Mrs. Tibbie Roberts - "Male and Female God Created Them" (August 13, 1978)

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	(organ music)	0:03
-	Duke University Chapel service of worship,	0:05
	August 13th, 1978.	0:07
	(congregation chattering)	0:24
	(lighthearted organ music)	0:49
	♪ Now God be praised in Heaven above ♪	8:07
	♪ Praised be he for his great love ♪	8:12
	♪ Wherein all creatures live and move ♪	8:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	8:30
	(organ music)	8:38
	♪ He, the king of nations ♪	9:27
	♪ Praise him, praise every nation ♪	9:33
	♪ He the king of nations, praise be ♪	9:39
	♪ All glory eternal ♪	9:45
	♪ They shall come, they shall live ♪	9:50
	♪ They shall live in light ♪	9:53
	♪ All shall live in mercy, now and for all time ♪	9:58
	♪ He, the king of nations, praise him ♪	10:07
	♪ Praise and glory ♪	10:13
	♪ He, the king of nations ♪	10:19
	♪ Praise him, power in every nation ♪	10:24
	♪ We are his, all praise be ♪	10:29
	♪ Praise be ♪	10:34
	♪ God of all kingdoms ♪	10:37
	♪ All are blessed, are all home ♪	10:41
	♪ All devout to king receive ♪	10:45
	♪ All the glory, all shall rise ♪	10:49
	♪ To him be received ♪	10:53
	♪ He, the king of nations ♪	10:58
	♪ Praise be, mercy ♪	11:02
	♪ God of glory ♪	11:06
	♪ Amen ♪	11:10
-	Please be seated.	11:17
-	Sisters and brothers of the household of faith,	11:26
	the Scriptures remind us that all have sinned	11:30
	and come short of the glory of God.	11:33
	Let us, therefore, communally confess our sin.	11:36
	God, we confess that we are frightened	11:41
	and humbled by the violence and hatred	11:45
	that we see rampant in our society	11:49
	and feel sometimes in ourselves.	11:52
	Forgive us for our lack of understanding and love.	11:56
	Help us to bear up under hatred and persecution,	12:00
	and courageously stand for peace and justice.	12:05
	In Christ's name we pray.	12:09
	Amen.	12:12
	This is the message we have heard from him	12:39
	and proclaim to you, that God is light,	12:41
	and in God is no darkness at all.	12:46
	If we walk in the light, as God is in the light,	12:49
	we have fellowship with one another,	12:53
	and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin.	12:56
	Jesus said, "The one who comes to me I will not cast out."	13:02
	If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just,	13:09
	and will forgive our sins and cleanse us	13:13
	from all unrighteousness.	13:17
	Your sins are forgiven, for his sake.	13:21
	Amen.	13:28
	Let us give thanks for God is good,	13:30
	and God's love is everlasting.	13:34
-	Thanks be to God who creates us.	13:37
	Thanks be to God, in his mercy we are redeemed.	13:41
	Thanks be to God whose spirit leads us into the future.	13:45
-	Let us pray.	13:57
	O Lord, open thou our eyes,	13:59
	that we may behold wondrous things	14:03
	out of thy law.	14:06
	Amen.	14:09
	The reading from the Old Covenant from Genesis,	14:11
	the first chapter, in the translation of King James.	14:14
	And God said, "Let us make man in our image,	14:21
	"after our likeness:	14:24
	"and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,	14:27
	"and over the fowl of the air,	14:30
	"and over the cattle, and over all the earth,	14:32
	"and over every creeping thing	14:36
	"that creepeth upon the earth."	14:38
	So God created man in his own image,	14:42
	in the image of God created he him;	14:45
	male and female created he them.	14:49
	And God blessed them, and God said unto them,	14:53
	"Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,	14:57
	"and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea,	15:01
	"and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing	15:06
	"that moveth upon the earth."	15:10
	And God said, "Behold, I have given you every	15:13
	"herb-bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth,	15:16
	"and every tree, in the which is the fruit	15:20
	"of a tree-yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.	15:23
	"And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl	15:28
