Ernest T. Campbell - "Surprising Judgement - Amazing Grace" (February 24, 1985)

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	(enchanting glass armonica music)	0:05
	(enchanting glass armonica music)	2:57
	(organ music joins)	7:38
	(soothing organ music)	13:04
-	We welcome you to our service of worship this morning,	15:59
	particularly our visitors.	16:02
	We're delighted to have as our visiting preacher today	16:04
	Dr. Earnest Campbell,	16:07
	former pastor of Riverside Church,	16:10
	and now on the faculty at Garrett Evangelical Seminary.	16:12
	I've long admired the work of Dr. Campbell,	16:17
	particularly for me his prayers, and we have	16:20
	therefore asked him to lead us in our prayer for others,	16:23
	as well as to preach for us today.	16:26
	And we welcome him again to the Pope out of Duke Chapel.	16:28
	Today being the first Sunday of lent,	16:33
	we have a Lenten theme on the cover of our bulletin.	16:35
	And we begin our service with a great litany of lent.	16:39
	This afternoon at 4:00 pm, the chapel choir	16:43
	will be in concert, and we invite you back	16:47
	for that great event.	16:50
	We begin our service, as I said, with a great litany.	16:54
	We are using the litany which has been done for	16:57
	a number of years in the National Cathedral in Washington.	17:00
	Even as Jesus carried the cross,	17:04
	we also carry the cross, his followers behind;	17:08
	the choir will begin in Memorial Chapel	17:13
	and preces around this building.	17:16
	We invite you to join with the choir	17:19
	in the responses as they are printed in the bulletin.	17:22
	The choir will preces around the building	17:26
	and end up in the choir stall	17:28
	as we celebrate this first Sunday of lent.	17:31
	And now let us stand and join in this historic	17:35
	(choir precesing and responding)	17:50
-	Let us pray.	30:10
	Open our hearts and minds, O God,	30:14
	by the power of Your Holy Spirit	30:17
	so that as the Word is read and proclaimed,	30:20
	we might hear with joy	30:24
	what You say to us this day.	30:26
	Amen.	30:29
	The first lesson is taken from Isaiah	30:34
	chapter 55, verses six through nine.	30:37
	"Seek the Lord while He may be found.	30:43
	"Call upon him while He is near.	30:48
	"Let the wicked forsake his way,	30:52
	"and the unrighteous man his thoughts.	30:55
	"Let him return to the Lord,	31:00
	"that He may have compassion on him,	31:03
	"and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.	31:06
	"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,	31:12
	"neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.	31:16
	"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,	31:21
	"so are My ways higher than your ways	31:25
	"and My thoughts than your thoughts."	31:30
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	31:34
	(worship organ music)	31:40
	(choir singing)	31:49
	The gospel is taken from Matthew,	38:35
	chapter 20, verses one through 16.	38:37
	"For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder	38:43
	"who went out early in the morning to hire laborers	38:47
	"for his vineyard.	38:51
	"After agreeing with the laborers for a denariusa a day,	38:54
	"he sent them into his vineyard.	38:58
	"And going out about the third hour	39:01
	"he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,	39:04
	"and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too,	39:09
	"'and whatever is right I will give you.'	39:14
	"So they went.	39:18
	"Going out again about the sixth and the ninth hour,	39:20
	"he did the same.	39:24
	"And about the eleventh hour he went out	39:26
	"and found others standing.	39:29
	"And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'	39:31
	"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.'	39:37
	"He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'	39:41
	"And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard	39:47
	"said to his steward, 'Call the laborers	39:50
	"'and pay them their wages, beginning with the last,	39:54
	"'up to the first.'	39:58
	"And when those hired about the eleventh hour came,	40:00
	"each of them received a denarius.	40:04
	"Now when the first came,	40:08
	"they thought they would receive more,	40:10
	"but each of them also received a denarius.	40:13
	"And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,	40:18
