Robert T. Young - "Christ Appeared...Also to Me" Easter Service 9:00 am (April 15, 1979)

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	(intricate organ music)	0:03
	(murmuring)	9:16
	(horn music)	9:39
	(echoing choral music)	11:19
-	The Lord is risen.	13:16
	The Lord is risen, indeed.	13:19
	Hallelujah.	13:20
	And a voice from the throne said:	13:22
	behold, I make all things new.	13:25
	Hallelujah, the Lord our God almighty, reigns.	13:29
	Let us rejoice and exalt and give God the glory.	13:35
	Amen and amen.	13:39
	(reverent organ music)	13:43
	(reverberating choral music)	14:24
	The Lord is risen.	21:08
Congregation	The Lord is risen, indeed.	21:11
-	All praise to God who creates, redeems, and sustains us.	21:23
	And who came in Jesus, the Christ,	21:30
	not to place heavy burdens of guilt on us,	21:34
	but to set free those who are imprisoned,	21:38
	whose hearts accuse us.	21:43
	We have been promised that God's forgiveness	21:46
	is always waiting for us.	21:50
	With this assurance, let us make our corporate confession.	21:53
	Let us pray.	21:58
	O holy God, on this joyous Easter Sunday,	22:01
	it is difficult for us to confess our sin.	22:05
	We give thanks, we rejoice, we are exhilarated.	22:09
	But we pray, O God, that our rejoicing	22:15
	will not blind us to the needs of the world.	22:19
	That our affirmation of the resurrection will not dim	22:23
	the continuing reality of the crucifixion.	22:28
	Break our apathy and our arrogance with the judgment	22:32
	of your law, and the assurance of the resurrection faith.	22:37
	Then in mercy, heal us, O Holy Sprit,	22:42
	causing us as a community to be born anew,	22:47
	in Jesus Christ, our Lord.	22:52
	And now, O Lord, hear us as we make our personal confession.	22:55
	Amen.	23:12
	Our resurrection faith offers to us	23:14
	the assurance that we do not have to be bound to the past,	23:17
	to our sin, our future is open to us.	23:22
	God forgives us, accepts us, and offers us the possibility	23:26
	to become the new people, the new creation,	23:32
	believe this, live this, amen.	23:36
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	23:40
	and God's love is everlasting.	23:44
	Thanks be to God, who comes to us a servant.	23:48
	Thanks be to God, who suffers with us and for us.	23:53
	Thanks be to God, whose love and mercy sustains us.	23:58
	Amen.	24:04
-	Let us pray.	24:15
	Prepare our hearts, O Lord, to accept your word.	24:18
	Silence in us any voice but your own.	24:22
	That hearing, we may also obey your will,	24:26
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	24:31
	The epistle lesson this morning is from the 15th chapter	24:36
	of First Corinthians, verses three through 22.	24:40
	And here, we hear Paul speaking.	24:45
	For I delivered to you as a first importance	24:50
	what I also received, that Christ died for our sins,	24:53
	in accordance with the scriptures.	24:58
	That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day,	25:00
	in accordance with the scriptures,	25:05
	and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the 12,	25:07
	then he appeared to more than 500 brethren at one time,	25:12
	most of whom are still alive,	25:17
	though some have fallen asleep.	25:19
	Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.	25:22
	Last of all, as to one untimely born,	25:27
	he appeared also to me.	25:32
	For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called	25:35
	an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.	25:38
	But by the grace of God, I am what I am,	25:44
	and his grace toward me was not in vain.	25:48
	On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them,	25:51
	though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.	25:56
	Whether then it was I or they,	26:00
	so we preached and so you believed.	26:03
	Now, if Christ is preached as raised from the dead,	26:07
	how can some of you say there is	26:11
	no resurrection of the dead?	26:13
	But if there is no resurrection of the dead,	26:15
	then Christ has not been raised.	26:18
	If Christ has not been raised,	26:20
	then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain.	26:23
	We are even found to be misrepresenting God,	26:28
	because we testified of God that he raised Christ,	26:32
	whom he did not raise, if it is true	26:36
	that the dead are not raised.	26:39
	For if the dead are not raised,	26:41
	then Christ has not been raised.	26:44
	If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile,	26:46
