Robert T. Young - "How Deep the Satisfaction" (February 4, 1979)

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-	Duke University Chapel Service of Worship,	0:04
	February 4th, 1979.	0:07
	(downbeat organ music)	0:16
	(chattering)	5:32
	(downbeat organ music)	5:46
	(downbeat organ music)	9:02
	(downbeat organ music)	12:53
	(indistinct choir singing)	15:01
	(downbeat organ music)	16:29
	(indistinct choir singing)	17:05
-	Will the congregation please be seated?	20:07
	Let us ask God to forgive us.	20:17
	Oh mighty God, you love us	20:21
	but we have not loved you.	20:24
	You called but we have not listened.	20:26
	We walk away from neighbors in need,	20:30
	wrapped up in our own concerns.	20:33
	We have gone along with evil, with prejudice,	20:36
	warfare, and greed.	20:40
	Help us face up to ourselves	20:43
	so that as you move toward us in mercy,	20:46
	we may repent, turn to you, and receive forgiveness	20:50
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	20:56
	Dear people of God,	21:01
	believe in the good news of the gospel.	21:04
	In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.	21:08
-	May I say a word of welcome to you on this day	21:34
	when we come together in the name and in the spirit	21:40
	of our Lord Jesus Christ and particularly	21:42
	when we have the privilege of breaking bread	21:45
	and sharing the cup together	21:49
	in the sacrament of our Lord's supper.	21:51
	Two words of announcement.	21:55
	One is that beginning next Sunday evening	21:57
	at 7:30, the Faith and Arts Committee	22:01
	of the Duke University Parish Ministry,	22:04
	we'll sponsor the first of a series	22:06
	of historical worship services.	22:09
	Professor Robert Gregg, professor of church history	22:13
	and the divinity school, will	22:17
	conduct a second century eucharistic service.	22:19
	You are welcome and are invited	22:23
	to ask others to come and share	22:26
	in that special service with us.	22:28
	There will be other special services	22:30
	to follow and words about those	22:33
	will come at an appropriate time.	22:34
	The beginning of a new semester means	22:38
	that we have to have a new request for volunteers	22:41
	to serve as chapel attendants.	22:49
	If you are here or if you know someone	22:52
	who would be interested in serving	22:54
	as a volunteer attendant on Friday or Saturday evenings,	22:56
	we would be pleased to have your services.	23:03
	The chapel is open from eight in the morning	23:05
	to eight at night, by paid staff from eight	23:07
	until 11, by volunteer staff, we'd like	23:11
	to keep the chapel open every day	23:13
	from eight in the morning until 11 at night.	23:16
	If you are interested, let us know	23:19
	by leaving your name at the desk as you leave this morning.	23:22
	Let us hear the word of God.	23:27
	First, from the Old Testament from the book of Isaiah,	23:30
	these words.	23:34
	Is such the fast that I choose a day	23:36
	for a man to humble himself?	23:40
	Is it to bow down his head like a rush	23:44
	and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?	23:46
	Will you call this a fast and a day	23:49
	acceptable to the Lord?	23:52
	Is not this the fast that I choose?	23:55
	To loose the bonds of wickedness.	23:59
	To undo the thongs of the yoke.	24:02
	To let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke.	24:04
	Is it not to share your bread with the hungry	24:09
	and bring the homeless poor into your house?	24:12
	When you see the naked, to cover him	24:16
	and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?	24:18
	Then shall your light break forth like the dawn	24:22
	and your healing shall spring up speedily.	24:25
	Your righteousness shall go before you.	24:29
	The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.	24:32
	Then you shall call and the Lord will answer.	24:35
	You shall cry and he will say here I am.	24:38
	If you take away from the midst of you the yoke,	24:43
	the pointing of the finger,	24:47
	and speaking wickedness,	24:50
	if you pour out yourself for the hungry	24:53
	and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,	24:56