	"saying, 'These last worked only one hour,	40:22
	"'and you have made them equal to us who have borne	40:25
	"'the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'	40:29
	"But he replied to one of them,	40:33
	"'Friend, I am doing you no wrong.	40:37
	"'Did you not agree with me for a denarius?	40:39
	"'Take what belongs to you and go.	40:44
	"'I choose to give to this last as I gave to you.	40:48
	"'Am I not allowed to do what I choose	40:52
	"'with what belongs to me?	40:56
	"'Or do you begrudge me my generosity?'	40:58
	"So the last will be first,	41:02
	"and the first last."	41:06
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	41:09
-	I was very pleased that morning many months ago	41:21
	when Dr. Lilomon called me collect in New York--	41:24
	(congregation laughs)	41:29
	to see whether we might get together on this occasion.	41:32
	You underestimate your chapel and if you think	41:37
	that he would do that,	41:40
	and you overestimate me if you think that I	41:43
	would accept the charges.	41:45
	(congregation laughs)	41:47
	In any case, I would do most anything	41:49
	to worship among you today.	41:52
	Some of the dearest friends I've ever known on Earth	41:56
	have been given to me by the state of North Carolina,	41:59
	and I find myself already enriched	42:05
	just by having participated in this worship.	42:08
	I'm also glad as an outside speaker that	42:13
	our basketball team is doing well,	42:18
	because I won't feel any need to justify	42:21
	providence to you.	42:25
	When we have a winning record, somehow Earth	42:28
	does seem fairer than under	42:31
	other circumstances.	42:35
	One of the surest ways to blunt the edge of Scripture	42:40
	is to assume that we are a latter day spectators.	42:45
	Thus safely distanced from the drama,	42:50
	we are free to applaud the boldness of Amos,	42:55
	the commitment of Paul,	42:58
	or to hiss the foolishness of Samson	43:01
	or the treachery of Judas.	43:05
	But the Bible is more than history, it is revelation.	43:09
	What God said to Moses or to Luke is history.	43:15
	What God can say to us through what He said	43:21
	through Moses or Luke	43:25
	is part of what we mean by revelation.	43:28
	The gospel narratives are a case in point,	43:33
	and these narratives will be the focus of	43:38
	Christian people during the Lenten season.	43:41
	The comforting approach is to fault the Jew	43:46
	because of his failure to receive the Messiah.	43:50
	Despite abundant clues and signs,	43:55
	the Jews missed the glory when it passed among them.	43:59
	When God drew nigh, they were out to lunch.	44:05
	Their waiting was more formal than dynamic.	44:09
	It was in their liturgy but not on their horizon,	44:14
	and so they blew it.	44:18
	Quickly then we take pen in hand to	44:22
	mark their report card with a big red D.	44:25
	And standing tall against their failure,	44:31
	we are prone to pray with the Pharisee;	44:35
	God, we thank thee that we are not as others.	44:38
	But the gospel narratives are only glancingly	44:45
	about the Jew and the signs that he ignored.	44:48
	They have to do with us here and now.	44:52
	They have to do with whether we in our time and place,	44:56
	since the personal and public relevance of Jesus.	45:01
	My good friend John Killinger has a way of	45:09
	writing books faster than I can read them.	45:12
	He has a line in one of his more recent books	45:17
	that I think would be worth the price	45:20
	of all of them.	45:22
	Speaking about our Lord, he said,	45:25
	"Jesus had an eye for the high tides of God,	45:27
	"and he rode them like a surfer."	45:32
	Jesus had an eye for the high tides of God,	45:36
	and he rode them like a surfer.	45:41
	How well do we see?	45:44
	How much do we hear?	45:47
	It is humbling to remember that those words,	45:51
	"behold I stand at the door and knock,"	45:55
	were not addressed to rank outsiders	45:59
	but to members of the body of Christ.	46:03
	Expectation can expire	46:08
	even in one who calls herself a Christian.	46:12
	But how will we know it is He?	46:19
	Did not our Lord warn us that many false prophets	46:22
	would come in his name and deceive many?	46:26
	Here I think is the master clue especially for us	46:30
	in the Western world.	46:34
	Jesus always comes as a radically disturbing presence.	46:36
