Howard C. Wilkinson - "When Light Is Darkness" (May 19, 1963)
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(soft music) | 0:09 | |
(music tempo rises) | 0:29 | |
♪ Praise God from Whom all blessings flow ♪ | 0:41 | |
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪ | 0:49 | |
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪ | 0:56 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 1:05 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:16 | |
- | Almighty God, from whose bounty we have all received, | 1:24 |
accept this offering of thy people. | 1:30 | |
And so follow it with thy blessing | 1:33 | |
that it may promote peace and goodwill among men, | 1:36 | |
and to advance thy kingdom | 1:40 | |
through Jesus Christ our Savior, amen. | 1:42 | |
(soft music) | 1:47 | |
I am a little bit surprised at the number of students | 2:14 | |
who have come to the university service of worship today. | 2:17 | |
In spite of the fact that final examinations | 2:21 | |
are in full bloom. | 2:24 | |
I do not know whether this means that you are strong | 2:26 | |
and have not been overwhelmed by your exams, | 2:29 | |
or whether it means that you have been overwhelmed | 2:32 | |
and have come here seeking divine aid | 2:34 | |
for the rest of the distance. | 2:36 | |
Whatever the explanation, I'm glad you have come. | 2:39 | |
The text of the sermon this morning | 2:44 | |
is Matthew 6:22 and 23. | 2:46 | |
The words of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 2:51 | |
"The eye is the lamp of the body. | 2:55 | |
So if your eye is sound, | 3:00 | |
your whole body will be full of light. | 3:03 | |
But if your eye is not sound, | 3:06 | |
your whole body will be full of darkness. | 3:09 | |
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, | 3:12 | |
how great is that darkness?" | 3:18 | |
This is a very strange teaching, isn't it? | 3:23 | |
On the face of it, it appears to be nonsense. | 3:27 | |
If anyone else, besides our Lord had given us this teaching, | 3:31 | |
we would dismiss the teaching without any further thought. | 3:35 | |
Knowing as we do, however, | 3:40 | |
that Christ very often packed profound truth | 3:42 | |
into strange and paradoxical statements, | 3:45 | |
it certainly is worth our while | 3:48 | |
to take a look at this rather odd statement. | 3:51 | |
"The eye is the lamp of the body. | 3:56 | |
If therefore your eye is sound, | 4:01 | |
your whole body will be full of light. | 4:04 | |
But if your eye is not sound, | 4:07 | |
your whole body will be full of darkness. | 4:11 | |
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, | 4:15 | |
how great is that darkness?" | 4:21 | |
We may be helped to understand | 4:26 | |
this strange teaching of Christ | 4:29 | |
if we will approach it in three steps. | 4:31 | |
I would like for us to stand on the first step | 4:36 | |
and look at this teaching and see in focus, | 4:39 | |
an implied truth in it. | 4:43 | |
Which is that when man finds himself in darkness | 4:46 | |
and seeks light, not every switch | 4:52 | |
which he flips turns on light. | 4:57 | |
When man finds himself confronted by a problem, | 5:03 | |
not everything which he does in response | 5:10 | |
to that problem situation becomes a solution to the problem. | 5:14 | |
Perhaps the most convincing and tragic illustration | 5:22 | |
of this truth could be taken from the headlines | 5:25 | |
of any day's newspaper. | 5:28 | |
Today's, yesterday's, tomorrow's. | 5:30 | |
When the diplomats and ministers of the various nations | 5:35 | |
of the world meet to discuss the problems | 5:38 | |
of international relations, | 5:41 | |
they always are mindful of the fact | 5:45 | |
that mankind today stands | 5:50 | |
on the brink of utter annihilation. | 5:53 | |
And that the success or failure of their negotiations | 5:57 | |
will have some bearing upon the possibility | 6:02 | |
of the annihilation of the human race. | 6:07 | |
Now, how did we get in that situation? | 6:11 | |
Why is it that we find ourselves in this fix today? | 6:14 | |
How did it happen? | 6:20 | |
Well, it happened this way. | 6:22 | |
We in the United States wanted to develop a weapon | 6:25 | |
that would be a more deterring weapon, | 6:31 | |
than the best one of our enemies. | 6:36 | |
Which they developed as a deterrent | 6:39 | |
