Thomas G. Long - "When Jesus Is Ashamed" (February 27, 1994)
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♪ And Heaven and earth ♪ | 0:01 | |
♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ | 0:08 | |
♪ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord ♪ | 0:14 | |
♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ | 0:21 | |
Song Leader | That's just great. | 0:29 |
And as you'll see on page 24, | 0:30 | |
the responses are based on what you've just sung. | 0:33 | |
Let's just try them once. | 0:37 | |
Christ has died, and go. | 0:40 | |
♪ Christ the Lord will rise again ♪ | 0:43 | |
Song Leader | Yeah, terrific. | 0:52 |
And amen. | 0:54 | |
♪ Amen amen ♪ | 0:56 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:01 | |
Great, we hope this change will be welcome | 1:08 | |
and not disconcerting. | 1:11 | |
And Reverend Willimon will now | 1:14 | |
teach you a congregational response to prayer | 1:18 | |
that'll be new for us. | 1:22 | |
- | If you'll look at | 1:24 |
the prayers of the people on page two, | 1:25 | |
the congregation responds to each petition by singing | 1:28 | |
Lord have mercy. | 1:32 | |
At the end of each petition, | 1:33 | |
I will say. | 1:35 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪ | 1:37 | |
♪ Have Mercy ♪ | 1:41 | |
Yours is the Lord have mercy. | 1:44 | |
Let us try that. | 1:46 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪ | 1:47 | |
♪ Have mercy ♪ | 1:50 | |
♪ Have mercy ♪ | ||
- | Good, this is the second Sunday of lent | 1:55 |
and these new responses are sort of part of the | 1:59 | |
reflective meditational, penitential emphasis | 2:04 | |
of this season here in the chapel, | 2:08 | |
and throughout Christendom. | 2:10 | |
We also want to recognize some people who are here today | 2:13 | |
that are going on the Honduras mission trips. | 2:17 | |
We have during spring break, | 2:21 | |
beginning next week, | 2:22 | |
a student mission team that will be going out | 2:24 | |
to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras | 2:27 | |
to work with the indigenous peoples there. | 2:29 | |
We also have a medical mission team | 2:32 | |
that will be going to the mountains of Honduras, | 2:35 | |
people from the Duke Medical Center and others, | 2:40 | |
going out there to do health related work. | 2:42 | |
If there are members of the mission teams | 2:45 | |
with us this morning, | 2:48 | |
how 'bout standing up so we can see you. | 2:49 | |
We have some around here. | 2:53 | |
We recognize you because | 2:57 | |
the offering at Duke Chapel is helping to finance | 2:59 | |
these two mission teams. | 3:01 | |
And we thank you who have given for your generosity. | 3:03 | |
And we pray Godspeed upon you as you do this important work | 3:07 | |
during spring break. | 3:11 | |
And now let us join for the greeting. | 3:14 | |
Let us stand. | 3:19 | |
Create in me a clean heart oh God. | 3:24 | |
Congregation | And renew a right spirit within me. | 3:27 |
- | [Reverend Willimon] Open my lips oh Lord. | 3:30 |
Congregation | And my mouth shall proclaim your praise. | 3:32 |
(light organ music) | 3:36 | |
(congregation notes ringing) | 4:12 | |
- | These 40 days of lent | 8:43 |
are a time of penitence and introspection, | 8:45 | |
a time of confession. | 8:49 | |
Therefore, let us confess our sin | 8:51 | |
before God and one another. | 8:54 | |
Be seated. | 8:57 | |
Let us pray. | 9:07 | |
Most merciful God, | 9:09 | |
we confess that we have sinned against you | 9:11 | |
in thought, word, and deed, | 9:14 | |
by what we have done, | 9:17 | |
and by what we have left undone. | 9:18 | |
We have not loved you with our whole heart; | 9:21 | |
we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. | 9:24 | |
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. | 9:27 | |
For the sake of your son Jesus Christ, | 9:31 | |
have mercy on us and forgive us; | 9:34 | |
that we may delight in your will, | 9:37 | |
and walk in your ways | 9:39 | |
to the glory of your name, amen. | 9:42 | |
The saying is true and worthy of full acceptance | 9:53 | |
