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	(gentle instrumental music)	0:02
	(singing)	0:04
	♪ Who would not fear his holy name ♪	0:06
	♪ And laud and magnify ♪	0:12
	♪ Oh, for the living flame ♪	0:22
	♪ From his own altar brought ♪	0:28
	♪ To touch our lips, our minds inspire ♪	0:34
	♪ And wing to heaven our thought ♪	0:41
	♪ God is our strength and song ♪	0:50
	♪ And his salvation ours ♪	0:56
	♪ Then be his love in Christ proclaimed ♪	1:02
	♪ With all our ransomed powers ♪	1:08
	♪ Stand up and bless the Lord ♪	2:34
	♪ The Lord your God adore ♪	2:40
	♪ Stand up and bless his glorious name ♪	2:46
	♪ Henceforth for evermore ♪	2:52
	♪ Amen ♪	2:59
-	If we confess our sins,	3:11
	the call to confession	3:17
	is intended for all of us	3:20
	who need God's help.	3:22
	Let us join together	3:26
	in the unison prayer of confession.	3:27
	Most merciful God,	3:39
	we confess that we have sinned against you	3:41
	in thought, word, and deed.	3:45
	We have not loved you with our whole heart.	3:48
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	3:52
	We pray you, of your mercy, forgive what we have been.	3:56
	Amend what we are.	4:01
	Direct what we shall be	4:03
	that we may delight in your will	4:06
	and walk in your ways	4:09
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	4:11
	Amen.	4:14
	And hear these words of assurance,	4:16
	as they are recorded in the Gospel of John.	4:19
	"Peace I leave with you.	4:25
	"My peace I give unto you.	4:28
	"Let not your heart be troubled.	4:32
	"Neither let it be afraid.	4:36
	"For God so loved the world	4:41
	"that he gave his only begotten son,	4:45
	"that whoever believes in him should not perish,	4:49
	"but have eternal life."	4:55
	Amen.	5:00
	And now as our Lord Jesus Christ has taught us,	5:03
	let us humbly pray together the Lord's prayer.	5:06
	"Our Father who art in heaven,	5:12
	"hallowed be thy name.	5:15
	"Thy kingdom come.	5:17
	"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	5:19
	"Give us this day our daily bread,	5:24
	"and forgive us our trespasses	5:27
	"as we forgive those who trespass against us,	5:30
	"and lead us not into temptation,	5:34
	"but deliver us from evil.	5:37
	"For thine is the kingdom, and the power,	5:39
	"and the glory forever.	5:42
	"Amen."	5:45
	(gentle instrumental music)	5:47
	(singing in a foreign language)	6:31
	The Lord be with you.	9:57
	(mumbling)	10:00
	Let us pray.	10:01
	Oh, God, the protector of all that trust in you,	10:09
	without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy,	10:13
	increase and multiply upon us your mercy	10:17
	that you being our ruler and guide,	10:22
	we may so pass through things temporal,	10:25
	that we finally lose not the things eternal.	10:28
	Grant this, oh, heavenly Father,	10:32
	for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.	10:34
	Amen.	10:38
	The scripture lesson is recorded	10:44
	in the Gospel according to Saint Luke,	10:46
	chapter four, verses 14 through 21.	10:51
	"And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee,	11:02
	"and a report concerning him went out	11:09
	"through all the surrounding country,	11:11
	"and he taught in their synagogues,	11:15
	"being glorified by all,	11:18
	"and he came to Nazareth,	11:23
	"where he had been brought up,	11:26
	"and he went to the synagogue,	11:29
	"as his custom was on the Sabbath day,	11:33
	"and he stood up to read,	11:38
	"and there was given to him the Book of the prophet Isaiah.	11:41
	"He opened the book and found the place	11:48
	"where it was written.	11:51
	"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me	11:54
	"because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.	11:59
	"He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives	12:07
	"and recovering of sight to the blind,	12:14
	"to set at liberty those who are oppressed,	12:19
	"to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,	12:26
	"and he closed the book	12:34
	"and gave it back to the attendant	12:37
	"and sat down.	12:40
	"And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him,	12:44
	"And he began to say to them,	12:55
	"Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."	12:58
	Amen.	13:13
	(gentle instrumental music)	13:15
	(singing)	13:24
	Let us unite in the affirmation of faith.	13:58
All	We believe in God,	14:05
	who has created and is creating,	14:07
	who has come in the true man, Jesus,	14:10
	to reconcile and make new,	14:13
	who works in us and others by his spirit.	14:16
	We trust him.	14:20
	He calls us to be in his church,	14:22
	to celebrate his presence,	14:25
	to love and serve others,	14:27
	to seek justice and resist evil,	14:30
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	14:33
	our judge and our hope.	14:37
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	14:39
	God is with us.	14:44
	We are not alone.	14:46
	Thanks be to God.	14:48
	Let us pray.	15:05
	Oh, God, our heavenly Father,	15:11
	we lift unto you our hopes,	15:15
	our doubts,	15:20
	our questions,	15:24
	our struggles,	15:28
	our desires,	15:31
	our praises.	15:34
	The whole earth and everything that lives is yours.	15:39
	The heavens declare your glory.	15:47
	Nature declares your power,	15:50
	and the cross declares your love,	15:55
	and so we offer our prayers of thanksgiving.	16:03
	We thank you that through the power of your spirit,	16:08
	that darkness can be turned into light,	16:13
	our fears changed into faith,	16:18
	sufferings into victory,	16:24
	and despair into a trust	16:28
	that gives meaning and certainty to life.	16:32
	For talents, for food and shelter, for high hopes,	16:39
	for community, for knowledge,	16:45
	for one another,	16:49
	Lord, we give you thanks,	16:53
	and for those who try to gain justice and peace,	16:58
	for those who risk themselves	17:03
	to bring constructive change,	17:06
	for those who give of themselves in service,	17:11
	Lord, we give you thanks.	17:16
	For life itself,	17:21
	for strength to meet life's demands,	17:25
	for hope to persevere,	17:30
	for the assurance that it is your will	17:34
	that we might all	17:39
	be made whole,	17:42
	Lord, we give you thanks,	17:44
	and, oh, God, we pray for others.	17:51
	We commend unto your care and ask your blessings	17:55
	on those who suffer the pain of disease and injury,	17:59