	The Babe of Bethlehem became a provocative man.	46:43
	He will not be an optional appendage.	46:49
	He will not be assimilated into some	46:53
	prior construct of life that you and I have arranged.	46:57
	Jesus will not become a holy additive,	47:02
	a divine STP treatment	47:07
	that will help our engines get where they are going faster.	47:11
	The land is filled these days with	47:17
	religious hucksters who peddle Jesus	47:21
	as neutral energy.	47:25
	If you have the stomach for it,	47:30
	you might tune in to one of these wall-to-wall	47:32
	religious television or radio stations.	47:35
	And the chances are that you would hear a witness	47:40
	that runs something like this:	47:42
	"I was the third string quarterback at...	47:45

-	Aye, and I had a very bad case of acne	0:02
	and I thought my world was about over	0:07
	but a friend of mine who goes to church said to me,	0:11
	why don't you bring God into your story?	0:14
	So, I brought God into my story.	0:18
	My acne has cleared up	0:21
	and now I'm the first string quarterback.	0:24
	Or another scenario in the Bay Area.	0:30
	It's good to make these illustrations	0:34
	a long way off from here.	0:37
	(audience laughing)	0:38
	A man sits down with his wife on the patio	0:41
	just for a cup of coffee in the middle of the morning,	0:44
	somewhat searchingly, he looks into her eyes and says,	0:48
	you know, we're plateauing out	0:51
	at 75,000 a year.	0:54
	For some of us in the ministry,	0:59
	that would not be a plateau, that would be the Alps	1:00
	(audience laughing)	1:04
	and our lives are really into a dead end situation.	1:06
	I don't know what we're gonna do	1:09
	and the wife on cue says, you know,	1:13
	I've waited for you to say this	1:15
	and our neighbors up the way keep telling us	1:18
	that we ought to bring God into our story	1:20
	and so, this man goes on to say,	1:25
	we brought God into our story	1:27
	and now we're at 200,000 a year and we're in charge	1:30
	of the entire insurance operation on the West Coast.	1:34
	Well, I have some very serious problems	1:39
	with this kind of testimony.	1:42
	I wonder whether God really cares who	1:45
	the quarterback is at UCLA or Duke or any other place.	1:47
	I mean, when children are dying like flies	1:53
	on the streets of Calcutta, is it not an abomination	1:56
	to assign that kind of meaning and attribute it to God?	2:00
	Can God really care whether somebody	2:06
	goes from 75 grand to 200,000 grand a year,	2:09
	when mad men are stocking missiles	2:15
	beyond the point of rationality?	2:20
	Can it be that we are wrong in assuming	2:24
	that what we need to do is bring God into our story?	2:28
	Maybe it's the other way around.	2:32
	The call of the gospel is that we lose	2:34
	ourselves in God's story.	2:37
	Whosoever would save his life,	2:40
	whether it be his athletic life or his business life	2:43
	or his social life or any other life, shall lose it,	2:47
	but whosoever will lose his life	2:52
	for my sake and the gospel,	2:55
	the same shall find it.	2:58
	Does Jesus simply help us reach our goals,	3:02
	whatever they may be or is he here	3:07
	to help us set our goals?	3:11
	Is he there for us	3:14
	or are we here for Him?	3:18
	Jesus renders our lives problematic	3:22
	by opening new possibilities.	3:28
	Comes to us then as a radically	3:33
	disturbing presence.	3:36
	Let me break that 20 down for you.	3:41
	Jesus comes as surprising judgment.	3:47
	Most of us like summaries, especially if we're students,	3:54
	we'd like to know that all of Conte	3:58
	can be summarized in three sentences.	4:01
	I want to suggest that everything about Jesus	4:05
	that antagonized the authorities	4:09
	can be found in two questions	4:12
	that Jesus put in a variety of ways.	4:15
	The first was the question, are you sure you're in?	4:20
	This was a question that Jesus put to the strong	4:26
	and the upright and those who assumed	4:31
	that they had exclusive right	4:35
	to the salvation franchise.	4:38
	Are you sure you're in?	4:43
	The Magnificat, that dynamic bit of poetry	4:47
	that we usually embalm in Latin,	4:52
	hints at the direction,	4:56
	he shall pull down the mighty from their seats	4:59
	and exalt those of low degree.	5:02
	And so, in his most celebrated story,	5:07
	Jesus honors the Samaritan and trashes	5:10