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners | 9:57 | |
in the name of Christ, | 10:01 | |
you are forgiven, amen. | 10:03 | |
- | Let us pray the prayer for illumination together. | 10:15 |
Congregation | Open our hearts and minds oh God | 10:21 |
by the power of your Holy Spirit | 10:24 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed, | 10:27 | |
we may hear your message to us this lent and season, amen. | 10:31 | |
- | The lesson is selected verses | 10:46 |
from the 17th chapter of Genesis. | 10:48 | |
When Abram was 99 years old, | 10:55 | |
the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, | 10:58 | |
I am God Almighty. | 11:03 | |
Walk before me and be blameless. | 11:06 | |
And I will make my covenant between me and you | 11:11 | |
and will make you exceedingly numerous. | 11:16 | |
Then Abram fell on his face | 11:21 | |
and God said to him | 11:23 | |
as for me, this is my covenant with you. | 11:25 | |
You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. | 11:31 | |
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; | 11:37 | |
and I will make nations of you, | 11:40 | |
and kings shall come from you. | 11:43 | |
I will establish my covenant between me and you, | 11:47 | |
and your offspring after you | 11:52 | |
throughout their generations, | 11:55 | |
for an everlasting covenant, | 11:58 | |
to be God to you | 12:00 | |
and to your offspring after you. | 12:03 | |
God said to Abraham, | 12:08 | |
As for Sarah your wife, | 12:10 | |
you shall not call her Sarai, | 12:12 | |
but Sarah shall be her name. | 12:15 | |
I will bless her, | 12:19 | |
and moreover I will give you a son by her. | 12:21 | |
I will bless her, | 12:26 | |
and she shall give rise to nations; | 12:28 | |
kings of peoples shall come from her. | 12:31 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 12:36 | |
Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 12:39 |
- | The gospel lesson is from the eighth chapter of Mark | 12:48 |
beginning with the 31st verse. | 12:52 | |
Then he began to teach them | 12:56 | |
that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, | 12:58 | |
and be rejected by the elders, | 13:03 | |
the chief priests, | 13:05 | |
and the scribes, | 13:08 | |
and be killed, | 13:09 | |
and after three days rise again. | 13:11 | |
He said all this quite openly. | 13:15 | |
And Peter took him aside and rebuked him. | 13:18 | |
But turning and looking at his disciples, | 13:22 | |
he rebuked Peter and said, | 13:25 | |
get behind me, Satan! | 13:28 | |
For you are setting your mind not on divine things | 13:30 | |
but on human things. | 13:34 | |
He called the crowd with his disciples, | 13:37 | |
and said to them, | 13:39 | |
if any want to become my followers, | 13:41 | |
let them deny themselves | 13:44 | |
and take up their cross and follow me. | 13:47 | |
For those who want to save their life will lose it, | 13:52 | |
and those who lose their life for my sake, | 13:57 | |
and for the sake of the gospel will find it. | 14:00 | |
For what will it profit them to gain the whole world | 14:04 | |
and forfeit their life? | 14:08 | |
Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? | 14:11 | |
Those who are ashamed of me and my words | 14:17 | |
in this adulterous and sinful generation, | 14:21 | |
of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed | 14:24 | |
when he comes in the glory of his Father | 14:29 | |
with the holy angels. | 14:33 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 14:36 | |
Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 14:38 |
- | What I would like to do this morning | 14:51 |
is to explore that last and somewhat chilling line | 14:53 | |
that we just heard in the reading if the New Testament | 14:58 | |
in which Jesus says to all of his followers, | 15:02 | |
if you are ashamed of me and my words | 15:06 | |
in this sinful and adulterous world, | 15:10 | |
I will be ashamed of you in glory. | 15:14 | |
I can lean toward the loving Jesus. | 15:20 | |
I can bow in obedience to the demanding Jesus. | 15:25 | |