	on those who are deeply troubled	18:05
	and who struggle with confused minds and spirits,	18:09
	on those families being reunited from the horrors of war.	18:15
	Grant that those in authority and command	18:22
	might be strengthened	18:27
	with wisdom,	18:29
	sensitivity,	18:32
	and patience,	18:35
	that those toiling in lonely places	18:38
	or at bitter tasks	18:41
	might have courage to endure,	18:45
	that those who mourn might be comforted.	18:50
	We commend those who are near and dear to each of us,	18:58
	whether they be with us,	19:03
	in distant places,	19:07
	or gone from us to thy heavenly kingdom,	19:10
	and, oh, God, we finally pray for ourselves.	19:17
	Participate in our lives	19:22
	and in our life together.	19:26
	Bless our good intentions,	19:30
	and give us courage to deal with our fears,	19:33
	and help us to see things clearly and steadily,	19:38
	and as a whole	19:43
	so that we might act responsibly.	19:46
	Forgive us in times of mistake,	19:52
	and judge us in times of wrong,	19:56
	and grant us your peace.	20:03
	We pray all of this in the name of Jesus Christ,	20:10
	our Lord,	20:15
	our savior.	20:17
	Amen.	20:20
	I want to make some brief announcements.	20:34
	The congregation and those worshiping by radio	20:39
	are most cordially invited to come to the chapel	20:45
	this afternoon at four o'clock,	20:49
	and at that time,	20:52
	the Duke Chapel Choir and Orchestra	20:53
	will present Haydn's "Lord Nelson's Mass"	20:57
	under the direction of Benjamin Smith,	21:02
	and also we want to welcome to this congregation	21:08
	and to the Duke University Chapel pulpit today	21:12
	Dr. Tom Skinner,	21:15
	who will deliver the sermon at this time.	21:18
-	It's probably going to take me the course of the sermon	21:32
	to get adjusted to these heights.	21:35
	We're so distant, (chuckle)	21:41
	and I hope that somehow (chuckle)	21:44
	in this brief time together	21:46
	we can get next to each other.	21:47
	Our generation has been characterized by some people	21:55
	as a group of people who were interested in change.	22:00
	Only those people who have buried their heads in the sand	22:08
	like the virtual ostrich can say there is nothing wrong.	22:12
	The great question is,	22:19
	how does one spend a lifetime	22:22
	producing the kind of community	22:25
	in his generation	22:28
	that God intended man to be?	22:31
	There are some alternatives.	22:35
	One alternative is that we can	22:38
	look at the existing messed-up world we live in,	22:40
	and we can withdraw from it.	22:45
	We can sit on the mountainside	22:47
	and contemplate our navels	22:48
	and say, "let the rest of the world go by."	22:51
	"I will trip out.	22:54
	"I refuse to get involved.	22:55
	"I will have nothing to do with it.	22:57
	"I will go my own way."	22:59
	Another alternative is that we can look	23:04
	at the existing world and say that the only solution	23:06
	is to bomb it out, destroy it,	23:09
	and start all over again.	23:11
	The only problem with that solution	23:14
	is that it presupposes that the system or the world	23:16
	is made up of facilities	23:19
	and that by destroying the facilities of the system,	23:20
	one can change the system.	23:24
	The third alternative is that there are those of us	23:29
	who say that we will change the system by going in it,	23:31
	and we will change it from within.	23:34
	"I am going to school, get my degree,	23:37
	"and go in the system and try to work from within."	23:40
	The only problem with that alternative	23:44
	is that the nature of the system	23:46
	is that you must first get in it.	23:49
	Then you must work your way up to a position of power	23:51
	so you can affect change,	23:54
	and the nature of the system	23:56
	is that by the time you work your way to that position,	23:58
	you have so prostituted your way	24:01
	on the way up that you forgot what you came there for.	24:03
	The third alternative is that we can pull together	24:08
	to produce a new community,	24:12
	a new community,	24:16
	one that will be a live marvel	24:19
	in the middle of this messed up world,	24:21
	that will demonstrate the kind of community	24:24
	that God had in mind.	24:27
	Essentially, that is what God had in mind for the church.	24:29
	We meet this morning as the church,	24:35
	but the question is, do we know what it is?	24:37
	Jesus said to his disciples,	24:42
	when he arrived on the scene,	24:47
	he said, "Repent.	24:48
	"The kingdom has arrived.	24:51
	"Repent.	24:55
	"The kingdom has arrived."	24:56
	And obviously, in the mind of Jesus,	24:59
	there was some kind of community he was about building,	25:01
	and he wanted to announce the fact	25:06
	that that community had arrived,	25:08
	that he had arrived,	25:11
	and that he would be about the business	25:12
	of in this messed-up world producing a new community.	25:14
	The question is, what does it look like?	25:21
	How would you recognize it if you saw it?	25:23
	What is this new structure that Jesus is about building?	25:26
	When Jesus was teaching his disciples how to pray,	25:34
	he said, "When you pray,	25:37
	"here is what I want you to lay on the Father."	25:39
	Say, "Your will be done	25:42
	"on earth the way it is in heaven."	25:46
	Your will be done on earth	25:50
	the way it is in heaven.	25:54
	Now, obviously, in the mind of Jesus,	25:58
	there was something going on in heaven	26:01
	that was not necessarily going on in earth	26:04
	that he wanted to happen in earth,	26:07
	and heaven is defined as that sphere of influence	26:10
	that God is in control of.	26:14
	It happens that God is not in control of earth,	26:17
	that God is not in control of the world system.	26:22
	The world system is in the control of other hands,	26:27
	other than the hands of Jesus Christ.	26:31
	It is difficult to accept that	26:34
	because we live in a system,	26:36
	especially in America,	26:38
	where we have convinced ourselves	26:40
	that God runs the system.	26:42
	We have stuck his name in our money, "in God we trust."	26:44
	We have put him into the salute to the flag,	26:48
	"one nation under God,"	26:50
	which we all know to be a lie,	26:52
	but we have at least fooled ourselves	26:54
	into believing that God runs the world system,	26:56
	especially America,	26:59