	the priest and the Levite.	5:14
	And so, Jesus praises harlots and prodigals	5:17
	above the conventionally righteous scribes and Pharisees.	5:21
	And so, Jesus berates the carefully secure	5:26
	and commends instead, a life of open trust.	5:31
	Are you sure you're in?	5:36
	This nation of which we are proud	5:43
	to be a part, is suffering	5:47
	from what could be a fatal	5:52
	illusion of chosenness,	5:55
	that somehow it is God and ourselves	6:00
	straightening out the rest of the world	6:04
	and to us as American Christians,	6:08
	comes the question, are you sure you're in?	6:11
	This is a dramatic inversion	6:17
	of thought and values.	6:22
	Jesus didn't come to simply second our motions,	6:26
	he came to take the floor and make some motions of his own,	6:32
	surprising judgment	6:39
	but Jesus also comes	6:46
	as amazing grace	6:51
	and the question here	6:55
	is the question put to the marginal people,	6:57
	are you sure you're out?	7:02
	They were pretty sure they were out.	7:07
	They were told they were out.	7:08
	Jesus said, are you sure?	7:11
	Those words from Isaiah read	7:15
	so helpfully for us today say a lot.	7:17
	My ways are not your ways, said the Lord.	7:21
	Your way of sorting out people,	7:26
	your truths are not my truths.	7:29
	Your thoughts are not my thoughts.	7:32
	It's not just that God's thoughts are better	7:34
	than our bad thoughts but that God's thoughts	7:37
	are better than our best thoughts.	7:40
	And that leads us to that story in Matthew 20.	7:46
	There's enough in that story to irritate everybody	7:52
	and if that story doesn't rub you the wrong way,	7:58
	you don't have all your fur.	8:01
	(audience laughing)	8:03
	Man needs some workers for his field,	8:07
	so he says to his steward, go down and get some.	8:11
	He hires them at seven in the morning,	8:15
	nine in the morning, still need more,	8:18
	12 in the morning, 12 noon, three in the afternoon,	8:20
	and would you believe, he's still short?	8:26
	So, at five in the afternoon	8:29
	the steward goes down to the shape-up site,	8:33
	probably the village well	8:36
	and there are some lazy teenagers with their Levi's,	8:40
	are lounging around the fountain,	8:45
	drawing on cigarettes of marijuana	8:49
	and he says to them, why aren't you working?	8:55
	And in some of the saddest language anywhere in scripture,	8:59
	they say because no one has hired us.	9:03
	The peril of the un-enlisted.	9:08
	Well, he said, we need some more bodies, follow me.	9:12
	So, they go out to the vineyard	9:15
	and they just barely discover where the tool shed is,	9:18
	just barely receive their assignments,	9:23
	when the bell rings and the day is over.	9:27
	Good timing on their part	9:32
	and so everybody lines up to get paid.	9:36
	Now, I think the boss made two mistakes in this story.	9:40
	The first mistake was that people	9:45
	were paid from the last to the first.	9:48
	In other words, if those who got there at seven	9:52
	had been paid, they'd have gone down	9:54
	to the tavern right away	9:56
	and wouldn't have known what was going on.	9:58
	But they were supposed to know, that's the story.	10:01
	So, the last who came got a denarius	10:04
	and the other mistake was that	10:10
	they didn't use salary envelopes.	10:12
	(audience laughing)	10:16
	I've discovered in academia, that you can talk about sex,	10:19
	you can talk about religion, but the one thing	10:24
	that is absolutely top sacred, shut,	10:27
	has to do with money.	10:31
	I know in the school where I work,	10:34
	when the little checks come round every month,	10:36
	if the person is not in the office,	10:40
	those checks are not slid under the door,	10:43
	they are returned to the bursar's office.	10:46
	This is of major importance.	10:49
	It wouldn't do for someone to know	10:53
	what someone else is bringing in.	10:55
	Can you imagine what this or any other school	10:59
	would be like if we had a huge pay table	11:01
	and we just put the money in stacks	11:04
	and professor Smith takes this stack	11:08
	and the associate professor Rogers with nine children	11:11
	and a sick mother-in-law gets this stack?	11:14
	So, if they had just used envelopes,	11:18
	it would have been neat	11:23
	but there it was in galling daylight.	11:25
	And those who started early had a case.	11:31
