Hugh Anderson - "A Banner with a Strange Device" (July 1, 1979)

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-	Duke University Chapel service of worship,	0:05
	July 1st, 1979.	0:07
	(powerful organ music)	0:22
	(echoey choral singing)	11:43
	(uplifting organ music)	12:05
	(echoey choral singing)	12:40
-	Grace and peace be with you my friends	16:06
	and neighbors in Christ,	16:08
	as we come to this holy hour and to this time of worship.	16:11
	The peace of the Lord be with you.	16:14
	My friends, will you put aside for a while	16:18
	the busy life you have left just now	16:23
	to come here to this place?	16:25
	Will you listen as God's spirit speaks,	16:30
	convicts and heals your life and mine?	16:34
	And so will you join with me now	16:41
	as we become aware of God's will and way for us.	16:43
	And as we acknowledge our failure,	16:48
	to live in that will and way.	16:50
	Let us together confess our sin.	16:54
	Let us pray.	16:57
	We come to you, o God,	16:59
	burdened by the memory of things we have done	17:02
	and of things we have failed to do.	17:05
	We have taken much and given little.	17:09
	We have been quick to claim our own rights	17:12
	and careless of the rights of others.	17:15
	We have been anxious about many things,	17:19
	but we have neglected those things	17:22
	which truly belong to our health and salvation.	17:24
	We have profited at the expense of the poor	17:29
	and glossed over the immoralities of the marketplace.	17:32
	We have not loved you, and we have not loved our neighbor.	17:36
	We are weary of our failures.	17:42
	We are ashamed of our excuses.	17:45
	Forgive us, o God, as now we lay on you	17:48
	the burden of our sins.	17:52
	Have mercy upon us and grant us true repentance	17:55
	through Christ, our Lord.	17:59
	Amen.	18:02
	Let us continue with our personal confession to God.	18:05
	Hear now these words of assurance, as John writes.	18:39
	"My little children, I am writing this to you	18:44
	"so that you may not sin.	18:50
	"But if anyone does sin,	18:53
	"we have an advocate with the Father,	18:57
	"Jesus Christ, the righteous.	19:00
	"And he is the expiation for our sins,	19:04
	"and not for ours only,	19:08
	"but also for the sins of the whole world."	19:12
	My friends, receive now the forgiveness of God	19:19
	through the spirit of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.	19:25
	Amen.	19:30
	My I say a world of welcome to you?	19:36
	We are pleased to have you worship with us	19:39
	in Duke Chapel today.	19:42
	If you worship here regularly, it's good to have you back.	19:45
	If you're visiting with us, we're pleased that you have	19:49
	chosen this place to worship on this, the Lord's day.	19:52
	As I'm sure all of you well know,	19:58
	this week is the week of the 4th of July.	20:00
	And unfortunately, it will not be a time of celebration	20:06
	for everybody but will be a time of accident	20:09
	and loss of life and injury.	20:12
	I was in the Red Cross office here in Durham	20:17
	about two weeks ago, having just given a pint of blood.	20:23
	And they gave me a little sticker to put on my lapel	20:27
	which said be nice to me, I gave blood today.	20:31
	So tomorrow from 10 o'clock until 9:30,	20:37
	at the civic center downtown,	20:41
	all of us will have an opportunity to receive	20:44
	one of those little stickers which will say	20:48
	be nice to me, I gave blood today.	20:51
	The need for blood this week will be extremely high.	20:55
	The Red Cross and WTVD and other community groups	20:59
	and agencies are sponsoring this special drive.	21:03
	It will take you approximate one hour to give	21:07
	a pint of blood.	21:11
	I encourage you to do so	21:14
	so that others who will be in need	21:17
	before the end of this week	21:19
	may benefit by your gift.	21:22