	and we have produced a certain kind of patriotic religion,	27:00
	which says, "Return with us now	27:04
	"to those thrilling days of yesteryear	27:06
	"when out of the past came a haughty law and order.	27:08
	"George Washington prayed at Valley Forge,	27:11
	"and Ben Franklin opened the first Congress in prayer.	27:14
	"This is a God fearing nation,"	27:17
	and somehow we have convinced ourselves	27:20
	that America was founded by God-fearing people.	27:22
	Now the tendency, of course, is that God is on our side,	27:26
	and we put bumper stickers on our cars	27:29
	saying, "Support God and country,"	27:32
	as if they go together,	27:34
	and therefore anybody who is opposed to us	27:35
	has to be opposed to God	27:38
	because God is on our side.	27:40
	Therefore it justifies us killing, oppressing,	27:43
	and bombing anybody that disagrees with us	27:46
	because after all,	27:48
	they are godless.	27:50
	That is one of the greatest lies perpetuated today.	27:52
	God is not in control of the world system,	27:55
	but he would like to become.	27:58
	That is the reason why the Bible declares	28:01
	that the kingdoms of this world shall become.	28:03
	They are not now the kingdoms of our Lord	28:07
	and of his Christ,	28:10
	and the purpose of God is to produce on earth	28:12
	a group of people who represent the kingdom of God	28:16
	who will become radical subversives, saboteurs,	28:20
	infiltrators, if you please,	28:24
	representing the kingdom of God	28:26
	for the purpose of committing spiritual sabotage	28:28
	on this world system	28:32
	because it is not in the controls of God.	28:34
	Now already I've used some words	28:38
	that probably frighten the daylights	28:40
	out of those of you who are politically minded.	28:42
	"Saboteur," "fifth columnist," and "infiltrator"	28:45
	would scare the daylights out of some people.	28:48
	Put "saboteur," "fifth columnist,"	28:53
	and "infiltrator" together,	28:55
	and we think about Communism.	28:56
	Then a guy with a black face and a beard says that,	28:58
	and right away, we're scared,	29:01
	but that is not quite what I have in mind.	29:04
	If you understand that the world system	29:09
	is not the way God intends it to be,	29:13
	it means that God wants to produce	29:16
	in the system a group of people	29:19
	who will be live models	29:21
	on earth of what is happening in heaven.	29:23
	That is what Jesus meant when he says,	29:26
	"Pray, 'Your will be done on earth	29:28
	"the way it is in heaven.'"	29:31
	God needs on earth a radical colony of people	29:33
	who derive their lifestyle from Jesus Christ	29:37
	and who will live out that lifestyle on earth	29:41
	to demonstrate on earth what's going on in heaven,	29:44
	so that any time anybody wants to know	29:49
	what is happening in heaven,	29:52
	all they have to do is check with us.	29:54
	So when the lonely	29:59
	and the despondent	30:01
	and the frustrated of the world stand up and say,	30:03
	"Where has love gone?	30:07
	"Where does one find somebody who really cares?"	30:10
	There is a radical community of people	30:16
	who stand up and say,	30:18
	"Among us we practice love,"	30:20
	and when the oppressed and the wretched of the earth	30:24
	stand up and say, "Where can a guy get a fair shake?	30:27
	"Where can a man find justice in this messed up,	30:30
	"injust, oppressive world?	30:33
	"Where can a guy get a square deal?"	30:35
	The new community,	30:38
	this radical colony of people on the earth,	30:39
	stand up and say, "Over here we practice justice."	30:42
	What does this new community look like,	30:49
	this group of people called the church?	30:54
	How would you distinguish them?	30:57
	Will they be recognized because of the fact	31:00
	that once a week, on Sunday from 11:00 till 11:59,	31:02
	with one minute for chimes,	31:07
	they meet in a very pompous structure?	31:09
	Or will they be recognized because that they carry Bibles	31:13
	or because they recite religious language?	31:16
	How? How would you know this community if you saw them?	31:19
	Who are these people called the new community,	31:24
	called the church,	31:27
	called the kingdom of God?	31:28
	What makes them different from anybody else?	31:30
	And I don't need to suggest to you	31:36
	that if you're going to build a new community,	31:37
	you have to have new people.	31:40
	No way you can have a new society without new folk.	31:43
	The tragedy of our time is that we keep trying	31:48
	to produce new worlds, new communities, new structures	31:52
	without understanding that structures	31:56
	and communities are essentially people	31:58
	and that you cannot talk about building new institutions	32:02
	or new anything without reconstituting people,	32:05
	and while we spend a lot of time	32:10
	talking about building new systems,	32:12
	executives spend a lot of time in business	32:15
	revamping the management process and the management system	32:18
	of their businesses,	32:21
	making things more efficient,	32:23
	beefing up the profit centers of the company,	32:25
	very little time is spent by most business executives	32:28
	learning ways to reconstitute the people in the business,	32:31
	or to reconstitute the people in the education institutions,	32:35
	or reconstitute the people in the communities of America.	32:39
	Essentially if you want to fundamentally change the world,	32:45
	you have got to fundamentally change people.	32:49
	Now Jesus laid that very heavy rap	32:56
	on a man who came to him one evening	33:01
	in the third chapter of John.	33:03
	His name was Nicodemus.	33:05
	Nicodemus was a member	33:08
	of the highest ruling council among Jews.	33:09
	He was one of the head honchos in the religious setup.	33:14
	If you wanted anything to happen in the presbytery	33:19
	of the Sanhedrin Council,	33:23
	you had to check with Nicodemus.	33:25
	Nicodemus came to Jesus that evening,	33:28
	and Nicodemus said, "We know that you	33:30
	"are a teacher come from God.	33:34
	"Nobody can pull off the things you're pulling off,	33:36
	"except God be with him,"	33:38
	and he said, "We,"	33:41
	which means, "We have discussed you at the council."	33:42
	Your name has been on numbers of our agendas.	33:47
	You have been the discussion in many of our meetings.	33:51
	We have talked about you,	33:55
	and all of us agree	33:57
