Robert T. Young - "Let's Join the Angels!" (December 20, 1981)

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	(choir singing with piano)	0:06
	(choir sings)	21:06
	(bright organ music)	22:23
-	Sing and rejoice, oh daughter of Zion,	25:35
	for lo, I come and I will dwell	25:38
	in the midst of you, says the Lord.	25:41
	And many nations shall join themselves	25:44
	to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people.	25:47
	And I will dwell in the midst of you.	25:51
	Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you	25:55
	this holy day of the year.	25:58
	Let us now turn to the Lord	26:01
	and confess our sins together.	26:03
	Let us pray.	26:05
	Oh Lord our God, whose eternal plan	26:17
	for our salvation began at the manger,	26:20
	unfolded in the dusty streets,	26:24
	and culminated at the empty tomb,	26:26
	we confess that we are unworthy of your attention	26:29
	and undeserving of your love.	26:33
	We have disobeyed your holy will,	26:36
	and have rebelled against your rightful authority.	26:38
	We have trampled that which is personal and sacred	26:42
	in the lives of others.	26:45
	We have ignored your calls to repentance,	26:48
	and have even tried to hide from your pursuing love.	26:51
	Nevertheless, your grace has continued to be constant.	26:55
	And we now yield to your transforming spirit,	26:59
	accepting grateful amazement at your peace	27:03
	and your presence, amen.	27:07
	For God so loved the world that he gave his only son,	27:34
	that whoever believes in him should not perish,	27:39
	but have eternal life, amen.	27:43
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	27:48
	and God's love is everlasting.	27:51
	Thanks be to God, whose love creates us.	27:54
	Thanks be to God, whose mercy redeems us.	27:58
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	28:02
	We welcome you to the Duke University Chapel	28:09
	service of worship this fourth Sunday in Advent.	28:11
	And we pray that together we might anticipate	28:16
	the birth of God's son, Jesus, the Christ,	28:19
	into our hearts and lives once again this season.	28:23
	We are especially grateful today	28:29
	to the Durham Boys' Choir and their director,	28:31
	Mr. William Graham for sharing the gift	28:35
	of their music with us in this service of worship.	28:38
	You and your family and guests are invited	28:44
	to join the Duke University Chapel	28:47
	in the 12th annual Christmas Eve service	28:50
	of lessons and carols.	28:54
	The service will begin Thursday evening	28:56
	at 11 PM, ending at midnight on Christmas day.	28:58
	This special service will be televised	29:04
	for those of you unable to attend by channel 11.	29:06
	There will be a service of communion	29:12
	in the Memorial Chapel immediately following	29:15
	the morning worship today.	29:18
	Each of you is invited to attend	29:20
	this service of the Eucharist.	29:22
	The preacher for this morning is	29:26
	the reverend doctor Robert T. Young,	29:28
	minister to the university.	29:31
	His Christmas sermon is entitled,	29:33
	Let's Join the Angels.	29:36
-	Let us pray.	29:51
	Oh Lord, our God, open our eyes	29:54
	that we may behold wondrous things out of your word.	29:57
	And let the words of my mouth	30:02
	and the meditation of our hearts	30:04
	be acceptable in your sight.	30:06
	Oh Lord, our strength, and our redeemer, amen.	30:08
	The Old Testament lesson is from Isaiah,	30:14
	chapter nine, versus 2-7.	30:17
	The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light,	30:21
	those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,	30:25
	on them has light shined.	30:28
	Thou has multiplied the nation.	30:30
	Thou hast increased its joy.	30:33
	They rejoice before thee, as with joy	30:36
	at the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.	30:39
	For the yolk of his burden,	30:44
	and the staff for his shoulder,	30:45
	the rod of his oppressor,	30:48
	thou hast broken as on the Day of Midian.	30:50
	For every boot of the tramping warrior	30:54
	in battle tumult, and every garment	30:56
	rolled in blood would be burned as fuel for the fire.	30:59
	For to us, a child is born.	31:03
	To us, a son is given,	31:06
	and the government will be upon his shoulder,	31:09
	and his name will be called wonderful counselor,	31:12
	mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace.	31:15
	Of the increase of his government,	31:21
	and of peace, there will be no end.	31:24
	Upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom,	31:27
	to establish it and to uphold it with justice	31:31
	and with righteousness.	31:34
	From this time forth, and forever more,	31:37
	the zeal of the lord of hosts will do this.	31:40
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament, amen.	31:44
	(light organ music)	31:58
	(choir and organ together)	32:41
	Will the congregation please stand	38:14
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	38:16
	The gospel lesson is from Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-14.	38:24
	In those days, a decree went out	38:31
	from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.	38:33
	This was the first enrollment	38:38
	when Quirinius was governor of Syria.	38:40
	And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city,	38:44
	and Joseph also went up from Galilee,	38:48
	from the city of Nazareth to Judea.	38:50
	To the city of David, which is called Bethlehem.	38:53
	Because he was of the house and lineage of David,	38:57
	to be enrolled with Mary his betrothed, who was with child.	39:00
	And while they were there, the time came	39:05
	for her to be delivered.	39:08
	And she gave birth to her firstborn son,	39:09
	and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,	39:12
	and laid him in a manger, because there was no place	39:15
	for them in the inn.	39:18
	And in that region, there were shepherds	39:21
	out in the field keeping watch over their flock by night.	39:23
	And an angel of the Lord appeared to them,	39:27
	and the glory of the Lord shone round about them.	39:29
	And they were filled with fear,	39:33
	and the angel said to them, be not afraid,	39:35
	for behold I bring you good news of a great joy,	39:38
	which will come to all the people.	39:42
	For to you is born this day in the city of David	39:44
	a savior, who is Christ the Lord.	39:48
	And this will be a sign for you.	39:51
	You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes	39:53
	and lying in a manger.	39:57
	And suddenly there was with the angel	39:59
	a multitude of the heavenly host	40:01
	praising God and saying glory to God	40:03
	in the highest, and on Earth peace among men	40:07
	with whom he is pleased.	40:11
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson, amen.	40:13
	(gentle organ music)	40:19
-	In the name of the Lord, our God,	41:18
	who has created us, who redeems us,	41:19
	and who supports us all the day long, amen.	41:23
	Let's join the angels, as the sermon topic	41:31
	this morning really is not an invitation	41:33
	to a premature or early death for any of us	41:37
	that we might join the angels in that way,	41:40
	as some have alluded to it,	41:42
	after having seen it in the paper this week.	41:44
	There is another meaning.	41:47
	And so this morning I would like to invite you	41:49
	to join the angels, to join the angels	41:53
	during this advent and this holy Christmas season.	41:57
	Where you see, as I understand the gospel	42:03
	of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ,	42:05
	and as I understand the gospel lesson	42:07
	for this day, the angels are the ones	42:09
	who know the secret.	42:12
	The angels are the ones who know	42:15
	the message of Christmas.	42:17
	The ones who understand the message of Christmas.	42:19
	The ones who come to share the message of Christmas.	42:23
	The ones indeed who speak the good news of Christmas.	42:27
	The angels are the ones who knowing	42:33
	the good news of Christmas come speaking the words,	42:36
	telling the message, and singing the song.	42:40
	They're the ones who have a story that touches	42:44
	the heart, the soul, the mind, and the spirit.	42:46
	They are the ones who have a word	42:50
	for all of God's children.	42:52
	In every place, in every time.	42:54
	A word my friends, even for you, and for me.	42:58
	So let's join the angels in understanding,	43:05
	in knowing, in telling, in singing, and in sharing	43:09
	the good news of this Christmas.	43:14
	And the angel said to them, be not afraid,	43:17
	for behold I bring you good news	43:20
	of a great joy which shall come to all the people.	43:23