	then shall your light rise in the darkness	24:59
	and your bloom be as the noon day	25:02
	and the Lord will continually guide you	25:05
	and satisfy your desire with good things	25:08
	and make your bones strong	25:11
	and you shall be like a watered garden,	25:14
	like a spring of water whose waters fail not	25:18
	and your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt.	25:22
	You shall raise up the foundations of many generations.	25:26
	You shall be called the repairer of the breach,	25:30
	the restorer of streets to dwell in.	25:33
	Here ends the reading of the Old Testament lesson.	25:38
	Let us hear the reading from the gospel.	25:42
	Will you stand for the reading of the gospel?	25:45
	From the gospel according to St. Matthew,	25:51
	chapter five, verses 13 through 16.	25:52
	Jesus said you are the salt of the earth	25:57
	but if salt has lost its taste,	26:02
	how shall its saltness be restored?	26:04
	It is no longer good for anything	26:07
	except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by man.	26:10
	You are the light of the world,	26:14
	a city set on a hill cannot be hid	26:16
	nor do men light up a lamp and put it under a bushel	26:19
	but on a stand and it gives light	26:23
	to all in the house.	26:25
	Let your light so shine before all people	26:28
	that they may see your good works	26:32
	and give glory to your father who is in heaven.	26:34
	Amen.	26:38
	Here ends the reading of the gospel lesson.	26:39
	To God be the praise and the glory.	26:42
	You may be seated.	26:45
	We come today to confess,	26:52
	to receive forgiveness, to pray for others,	26:57
	to respond to God's invitation to the table of our Lord,	27:01
	to share again in the bread and wine,	27:05
	the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ	27:07
	and to depart from this place,	27:11
	to love and serve in the name and in the spirit	27:12
	of Jesus Christ, our Lord.	27:15
	In the Old Testament lesson for this,	27:18
	the fifth Sunday after Epiphany,	27:21
	Isaiah warns us of the fast that God	27:24
	does not want from us	27:28
	and then tells us of the fast that God does want,	27:31
	the fast that brings that deep satisfaction our souls	27:35
	and spirits constantly are seeking.	27:39
	Listen again to the words from Isaiah.	27:42
	He says, Is not this the fast that I choose?	27:45
	To loose the bonds of wickedness,	27:48
	to undo the thongs of the yoke,	27:51
	to let the oppressed go free	27:53
	and to break every yoke.	27:55
	Is it not to share your bread with the hungry	27:58
	and bring the homeless poor into your house?	28:00
	If you take away from the midst of you the yoke,	28:04
	the pointing of the finger,	28:08
	and speaking wickedness,	28:10
	if you pour out yourself for the hungry	28:12
	and satisfy the desires of the afflicted,	28:15
	then shall your light rise in the darkness	28:18
	and the Lord will guide you continually	28:23
	and satisfy your desire with good things	28:25
	and make your bones strong and you	28:28
	shall be like a watered garden,	28:30
	like a spring of water whose waters fail not.	28:35
	The deep satisfaction comes as we do realize the ties	28:40
	that bind us to one another	28:46
	and thus move as to work to let the oppressed go free	28:49
	and to share our bread,	28:52
	to bring to others a sense of dignity,	28:55
	a sense of worth, a sense of belonging	28:57
	and to share ourselves, our bread and meat,	29:00
	our very selves, to bring life to others.	29:03
	If we take out of our midst the yoke,	29:09
	the pointing of the finger, the speaking	29:13
	of wickedness, Isaiah says, if these	29:15
	are taken from our midst, then Isaiah says,	29:17
	the deep satisfactions of life will be ours,	29:20
	light in darkness, guidance from the Lord,	29:23
	satisfaction of good things, strong bones,	29:27
	we will be like a watered garden.	29:30
	We will be like a spring of water.	29:31
	We will be like ruins that shall be rebuilt	29:34
	that like foundations that hold generations,	29:36
	like the repairer of the breach,	29:40
	like the one who restores the streets,	29:43
