness, light.	40:30
	Around the year 1950 AD, Bernard Barouk advised,	40:34
	Better to have pain as the price of peace	40:40
	than to have death as the price of war.	40:44
	In the year 1964, Norman Cousins wrote,	40:51
	we live today in a world conditioned and prepared for war	40:56
	but war is the one thing we cannot endure.	41:01
	Around the year 1970,	41:09
	G. Lo Dickinson said it for me	41:12
	and perhaps for many others,	41:15
	my theme, he wrote, may be put in one sentence.	41:17
	If mankind does not end war,	41:21
	war will end mankind.	41:24
	And in the year 1978 AD, as a matter of fact,	41:30
	two weeks ago today, these words were spoken by	41:33
	Prime Minister Menachem Begin,	41:37
	Peace, he said, now celebrates a great victory.	41:41
	How beautiful it is, through the efforts of a Jewish	41:50
	Prime Minister of Israel,	41:55
	a Muslim President of Egypt	41:58
	and a Christian President of the United States,	42:01
	it seems that as President Carter put it,	42:05
	our prayers for peace have been answered far beyond	42:09
	any expectations. But there's another side to this.	42:14
	Most of us have thought	42:19
	not of the consequences of what happens if peace breaks out	42:22
	but have thought of the consequences to the question,	42:28
	what happens if war breaks out but	42:30
	then have we really?	42:34
	We have weapons that will kill our enemies instantly.	42:36
	The only problem is that if we use our weapons,	42:40
	our enemies will also use their weapons	42:43
	to kill us instantly.	42:46
	Therefore, we live today in a balance of terror	42:48
	and the only way that we can avoid being driven mad by this	42:53
	ominous threat to our existence, I believe,	42:57
	is to try not to think of it at all	43:01
	and yet, think of it we must.	43:05
	As of today, according to fairly accurate reports,	43:09
	we have some 2,000 intercontinental ballistic missiles	43:12
	and over 600 long range bombers with a total destructive	43:16
	power enough to rain the equivalent of 20 tons of TNT	43:20
	on every living Russian citizen.	43:25
	And Russia has at least enough explosives aimed and ready	43:30
	to pour the equivalent of 10 tons of TNT	43:34
	on every living American citizen.	43:38
	And we have in process, in this country of ours,	43:42
	the cruise missile, the trident submarine,	43:45
	the neutron bomb, the MX mobile missile	43:48
	and on, and on.	43:52
	All of us, I have an idea, have heard about	43:55
	first, World War I and then about World War II when	43:58
	those were being waged have heard that it was said	44:03
	that each of those was the war to end all wars.	44:06
	Unfortunately, it was not true.	44:11
	But if world war comes again,	44:14
	it will be not the war to end all wars	44:16
	but the war to end all.	44:19
	Thus, I believe we do not have any option in today's world.	44:25
	We cannot endure war, peace must break out.	44:29
	A belayed and beloved friend and giant of a preacher,	44:36
	Carlyle Marney once warned, uncertain of peace,	44:39
	we prepare for war until finally and inevitably	44:43
	the only thing left to do is to fight.	44:47
	Here the old adage holds true.	44:50
	Anything you prepare for, you get.	44:52
	Douglas MacArthur, World War II hero.	44:58
	Now being portrayed with his life	45:02
	in the movies, also warned us,	45:05
	War, he said, has become a Frankenstein	45:10
	to destroy both sides.	45:12
	If you lose, you are annihilated.	45:14
	If you win, you stand only to lose.	45:17
	No longer does war possess the chance of a winner	45:19
	of a duel.	45:22
	War now contains the germs of double suicide.	45:24
	This must be one reason that Dag Hammarskjold,	45:30
	as he assumed the office of Secretary General of the	45:32
	United Nations reminded us, the greatest prayer of	45:35
	humanity is not a prayer for victory	45:38
	but it's a prayer for peace.	45:41
	Ours, he says, is a task of reconciliation.	45:46
	Could this be, should this be,	45:50
	is it possible for this to be the watch word,	45:53
	the byword, the slogan,	45:56
	the objective, indeed the task of the	45:57
	Christian church today?	46:00
	Namely the task of reconciliation of reconciling the world	46:02
	unto itself, of helping peace to break out in our time	46:07
	of saying, and believing and singing and working.	46:12
	Let there be peace on Earth, oh Lord, and let it begin	46:15