	"of the air, and to every thing that creepeth	15:31
	"upon the earth, wherein there is life,	15:34
	"I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."	15:38
	And God saw every thing that he had made,	15:44
	and, behold, it was very good.	15:47
	And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.	15:52
	Here ends the reading from the Old Covenant.	15:57
	(slow, calm organ music)	16:03
	♪ O turn ye, oh men, from your evil ways ♪	16:55
	♪ Turn ye, turn ye to Heaven rest ♪	17:08
	♪ Hungry nations, be gracious unto us ♪	17:20
	♪ And under your eyes, deserves ♪	17:28
	♪ Be gracious, be gracious ♪	17:34
	♪ Until thy shepherd comes ♪	17:41
	♪ Mercy, thou art whole ♪	17:49
	♪ Mercy ♪	18:00
	♪ Unto each man, unto each man ♪	18:03
	♪ Mercy on men ♪	18:14
	♪ All men for us, and be gracious, be gracious ♪	18:21
	♪ Until shy shepherd comes ♪	18:33
	♪ Be gracious, be gracious ♪	18:40
	♪ Until thy shepherd comes ♪	18:46
	♪ Mercy on men, all rest ♪	18:53
	♪ Turn ye, turn ye ♪	19:06
	♪ To land of rest ♪	19:11
	♪ And be gracious, be gracious ♪	19:18
	♪ Until thy shepherd comes to us ♪	19:24
	♪ Be gracious, be gracious ♪	19:32
	♪ Until shy savior comes ♪	19:38
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	19:44
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	19:58
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	20:06
	♪ Amen ♪	20:14
	The lesson from the New Covenant is from	20:41
	St. Paul's letter to the churches in Galatia,	20:44
	the third chapter.	20:47
	Wherefore then serveth the law?	20:50
	It was added because of transgressions,	20:53
	till the seed should come to whom the promise was made	20:56
	and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.	21:00
	Now a mediator is not a mediator of one,	21:05
	but God is one.	21:10
	Is the law then against the promises of God?	21:13
	God forbid, for if there had been a law	21:17
	given which could have given life,	21:20
	verily righteousness should have been by the law.	21:23
	But the scripture hath concluded all under sin,	21:28
	that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ	21:32
	might be given to them that believe.	21:35
	But before faith came, we were kept under the law,	21:39
	shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.	21:44
	Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster	21:49
	to bring us unto Christ,	21:52
	that we might be justified by faith.	21:54
	But after that faith is come,	21:59
	we are no longer under a schoolmaster.	22:02
	For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.	22:06
	For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ	22:11
	have put on Christ.	22:16
	There is neither Jew nor Greek,	22:18
	there is neither slave nor free,	22:22
	there is neither male nor female,	22:26
	for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.	22:29
	And here ends the reading of the morning lessons.	22:36
	(slow organ music)	22:41
	(powerful organ music drowning out singers)	22:52
-	If at my birth, a good fairy had stood by my cradle	23:57
	and my parents had said to her,	24:03
	"What will this child do with her life?"	24:08
	The good fairy would probably have looked down	24:13
	at this little girl baby and said,	24:16
	"I do not know what she will do with her life.	24:19
	"But there is one thing that I am sure she will never do,	24:22
	"and that is that she will stand in Duke Chapel	24:27
	"at 11:00 on a Sunday morning in the pulpit."	24:31
	And my parents would have agreed.	24:37
	And as I grew up here in Eastern North Carolina,	24:40
	I too would've agreed.	24:44
	But I am here today on this sabbath day at 11:00	24:46
	in the pulpit of Duke Chapel.	24:51
	And let me share with you that my soul	24:55
	does magnify the Lord,	24:58
	that he has given me this opportunity	25:01
	to witness to him his love for me and for you,	25:05
	and to feel that this lowly handmaiden of his,	25:14
	even I can be used.	25:18
	For as I grew up, and many of you grew up,	25:23
