Clarence "Smoke" Kanipe - "Today" (March 25, 1979)

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-	Duke University Chapel, service of worship,	0:08
	March 25, 1979.	0:11
	(slow organ music)	0:16
	(solemn organ music)	2:16
	(slow organ music)	3:51
	(bright organ music)	4:27
	(solemn organ music)	8:48
	(slow organ music)	10:33
	♪ Lord Jesus savior ♪	13:55
	♪ My God of nations ♪	14:04
	♪ Somehow I have ♪	14:11
	♪ Somehow I have ♪	14:19
	♪ Glory all God has ♪	14:27
	♪ Praise my Lord of nations ♪	14:34
	♪ Now and forevermore in God ♪	14:41
	♪ Now and forevermore in God ♪	14:52
	♪ Praise be God ♪	15:02
	(majestic organ music)	15:17
	(organ music drowns out singers)	15:54
-	No one may truly come into the sacred presence	19:12
	of the holy one of Israel who does not first acknowledge	19:16
	uncleanness, the sins of heart and hand,	19:22
	who does not say (speaks a foreign language),	19:29
	lord have mercy.	19:32
	Therefore, let us join in a unison prayer of confession.	19:35
	Let us pray.	19:43
	Almighty God, we confess ourselves unworthy	19:46
	of the least of thy mercies.	19:51
	Thou has made us for thyself but we have gone our own way	19:54
	and done our own pleasure.	20:00
	We have not loved thee with all our heart	20:02
	and with all our soul, with all our strength	20:05
	and with all our mind.	20:09
	We have been intent on our own advancement	20:12
	and have passed our neighbor by on the other side.	20:16
	Lover of the souls of us all, forgive us	20:21
	so that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve	20:25
	to be punished.	20:31
	By the comfort of thy grace, may mercifully be relieved	20:33
	through our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.	20:38
	May thy grace turn us from our unworthy ways	20:43
	to walk in the ways on thy love.	20:48
	That enduring hardness, as good followers of Jesus Christ,	20:51
	we may deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow him.	20:57
	So may we be kind to one another, tender hearted,	21:03
	forgiving one another even as thou in Christ	21:09
	has forgiven us and to thee shall be praise	21:13
	and glory forever.	21:17
	Let us each confess silently our sins before God.	21:22
	Hear these words of assurance.	21:53
	As the heavens are high above the earth,	21:57
	so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him.	22:00
	As far as the east is from the west,	22:07
	so far does he remove our transgressions from us.	22:12
	Amen.	22:20
	As forgiven people, we now give thanks	22:23
	for God is holy and God's love is ever present.	22:27
	(congregation speaking softly)	22:34
	Amen.	22:49
	I would call your notice to several announcements	22:58
	in the bulletin and one further announcement	23:03
	that was squeezed out for lack of space.	23:08
	That is that part five in the seven part historical	23:15
	worship service series, sponsored by the Faith	23:19
	and Arts Committee of the University Parish Ministries	23:23
	will take place this evening, March 25,	23:30
	at 7:30 PM in York Chapel.	23:33
	This will be a congregational worship service	23:37
	from the period of the Revolutionary War in America	23:40
	conducted by Dr. Barney Jones.	23:44
	Subsequent services will include a service of worship	23:47
	from the Black Tradition on April first	23:51
	and an American Frontier Service on April eighth.	23:55
	Everyone is welcome to attend these in York Chapel.	24:00
	I would like to also to draw your attention	24:09
	to the Annual Crop Walk to be held next Sunday afternoon	24:13
	and the ways that you may indicate your intention	24:21
	to participate with the insert in the bulletins	24:23
	explaining more about the purposes, procedures of crop.	24:30
	There will be tables set up in the north X	24:36
	in front of the chapel.	24:40
	As you may sign up there as you leave the service	24:42
	this morning if you are intending to participate.	24:46
	It has been a happy custom for a number of years	24:55
	to have a preacher from the student body	25:03
	at least one Sunday of the year so that there may be	25:11
	some turn about in the direction of Christian communication	25:16
	and those of us of advancing years who tend to claim	25:23
	a monopoly on wisdom may hear and learn something	25:29
	from our juniors.	25:34
	The student preacher today is Clarence Kanipe, a junior	25:38
	in Trinity College.	25:44
	He's been active in the work of the Duke University	25:46
	Parish Ministry and we gladly hear his interpretation	25:50
	of God's word.	25:56
-	Let us pray.	26:09
	Prepare our hearts, oh Lord, to accept your word.	26:13