	that you are a teacher come from God.	33:59
	We dig what you're doing.	34:03
	Dead people coming to life,	34:05
	we groove on blind people seeing.	34:07
	We're excited about the fact that lame people	34:10
	have been walking because of you,	34:12
	and we even like your welfare program,	34:14
	thousands of people eating	34:16
	with a couple loaves and fishes.	34:18
	Now, so we have no real problem with what you're doing.	34:20
	We think it's great stuff.	34:25
	The only problem we have	34:27
	is that you're not a member of the council.	34:29
	We haven't given you our approval yet.	34:33
	You don't sit with us in our session,	34:36
	and all we ask is that we get along,	34:39
	that you play the game,	34:42
	you become part of our system.	34:44
	After all, we're trying to do the same things.	34:46
	We're trying to change the world.	34:49
	You're a descendant of Abraham.	34:50
	We're descendants of Abraham.	34:52
	You can trace your family lineage back to David.	34:54
	We can trace our family lineage back to David.	34:57
	We have a lot in common.	34:59
	We're trying to change the world.	35:02
	You're trying to change the world.	35:03
	We have a difference of words and statements.	35:05
	You call it the kingdom,	35:08
	and we call it reformation,	35:09
	but we can always negotiate terminology.	35:11
	Now why don't we just get together?	35:14
	Jesus said, "Nicodemus, I don't want you to climb a wall	35:19
	"when I tell you this,	35:22
	"but except a man be reborn,	35:25
	"he can't see the kingdom I am talking about."	35:29
	Except a man be reborn,	35:34
	he can not see the kingdom	35:37
	Doesn't mean that he won't just get to some place	35:40
	called heaven way out there.	35:43
	He won't even understand it.	35:44
	He won't see.	35:46
	He won't comprehend	35:48
	because the tragedy of our time	35:49
	is that people are blind.	35:52
	They don't see,	35:54
	and many of them don't want to see.	35:55
	That is why Jesus said,	35:57
	"The spirit of the Lord is upon me	35:58
	"because he has anointed me to preach good news	36:01
	"to those people who are blind,	36:04
	"to those people who don't see."	36:05
	As I travel across this country,	36:11
	I am tremendously impressed with the amount of naivete	36:13
	that exists in American society,	36:18
	that essentially and fundamentally,	36:21
	we are a backward nation.	36:23
	We are progressive technologically.	36:25
	We're progressive in those things that require skill,	36:27
	and we're the number one country in the world militarily,	36:30
	and that's what we generally mean	36:33
	when talk about we're numero uno.	36:34
	We are militarily and technologically	36:36
	the most powerful nation in the world,	36:39
	but spiritually and morally,	36:41
	and the ability to think intellectually,	36:43
	we are a backward country.	36:46
	We don't know what's going on in the world,	36:47
	and I've discovered that people don't want	36:51
	to know what's going on.	36:54
	They don't want to be confronted with truth.	36:55
	It was Senator Mark Hatfield	36:59
	who said some months ago he doubts seriously	37:01
	whether a man of high moral standards	37:04
	could ever be elected President of the United States	37:07
	because a man with high moral standards	37:11
	would have to inform people.	37:13
	He would have to confront people with truth,	37:15
	and there is something in the system	37:17
	which says, "Don't tell me the truth	37:19
	"because if I hear the truth,	37:21
	"I will have to do something,	37:22
	"and I don't want to do anything.	37:24
	"I want to stay in my own little closed world.	37:25
	"Don't tell me about what's happening today.	37:29
	"Return me to those fooling days of yesteryear.	37:32
	"Don't tell me about now."	37:35
	Plato describes it as a man living	37:38
	in a cave all of his life,	37:42
	and suddenly you lead that man out of the cave	37:44
	into the bright sunlight,	37:47
	and he will not want to go	37:48
	because as he approaches the light,	37:50
	it will become painful.	37:51
	His eyes will start hurting.	37:53
	He has become adjusted to darkness.	37:54
	A man who has been living in darkness	37:57
	who is now confronted with the truth of light	37:59
	doesn't want it.	38:02
	It is painful, and so he says,	38:03
	"Don't tell me what's going on."	38:05
	Surveys taken show that	38:11
	something like only 24%	38:14
	of the American people knew	38:18
	about a thing called Watergate,	38:20
	politically corrupt act by people in high places,	38:23
	and the Lewis and Harris poll said	38:26
	that not only did many of them not know about it--	38:28
	most of them didn't even want to hear about it	38:31
	because they didn't want to be confronted	38:33
	with that kind of corruption	38:35
	because they might've had to do something about it	38:36
	because people don't want to know what's going on.	38:41
	Marvin Gaye sums it up in his record album	38:47
	entitled "What's Going On?"	38:50
	What's happening?	38:53
	In my neighborhood,	38:54
	everybody goes around saying, "Man, what's happening?"	38:56
	'Cause nobody knows what's happening,	38:58
	and most people don't want to know what's happening.	39:00
	They don't want to be confronted with the truth.	39:03
	Jesus says, "I have come to confront people with the truth,	39:06
	"and, Nicodemus, the truth of the matter is,	39:09
	"you cannot have a new society without new people,"	39:11
	and don't be astonished	39:16
	when I tell you that to belong to this new community,	39:18
	you must be reborn.	39:21
	A man, woman must be reconstructed,	39:23
	reconstituted from within themselves.	39:26
	This reconstitution is more than just moral reformation.	39:30
	It is more than a list of do's and don't's	39:35
	or a list of New Year resolutions	39:37
	in which we promise to make the year better.	39:40
	It is the reconstitution of one's being.	39:42
	"That cannot occur," says Jesus,	39:47
	"until a man is willing to swear	39:49
	"his or her allegiance to me	39:52
	"and allow me to take up residence	39:54
	"in the common clay of their humanity	39:58
	"so that I become their Lord.	40:01
	"I become their priority.	40:02
	"I, through my Spirit, saturate their mind and their being,	40:04
	"and from one day to another,	40:08
	"they learn to think more like me	40:10
	"and behave more like me,	40:11