	For you to is born this day in the city of David	43:26
	a savior who is Christ, the Lord.	43:29
	And this will be a sign for you.	43:33
	You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths	43:37
	and lying in a manger.	43:40
	And with that word, my friends,	43:43
	suddenly there was with the angel	43:46
	a multitude of the heavenly host	43:48
	singing praise to God, and saying glory to God	43:50
	in the highest, and on Earth peace among those	43:54
	with whom God is pleased.	43:58
	Let's join the angels.	44:03
	For what a word they had.	44:06
	What a message they brought, what a song they sang.	44:09
	Listen, would you?	44:13
	Let us hear again the words of the angels.	44:15
	The words of the angel and the multitudes.	44:22
	Not a command, but an exaltation.	44:26
	Not a call, but a song, a Gloria in excelsis Deo.	44:29
	Not a demand, but a proclamation.	44:35
	Not an imposition, but an invitation.	44:39
	Not mystery, but story.	44:42
	Not transcendence, but imminence and incarnation.	44:45
	Not strange, but personal, very, very personal.	44:49
	Not a question, but an exclamation.	44:54
	Not up there, or over there, or out there,	44:57
	but here, now, this place, this people, this time.	45:00
	Something happened which is of time,	45:07
	but is above time, which is in time,	45:09
	but beyond time, which is for time,	45:13
	but which is over time.	45:16
	Not to some people, but for all people,	45:18
	not to a people, but to you and me as God's people.	45:21
	The message came to all who would hear,	45:29
	and it comes to those of us today	45:32
	who are God's children, to us, and to our children,	45:33
	and to our children's children,	45:37
	and to their children, throughout all generations	45:39
	forever and forever.	45:42
	Let's join the angels, my friends.	45:44
	For what they said was not an ending, but a beginning.	45:48
	It was not a benediction, but it was a doxology.	45:51
	A doxa logos, glory to God.	45:54
	So let's join the angels in telling,	45:58
	in proclaiming, and in singing.	46:01
	For purely and simply this morning, my friends,	46:03
	I want to tell you that no greater words,	46:06
	no more important words,	46:12
	no greater story has ever been told,	46:16
	there are no words that have ever been uttered	46:21
	for mortal ears more important than the words	46:24
	which the angel gave and the multitude sang that night.	46:27
	For to you is born this day,	46:35
	in the city of David, a savior.	46:40
	Glory to God, in the highest and on Earth	46:45
	peace among those with whom God is pleased.	46:48
	No greater words have ever, ever been spoken.	46:54
	So let's join the angels in singing glory to God	47:02
	in the highest, and on Earth peace	47:05
	among those with whom God is pleased.	47:09
	Like the lines in Hamlet, when Shakespeare tells us,	47:11
	the bird of dancing singeth all night long.	47:14
	Is it any wonder then that the angels	47:17
	rejoiceth that night, all night?	47:20

-	Lord, oh God how we want Christmas.	0:04
	How badly we want Christmas.	0:10
	For here we are in a world that's filled with	0:13
	bad news and with good news.	0:16
	A world of war and rumors of war in Poland,	0:19
	in El Salvador, at the Golan Heights,	0:23
	in Tanzania, in Nicaragua, in Afghanistan,	0:26
	and you name many, many other places as can I.	0:29
	A world of pain and suffering as well as	0:32
	joy and celebration where friends and loved ones	0:35
	of yours and mine face the threat of cancer.	0:40
	And one word says it's bad news, to another it's good news.	0:45
	Where neighbors and friends have surgery	0:51
	and all turns out well.	0:52
	Where friends of yours and mine await the word	0:55
	of a doctor and know not what the future holds.	0:57
	Where a beautiful five year old girl is tragically killed	1:01
	in an automobile accident.	1:05
	A world where a baby is baptized for a couple's	1:08
	covenant together in marriage.	1:11
	Where young lives are committed to Christ.	1:14
	Where final exams are taken and there's good news	1:17
	and bad news.	1:22
	Where an 18 year old suffers an emotional breakdown	1:25
	and a 21 year old girl tells of finding a new relationship	1:30
	with Christ and a new relationship with her roommate	1:34
	and with her mother.	1:38
	This is the world in which you and I live.	1:41