	You mean they get what we get?	11:34
	And God says, yes, that's right.	11:36
	Can I do with my own what I wish?	11:41
	Can't push God around here.	11:45
	Now, the Christian counterpart to this irritation	11:49
	is the way we feel when we hear	11:52
	about an eleventh-hour convert.	11:54
	Somebody walks up to you and says,	11:58
	you know, old Zeke Harris?	11:59
	You say, yes, never drew a sober breath in his life.	12:02
	Never held a job, ne'er-do-well.	12:08
	Well, Zeke died last night.	12:10
	He did?	12:13
	Yes and he died a Christian.	12:15
	To hell, you say.	12:18
	(audience laughing)	12:20
	No, he died a Christian.	12:21
	The preacher went up to see him, he was sick	12:25
	and there, in the very last moments of his life,	12:28
	the preacher said, Zeke do you know that God loves you	12:31
	and do you receive him? And Zeke said, I do.	12:34
	And he died.	12:38
	And as a card-carrying Christian over these many years,	12:41
	I have a way of resented that.	12:45
	You mean, I've gone to all these meetings,	12:47
	listened to all these plagued sermons,	12:51
	given up all these delectable possibilities	12:57
	and he gets what I get?	13:01
	And God said, that's right.	13:04
	And if you don't understand that,	13:07
	you don't understand grace.	13:09
	We like to sing in academic circles,	13:19
	the Lord is my light and my salvation	13:22
	but the chances are that rising out of Athens	13:25
	is the notion that it's more important to have light.	13:28
	We're here to shed light but the other part of that verse	13:31
	is powerful too, the Lord is my light and my salvation.	13:35
	God not only illumines,	13:40
	God takes lives that are broken	13:44
	and out of it and speaks wholeness.	13:48
	And so, this is a word to all who feel	13:57
	that they had been marginalized,	14:00
	those who have tumbled out of the orders of life,	14:04
	the divorced who have tumbled out of the order of marriage,	14:09
	the unemployed who have tumbled out of the order of work,	14:15
	the homosexual who has tumbled	14:19
	out of the order of accepted sexuality,	14:21
	the imprisoned who have fallen out	14:25
	of the order of accepted civil behavior,	14:27
	the sick, especially the mentally sick,	14:30
	who have fallen out of the order of health.	14:33
	The question Jesus puts to us in grace	14:36
	is are you sure you're out?	14:39
	I have a thing going about those who edit our hymnals.	14:49
	I think when you're redheaded and a Leo,	14:55
	you're entitled to take on a lot of causes.	14:58
	And someday I'm gonna get serious about it	15:03
	but I do worry about new editions of hymnals	15:05
	that show certain stanzas deleted	15:10
	and I surely would like to know here or hereafter,	15:14
	who it was that played loose with Frederick,	15:19
	Faber's hymn, There's a Wideness in God's Mercy,	15:22
	because someone deleted	15:28
	what might be the finest testimony	15:33
	to grace ever written but we make his love too narrow	15:36
	by false limits of our own	15:43
	and we magnify his strictness	15:47
	with a zeal he will not own.	15:51
	I keep coming home to Lorraine Hansberry's	15:59
	moving play, a Raisin in the Sun.	16:03
	Black family in Chicago.	16:06
	Spit poor all of their lives.	16:09
	You know the story. The father dies.	16:11
	There's just a little bit of insurance.	16:14
	Walter and his sister think that the mother	16:17
	will now get a little home out from under the shadows	16:19
	of the ill but Walter takes the money	16:23
	and puts it into a foolhardy	16:28
	business enterprise that collapses	16:30
	and his sister is absolutely angry with him	16:34
	for having dissipated the money	16:38
	and robbed the mother of a better future	16:40
	and when we come upon that story,	16:46
	the daughter is opening up on Walter,	16:50
	just lacing him with invective	16:53
	and the mother walks out on the stage	16:57
	and cracks the daughter across the face	17:01
	and says there's always something left to love	17:05
	and if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.	17:11
	Have you cried for that boy today?	17:15
	I don't mean for yourself and for the family	17:18
	because we lost the money, I mean for him,	17:21
	what he'd been through and what it'd done to him.	17:24
	Child, when do you think is the time	17:28
	to love somebody the most?	17:31
