Clarence G. Newsome - "Righteous Anger" (August 27, 1978)

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Announcer	Duke University Chapel service of worship.	0:02
	(pipe organ music)	0:26
Woman	All joy, amen.	8:09
	(pipe organ music)	8:15
	(choir singing)	8:26
	Let us humbly confess our sins to almighty God.	12:16
	Oh God of truth and fact,	12:21
	forgive us for the myths we generate	12:26
	about our heritage to falsify the past,	12:30
	about ourselves to hide our present faults,	12:35
	about those strange to us to justify our lack of charity.	12:40
	Give us courage to seek,	12:47
	and to face all truth.	12:50
	Give us humility to see with less distortion,	12:53
	and give us grace to act upon the truth	12:58
	of Your spirit leads us to perceive.	13:02
	Amen.	13:07
	As the heaven is high above the Earth,	14:01
	so great is God's mercy toward those who fear God.	14:04
	As far as the East is from the West,	14:09
	so far has God removed our sins from us.	14:12
	Amen.	14:17
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	14:20
	and God's love is everlasting.	14:24
	Thanks be to God who creates us,	14:27
	thanks be to God by whose mercy we are redeemed,	14:31
	thanks be to God whose spirit leads us into the future.	14:36
	We welcome as our preacher	14:43
	this morning the Reverend Clarence G. Newsome,	14:45
	who is a member of the faculty at the Duke Divinity School.	14:49
-	[Reverend Newsome] Let us pray.	15:05
	Prepare our hearts, oh Lord,	15:07
	to accept Your word.	15:10
	Silence in us any voice but Your own,	15:12
	that hearing, we may also obey Your will.	15:16
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	15:21
	Will the congregation stand for	15:25
	the reading of the gospel lesson?	15:27
	The lesson is from the 21st chapter of Matthew,	15:33
	verses 12 through 16.	15:36
	"And Jesus entered the temple of God,	15:40
	"and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple,	15:42
	"and he overturned the tables of money changers,	15:46
	"and the seats of those who sold pigeons.	15:49
	"He said to them, it is written,	15:52
	"my house shall be called a house of prayer,	15:56
	"but you make it a den of robbers,	15:58
	"and the blind, and the lame came to him in the temple,	16:01
	"and he healed them,	16:06
	"but when the chief priest and the scribes saw	16:07
	"the wonderful things that he did,	16:09
	"and the children crying out in the temple,	16:12
	"God bless the son of David,	16:14
	"they were indignant, and they said to him,	16:17
	"do you hear what these are saying?	16:20
	"And Jesus said to them, yes.	16:23
	"Have you never read out of	16:27
	"the mouth of babes and sucklings,	16:30
	"though haste bought perfect praise."	16:32
	Here ends the reading of the gospel.	16:36
	All praise and glory be to God.	16:38
	Amen.	16:41
	(pipe organ music)	16:43
	(choir singing)	17:14
	Please be seated.	17:50
	Let us pray.	18:01
	Oh merciful and all wise God,	18:05
	only Thou knowest how frail a vessel I am,	18:09
	only Thou knowest how fragile	18:14
	an instrument I am to do Your deed,	18:17
	but that the words of my mouth,	18:24
	and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight,	18:26
	oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.	18:32
	Amen.	18:37
	Greetings to each of you.	18:41
	As I come before you,	18:44
	I stand, even at this moment,	18:46
	wondering whose antics I will imitate from this pulpit.	18:50
	Often times when I sit out	18:56
	where you are sitting now and look up,	18:57
	I try to determine whose style I want,	19:01
	but I am aware that there's a danger in imitation,	19:05
	many pitfalls, as I am reminded of a little story	19:10
	that I wish to share with you now before I begin my sermon.	19:15
	It's a story of a man who I am told was in New York,	19:20
	this is what they say,	19:24
	and he was seen jumping on a manhole,	19:27
	up and down, up and down,	19:30
	up and down, and he was counting,	19:32
	"44, 44, 44, 44."	19:36
	Pretty soon people began to gather around,	19:41
	and he just continued, "44, 44, 44."	19:43
	It wasn't long before somebody in the crown said,	19:50
	"I can do that.	19:52
	"I can do that, and I can do it better than you",	19:55
	and the man said, "well if you want, come on."	19:57
	The man was trying to draw some attention to himself,	20:00
	so he took the place of the other man over the manhole,	20:04
	and began to jump up and down,	20:08
	and count, "44, 44, 44."	20:10
	He had his crowd, people were watching,	20:14
	but one time when he was suspended up in the air,	20:17
	the first man reached over,	20:23