	It is yours and mine this very moment.	1:43
	It is a world of sorrow, it is a world of hope.	1:46
	It's a world of darkness and daylight.	1:49
	It's a world of midnight and a world of dawn.	1:51
	A world of men and women, of boys and girls	1:56
	of people and places, of situations and issues,	1:59
	of threats and promises just like world	2:03
	to which the angel and the multitudes sang.	2:06
	This world just like that world.	2:13
	Oh God how we	2:17
	not only want Christmas but oh God how we need Christmas.	2:18
	God please give us Christmas again we pray.	2:23
	Give us Christmas for here and now, for today	2:27
	and for all our tomorrows.	2:29
	Oh how we want Christmas.	2:31
	It's like Carlyle Marney said in a Christmas sermon	2:33
	of his which he preached several years ago.	2:36
	"In all our modern moods and ways," he said,	2:39
	"I keep the terrible feeling that we have been	2:43
	over this wreaking, smoking ground before."	2:46
	We have been over this ground before.	2:54
	It is a time, it has always been a time	2:57
	of good news and bad news.	2:59
	It is a time of terror and of splendor.	3:01
	It always is.	3:06
	So let's join the angels, will you sing.	3:09
	Let us all sing, sing as the watchmen in Isaiah 52,	3:11
	where Isaiah says, "how beautiful upon the mountains	3:15
	are the feet of him who brings good tidings,	3:18
	who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good,	3:22
	who publishes salvation.	3:26
	Who says to Zion, your God reigns.	3:28
	Your watchmen lift up their voice.	3:32
	Together they sing for joy, for eye to eye	3:35
	they see the return of the Lord to Zion.	3:38
	Break forth together into singing oh you waste places	3:42
	of Jerusalem for the Lord has come for His people.	3:46
	He has redeemed Jerusalem.	3:49
	All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God."	3:52
	Let's join the angels, will you?	3:56
	Sing as John in his magnificent prologue to his gospel.	4:01
	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God	4:06
	and the Word was God.	4:11
	He was in the beginning with God.	4:12
	All things were made through Him.	4:14
	In Him was life and the life was the light of all people.	4:17
	The light shines in the darkness and the darkness	4:21
	has not overcome it.	4:24
	And the Word became flesh and dwelled among us	4:26
	full of grace and truth.	4:29
	We have beheld His glory, glory as of	4:31
	the only begotten Son of the Father.	4:34
	Let's join the angels will you?	4:38
	Let's join and sing, to paraphrase a well known	4:41
	Christmas carol, God rest you merry my dear friends.	4:43
	Let nothing you dismay.	4:48
	For Jesus Christ our Savior was born upon this day	4:49
	to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray.	4:54
	Oh tidings, tidings of comfort and joy.	4:59
	Oh tidings, tidings of comfort and joy.	5:04
	Let's join the angels will you?	5:09
	After the angel gave the message to the shepherds,	5:12
	a multitude of the heavenly host then joined the angel	5:16
	and came praising God and saying, "Glory to God	5:19
	in the highest and on earth peace, among those	5:23
	with whom God is pleased."	5:26
	There's a priority to these praises that I believe	5:28
	is not accidental.	5:32
	The first and most important response to the good news	5:35
	is to give glory to God in the highest.	5:39
	The song from the heavenly host tells us today	5:43
	among other things, to get our priorities in order.	5:46
	What is Christmas all about anyhow?	5:52
	Surely it is about Christmas trees and Christmas cards	5:55
	and giving and receiving and singing carols	5:58
	and saying prayers and reading the story	6:02
	of the nativity and getting together and sharing	6:04
	and hoping and praying and longing.	6:07
	Christmas is surely wonder and amazement at all,	6:09
	it is humility and openness and acceptance.	6:13
	The heavenly hosts tell us,	6:20
	what the first priority	6:25
	of Christmas is.	6:26
	And that is to give glory to God.	6:29
	Give glory to God who is in the highest	6:33
	and give to God the highest of glory.	6:37
	Most of us, indeed perhaps all of us here this morning	6:42
	have God somewhere in our Advent and Christmas experience.	6:49
	For some, He's in the heart and center.	6:56
	For some, lurking in the background.	6:59