	with me.	46:19
	Or of singing as the old spiritual has it,	46:21
	I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield,	46:25
	I ain't gonna study war no more,	46:27
	ain't gonna study war no more.	46:30
	Ain't gonna study war	46:32
	no more.	46:35
	For over 3,000 years of recorded history now,	46:38
	we know how men and women have longed for peace, why?	46:41
	Why do we want peace?	46:46
	You say that's a stupid question.	46:49
	We want peace simply because war is hell.	46:53
	Some of you in this congregation this morning	46:57
	know about that much better than I do	47:00
	but we can all read and hear and observe the costs of	47:03
	human suffering when war is waged.	47:06
	We all suffer, we all lose,	47:08
	we all are maimed when war is fought.	47:11
	President Eisenhower just before leaving office,	47:15
	spoke poignantly of the costs of war	47:18
	and of the costs of preparing for war.	47:21
	He said, Every gun that is made,	47:23
	every worship that is launched,	47:26
	every rocket fired signifies in the final sense,	47:28
	a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.	47:31
	Those who are cold and not clothed.	47:34
	This world in arms is not spending money alone,	47:37
	it is spending the sweat of its laborers,	47:41
	the genius of its scientists and the hopes of its children.	47:44
	This is not a way of life at all; it is humanity	47:49
	hanging from a cross of iron.	47:53
	If we want peace,	48:00
	if war is tragic and costly and full of hell and horror	48:02
	and if human beings have always longed for peace	48:08
	why do we not have it?	48:11
	Some of have said that war is the sport of kings.	48:14
	Well if that is true,	48:19
	if war is the sport of kings then it has been the scourge	48:22
	of the common people.	48:26
	The presidents, the prime ministers, the kings,	48:28
	the generals, the powerful business and military	48:31
	and political leaders	48:33
	are the ones who make the decisions, yes.	48:35
	But it is the average man and woman who pays,	48:39
	who fights, who suffers and who dies.	48:42
	Others control and grow wealthy and remain aloof.	48:47
	Thus, why do we not have peace?	48:54
	Perhaps it is indeed just for that reason,	48:57
	namely that those who make the decisions do not fight	49:00
	the battles, those who fight the battles, indeed, have	49:03
	no power, they are simply subjects and they can only	49:07
	succumb and serve.	49:10
	This may be one reason, my friends that Sadat and Begin	49:13
	are willing to risk and to work for peace.	49:16
	They have fought the battles.	49:19
	Both have been involved in underground movements	49:22
	and know firsthand the horrors of war and they may	49:24
	genuinely want peace for just that reason.	49:28
	Peace to begin with them.	49:32
	Why is there no peace?	49:38
	Why is it we cry, peace, peace, when there is no peace?	49:40
	Is it the deep longing, the plaintiff, painful	49:45
	pleading of our individual and collective soul	49:49
	that keeps crying out and praying for and longing	49:52
	for peace to come, peace to break out?	49:56
	Is it that we know there is another way,	49:59
	a better way?	50:02
	One of the most touching scenes in all of Scripture,	50:06
	I believe, is recorded in the 19th chapter of the gospel	50:08
	according to St. Luke.	50:11
	Jesus was coming into Jerusalem and Luke writes,	50:13
	And when he drew near the city, he wept over it saying,	50:18
	would that even today,	50:23
	you know the things that make for peace.	50:25
	Jerusalem, the city whose name popularly meant,	50:31
	vision of peace.	50:34
	Jerusalem, he cried, he wept, would that even today	50:37
	you knew those things which make for peace today	50:41
	as our Lord looks, indeed, as he comes,	50:45
	I am sure that he weeps as he draws near again to Jerusalem,	50:48
	to Cairo, to Beirut, to Belfast,	50:53
	to Managua, and Leon, Nicaragua,	50:57
	to Damascus, to Salisbury and Johannesburg,	50:59
	to Phnom Penh, Cambodia,	51:03
	Tel Aviv, Oman, Detroit, New York, Durham.	51:05
	Would that even today, Jesus says, as he weeps over us,	51:13
	we knew the things that make for peace.	51:17
	And so what happens, my friends,	51:21
	if peace breaks out?	51:25
	First of all, I think we will humble ourselves.	51:28
	James tells us God opposes the proud, but He gives grace	51:33
	to the humble.	51:38