	the deep satisfaction comes from knowing,	29:46
	as Comedian Dick Gregory said on one occasion,	29:49
	we are not our brother's keeper,	29:52
	we are our brother's brother,	29:56
	we are brothers and sisters one to another	29:59
	or as Peggy Way said here recently	30:03
	when she was meeting and sharing with some of us,	30:06
	we are not called as Christians to cure other people	30:09
	but to care for others.	30:15
	Or as Norman C. Hobble writes	30:19
	in his poem entitled "Lord".	30:22
	For every time you break a tie	30:26
	or harm someone inside by the way you act	30:28
	or what you say, you have split the cord of love	30:31
	and torn the tie with God a little more.	30:37
	That covenant of life that he has spun with thorns	30:40
	and nails and blood at Calvary.	30:44
	If for a moment you can feel yourself alone,	30:48
	torn free from all the moorings,	30:53
	cut off from all the ties with men and God,	30:55
	all the ties that give life meaning,	30:58
	if you can see your selfish self	31:00
	floating off alone because you only love your world	31:03
	instead of loving others, then perhaps the dream	31:08
	of a new bond made by God, a new covenant of life	31:11
	which we certainly don't deserve	31:15
	may not be quite so strange.	31:18
	So if you're not too proud, he says,	31:24
	too busy or too old, I will throw you my forgiveness	31:27
	as I did when men like you were coldly	31:32
	nailing me to the splintered stake of death.	31:35
	My forgiveness reaches out as you hear me cry,	31:38
	you're in as you see me sweat and die	31:41
	for all the broken ties, all the broken ties	31:44
	between mankind and God.	31:48
	Because I bring forgiveness, I really bring you God	31:51
	and I become the new tie, the new cord, the new covenant,	31:56
	binding you to God as new people, freed people,	31:59
	my people.	32:04
	For this new cord means binding wounds	32:06
	and that can often mean that you must suffer	32:09
	in the process as you, like me,	32:12
	put forgiveness into action,	32:14
	learning to accept where you have been forgiven	32:17
	and learning how to give yourselves from me	32:19
	so that you can show forgiveness, hope, and love	32:23
	in a way your life can be a happening with hands	32:27
	reaching out, taking hold, hanging on,	32:30
	feeling others, serving love from me.	32:33
	I'm waiting for you to take my forgiveness	32:37
	and mend the ties that you have broken	32:40
	and others, too, have broken.	32:43
	I'm waiting, I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting	32:45
	and you shall be like a watered garden.	32:50
	Like a spring of water.	32:56
	Amen.	33:01
-	Christ, our Lord, invites to his table all	33:22
	who love him and to who desire to live in peace	33:28
	with one another.	33:33
	May the peace of the Lord be with you.	33:35
	(crowd mumbling)	33:39
	As forgiven and reconciled people,	33:41
	let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God.	33:45
	(downbeat organ music)	33:54
	(operatic singing)	35:56
	(downbeat organ music)	41:29
	(operatic singing)	41:54
-	The Lord is with you.	43:08
Audience	And with you also.	43:10
-	Lift up your hearts.	43:13
	(mumbling)	43:15
	Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.	43:17
Audience	It is right to give God thanks and praise.	43:21
-	Oh God, it is right that we should always	43:25
	and everywhere give you thanks and praise.	43:28
	We thank you, holy God, that you loved the world so much,	43:33
	you sent your only son to be our savior.	43:38
	The Lord of all life came to live among us.	43:41
	He healed and taught people, ate with sinners,	43:46
	and won for you a new people	43:52
	by water and the spirit.	43:53
	We remember that on the night in which he	43:58
	gave himself up for us,	44:00
	the Lord Jesus took bread.	44:04
	After giving you thanks, he broke the bread,	44:07
	gave it to his disciples and said,	44:11
	"Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you."	44:15
	When the supper was over, he took the cup.	44:24
	Again he returned thanks to you,	44:29
	gave the cup to his disciples and said,	44:33
	"Drink from this, all of you.	44:38