	grabbed the top of the manhole,	20:25
	and pulled it back, and the man fell straight down,	20:26
	and when that happened, the first man took the manhole,	20:31
	put it back over, the cover,	20:35
	took the man cover, put it back over the hole,	20:37
	and began to jump up and down again going,	20:40
	"45, 45, 45, 45."	20:42
	I got through that.	20:47
	There are pitfalls in imitation,	20:49
	so I'm mindful of that.	20:52
	Now I wish to express just a word of greetings also	20:57
	to the 1978 Duke University football team.	21:02
	I see many of the young men out in the congregation,	21:07
	and I welcome you especially.	21:12
	The topic of my sermon this morning	21:17
	has to do with the subject of righteous anger.	21:21
	Righteous anger.	21:26
	I have come to my topic by way of meditating	21:31
	on a portion of the 21st chapter of St. Matthew,	21:37
	and that portion, beginning with the 12th verse,	21:43
	and ending with the 16th verse.	21:47
	You heard this familiar passage read	21:52
	this morning as the scripture lesson.	21:54
	I wish now to reread it for the purpose	21:59
	of drawing your attention to its meaning,	22:01
	and if you have a Bible, if you have one with you,	22:07
	I would like for you to read silently along with me.	22:12
	"And Jesus went into the temple of God,	22:20
	"and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,	22:25
	"and overthrew the tables of the money changers,	22:30
	"and the seats of them that sold doves,"	22:34
	or pigeons, depending on your translation,	22:36
	"and said unto them,	22:40
	"it is written my house shall be called a house of prayer,	22:43
	"but ye have made it a den of thieves,	22:46
	"and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple,	22:50
	"and then he healed them,	22:53
	"and when the chief priests and scribes saw	22:56
	"the wonderful things that he did,	22:58
	"and the children crying in the temple	23:01
	"and saying, Hosannah to the son of David,	23:03
	"they were sore displeased,	23:06
	"and said unto him, hearest thou what these say?	23:11
	"And Jesus sayeth unto them, "yea, have ye never read?	23:16
	"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings,	23:21
	"thou hast perfected praise."	23:24
	Now this passage holds for me	23:29
	memories of my boyhood.	23:33
	For some reason I was always fascinated	23:39
	by the story of Jesus cleansing the temple.	23:41
	I cannot remember the first time that I heard it,	23:46
	but I can recall that each time I occasioned to hear it	23:51
	from my mother, my father,	23:56
	my grandmother, the minister at our local church,	23:57
	my Sunday school teacher,	24:01
	each time I was as enraptured	24:04
	as the preceding time.	24:08
	The very vivid, very vivid image	24:12
	of Jesus overturning tables,	24:16
	knocking over chairs, and running people out into the street	24:19
	no doubt intrigued me.	24:24
	As a matter of fact, I can recall that the effect on me	24:28
	was so great and so lasting that I would sometimes,	24:32
	it's funny how I can remember this so clearly,	24:36
	I would sometimes even before I knew how to read well,	24:40
	go to the family Bible,	24:45
	or the green backed Bible story book we had in our house,	24:48
	and hunt for the picture of Jesus cleansing the temple.	24:54
	You know how they have in some editions	25:00
	of the Bible paintings and drawings illustrating	25:03
	different Biblical stories?	25:07
	Well, the illustration of Jesus cleansing the temple,	25:08
	along with that of Joshua fit in the battle of Jericho,	25:13
	I remember that one very well, was my favorite.	25:16
	As I think back on what fascinated me,	25:23
	as I think back on what intrigued me about the story,	25:29
	I suppose it was the image of Jesus,	25:35
	and the feeling of Jesus moving	25:38
	with such evident force	25:42
	and forthrightness.	25:45
	It was even more, I suppose, the image, and the feeling,	25:50
	and the thought	25:54
	of an angry Jesus,	25:57
	and I suppose what intrigued me the most	26:03
	about the thought of an angry Jesus	26:05
	was the contrast it presented to the image of Jesus	26:11
	which was most dominant in my mind.	26:15
	This was the image of a meek,	26:20
	mild Jesus,	26:24
	a Jesus so tender of heart	26:28
	and so loving as to be almost passive.	26:31
	Although it was not intelligible to me then,	26:39
	I realize now that this contrast was, for me,	26:44
	even at a young age,	26:49
	the focal point of my attempt	26:53
	to reconcile an all loving Jesus	26:55
	with a Jesus of righteousness,	27:01
	and in as much as Jesus is the son of God,	27:06
	suppose an all loving god with a righteous God,	27:09