	Silence in us any voice but your own	26:18
	that hearing we may also obey your will	26:21
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	26:24
	The Old Testament lesson is from the ninth chapter	26:31
	of Amos, verses 13 through 15.	26:34
	Behold the days are coming, says the lord,	26:39
	when the plow man shall overtake the reaper	26:42
	and the treader of grapes, him who sows the seed.	26:45
	The mountain shall drip sweet wine	26:50
	and all the hills shall flow with it.	26:52
	I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel	26:56
	and they shall rebuild the ruined cities	27:00
	They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine	27:05
	and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.	27:09
	I will plant them upon their land	27:14
	and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land	27:17
	which I have given them, says the lord, your God.	27:21
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	27:24
	Amen.	27:27
	(solemn organ music)	27:47
	(organ drowns out singers)	27:54
	♪ Behold ♪	28:50
	♪ Behold ♪	28:54
	♪ Behold ♪	28:56
	♪ Behold ♪	28:58
	♪ God has saved my day ♪	29:02
	♪ God has saved my day ♪	29:07
	(organ drowns out singers)	29:12
	♪ God has saved my day ♪	29:33
	(organ drowns out singers)	29:37
	♪ You saved me ♪	33:20
	♪ You saved me ♪	33:27
	♪ You saved me a little ♪	33:31
	(organ drowns out singers)	33:37
	♪ Your mercy ♪	34:10
-	Will the congregation please stand for the reading	34:34
	of the gospel lessons?	34:36
	The gospel lessons are from the 13th chapter of Matthew,	34:44
	verses 31 through 33, the first chapter of Mark,	34:49
	verses 14 through 15, and the 17th chapter of Luke,	34:53
	verses 20 through 21.	34:58
	Another parable he put before them saying,	35:02
	the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed	35:06
	which a man took and sowed in his field.	35:10
	It is the smallest of all seeds but when it is grown,	35:14
	it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree	35:20
	so that the birds of the air come and make nests	35:24
	in its branches.	35:27
	He told them another parable.	35:30
	The kingdom of heaven is like leaven	35:34
	which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour	35:37
	till it was all leavened.	35:41
	Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee	35:44
	preaching the gospel of God and saying,	35:50
	the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.	35:53
	Repent and believe in the gospel.	36:00
	And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God	36:05
	was coming, he answered them.	36:09
	The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed	36:12
	nor will they say, lo, here it is or there	36:18
	for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.	36:22
	Here ends the reading from the gospel.	36:30
	All praise and glory be to God.	36:33
	Amen.	36:35
	(majestic organ music)	36:39
	(organ drowns out singers)	36:53
-	One of my favorite Peanuts comic strips	37:54
	has Lucy and Charlie Brown talking together.	37:57
	Lucy says, think about this day for a moment, Charlie Brown.	38:01
	This could very well be the most important day in your life.	38:05
	When a day begins, you never really know	38:10
	what is gonna happen and Charlie Brown	38:12
	begins to build up his confidence a little bit.	38:16
	He says, you're right Lucy, and this very ordinary day	38:19
	could really turn out to be the most important day	38:24
	in my life.	38:27
	And then Lucy says, but it probably won't.	38:29
	Jesus said, I came that they may have life	38:35
	and have it abundantly.	38:39
	Life.	38:43
	Life.	38:45
	What a glorious promise that is.	38:46
	Through the person and the ministry of Jesus,	38:49
	we are promised that our lives can be full,	38:53
	rich, meaningful, abundant.	38:57
	As the psalmist put it, our cups overflow.	39:02
	As we read in the first epistle of John,	39:07
	we are God's children now	39:10
	and as Jesus said, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you	39:14
	and so this morning, my message is quite simple.	39:21
	Life as we know it on this earth is very important.	39:25
	Everything from sunshine to smog,	39:31
	from babies crying to nuclear weapons and cancer,	39:35
	from churches to Moonies, Jonestown,	39:40
	everything that we call life in the 20th century	39:45
	is very important because it is life.	39:49
	Too often Christianity has set its sights on life	39:55
	in the hereafter and has forgotten	39:59
	that there is no hereafter until after here,	40:02
	after life on this earth.	40:06
	While the world has run around trying to save its life,	40:10