	"This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood	44:42
	"poured out for you and many,	44:46
	"for forgiveness of sins."	44:50
	When we eat this bread and drink this cup,	44:55
	we experience anew the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ	44:59
	and look forward to his coming in final victory.	45:04
	Accept our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving	45:09
	in union with Christ's offering for us	45:13
	as a reasonable and holy surrender of ourselves,	45:16
	send the power of your holy spirit on us	45:20
	gathered here out of love for you	45:24
	and on these gifts.	45:27
	Help us know in the breaking of this bread,	45:29
	the presence of Christ who gave his body	45:32
	and blood for all people.	45:36
	Make us one with Christ, one with each other,	45:39
	and one in service to all people	45:43
	through your son, Jesus Christ,	45:47
	with the holy spirit in your holy church,	45:50
	all glory and honor is yours, God almighty.	45:53
	Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are,	46:05
	are one body for it is one loaf	46:10
	of which we all partake.	46:13
	When we break this bread,	46:19
	is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ?	46:21
	When we give thanks over the cup,	46:32
	is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?	46:36
	(whispering)	46:53
	The body of Christ broken for you.	47:01
	The blood of Christ shed for you.	47:09
	(downbeat organ music)	47:34
-	The choir will now form two concentric circles	48:20
	around the altar.	48:24
	After they have been served,	48:27
	we invite each of you who desire to commune	48:30
	to come forward and form two concentric circles.	48:35
	The ushers will direct you.	48:41
-	Blessed are the poor in spirit	53:07
	for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	53:10
	Go in peace.	53:13
	(operatic singing)	55:30
-	Jesus said, I'm the bread of life.	1:01:08
	Whoever feeds on me will never hunger.	1:01:12
	Go in peace and may the bread of heaven	1:01:17
	nourish your souls to everlasting life.	1:01:20
	Amen.	1:01:24
	(operatic singing)	1:04:37
-	And Jesus said blessed are those mourned	1:08:27
	for they shall be comforted.	1:08:32
	Go in peace.	1:08:35
	(operatic singing)	1:12:33
-	Jesus said "I'm the good shepherd.	1:16:35
	"I know my own, my own know me."	1:16:37
	Go in peace and may the grace	1:16:40
	of our Lord Jesus Christ make you strong	1:16:43
	to do his will in all things, amen.	1:16:45
-	And Jesus said "Blessed are the meek	1:20:42
	"for they shall inherit the earth."	1:20:46
	Go now in peace.	1:20:49
	Has anyone been omitted on my left or my right?	1:21:37
	Are there any who desire to commune at their seats?	1:21:45
	If so, please raise your hand	1:21:48
	and the ushers will direct us to you.	1:21:49
	You have given yourself to us, oh Lord.	1:23:47
	Now we give ourselves for others.	1:23:51
	Your love has made us a new people.	1:23:55
	As a people of love, we will serve you with joy.	1:23:58
	Your glory has filled our hearts.	1:24:03
	Help us to glorify you in all things, amen.	1:24:06
	(downbeat organ music)	1:24:16
	And now may the grace of God	1:28:41
	and the sweet communion of the holy spirit	1:28:45
	rest, rule, and abide with you all henceforth now	1:28:47
	and forevermore.	1:28:51
	(indistinct choir singing)	1:29:01
	(downbeat organ music)	1:30:15
	(chattering)	1:35:37

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Robert T. Young - "How Deep the Satisfaction" (February 4, 1979)

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Sermon start time: 27:18. Sermon end time: 32:58.
Self-centeredness breaks what Jesus has done on the cross. But Jesus is always forgiving, and it's possible to mend those ties by faithfully caring about others. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: For every time you break a tie or harm someone inside by the way you act or what you say, you have split the cord of love and torn the tie with God a little more. That covenant of life that he has spun with thorns and nails and blood at Calvary.

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