	Following the service here in the main part of the chapel,	21:25
	at approximately 12:05, we will observe our regular	21:29
	first Sunday of the month communion service	21:35
	in the Memorial Chapel to my right, to your left.	21:38
	Those of you who wish to receive and share	21:41
	in the sacrament of our Lord's supper	21:43
	are invited to remain for that brief service	21:45
	immediately following this service.	21:48
	It is my privilege to welcome again	21:52
	Dr. And Mrs. Hugh Anderson back to Duke University	21:55
	and to Duke Chapel.	21:59
	As many of you know from having known them	22:03
	when he was here, he was professor of Biblical Criticism	22:06
	in the Divinity School from 1957 to 1966.	22:11
	He was known immediately by those of us	22:16
	who entered in 1957 and by those who came after,	22:20
	as both an exciting and engaging professor,	22:25
	as a stimulating and provocative preacher,	22:29
	as a warm and caring friend.	22:32
	And he has remained that for many of us	22:36
	who studied under him while he was here,	22:39
	and many who knew him and Gene and their family	22:42
	while they were here.	22:46
	He left here in 1966 to go to the University of Edinburgh	22:47
	to assume the chair that had been occupied by the esteemed,	22:52
	the Reverend Professor Dr. James Stuart Stewart.	22:57
	He is now Professor of New Testament, Language,	23:01
	Literature and Theology in New College	23:04
	at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.	23:08
	Dr. Anderson, we are honored and pleased	23:13
	to have you and Gene back in Durham,	23:17
	back at Duke, and we look forward to the word	23:20
	which you bring to us today.	23:23
	It's good to have you back home.	23:26
	(soft organ music)	23:43
	(echoey choral singing)	23:47
-	God of all truth,	26:21
	let thy word fall upon us	26:24
	like a rough and cleansing wind,	26:27
	dispersing our sins, scattering our vanities,	26:31
	uprooting our indifference,	26:37
	that shakened loose from our illusions,	26:40
	we shall be open to thy love	26:44
	and overtaken by thy truth.	26:47
	Even Jesus Christ, our logos and our Lord.	26:51
	Amen.	26:56
	The scriptural lesson for today is taken from	27:00
	the 11th chapter of 1 Corinthians,	27:02
	the 17th through the 26th verses.	27:05
	But in the following instructions I do not commend you,	27:15
	because when you come together it is not for the better	27:19
	but for the worse.	27:23
	For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church,	27:25
	I hear that there are divisions among you;	27:30
	and I partly believe it,	27:33
	for there must be factions among you in order	27:35
	that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.	27:38
	When you meet together,	27:46
	it is not for the Lord's supper that you eat.	27:47
	For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal,	27:51
	and one is hungry and another is drunk.	27:55
	What, do you not have houses to eat and drink in?	27:59
	Or do you despise the church of God	28:04
	and humiliate those who have nothing?	28:07
	What shall I say to you?	28:10
	Shall I commend you in this?	28:12
	No, I will not.	28:14
	For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,	28:17
	that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed	28:20
	took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it,	28:25
	and said, "This is my body which is for you.	28:31
	"Do this in remembrance of me."	28:36
	In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,	28:41
	"This cup is the new covenant in my blood.	28:46
	"Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."	28:49
	For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,	28:55
	you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.	28:59
	Here ends the Scripture reading for today.	29:05
	All praise and glory be to God.	29:08
	(organ worship music)	29:11
	Amen.