	to save the flesh and ignored the soul,	40:14
	Christianity has all too often tried to save souls	40:19
	that didn't have bodies.	40:23
	I think Christian theology has all too often	40:26
	taken one of two routes.	40:29
	The first route we might call turn or burn theology.	40:32
	It states very simply that either you believe in Jesus	40:36
	as your savior or you spend eternity burning in hell.	40:40
	That's not a statement, that's a threat.	40:45
	Well, I remember when I was a youngster	40:49
	going to Sunday school, that used to be one of the biggest	40:51
	motivators for me to read my bible, to go to church,	40:53
	to say my prayers because whenever I was sick,	40:57
	whenever I hurt myself, I would think, boy,	41:01
	hell's gonna be a lot worse than this	41:04
	and I just don't know if I can stand it.	41:06
	Well, the second road is similar to the first road.	41:10
	I once saw a bumper sticker that pretty well summed up	41:14
	this point of view.	41:19
	It said, Christians' retirement benefits	41:21
	are out of this world.	41:24
	Well, I also remember when I was in Sunday school	41:28
	as a youngster, when I wasn't thinking about how awful	41:31
	hell would be, a lot of times I would think	41:34
	how wonderful heaven was gonna be.	41:38
	Having never seen three of my grandparents,	41:41
	I used to think that one of the biggest drawing cards	41:44
	for heaven was that I would get to see them	41:47
	and a lot of famous people besides.	41:49
	Well, Jesus talked differently about the kingdom of God.	41:53
	He talked about the kingdom of God in the present tense,	41:58
	the kingdom of God today.	42:02
	Jesus says, since John came, the good news of the kingdom	42:07
	of God is preached.	42:11
	He says, don't be afraid for it is	42:16
	your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.	42:19
	He says, this kingdom is in the midst of you.	42:25
	And the Old Testament prophets have some beautiful visions	42:32
	of the kingdom of God with their messiah reigning	42:35
	and, you know, they never, never talk about ivory palaces,	42:39
	crystal fountains, pearly gates but they talk about	42:45
	this earth, this very earth that you and I live on.	42:50
	Now these visions are visions.	42:55
	They're not photographs of the details	42:58
	of the kingdom of God but they show us the spirit	43:00
	of the kingdom	43:03
	and it can't be separated from life today.	43:06
	You recall what we heard from Amos a few moments ago.	43:12
	They shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them.	43:16
	They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine	43:21
	and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.	43:26
	I will plant them upon their land and they shall	43:29
	never again be plucked up.	43:34
	No pearly gates but vineyards,	43:37
	rebuilt cities, gardens	43:41
	and no hell of fire because what could be more hellish	43:46
	than to be excluded from such a glorious kingdom?	43:50
	Look at the Beatitudes.	43:55
	Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit ivory palaces?	43:57
	No.	44:03
	They shall inherit the earth.	44:04
	And perhaps it is only the meek who can really tell us	44:08
	what a glorious promise this is	44:11
	for one day this earth on which you and I are living	44:14
	right now, one day this very life that you	44:17
	and I are living will experience the full transformation	44:21
	of our lord's redemption just as it is now received	44:26
	a partial transformation.	44:31
	It just may be that this transformed life	44:35
	is not so different from the life that we know right now.	44:38
	It seems that one of our main problems	44:44
	with the kingdom of God is the very same problem	44:46
	that the Jews had in Jesus's day.	44:49
	We're looking for the wrong kind of kingdom.	44:54
	We forget so easily that the kingdom of God	44:57
	is like a grain of mustard seed.	45:02
	It is like leaven which a woman took	45:04
	and hid in three measures of flour.	45:07
	It is like a seed which grows secretly.	45:10
	Many of you probably saw the recent movie, Oh, God!	45:16
	George Burns played God.	45:20
	He decided to reveal himself to all-American boy	45:22
	supermarket manager who was played by John Denver.	45:25
	At one point, God has just met Jerry in his bathroom	45:30
	and so he begins to unload all his pent up questions on God.	45:37
	He asks him why he doesn't do something drastic	45:42
	about all the problems that are in the world,	45:46
	all the pain, all the suffering, and God says something	45:48
	like this, oh, you mean a miracle?	45:53