	yea even a wrathful God.	27:12
	Some years after the passing of my childhood,	27:19
	I learned that I had not and was not alone	27:25
	in my attempts to reconcile a loving God	27:28
	with a righteous, wrathful God,	27:31
	a loving Jesus with a righteous, wrathful Jesus.	27:34
	I learned, for example,	27:40
	that though religionists have long agreed	27:41
	that love is indispensable to	27:43
	the Christian view of God's nature, for God is love,	27:46
	there has been much, much disagreement on	27:53
	how God's righteousness,	27:57
	expressed in the form of God's wrath,	27:59
	is reconciled with God's love.	28:02
	The issue as I understand it is in no way new.	28:08
	Years and years ago, during the early days of the church,	28:13
	the theologian Marcion, for example,	28:19
	was among the first to face the problem head on.	28:21
	According to him, reconciling the Old Testament idea	28:25
	of the the righteousness of God	28:29
	with the New Testament idea	28:31
	of the love of God is impossible.	28:33
	The concept of law as he saw it	28:36
	is a complete denial of love.	28:39
	The solution thereby was to insist	28:43
	that the gospel of Christ is completely new,	28:45
	and thus has nothing to do with the concept	28:50
	of righteousness as presented in the Old Testament.	28:53
	As a result, Marcion posited the reality of two Gods,	28:59
	the creator God of the Old Testament,	29:05
	who required obedience to the law of righteousness,	29:09
	and the redeemer God of the New Testament,	29:12
	who is the good, benevolent,	29:16
	self giving God, the God of love.	29:19
	As might be expected, the church rejected Marcion's view.	29:26
	Since the early Christian community did not understand	29:30
	its existence as being completely new	29:34
	in the sense of negating the God of the Old Testament,	29:37
	they believed that they were the authentic continuation	29:43
	of the old Israel, the Noddest denial.	29:46
	Christ therefore did not destroy	29:50
	the Old Testament, he fulfilled it,	29:53
	but while the early church rejected	29:59
	Marcion's division and dichotomy	30:01
	between the Old Testament view of God's righteousness	30:03
	and the New Testament view of God's love in Jesus Christ,	30:07
	many questions and much confusion	30:12
	about the precise relationship between the two aspects,	30:17
	the two modalities, dimensions,	30:22
	call them what you will,	30:24
	of God's reality have persisted,	30:27
	even until the present day,	30:31
	In the main,	30:36
	we Christians have a tendency to regard	30:40
	God's love as the dominant motif of Christianity,	30:43
	while attempting to comprehend God's righteousness	30:50
	in the light of it,	30:53
	but this understand fails to take seriously	30:56
	the importance of God's righteousness,	31:02
	and in this connection, the importance of God's wrath,	31:06
	and tends to make, as Professor Jame Cone	31:11
	of Union Theological Seminary in New York says,	31:15
	tends to make God's love mere sentimentality.	31:18
	Think about it.	31:23
	Most of us fail to regard properly	31:26
	the significance of God's righteousness, God's wrath.	31:31
	This suggests that we tend to see God's love	31:38
	as completely self giving without	31:41
	any demand for obedience.	31:45
	You see, most of us believe in cheap grace,	31:48
	as Dietrich Bonhoeffer once put it,	31:54
	and what's more, we think, behave, and interact as if	32:00
	grace were indeed cheap.	32:05
	For some reason, perhaps a selfish reason	32:11
	with a logic all its own,	32:18
	we seem to think and act as if God	32:22
	is basically not against anybody or anything,	32:25
	and we all know according to the reasons of the heart,	32:31
	don't we,	32:34
	that that is not the case.	32:38
	How then do we reconcile God's righteousness,	32:44
	yea God's wrath, with God's love?	32:47
	In a word, and at the risk of sounding a bit like Marcion,	32:55
	but don't get ahead of me, we don't.	33:00
	Play any mental games you want,	33:05
	play any word games you want,	33:07
	it is really beyond our ability to fathom it,	33:08
	at least with the powers of the mind.	33:12
	Humble yourselves enough to admit it,	33:18
	but given the powers of the heart, we can at least,	33:25
	on the basis of faith in the reality of God,	33:30
	and mind you, I did not say belief	33:36
	in the idea of the reality of God.	33:40
	I said belief in the reality of God,	33:46
	on that basis we can come to a point of view	33:52
	which reveals to us,	33:58
	and reveals to us not as the eclipse	34:02
	of a once illuminated scene,	34:05
	that's one of my favorite phrases.	34:06