	we grew up with the King James Version	25:26
	and the concept of who we are as male and female.	25:29
	In large measure, our self-image has come	25:36
	from our scriptural Judaic-Christian concepts	25:40
	of the role of male and female.	25:45
	And we have become stereotyped in those roles,	25:49
	and have been held in them	25:53
	by the interpretation of Scripture.	25:55
	But my life has opened for me in the last few years,	26:00
	as I have gone to the scriptural base	26:04
	of the equality, sexually of male and female.	26:07
	And I rejoice at what I have found,	26:12
	and I would like to share it with you this day.	26:16
	I heard only two weeks ago someone quoting	26:21
	the Scripture and used the phrase,	26:24
	"And God created man in his own image."	26:27
	I grew up with the King James Version which said,	26:32
	"And God said, 'Let us create man in our own image.'	26:35
	"And he created him,	26:40
	male and female in his own image."	26:43
	And though it was explained to me that man did include woman	26:47
	and my mind accepted it, somehow my heart	26:52
	and light did not.	26:55
	But as you study the Scriptures in the Hebrew,	26:57
	you'll find the word that is translated man, or mankind,	27:01
	is A-D-H-E-M.	27:06
	The first part of this word is masculine.	27:11
	The second part is feminine.	27:16
	It is a generic word without sexual identity,	27:20
	including both male and female.	27:26
	And some of the new translations of our Scriptures	27:31
	are now reading,	27:34
	"And God said, let us create	27:37
	"humankind, or human beings	27:41
	in our own image.	27:45
	"And so he created them, male and female,	27:47
	in his own image."	27:53
	And certainly, if we are created in the image of God,	27:56
	there can be no inequality.	28:00
	And another interesting word in this account in Genesis	28:04
	is the word that is used for God.	28:10
	E-L-O-H-I-M.	28:13
	The E-L of this word	28:17
	is the male concept of God.	28:20
	The O-H-I-M	28:24
	is the feminine concept of God.	28:27
	So the God that the writers of Genesis	28:31
	are portraying here is a God that is inclusive	28:34
	of male and female.	28:39
	And so we find truly,	28:44
	that God created humankind	28:47
	in his own image, male and female he created them,	28:50
	in his image.	28:56
	And he commanded them to have children	28:59
	and fill the Earth.	29:02
	Sharing with them the glorious creativity	29:05
	that had been his in creating them.	29:09
	Not setting roles but making	29:13
	a joint partnership of parenthood.	29:16
	And then he said to them,	29:21
	"You are to have dominion over the birds of the air	29:24
	"and the fish of the sea and all that grows on the land.	29:27
	"Together, male and female, you are to be stewards	29:30
	"of this earth and all that I have created.	29:35
	"You are to have the rights, the privileges,	29:39
	"and the responsibilities thereof."	29:43
	And God looked	29:48
	and saw that it was very good.	29:51
	Then as we look at the second creation story,	29:57
	we find that God created Adam,	30:01
	and he felt that he needed a companion.	30:04
	And so the old translations say	30:07
	god created woman to be a help meet,	30:10
	or a helper, for Adam.	30:14
	And this has been interpreted to mean that she	30:17
	would have an inferior role than man,	30:20
	that she would be his helper, not even apprentice.	30:25
	You know, a plumber has a helper,	30:30
	and he sends him out to do all the routine chores.	30:32
	He's always under his direction.	30:34
	But if you are an apprentice,	30:37
	you're learning the trade in hope someday	30:39
	you too will be a master plumber.	30:41
	But through the ages, this word has been used	30:44
	as placing women in a secondary role.	30:48
	And yet, when you look at the Hebrew word here,	30:54
	E-Z-E-R,	30:57
	it means a beneficial partnership.	30:59
	This word E-Z-E-R is used in reference to God,	31:03
	particularly in the psalms,	31:08
	for it says God is our helper and our strength.	31:11
	God is our help in time of trouble.	31:15