	For some, looking over our shoulders.	7:01
	For some, listening in on all that we do and say.	7:04
	For some, waiting to be invited in.	7:08
	For some, mentioned in the songs that we sing,	7:11
	the music we hear, the stories we tell.	7:14
	Somewhere for perhaps all of us,	7:17
	in the midst of our Advent,	7:22
	Christmas, there is some of God.	7:24
	Just a little.	7:29
	A slight recollection or remembrance,	7:31
	a twinge of conscious or awareness that there is	7:34
	supposed to be something of God in Christmas.	7:37
	We understand that, we know that and we believe that.	7:42
	But perhaps not many of us, not even many of us	7:47
	here this morning,	7:51
	even at Advent and Christmas,	7:55
	give glory to God in highest places of our lives.	8:01
	Nor do many of us give God our highest glory.	8:08
	But you see, Christmas really is about God.	8:16
	It is God's story.	8:19
	Christmas is about God and it is about life.	8:22
	It is about God's life in us, with us, for us and to us.	8:25
	Christmas tells us that life has become,	8:30
	your life and my life has become God size.	8:33
	Life is no longer just your size and my size.	8:37
	And our greatness and our goodness and our potential	8:42
	as human beings, come not as we reduce God down to our size	8:45
	but as we come to know that Christ has come	8:50
	to make us God's size.	8:54
	As we humble ourselves before the vastness,	9:00
	the mystery, the majesty, the humanness	9:05
	and the holiness of God.	9:09
	So let's join the angels this morning and sing	9:12
	glory to God in the highest.	9:15
	If you were to respond to the question,	9:23
	what is the greatest gift that God could give us	9:25
	at this Christmas,	9:28
	what would you respond and say?	9:32
	If someone were to ask you, what do you think	9:38
	the greatest gift that God could give to you	9:40
	or to us as children of God today at this Christmas season	9:43
	what would it be?	9:49
	Well I happen to believe that the heavenly host	9:54
	gave the answer that most of us might give.	9:57
	The longing that surely most of the world has today	10:05
	is for peace.	10:11
	But perhaps, just perhaps,	10:16
	we've tried to build peace, or make peace, or work for peace	10:22
	or even God forbid, fight for peace	10:27
	on our own terms rather than on God's terms.	10:32
	Perhaps we've tried to do some of those things	10:40
	that we think would bring peace	10:42
	but we have not yet responded to the first message	10:43
	of the heavenly host.	10:48
	Perhaps we can have no real peace	10:53
	until we give glory to God in the highest.	10:58
	Maybe it is no accident that the angels sang,	11:05
	glory to God in the highest and then peace on earth	11:07
	with those whom God is pleased.	11:13
	Maybe just maybe, the first has to come first.	11:22
	Maybe glory to God really does have to come first.	11:30
	Maybe peace comes to us and among us only	11:36
	after God is highest for us.	11:39
	Surely one kind of peace will only come	11:47
	when we know that we really do belong to one another	11:49
	upon the face of this earth.	11:52
	That we really are one people.	11:54
	As Archibald Macleish, the author said	11:58
	when we first orbited the moon, some 13 years ago now	12:00
	And our astronauts described to us what this world	12:05
	really looked like from outer space	12:08
	and you remember those days.	12:10
	Archibald Macleish said, "To see the earth as it truly is	12:13
	small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence	12:18
	where it floats is to see ourselves as riders	12:22
	on earth together,	12:27
	neighbors on that bright loveliness,	12:30
	who know they are truly neighbors."	12:33
	One kind of peace surely will not come	12:39
	until we really know and believe and act on our belief	12:42
	that we really are neighbors.	12:45
	Surely as someone has reminded us,	12:48
	human beings have learned to fly through the air	12:51
	like the birds, they've learned to swim through the sea	12:54
	like the fish, now we must simply learn how to walk	12:57
	the earth like the children of God	13:01
	as brothers and sisters to one another.	13:04
	It surely is as the old adage that William Penn	13:08
	is supposed to have said.	13:11
	"We all must be governed by God or else	13:13
	we will be ruled by tyrants.	13:18
