Debra Quilling-Allen - "Jesus: The Temple and Correct Change" (March 10, 1985)

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	(stately organ music)	0:03
	(footsteps echoing)	0:43
	(fast tumultuous organ music)	0:47
	(footsteps clicking)	2:51
	(formal organ music)	3:03
	(footsteps clicking)	3:37
	(footsteps clicking)	4:27
	(lively organ music)	4:33
	(congregation murmuring)	7:22
	(whimsical organ music)	7:32
	(footsteps clicking)	10:27
	(courtly organ music)	12:00
	(dramatic organ music)	16:15
-	Good morning.	16:54
	We welcome you to this service of worship.	16:55
	Tonight, at 7:30 p.m., we continue our celebration	16:58
	of the Bach Tercentenary with a special Bach Vespers	17:02
	here in the chapel, and we invite you	17:07
	to be present for that.	17:09
	A choir made up of people from the Durham area	17:11
	will be leading that vespers service.	17:15
	We welcome as our special musicians this morning,	17:19
	Thad and Susan Dankle, who have been singing	17:21
	in the chapel choir this year,	17:24
	and we welcome as our guest preacher this morning,	17:27
	the Reverend Debra Quilling.	17:31
	She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School	17:34
	and the Institute of Sacred Music there,	17:38
	and she is presently serving as Director	17:40
	of the Wesley Foundation	17:43
	at the University of South Carolina,	17:45
	where she leads the ministry of the United Methodist Church	17:48
	to college students at the University of South Carolina,	17:53
	and we welcome her this morning.	17:56
	Let us continue our worship.	17:59
	♪ Master ♪	18:08
	♪ Master ♪	18:13
	♪ We shall hold thy crown ♪	18:14
	♪ We have to hold thy crown ♪
	♪ And this key ♪	18:21
	♪ And this key ♪
	♪ We have the whole night long ♪	18:25
	♪ We have the whole night long ♪	18:26
	♪ And this day ♪	18:30
	♪ And this day ♪
	♪ And not a one ♪	18:34
	♪ And not a one ♪
	♪ And me ♪	18:38
	♪ And me ♪
	♪ God ♪	18:41
	♪ And not a one ♪	18:42
	♪ And me ♪	18:45
	♪ And me ♪	18:46
	♪ But, we have the moonlight calm and mission ♪	18:48
	♪ And not a one ♪ ♪ And not a one ♪ ♪ And not a one ♪	18:55
	♪ And not on ♪	18:58
	♪ On me ♪
	♪ And be caught ♪	19:00
	♪ I'd call out your word ♪	19:06
	♪ Will either mad or hurt ♪	19:09
	♪ But I am shorter when I am mad, call out ♪	19:15
	♪ I'd call out your word ♪	19:25
	♪ Will either mad, roll arms ♪	19:28
	♪ At your word ♪	19:35
	♪ And your mark ♪	19:37
	♪ We're lying in dirt ♪	19:40
	♪ We're lying in dirt ♪	19:41
	♪ We're lying in dirt ♪	19:44
	♪ We're lying in dirt ♪	19:46
	♪ You are all ♪	19:51
	♪ All ♪	19:52
	♪ Armed ♪	19:56
-	The psalm is number 593.	20:13
	Let us stand.	20:16
	(audience murmuring)	20:18
	Blessed are those whose way is blameless.	20:25
	Walk in the law of the Lord.	20:29
-	Walk in the law of the Lord.
-	Blessed are those who keep his testimonies.	20:32
	(congregation murmuring)	20:35
	Their whole heart.