	Well I don't do miracles.	45:58
	They're too flashy.	46:00
	Oh, once in a while just to keep my hand in it.	46:03
	The last one was the 69 Mets.	46:07
	But God is speaking about miracles	46:12
	in Jerry's mistaken terms.	46:15
	He's speaking about flashy miracles.	46:18
	A little later he tells Jerry that if he really	46:22
	wants to see a miracle, all he has to do	46:25
	is to go look at a fish.	46:29
	Perhaps we should rephrase God's lines and make 'em	46:32
	sound something like this, oh, you mean a miracle?	46:35
	Why that's all I do.	46:40
	One miracle after another.	46:42
	You look at your body.	46:44
	Look at the sun.	46:46
	Tonight, look at the stars when they come out.	46:48
	Pretty good, huh?	46:51
	You humans just don't use the right words.	46:53
	You don't see things in the right way.	46:56
	Jesus said the kingdom of God is not coming with signs	47:02
	to be observed but it is so much in our midst	47:07
	that we don't even recognize it.	47:12
	In his book, Letters and Papers from Prison,	47:16
	Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes the following words,	47:19
	it is only when one loves life and the world	47:23
	so much that without them everything would be gone.	47:26
	It is only then that one can believe in the resurrection	47:32
	and a new world and yes,	47:37
	it is only those of us	47:41
	who can catch a glimpse of the kingdom of God today, now.	47:43
	Only those of us can have a true concept of eternal glory.	47:49
	But things are not as rosy as they may seem.	47:57
	You know the old comedy line, I have some good news	48:00
	and some bad news.	48:03
	Well, this is the bad news part of this sermon.	48:05
	For just a surely as the kingdom of God has partly come,	48:09
	hell has also partly come on this earth	48:13
	and just as surely as we miss the kingdom of God	48:17
	on this earth, we miss hell on this earth also.	48:21
	All our threats of hell in the hereafter	48:26
	and all our caricatures of Satan and hell, you know,	48:29
	Blue Devils that play football and basketball	48:34
	and those things, all these things have blinded us	48:36
	to the reality of hell right in our very midst.	48:40
	To put it very frankly, we don't love deeply enough	48:45
	to realize the hell of an alcoholic or a drug addict	48:49
	or a prostitute or a student or professor	48:53
	who is so tied up in his books that he or she	48:57
	loses life itself.	49:01
	Or a millionaire who has money to have anything	49:04
	but finds no meaning in it.	49:08
	Yes, I think if you ask any of those people	49:12
	how close hell is, they would tell you	49:15
	that it's all too close.	49:18
	T.S. Eliot is a poet who is very famous for seeing hell	49:22
	in our daily lives.	49:26
	In his poem, The Wasteland, he paints a picture	49:28
	of the hell that he sees in London.	49:32
	He writes, unreal city,	49:36
	under the brown fog of a winter dawn,	49:40
	a crowd flowed over London Bridge.	49:44
	So many.	49:47
	I had not thought death had undone so many.	49:49
	Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled	49:53
	and each man fixed his eyes before his feet.	49:59
	Jesus also knew how hellish this life can be	50:05
	for as much as anything in the gospels,	50:09
	we see Jesus going around, casting out demons	50:12
	and just what kind of world is this with demons	50:17
	if it's not a world in which hell is frighteningly real.	50:21
	And you know, isn't it interesting	50:27
	that the people that we see Jesus	50:29
	keeping company with are the very people	50:31
	who are experiencing hell in their lives right now?	50:34
	We see him calling a tax collector to come down	50:40
	from a tree to go eat dinner with him.	50:44
	We see him speaking with prostitutes, with adulteresses,	50:48
	all those people who are not respectable	50:52
	but Jesus doesn't seem to care.	50:57
	He says he came to heal the sick, not to heal the well.	51:00
	Jesus came to share the burden of hell on this earth	51:06
	and he came to introduce the kingdom of God.	51:11
	And so, as disciples of this Jesus, it is our responsibility	51:18
	to change as much of hell as we can into the kingdom of God	51:22
	just as he did.	51:26
	It's a very stern word that Jesus speaks to us.	51:28
	He says, unless you're willing to take up your cross,	51:32
	unless you're willing to lose your very life for my sake,	51:37
	then you'll never find the kingdom of God	51:43
	and you'll never find true life.	51:46
	And so, at the end of the gospel of John,	51:50
	we see Jesus talking to Peter and he says, Peter,	51:53
	if you love me, me, then feed my sheep.	51:57