	(echoey choral singing)	29:25
-	I am very grateful to my good friend	30:18
	and one-time student, the Reverend Robert Young	30:21
	for inviting me back to occupy	30:26
	this distinguished pulpit once again.	30:29
	It is good to be back in this familiar place	30:33
	which was, for nearly 10 years, our spiritual home.	30:37
	And I think at this stage of the game,	30:43
	I could fairly say that, in retrospect,	30:46
	we look back on our years spent here	30:49
	in North Carolina as not only the most happy	30:53
	but the most formative of our lives.	30:57
	The friendships, many of them which	31:02
	we made here, remain	31:07
	and are still treasured, I assure you,	31:09
	across the seas and across the years.	31:12
	It is for many profound personal reasons	31:16
	that I am grateful for the chance to worship with you	31:19
	in this house of God again.	31:22
	Let us pray.	31:25
	Blessed the words of my lips	31:28
	and the thoughts of thy people's hearts.	31:31
	O God, our strength and our redeemer.	31:35
	Amen.	31:40
	In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians chapter 11,	31:46
	at verse 26, these very familiar words:	31:50
	as often as you eat the bread	31:54
	and drink the cup	31:58
	you proclaim the Lord's death until he come.	32:00
	I want us to focus together this morning for awhile,	32:05
	particularly on the words proclaiming the Lord's death	32:09
	until he come.	32:14
	As a member of the faculty of Divinity	32:18
	in the University of Edinburgh,	32:20
	I work in New College.	32:22
	Now New College is a building on the great hill	32:27
	which ascends from the main street of the city of Edinburgh,	32:31
	up towards the ancient castle which stands on a great rock	32:34
	overlooking the whole city.	32:38
	And just around the corner from New College	32:42
	is the ancient cathedral church of St. Giles,	32:45
	which I'm sure a number of you will have visited.	32:49
	We hold our university services there, in fact,	32:52
	in St. Giles.	32:56
	And though my family and myself are not members	32:57
	of St. Giles, we frequently go to worship there.	33:01
	It is somewhat reminiscent to, in a rather distant way,	33:04
	of this church, not nearly so handsome, I may say.	33:09
	It's a rather austere sanctuary, I think.	33:14
	One remembers that a very austere person	33:19
	founded it a few centuries ago	33:21
	in the figure of John Knox,	33:24
	the leader of the reformation in Scotland.	33:26
	And sometimes when one sits,	33:30
	is seeking to worship God in St. Giles,	33:32
	one is lifted up by the music to a great extent,	33:36
	sometimes a bit bored by the sermon.	33:41
	But St. Giles has its compensations	33:48
	because when one does become a very bit of the sermon,	33:52
	one can always lift up one's eyes	33:56
	and see in the vaulted roof a great number	33:59
	of regimental flags of the old Scottish regiments	34:04
	of many varied colors,	34:08
	some of them so tattered and worn	34:11
	that they have no color left, in fact,	34:13
	and resemble bat's wings very closely.	34:16
	I always bemuse myself with the flags.	34:20
	And in my imagination, I try to picture how,	34:25
	if they could speak, they could tell not only	34:27
	tales of great deeds of daring do	34:32
	on battlefields long ago,	34:35
	but of whole generations of people	34:38
	from all over the wide world	34:41
	who came to sit in this place and worship almighty God,	34:43
	and found some satisfaction for the hunger of their souls.	34:48
	I think the flags in St. Giles	34:54
	are remarkable.	34:58
	But this morning here in Duke Chapel,	35:01
	we shall not let that old Scottish	35:03
	cathedral church outsmart us.	35:05
	We shall erect and unfurl our own banner,	35:09
	and I want you in your mind's eye	35:14
	to contemplate it now	35:16
	here in the center of the chancel.	35:19
	We now unfurl it, and inscribed upon it	35:22
	are the words of our text,	35:26
	the Lord's death until he come.	35:29
	The Lord's death until he come.	35:34
	So that it must carry across,	35:38
	and it must carry some sign of hope.	35:41
	And the words until he come would possibly be in red,	35:45
	as I hope we shall see shortly.	35:49
	Not many years ago, the Presbyterian churches	35:53
	in the United States sent out to all ministers	35:56
	a questionnaire about how they celebrated the Lord's supper.	36:00