	Who also do no wrong.	20:38
Congregation	But walk in his ways.	20:40
-	Thou has commanded	20:42
	thy precepts to be kept diligently.	20:45
Congregation	Oh, that my ways	20:48
	may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes.	20:49
-	That I shall not be put to shame.	20:52
Congregation	Having my eyes fixed	20:55
	on all thy commandments.	20:57
-	I will praise thee with an upright heart.	20:59
Congregation	When I learn thy righteous ordinances.	21:02
-	I will observe thy statutes.	21:05
Congregation	Oh, forsake me not utterly.	21:08
-	How can a young man keep his way pure?	21:11
Congregation	By guarding it according to thy word.	21:14
-	With my whole heart, I seek thee.	21:17
Congregation	Let me not wander from thy commandments.	21:20
-	I have laid up thy word in my heart.	21:23
Congregation	That I might not sin against thee.	21:26
-	Blessed be thou, oh, Lord.	21:29
Congregation	Teach me thy statutes.	21:31
-	With my lips, I declare all thy ordinances of thy mouth.	21:33
Congregation	In the way of thy testimonies,	21:38
	I delight as much as in all riches.	21:40
-	I will meditate on thy precepts.	21:43
Congregation	And fix my eyes on thy ways.	21:46
-	I will delight in thy statutes.	21:48
Congregation	I will not forget thy word.	21:51
	(grand organ music)	21:54
	(loud organ music plays over indecipherable choir hymn)	22:23
-	During the season of Lent,	25:06
	as we look at the cross of Jesus,	25:09
	as we look into our own hearts,	25:12
	we realize that although, by the cross,	25:14
	we have been made God's people, we are people	25:17
	who have preferred our wills to God's will.	25:21
	Therefore, let us begin this service of worship	25:25
	by humbly confessing our sin before God and one another.	25:27
	Be seated.	25:32
	(low rumbling)	25:34
	(church member clearing throat)	25:38
	(church member coughing)	25:43
	Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned	25:45
	against you in thought, word, and deed,	25:48
	by what we have done and by what we have left undone.	25:52
	We have not loved you with our whole heart.	25:57
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	26:00
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	26:04
	For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ,	26:08
	have mercy upon us and forgive us	26:11
	that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways	26:14
	to the glory of your name.	26:19
	Amen.	26:21
	Hear the good news.	26:26
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.	26:28
	That is God's own proof of his love toward us.	26:32
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	26:37
Congregation	In the name of Jesus Christ,	26:42
	you are forgiven.	26:44
-	Amen.	26:46
-	Let us pray.	26:57
	Open our hearts	27:00
	and minds, oh, God.	27:01
	(congregation murmuring along)
	By the power of your Holy Spirit,	27:03
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	27:06
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	27:09
	Amen.	27:14
	The first lesson is taken from Exodus,	27:17
	Chapter 20, Verses One through 17.	27:20
	And God spoke all these words, saying,	27:26
	"I am the Lord, your God, who brought you	27:30
	out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.	27:33
	You shall have no other gods before me.	27:38
	You shall not make for yourself a grave an image	27:42
	or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above	27:46
	or that is in the earth beneath	27:50
	or that is in the water under the earth.	27:52
	You shall not bow down to them or serve them,	27:55
	for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God,	27:59
	visiting the inequity of the parents upon the children	28:04
	to the third and the fourth generation	28:07
	of those who hate me.	28:09
	But, showing steadfast love to thousands of those	28:12
	who love me and keep my commandments.	28:16
	You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain,	28:21
	for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless	28:24
	who takes God's name in vain.	28:27
	Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.	28:30
	Six days you shall labor and do all your work,	28:34
	but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, your God.	28:38
	In it, you shall not do any work.	28:42
	You or your son or your daughter, your manservant,	28:45
	or your maid servant, your cattle, or the sojourner	28:49
	who is within your gates, for in six days,	28:53
	the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,	28:57
	and all that is in them and rested the seventh day.	29:00
	Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day	29:05
	and hallowed it.	29:08
	Honor your father and mother, that your days	29:11