	Peter, if you love me, in other words,	52:03
	you must suffer through the hell that you see	52:07
	destroying other people.	52:09
	You must share the burden of hell	52:12
	because you know what true life is	52:15
	and you know that anything apart from me	52:18
	is hell even though it may be disguised	52:22
	and you know that I still share the burden of hell	52:26
	because I am love.	52:30
	Our good friend, Charlie Brown, has experienced hell also.	52:33
	In another cartoon, the gang is playing baseball.	52:39
	Charlie Brown mutters to himself on the pitcher's mound.	52:43
	Boy, I must be stupid.	52:47
	I must be out of my mind to stand up here like this.	52:50
	My team hates me.	52:54
	I'm a lousy pitcher and my stomach hurts.	52:55
	I must really be stupid.	52:59
	Then Linus comes up with a bit of worldly philosophy.	53:02
	He says, Charlie Brown, you can't go on like this.	53:06
	You're not enjoying life at all.	53:12
	The moments you spend out here on the pitcher's mound	53:15
	are moments to be treasured.	53:17
	You're not gonna be a child forever, Charlie Brown,	53:20
	so treasure these moments.	53:23
	And so Charlie Brown again, builds up his confidence.	53:26
	He fires in his next pitch and it comes back	53:30
	about 10 times as fast as it went in.	53:33
	It knocks him down, knocks him flat on his back,	53:37
	knocks off his cap, his glove, his shoes, everything	53:40
	but his Bermuda shorts and Charlie Brown lies there	53:44
	flat on his back on the pitcher's mound	53:48
	and he says, this is a difficult moment to treasure.	53:51
	(congregation laughing)	53:56
	And so it is.	54:00
	But you see, Christianity insists that hell is important.	54:03
	It is central to the gospel message that this hell on earth	54:09
	is making souls ready to receive a life after death.	54:14
	Maybe you're familiar with the old version	54:21
	of the Apostle's Creed before we made it nice.	54:23
	It used to read, Jesus was crucified, dead,	54:28
	and descended into hell.	54:33
	Saint Paul writes that if any man is in Christ,	54:36
	he is a new creature and surely being in Christ	54:39
	means going through hell with Christ.	54:45
	Hell helps make us into new creatures.	54:50
	We come out differently from the way we went in.	54:54
	Yes Charlie Brown, hell is a part of life	54:59
	and yes, it is a moment to be treasured.	55:03
	Now in saying how important life on this earth is,	55:09
	I hope I have not implied that eternity is unimportant	55:13
	for know it is so important that perhaps we can't grasp	55:17
	its true greatness	55:22
	but eternity is not important enough	55:26
	to blind us to the glories of the kingdom of God	55:29
	right now, today, on this earth	55:32
	nor is it important enough	55:37
	to blind us to the horrors of hell.	55:39
	And another point in Oh, God!	55:45
	A council of theologians has been set up	55:47
	to ask a bunch of questions to God, whoever he might be.	55:49
	One of the questions concerns the meaning	55:55
	of man's existence and God responds something like this,	55:58
	each individual's existence means exactly	56:05
	what that person thinks it means at any particular time.	56:10
	Nothing more, nothing less.	56:16
	As Christians, as followers of the king,	56:20
	as the ones who know the kingdom is come,	56:25
	it is our responsibility to see the kingdom,	56:30
	to share the kingdom with others and to change hell	56:34
	into the kingdom.	56:38
	A few years ago, a popular song was written called Today.	56:42
	The last verse had the following words,	56:47
	I can't be contented with yesterday's glories	56:51
	and I can't live on promises, winter to spring.	56:56
	Today is my moment.	57:01
	Now is my story.	57:03
	I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing.	57:06
	In his book, The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis beautifully	57:13
	sums up what I've been trying to say.	57:17
	He writes, but what, you ask, of earth?	57:22
	Earth, I think, will not be found by anyone	57:27
	to be in the end a very distinct place.	57:32
	I think earth, if chosen instead of heaven,	57:36
	will turn out to have been all along only a region in hell	57:41
	and earth, if put second to heaven, to have been	57:48
	from the beginning a part of heaven itself.	57:52
	The kingdom is in our midst and if we can't see it here,	57:58
	today, then we can't see it anywhere at all.	58:04
	Father, grant us the eyes to see,	58:12
	the ears to hear, the faith to believe,	58:17
	and the love to work for your kingdom.	58:21
	Amen.	58:26
	(majestic organ music)	58:36
	(organ drowns out singers)	59:00