	Perhaps, just perhaps, the tragedy and the trauma	51:41
	of the past 25 years are beginning to make us in these	51:45
	United States, something of a humble people.	51:50
	We do not own the world.	51:55
	The Earth is not ours to exploit or dominate	51:58
	or despoil and to leave empty.	52:01
	Perhaps the Korean War, the Civil Rights battles,	52:05
	the Vietnam tragedy, the oil embargo,	52:08
	the Watergate debacle, and many other unforgettable	52:11
	moments in our recent past really are making us	52:14
	painfully aware of the prideful, sinful bent in us and	52:17
	as individuals and as a people.	52:22
	Perhaps it is time for us as the Christian church,	52:28
	maybe even for us as a nation to be brought to our knees.	52:33
	Brought to our knees in prayer, yes,	52:40
	but also in admitting that we have made some mistakes,	52:43
	some errors.	52:46
	In the Caribbean, in Central America,	52:49
	in South America, in Africa,	52:52
	in Southeast Asia, in our own land	52:54
	and in other parts of the world.	52:57
	Ours is, indeed, a great nation, great people,	52:59
	great leaders, great humanitarian concerns,	53:02
	but never let us think	53:05
	that we are so great that we cannot err.	53:07
	Greatness is not a matter of always being right.	53:11
	Greatness is a matter of always searching and struggling	53:16
	for the right and of being willing to admit and repent	53:21
	when we are wrong.	53:25
	What happens if peace breaks out?	53:29
	We bind ourselves to one another, one world,	53:32
	one people, one people under God, one way.	53:35
	The powerful, beautiful, prophetic vision of Micah	53:40
	4:1-6 is one of history's first glimpses	53:44
	of one world of justice and law and peace.	53:49
	Here Micah writes about an era of universal peace	53:53
	and what a majestic vision it is of what life can be.	53:57
	God will judge among all the peoples, he says,	54:02
	but God will particularly rebuke the strong nations.	54:05
	Then we have	54:10
	the most brilliant, beautiful,	54:13
	the first call for disarmament in the history of the	54:16
	world's thinking.	54:20
	This is the classic plea of all time, I believe.	54:23
	Nothing and no words seems ever to have been uttered	54:27
	to surpass these words of Micah, here a vision of the	54:31
	death-dealing, destructive weapons of war are transformed	54:35
	into symbolic and real tools for peace and health	54:40
	and healing and life.	54:44
	Then the reign of peace.	54:49
	No one will lift up sword.	54:52
	No one will even learn of war anymore.	54:54
	What a plea, what a prayer,	54:58
	what a poem,	55:00
	what a dream.	55:02
	They shall beat their swords into plowshares	55:04
	and their spears into pruning hooks.	55:07
	Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,	55:10
	neither shall they learn war anymore.	55:13
	What happens if peace breaks out?	55:19
	I believe we respond too, we acknowledge	55:23
	and we begin to fulfill God's will and God's desire	55:27
	for peace for all the peoples of the world.	55:31
	As someone has beautifully put it,	55:36
	the whole world awaits the greatest revolution of all,	55:39
	the one which sets persons free from their pride,	55:42
	and hatred and greed and unites them in obedience	55:46
	to the living God.	55:50
	The birth of Christ was announced by the angels	55:54
	with the words, peace on Earth,	55:58
	goodwill toward all people.	56:03
	Jesus said, just before he left this Earth,	56:06
	Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.	56:09
	He also said, Love your neighbor.	56:13
	As a matter of fact, he said, Love even your enemies.	56:15
	Jesus said, Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be	56:21
	called the children of God.	56:24
	Jesus cried plaintively, would that even today you know	56:26
	the things that make for peace.	56:31
	I believe that we can and we must	56:35
	continue to help bring peace to our world in our time,	56:40
	in this time today.	56:44
	By prayer,	56:48
	by protest,	56:50
	by pleading whatever is necessary to bring peace	56:52
	to the peoples of the Earth.	56:56
	There is no choice.	57:01
	We have no option.	57:04
	There is one alternatively,	57:07
	to seek diligently, earnestly,	57:10
	endlessly for peace in this day.	57:13
	If we do,	57:18
	I believe we can remove the dark, dismal,	57:21
	depressing, death filled threat of nuclear holocaust.	57:26