	may be long in the land which the Lord, your God, gives you.	29:14
	You shall not kill.	29:18
	You shall not commit adultery.	29:20
	You shall not steal.	29:22
	You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.	29:24
	You shall not covet your neighbor's house.	29:28
	You shall not covet your neighbor's wife,	29:31
	or manservant, or maid servant, or ox, or ass,	29:33
	or anything that is your neighbor's.	29:37
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	29:41
	(papers shuffling)	29:43
	(soft organ music)	29:46
	♪ Come damsel ♪	29:59
	♪ Oh, how I cry to thee ♪	30:04
	♪ I cry to thee ♪	30:09
	♪ I cry to thee ♪	30:12
	♪ I cry to thee ♪	30:14
	♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪	30:18
	♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪
	♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪	30:21
	♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪
	♪ Lord, hear me, Lord ♪	30:24
	♪ Lord, hear me ♪
	♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪	30:27
	♪ My fair Lord ♪
	♪ Oh, thee ♪	30:31
	♪ And a town I'm harbored graciously ♪	30:34
	♪ Endure me ♪	30:43
	♪ Endure me ♪
	♪ Endure me ♪	30:48
	♪ Endure me ♪
	♪ I cannot have ♪	30:54
	♪ My bread, my cup ♪	30:56
	♪ My bread and cup ♪
	♪ My bread might fall ♪	30:58
	♪ My bread has dropped ♪
	♪ Before me ♪	31:02
	♪ They fall before me ♪
	♪ If thou would, Lord ♪	31:09
	♪ If thou would, Lord ♪
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪	31:12
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪
	♪ If thou would, Lord ♪	31:15
	♪ If thou would, Lord ♪
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪	31:18
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪
	♪ If thou would, Lord ♪	31:21
	♪ If thou will grant us ♪
	♪ Peace this day ♪	31:23
	♪ Just bless this day ♪
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪	31:26
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪
	♪ If thou, oh, Lord ♪	31:29
	♪ If only memories fade ♪
	♪ They found him ♪	31:32
	♪ At the speechless evening ♪	31:34
	♪ Evening ♪
	♪ If he should call ♪	31:39
	♪ If he shall call ♪
	♪ It's right ♪	31:44
	♪ It is right ♪
	♪ For me ♪	31:52
	♪ For me ♪
	♪ If he should call ♪	31:55
	♪ If he should call ♪
	♪ His light ♪	32:00
	♪ It's right ♪
	♪ For me ♪	32:08
	♪ For me ♪
	♪ If he should call ♪	32:11
	♪ And if he should call ♪
	♪ It's right ♪	32:16
	♪ It's right ♪	32:19
	♪ For me ♪	32:24
	♪ For me ♪
	♪ If he should call ♪	32:27
	♪ If he should call ♪
	♪ It's right ♪	32:32
	♪ It's right ♪	32:34
	♪ For me ♪	32:39
	♪ For me ♪
	♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪	32:42
	♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪
	♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪	32:47
	♪ Oh, may abide my presence ♪
	♪ Oh, may abide thy presence ♪	32:52
-	The second lesson is taken from the first letter	33:15
	to the Corinthians, Chapter one, Verses 22 through 25.	33:18
	For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,	33:25
	but we preach Christ crucified,	33:30
	a stumbling block to Jews and folly to gentiles.	33:34
	But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,	33:38
	Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God,	33:42
	for the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom	33:47
	and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.	33:51
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	33:56
	(church member coughing)	34:07
	The gospel lesson comes from the second chapter	34:13
	of the gospel according to John.	34:16
	The passover of the Jews was at hand	34:22
	and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.	34:26
	In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen	34:30
	and sheep and pigeons	34:34
	and the money changers at their business	34:37
	and making a whip of cords, he drove them all	34:42
	with the sheep and the oxen out of the temple.	34:46
	And he poured out the coins of the money changers	34:51
	and overturned their tables.	34:54
	And he told those who sold the pigeons,	34:57
	"Take these things away.	35:00
	"You shall not make my father's house a house of trade."	35:02
	His disciples remembered that it was written	35:09
	zeal for thy house shall consume me.	35:12
	And the Jews then said to him,	35:18
	"What sign have you to show us for doing this?"	35:21
	And Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple	35:27
	"and in three days, I will raise it up."	35:32
	The Jews then said, "It has taken 46 years	35:37
	"to build this temple and will you	35:40
	"raise it up in three days?"	35:43
	But, he spoke of the temple of his body.	35:47
	When, therefore, he was raised from the dead,	35:52