against our last best one. | 6:43 | |
Which we developed as a threat or deterrent | 6:46 | |
against the last previous best weapon of our enemy, | 6:50 | |
which in turn, well, you know how the tennis game goes. | 6:55 | |
Now, what started this gruesome tennis game | 7:00 | |
of international relations | 7:04 | |
in which Russia, the United States, England, France, | 7:07 | |
the other nations, began this spiraling process | 7:11 | |
of developing a worst weapon than the other | 7:16 | |
and he in turn a worst weapon than that. | 7:19 | |
Strangely enough, it all began | 7:24 | |
because people like you and me, | 7:27 | |
people like the Russians, the French and the Germans, | 7:31 | |
found themselves possessed of a desire to live in peace. | 7:35 | |
To be free from anxiety, | 7:42 | |
to be rid of the threat of attack from without. | 7:46 | |
And so finding ourselves confronted by the problem | 7:51 | |
of living at peace, we could solve that problem | 7:55 | |
by creating a situation as a human race, | 8:00 | |
which has placed the nations of the world | 8:03 | |
in the greatest paralleling and anxiety, | 8:05 | |
which we have known since the beginning of time. | 8:09 | |
Not everything which mankind does when he is confronted | 8:13 | |
by a problem, is a solution to that problem. | 8:16 | |
Not every switch we turn on when we find ourselves | 8:22 | |
in darkness, is in fact light. | 8:25 | |
All right, now let's move to a second step | 8:31 | |
and take another look at this teaching of Christ. | 8:33 | |
And we will focus our attention upon a truth | 8:37 | |
which is embedded in this teaching, | 8:41 | |
which is that sometimes, | 8:44 | |
when we are confronted by a problem, | 8:47 | |
the scheme which we devised to solve that problem, | 8:51 | |
becomes the origin of a new problem. | 8:55 | |
Sometimes when we are confronted by a disease, | 9:01 | |
the medicine which we take as a cure for that disease, | 9:04 | |
has in it the seeds of a new disease. | 9:09 | |
Sometimes the light which we turn on to illuminate | 9:14 | |
our darkness, is worse than the original darkness. | 9:18 | |
A few summers ago, my family went to the beach | 9:25 | |
for a two weeks vacation. | 9:27 | |
The evening we arrived at the beach, | 9:31 | |
my son complained of some itching and swelling of his hands. | 9:34 | |
When I looked at them, | 9:38 | |
I saw some blisters there and it was apparent | 9:39 | |
that before we had left Durham, | 9:42 | |
he had encountered some poison ivy. | 9:43 | |
Well, we were gonna take care | 9:46 | |
of that situation very quickly and easily. | 9:47 | |
We went down to the drugstore, | 9:50 | |
asked the druggist what he had | 9:51 | |
that was good for poison ivy. | 9:53 | |
He promptly gave us some soap from the shelf and he said, | 9:55 | |
"Just rub this on, wash your hands in this. | 9:58 | |
And this will put the poison ivy under control." | 10:02 | |
We took the soap and went home. | 10:06 | |
I got up quite a good lather and washed his hands | 10:09 | |
in this soapy lather. | 10:14 | |
Then we all retired in the confident assurance, | 10:18 | |
that with the rising of the sun the next morning | 10:20 | |
we would be commencing a glorious vacation. | 10:23 | |
But strangely the next morning, | 10:28 | |
not only were his hands more swollen and itching worse, | 10:31 | |
but my hands were swollen and were itching. | 10:36 | |
And I came to the conclusion that this must be | 10:40 | |
because I had rubbed off some of the poison ivy juice | 10:42 | |
from his hands onto mine as I was washing his hands. | 10:45 | |
And so I decided that what we needed | 10:48 | |
was more frequent applications of this soapy solution. | 10:50 | |
And so for the next several days, | 10:55 | |
he and I lived in an almost literal leather continuously. | 10:57 | |
Now, to our surprise, not only did we not get better, | 11:03 | |
we got dramatically and painfully worse | 11:09 | |
until our hands were badly swollen and very painful. | 11:12 | |
At this stage, we consulted the doctor. | 11:17 | |
Who told us that this soap contained a certain ingredient | 11:19 | |
to which many people were violently allergic | 11:23 | |
and we were two of those people. | 11:26 | |
And he said we might still be able to enjoy | 11:29 | |