	And certainly God would never be placed	31:19
	in a secondary or supportive role.	31:23
	But there is another Hebrew word here,	31:27
	N-E-G-E-D, which makes this read	31:30
	a beneficial partnership of coequals.	31:34
	And so we find in the second Genesis story	31:40
	that God created Adam and Eve	31:44
	to have a beneficial partnership of coequals.	31:47
	There's an old poem that said God did not	31:54
	create Eve from Adam's head to be above him,	31:56
	from his feet to be below him,	31:59
	but from his side to stand with him	32:01
	and go through life together.	32:04
	And so often when we talk about equality,	32:07
	people immediately feel that you're putting down	32:11
	one person to lift up another.	32:14
	And this certainly is not true scripturally	32:17
	or in any other way.	32:21
	My grandmother wrote an essay in 1879	32:23
	when she was at Greensboro Female College	32:28
	is was at that time,	32:30
	entitled "Turnabout's Fair Play".	32:32
	And she opened this essay with this line,	32:36
	"Move over you liege lords and give the ladies a chance."	32:39
	She didn't say step down.	32:44
	She just said move over.	32:47
	We want our day.	32:50
	You know, a lot of people have been reading the book	32:53
	"The Total Woman" by Marabel Morgan.	32:55
	And she portrays there a very superficial person	32:59
	whose life is based on outside influences,	33:03
	and what she does to other,	33:07
	not who she is as a human being created by God.	33:09
	I think if we look at the 31st chapter of Proverbs,	33:13
	starting at the 10th verse,	33:18
	we'll find what God's concept is of the total woman.	33:20
	And as we read this, we will find that it did nothing	33:26
	to denigrate the standards of our husband or his position,	33:32
	for it said he was respected and esteemed	33:36
	at the gates of the city.	33:41
	And her children called her blessed,	33:43
	and her husband praised her.	33:47
	But because God gave us free will,	33:51
	and we chose another path,	33:55
	the Hebrew history changes,	33:59
	and it became a patriarchal society.	34:02
	And literally women became the womb of Israel.	34:06
	Their main role was to have a son for their husband	34:11
	to assure his posterity.	34:15
	Most women could either marry or be a harlot.	34:18
	A few broke through, there was Deborah the judge,	34:23
	there was Esther the queen,	34:27
	there was Miriam the prophetess.	34:29
	But throughout the Old Testament,	34:32
	we find the basic role of women	34:34
	was to be the womb of Israel.	34:37
	And this was true when Jesus came.	34:41
	And once, if you remember, a woman became	34:45
	ecstatic on hearing his message,	34:47
	and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you	34:51
	"and the breast that suckled you."	34:54
	But Jesus would have none of that.	34:59
	He would not delegate any human being	35:02
	to only their sexual organs.	35:06
	And he replied to her, "No, blessed are they	35:08
	"who hear the word of God and do it."	35:13
	Women were at one of their lowest status in history	35:19
	when Jesus came on the scene.	35:24
	They were almost considered chattel.	35:27
	They were to stay in the home and have children.	35:31
	They were not considered to be reliable witnesses.	35:34
	They were not worthy to be taught.	35:37
	And they were forbidden to be taught holy scripture.	35:40
	And so as we look at Jesus and his relationship to women,	35:44
	we find in a totally different concept	35:50
	than we have found in the Old Testament.	35:54
	If we look at the story of Mary and Martha,	35:57
	I think we can see very clearly	36:00
	what's happening in our world today,	36:02
	as women are struggling to know themselves,	36:05
	their relationship to God, to other women and men	36:10
	in God's plan for them.	36:14
	Martha was in the kitchen, fulfilling her stereotype role:	36:17
	cooking, cleaning, preparing for the guest.	36:22
	And it said she was distracted by much doing.	36:26
	And those of us who have been through this	36:30