	his disciples remembered that he had said this	35:56
	and they believed the scripture	36:00
	and the word which Jesus had spoken.	36:03
	May God bless the reading of the word this day.	36:08
	This passage of scripture may indeed	36:18
	be one of the most difficult	36:20
	for us to hear about a Jesus who, as I understood	36:24
	while a child, was gentle and meek	36:30
	and kind and healing,	36:35
	the Jesus that held the children on his knees	36:38
	and comforted those who were in pain.	36:41
	The same Jesus comes into the temple	36:48
	and, making a whip of cords for himself,	36:53
	this Jesus begins to overturn	36:58
	everything that is in sight and to make disarray and chaos	37:02
	and Jesus is angry.	37:12
	John places the story not at the end of the gospel	37:18
	as is the way in which Mark and Matthew and Luke	37:23
	handle the story,	37:28
	a placing for the synoptic gospels that make sense	37:31
	because it gives us some reason for why Jesus	37:37
	by his own violence was answered with violence.	37:43
	Those in the temple saw him as a threat,	37:48
	and so they put him to death on the cross.	37:53
	But, instead of that placing, John chooses	37:57
	to have the story of Jesus coming into the temple	38:02
	to change what is happening there.	38:06
	At the beginning of his gospel,	38:11
	the story follows	38:16
	the baptism of Jesus.	38:19
	The story follows the calling of the disciples.	38:22
	The story follows	38:27
	the gentle changing of water into wine	38:30
	at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.	38:35
	John is trying to tell us through this story	38:42
	that this Jesus who comes in gentleness	38:48
	and loving kindness	38:51
	comes also to break into our lives	38:54
	in a way that shakes us loose	38:58
	from all those things which we have come	39:01
	to understand to be religious faith.	39:04
	Jesus comes,	39:11
	wham, into the temple	39:13
	out of a calmness in the gospel	39:15
	and money flies and pigeons fly	39:19
	and animals run from the temple.	39:21
	You can imagine the scene.	39:25
	The people who own the animals	39:27
	who have some investment in what is going on there	39:29
	running after the animals.	39:32
	The sheep and the oxen have found new freedom.	39:33
	And after the dust has settled,	39:40
	Jesus is alone with the leaders of the Jewish people.	39:44
	And they, like we, ask,	39:52
	"What sign can you show us for doing this?"	39:56
	(church member coughing)	40:03
	Jesus's answer is something like a riddle.	40:04
	He says, "I tell you,	40:08
	"destroy this temple and in three days, I will raise it up."	40:10
	John tries to make it clear for us.	40:18
	He tells us Jesus is talking	40:20
	about the temple of his own body.	40:22
	But the Jewish leaders did not know	40:28
	that's of which he spoke.	40:31
	And so, they respond by saying as we must respond	40:34
	in our own churches and even in this beautiful place	40:37
	called Duke Chapel,	40:40
	"It took us 46 years	40:44
	to build this structure	40:49
	"and you are telling us that now, in three days,	40:52
	"once it is torn down, you can raise it up."	40:58
	Jesus comes to tell us that what we hold dear,	41:06
	be they sacrifices, as was the case in the temple,	41:12
	those things that matter most to us that begin	41:17
	to take the place of God	41:22
	our structures,	41:28
	our Sunday school classes,	41:31
	our women's groups,	41:36
	our men's gatherings,	41:39
	our children's choirs,	41:42
	all of those things that begin	41:49
	to no longer be a means to an end,	41:52
	but sometimes for us as people	41:55
	who enjoy tradition and fight desperately against change,	42:00
	those of us who long to keep things the same	42:09
	find too often that our faith is locked up in those means	42:16
	and that it is in our own sacrificing	42:23
	that we find our meaning and the house of God	42:27
	becomes something less	42:32
	than that which had been our original faith	42:35
	and our original coming before God.	42:38
	Jesus breaks in in the same way that Jesus breaks in	42:44
	to the temple.	42:49
	Jesus breaks into our lives	42:52
	to tell us that God must be the center,	42:56
	to tell us that all those things	43:02
	which seem to matter so much to us	43:04
	are pushing God aside.	43:09
	Henry Nowan, a professor of mine at Yale	43:13
	and a fine writer and wonderful person,	43:19
	tells the story in one of his books	43:24
	about a woman who is taken into an asylum	43:27
	because she has lost her	43:33
	ability to cope in the world.	43:37
	When she arrives at this place, she has	43:41
	her hands, her fists knotted so tightly	43:44
	against each other	43:48
	that her nails are cutting into her hands.	43:51