	and you are still in your sins.	26:50
	Then those also who have fallen asleep	26:53
	in Christ have perished.	26:56
	If for this life only we have hoped in Christ,	26:58
	we are of all men most to be pitied.	27:02
	But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.	27:08
	The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.	27:12
	For as a man, for as by man came death,	27:15
	by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.	27:20
	For as in Adam all die,	27:24
	so also in Christ shall all be made alive.	27:26
	Here ends the reading from the epistle, amen.	27:32
	(organ music)	27:47
	(overlapping choral music)	27:49
	♪ We shall not all sleep when he comes ♪	29:07
	♪ We shall not all sleep when he comes ♪	29:24
	♪ But we shall all be changed ♪	29:38
	(echoing choral singing)	29:46
	♪ And we shall all be changed ♪	29:59
	♪ Shall all ♪	30:08
	♪ Be ♪	30:11
	♪ Changed ♪	30:14
	(echoing, operatic singing)	30:22
	(overlapping choral music)	30:38
	(echoing, operatic singing)	31:44
	(overlapping choral music)	32:11
-	Will you rise now for the reading of God's word,	34:24
	from the Gospel of St. John.	34:27
	Now on the first day of the week,	34:34
	Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early,	34:36
	while it was still dark, and saw that the stone	34:39
	had been taken away from the tomb.	34:42
	So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciples,	34:45
	the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them:	34:49
	they have taken the Lord out of the tomb,	34:53
	and we do not know where they have laid him.	34:56
	Peter then cam out with the other disciple,	35:00
	and they went toward the tomb.	35:03
	They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter,	35:05
	and reached the tomb first, and stooping to look in,	35:09
	he saw the linen clothes lying there, but he did not go in.	35:14
	Then Simon Peter came, following him,	35:20
	and went into the tomb.	35:23
	He saw the linen clothes lying, and the napkin,	35:25
	which had been on his head, not lying with the linen clothes	35:29
	but rolled up in a place by itself.	35:33
	Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first,	35:37
	also went in and he saw and believed.	35:41
	For as yet, they did not know the scripture,	35:46
	that he must rise from the dead.	35:48
	Then the disciples went back to their homes.	35:51
	But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb,	35:56
	and as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb.	35:59
	And she saw two angels in white,	36:03
	sitting where the body of Jesus had lain,	36:06
	one at the head, and one at the feet.	36:09
	They said to her: woman, why are you weeping?	36:12
	She said to them: because they have taken away my Lord,	36:17
	and I do not know where they have laid him.	36:22
	Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing,	36:26
	but she did not know that it was Jesus.	36:31
	Jesus said to her: woman, why are you weeping?	36:34
	Whom do you seek?	36:38
	Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him:	36:41
	sir, if you have carried him away,	36:44
	tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.	36:47
	Jesus said to her: Mary.	36:53
	She turned and said to him, in Hebrew: Rabbouni.	36:59
	Which means: Teacher.	37:02
	Jesus said to her: do not hold me,	37:04
	for I have not yet ascended to the Father,	37:07
	but go to my brethren and say to them,	37:10
	I am ascending to my Father and your Father,	37:13
	to my God and your God.	37:16
	Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples:	37:19
	I have seen the Lord.	37:22
	And she told them that he had said these things to her.	37:24
	Here ends the reading from the gospel.	37:30
	All praise and glory be to God, amen.	37:32
	(organ music)	37:37
	(echoing choral music)	37:55
	♪ Amen ♪	38:32
	(muttering)	38:40
-	In the name of the Lord our God, creator, redeemer,	38:50
	and sustainer, amen.	38:54
	If, as a friend of mind told me recently,	38:58
	Easter is a time of ultimate love,	39:03
	then it is no wonder that the carillon	39:10
	on this chapel magnificently peeled	39:15
	the dawning of this Easter morn.	39:18
	It is no wonder that we gather here to sing	39:22
	Christ the Lord is Risen Today.	39:24
	No wonder that we rejoice in one voice	39:29
	and exclaim the Lord is risen,	39:31
	the Lord is risen, indeed; hallelujah.	39:34
	Now wonder Handel's music and Edmond L. Budry's words	39:39