	As the theologian H. Richard Niebuhr	34:09
	once so succinctly expressed,	34:11
	"but which makes transparent to us	34:14
	"for all time that God's love and God's righteousness	34:17
	"are two ways	34:21
	of talking about the same reality."	34:25
	God's righteousness is,	34:31
	whatever else it might be,	34:36
	at least God's constant activity	34:40
	at helping each of us to become aware,	34:43
	making each of us to realize,	34:49
	requiring each of us to see,	34:55
	demanding each of our hearts to accept	35:01
	that not all we do is right,	35:05
	while God's love,	35:13
	whatever else it might be,	35:17
	is at least God's self giving to this task	35:21
	in the interest of all of us.	35:28
	It was as the embodiment of love and righteousness	35:38
	that God, in Jesus Christ,	35:44
	moved through the temple in Jerusalem	35:46
	one particular day, some 2,000 odd years ago.	35:51
	As we consider the account of this event	35:58
	as it is found not only in the book of Matthew,	36:01
	but also in the books of Mark, Luke, and John,	36:04
	there is some question about the precise day,	36:07
	whether it was at the outset of Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem,	36:12
	as suggested in Matthew, Luke, and John,	36:16
	or on a subsequent day, as suggested in Mark,	36:21
	is not important, at least not right now.	36:23
	What is important is that the scripture makes plain to us	36:28
	that Jesus' temperament on this occasion	36:33
	was one of righteous anger,	36:37
	for as we are told, he went into the temple of God,	36:41
	and cast out all of them that sold and bought in the temple,	36:45
	and overthrew the tables of the money changers,	36:50
	and the seats of them that sold animals.	36:53
	Why?	36:59
	This is a question well worth considering.	37:03
	When I first pondered this question	37:10
	during the early days of my youth,	37:12
	I concluded that Jesus acted so forcefully	37:17
	and so forthrightly because he was merely offended	37:20
	by the actions of the money changers,	37:26
	the actions of those that sold doves,	37:29
	and by the negligence of	37:33
	the high priest in charge of the temple.	37:35
	Well I'm not sure that this constituted,	37:40
	well I am sure that this constituted	37:44
	much of the reason for Jesus' reaction	37:48
	upon entering the temple,	37:51
	but now I can see that his protest,	37:55
	his wrath was directed at a problem	37:59
	much deeper than their actions.	38:03
	For when I consider what they were doing,	38:08
	I am inclined to sense and feel that Jesus	38:12
	was most likely not that upset,	38:17
	don't get ahead of me here,	38:21
	not that upset with the form of their actions.	38:23
	As a result of looking closely at the text,	38:29
	we learn, for example,	38:33
	that the money changers and those that sold animals	38:37
	were providing a needed service.	38:40
	In a modern day society such as ours,	38:45
	where we have grown such accustomed	38:47
	to 7-11 stores and the like,	38:49
	we can well identify with the kind	38:55
	of business these men operated,	38:57
	for theirs was an operation of convenience.	38:59
	Each day people from outlying areas,	39:04
	Jews and Gentiles alike,	39:06
	would arrive in Jerusalem to worship at the temple,	39:09
	the sacred and ritualistic center of Judaism.	39:13
	Once in the city, they had need of exchanging	39:18
	their coins for the standard Hebrew or	39:22
	Tyrian money, currency, which was required.	39:25
	In addition, they also had need	39:31
	of animals to sacrifice at the temple,	39:33
	animals which had been ritually cleaned,	39:37
	making it too impractical to bring	39:41
	them long distances to Jerusalem.	39:43
	So the money changers and those	39:47
	who sold sacrificial animals provided a needed service,	39:49
	and I'm inclined that this in and of itself offend Jesus,	39:54
	and curiously enough, I know it may sound odd,	39:59
	although I am sure Jesus was disturbed by their actions,	40:04
	I really do not think he was ultimately, ultimately	40:08
	bothered by the extortion	40:13
	and the graft that took place in the temple,	40:16
	or the misguided intentions of those who,	40:21
	according to the Markan account,	40:26
	used the temple as a thoroughfare,	40:29
	a short cut from one street to another,	40:31
	or ultimately bothered by the sanctions,	40:35
	tacit or otherwise, which the high priest must	40:39
	have given these fraudulent and irreverent practices	40:44
	in order for them to have taken place.	40:50
	Rather, my heart tells me	40:55
	that Jesus was most disturbed	41:02
	by the root of these actions,	41:07