	And yet, she will not loosen her grip,	43:55
	she will not let go of that which is	43:59
	whatever it is in her hands.	44:02
	So, the orderlies began to fight with her	44:07
	and to try to open her hand, finger by finger	44:09
	until they loosen her grip and find in each of her palms	44:15
	a dirty clammy coin,	44:19
	coins that she must have been holding like that	44:25
	for months, perhaps years,	44:29
	that had become her identity,	44:33
	that had become who she was	44:37
	and what she understood about herself.	44:40
	Those things about us that we will not change,	44:47
	those things about our church	44:54
	that we will not have changed	44:56
	can become for us like clammy coins,	45:01
	can become for us the death of our faith	45:06
	in God.	45:11
	Exodus tells us to have no other Gods before our God.	45:15
	So, today, it seems to me--	45:23

-	Discuss is there anything	0:03
	that comes before God	0:10
	in my life?	0:14
	As individuals, Raymond Brown tells us	0:20
	we are like temples, God's temples.	0:23
	John says that it is the body of Jesus	0:30
	of which he speaks,	0:33
	and yet, as we know well,	0:35
	that as God lives in us,	0:37
	we become temples of God.	0:38
	As individual people then,	0:44
	we let go or hold on to our clammy coins.	0:47
	And the church, as well, is a temple,	0:53
	a temple of God that for the Christian	0:59
	is not that much different	1:05
	than the temple to which Jesus came in his ministry.	1:09
	A familiar story,	1:17
	but one that I think is probably worth sharing again	1:18
	is a story by a psychologist	1:23
	by the name of Howard Clinebell.	1:25
	From Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling,	1:30
	one of the first books one reads upon entering seminary.	1:32
	The story is about us.	1:42
	First it is about a small group of people	1:46
	who determine that living on the coastline as they do,	1:52
	they could do something to save the many, many people	1:56
	who are shipwrecked and drown	2:02
	and can not be saved.	2:07
	And so they determined that they will take an old boat	2:10
	and when the seas are highest	2:16
	and the storms rage,	2:18
	they will go out and rescue people.	2:21
	And they do this for several years,	2:27
	they rescue people.	2:29
	They bring them in and they dry them off	2:30
	and the give them comfort	2:33
	and they restore them.	2:35
	And then as their fame spreads,	2:39
	this life saving crew is joined by others	2:43
	who has been saved by them	2:47
	and by others yet who just want to have a part	2:51
	in something that they feel is meaningful.	2:54
	And so the little group grows	2:59
	and as they grow they realize	3:03
	that they can now use more boats	3:06
	to save those who are drowning in the sea.	3:09
	And so they purchase more boats	3:13
	and as their group continues to grow	3:17
	they decide what they need no longer is the little hut	3:20
	that they have used over the years to dry the people	3:23
	and let them sit before a warm fire,	3:26
	but instead they need to have something	3:28
	a little more welcoming,	3:30
	some place where people can relax and rest.	3:33
	And so, they exchange the old cots	3:35
	for new beds.	3:39
	They build a better building	3:42
	and a larger building.	3:43
	They buy new boats.	3:46
	And they begin to have special meetings	3:51
	during the week.	3:52
	They gather and they even have a little liturgical lifeboat	3:54
	that they use for initiations.	3:59
	And people come and have fellowship together	4:02
	and enjoy each other.	4:06
	One day,	4:11
	a shipwreck like they had not seen for years took place	4:15
	and many, many dying people were rescued.	4:19
	Now, these people were brought to the new clubhouse.	4:26
	But in an effort not to dirty up the place,	4:31
	they washed the people on the outside of the building	4:35
	and when they were clean enough,	4:39
	only then let them come in.	4:41
	They determined immediately after that experience	4:47
	that what they really needed were some showers	4:50
	on the outside of the building	4:53
	so that they could get people ready	4:56
	and then let them come in.	4:58
	In fact, they decided they'd build yet another building	5:00
	for the people who had been shipwrecked to recover	5:02
	and be cared for.	5:07
	As the club continued to grow,	5:11
	there was some who felt that perhaps the day was behind them	5:16
	when they needed to be going out in their boats	5:21
	and saving people.	5:23
	And so, some among them who protested	5:27
	that kind of decision,	5:31
	said we began with life saving,	5:33
	that's our route.	5:36
	And we need to be there, we need to do that.	5:37
	And we need to perhaps get rid of some of our trimmings	5:40