part of our vacation if we would take Cortisone | 11:31 | |
to overcome the effects of this ingredient in the soap. | 11:35 | |
And so he gave us Cortisone to take by mouth. | 11:39 | |
After a few days of taking the Cortisone, | 11:44 | |
our hands improved a great deal. | 11:46 | |
Now, whether this cured the poison ivy | 11:50 | |
is not known because it got lost in a worst problem. | 11:54 | |
It occurred to me after we'd been taking the Cortisone | 11:58 | |
for several days to inquire | 12:00 | |
if the prolonged use of Cortisone | 12:02 | |
might bring on any additional problems. | 12:05 | |
The doctor said that some people who have taken Cortisone | 12:09 | |
over a period of some days find that | 12:12 | |
pockets of tuberculosis germs, | 12:15 | |
which nature has sealed off in the lungs | 12:17 | |
are released into the body and the patient gets TB. | 12:19 | |
And that some people who have taken Cortisone | 12:23 | |
over a period of time have required psychiatric treatments. | 12:26 | |
We decided, therefore, | 12:31 | |
to be content with the ailments we had, | 12:32 | |
we stopped taking the Cortisone, our hands improved enough | 12:35 | |
so that by the end of the two weeks | 12:40 | |
we were able to help a little bit with the packing | 12:42 | |
to return home at the end of our glorious vacation. | 12:45 | |
Now, I mentioned this this morning, | 12:49 | |
not to give advice on how to avoid becoming involved | 12:51 | |
in the Ivy league or to recite family reminiscences, | 12:56 | |
but to point out that Jesus was saying in this teaching | 13:01 | |
that sometimes that which we use, | 13:05 | |
that which we take into our bodies, into our souls, | 13:10 | |
in the name of a cure, in the name of light, | 13:15 | |
in the name of an answer, in the name of a solution | 13:18 | |
to our problems, occasionally maybe not simply no light, | 13:22 | |
no solution, no cure, | 13:28 | |
but maybe the origin of far worse conditions | 13:30 | |
than we previously had. | 13:33 | |
Jesus was talking here about | 13:37 | |
what Buttrick calls the optic nerve of the soul. | 13:39 | |
That is to say that within our minds and hearts, | 13:43 | |
through which light allegedly comes, | 13:47 | |
and if what we take into our souls through this optic nerve | 13:51 | |
is not light but darkness, is not a cure but a new disease, | 13:57 | |
then this darkness, this new disease | 14:03 | |
becomes compounded in its destructiveness | 14:06 | |
because we look upon it as light, as a solution, | 14:10 | |
as an answer, as a cure, | 14:13 | |
and it is the opening of new problems. | 14:17 | |
Now, it is very important that we understand | 14:23 | |
the process by which this happens. | 14:27 | |
That this can happen in the process | 14:29 | |
of allegedly getting light. | 14:32 | |
A few years ago, the United States cooperated | 14:36 | |
with other nations in the world, | 14:39 | |
in the observance of what was called | 14:41 | |
the International Geophysical Year. | 14:42 | |
Since the International Geophysical Year has ended, | 14:47 | |
a number of our scientists have been evaluating | 14:50 | |
and assessing the significance of the data | 14:53 | |
that was collected during that year. | 14:57 | |
I have recently been quite interested to read the reports | 15:00 | |
of three of our leading scientists who participated in | 15:03 | |
and directed the observance of this IGY. | 15:06 | |
Dr. William Don, who was the chief United States scientist | 15:13 | |
in the Atlantic Island Observatory's Program | 15:17 | |
during that year has written a report. | 15:19 | |
Dr. Joseph Kaplan, | 15:22 | |
who was chairman of the United States National Committee | 15:23 | |
for the International Geophysical Year has written a report. | 15:26 | |
And Dr. Maurice Hughley, | 15:30 | |
who was president of the American Geophysical Union | 15:32 | |
at that time, has written. | 15:34 | |
Something which all three of these men | 15:37 | |
have mentioned is a very great significance | 15:39 | |
in connection with what we are discussing now. | 15:42 | |
They report that we have learned in this IGY, | 15:46 | |
that the Earth is becoming progressively warmer. | 15:53 | |
That during the last seven years, | 15:59 | |
the average temperature of the Earth | 16:01 | |