	thrill and move us: Thine is the glory,	39:43
	risen, conquering Son.	39:48
	Endless is the victory thou, o'er death, hast won.	39:50
	Lo, Jesus meets thee, risen from the tomb.	39:55
	Lovingly, he greets thee, scatters fear and gloom.	39:59
	Let his church with gladness hymns of triumph sing,	40:04
	for her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.	40:08
	Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son,	40:14
	endless is the victory thou, o'er death, hast won.	40:17
	Something there is in Easter that does warm our hearts,	40:23
	that thrills our instincts, that stirs our imagination,	40:27
	that fills our intuitions, that touches us to the very	40:31
	depths of our souls, that reassures us about life and death,	40:35
	about now and about forever, that perplexes us with mystery	40:39
	and yet overwhelms us with a presence.	40:43
	For Easter is a story of resurrection, new life, now.	40:46
	It is about goodness, now.	40:52
	Hope, now.	40:55
	Acceptance, now.	40:57
	Support, strength, grace, sustenance, now.	40:59
	It is love, now.	41:03
	Indeed, Easter is that time of ultimate love.	41:05
	Christ is risen, Christ is risen, indeed.	41:10
	Hallelujah.	41:14
	In one of his classic poems,	41:16
	Timesweep, Carl Sandburg writes:	41:17
	tell me about any strong, beautiful wanting,	41:21
	and there is your morning,	41:28
	my morning, everybody's morning.	41:31
	Easter, a time when we feel and are allowed to express	41:36
	and experience a strong, beautiful wanting.	41:39
	Sandburg has some other words that speak to me	41:45
	on this magnificent Easter day.	41:47
	Remembering high loveliness hovers in time,	41:51
	and is made of passing moments,	41:56
	I have kept high moments, they go round and round in me.	41:59
	Easter indeed is one of those high moments,	42:06
	that by the grace of God we are privileged to know	42:10
	and share and celebrate not only on Easter day,	42:13
	but any moment and in any experience	42:16
	where the spirit of the risen Christ is alive	42:18
	and among us, and indeed, such high moments	42:21
	do go round and round, in us all.	42:24
	Thus, for almost 2,000 years now,	42:28
	Christians have gathered to remember and to celebrate.	42:31
	For there was something about this high moment of Jesus.	42:35
	About his life, death, his resurrection,	42:40
	that would not be killed,	42:43
	for you cannot kill a holy presence,	42:46
	or you cannot kill a holy idea.	42:49
	And the spirit of Christ thus would not be defeated	42:53
	even by that last enemy, death.	42:55
	It's truly like Harry Emerson Fosdick preached once.	42:59
	They crucified Jesus, he said, but one thing they could	43:03
	not do, they could not injure his idea.	43:07
	Not a nail they drove pierced it, not a stone they rolled	43:10
	before the tomb imprisoned it.	43:13
	Here is the realistic basis of true hope,	43:15
	that once a great idea is started, no one can stop it.	43:18
	If you crucify it, you glorify it.	43:23
	If you postpone its victory, you only make its victory	43:25
	more overwhelming when it comes.	43:28
	If you bury it, you give it an Easter day.	43:30
	And so with the idea of Christ very much alive today,	43:35
	this Easter, and this same idea very much alive to Paul,	43:38
	he wrote to the church at Corinth:	43:42
	I deliver to you what I also received.	43:44
	That Christ died for our sins in accordance	43:47
	with the Scriptures, that he was buried,	43:50
	that he was raised on the third day,	43:52
	that he appeared to Cephas, that is to Peter,	43:54
	then to the 12, then he appeared to more than 500	43:56
	at one time, then he appeared to James, and then to all	43:59
	of the apostles, but last of all, as to one untimely born,	44:02
	he appeared also to me.	44:07
	Last of all, Paul writes, Christ appeared also to me.	44:11
	You know, when you think about it, that seems to me	44:15
	to be a rather arrogant boast, doesn't it?	44:19
	It seems to be rather pretentious or presumptuous,	44:24
	a strange posture for Paul, who after all had become	44:27
	widely known as a real enemy, as one of the chief	44:31
	persecutors of the first Christians,	44:34
	and yet he says: last of all, this Christ appeared to me.	44:36
	There probably were lots of other folks going around	44:41
	about Jerusalem in the first century that were claiming	44:44
	that Jesus appeared, quote, last of all to them.	44:48
	Thomas, who saw Jesus in the upper room.	44:52
	The two men who met Jesus walking on the road to Emmaus.	44:56