I can be embraced by the tender Jesus. | 15:30 | |
I can even respond to the angry Jesus. | 15:35 | |
But what are we going to do with the Jesus | 15:38 | |
who is ashamed of us? | 15:42 | |
Because what this line implies is that | 15:47 | |
when we get up from this service of worship, | 15:50 | |
and leave this chapel, | 15:53 | |
and go back out there into that world, | 15:54 | |
if we are in any way ashamed out there | 16:00 | |
of the gospel we celebrate in here, | 16:05 | |
it evokes shame in the very heart of God. | 16:09 | |
If you are ashamed of me and my words | 16:15 | |
in this sinful and adulterous world, | 16:18 | |
I will be ashamed of you in glory. | 16:21 | |
What does that mean? | 16:27 | |
Well we have to begin I think | 16:30 | |
by recognizing that this text is candid | 16:31 | |
about what we already know. | 16:35 | |
And that is there is something about the public expression | 16:38 | |
of the Christian faith | 16:42 | |
that is potentially embarrassing and shameful. | 16:44 | |
We're comfortable in here. | 16:49 | |
I'm comfortable in here preaching the gospel. | 16:50 | |
We're all comfortable in here praying the prayers, | 16:54 | |
and singing the responses, | 16:57 | |
and saying the creeds. | 16:59 | |
We're comfortable in here. | 17:01 | |
But we know don't we, | 17:04 | |
that when we move from in here to out there, | 17:05 | |
the stakes get higher. | 17:10 | |
That if we try to live out there what we say in here, | 17:13 | |
there is something potentially alienating, | 17:17 | |
rejecting, embarrassing, | 17:20 | |
and shameful at the heart of it. | 17:23 | |
The novelist and essayist Frederick Buechner, | 17:28 | |
who is also a preacher, | 17:31 | |
in one of his sermons imagined a man driving down | 17:33 | |
a country highway. | 17:38 | |
He sees signs along the side of the highway. | 17:41 | |
Speed limit 55. | 17:44 | |
Eat at the prince of pizza. | 17:47 | |
Burma-Shave. | 17:49 | |
There is however a sign he sees unlike all the other signs. | 17:52 | |
It's painted in clumsy and jagged white-washed letters | 17:56 | |
on a bridge abutment, | 18:01 | |
and it says Jesus saves. | 18:02 | |
Buechner says, when the man sees that sign, | 18:08 | |
it's unlike all the other signs. | 18:12 | |
And if the man is like all of us, | 18:14 | |
he sees this sign and he winces with embarrassment. | 18:17 | |
And that is very interesting said Buechner. | 18:22 | |
Both the message Jesus saves and the embarrassment. | 18:25 | |
It is as if there is something embarrassing | 18:31 | |
about the gospel itself, | 18:34 | |
something like very personal things, | 18:36 | |
inappropriately placed in a public arena, | 18:39 | |
like the lovers names and affections carved | 18:42 | |
into a park bench. | 18:47 | |
There's something about the public expression | 18:50 | |
of the Christian faith that is potentially embarrassing | 18:53 | |
and shameful. | 18:57 | |
One Sunday morning, | 19:00 | |
I had preached in a service, | 19:01 | |
and I was shaking hands with the congregation | 19:03 | |
at the church door. | 19:06 | |
A very nice family moved through the line, | 19:08 | |
a husband, wife, | 19:11 | |
and a teenage son, | 19:12 | |
and the man said, have you got plans for lunch. | 19:14 | |
I said, well as a matter of fact no I don't. | 19:18 | |
He said, listen we're just going down the road | 19:20 | |
to a nice little restaurant. | 19:22 | |
Would you be willing to join us for lunch. | 19:24 | |
I said I'd be happy to do that. | 19:26 | |
Well we went to the restaurant. | 19:29 | |
We were seated at the table. | 19:30 | |
The waitress took our order. | 19:32 | |
We were having a nice conversation. | 19:34 | |
Our food came. | 19:35 | |
And then there was a crisis, | 19:38 | |
an awkward silence. | 19:40 | |
I could see the wheels turning in the man's head. | 19:42 | |
I don't usually ask a blessing in a restaurant like this. | 19:45 | |
But I got this preacher with me | 19:49 | |
and I don't know what to do. | 19:50 | |
You could see him toss an imaginary coin | 19:54 | |