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	1:00:52
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	1:00:57
	who has come in the truly human Jesus to reconcile	1:01:03
	and make new, who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:01:08
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	1:01:15
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	1:01:20
	to love and serve others,	1:01:23
	to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus	1:01:26
	crucified and risen, our judge and our hope,	1:01:32
	in life, in death, in life beyond death.	1:01:37
	God is with us.	1:01:43
	We are not alone.	1:01:45
	Thanks be to God.	1:01:47
	The Lord be with you.	1:02:04
	Let us pray.	1:02:08
	Oh God, we praise thee and thank thee for thyself	1:02:14
	who takes an acorn and makes it a tree,	1:02:20
	sets air over us and daylight and the large pictures	1:02:24
	of each season.	1:02:30
	Gives us the walk and run of the body,	1:02:34
	the mind's radar, and the heart's insatiable dreams.	1:02:38
	We praise thee and thank thee for thyself	1:02:48
	who gives us the gifts we do not earn,	1:02:52
	the strength we do not have	1:02:56
	and the forgiveness we do not deserve.	1:03:01
	Unto thee be all glory and honor, dominion and power,	1:03:05
	world without end.	1:03:12
	Oh Lord God of all creation, you made this world a garden	1:03:18
	and appointed us its stewards.	1:03:24
	Help us though to care for your earth	1:03:28
	that it may produce good fruit and plenty.	1:03:33
	Keep us from preoccupation with convenience and our own gain	1:03:39
	so that we will not despoil this garden and deprive others	1:03:45
	of its enjoyment.	1:03:49
	Keep us daily mindful of the hungry, Lord,	1:03:53
	and of the fact that they need not be so.	1:03:58
	Let us never forget that we have our abundance	1:04:05
	at the cost of others privation.	1:04:09
	So may we dedicate ourselves to making your earth	1:04:14
	a place of justice as well as of plenty.	1:04:19
	We pray in the name of Jesus Christ in whose name	1:04:24
	we are commanded to break bread with all	1:04:30
	and who taught us when we pray to say, our father,	1:04:36
	who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	1:04:43
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	1:04:47
	as it is in heaven.	1:04:53
	Give us this day our daily bread	1:04:55
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	1:04:59
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation	1:05:03
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom	1:05:09
	and the power and the glory forever.	1:05:14
	Amen.	1:05:18
	(solemn organ music)	1:05:37
	(organ drowns out singers)	1:07:09
	(slow organ music drowns out singers)	1:10:10
	(majestic organ music)	1:12:31
	(organ drowns out singers)	1:13:25
	Almighty God, by the bounty of whose grace	1:14:07
	we live our years in peace and plenty,	1:14:13
	accept these our gifts as tokens of our worship of thee.	1:14:16
	Renew in us the will to share the yield of the earth	1:14:21
	with those in need.	1:14:25
	In Christ's name, amen.	1:14:28
	(solemn organ music)	1:14:37
	(organ drowns out singers)	1:16:04
	(majestic organ music)	1:18:00
	(organ drowns out singers)	1:18:04
	Now may the grace of our lord, Jesus Christ,	1:18:42
	the love of God and the fellowship of the holy spirit	1:18:46
	be with you all.	1:18:51
	Amen.	1:18:54
	♪ Amen ♪	1:18:57
	♪ Amen ♪	1:19:02
	♪ Ah ah ah ah amen ♪	1:19:08
	♪ Ah ah ah ah amen ♪	1:19:16
	♪ Ah ah ah ah amen ♪	1:19:23
	♪ Ah ah ah amen ♪	1:19:33
	♪ Ah ah amen ♪	1:19:47
	(solemn organ music)	1:20:06
	(congregation talking softly)	1:23:08

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Title:

Clarence "Smoke" Kanipe - "Today" (March 25, 1979)

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Christianity has too often separated the realities of the afterlife (both that of heaven and of hell) from our present lives on this earth. Just as the Kingdom of Heaven is here and in our midst on earth, so too is hell. It is our job as Christians to transform the bits of life that are hell for other people into the Kingdom of God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 37:54. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 58:27.
Key quotation: “The kingdom is in our midst, and if we can’t see it here, today, then we can’t see it anywhere at all.”

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March 25, 1979

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Kanipe, Clarence "Smoke"

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