	know exactly how Martha felt.	36:32
	And all of a sudden, she realized Mary wasn't there	36:34
	with an extra pair of hands to help.	36:37
	And she went seeking her.	36:39
	And when she walked into the parlor	36:42
	of the living room of the home	36:44
	and saw her beloved sister Mary	36:46
	talking with a man, which was forbidden,	36:49
	being taught by him, which was not allowed.	36:53
	And as she listened, realized he was teaching	36:57
	her holy scripture.	36:59
	She became very frightened and agitated.	37:03
	She loved Mary.	37:07
	She loved her comfort zone,	37:10
	and Mary had broken out of it.	37:12
	And Martha had become very frightened.	37:16
	And so Martha said to Jesus,	37:19
	"Send her back where she belongs.	37:20
	"She belongs in the kitchen."	37:22
	And you know, Jesus never put Martha down or anyone.	37:25
	I can hear him right now saying to Martha, very gently,	37:30
	"Martha, Mary has chosen the better way."	37:34
	"Didn't say what you're doing is not important,	37:40
	"but there is a better way.	37:43
	"There are doors to be opened,	37:46
	"there's opportunities, there are talents you have.	37:48
	"Find the better way, Martha, follow me."	37:51
	And Martha must have heard this message,	37:55
	for it was Martha who came running to Jesus	37:58
	when Lazarus died.	38:00
	And the Scripture said, "And Jesus loved Martha	38:02
	"and Mary and their brother Lazarus."	38:05
	And she said to him, "Jesus, if you had been here,	38:09
	"he would not have died."	38:14
	And Jesus said to Martha,	38:17
	"Martha, don't you believe in the resurrection?"	38:18
	She said, "Oh yes, Lord, in the last days."	38:22
	He says, "No Mary,	38:25
	I am the resurrection and the life."	38:28
	And it was to Martha, a woman,	38:32
	that he first proclaimed the great message	38:36
	of his resurrection.	38:41
	In that day, a woman who had any issue of blood was unclean.	38:44
	She was not allowed to touch a man	38:48
	or any utilities that he was to use.	38:51
	But when the woman who had had an issue of blood	38:56
	for 12 years, and had spent all her money	38:59
	and done everything she could,	39:02
	grasped the hem of Jesus's garment,	39:03
	he didn't draw back and say to her,	39:07
	"No, you have made me unclean.	39:09
	"I will have to go to the temple for purification."	39:12
	He looked down to her and saw a woman in great need	39:17
	and suffering and in love, he said,	39:20
	"Your faith has made thee whole."	39:24
	And then there was a woman who was caught	39:28
	in the act of adultery.	39:30
	And the leaders called him over there and said,	39:33
	"What shall we do with this woman?	39:36
	"She was caught in the act of adultery."	39:38
	And they knew, if he said stone her which was Hebrew law,	39:41
	he would be breaking the Roman law	39:45
	which says you cannot do that.	39:46
	But Jesus knew the Deuteronomic law	39:49
	which said a couple caught in the act	39:51
	of adultery shall both be stoned.	39:55
	And where was the man?	40:00
	And so he turned to them and said,	40:03
	"Ye who are without sin, let him throw the first stone."	40:05
	And he knelt down beside her, and then he turned to her	40:12
	and said, "Where are thine accusers?"	40:15
	And she stood up and turned around and looked,	40:20
	and said to him, "Lord, no man accuses me."	40:25
	And he said to her, "Go, and sin no more."	40:32
	And then there was the woman of Sumeria,	40:40
	of even lower a state than a Jewish woman.	40:44
	And he met her at the well.	40:49
	And he knew who she was,	40:52
	that she'd been married five times.	40:54
	The man she was living with was not her husband.	40:56
	She was the type of woman that most of us	40:59
	would not give the time of day.	41:01
	And yet Jesus, with his great perception,	41:05
	started talking with this woman and found within her	41:09
	a spiritual hunger, a spiritual desire and dynamic	41:13
	that he could touch.	41:18
	And it was to this woman of Sumeria	41:22
	that he first revealed that he	41:25