and it landed heads. | 19:58 | |
Let us pray, he said. | 20:01 | |
(congregation laughing) | 20:03 | |
At which point his teenage son | 20:04 | |
looked like he wanted to crawl | 20:06 | |
under the table from embarrassment. | 20:08 | |
I can appreciate that. | 20:11 | |
There is something about the public display | 20:13 | |
of the Christian faith | 20:16 | |
that is embarrassing. | 20:18 | |
If you are ashamed of me and my words | 20:21 | |
in this sinful and adulterous world, | 20:27 | |
I will be ashamed of you | 20:29 | |
in glory. | 20:33 | |
I used to think that I knew what that meant. | 20:36 | |
What it meant was, | 20:41 | |
there are opportunities out there in the world, | 20:42 | |
like that prayer in a restaurant, | 20:45 | |
when we can use the name of Jesus | 20:48 | |
and bear witness to our faith. | 20:50 | |
We can speak about Jesus to our neighbor | 20:53 | |
across the backyard fence. | 20:55 | |
We can read from the Bible at our work. | 20:56 | |
I know it's an embarrassing thing to do. | 21:00 | |
But you remember if you are ashamed of me and my words. | 21:01 | |
I was on the right track I suppose. | 21:08 | |
But I now understand | 21:10 | |
that that is far too shallow an interpretation | 21:13 | |
of this word from Jesus. | 21:17 | |
It's much more radical, | 21:20 | |
much more threatening, | 21:23 | |
much deeper than that. | 21:27 | |
It begins with the concept of shame. | 21:33 | |
What is shame? | 21:37 | |
What makes you ashamed? | 21:38 | |
Shame is not an emotion like anger. | 21:43 | |
It's not even an emotion like guilt. | 21:45 | |
Shame is when we are exposed | 21:50 | |
to the judgment of others. | 21:55 | |
When something about us is exposed to public condemnation, | 21:57 | |
that's what shame is. | 22:01 | |
As one person said, | 22:03 | |
the thing that would make me most ashamed | 22:04 | |
is if my college transcript were published | 22:06 | |
on the front page of the newspaper. | 22:09 | |
That's shame. | 22:12 | |
If I steal $10 from a wallet, | 22:13 | |
I may feel guilt, | 22:16 | |
but I don't yet feel shame. | 22:18 | |
Somebody has to find out about it | 22:20 | |
before I feel shame. | 22:22 | |
Shame is a public exposure | 22:24 | |
of the truth about us. | 22:27 | |
At Princeton Seminary, | 22:30 | |
we were having a conversation not long ago | 22:31 | |
about gender issues, | 22:33 | |
men and women in the circle, | 22:35 | |
talking about the relationships between men and women. | 22:37 | |
And the speaker was saying, | 22:40 | |
you know what we need to do is to transcend | 22:42 | |
this adolescent and puerile cultural sense | 22:45 | |
of how men and women are supposed to relate to each other. | 22:49 | |
Men aren't supposed to view women, | 22:52 | |
and women aren't supposed to view men | 22:53 | |
in a kind of sexual sort of way. | 22:55 | |
What we need to do is to get beyond that, | 22:57 | |
to transcend that to a harmonious gender relationship. | 22:59 | |
And everybody in the room was nodding, | 23:03 | |
while secretly thinking about sexuality. | 23:05 | |
As one person said after the conversation, | 23:10 | |
I am so glad that people cannot read my thoughts. | 23:12 | |
I would have been so ashamed. | 23:15 | |
Shame is when something true about you | 23:21 | |
is exposed to public view. | 23:25 | |
Erik Erikson, the psychoanalyst, | 23:29 | |
uses this illustration in his writing about shame. | 23:31 | |
It's a quote from a Southern folk song. | 23:35 | |
The song is about a criminal | 23:39 | |
who is being executed. | 23:41 | |
He is standing on the scaffolding | 23:42 | |
with a noose around his neck. | 23:44 | |
And the whole town is gathered | 23:47 | |
at the foot of the scaffolding | 23:49 | |
and they are looking at him | 23:50 | |
with judgment and condemnation in their eyes. | 23:53 | |
And as he looks at their stares all around, | 23:56 | |
he sings in the song Damn Your Eyes, | 23:59 | |
Damn Your Eyes. | 24:05 | |
That, said Erikson, | 24:09 | |
is shame. | 24:12 | |
The staring eyes of public condemnation | 24:15 | |