	Now even worse than that, the threat of the neutron bomb.	57:31
	If peace really breaks out	57:36
	I believe even that we can remove the cloud of doom	57:41
	and doubt and despair and futility	57:46
	which hangs over my two daughters and my two sons.	57:51
	And remove that cloud from over you,	57:57
	children and young people	58:01
	and even over your children, parents.	58:05
	We can even remove that cloud from all God's children	58:10
	so that children today, all God's children may live in hope.	58:13
	Have you, my parents this morning, ever looked at your	58:17
	son or daughter and wondered if he or she would have life	58:21
	cut short for some futile or fruitless cause?	58:25
	I have.	58:32
	And if peace breaks out, my friends,	58:37
	that cloud can be removed.	58:41
	I believe we can also move toward ending starvation	58:47
	and hunger and malnutrition and disease	58:51
	and senseless and needless death	58:54
	as we beat our swords into plowshares.	58:57
	The starving can eat,	59:01
	the hungry can be fed,	59:02
	the naked can be clothed,	59:03
	the sick can be made well if peace can really break out.	59:05
	Probably no one else or maybe very few of you in this	59:10
	congregation this morning knows what among many other things	59:13
	lies in the tunnels and underneath this chapel.	59:17
	Let me tell you what's there.	59:22
	Put there about 20 or 25 years ago,	59:24
	I don't know exactly when.	59:27
	But put there a number of years ago	59:29
	was food,	59:33
	water,	59:35
	drink	59:37
	to sustain life in case of an atomic attack.	59:39
	If peace breaks out then, my friends, that food,	59:45
	symbolically and practically and realistically	59:49
	can be brought out of those tunnels and spread across	59:52
	the face of this Earth so that God's children	59:56
	no longer die of starvation.	59:58
	The book of Revelation which I had never really read	1:00:04
	all the way through until just this summer,	1:00:08
	ends with a beautiful vision.	1:00:12
	A vision of a new heaven and a new earth.	1:00:16
	A new Jerusalem, a new vision of peace, if you will,	1:00:18
	come down to Earth, a new community of God's people,	1:00:22
	a people transformed and made one people.	1:00:26
	John saw, and I quote from Revelation,	1:00:31
	John saw in his vision the river of the water of life	1:00:34
	flowing from the throne of God and of the lamb	1:00:38
	and he also saw the tree of life	1:00:42
	and the leaves of the tree of life were for the healing of	1:00:45
	all the nations.	1:00:49
	John also talked about how this would happen soon,	1:00:53
	soon, soon, very soon, he said.	1:00:56
	The healing of all the nations,	1:01:00
	that's what happens when peace really breaks out.	1:01:02
	Soon, oh God, may it be soon,	1:01:06
	for surely when we bind ourselves unflinchingly,	1:01:10
	unreservedly, unfalteringly to the lamb,	1:01:15
	then peace can break out for here is the one	1:01:18
	who makes all things new	1:01:23
	and where and when this happen,	1:01:27
	he, he is King of kings	1:01:30
	and Lord of lords	1:01:35
	for ever and ever and ever.	1:01:37
	Hallelujah, hallelujah,	1:01:41
	hallelujah.	1:01:45
	Amen.	1:01:49
	(organ music)	1:02:00
	(hymnal singing)	1:02:48
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	1:05:21
	We believe in God	1:05:25
	who has created and is creating.	1:05:27
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:05:31
	to reconcile and make new.	1:05:35
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:05:38
	We trust God who calls us to be the church.	1:05:42
	To celebrate life and its fullness.	1:05:47
	To love and serve others.	1:05:51
	To seek justice and resist evil.	1:05:54
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	1:05:57
	our judge and our hope	1:06:02
	in life, in death,	1:06:04
	in life beyond death,	1:06:07
	God is with us.	1:06:10
	We are not alone.	1:06:12
	Thanks be to God.	1:06:14
-	The lord be with you.	1:06:28
	(congregation in unison)	1:06:30
	Let us pray.	1:06:32
	Oh God, who art the parent of all,	1:06:40
	grant thy blessing upon us who are gathered here	1:06:44
	and upon the multitudes of every name who are joined	1:06:48
	with us in one household of faith	1:06:52
	throughout the whole world.	1:06:54
	We offer unto thee, oh God, our thanksgiving	1:06:58
	and we come to pay our vows to the most high.	1:07:02