	in order to do that.	5:44
	So things aren't quite so nice anymore.	5:46
	But the larger part of the group said,	5:50
	well, if you feel that way,	5:52
	why don't you just go on down the coast	5:53
	and get your own house and your own boat	5:55
	and so they did.	5:58
	And as history repeats itself,	6:03
	over the years, the same thing happened again.	6:05
	The clubhouse grew down the beach	6:08
	and another splinter group	6:12
	went off to do life saving.	6:13
	And to this day, along this coastline,	6:19
	scattered every few miles,	6:24
	there are life saving stations, clubhouses,	6:28
	and wrecks still happen at sea	6:32
	and people still are in jeopardy for their lives.	6:35
	People still drown.	6:42
	In fact, the majority of the people drown.	6:45
	The season of Lent is a time when	6:55
	we are reminded of the humanity of God	7:00
	in coming as Jesus.	7:05
	It's a time a time when we're reminded	7:08
	that God breaks into our lives	7:10
	and longs to live in us	7:13
	even as we become the house of God.	7:15
	Lent is a time	7:21
	when we reflect upon our own beings.	7:23
	And ready ourselves to walk that same journey	7:29
	that Jesus has walked before us.	7:35
	Going to ask now	7:44
	that you meditate with me	7:47
	as we share together a psalm	7:53
	that is a familiar psalm	7:54
	and one that reassures us of God's presence in our lives	7:58
	and God's promise for healing that only comes	8:04
	as we admit our brokenness and our need to be real.	8:08
	Let us pray.	8:14
	(gentle music)	8:22
	♪ The Lord is my shepard ♪	8:28
	♪ I shall not want ♪	8:35
	♪ Beside restful waters ♪	8:43
	♪ I am led ♪	8:50
	♪ In the pasture of plenty ♪	8:56
	♪ My soul lies down ♪	9:03
	♪ So come all you thirsty ♪	9:11
	♪ Your soul shall be refreshed ♪	9:19
	♪ And come all afflicted ♪	9:25
	♪ And be healed ♪	9:31
	♪ For though we walk in the darkness now ♪	9:38
	♪ No evil shall we fear ♪	9:45
	♪ If the light God's love ♪	9:52
	♪ Be at our side ♪	9:57
	♪ Come all you hungry ♪	10:06
	♪ At God's table find the bread ♪	10:12
	♪ And come now, be anointed ♪	10:18
	♪ Overflow ♪	10:25
	♪ With God's goodness ♪	10:31
	♪ And God's kindness ♪	10:34
	♪ For the rest of your years ♪	10:37
	♪ As we dwell within the house ♪	10:44
	♪ Of our God ♪	10:50
	♪ Let us dwell within the house ♪	10:57
	♪ Of our God ♪	11:04
	Amen.	11:15
	(organ music)	11:38
	(organ music)	12:21
	(choral music)	12:30
	(choral music)	12:57
	(choral music)	13:39
	(choral music)	14:07
-	Let us unite in this historic confession	14:58
	of the Christian faith.	15:00
	I believe in God the Father all mighty,	15:03
	maker of Heaven and Earth	15:06
	and in Jesus Christ his only son, our lord,	15:08
	who is conceived by the Holy Spirit,	15:12
	born of the Virgin Mary,	15:15
	suffered under Pontus Pilot,	15:17
	was crucified dead and buried.	15:19
	The third day, he rose from the dead.	15:22
	He ascended into Heaven	15:25
	and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty	15:27
	from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	15:32
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	15:36
	the holy catholic church,	15:38
	the communion of saints,	15:40
	the forgiveness of sins,	15:42
	the resurrection of the body,	15:44
	and the life everlasting.	15:45
	Amen.	15:48
	The Lord be with you.	15:51
Congregation	And also with you.	15:52
-	Let us pray.	15:54
	Oh loving God, and shepard of the faithful,	16:11
	as we journey toward the cross with thy dear son,	16:16
	help us to see the cross	16:22
	a sign of your love,	16:24
	the very definition of what it means to be like you.	16:29
	Even as he bore the cross for others,	16:36
	allowing himself to endure suffering and humiliation	16:40
	for others,	16:46
	even as he interceded for others	16:50
	while he hung on his cross,	16:53
	we now follow his example and pray now	16:58
	for the needs of others.	17:02
	We pray for those who abuse us,	17:09
	who misunderstand, who ignore, hurt us.	17:13
	Even as he prayed for the very crowd who shouted	17:19
	to crucify him.	17:22
	We pray for these our brothers and sisters.	17:26
	We pray for governmental leaders,	17:34
	those who sit in judgment upon others,	17:37
	those who are entrusted with power,	17:40
	those who bear the burden of the just ordering of society.	17:45
	Knowing from our Lord's crucifixion,	17:51
	the awful consequences of governmental power	17:53
	and national arrogance,	17:56
	we pray for wisdom, justice and compassion	18:00
	among those who lead us.	18:05
	We pray for those who suffer,	18:11
	suffer due to illness or disease,	18:15
	persecution, chronic pain.	18:17
	Because the cross reminds us that you are a God	18:22
	who knows what it means to hurt,	18:27