	When they done good and made things easy?	17:34
	Well, then you ain't through learning,	17:38
	because that ain't the time at all.	17:41
	It's when he's at his lowest	17:45
	and can't believe in his self	17:48
	because the world done whipped him so.	17:51
	The final amazement, my sisters and brothers,	18:00
	is not that we believe in God	18:05
	but that God	18:10
	believes in us.	18:12
	Surprising judgment.	18:18
	Are you sure you're in?	18:21
	Amazing grace,	18:25
	are you sure you're out?	18:29
	Thus he came and thus he comes.	18:33
	Amen.	18:40
	(church organ music)	18:45
	♪ Amazing grace ♪	19:18
	♪ How sweet the sound ♪	19:22
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	19:27
	♪ I once was lost ♪	19:36
	♪ But now am found ♪	19:40
	♪ Was blind but now I see ♪	19:45
	♪ 'Twas grace that taught ♪	19:54
	♪ My heart to fear ♪	19:58
	♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪	20:03
	♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪	20:11
	♪ The hour I first believed ♪	20:21
	♪ Through many dangers ♪	20:30
	♪ Toils and snares ♪	20:35
	♪ I have already come ♪	20:39
	♪ 'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far ♪	20:48
	♪ And grace will lead me home ♪	20:57
	♪ The Lord has promised good to me ♪	21:06
	♪ His word my hope secures ♪	21:14
	♪ He will my shield and portion be ♪	21:23
	♪ As long as life endures ♪	21:32
	♪ Yea, when this flesh ♪	21:42
	♪ And heart shall fail ♪	21:46
	♪ And mortal life shall cease ♪	21:50
	♪ I shall possess, within the veil ♪	22:00
	♪ A life of joy and peace ♪	22:09
-	May the Lord be with you.	22:23
-	And also with you.	22:25
-	Let us pray.	22:27
	Have mercy upon us, O Lord,	22:38
	that we pray more readily for ourselves	22:40
	than we do for others,	22:43
	that we are quick to ask for more	22:46
	of what we have too much already,	22:49
	while sisters and brothers near and far,	22:53
	with needs that shame our wants,	22:57
	lie beyond the circle of our care.	23:00
	And so, we pray today for all who work	23:05
	the borders of our common life,	23:07
	to serve the little ones of Earth,	23:11
	those who distribute food in Ethiopia,	23:14
	that they may minister in love.	23:19
	Those whose parish is a prison,	23:22
	a hospital, a home for the mentally ill,	23:26
	that they may radiate the hope	23:31
	of the master whom they serve.	23:33
	Those who defend the defenseless	23:37
	in the courtrooms of America,	23:40
	that their strength may be renewed day by day	23:43
	and their wisdom enlarged by thy spirit.	23:48
	Those who teach the retarded	23:53
	and all who work to rehabilitate the injured and deformed,	23:57
	that they may be sustained by the conviction	24:03
	that they work with thee,	24:06
	whose will it is that life,	24:09
	in all its parts and places, be transformed.	24:11
	Those who practice medicine	24:18
	within the rigors of the inner city,	24:21
	that in the faces of the poor,	24:25
	they may see thy face and know	24:27
	that what they do matters where it counts.	24:32
	These are the intercessions of our hearts,	24:39
	as we have prayed for others, so may we live for others,	24:44
	thus shall our words and deeds	24:50
	flow in one direction	24:54
	and bring honor to thy name,	24:58
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	25:01
	Amen.	25:06
	(distant chattering)	25:12
-	To God.	25:15
	(church organ music)	25:21
	♪ Lord, thou hast been ♪	25:58
	♪ Our dwelling place ♪	26:10
	♪ For our generation ♪	26:16
	♪ To another ♪	26:22
	♪ To another ♪	26:26
	♪ To another ♪	26:29
	♪ Before the mountains were brought forth ♪	26:35
	♪ Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world ♪	26:39
	♪ Even from everlasting to everlasting ♪	26:43
	♪ Thou art God ♪	26:48
	♪ Thou turnest man to destruction ♪	26:56
	♪ To destruction, to destruction ♪	27:00
	♪ And sayest, return ♪	27:05
	♪ Ye children of men ♪	27:11
	♪ For a thousand years in thy sight ♪	27:21
	♪ Are but as yesterday when it is past ♪	27:26
	♪ And as a watch ♪	27:37
	♪ In the night ♪	27:45
	♪ Thou carriest them away ♪	27:56
	♪ As with a flood ♪	27:59
	♪ As a flood ♪	28:04
	♪ They are as a sleep ♪	28:13
	♪ In the morning they are like grass ♪	28:21
	♪ Which groweth up ♪	28:30
	♪ In the morning it flourisheth ♪	28:33
	♪ And groweth up ♪	28:39
	♪ In the evening ♪	28:42
	♪ It is cut down ♪	28:47