	was the expected messiah.	41:28
	And she went running joyously to the village	41:31
	to proclaim the good news.	41:34
	The messiah is here.	41:36
	And so a woman, a Samaritan woman,	41:39
	was the first messenger of the messiahship of Christ.	41:44
	The first missionary, preacher,	41:50
	the bearer of the good news.	41:53
	Women followed Jesus, they were his disciples.	41:57
	No, they were not among the 12,	42:02
	but historically the 12 were to represent	42:05
	the tribes of Israel.	42:08
	One time somebody ask about this,	42:11
	and a Christian, I mean, Disciples of Christ minister said,	42:13
	you know, I had gone into some detail	42:18
	of the historical background,	42:20
	she said, "Yes, this is all true."	42:21
	But she said, "When people ask me, you know,	42:23
	"women should not preach or be ordained	42:26
	"because if they had, Jesus Christ woulda picked one	42:28
	"for one of the 12 disciples."	42:30
	And she says, "I look at them and say,	42:32
	"'No, he didn't pick a woman,	42:34
	"'but he didn't pick a gentile either.'"	42:37
	And so we find here that Jesus did have women	42:40
	who were disciples, who traveled with him,	42:44
	who worked with him, who taught with him.	42:47
	But one time, Jesus Christ was asked one time,	42:50
	"What is God like?"	42:54
	And he told three parables.	42:57
	He told the parable of the loving father	42:59
	and the prodigal son.	43:01
	He told the parable of the shepherd	43:03
	who had 100 sheep, and lost one, and went out to seek it.	43:06
	And then he told the parable of the woman	43:10
	who had lost a coin.	43:13
	And she got her lamp and she looked	43:15
	until she found the coin.	43:17
	And there are many theologians who feel	43:20
	that this is Jesus' concept	43:22
	of the triune concept of God, the trinity.	43:25
	God the Father, the loving father,	43:30
	God the Son, the shepherd.	43:33
	Jesus often said he was a shepherd,	43:34
	and God the Holy Spirit.	43:37
	The woman.	43:41
	The Hebrew word for spirit is feminine.	43:43
	When the Bible says, "And God breathed life into them,"	43:49
	his spirit came down, the feminine concept of God.	43:54
	When the spirit of God moved over the waters,	43:58
	it was a feminine concept of God.	44:02
	When the dove descended upon Jesus' head at his baptism,	44:05
	it was a feminine symbol.	44:11
	And so we come here, as we look at Jesus' three parables	44:14
	and see the triune concept of God,	44:19
	Son, Daughter	44:23
	all included in God's plan.	44:26
	Women were last at the cross	44:30
	and first at the tomb.	44:33
	And they were leaders in the early church.	44:36
	But as the church moved out into the world,	44:40
	Paul became the dynamic leader.	44:45
	And Paul was reared a Jewish man, a Pharisee,	44:48
	a man who had prayed everyday of his life.	44:53
	"Praise be to God that he has not created me a gentile.	44:57
	"Praise be to God that he has not	45:02
	"created me an ignorant man.	45:04
	"Praise be to God that he has not created me a woman."	45:06
	And it is with us today,	45:13
	it's hard to break through old traditions.	45:15
	And Paul's whole focus of his teaching,	45:20
	his preaching, his missionary work	45:23
	was to proclaim the coming of Christ.	45:25
	And Paul believed that every facet of our lives	45:29
	should be focused, their lives should be so focused	45:34
	that nothing would happen that would move	45:37
	any of this dynamic as they prepared	45:40
	for imminent coming of Christ.	45:43
	He told them to be true to their government,	45:46
	true to obey it, to pay their taxes without grumbling,	45:49
	to not go into any debt.	45:53
	And then over and over he says to them,	45:56
	"Don't marry, it's better to stay single."	45:59
	But then he said, "If your passions become so strong	46:04
	"that you can't control 'em, then it's better to marry."	46:08
	Don't believe Paul would make	46:14
	a very good marriage counselor.	46:15
	And so his relationships here,	46:20
	but we owe Paul a great debt of gratitude	46:21