before one whose truth is naked and exposed | 24:22 | |
to the world. | 24:28 | |
Shame. | 24:30 | |
Here's where it becomes intricate. | 24:34 | |
Jesus himself | 24:38 | |
was the criminal who stood on the scaffolding | 24:42 | |
before whom the world stared with condemning | 24:47 | |
and judging eyes. | 24:51 | |
He endured the cross. | 24:55 | |
He did not despise the shame. | 24:59 | |
And he did not say damn their eyes, | 25:04 | |
but Father forgive them. | 25:09 | |
They know not what they do. | 25:14 | |
Jesus lived a shameful life. | 25:17 | |
In all the categories of the world, | 25:24 | |
he violated them at risk of embarrassment and shame. | 25:26 | |
When the world said success, | 25:30 | |
he said suffering. | 25:31 | |
When the world said live for yourself, | 25:33 | |
he took up his cross. | 25:35 | |
When the world said make something of yourself, | 25:38 | |
he exposed himself to rejection. | 25:40 | |
He carried the cross, | 25:43 | |
the instrument of shame. | 25:46 | |
And in the paradox of the gospel, | 25:48 | |
not to be ashamed of Jesus in the world, | 25:50 | |
is to be unashamed of the shame. | 25:55 | |
To live the kind of shameful life | 26:01 | |
that he lived. | 26:06 | |
Mary-Lou Weisman has written a beautiful book | 26:10 | |
called Intensive Care. | 26:13 | |
It is a description of the death | 26:15 | |
of her 15 year old son by muscular dystrophy. | 26:18 | |
She said in the last hour of his life, | 26:23 | |
she and her husband were at his bedside. | 26:26 | |
His body had deteriorated to the point | 26:30 | |
that he was paralyzed. | 26:33 | |
It was clear that death was placing a choke-hold on him. | 26:35 | |
There was nothing anyone could do. | 26:39 | |
Her husband said to her son, | 26:42 | |
can I move you so that you would be more comfortable. | 26:45 | |
And with death advancing toward him he said, | 26:49 | |
place me in an impudent position. | 26:55 | |
The medicines could not heal him. | 27:02 | |
The doctors could not save him. | 27:06 | |
And with death moving in on him he said, | 27:09 | |
place me in an impudent position. | 27:14 | |
Against the forces of death in the world, | 27:20 | |
Jesus placed himself in an impudent position. | 27:24 | |
He took up the cross, | 27:31 | |
enduring it, | 27:33 | |
despising the shame, | 27:35 | |
and calling all of us | 27:39 | |
to a shameful life like that. | 27:42 | |
If we do so, | 27:48 | |
we bear in our own life | 27:51 | |
the honor of God. | 27:55 | |
Jean Anouilh's play Becket, | 27:59 | |
there is a moving final scene. | 28:01 | |
You remember the story. | 28:04 | |
King Henry the second has had trouble | 28:05 | |
manipulating the church. | 28:08 | |
But he has a solution. | 28:09 | |
He will make his old hunting companion | 28:12 | |
and carousing partner Thomas Becket Archbishop. | 28:14 | |
And with his friend as Archbishop, | 28:19 | |
he will be able to manipulate the church. | 28:22 | |
But a strange thing happens. | 28:25 | |
As soon as Thomas is ordained and takes his vows, | 28:28 | |
he is seized with loyalty to the honor of God. | 28:33 | |
He begins to fulfill his vows, | 28:38 | |
to live out of the gospel, | 28:40 | |
to resist the king. | 28:41 | |
And in that final scene, | 28:45 | |
the king puzzled, says, | 28:46 | |
Thomas you remember we are friends. | 28:50 | |
10 years hunting, carousing, | 28:52 | |
the brothels, the taverns. | 28:55 | |
You're not like yourself. | 28:56 | |
Yes he said, it is true. | 29:00 | |
I am not like myself. | 29:03 | |
When I was in that cathedral about to take my vows, | 29:07 | |
I was a man without honor. | 29:10 | |
But I felt in that moment, | 29:14 | |
something was entrusted to me. | 29:17 | |
And I began to fall in love | 29:21 | |
with the honor of God. | 29:25 | |
I began to fall in love | 29:29 | |
with the honor of God. | 29:32 | |
What we celebrate in here | 29:38 | |
is that something has been entrusted | 29:40 | |
to all of us. | 29:44 | |
And if we leave this place | 29:47 | |
and over against all the forces of death | 29:50 | |