	the root of this behavior.	41:11
	My heart tells me that he was most bothered	41:16
	by the fact that they acted and carried on	41:19
	as if there was no wrongdoing,	41:24
	as if what they were doing was	41:29
	in some way permissible in the eyes of God.	41:31
	He was offended by the fact that they did not see	41:39
	that not all we do is right.	41:43
	The chief priest, for example,	41:51
	the leaders of the faith,	41:54
	the custodians of God's temple	41:56
	had become blind to the errors of their ways,	42:00
	so much so that they did not even recognize	42:06
	the son of God when he appeared before them.	42:09
	Rather than join the chorus of children who,	42:15
	as we see in verses peculiar to the Matthew text,	42:18
	children who proclaimed Jesus as the messiah.	42:22
	At the sight of seeing him heal	42:24
	and do wonderful things in the temple,	42:26
	the chief priest became sore displeased.	42:30
	Can you imagine it? The leaders of the faith,	42:35
	the custodians of God's temple,	42:41
	they did not see that not all we do is right.	42:46
	For this reason, Jesus saw the need	42:53
	to react with righteous anger,	42:57
	with the wrath of God,	43:01
	so that eyes might be opened.	43:05
	Perhaps he did not move through the temple	43:10
	with a whip in hand as the Gospel of John portrays him,	43:12
	but by overturning tables and knocking over seats,	43:16
	Jesus acted with righteous anger,	43:21
	so that hearts might be opened	43:26
	even during the time of his earthly ministry	43:30
	to the fact that not all we do is right.	43:33
	When I consider the nature of our age,	43:42
	an age of test tube babies and test tube faith,	43:48
	an age in which the individual is the measure,	43:53
	an age in which whatever is willed	44:00
	and whatever feels good is right,	44:02
	I wonder if we do no need to be reminded that	44:07
	God is real,	44:11
	and that there is a dimension of his reality	44:16
	which can so forcefully and so forthrightly	44:23
	overturn the ways of each of us,	44:27
	so that all of us	44:32
	can see enough for our hearts to make plain to us	44:36
	that in this age of everything goes,	44:44
	all that goes does not go well with God.	44:49
	God is a loving god,	45:00
	but God is also a righteous god,	45:04
	and he will not be compromised.	45:09
	I have only to remind you	45:15
	of the God who mothered Heaven and Earth	45:22
	was the same God who ordered the blood,	45:28
	I have only to remind you,	45:34
	and I don't have to get too specific	45:38
	about contemporary issues,	45:41
	I only have to remind you	45:44
	that the God of Abraham, and the God of Moses,	45:49
	who freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage,	45:54
	was the same God who kept them	45:59
	in the wilderness for 40 years.	46:02
	I don't have to remind you	46:07
	that the God who was so self giving	46:12
	that he sent his only begotten son	46:17
	so that we might have everlasting life	46:20
	was the same God who overturned the tables of the temple,	46:25
	who knocked over the seats in the temple,	46:30
	who ran the money changers out of the temple,	46:34
	who chastised the high priest	46:38
	in the temple in Jerusalem.	46:41
	The same God.	46:47
	The same God.	46:50
	I have a particular heaviness about my heart today.	46:54
	So many things as of late have seemed to burden me.	47:01
	I can hardly count	47:08
	the number of couples	47:13
	who have been friends to me and my wife over	47:14
	the last four, five years,	47:18
	I can hardly count a one that's still together,	47:23
	with the latest coming not too long ago.	47:28
	Something's wrong.	47:33
	Not everything is right.	47:37
	Not all that we do is right.	47:42
	Something is wrong somewhere and we gotta face it.	47:44
	I can think of parents I've met recently	47:50
	who say that they're searching for inner peace now,	47:57
	and they don't have time to raise their children.	48:00
	It's each man and woman for himself. Something's wrong.	48:04
	Not everything that we do is right,	48:09
	and I think about the Bacchae decision,	48:17
	I wonder about that.	48:21
	Not all that we do is right.	48:26
	For the same God	48:31
	who loves us	48:36
	is the same God	48:40
	who at times gets righteously angry with us	48:44
	and has to straighten us up.	48:49
	That great God, be reminded.	48:53
	May Heaven smile upon you, and may God bless you.	48:59
	Amen.	49:06
	(pipe organ music)	49:13
	(choir singing)	49:57
Woman	Let us affirm what we believe.	52:32
	We believe in God, who has created,	52:35
	and is creating, who has come in the truly human Jesus	52:39