	for he did raise the concept of marriage for women	46:25
	on a much higher level than we find it in the Old Testament.	46:29
	And Paul even takes the marriage relationship	46:34
	to talk about the church as the bride of Christ,	46:39
	and describes marriage in these terms,	46:43
	and tells the husband that in the marriage relation,	46:46
	his relationship with his wife should be	46:50
	as Christ to the church.	46:53
	And any relationship that is in the spirit of Christ in love	46:55
	would bring out and encourage the best	47:01
	in every relationship to every human being.	47:05
	And so we find, as Paul struggles through,	47:12
	that finally the great truth of what Christ	47:17
	was saying came to him.	47:20
	And in Galatians, we find these great words	47:23
	that have been read this morning.	47:26
	In Christ, there is no Jew nor Greek,	47:28
	no slave nor free, no male nor female.	47:31
	In Christ, we are one.	47:36
	And so as we look at our scriptures,	47:39
	we see God's original plan,	47:41
	that he created male and female in his own image	47:45
	to have a beneficial partnership of coequals.	47:50
	This was affirmed in the life, the teachings	47:56
	and the relationship of Jesus,	47:59
	and reaffirmed by Paul when he says,	48:02
	"In Christ, there is no Jew nor Greek,	48:05
	"no slave nor free, no male nor female.	48:09
	"For in Christ, we are one."	48:14
	Amen.	48:18
	(lively organ music)	48:31
	(organ drowning out singing of choir)	49:02
	♪ Peace on Earth ♪	52:02
	(organ drowning out singing of choir)	52:04
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	52:29
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating,	52:33
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	52:38
	to reconcile and make new,	52:41
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	52:44
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	52:48
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	52:53
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	52:57
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	53:03
	our judge and our hope.	53:07
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	53:10
	God is with us, we are not alone.	53:15
	Thanks be to God.	53:19
	The Lord be with you.	53:22
-	And with your spirit.
-	Let us pray.	53:26
	For the joy of human love, brother, sister,	53:44
	parent, child, friends on earth and friends above,	53:49
	for all gentle thoughts and mild,	53:56
	Lord of all, to thee we raise	54:00
	not only our hymns of grateful praise,	54:04
	but also our prayers of intercession.	54:08
	We pray for the peace of the world.	54:13
	Lord, grant that we may live together in justice and faith.	54:17
	We pray for the holy church throughout the world.	54:23
	Lord, keep her unshaken,	54:28
	founded upon the rock of thy word until the end of time.	54:31
	We pray for children and young people.	54:37
	Lord, strengthen them in their vocation.	54:42
	We pray for the sick.	54:46
	Lord, deliver them and restore	54:49
	the strength they need.	54:53
	We pray for all who are condemned to exile,	54:57
	prison, harsh treatment	55:01
	or hard labor for the name of Christ.	55:04
	The Lord support them and keep them true in faith.	55:08
	We remember, especially this day, the dead:	55:15
	our brother in faith, Pope Paul VI.	55:20
	We thank thee for his life and ministry,	55:26
	for the profundity of his faith	55:30
	and the intensity of his faithful obedience.	55:34
	Bless the fruits of the servant of of the servant of God,	55:38
	that they may see his flock safely into the hands	55:43
	of a new shepherd, one called and prepared by you, Lord,	55:47
	to preserve your church,	55:53
	our church, in faithfulness to thee.	55:56
	When remembering all the witnesses and martyrs of the faith,	56:02
	all who have given their lives for you,	56:07
	and in communion with our brothers and sisters	56:10
	who have fallen asleep in Christ, including Pope Paul,	56:13
	we commit ourselves and one another	56:18