and destruction out there, | 29:53 | |
place ourselves in an impudent, | 29:55 | |
cross-like position. | 29:59 | |
All heaven | 30:03 | |
will resound with glory. | 30:06 | |
In the name of the Father, | 30:11 | |
and the Son, | 30:13 | |
and the Holy Spirit, amen. | 30:14 | |
- | [Reverend Willimon] Having heard the word | 30:26 |
read and preached, | 30:27 | |
let us join together in prayer for the church and the world. | 30:28 | |
The Lord be with you. | 30:33 | |
Congregation | And also with you. | 30:36 |
- | Let us pray. | 30:37 |
Oh God, | 30:43 | |
we now intercede for your church | 30:46 | |
and for your world. | 30:51 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 30:54 | |
Grant almighty God | 31:03 | |
that all who confess your name | 31:05 | |
may do so with boldness | 31:09 | |
so that you may not be ashamed of your disciples. | 31:12 | |
May we be united in your truth. | 31:17 | |
May we live together in your love | 31:18 | |
and thereby reveal your peculiar glory | 31:22 | |
to the world. | 31:27 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 31:29 | |
Guide the people of this land and of all the nations | 31:37 | |
in the ways of justice and peace. | 31:42 | |
Particularly this day we pray for the inhabitants | 31:45 | |
of Israel and Palestine | 31:47 | |
in these days of their common tragedy and struggle. | 31:50 | |
Grant us grace to honor one another | 31:55 | |
and to serve the common good. | 31:58 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 32:02 | |
Give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, | 32:10 | |
that we may use its resources rightly | 32:13 | |
in the service of others and to your honor and glory. | 32:16 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 32:20 | |
Bless all whose lives are closely linked with ours. | 32:29 | |
Our families, our friends, | 32:34 | |
our colleagues here at the university. | 32:38 | |
And grant that we may serve Christ in them, | 32:42 | |
and love one another as Christ | 32:45 | |
has so dramatically loved us. | 32:48 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 32:52 | |
Comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, | 33:01 | |
mind, or spirit. | 33:04 | |
Particularly those who are patients in Duke Hospital. | 33:06 | |
Give them courage and hope in their troubles, | 33:10 | |
and bring them the joy of your salvation. | 33:13 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 33:17 | |
We commend to your mercy all who have died, | 33:27 | |
that your will for them may be fulfilled; | 33:32 | |
and we pray that they may share | 33:35 | |
with all your saints in your eternal kingdom. | 33:37 | |
♪ Let us pray to the Lord have mercy ♪ | 33:42 | |
We offer these prayers | 33:52 | |
through our crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ, amen. | 33:55 | |
As the forgiven, | 34:03 | |
as a reconciled people, | 34:05 | |
let us stand and offer one another signs of God's peace. | 34:07 | |
(congregation buzzing) | 34:12 | |
God's love has given so much to us. | 34:30 | |
Let us be generous in giving back to God | 34:33 | |
for God's work in this world. | 34:36 | |
Be seated. | 34:38 | |
(light organ music) | 34:41 | |
♪ I was glad ♪ | 35:48 | |
♪ Glad when they said unto me ♪ | 35:54 | |
♪ We will go ♪ | 36:01 | |
♪ We will go ♪ | 36:05 | |
♪ We will go ♪ | 36:09 | |
♪ Into the house of the Lord ♪ | 36:13 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand in thy gates ♪ | 36:29 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand in thy gates ♪ | 36:34 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand ♪ | 36:44 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand ♪ | 36:48 | |
♪ Shall stand in they gates ♪ | 36:52 | |
♪ Shall stand in they gates ♪ | 36:56 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand ♪ | 37:00 | |
♪ Our feet shall stand ♪ | 37:03 | |
♪ Oh Jerusalem amen ♪ | 37:12 | |
♪ Jerusalem ♪ | 37:28 | |
♪ Is builded ♪ | 37:36 | |
♪ As a city ♪ | 37:43 | |
♪ As a city ♪ | 37:46 | |
♪ As a city ♪ | 37:49 | |
♪ That is ♪ | 37:53 | |