	Mary, who met Jesus at the tomb.	45:00
	Peter, who met Jesus on the beach.	45:03
	All of these as well as Paul and perhaps many others	45:06
	could and probably did make such a claim that,	45:09
	last of all, Jesus appeared to me.	45:12
	I have tried hard to imagine what it must have been like	45:16
	to have been among the women and the men to whom	45:20
	Jesus appeared after the resurrection.	45:24
	I really cannot quite fathom the impact that it must	45:28
	have had in that first century.	45:31
	But I read some lines just this week from the movie,	45:36
	The Last Picture Show, that helped me see the meaning	45:41
	that Jesus has to us today,	45:45
	and that he may have had on those who saw him then.	45:48
	Robert Rains writes in one of his books,	45:52
	Christ appeared, as he talks about how Christ	45:55
	has appeared to him recently, he said:	45:58
	Christ appeared also to me in the movie	46:00
	The Last Picture Show, a poignant view of life	46:02
	in a small Texas town.	46:06
	The town is boring, he says.	46:07
	People feel as though their options are closing off.	46:10
	They yearn for something or for someone more.	46:13
	There is much human un-fulfillment in the movie,	46:17
	but also little oases of warmth and understanding.	46:19
	A middle-aged woman talks to a young man	46:25
	about a man they both loved called Sam the Lion.	46:28
	Sam had died.	46:32
	He had been a generous, compassionate and courageous man.	46:35
	The woman had been married to someone else,	46:39
	but she loved Sam in a very special way.	46:41
	She said to this young man, you know, it's a shame	46:46
	to meet only one man in your life who knows	46:50
	what you are really worth.	46:53
	Mary, Thomas, John, Peter, Paul.	46:58
	All of them and many, many more met someone	47:03
	who knew what each of them was really worth.	47:06
	Seems rather strange, doesn't it?	47:10
	Only one person who knows what we're really worth.	47:13
	Paul's claim that last of all, Christ appeared also to me,	47:18
	boastful, arrogant, presumptuous, even absurd.	47:21
	That's another word that I thought about	47:26
	when I read this passage - absurd, isn't it?	47:28
	And some lines from Camus, the existentialist playwright,	47:32
	came back to me. At the center of man, he said,	47:36
	dominating the giant moments of his life,	47:39
	there is an essential absurdity.	47:42
	An essential absurdity.	47:48
	There are the words, sure it is.	47:52
	Absurd.	47:55
	An essential absurdity, perhaps.	47:57
	And then I remembered some words of the great	47:59
	early church writer, Tertullian, who professed one day:	48:01
	I believe in Christ because it is absurd.	48:04
	Sure it is, there you have it.	48:09
	It was absurd for the risen Christ	48:13
	to appear to Saul or Paul.	48:15
	It is absurd for the risen Christ to appear to us.	48:17
	It does not make sense.	48:21
	There is no way to understand or comprehend	48:24
	or make sense out of the living presence of Christ,	48:26
	except that maybe God in Christ really does know	48:29
	how much each of us is worth.	48:34
	And so it is absurd, but I choose to believe	48:41
	that it is more than that; it is absurdity transformed.	48:43
	Transformed into experience, transformed into reality,	48:48
	transformed into a living, ongoing, sustaining relationship.	48:53
	Belief in Christ is absurd, or as the Greek word puts it	48:58
	in the New Testament, it is skandalos,	49:02
	it is a scandal, it is a stumbling block,	49:04
	but it is absurdity transformed by the grace of God	49:07
	so that Paul could go on and write,	49:11
	"By the grace of God, I am what I am.	49:13
	And his grace toward me was not in vain."	49:17
	The word proclaiming the resurrection of our Lord,	49:23
	Jesus Christ, may seem absurd, but according to theologian	49:25
	Karl Barth, the message is itself evangel.	49:29
	It is glad tidings, news which uplifts	49:33
	and comforts and sustains.	49:37
	Once and for all, he says then, it is a proclamation of joy.	49:40
	It is not a mixed message of joy and terror,	49:44
	of salvation and damnation.	49:48
	It does not proclaim in the same breath	49:50
	both good and evil, both help and destruction,	49:52
	both life and death; it is light and not darkness,	49:55
	the first and the last word is yes and not no.	49:59
	The word was yes, to Paul.	50:03
	If I were to ask this morning,	50:07
	how many of you have ever had an experience	50:11
	where Jesus Christ has appeared to you,	50:14