	we lift up these hurting souls before you.	18:31
	We pray for all those engage in	18:38
	or who are the victims of violence.	18:40
	The one who would not allow his disciples	18:46
	to take up the sword is scandalized	18:48
	by his followers dying and being killed by the sword.	18:51
	Therefore, we call upon our fellow Christians	18:57
	in Lebanon to stop killing one another.	18:59
	We call upon our fellow Christians in Ireland	19:04
	to stop killing on another.	19:07
	We call on our fellow Christians in Central America	19:11
	to stop killing one another.	19:14
	We call upon our own government	19:18
	to seek solutions to international dilemmas	19:20
	which are not dependent upon violence.	19:24
	Even from the cross he interceded for us,	19:32
	had pity upon us,	19:37
	the very ones who betrayed him by our lives,	19:39
	our values, our unfaithfulness.	19:42
	Therefore we have been bold to intercede for others.	19:46
	In the name of him, who loves us	19:51
	and gave himself up for us,	19:55
	Amen.	20:00
	As a forgiven and reconciled people,	20:03
	let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God.	20:05
	(organ music)	20:14
	(organ music)	20:36
	♪ Lord create in me a purpose ♪	21:15
	♪ Lord create in me a purpose ♪	21:21
	♪ And give me, Lord, a new concentrated mind ♪	21:29
	♪ And give me, Lord, a new concentrated mind, ♪	21:33
	♪ Lord create me, ♪	21:39
	♪ Lord create in me a new heart ♪	21:42
	♪ Lord in create me a new heart ♪	21:50
	♪ And give me, Lord a new concentrated mind ♪	21:59
	♪ And give me, Lord a new concentrated mind ♪	22:04
	♪ Now cast me not from your presence ♪	22:14
	♪ Oh cast me not from your presence, Lord ♪	22:22
	♪ And take not your holy spirit from me ♪	22:30
	♪ And take not your holy spirit from me ♪	22:36
	♪ Oh Lord restore unto me your help ♪	22:48
	♪ And with joyous care, ♪	22:53
	♪ With joyous care about ♪	22:56
	♪ And with joyous care, with joyous care about me ♪	23:00
	♪ Oh Lord restore me ♪	23:10
	♪ Oh Lord restore me ♪	23:11
	♪ Oh lord store me your hand ♪	23:13
	♪ And with joyous care, with joyous care ♪	23:18
	♪ And with joyous care ♪	23:23
	♪ Hold me, Lord ♪	23:27
	(organ music)	23:44
	(organ music)	24:14
	(organ music)	25:05
	(organ music)	25:47
	♪ Praise God from who all blessing flow ♪	26:17
	♪ Praise him, all creatures here below ♪	26:26
	♪ Praise him above, ye heav'nly host ♪	26:34
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	26:43
	♪ Amen ♪	26:53
	Gracious God,	27:03
	when we meditate upon your love for us	27:05
	as demonstrated upon the cross	27:07
	what can feel but gratitude?	27:10
	What can we say but thanks?	27:12
	Receive what we pray, these our gifts,	27:15
	as a sign of our gratitude	27:19
	for your gift to us in Jesus Christ.	27:20
	Praying our father, who art in Heaven,	27:24
	hallowed by thy name.	27:27
	They kingdom come, they will be done on Earth,	27:29
	as it is in Heaven.	27:33
	Give us this day our daily bread,	27:35
	and forgive us our trespasses	27:37
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	27:40
	And lead us not into temptation	27:43
	but deliver us from evil.	27:46
	For thine is the kingdom, and the power	27:48
	and the glory forever, amen.	27:51
	(bright organ music)	27:56
	(choral music)	28:55
	(choral music)	29:54
	(choral music)	30:54
	(choral music)	32:08
	Now, may the grace of our lord and savior,	33:01
	Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship	33:03
	of the Holy Spirit be with you all now	33:07
	and always,	33:10
	Amen.	33:13
	(organ music)	33:18
	(organ music)	34:17
	(organ music)	34:27
	(organ music)	36:43
	(organ music)	37:50
	(organ music)	38:34
	(clapping)	38:48
	(people chattering)	38:54

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Title:

Debra Quilling-Allen - "Jesus: The Temple and Correct Change" (March 10, 1985)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 36:18. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 08:13.
When we allow things to take the place of God in our lives, Jesus comes in, as he did to the temple, and clears them out so that we once again place God at the center. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Jesus breaks in in the same way that Jesus breaks in to the temple. Jesus breaks into our lives to tell us that God must be the center, to tell us that all those things which seem to matter so much to us are pushing God aside.”

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March 10, 1985

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Quilling-Allen, Debra

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Duke University. Chapel

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