has been 10 degrees warmer than previously. | 16:04 | |
Now, for some of you who do not like extremely cold weather, | 16:10 | |
this may seem to be good news. | 16:12 | |
But these three scientists caution us | 16:16 | |
against becoming overly optimistic about this. | 16:19 | |
Because they say, "This very warming trend of the Earth | 16:22 | |
is bringing on a new ice age." | 16:28 | |
And that as a result of the warming trend, | 16:31 | |
the Northern half of the world will eventually | 16:37 | |
come to be covered by a heavy coat of ice and snow, | 16:42 | |
which will require 11,000 years to melt after it happens. | 16:47 | |
They say that we may begin making preparations for this | 16:54 | |
because it will be here in another 6 or 8,000 years. | 16:57 | |
Now, they explain the process by which this is happening. | 17:02 | |
This warming trend is melting the glaciers and the ice packs | 17:08 | |
of Norway, Sweden, the Arctic area, | 17:15 | |
they say that when it continues that all of the glaciers | 17:21 | |
and ice of Alaska will be melted. | 17:26 | |
Of course, every true Texan knows | 17:30 | |
that when all this melting takes place, | 17:32 | |
Texas will again be the largest state in the union. | 17:34 | |
But this was not a part of the report | 17:38 | |
of these three scientists, it was added by an editor. | 17:40 | |
The point being that when all this frozen water is melted, | 17:44 | |
and runs down into the ocean, | 17:49 | |
it will raise the level of the ocean enough | 17:50 | |
so that the warm waters of the Gulf stream | 17:53 | |
will be able to pass over the shallows | 17:55 | |
between Greenland and Norway. | 17:58 | |
And the warm waters of the Gulf stream | 18:02 | |
will flow into the Arctic ocean, | 18:04 | |
under the Arctic ice cap, and will melt it. | 18:07 | |
Making out of the Arctic ice cap, an ocean of water | 18:10 | |
and the cold winds blowing from the North Pole to Canada | 18:15 | |
and the United States will be heavily laden with moisture. | 18:18 | |
They will dump snow and sleet and ice upon all of Canada | 18:23 | |
and as far south as St. Louis in the United States. | 18:29 | |
And when this process has been completed, | 18:32 | |
we will have a new ice age. | 18:35 | |
And this is a result of the warming trend now going on. | 18:37 | |
So that the process of want is bringing on | 18:47 | |
a new ice age. | 18:52 | |
Now, Jesus said that the effort to get light | 18:54 | |
in through the optic nerve of the soul, | 19:00 | |
through the eye into the body, | 19:03 | |
if it brings in darkness instead of light, | 19:04 | |
will bring in a greater darkness than we had before. | 19:08 | |
Pastoral counselors are saying more and more | 19:13 | |
that the great problem with which individuals | 19:16 | |
are being confronted that leads them to counselors, | 19:19 | |
is the problem of personal insecurity. | 19:23 | |
A great sense of insecurity. | 19:26 | |
Now, what do people do when they feel insecure? | 19:30 | |
They seek security wherever they can find it. | 19:33 | |
And those who find that security in God | 19:35 | |
find a security which is lasting. | 19:37 | |
But those who find their security, their sense of security | 19:41 | |
fulfilled in a bank account, in a big paycheck, | 19:44 | |
a large house, a beautiful car, or a beautiful body, | 19:48 | |
are finding a kind of security which the world can give | 19:54 | |
but which at last the world can also take away. | 19:57 | |
And we know instinctively | 20:01 | |
that if our security is insecurity, | 20:02 | |
we have laid the foundation for a greater insecurity | 20:05 | |
in our hearts and lives. | 20:08 | |
And there are many people today | 20:11 | |
who seem to have outer security, | 20:13 | |
who have a knowing sense of inner insecurity, | 20:16 | |
because as Jesus said, paraphrasing him, | 20:18 | |
"If the security that is in you is insecurity, | 20:21 | |
how great is that insecurity?" | 20:24 | |
Now then taking the third step, | 20:30 | |
we are in position to look directly at the truth | 20:34 | |
which Jesus gave in this teaching. | 20:38 | |
Which is that he himself is the light of the world. | 20:41 | |
He said, "I am the light of the world. | 20:47 | |
If you abide in me, you will not be in darkness | 20:50 | |
but you will walk in light." | 20:53 | |