	what would be your response?	50:21
	Has Christ ever appeared to you?	50:26
	If so, one might ask, how has he appeared?	50:31
	If he has not, is there any reason?	50:36
	Or, would you really want to experience the risen presence	50:40
	of Jesus the Christ?	50:45
	If you do want this, what might you expect to happen?	50:48
	Well, I happen to believe that resurrection appearances	50:55
	of Christ happened and still happen.	50:58
	In different ways, to different people,	51:01
	in different circumstances, for different reasons,	51:04
	with different expectations and different results.	51:07
	Such appearances happened differently in New Testament times	51:10
	and they do today, as well.	51:14
	So let's look for just a moment at some of the resurrection	51:16
	appearances of Jesus and see what happened.	51:19
	On the Emmaus Road, Jesus was walking along with two	51:22
	strangers who knew him not, and they were unknown to him,	51:27
	walking, talking, normal conversation	51:31
	about one who had just been killed.	51:34
	They stopped and ate.	51:38
	Who Christ was became known to them	51:40
	only after they had walked together,	51:42
	and only after they had eaten together.	51:44
	Thomas, in the upper room, gathered in a house	51:48
	in Jerusalem, talking with the other disciples.	51:51
	Friend with friend, familiar people,	51:54
	familiar places, one who was skeptical,	51:57
	unbelieving, doubting, not sure until Jesus said,	52:00
	"Put your hand here, Thomas."	52:04
	And then he exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!"	52:06
	Mary before the tomb, going to the tomb to show her love.	52:11
	A genuine act of both sorrow and love to express her grief,	52:15
	to remember the good times, to do all that she could	52:20
	to express her feelings.	52:23
	It may be that there was nothing more that Jesus	52:25
	could do for her, but she was going to be faithful	52:27
	and caring and loving toward Jesus,	52:30
	both to death and beyond.	52:33
	What an amazing act of utter, total, free devotion,	52:37
	and reaching out to one who had been very special to her.	52:41
	And Jesus spoke, "Mary."	52:44
	And she knew immediately who he was.	52:47
	Peter on the beach, gathered with the other disciples	52:50
	to resume their work of fishing, we would assume,	52:53
	stopping to eat fish.	52:56
	The physical presence must have been very real,	52:58
	because even Jesus himself ate some fish.	53:01
	Jesus had a concern for his continuing relationship	53:04
	with Peter, and for Peter's relationship with others.	53:07
	"Peter," he said, "do you love me?"	53:11
	Three times, he asked him, and three times when Peter	53:13
	responded yes, he said, "Feed my sheep."	53:16
	This is the kind of communion, the kind of questioning	53:20
	and sharing of words and spirits that can take place	53:23
	where there has been and where there is still a feeling	53:26
	of intimacy; Peter knew Jesus immediately.	53:29
	Saul, on the road, one might assume that he was just	53:34
	walking casually down the road to the town of Damascus.	53:37
	An enemy of Christ and of the early Christians,	53:41
	surely one who was not expecting Christ to appear to him.	53:44
	And then personal, through the call, Saul, Saul,	53:48
	and my friends, you really don't get much more personal	53:52
	or closer or more intimate than to have someone	53:54
	call you by your first name.	53:57
	Saul.	53:59
	And he responded, "Yes, Lord?"	54:00
	Looking at these experiences of various people	54:04
	as they had them with the risen Christ	54:07
	convinces me that there is not one way or one place	54:10
	or one time or one event or one experience or one need,	54:14
	one way in which one might experience the Christ.	54:18
	We may be up or down, happy or sad, believing or doubting,	54:21
	we may be critic or enemy, we may be friend or stranger.	54:25
	We may be ready or not ready, but the word is clear.	54:28
	Serendipity, that is unexpected, renewing,	54:32
	and memorable experiences with the risen Christ	54:36
	can and do happen.	54:39
	Will you note three other things?	54:46
	All of those to whom Christ appeared were doing routine,	54:48
	simple, day to day things: walking, eating, fishing.	54:51
	Visiting the tomb.	54:56
	Secondly, not one of them expected Christ to appear.	54:58
	Every one of them was surprised when he came.	55:00
	Third, the appearances were not spectacular or overwhelming.	55:05
	As a matter of fact, it seems to me that Jesus	55:09