♪ At unity ♪ | 37:55 | |
♪ With itself ♪ | 38:04 | |
♪ Oh pray for the peace of Jerusalem ♪ | 38:44 | |
♪ They shall prosper that love thee ♪ | 38:54 | |
♪ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ♪ | 39:06 | |
♪ They shall prosper that love thee ♪ | 39:20 | |
♪ Peace be within thy walls ♪ | 39:48 | |
♪ And plenteousness ♪ | 39:56 | |
♪ Within thy palaces ♪ | 40:03 | |
♪ Within thy palaces ♪ | 40:12 | |
♪ Within thy palaces ♪ | 40:18 | |
♪ Within they palaces ♪ | 40:21 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 41:43 | |
♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪ | 41:52 | |
♪ Praise God above ye heavenly host ♪ | 42:00 | |
♪ Praise Father ♪ | 42:08 | |
♪ Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 42:11 | |
- | Please join me in the prayer of thanksgiving. | 42:42 |
The Lord be with you. | 42:45 | |
Congregation | And also with you. | 42:47 |
- | Lift up your hearts. | 42:48 |
Congregation | We lift them up to the Lord. | 42:49 |
- | Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. | 42:50 |
Congregation | It is right and we give our thanks to Him. | 42:53 |
- | It is right, a good joyful thing, | 42:55 |
always and everywhere to give you thanks | 42:57 | |
Father Almighty creator of Heaven and earth. | 43:00 | |
You brought all things into being and called them good. | 43:03 | |
From the dust of the earth, | 43:06 | |
you formed us in your image | 43:09 | |
and breathed the breath of life. | 43:10 | |
Even when we turned away and our love failed, | 43:13 | |
your love remained steadfast. | 43:17 | |
And so with your people on earth | 43:21 | |
and all the company of Heaven, | 43:23 | |
we praise your name and join | 43:25 | |
in their unending hymn. | 43:27 | |
(light organ music) | 43:30 | |
♪ Holy holy holy Lord ♪ | 43:39 | |
♪ God of power and might ♪ | 43:44 | |
♪ Heaven and earth are full of your glory ♪ | 43:48 | |
♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ | 43:53 | |
♪ Blessed is he who comes to the name of the Lord ♪ | 43:59 | |
♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ | 44:06 | |
- | Holy are you | 44:14 |
and blessed is your son Jesus Christ. | 44:15 | |
When you gave him to save us from our sin, | 44:18 | |
your spirit led him into the wilderness | 44:22 | |
40 days and 40 nights in preparation for his ministry. | 44:24 | |
When he suffered and died on a cross for our sin, | 44:29 | |
you raised him to life | 44:32 | |
and presented him alive to the apostles during 40 days. | 44:34 | |
By the baptism of his suffering, | 44:38 | |
death and resurrection, | 44:40 | |
you gave birth to your church, | 44:42 | |
delivered us from slavery to sin and death, | 44:44 | |
and made new covenant by water in the spirit. | 44:46 | |
On the night in which he gave himself up for us, | 44:49 | |
he took bread, | 44:51 | |
he gave thanks to you, | 44:53 | |
he broke the bread, | 44:55 | |
gave it to his disciples and said take, eat, | 44:56 | |
this is my body given for you. | 45:00 | |
Do this in remembrance of me. | 45:02 | |
And when the supper was over, | 45:05 | |
he took the cup. | 45:07 | |
He gave thanks to you | 45:08 | |
and gave it to this disciples and said | 45:11 | |
drink from this all of you. | 45:14 | |
This is my blood of the new covenant | 45:16 | |
poured out for you and many | 45:18 | |
for the forgiveness of sins. | 45:20 | |
Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. | 45:22 | |
And so in remembrance of these | 45:26 | |
your mighty acts in Jesus Christ | 45:28 | |
we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving | 45:31 | |
as a holy and living sacrifice, | 45:33 | |
in union with Christ's offering for us | 45:36 | |
as we proclaim the mystery of faith. | 45:38 | |
♪ Christ has died ♪ | 45:50 | |
♪ Christ is risen ♪ | 45:52 | |
♪ Christ will come again ♪ | 45:55 | |
- | Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here | 46:01 |
and on these gifts of bread and wine. | 46:03 | |
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ | 46:06 | |
that we may be for the world the body of Christ, | 46:09 | |