	And one of the questions was,	36:05
	"If you use Paul's formula of institution	36:08
	"of the Lord's supper, do you say the words	36:12
	"until he come?"	36:16
	I submit to you this morning that the question was	36:20
	and remains preposterous and unaskable.	36:24
	We must say the words until he come.	36:28
	The question is preposterous and unaskable	36:32
	because it is only as we encounter Christ	36:36
	as the one who is to come	36:41
	that we can encounter him as the one who has come	36:44
	and is present here and now.	36:49
	It is only when, in faith, we can know Christ	36:54
	as Lord of the future	36:57
	that we can possibly know him as Lord of the present.	37:00
	We cannot, as Christians, worship meaningfully here today	37:06
	unless we can also look ahead in tremulous expectation	37:11
	to the coming messianic banquet of the lamb.	37:17
	You can see the Lord's feast of the future,	37:22
	can you not this morning?	37:25
	The tables are prepared.	37:28
	The candles are lit.	37:30
	The feast of God's new age is all ready.	37:32
	The guests are coming to their places.	37:37
	Only now strange things have happened,	37:40
	for the last have become first.	37:44
	No thrones are reserved for the high and the mighty.	37:47
	The proud are not respected,	37:51
	and the poor and the hungry and the lost	37:54
	occupy the seats of highest honor	37:58
	and are wondrously exalted.	38:02
	It is only as the one who holds the future,	38:06
	it is only as the one who dramatically reverses	38:11
	all our human norms and surprises us in that future	38:14
	that Christ can be present to us here and now.	38:19
	So you see, we have our banner with its strange device:	38:24
	the Lord's death until he come.	38:29
	I do not think imagination has the colors in her box	38:33
	to do it justice.	38:39
	But the words until he come will,	38:41
	as I suggested at the outset,	38:44
	most surely be in the deepest crimson red,	38:46
	for when and as Christ does come,	38:51
	it will be the measure of the victory of crucified love.	38:54
	We could immediately fall in behind our banner	39:01
	and accept it without anymore questioning,	39:05
	quite uncritically.	39:08
	But you know as well as I	39:11
	that there are dangers in uncritical allegiance	39:14
	to flags and slogans.	39:18
	And so we need to ask further about our banner	39:21
	with its strange device.	39:25
	And let us ask first what it means	39:28
	to proclaim the Lord's death.	39:32
	What does it mean for a Christian community	39:35
	to proclaim the Lord's death?	39:38
	Now I have searched nearly all the commentaries	39:41
	on this text in 1 Corinthians 11,	39:43
	and I find the New Testament scholars appallingly prosaic.	39:48
	They simply suggest, for the most part,	39:53
	that as often as the Christian congregation	39:56
	meets together for the love feast,	39:58
	they should recite some rudimentary account	40:01
	of the Lord's passion and death.	40:05
	Surely the Apostle Paul meant something infinitely	40:09
	more profound in searching than that.	40:13
	Consider the circumstances in the Corinthian congregation.	40:17
	Their love feast, which held out such hope	40:23
	of great things in brotherhood and trust,	40:29
	had become subject to abuse.	40:33
	The rich were self-indulgent.	40:36
	The poor were cold-shouldered and sent away hungry.	40:39
	And Paul puts to this Corinthian converts	40:43
	the question: How can you possibly eat the bread	40:46
	and drink the cup worthily in this hopeless shambles	40:50
	of a love feast?	40:56
	And so the apostle appeals to the inner logic	40:58
	of the feast itself.	41:00
	In recollecting and proclaiming the death	41:04
	of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Christian community	41:07
	makes it clear to itself and to the world	41:12
	that their whole life is rooted and grounded	41:16
	in the deathless love of the death of Christ.	41:21
	And that is to know, above all, for sure	41:26
	that when Christ died on his cross for one,	41:29
	he died for all.	41:34
	So that in and through his death,	41:36
	all are equal and there is neither rich nor poor,	41:39
	male nor female, Jew nor Greek.	41:44
	You will possibly know that little anecdote	41:48
	about the old wandering scholar	41:51
	of the late and middle ages, Eurytus	41:53
	He was fleeing for his faith in Lombardy.	41:57
	And he was dressed in rags like a pauper,	42:01