	really tried to downplay what was happening.	55:12
	Kept calm, spoke to them and said, "Peace be with you."	55:16
	It's too bad, I believe, that we have romanticized	55:21
	and glamorized the appearances of the risen Christ,	55:25
	for this is our loss and a great loss it is, I believe,	55:29
	for now somehow or other we think that in order to know	55:33
	and meet and experience the presence of Christ,	55:36
	something dramatic or overpowering or miraculous	55:39
	or stupendous must occur, and this, I believe, is not so.	55:42
	The real miracle of the coming of Jesus, in his birth,	55:48
	life, death, resurrection and risen appearances,	55:51
	is that he came to live with us, in us, among us,	55:54
	right where we are, just as we are,	55:58
	and not in some idealized or glorified time or space	56:01
	or place, but to be with us in the simple beauties,	56:05
	the hard realities of life as it is.	56:08
	I was teaching a study of the Book of Revelation recently.	56:13
	And some persons were surprised when I remarked to the group	56:18
	that I do not consider myself to be really a, quote,	56:21
	spiritual person, unquote.	56:24
	That is spiritual in the sense of one who is something	56:27
	of a mystic, or one who spends a great deal of time	56:31
	in prayer or meditation or reflection,	56:34
	or to put it in other words, I do not feel,	56:36
	quote/unquote, the presence of Christ,	56:40
	or the presence and the spirit of God very often.	56:42
	I have had some moments and some experience	56:45
	that I would call spiritual, as most people would.	56:48
	But I feel somewhat like a woman I was talking with	56:52
	recently who said to me, "I have a hard time	56:55
	believing in a God up there or out there somewhere.	56:59
	A sense of the presence of God, outside me	57:04
	and outside other persons, I find hard to understand.	57:07
	"But," she said, "I do know what it is to experience	57:11
	the love of God, the presence of Christ in other people.	57:14
	The love of God in friend to friend or person	57:18
	to person experiences, as they love,	57:21
	care, walk with, support and listen.	57:25
	Yes, she said, I feel I can know God this way."	57:28
	And so do I.	57:35
	I wish this morning so very, very much,	57:36
	that we had not, over the years, overdramatized,	57:40
	overplayed and exaggerated the resurrection appearances	57:43
	of Jesus; he really did come to be with people.	57:46
	Very common, ordinary, plain folk in their everyday,	57:49
	routine, familiar places.	57:54
	So perhaps again, if we could read again	57:56
	the stories of the resurrection appearances	57:59
	and clear away all of the trappings and all of the excess	58:02
	dramatics that we've grown accustomed to,	58:05
	then we could know and be ready for and anticipate	58:08
	and then experience the presence of Christ more,	58:13
	day by day, as we know it and live it.	58:18
	A tear, a sigh, a hug, a word, a prayer,	58:22
	a touch of one's hand, a song.	58:28
	A look that goes right into your very soul.	58:32
	A feeling that someone loves, a feeling	58:36
	of knowing someone cares, a caring for someone else.	58:38
	Yes, my friends, this morning the word is	58:44
	that there surely is someone who knows	58:47
	what each of us is worth.	58:51
	And then, last of all, as to one untimely born,	58:56
	Christ appeared also to me.	59:02
	And to you.	59:06
	(swelling symphonic music)	59:43
	(echoing choral music)	1:00:08
-	Let us unite in this historic confession	1:03:08
	of the Christian faith.	1:03:12
	I believe in God, the Father almighty,	1:03:14
	maker of heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ,	1:03:18
	his only son, our Lord, who was conceived	1:03:22
	by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary,	1:03:26
	suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,	1:03:30
	dead, and buried; the third day he rose from the dead,	1:03:34
	he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand	1:03:40
	of God the Father almighty.	1:03:44
	From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	1:03:46
	I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church,	1:03:51
	the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,	1:03:56
	the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.	1:04:01
	Amen.	1:04:06
	Congregation, be seated.	1:04:09
	The Lord be with you.	1:04:17
Congregation	And also with you.	1:04:20
-	Let us pray.	1:04:21