	♪ And withereth, withereth ♪	28:53
	♪ For we are consumed by thine anger ♪	28:58
	♪ By thine anger ♪	29:03
	♪ And by thy wrath ♪	29:06
	♪ By thy wrath ♪	29:08
	♪ By thy wrath ♪	29:10
	♪ Are we troubled ♪	29:13
	♪ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee ♪	29:20
	♪ Our secret sins ♪	29:30
	♪ In the light of thy countenance ♪	29:34
	♪ For all our days ♪	29:44
	♪ Are passed away in thy wrath ♪	29:53
	♪ We spend our years as a tale ♪	30:02
	♪ That is told ♪	30:09
	♪ The days of our years are threescore years and 10 ♪	30:21
	♪ And if by reason of strength ♪	30:28
	♪ They be fourscore years ♪	30:33
	♪ Yet is their strength, labor, and sorrow ♪	30:38
	♪ For it is soon cut off ♪	30:46
	♪ And we fly away ♪	30:50
	♪ Who knoweth the power ♪	30:56
	♪ Of thine anger ♪	31:00
	♪ Even according to thy fear ♪	31:02
	♪ So is thy wrath ♪	31:06
	♪ So teach us ♪	31:14
	♪ To number our days ♪	31:19
	♪ That we may apply ♪	31:31
	♪ Our hearts unto wisdom ♪	31:35
	♪ Return, O Lord, how long ♪	31:46
	♪ And let it repent thee ♪	31:53
	♪ Concerning thy servants ♪	31:58
	♪ O satisfy us early with thy mercy ♪	32:11
	♪ That we may rejoice ♪	32:23
	♪ And be glad ♪	32:27
	♪ All our days ♪	32:32
	♪ Make us glad according to the days ♪	32:38
	♪ Wherein thou hast afflicted us ♪	32:45
	♪ And the years wherein ♪	32:54
	♪ We have seen evil ♪	32:58
	♪ Let thy work appear ♪	33:05
	♪ Unto thy servants ♪	33:10
	♪ And thy glory ♪	33:15
	♪ Unto their children ♪	33:19
	♪ And let the beauty ♪	33:31
	♪ Of the Lord ♪	33:41
	♪ Our God ♪	33:49
	♪ Be upon us ♪	33:55
	♪ And establish thou the work ♪	34:02
	♪ Of our hands upon us ♪	34:09
	♪ Yea, the work ♪	34:18
	♪ Of our hands ♪	34:26
	♪ Establish thou it ♪	34:35
	♪ Establish thou it ♪	34:44
	♪ Establish thou it ♪	34:54
	♪ Amen ♪	35:05
	(church organ music)	35:30
	(choir singing)	35:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	35:59
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:02
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:21
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	36:38
-	Almighty God, it is our privilege	36:48
	to offer you these gifts as thanksgiving	36:50
	and gratitude of our love that we feel for you	36:53
	because you have loved us, in your cross,	36:57
	in your amazing grace showered upon us daily,	37:00
	we have felt your goodness and power	37:04
	and therefore we offer ourselves	37:08
	and these gifts as the sacrifice	37:10
	and thanksgiving of ourselves to thee.	37:13
	Praying, our Father who art in heaven.	37:17
-	Hallowed be thy name.	37:21
	Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth	37:23
	as it is in heaven.	37:27
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	37:29
	as we forgive trespasses,	37:32
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	37:35
	and lead us not into temptation,	37:38
	but deliver us from evil.	37:41
	For thine is the kingdom,	37:43
	the power, and the glory, forever.	37:45
	Amen.	37:49
	(church organ music)	37:50
	(congregation singing)	38:21
-	Now, may the grace of our Lord and savior,	41:11
	Jesus Christ, the love of God,	41:13
	and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	41:16
	be with you now and always.	41:18
	♪ Amen ♪	41:26
	♪ Amen ♪	41:34
	♪ Amen ♪	41:43
	♪ Amen ♪	41:49
	♪ Amen ♪	41:58
	♪ Amen ♪	42:08
	♪ Amen ♪	42:22
	(church organ music)	42:40

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Ernest T. Campbell - "Surprising Judgement - Amazing Grace" (February 24, 1985)

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Jesus' presence breaks down our categories for how we know and judge the world. He comes posing two primary questions to the world, one of surprising judgment and the other of amazing grace. To the first, he asks the self-assured, "Are you sure you're in?" and to the second, he asks the outcasts, "Are you sure you're out?" (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 41:21. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 18:42.
Key quotation: “Jesus renders our lives problematic by opening new possibilities. He comes to us then as a radically disturbing presence.”

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February 24, 1985

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Campbell, Ernest T.

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