	We all must be governed by God or else	13:23
	we will be ruled by tyrants."	13:26
	How true that word is for the world in which	13:28
	you and I live today.	13:30
	We know the pain of that truth.	13:32
	We also know the peace, the majesty and the power of God.	13:37
	We know that God's power and majesty need to be given	13:43
	supreme place, we just need to be reminded of that.	13:46
	Rudyard Kipling reminds of that	13:50
	as he addresses the Almighty and says,	13:53
	"If drunk with sight of power,	14:00
	we loose wild tongues that have not thee in awe."	14:05
	Lord God of hosts, be with us yet	14:13
	lest we forget,	14:19
	lest we forget.	14:22
	Let's join the angels this morning in singing	14:27
	glory to God in the highest and on earth peace	14:30
	among those with whom God is pleased.	14:34
	There is a price to pay for this peace.	14:38
	That price which we are to pay is to be pleasing to God.	14:41
	Peace comes to nations perhaps only when	14:46
	they are pleasing to God.	14:49
	Peace comes perhaps even to communities	14:51
	only when they are pleasing to God.	14:54
	Peace comes even to families perhaps only	14:57
	when they are pleasing to God.	15:00
	Peace comes to you and me as individuals	15:02
	perhaps only when we as individual persons	15:05
	and our lives are pleasing to God.	15:09
	There is a price to pay.	15:14
	That price is simply to be pleasing to God.	15:17
	What gift would you like to have this Christmas?	15:23
	Love?	15:27
	The angel said, "to you is born this day	15:30
	in the city of David."	15:33
	You can have that love.	15:36
	What gift would you like this Christmas?	15:39
	Grace?	15:42
	The angel said, "to you is born this day	15:45
	in the city of David a Savior."	15:47
	You can have that grace.	15:51
	What gift would you like to have this Christmas	15:56
	Peace?	16:00
	To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior.	16:02
	You can have that peace.	16:08
	So I invite you this morning.	16:12
	Let's join the angels.	16:15
	Will you join with me saying, glory to God in the highest	16:17
	and on earth peace among those with whom God is pleased?	16:23
	Amen and amen.	16:31
	(organ instrumental music)	16:46
	(mumbled background choir singing with organ music)	17:11
-	As the people of God, let us affirm what we believe.	18:45
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	18:50
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	18:55
	to reconcile and make new,	18:58
	who works in us and others by the Spirit.	19:01
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	19:05
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	19:09
	to love and serve others,	19:12
	to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus	19:15
	crucified and risen, our Judge and our Hope	19:19
	in life, in death, in life beyond death	19:24
	God is with us, we are not alone.	19:29
	Thanks be to God.	19:33
	The Lord be with you.	19:35
	Let us pray.	19:39
	Oh great and eternal God, you who have revealed	19:52
	your wondrous love in the holy child of Bethlehem.	19:57
	Our hearts are gladdened in the glorious presence	20:02
	of your only begotten Son.	20:06
	When the morning stars sang together and all the angels	20:10
	of heaven proclaimed the Savior's birth	20:13
	there came the everlasting song in which we	20:17
	would humbly and earnestly join this hour.	20:21
	Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace,	20:25
	goodwill toward all people.	20:30
	Oh God, the good tidings of great joy	20:34
	find an echo in our hearts as we rejoice	20:38
	in the one who gives us light even amid darkness	20:42
	and who guides our feet into the way of peace.	20:47
	Like the shepherds of old, may we now climb the holy hill	20:53
	to Bethlehem to behold your Son, our blessed Lord.	20:58
	May His great love so fill our souls that we will go forth	21:05
	in His service bringing to our brothers and sisters	21:09
	cheer and hope, understanding and affection.	21:14
	May we so reflect His Spirit that we will be	21:20
	a blessing unto the sad and lonely,	21:23
	the wretched and the forgotten ones of this earth.	21:27
	Oh God, we pray for the happiness and well being	21:32
	of all your children everywhere and especially	21:36
	your children in Poland who are suffering this day.	21:40