	"so that instead of them trying to live up to my standards,	40:13
	"they allow me to live my standards through them,"	40:17
	and that is what being Christian means.	40:20
	Capital C, H, R, I, S, T,	40:24
	Christ, I, A, N, in,	40:26
	it's Christ in you, living his own life through you	40:30
	without any help or assistance from you	40:34
	because God doesn't need your help to be God,	40:37
	just your availability.	40:40
	To be reborn, then, means	40:44
	that I renounce all rights to myself,	40:45
	and I give Jesus Christ the right	40:50
	to do in me and through me whatever he pleases.	40:53
	My allegiance is to him and to him alone,	40:57
	and Jesus says, "Except a man come that route,	41:01
	"except a woman come that route,	41:04
	"except a boy or girl come that route,	41:06
	"you will never understand the kingdom of God."	41:10
	The tragedy is that there are a lot of people	41:15
	who belong to the institutional church	41:18
	who have never come that route.	41:21
	They have never sworn their allegiance to Jesus Christ.	41:23
	They have never said to Christ,	41:27
	"I now give you the right to run my life.	41:28
	"You are now the priority in my life,"	41:31
	and so what has happened	41:34
	is the church has essentially become filled	41:36
	with people who are religious pagans.	41:39
	They acknowledge that God exists.	41:42
	They give a few dollars to the cause of the church.	41:44
	They memorize a few verses of scripture.	41:47
	They sing a few hymns in the hymn book.	41:50
	They learn a few of the formal regulations	41:52
	of the religious order,	41:55
	but they have never said, "Jesus is Lord of my life."	41:56
	Jesus says, "Except that happen,	42:01
	"you won't see the kingdom I am talking about,"	42:04
	and so this new community then is going to be made up	42:10
	of a radicalized colony of people	42:13
	who swear their allegiance to Jesus Christ,	42:16
	who essentially have been reconstituted by him.	42:19
	He has become their priority.	42:22
	He has become their master.	42:25
	They have become his slaves.	42:27
	They are more than just attendants	42:29
	of an institutional religious order.	42:31
	They are people who, by the Spirit of God,	42:34
	have been reconstituted.	42:36
	You see, I was born in this world system thirty years ago.	42:41
	This world system taught me a set of values,	42:46
	one, to get ahead at any cost.	42:51
	They taught me to go to school to get an education	42:55
	so that I could get a better job	42:58
	so I could make more money	43:00
	so I could buy a better house	43:02
	in a better neighborhood,	43:03
	make the proper investments in the right stocks,	43:04
	securities, and bonds	43:06
	so I could retire comfortably	43:08
	so when I would die,	43:10
	I would leave something,	43:11
	and that has been the process of my life,	43:13
	going to school to get an education	43:16
	and by all means get good grades	43:18
	so that the company will hire you at a good salary	43:19
	so that you can make the proper accumulation	43:22
	of material goods	43:24
	so you can be successful,	43:25
	and there are very few people	43:27
	who are in school today honestly simply	43:28
	to learn about the world they live in.	43:31
	We are essentially in school	43:33
	to learn how to make a living.	43:35
	And that system taught me how to be selfish,	43:40
	how to step on anybody on the way up,	43:43
	and they taught me	43:44
	that the dollar was the most important thing,	43:46
	what your neighbors thought about you	43:47
	was second most important,	43:49
	and having all the symbols of status was as important.	43:50
	Jesus says, "There's no room in the kingdom	43:56
	"for those priorities.	43:58
	"Except a man be reconstituted, reborn,	43:59
	"he cannot see."	44:02
	The system taught me how to be violent,	44:03
	and bigoted, and prejudiced,	44:05
	and I learned all those things,	44:07
	and I found out that that did not fit me	44:09
	for the kingdom that God was building,	44:12
	and that I had to be reconstituted.	44:15
	My prejudice and my bigotry had to be nailed to the cross.	44:17
	My violence had to be crucified.	44:20
	My being had to be remade,	44:22
	and this occurred when I gave to Jesus Christ	44:26
	the right to run my life.	44:29
	There is something else about this new community.	44:33
	It's not only made up of people	44:36
	who have been reconstituted.	44:38
	It is also a community in the real sense of the word.	44:40
	The word community has at least three root words,	44:46
	comm, C, O, M, M,	44:50
	from which we get the word commitment,	44:52
	commune, C, O, M, M, U, N,	44:56
	from which we get the word communion,	44:58
	U, N, I, T, Y, unity,	45:01
	singleness of purpose, people who are of one heart,	45:05
	and one soul, and one mind	45:08
	so that this community means that you have a colony	45:11
	of people who are committed to each other,	45:14
	who are in communion with each other,	45:16
	who are of singleness of mind	45:19
	about the nature of the colony.	45:22
	Jesus put it this way.	45:26
	He said, "A new set of rules I give you	45:29
	"to play by in this new kingdom,	45:31
	"and that is that you love each other the way I love you,"	45:34
	and then he told them how this love would behave.	45:38
	He said, "There is no greater love than one person	45:41
	"laying down his life for another one."	45:46
	In other words, this radical colony of people	45:49
	are so committed to the lordship of Jesus Christ	45:53
	and to each other	45:56
	that they are prepared	45:58
	to lay their lives down for each other.	46:00
	Jesus says, "The evidence by which people will know	46:06
	"you are my disciples is that you love one another."	46:08
	That love is not a mushiness.	46:13
	It is not goose pimples.	46:15
	It is not a twingling that runs up one's spine.	46:17
	It is not some ultra spiritual feeling.	46:20
	It is a demonstration of fact.	46:23
	A person who is in love with another person	46:25
	is prepared to die for them	46:28
	if you're talking about love	46:30
	in the agape sense of the word,	46:32
	according to the Scriptures.	46:34
	See, the word love is so wishy-washy in American culture.	46:36
	I love to travel.	46:40
	I love chocolate cake.	46:42
	I love my girl.	46:43
	I love my neighbor--	46:44
	and so do we mean we love chocolate cake	46:46
	the way we love our neighbor?	46:48