	and he fell down in the sidewalk through serious illness.	42:04
	He was picked up and taken to a medieval hospice.	42:10
	And the surgeons of the day got him,	42:13
	shall we say, on the operating table.	42:16
	And they gathered round him, and thinking he was just	42:18
	an ignorant beggar, they said in the learned Latin tongue	42:21
	over him (speaking foreign language).	42:25
	"Let's try a experiment with this worthless creature."	42:29
	And to their utter amazement,	42:35
	they got a prompt reply in the same learned Latin tongue:	42:37
	(speaking foreign language)	42:43
	"How dare you call worthless one for whom Christ	42:49
	"also condescended to die?"	42:53
	And that and nothing less than that	42:57
	is surely what it means for the Christian congregation	43:00
	to proclaim the death of Christ.	43:04
	All these unlikely ones,	43:07
	all these apparently worthless ones,	43:10
	all these unregenerate ones who are quite unlike us,	43:13
	all these lost and destitute ones,	43:18
	brothers and sisters for whom Christ also died.	43:21
	But if we were to now take another step,	43:30
	we have to ask the question,	43:33
	what are we to make of these strange words,	43:36
	proclaiming the death and love of Christ until he come,	43:40
	until he come.	43:45
	I feel perfectly sure, after some years of study	43:48
	of the New Testament, that the early church generally	43:52
	and the Apostle Paul particularly	43:55
	looked for the imminent return of Jesus Christ	43:58
	in the very near future.	44:03
	Today as we look back over 2,000 years,	44:06
	we know that he did not come again then.	44:10
	He has not come again through the centuries	44:15
	in any physical sense.	44:17
	He has not come again in any material sense now.	44:19
	Can it just be that our blind eyes	44:25
	do not see that, in a very real and searching sense,	44:29
	Christ is always coming again out of the future	44:34
	into the present of his people.	44:37
	We have been accustomed to think in too materialist	44:41
	and physical terms in regard to the strange words	44:45
	until he come.	44:49
	And this morning I would say that it is absolutely futile	44:51
	to try to calculate and foretell the time	44:55
	and place of Jesus' reappearance in history	44:59
	in any physical sense.	45:03
	As Austin Farrer, that learned late Anglish	45:06
	divine once put it, "Prediction in any case	45:10
	"is the trade of gypsies and not of prophets."	45:14
	So today, prophetic or philosophical sensitivity,	45:20
	or even the faith that seeks through	45:25
	intellectual understanding, all alike demand	45:28
	that we abandon our false materialist Adventist notions	45:33
	and comprehend these words until he come	45:39
	in another and profounder way.	45:43
	I would have you notice that Paul brings together	45:47
	in the closest and most intimate relationship	45:52
	the death of the Christ on the cross	45:56
	and his coming again in triumph.	45:59
	It is the death of Christ on the cross	46:03
	that is the pointer to the meaning of until he come.	46:06
	This until he come celebrates the hope and expectation	46:12
	that the love of God, which was manifested	46:17
	in the agony of Christ on the cross,	46:19
	has the last word over the whole of humanity	46:22
	and over the whole cosmos.	46:26
	Sacheverell Sitwell, Anglish literary critic,	46:31
	went once to the temple of the old conquering Christ,	46:33
	Christ Pantocrator, in Athens.	46:38
	And he tells us that he had an irresistible longing	46:42
	to take a great ladder and climb up into the dome	46:47
	and strike matches and look into the lines	46:51
	of pain and sorrow and suffering	46:55
	in the face of the victorious Christ.	46:58
	That, I think, sums up the meaning of the Pauline gospel	47:03
	and the whole Christian gospel.	47:07
	The gospel tells of God in man defeating death by dying.	47:09
	To declare the Lord's death until he come	47:15
	is to claim the future for the crucified Christ.	47:18
	When then this morning we pray in the great Aramaic prayer	47:26
	of the earliest mother church in Jerusalem,	47:30
	Maranatha, our Lord come,	47:33
	We are simply expressing the unshakeable hope	47:37
	that the only certain victory in this old	47:41
	and broken world of ours is the victory of love	47:44
	that Christ won by dying on his cross.	47:48