Jesus Christ is the genuine cure. | 20:57 | |
He does not have in him the seeds of a new disease. | 21:02 | |
He is the true solution to the biting problems of mankind. | 21:06 | |
And if we take his solution, | 21:12 | |
we do not find that we are appropriating new problems. | 21:15 | |
To understand something of how this works, | 21:22 | |
we should hear the way George Bernard Shaw has put it. | 21:24 | |
The later years of his life, | 21:28 | |
a correspondent asked Shaw to explain why it was | 21:30 | |
he began to write plays. | 21:33 | |
Shaw said, "As a young man I felt two things. | 21:36 | |
First, that I knew what the solution to the social evils | 21:40 | |
and ills of mankind is. | 21:47 | |
And number two, I felt a burning desire | 21:51 | |
to help provide that solution. | 21:55 | |
I felt that it was my obligation to provide the answers | 21:59 | |
to the great vexing problems of mankind's questions." | 22:04 | |
So he said, "It occurred to me that the best way | 22:09 | |
to get over to people, these solutions and these answers, | 22:11 | |
was to incorporate them in plays, and so I wrote plays." | 22:15 | |
"The reason for this," he said was, | 22:21 | |
"That doctors had told me | 22:22 | |
that if you wanted to give a patient medicine, | 22:26 | |
you needed to sugar coat the medicine. | 22:28 | |
So I put the solution in drama." | 22:30 | |
But he said, "At the end of my life, | 22:35 | |
I must now admit reluctantly that I failed miserably. | 22:37 | |
Because, " he said, "The people came to my plays, | 22:42 | |
they licked off the sugar coating and threw away the pill. | 22:46 | |
And the worst part about it was," he said | 22:52 | |
"that when they quoted my witticisms, | 22:54 | |
they thought they were quoting the solution | 22:58 | |
to the problems of the world. | 23:01 | |
And that," he said, "Was worse | 23:04 | |
than if they had left my plays entirely alone. | 23:06 | |
Because if they had not thought | 23:10 | |
that in quoting the witticisms, they were quoting the cures. | 23:15 | |
They at least would have been open minded enough | 23:19 | |
to look for the cures to society." | 23:22 | |
And he was a very disillusioned man | 23:25 | |
because his audiences had settled for the sugar coating | 23:28 | |
and had thrown away the medicine. | 23:32 | |
Now it is very important, it seems to me, | 23:35 | |
that the students of Duke University | 23:37 | |
at this point take a straight look | 23:39 | |
at the university education, | 23:42 | |
which you are engaged in obtaining. | 23:44 | |
Some of you, two weeks from now will be obtaining a degree | 23:47 | |
from this university and will be, as you say, | 23:52 | |
going out into life. | 23:55 | |
What does this university education mean to you? | 23:58 | |
What will it be? | 24:02 | |
Will it be light or will it be darkness? | 24:04 | |
Will it be a sugar coat or will it be the medicine? | 24:08 | |
The college education in the United States, | 24:15 | |
has from the very beginning of our colleges, | 24:19 | |
been thought of as light, as enlightenment, | 24:23 | |
as a cure for the social diseases, | 24:28 | |
as an answer to the great problems of mankind. | 24:31 | |
And we have said, "Let us send our young people to college | 24:35 | |
and to the university, they will be coming enlightened. | 24:38 | |
They will be wise people. | 24:41 | |
They will be people not simply who will know | 24:44 | |
how properly to conjugate a verb | 24:46 | |
or how to add and subtract in mathematics. | 24:48 | |
But beyond all that, they will be wise people, | 24:52 | |
who will know what to do when there is a racial problem. | 24:56 | |
Who will know what to do about the problem of poverty. | 24:59 | |
Who will know what to do about political issues. | 25:02 | |
They will not simply be people who will be skilled, | 25:07 | |
who will have factual information, | 25:10 | |
but people who will have wisdom." | 25:13 | |
But at last we in the 20th century | 25:16 | |
have learned how to lick off the sugar coating | 25:18 | |
of a fatter paycheck that comes from a college education | 25:21 | |
and to throw away the medicine. | 25:25 | |
We have learned how to get the skills, | 25:27 | |
the factual information, and to leave wisdom aside. | 25:29 | |