	Do we love ice cream the way we love our family?	46:50
	What do we mean?	46:52
	See, because we don't have distinguishing words.	46:53
	The word "love" Jesus is talking about	46:56
	is a word "love unto death."	46:59
	It is prepared to give its all.	47:01
	Jesus is saying the evidence that people will have	47:04
	that you are my disciples	47:09
	is not that you wear buttons to that fact	47:11
	or you have bumper stickers on your car,	47:14
	such as many people believe	47:17
	that that is the way by which people	47:19
	are gonna know that they're Christians,	47:21
	and they slap these bumper stickers on	47:22
	with Christian statements,	47:24
	or they wear these buttons,	47:25
	or they wear their religion on their sleeve.	47:27
	They never learn how to live it out.	47:29
	They never demonstrate it	47:30
	in their affection one for another,	47:32
	but they have all these signs,	47:33
	and perhaps they will be known	47:35
	as the generation who will say,	47:36
	"And they will know we are Christians by our buttons,"	47:38
	but the word of God makes a claim	47:41
	that we will know we are Christians	47:43
	by the fact that we love each other,	47:44
	and that love is a commitment to each other unto death.	47:48
	Now the difference between the love	47:53
	that Jesus is talking about	47:56
	and the love that we have in today's society	47:58
	is Jesus is talking about dying for each other,	48:02
	and we're saying, "You know,	48:05
	"we're going to have to learn to accept one another."	48:06
	Jesus is talking about dying,	48:10
	and we're talking about acceptance.	48:12
	Jesus is talking about dying,	48:15
	and we've got a group of people going around talking about,	48:17
	"We have to tolerate one another."	48:19
	Now they're talking about tolerance,	48:21
	and Jesus is talking about dying.	48:22
	Or there are those people who believe	48:26
	that the issue boils down	48:27
	to such profound statements as,	48:29
	"To bus or not to bus?	48:32
	"That is the question."	48:34
	Jesus is talking about dying,	48:36
	and these folks are talking about busing.	48:38
	Don't you understand that once you prepare	48:41
	to lay down your life for one another,	48:44
	that there are no more issues to be dealt with?	48:46
	That if I've got to go ten miles out of my way	48:53
	to relate to you,	48:55
	then that's nothing if I'm prepared to die for you?	48:56
	But you see, the reason that the church has been	49:03
	on the wrong side of every major argument	49:05
	in the world today is because we do not see	49:08
	that we are a colony of people	49:11
	who have a radical philosophy diametrically opposed	49:13
	to what exists,	49:16
	that our philosophy comes purely	49:17
	from the constitution of a new kingdom,	49:19
	the one that Jesus came to establish,	49:22
	and the establishment of that kingdom	49:25
	says that if you are committed to Jesus Christ,	49:27
	you are my brother.	49:30
	You are my sister.	49:32
	I therefore have to be prepared	49:34
	to lay down my life for you.	49:36
	Therefore, what is yours is mine,	49:38
	and what is mine is yours	49:40
	because we are now a community.	49:42
	The system says, "Oh no,"	49:47
	"no, no, no.	49:48
	"What's mine is mine,	49:51
	"and if I can hustle what's yours,	49:53
	"I'll take that too."	49:55
	The system says, "Oh no."	49:58
	The word of God says these early Christians	50:01
	had all things common.	50:03
	No one said that which he possessed was his own.	50:05
	They shared with one another.	50:09
	The system says, "No, no.	50:10
	"When I got off the boat from the old country,	50:15
	"I didn't have a dime in my pocket.	50:19
	"I was poor,	50:22
	"grew up a poor kid in a poor family.	50:23
	"We went to bed at night	50:27
	"and didn't know where our next meal was coming from,	50:29
	"but through hard work and initiative,	50:33
	"we went out	50:37
	"and pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps,	50:39
	"and I am where I am today	50:42
	"because I pulled myself up by the bootstraps.	50:45
	"I went out, and I worked hard.	50:49
	"I didn't ask for no give aways.	50:52
	"Nobody gave me nothing.	50:55
	"I went out and got it for myself,	50:57
	"and now you're telling me	51:00
	"that I'm supposed to share	51:01
	"what I went out and worked hard for?	51:03
	"I pulled myself up by the bootstraps,	51:04
	"and now you're telling me that I'm supposed	51:06
	"to feed the hungry and the poor,	51:08
	"and I'm supposed to look after my neighbor?	51:10
	"You mean, I'm supposed to share my hard-earned goods	51:12
	"with other people?	51:16
	"Let them go out and work for it themselves.	51:17
	"Let them pull themselves up	51:19
	"by the bootstraps the way I did."	51:22
	Now if you are committed to the system,	51:26
	that's a great statement,	51:28
	but it doesn't work in the kingdom of God.	51:30
	Kingdom of God says, "If you have need,	51:34
	"and I've got what you need,	51:36
	"then it's yours.	51:38
	"You don't have to pull yourself up	51:39
	"by the bootstraps or anything else."	51:40
	Plus it's very difficult to pull yourself up	51:43
	by the bootstraps when somebody keeps stealing the boots	51:45
	and cutting the straps.	51:48
	All this nonsense about rugged individualism,	51:55
	and return with us to those thrilling days	52:00
	when everybody went out and did their own thing	52:02
	and worked hard,	52:03
	and all that stuff has nothing to do	52:05
	with the kingdom of God, my friend.	52:07
	If my brother is hungry, feed him.	52:09
	Not only my brother,	52:11
	the Word says, "If my enemy hungers, feed him."	52:12
	See, we don't believe in the Word.	52:17
	We believe in the system.	52:19
	During the height of the Vietnam War,	52:21
	a group of us in America got together	52:24
	and sent medical supplies, food,	52:25
	and clothing to the Vietcong.	52:28
	We were told that we were committing acts of treason.	52:30
	We were called Communist and Pinks and leftists	52:33
	and all that other kind of stuff	52:35
	because we sent food, clothing,	52:37
	and medical supplies to the Vietcong.	52:39
	Well, had nothing to do with being treasonous.	52:42
	I don't even know what a Communist is.	52:44
	I doubt if I'm one,	52:46
	but if I read the Scriptures right,	52:47
	the Word says, "If your enemy hungers, feed him."	52:50
	That's what the Scripture says.	52:54