	to reconcile and make new,	52:44
	who works in us and others via the spirit.	52:47
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	52:52
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	52:57
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	53:00
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	53:07
	our judge and our hope,	53:11
	in life, in death, in life beyond death,	53:14
	God is with us.	53:19
	We are not alone.	53:21
	Thanks be to God.	53:23
	May you be seated.	53:30
	The Lord be with you.	53:39
Congregation	And also with you.	53:41
Woman	Let us pray.	53:42
	Author of the world's joy,	53:51
	bearer of the world's pain,	53:55
	at the heart of all our distress,	54:01
	let unconquerable gladness dwell.	54:07
	Oh God, You made us in Your own image,	54:14
	and redeemed us through Jesus Christ.	54:16
	Look with compassion on the whole human family,	54:20
	take away the arrogance which infects our hearts,	54:26
	break down the walls that separate us,	54:31
	unite us in bonds of love and of work.	54:36
	Look with compassion, oh God,	54:47
	upon the people in this land,	54:49
	who live with injustice, terror,	54:52
	disease, and death as their constant companions.	54:56
	Have mercy on us, cleanse our hearts,	55:01
	quicken our minds and bodies to aid	55:07
	and to suffer those around us in need of us.	55:11
	Gracious god, we pray for Your holy church.	55:21
	Fill it with all truth, truth and all peace.	55:26
	Where it is corrupt, purify it.	55:31
	Where it is in error, correct it.	55:35
	Where it is divided, reunite it,	55:40
	and where it is right, strengthen it,	55:45
	and especially, oh God,	55:50
	we pray for Pope John Paul I.	55:51
	Grant to him the humility and the courage necessary	55:57
	to hear Your spirit and live Your word.	56:04
	Oh God, You have blessed us,	56:12
	and given us dominion over all the Earth.	56:17
	Increase our reverence before the mystery of life,	56:21
	and give us new insight into Your purposes	56:27
	for each one of us,	56:30
	and new wisdom, and determination in providing hope	56:33
	for our future according to Your will.	56:38
	Author of the world's joy,	56:47
	bearer of the world's pain,	56:50
	at the heart of all of our distress,	56:55
	let unconquerable gladness dwell.	56:59
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	57:06
	hallowed be Thy name.	57:10
	Thy kingdom come,	57:12
	Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.	57:14
	Give us this day our daily bread,	57:20
	and forgive us our trespasses,	57:23
	as we forgive those who trespassed against us,	57:26
	and lead us not into temptation,	57:30
	but deliver us from evil,	57:33
	for Thine is the Kingdom,	57:36
	and the power, and the glory.	57:38
	Amen.	57:42
	(pipe organ music)	57:49
	(choir singing)	1:02:52
	For our creation and preservation,	1:04:01
	and all the blessings of this life,	1:04:06
	and especially, oh God,	1:04:10
	for the gift of Your son, Jesus,	1:04:11
	our savior, the Christ.	1:04:16
	Amen.	1:04:19
	(pipe organ music)	1:04:23
	(choir singing)	1:04:51
	And now may the Lord bless you and keep you.	1:08:15
	May the Lord make His face shine upon you	1:08:19
	and be gracious unto you.	1:08:22
	May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you,	1:08:25
	and give you peace, but also a knowledge of His reality.	1:08:29
	Amen.	1:08:36
	(pipe organ music)	1:08:40

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Title:

Clarence G. Newsome - "Righteous Anger" (August 27, 1978)

Description:

The fact of God's righteous anger together with the fact of God's love is not something we can reconcile intellectually. But through faith we can come to see that they are two different ways of speaking of the same reality. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 18:41. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 49:08.
Key quotation: “God’s righteousness is, whatever else it might be, at least God’s constant activity at helping each of us to become aware, making each of us to realize, requiring each of us to see, demanding each of our hearts to accept that not all we do is right, while God’s love, whatever else it might be, is at least God’s self-giving to this task in the interest of all of us.”

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Date:

August 27, 1978

Speaker:

Newsome, Clarence G. (Clarence Geno), 1950-

Liturgical Calendar:

Ordinary Time

Biblical Book:

Matthew

Chapter and Verse:

Matthew 21:12-16

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Duke University. Chapel

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