	There is no other way to the redemption of history	47:53
	and the redemption of the universe	47:57
	save through the love that was born	48:00
	in weakness at Bethlehem	48:03
	and died at last upon a cross.	48:05
	In the long warfare of the ages,	48:09
	Christ will have the victory at last	48:12
	because he has already won the victory of love.	48:15
	And just because that's true,	48:19
	we Christian folk can endure the failure	48:21
	of all our nostrums for social and political salvation.	48:25
	You will remember that great musical play,	48:30
	the Fiddler on the Roof for Anatevka,	48:32
	it concerns the dairy man Tevye	48:36
	and his little Jewish community	48:39
	in the Ukrainian village of Anatevka.	48:41
	That little Jewish community is subject to regular pogroms.	48:45
	The sons are carried away to work in foreign wars.	48:50
	The Czarist taxes are burdensome and oppressive.	48:55
	Yet in that very strange land,	49:00
	that little community of God's people	49:03
	can sing their songs of celebration	49:07
	because their hope in God is an undying hope.	49:11
	They can even, as all God's people should,	49:15
	make little jokes of protest against their God.	49:18
	Would it spoil some vast eternal plan	49:24
	if I was a rich man?	49:28
	We should try more jokes of protest with our God.	49:31
	It might lead us to a deeper faith.	49:36
	In a world that still promotes its pogroms,	49:40
	in a world of so many strange and alien lands,	49:44
	we who are Christ's people can still sing	49:48
	our songs of celebration,	49:51
	because we have won to whose love the future must belong.	49:54
	In closing, let me say that not too long before	50:00
	coming out for this summer visit in the United States,	50:03
	I visited my old home place in the west of Scotland,	50:06
	near Glasgow, and the former home of the late	50:09
	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, Baronet,	50:13
	has been converted into a museum of considerable merit.	50:16
	One exhibit fascinated me above all the rest.	50:21
	It was a display of books and paintings	50:27
	related to the medieval Danse Macabre,	50:31
	the dance of death.	50:35
	And you see the grim reaper time with his sickle	50:37
	leading emperor, pope, nobles,	50:42
	clerics, dignitaries, all of them now reduced	50:47
	to skeletal dimensions,	50:51
	down into the abyss of dusty death.	50:54
	What a somber encouragement to contemplate the folly	50:58
	and stupidity of man's arrogance through the centuries.	51:03
	But we, here this morning, know that our Christ and savior	51:08
	is the Lord of a very different dance from that,	51:13
	for he leads all his little ones	51:18
	into the secret and hidden mysteries of the kingdom of God.	51:21
	And now emperors and popes and priests and bre-lets (?)	51:26
	and all the haughty and the arrogant of the world	51:32
	are so far behind in the procession	51:35
	you can hardly see them.	51:38
	What a Lord of the dance and procession we have.	51:40
	Everything with him is turned upside down	51:45
	and radically changed.	51:48
	The last have become first,	51:50
	and the weak have become the strong.	51:53
	There is, I'm sure, not a man or woman here,	51:58
	but what would long to be leading the dance with our Lord,	52:01
	up among the little ones.	52:06
	I think enrobed in the mercy of his cross,	52:10
	he is inviting us this morning	52:14
	up to the front of the dance among the little ones.	52:18
	And to him be all honor and glory,	52:24
	majesty, dominion and praise, world without end.	52:27
	Amen.	52:32
	(uplifting worship organ music)	52:45
	(echoey choral singing)	53:18
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	55:06
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	55:10
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	55:15
	to reconcile and make new,	55:18
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	55:21
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	55:25
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	55:30
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	55:34
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	55:40
	our judge and our hope.	55:44
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	55:46
	God is with us, we are not alone.	55:51
	Thanks be to God.	55:56
	Be seated please.	55:58
	The Lord be with you.	56:09
	(congregation murmurs)	56:11
	Let us pray.