	I don't care what America or England or Germany	52:56
	or any other thing,	52:59
	I don't care what NATO says,	53:00
	or the world alliance, or the military, or anything else.	53:01
	My commitment is to the Word of God.	53:04
	If my enemy holding a gun on me is starving	53:06
	and asked me for food,	53:09
	I am obligated by my commitment	53:11
	to the kingdom of God to feed him.	53:13
	Now if that's what God requires of me	53:18
	to do with my enemy,	53:19
	what do you think he requires me to do of you?	53:21
	So the kingdom,	53:27
	a new community that God's talking about,	53:29
	that's diametrically opposed to the world system	53:32
	that most of us swear our allegiance to	53:34
	is a kingdom made up of people	53:37
	who are prepared to lay their lives down for each other.	53:39
	My friend, I can't lay my life down for you	53:42
	if I don't know you,	53:44
	so to know you and for you to know me,	53:46
	it means I've got to let my gut out.	53:47
	I got to be honest with you.	53:49
	We got to let our walls down.	53:50
	We got to get next to each other	53:52
	and be honest with each other.	53:53
	That is the reason why most	53:59
	of us have copped out in this generation.	54:01
	The college university campus scene today	54:05
	is perhaps the most apathetic scene	54:07
	in the history of America.	54:10
	Everybody's got this new thing--	54:11
	"I'm doing my own thing now.	54:12
	"I'm grooving on my own thing"--	54:15
	so we all get together	54:19
	and contemplate our own navels, you know?	54:20
	We withdraw	54:23
	because we somehow are going back	54:25
	to the old nostalgic stuff of the past	54:27
	about rugged individualism.	54:30
	Well, my friend, there's no way you can have a community	54:33
	on rugged individualism.	54:35
	A community is made up of people	54:37
	who are committed to each other.	54:39
	I don't know about you, my friend,	54:42
	but I'm not a rugged individualist.	54:43
	I come out of a rugged background.	54:45
	I come out of a violent background,	54:47
	but I am not an individualist.	54:49
	You see, 'cause I hurt every now and then,	54:51
	and I need brothers and sisters who will heal me.	54:53
	I don't know about you,	54:56
	but every now and then,	54:57
	I get depressed,	54:58
	and the responsibilities and burdens I bear get heavy,	54:59
	and I need some brothers and sisters	55:03
	who wrap their arms around me and say,	55:05
	"Tom, hang on,"	55:07
	and I don't know about you,	55:10
	but every now and then,	55:11
	I trip up, and I fall flat on my face,	55:12
	and it's awful lonely when you fall by yourself,	55:16
	but I don't know about you,	55:20
	but I need brothers and sisters	55:21
	who come along and who pick me up and dust me off	55:22
	and heal my bumps and bruises,	55:24
	and put their arms around me	55:26
	and stagger on down the road with me.	55:27
	I don't know about you,	55:31
	but like Bill Withers,	55:32
	I need somebody to lean on.	55:33
	How about you?	55:37
	And that's the kind of community	55:40
	Jesus came to build, my friend,	55:41
	but here we are.	55:43
	We go to school together.	55:44
	We pass each other on the campus,	55:45
	and maybe we muster out a little, hi, hi,	55:46
	but we don't lean on each other.	55:50
	And we all eat together,	55:58
	we all got our own little group	56:00
	that eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner together.	56:01
	We hang out,	56:03
	but we let somebody new break into the group,	56:04
	and--"What is he sitting here for?"	56:06
	Because we don't have community.	56:09
	Finally, the new community is a witnessing community.	56:15
	Community says one thing loud and clear	56:23
	over and over and over again.	56:25
	Jesus is alive.	56:29
	Jesus is alive.	56:34
	Jesus is alive.	56:39
	That is what the community has to say.	56:42
	It doesn't say that just verbally over and over	56:46
	because I think nothing is more nauseating	56:50
	than these super evangelists who run around the campus	56:52
	collaring people, saying, "Jesus is alive,"	56:55
	but we don't say that just verbally.	56:58
	If Jesus is alive,	57:03
	it has to be demonstrated.	57:05
	Because Jesus is alive,	57:08
	that's why I want to meet your needs.	57:10
	Because Jesus is alive,	57:12
	that's why I want to be your brother.	57:14
	Because Jesus is alive,	57:15
	that's why I want the blind to see	57:17
	and the lame to walk.	57:18
	Because Jesus is alive,	57:19
	that's why I want to set at liberty	57:21
	those who are oppressed,	57:24
	but, you see,	57:28
	if Jesus is alive,	57:31
	it means I got to do what he's doing.	57:32
	Jesus says, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me	57:35
	"because he's anointed me to preach good news to the poor,"	57:37
	and poor people are people	57:41
	who don't know who they are,	57:42
	who have allowed other people to define them,	57:43
	and I've got to help people define themselves	57:46
	according to God's definition.	57:47
	Blind people, people who don't see what's going on,	57:49
	broken hearted people, people who are broken within,	57:52
	oppressed people, people who are being stepped on,	57:56
	I've got to do what Jesus does.	57:59
	I've got to go out and set at liberty	58:00
	those who are stepped on,	58:03
	but what I have discovered is	58:05
	that to do what Jesus is doing will cost me something.	58:06
	Now you know how back in the '60s,	58:12
	up until the very beginning of the '70s,	58:15
	we were activists in school, remember?	58:18
	We were concerned about Chicanos and Indians	58:21
	and black people.	58:24
	Remember that?	58:25
	Remember how we were concerned	58:26
	that black folks got justice on campus,	58:28
	and Chicanos got what was coming to them	58:30
	in the lettuce fields,	58:32
	and you know how idealistic we were?	58:34
	You member those days, yeah, not anymore.	58:36
	You know what we discovered?	58:38
	That to get out and get involved	58:40
	would cost us something.	58:41
	Maybe we wouldn't get that prestigious job	58:42
	because the guy who runs the company	58:45
	and the company we want to work for	58:47
	isn't for helping all them niggers,	58:48
	and so we found out it would cost us economically.	58:52
	It would cost us a job,	58:56
	might cost us a teaching profession.	58:58
	It might cost us the friendship of the social group	59:01