	to the living God through Christ, our Lord.	56:22
	Lord, we pray thee, hear our prayer,	56:27
	in the name of our savior who taught us to pray saying:	56:32
	Our Father who art in Heaven,	56:36
	hallowed be thy name,	56:39
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	56:42
	Earth as it is in Heaven.	56:46
	Give us this day our daily bread,	56:48
	and forgive us our trespasses	56:51
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	56:54
	And lead us not into temptation,	56:58
	but deliver us from evil,	57:01
	for thine is the kingdom,	57:03
	and the power and the glory forever.	57:06
	Amen.	57:10
	(slow organ music)	57:19
	(slow organ music)	59:05
	(singing in foreign language)	59:12
	(powerful organ music)	1:01:55
	♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪	1:02:51
	♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪	1:02:56
	♪ Hallelujah, halleujah ♪	1:03:02
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host ♪	1:03:10
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	1:03:16
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:03:21
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	1:03:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:33
	Almighty God, whose loving hand has given us	1:03:55
	all that we possess,	1:03:59
	grant us grace that we may honor thee with our substance,	1:04:02
	and remembering the account which we must one day give,	1:04:07
	be faithful stewards of thy abundant creation,	1:04:11
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	1:04:16
	Amen.	1:04:20
	(powerful organ music)	1:04:23
	♪ Let he who each day approaches ♪	1:05:02
	♪ Give him to his shepherd ♪	1:05:08
	♪ On every kingdom of God almighty ♪	1:05:13
	♪ Grow him with us now, amen ♪	1:05:19
	♪ Bread of women, bread of savior ♪	1:05:25
	♪ Lead him to light ♪	1:05:31
	♪ Lead him to God of light ♪	1:05:36
	♪ Let he who each day approaches ♪	1:05:44
	♪ Let him lead us to our home ♪	1:05:49
	(organ drowning out singers)	1:05:55
	♪ Now and ever, grow within us ♪	1:06:06
	♪ Lead us to change ♪	1:06:12
	♪ Lead us to Christ, amen ♪	1:06:18
	♪ Let he who each day approaches ♪	1:06:26
	♪ Lead us to the savior's light ♪	1:06:31
	♪ Let all who gave upon you ♪	1:06:37
	♪ Let him sing of distant star ♪	1:06:42
	♪ All are savior's, all sing praises ♪	1:06:48
	♪ Christ redeemed ♪	1:06:54
	♪ Lead us to Christ, amen ♪	1:06:59
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:08
	The Lord bless you and keep you.	1:07:18
	The Lord make his face shine upon you	1:07:21
	and be gracious unto you.	1:07:23
	The Lord lift up his countenance upon you	1:07:27
	and give you peace, this day and forevermore.	1:07:31
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:42
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:49
	♪ Amen ♪	1:07:56
	♪ Amen ♪	1:08:00
	♪ Amen ♪	1:08:12
	♪ Amen ♪	1:08:20
	♪ Amen ♪	1:08:33
	(lively organ music)	1:08:51
	(congregation shuffling)
	(clapping)	1:14:07
	(whistling melodically)	1:14:11

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Mrs. Tibbie Roberts - "Male and Female God Created Them" (August 13, 1978)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 23:57. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 48:21.
Women are not less than men biblically, and the Bible should not be used to justify women’s subordination to men. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: And another interesting word in this account in Genesis is the word that is used for God. ELOHIM. The El of this word is the male concept of God, the Ohim is the feminie concept of God. So the God that the writers of Genesis are portraying here is a God that is inclusive of male and female. And so we find truly, that God created human kind in his own image. Male and female he created them in his image.

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August 13, 1978

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Roberts, Tibbie

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