	We know, o Lord, our God,	56:16
	that in quietness and rest is our strength.	56:21
	We know, o God, that those who wait upon you	56:27
	shall be renewed, shall mount up with wings as eagles,	56:30
	shall not grow weary, shall walk and not faint.	56:35
	We know, o God, that those who believe on the Lord	56:42
	Jesus Christ shall find life, no life	56:45
	and have life abundantly for now and forever.	56:48
	In the name and spirit of Christ,	56:55
	we praise you, o God,	56:59
	spirit from whom we come, strength in whom we live	57:03
	and presence to whom we go.	57:09
	Now abides faith.	57:14
	O God, give to each of us that knows wholeness of life,	57:17
	that rejoices in both the problems	57:24
	and the possibilities of life,	57:26
	that shrinks not from life's hard and demanding moments,	57:30
	that sees and knows your presence	57:35
	in the night and in the day,	57:38
	and that knows and believes that all things	57:41
	ultimately work together for good	57:44
	for those who love you.	57:46
	Now abides faith, hope.	57:51
	O God, give us, each of us,	57:56
	in the midst of our trying and often overwhelming moments	57:59
	a hope that is sure and secure,	58:04
	that can believe when all around are doubting,	58:09
	can trust when all else has been shaken,	58:14
	can see light when all is dark and filled with shadow,	58:19
	can know promise when there is no word,	58:24
	no sign, no symbol, no assurance,	58:28
	save only the Lord, our God, is the ruler yet	58:32
	and will keep our going out and our coming in	58:38
	forever and ever.	58:42
	Now abides faith, hope, love.	58:46
	The greatest is love.	58:51
	Help us, o God, when filled with selfishness,	58:55
	short-sightedness and shallowness to love;	58:58
	to love and never count the cost,	59:04
	to care for the sick and the dying,	59:08
	to comfort the bereaved and the mourning,	59:11
	to walk with and to wait with the lonely and the hurting,	59:15
	to care for those who are hungry, thirsty, naked,	59:21
	imprisoned, all alone or sick.	59:25
	May we, o God, in this very moment,	59:30
	each of us, know something of the joy,	59:35
	that endless and abounding joy,	59:42
	that comes with loving you with all of our heart	59:47
	and soul and mind and strength,	59:51
	and that we experience when we love	59:55
	our neighbors as ourselves.	59:57
	And hear us now, o God, as we offer not only these words	1:00:03
	but as we offer the prayer which our Lord himself	1:00:06
	has taught us to pray.	1:00:09
	Our Father who art in Heaven,	1:00:11
	hallowed by thy name,	1:00:14
	thy kingdom, thy will be done	1:00:17
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	1:00:20
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:00:23
	and forgive us our trespasses,	1:00:26
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:00:29
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:00:33
	but deliver us from evil,	1:00:36
	for thine is the kingdom,	1:00:38
	the power and the glory forever.	1:00:41
	Amen.	1:00:44
	(soft organ music)	1:00:48
	(echoey choral singing)	1:02:38
	(powerful organ music)	1:05:43
	(echoey choral singing)	1:06:59
-	O thou, source of all good,	1:07:59
	who has blessed thy people with rich gifts	1:08:02
	in this and every age,	1:08:05
	in this and every place,	1:08:08
	receive our offerings and lead us by the persuasion	1:08:11
	of thy love until we give thee all that is thine own,	1:08:15
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	1:08:21
	Amen.	1:08:24
	(worship organ music)	1:08:29
	(echoey choral singing)	1:09:12
	Go forth into the world in peace.	1:12:14
	Be of good courage.	1:12:17
	Hold fast to that which is good.	1:12:19
	Render no one evil, for evil.	1:12:23
	Strengthen the faint hearted.	1:12:27
	Support the weak.	1:12:29
	Help the afflicted.	1:12:31
	Honor all persons.	1:12:34
	Love and serve the Lord,	1:12:37
	rejoicing always in the power of the Holy Spirit.	1:12:39
	And the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,	1:12:45
	the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:12:48
	be with you all both now and forevermore.	1:12:53
	(echoey choral singing)	1:13:03
	♪ Amen ♪	1:13:39
	(slow, lighthearted organ music)	1:13:50
	(clapping)	1:21:14

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Title:

Hugh Anderson - "A Banner with a Strange Device" (July 1, 1979)

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Sermon start time: 30:18. Sermon end time: 52:34.
We should not focus on the timing or phsyical, materialistic sense of "until he come," Jesus' return, but rather understand it as an expression of hope of what it means to declare Christ's death. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: The question is preposterous and unaskable because it is only as we encounter Christ as the one who is to come that we can encounter him as the one who has come and is present here and now.

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July 1, 1979

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Anderson, Hugh

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1 Corinthians

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1 Corinthians 11:17-26

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