	we want to belong to,	59:03
	might cost me country club membership.	59:04
	Business is business, and after all,	59:09
	the business of America is business, isn't it?	59:11
	And so there are my Chicano brothers out in the fields	59:18
	being stepped on,	59:21
	and all my Chicano brothers do is say,	59:24
	"Tom, one of the greatest things you could do	59:26
	"is don't eat lettuce	59:28
	"that doesn't have a certain label on it	59:32
	"because if it doesn't,	59:34
	"it means that we're being oppressed.	59:36
	"Just stay away from that lettuce,	59:39
	"and that would help us a whole lot,"	59:40
	but I don't want to give up the lettuce, you see?	59:43
	I'm selfish.	59:46
	I don't want to do that,	59:47
	so after all, we got to have business,	59:48
	and if we stop buying lettuce,	59:50
	some of my friends won't have a job no more,	59:52
	and it's more important that my friends have a job	59:54
	then that my Chicano brothers have dignity.	59:56
	And so I don't want to do a simple thing	1:00:02
	like stop eating certain lettuce	1:00:04
	just to get my oppressed brother a break	1:00:05
	because, see, I don't care about him.	1:00:08
	I care only about myself,	1:00:09
	but Jesus says, "If that's your attitude,	1:00:13
	"then you cannot be my disciple,"	1:00:15
	because in the kingdom,	1:00:16
	your witness is that Jesus is alive,	1:00:18
	is that you've got to set at liberty	1:00:20
	those who are oppressed.	1:00:22
	Now, by witness, it means this.	1:00:26
	If the world system lies in the hands of the evil one,	1:00:29
	according to the Scripture,	1:00:32
	the whole world system lies in the hands of Satan.	1:00:34
	He is the prince of this world.	1:00:37
	Your function and my function,	1:00:40
	if we're truly committed to Jesus Christ,	1:00:41
	is that we have to go into a world controlled by Satan	1:00:43
	in order to commit spiritual sabotage	1:00:47
	on that world to set at liberty	1:00:49
	those people he has oppressed,	1:00:51
	so that if you are going to become an accountant,	1:00:54
	it's not that God needs accountants.	1:00:57
	It's that God needs to infiltrate the accounting world,	1:00:59
	and the reason for you becoming an accountant	1:01:02
	is to be able to carry into your accounting office	1:01:04
	the lifestyle of Jesus Christ.	1:01:08
	You're gonna become an athlete?	1:01:11
	It's not that God wants athletes.	1:01:12
	It's just that God needs	1:01:14
	to infiltrate the athletic world,	1:01:16
	and if you're gonna become an athlete,	1:01:18
	you are to carry the lifestyle of Jesus Christ	1:01:20
	into the sports world.	1:01:23
	For the past two years,	1:01:26
	it has been my privilege	1:01:27
	to minister with the Washington Redskins,	1:01:28
	and we've convinced thirteen guys on that team	1:01:31
	to radically commit themselves to Jesus Christ	1:01:35
	and to be the fifth columnist	1:01:37
	of the kingdom of God in the sports world,	1:01:40
	and so Charley Harraway and Cliff McNeil	1:01:43
	and Bob Brunet and Mike Hall	1:01:46
	and Harold McClinton and a bunch of those cats	1:01:50
	have decided that they're gonna be the representatives	1:01:52
	of the kingdom of God in the sports world.	1:01:54
	If you're going into business,	1:01:58
	it's not that God needs businessmen.	1:01:59
	It's just that God needs somebody	1:02:02
	to infiltrate the business world	1:02:03
	with the lifestyle of Jesus Christ,	1:02:05
	commit spiritual sabotage on it,	1:02:10
	but, you see, the problem in the church is that instead	1:02:12
	of being God's representatives to the system,	1:02:15
	we have been ended up being the system's representatives	1:02:17
	to the kingdom of God.	1:02:19
	Whenever we want to get somebody to serve as an elder	1:02:21
	or deacon in the church,	1:02:24
	what do we do?	1:02:25
	We go out, and we get a successful man,	1:02:27
	a guy who has succeeded in the system,	1:02:29
	and we make him a member of the Board of Elders	1:02:32
	without ever finding out where his interest lies.	1:02:34
	He may be more committed to his business	1:02:38
	than he is to the kingdom of God,	1:02:40
	so when he makes decisions	1:02:41
	on the Board of Elders in that church,	1:02:43
	he will make decisions	1:02:45
	which reflect his business interests	1:02:46
	and will not necessarily reflect	1:02:47
	the kingdom of God's interests.	1:02:49
	That's why we got to find out who we are committed to,	1:02:50
	and then you got a colony of people	1:02:56
	that will turn the world upside down.	1:02:58
	And then we can truly say,	1:03:01
	"Lord, your kingdom is coming.	1:03:04
	"Your will is being done	1:03:10
	"in earth the way it is in heaven."	1:03:13
	Shall we pray?	1:03:18
	Thank you, Father, for this time together.	1:03:24
	As a result of what you have said to us this morning,	1:03:27
	we pray that none of us will leave this place the same.	1:03:29
	We ask it in Jesus' name.	1:03:33
	Amen.	1:03:36
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:03:39
	♪ How firm a foundation ♪	1:04:15
	♪ Ye saints of the Lord ♪	1:04:20

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Tom Skinner - Sermon Untitled (February 25, 1973)

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Sermon start time: 21:32. Sermon end time: 01:03:39.
Skinner calls on the congregation to build a radical community built on love and acceptance of new people. He focuses on the importance of community and its meaning to include everyone, not just those who agree with you. As a world community, we should be prepared to lay down our lives for each other out of love and not just focus on ourselves. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "The establishment of that kingdom says that if you are committed to Jesus Christ, you are my brother. You are my sister. I, therefore, have to be prepared to lay down my life for you. Therefore, what is yours is mine and what is mine is yours because we are now a community."

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February 25, 1973

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Skinner, Tom, 1942-

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Luke

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Luke 4:14-21

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Duke University. Chapel

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