	O holy God, loving God, God of justice and mercy,	1:04:24
	we rejoice that you came to us in human form.	1:04:32
	That you know our temptations, our pain, suffering, hopes.	1:04:37
	We give you thanks that Jesus lived and died as one of us.	1:04:44
	We rejoice in the assurance of our Easter faith.	1:04:50
	That nothing can separate us from your love.	1:04:55
	That death did not destroy or conquer Jesus our Lord	1:04:59
	and redeemer, yet in our joy we find sadness and darkness,	1:05:05
	for we are still struggling.	1:05:12
	Our memories are short, so send your spirit to remind us	1:05:15
	of Jesus's presence with us, to sustain us.	1:05:23
	Open our eyes and give us hope that we may live	1:05:29
	in love with you and our neighbor.	1:05:34
	Sensitive and caring for those who are poor,	1:05:38
	broken-hearted, imprisoned, blind,	1:05:43
	bruised, caught in graves of their own making,	1:05:48
	or pushed into graves of our selfishness and pride.	1:05:54
	So hear our prayers, O God, for ourselves	1:06:00
	and our brothers and sisters.	1:06:04
	Some oppressed, some caught in a web	1:06:07
	of injustice and apathy, some cut off from each other	1:06:11
	by mistrust and hate; we pray, O God, that we will be	1:06:16
	your servants in leading the powerless to freedom,	1:06:22
	the despised to new dignity and respect.	1:06:26
	And those caught in chains of mistrust and fear and anger	1:06:30
	to release, and healing, and freedom.	1:06:36
	Give to your church, O God, a vision of the total liberation	1:06:40
	of all of your people.	1:06:44
	Grand us the wisdom to hear the voice of the foolish	1:06:46
	of the world, to listen to the weak, the crucified.	1:06:49
	Be with us when we shrink from responsibility of commitment,	1:06:54
	the uncertainty of the dessert,	1:07:00
	and the conflict of the cross.	1:07:02
	So that we too may be raised.	1:07:06
	O God, we do feel crucifixion and rejection,	1:07:09
	and so remain locked in our bonds of fear,	1:07:13
	rather than to move with you in covenant	1:07:16
	into the promised land.	1:07:20
	Teach us to share with all people the healing	1:07:22
	and forgiveness you shared with us.	1:07:25
	And hear us as we pray the prayer Jesus taught us.	1:07:30
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	1:07:35
	They kingdom come, they will be done,	1:07:41
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:07:45
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:07:48
	and forgive us our trespasses,	1:07:51
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:07:54
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:07:58
	but deliver us from evil.	1:08:00
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	1:08:03
	and the glory forever.	1:08:07
	Amen.	1:08:09
	(operatic choral music)	1:08:25
	(dramatic horn music)	1:08:59
	(operatic singing)	1:09:37
	(overlapping choral music)	1:10:23
	(reverent organ music)	1:17:10
	(choral music)	1:17:31
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:17:43
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:17:46
	(choral music)	1:17:50
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:18:03
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:18:06
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:18:09
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	1:18:12
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:18:16
	♪ Amen ♪	1:18:24
	(organ music)	1:19:12
	(dramatic symphonic music)	1:19:45
	If you are in Christ, you become a new creature.	1:23:09
	All things pass away, all things become new.	1:23:14
	Go now, and may this knowledge and hope sustain you	1:23:20
	tomorrow and all the days to come.	1:23:24
	(overlapping choral music)	1:23:30
	(intricate organ music)	1:23:49

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Robert T. Young - "Christ Appeared...Also to Me" Easter Service 9:00 am (April 15, 1979)

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Sermon start time: 38:58. Sermon end time: 59:07.
The risen Christ appears to everyone and knows what each person is worth. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Has Christ ever appeared to you? If so, one might ask, how has he appeared? If he has not, is there any reason? Or, would you really want to experience the risen presence of Jesus the Christ?

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April 15, 1979

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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