Now, what is it that I'm saying? | 25:35 | |
Well, I'm saying this, | 25:37 | |
that out of the first 120 institutions of higher learning | 25:39 | |
that were founded in the United States of America, | 25:43 | |
more than 100, more than 100 out of 120 | 25:46 | |
were founded in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ | 25:52 | |
and for the glory of God. | 25:55 | |
And for 150 years in America, | 25:58 | |
higher education was understood | 26:01 | |
by our people as Christian higher education. | 26:03 | |
And the graduates of those institutions were expected | 26:07 | |
not simply, to know facts about chemistry, | 26:09 | |
but they were expected to be people | 26:13 | |
who had the wisdom of Christ. | 26:14 | |
Who understood their factual education | 26:17 | |
in terms of the meaning of life, | 26:21 | |
the origin of life and the destiny of life, | 26:23 | |
as given in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. | 26:26 | |
And so a college education, a university education, | 26:30 | |
got a good name and was understood to be light. | 26:34 | |
And the optic nerve of our civilization | 26:39 | |
was the one through which education from our colleges | 26:43 | |
and universities came into the soul of our nation. | 26:48 | |
College was that optic nerve. | 26:52 | |
But if through that optic nerve comes darkness | 26:56 | |
instead of light, how great will that darkness be? | 27:01 | |
It will be great because our nation will expect | 27:07 | |
what comes from our colleges and universities to be light. | 27:12 | |
But if through them, darkness comes, | 27:15 | |
it will be a great darkness. | 27:19 | |
Somebody may say, | 27:23 | |
"Are you suggesting here that there's some kind of a thing | 27:24 | |
known as Christian chemistry or Baptist biology | 27:27 | |
or Methodist mathematics, Presbyterian physics?" | 27:30 | |
Not at all. | 27:35 | |
There is no Christian chemistry, | 27:37 | |
but there is such a thing as a Christian chemist. | 27:39 | |
And there is such a thing as an unchristian chemist. | 27:43 | |
There is such a thing as a person being an educated man | 27:48 | |
within the context of motives that lead him | 27:55 | |
to use his education for the welfare of mankind | 28:00 | |
rather than for selfish aggrandizement. | 28:03 | |
And if a person is simply coming to college | 28:07 | |
to get a college education | 28:10 | |
in order that he may have a fatter paycheck, | 28:12 | |
in order that he may minister more successfully | 28:15 | |
to his selfishness, | 28:18 | |
then the light that is in him is not only darkness, | 28:20 | |
it is a very great darkness. | 28:24 | |
Enlightened selfishness is more destructive | 28:27 | |
than ignorant selfish. | 28:30 | |
Educated meanness is far more destructive in the world | 28:32 | |
than uneducated meanness. | 28:36 | |
And it makes a difference whether a man splits the Adam | 28:38 | |
in order to fashion a weapon that will kill | 28:42 | |
eight million men, women, and children, | 28:45 | |
or whether he splits the Adam | 28:47 | |
in order that he might be able to learn how to cure cancer. | 28:48 | |
It makes a vast deal of difference. | 28:53 | |
What we use our college education for. | 28:56 | |
And those of you who are about to complete | 28:59 | |
your university education here at Duke, | 29:01 | |
should seriously ask yourselves the question, | 29:04 | |
"Am I simply ministering to my selfishness, | 29:07 | |
or am I preparing myself to be a part of the solution | 29:12 | |
of the world's great problems?" | 29:16 | |
Is the light that is in me going to be darkness or light? | 29:19 | |
If it is going to be darkness, | 29:26 | |
it will be a greater darkness, | 29:27 | |
than if you had never come to the university. | 29:29 | |
May God grant that the university in light, | 29:33 | |
that isn't all of you, maybe the light of Christ. | 29:38 | |
In order that you may be a part of the world's answer, | 29:43 | |
a part of the world's cure. | 29:49 | |
And with Christ, a part of the world's light. | 29:52 | |
Oh God, the author of light, | 30:01 | |
grant that all darkness in our hearts might be driven out | 30:04 | |
by the light of Christ. | 30:08 | |
And now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ | 30:10 | |
be with you all. | 30:12 | |
(soft music) | 30:21 |