	We remember the fathers and mothers of faith	1:07:11
	from the beginning of the world.	1:07:14
	All who have wrought righteousness and peace,	1:07:16
	even down to this present day,	1:07:21
	grant unto us, oh God,	1:07:24
	that we may have our part and lot	1:07:27
	with all thy saints.	1:07:30
	We remember all whom we love and who love us.	1:07:36
	Both those who are with us today and those away.	1:07:40
	Those who now sleep in death	1:07:46
	and those whose earthly life still blesses us.	1:07:49
	Thanks be to thee, oh God, for their benediction	1:07:55
	upon our lives and established thou the work of their hands	1:07:57
	and keep us in one spirit with them.	1:08:03
	We remember, oh God, those in distress.	1:08:10
	Those who suffer in body, in mind or the state.	1:08:13
	Those who struggle for justice, now finds them in prison	1:08:18
	and in bonds.	1:08:22
	As bound with them and the sufferers with all refugees	1:08:25
	and with all who are in bondage.	1:08:31
	We would bear them in our hearts and pray for their relief.	1:08:34
	Teach us, oh God and lead us through all life's ways	1:08:39
	to an awareness of thy love,	1:08:43
	and truth and care.	1:08:46
	We remember our enemies.	1:08:54
	If there be any who have injured us	1:08:58
	or cherish hatred against us,	1:09:01
	we pray thee to turn their hearts and ours	1:09:07
	that we may live peaceably with all our	1:09:12
	brothers and sisters.	1:09:14
	If there be any whom we have wronged,	1:09:18
	move us to make amends	1:09:22
	and to seek forgiveness at their hands	1:09:25
	and may we freely forgive all who have wronged us	1:09:29
	but grant us grace to surrender ourselves wholly	1:09:34
	unto thee, oh God.	1:09:37
	That we may find the ways of peace,	1:09:39
	the things that belong to our peace.	1:09:42
	Yay, that inward peace	1:09:45
	which the world can neither give nor take away.	1:09:48
	We remember the whole family of men and women.	1:09:57
	We pray thee that the spirits of all flesh	1:10:01
	may taste of thy grace and all the ends of the Earth	1:10:04
	may see the salvation of our God.	1:10:08
	May the faith that makes faithful,	1:10:12
	the hope that endures,	1:10:14
	the love that triumphs	1:10:17
	and the peace that passeth all understanding.	1:10:20
	Be with us now always,	1:10:23
	through Jesus Christ our lord.	1:10:26
	Who hath taught us when we pray to say,	1:10:29
	our father who art in heaven,	1:10:33
	hallowed be thy name.	1:10:36
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	1:10:38
	on earth as it is in heaven.	1:10:42
	Give us this day our daily bread	1:10:45
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	1:10:48
	who trespass against us.	1:10:53
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:10:55
	but deliver us from evil.	1:10:58
	For thine is the kingdom	1:11:00
	and the power	1:11:02
	and the glory forever, amen.	1:11:04
	(organ music)	1:11:19
	(organ music)	1:13:07
	(hymnal singing)	1:13:16
	(organ music)	1:19:12
	(hymnal singing)	1:19:31
	Oh mighty God,	1:20:30
	thou who art the source of all our comfort	1:20:32
	and all our joy,	1:20:35
	receive these our gifts	1:20:37
	and ourselves	1:20:40
	as we dedicate them anew unto thee.	1:20:42
	Consecrate in us, oh God,	1:20:47
	the experience and resolve of this hour	1:20:51
	and give us those things that belong to our peace	1:20:55
	through Christ our lord, amen.	1:20:59
	(organ music)	1:21:07
	(hymnal singing)	1:21:45
	And now may the love of God,	1:24:49
	the grace of our lord, Jesus Christ,	1:24:52
	the peace and fellowship of the holy spirit	1:24:55
	be with you this day and forevermore, amen.	1:24:58
	(hymnal singing)	1:25:06
	(organ music)	1:26:13

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Robert T. Young - "What Happens if Peace Breaks Out?" (October 8, 1978)

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Sermon start time: 38:58. Sermon end time: 01:01:50.
Peace is absolutely necessary for all the nations, war has no winner and destroys humanity. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: We have no option. There is one alternatively, to seek diligently, earnestly, endlessly for peace in this day.

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October 8, 1978

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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