redeemed by his blood. | 46:12 | |
By your spirit, make us one with Christ, | 46:14 | |
and one with each other. | 46:16 | |
Through your son Jesus Christ, | 46:19 | |
with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, | 46:21 | |
all honor and glory is yours Almighty Father | 46:23 | |
now and forever. | 46:27 | |
♪ Amen amen ♪ | 46:36 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 46:43 | |
Congregation | Our father who art in Heaven, | 46:50 |
hallowed be thy name. | 46:53 | |
Thy kingdom come. | 46:55 | |
Thy will be done, | 46:56 | |
on earth as it is in Heaven. | 46:58 | |
Give us this day our daily bread. | 47:00 | |
And forgive us our trespasses | 47:03 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 47:05 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 47:08 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 47:11 | |
For thine is the kingdom, | 47:12 | |
and the power, and the glory, | 47:14 | |
forever, amen. | 47:16 | |
- | When we break the bread, | 47:19 |
is it not a means of sharing | 47:21 | |
in the body of Christ. | 47:24 | |
When we give thanks over the cup, | 47:26 | |
is it not a means of sharing | 47:29 | |
in the blood of Christ. | 47:30 | |
Come to the Lord's table. | 47:34 | |
(light organ music) | 47:42 | |
(congregation singing) | 48:16 | |
♪ Though I speak with the tongues of men ♪ | 54:36 | |
♪ And of angels ♪ | 54:41 | |
♪ And have not charity charity ♪ | 54:47 | |
♪ I have become as sounding brass ♪ | 54:55 | |
♪ Or a tinkling cymbal ♪ | 55:00 | |
♪ And though I have the gift of prophecy ♪ | 55:04 | |
♪ And understand all mysteries ♪ | 55:10 | |
♪ And all knowledge ♪ | 55:17 | |
♪ And though I have all faith ♪ | 55:25 | |
♪ So that I could remove mountains ♪ | 55:32 | |
♪ And have not charity charity ♪ | 55:42 | |
♪ I am nothing ♪ | 55:49 | |
♪ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor ♪ | 55:55 | |
♪ And though I give my body to be burned ♪ | 56:03 | |
♪ And have not charity ♪ | 56:09 | |
♪ It profiteth me nothing ♪ | 56:16 | |
♪ Charity suffereth long and is kind ♪ | 56:28 | |
♪ Charity envieth not ♪ | 56:38 | |
♪ Charity vaunteth not itself ♪ | 56:44 | |
♪ Is not puffed up ♪ | 56:49 | |
♪ Beareth all things ♪ | 56:55 | |
♪ Believeth all things ♪ | 56:58 | |
♪ Hopeth all things ♪ | 57:01 | |
♪ Endureth all things ♪ | 57:04 | |
♪ Charity never faileth ♪ | 57:17 | |
♪ But whether there be prophecies ♪ | 57:26 | |
♪ They shall fail ♪ | 57:31 | |
♪ Whether there be tongues ♪ | 57:33 | |
♪ They shall cease ♪ | 57:36 | |
♪ Whether there be knowledge ♪ | 57:39 | |
♪ It shall vanish away ♪ | 57:45 | |
♪ For now we see ♪ | 58:06 | |
♪ Through a glass darkly ♪ | 58:11 | |
♪ But then face to face ♪ | 58:18 | |
♪ Now I know in part ♪ | 58:25 | |
♪ Now I know in part ♪ | 58:29 | |
♪ But then I shall know ♪ | 58:35 | |
♪ Even as I'm known ♪ | 58:44 | |
♪ Even as I am also known ♪ | 58:53 | |
♪ And now abideth faith ♪ | 59:08 | |
♪ Hope and charity ♪ | 59:14 | |
♪ But the greatest of these ♪ | 59:23 | |
♪ Is charity ♪ | 59:30 | |
♪ Charity ♪ | 59:39 | |
♪ Charity ♪ | 59:54 | |
- | Please stand for the prayer. | 1:00:10 |
Gracious God, | 1:00:16 | |
every time we have come before you hungry, | 1:00:19 | |
you have never sent us away empty. | 1:00:23 | |
For your grace and your goodness, | 1:00:27 | |
we give thanks, amen. | 1:00:30 | |
(light organ music) | 1:00:35 | |
(congregation singing) | 1:01:07 | |
The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, | 1:04:16 | |
the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 1:04:19 | |
be with you now and always. | 1:04:22 | |
♪ God be in my head ♪ | 1:04:27 | |
♪ And in my understanding ♪ | 1:04:34 | |
♪ God be in mine eyes ♪ | 1:04:44 | |
♪ And in my looking ♪ | 1:04:51 | |
♪ God be in my mouth ♪ | 1:05:01 | |
♪ And in my speaking ♪ | 1:05:08 | |
♪ God be in my heart ♪ | 1:05:21 | |
♪ And in my thinking ♪ | 1:05:28 | |
♪ God be at my end ♪ | 1:05:38 | |
♪ And in my departing ♪ | 1:05:51 | |
(lively organ music) | 1:06:16 |
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