	We beseech you oh God to bless those who are linked to us	21:46
	by the sweet bonds of family and friendship.	21:51
	Enable us now by the witness of your Spirit	21:55
	to know that love will never lose its own	21:59
	and that you keep your children ever near to you	22:03
	both in this world and in the world to come	22:08
	through Jesus Christ, the holy child of Bethlehem	22:12
	who has come among us once again.	22:17
	Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	22:22
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	22:28
	as it is in heaven.	22:31
	Give us this day our daily bread	22:33
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	22:36
	who trespass against us.	22:40
	And lead us not into temptation but deliver us	22:42
	from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power	22:46
	and the glory forever, amen.	22:50
	(soft organ instrumental music)	22:57
	(foreign language choir singing with organ music)	24:09
	(fast paced organ instrumental music)	25:36
	♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪	26:10
	♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪	26:13
	♪ In excelsis deo ♪	26:18
	♪ In excelsis deo ♪	26:25
	♪ Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria ♪	26:32
	♪ In excelsis deo ♪	26:40
	♪ Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo ♪	26:51
	♪ Glory in excelsis, ♪	27:14
	♪ Glory in excelsis deo ♪	27:17
	♪ Glory in excelsis deo ♪	27:26
	♪ In excelsis deo ♪	27:37
	♪ Gloria in excelsis deo ♪	27:51
	(loud organ instrumental music)	27:57
	(mumbled background choir singing with loud organ music)	28:34
-	Oh mighty God, the source of all our comfort and joy	29:37
	receive us and these our gifts as we dedicate them	29:42
	and ourselves a new unto you.	29:46
	Consecrate for us the experiences of this hour	29:49
	and lead us in the way of true understanding	29:53
	and faithful service through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	29:56
	(organ instrumental music of "Joy To the World")	30:04
	♪ Joy to the world the Lord is come ♪	30:32
	♪ Let earth receive her king ♪	30:38
	♪ Let every heart prepare him room ♪	30:43
	♪ And heaven and angels sing ♪	30:49
	♪ And heaven and angels sings ♪	30:52
	♪ And heaven, and heaven and angels sing ♪	30:55
	♪ Joy to the world the Savior reigns ♪	31:03
	♪ Let men their songs employ ♪	31:08
	♪ While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains ♪	31:14
	♪ Repeat the sounding joy ♪	31:20
	♪ Repeat the sounding joy ♪	31:23
	♪ Repeat, repeat the sounding joy ♪	31:26
	♪ No more let sins and sorrows grow ♪	31:34
	♪ Nor thorns infest the ground ♪	31:39
	♪ He comes to make his blessings flow ♪	31:44
	♪ Far as the curse is found ♪	31:51
	♪ Far as the curse is found ♪	31:53
	♪ Far as, far as the curse is found ♪	31:56
	♪ He rules the earth with truth and grace ♪	32:05
	♪ And makes the nations prove ♪	32:11
	♪ The glories of his righteousness ♪	32:16
	♪ And wonders of his love ♪	32:22
	♪ And wonders of his love ♪	32:25
	♪ And wonders, wonders of his love, amen ♪	32:28
-	At Christmas time and always	32:46
	the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,	32:49
	the love of God and the fellowship	32:52
	of the Holy Spirit be among you	32:55
	and remain with you always, amen.	32:57
	(soft organ instrumental music and mumbled choir singing)	33:08
	(soft organ instrumental music)	35:17

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Robert T. Young - "Let's Join the Angels!" (December 20, 1981)

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Sermon start time: (Part 2) 00:04. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 16:34.
The preacher argues that the message of Christmas is about God and giving glory to God. Christmas tells us that God comes to our life and our life has become God-size, so we shall humble ourselves before the awesomeness of God and join the angels in praise! (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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December 20, 1981

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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Advent

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Luke

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Luke 2:1-14

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