Harry B. Partin - "The Time of Beginning" (January 3, 1971)
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| Pastor | Shall be preached among the gentiles said, | 0:05 |
| "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, | 0:12 | |
| hath shined in our hearts | 0:17 | |
| to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God | 0:19 | |
| in the face of Jesus Christ." | 0:23 | |
| Let us worship Him as we sing hymn number 27. | 0:28 | |
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| May we give the Heavenly Father an opportunity | 3:34 | |
| to cleanse our hearts as we enter into the new year. | 3:37 | |
| We now offer up to God our prayer of confession. | 3:42 | |
| Almighty God, | 3:48 | |
| we confess that we sometimes grow tired of confessing. | 3:50 | |
| During the past year, | 3:55 | |
| as we have tried to be honest to God, from time to time, | 3:58 | |
| we have had to admit that we were, | 4:03 | |
| once again, sinners. | 4:05 | |
| But Lord, we are in need of your grace | 4:09 | |
| because we got tired of the wrong act. | 4:11 | |
| We grew weary of confessing our sins, | 4:17 | |
| when what we should have grown tired of | 4:19 | |
| was the act of sinning and of having a sinful attitude. | 4:21 | |
| Help us, therefore, when we are weary to be correctly weary. | 4:27 | |
| Also, oh Father, we have been prone to take hold | 4:34 | |
| of life's tragedies by the wrong handle, | 4:37 | |
| to show our concern too late. | 4:40 | |
| We tend to give charity to the poor | 4:44 | |
| but do little to cure the causes of poverty. | 4:47 | |
| We ring our hands when coal miners are killed, | 4:51 | |
| but go on, year after a year, | 4:55 | |
| doing little to make the mines safe. | 4:57 | |
| We will spend our money to repair the damage | 5:02 | |
| of violence in our cities, | 5:04 | |
| but we will not spend our money | 5:07 | |
| to remove the causes of violence. | 5:09 | |
| We sympathetically attend the funeral | 5:14 | |
| when an acquaintance is killed in a wreck | 5:16 | |
| but allow the causes of wrecks to go uncorrected, | 5:19 | |
| even defending the right of drivers to cause wrecks. | 5:23 | |
| We decorate the graves of our young men, | 5:28 | |
| whose bodies are shipped home from the war, | 5:30 | |
| but thou knowest, we do not make peace a priority. | 5:33 | |
| We're more prone to help the undertaker bury the dead | 5:38 | |
| than to aid the physician in curing the sick. | 5:42 | |
| Lord, we confess that this approach | 5:46 | |
| is not only stupid but sinful. | 5:49 | |
| We pray thee to cure us of our stupidity | 5:53 | |
| and to forgive us our sins through Jesus. | 5:56 | |
| Amen. | 6:02 | |
| We, who are in need of comfort, | 6:07 | |
| have been assured by the scriptures, | 6:09 | |
| "Though your sins be as scarlet, | 6:12 | |
| they shall be as white as snow. | 6:14 | |
| Though they be red like crimson, | 6:17 | |
| they shall be as wool." | 6:20 | |
| Amen. | 6:23 | |
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| Our Old Testament lesson comes | 10:02 | |
| from the book of Ecclesiastes, | 10:04 | |
| verses from Chapter 3. | 10:08 | |
| "For everything, there is a season | 10:12 | |
| and a time every matter under heaven. | 10:14 | |
| A time to be born, a time to die, | 10:20 | |
| a time to plant, a time to pluck up what is planted, | 10:25 | |
| a time to kill, a time to heal, | 10:30 | |
| a time to break down, a time to build up, | 10:33 | |
| a time to weep, a time to laugh, | 10:37 | |
| a time to mourn, a time to dance, | 10:40 | |
| a time to cast away stones, | 10:45 | |
| a time to gather stones together, | 10:48 | |
| a time to embrace, | 10:53 | |
| a time to refrain from embracing, | 10:56 | |
| a time to seek, a time to lose, | 11:00 | |
| a time to keep and a time to cast away, | 11:04 | |
| a time to rend, a time to sew, | 11:08 | |
| a time to keep silence, a time to speak, | 11:13 | |
| a time to love and a time to hate, | 11:18 | |
| a time for war, a time for peace." | 11:22 | |
| The New Testament reading is from 2 Corinthians. | 11:29 | |
| Verses from Chapter 5. | 11:34 | |
| Beginning with 16. | 11:40 | |
| "From now on, therefore, we regard no one | 11:50 | |
| from a human point of view; | 11:53 | |
| even though we once regarded Christ | 11:56 | |
| from a human point of view, | 11:59 | |
| we regard Him thus no longer. | 12:01 | |
| Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; | 12:06 | |
| the old has passed away, | 12:11 | |
| behold the new has come. | 12:15 | |
| All this is from God, | 12:18 | |
| who through Christ reconciled us to Himself, | 12:20 | |
| and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. | 12:25 | |
| That is, God was in Christ | 12:29 | |
| reconciling the world to Himself, | 12:32 | |
| not counting their trespasses against them | 12:36 | |
| and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. | 12:39 | |
| So, we are ambassadors for Christ. | 12:45 | |
| God making His appeal through us, | 12:50 | |
| we beseech you on behalf of Christ, | 12:55 | |
| be reconciled to God. | 12:59 | |
| For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, | 13:03 | |
| so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. | 13:08 | |
| Working together with Him then, | 13:12 | |
| we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain, | 13:15 | |
| for He says, | 13:19 | |
| 'At the acceptable time I have listened to you, | 13:21 | |
| helped you on the day of salvation.' | 13:26 | |
| Behold now is the acceptable time, | 13:31 | |
| behold now is the day of salvation". | 13:35 | |
| Amen. | 13:42 | |
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| Lord be with you. | 14:25 | |
| Let us pray. | 14:28 | |
| For our prayer of Thanksgiving, let us turn to number 661, | 14:31 | |
| in the back portion of our hymnal. | 14:36 | |
| Read this prayer together, responsively. | 14:41 | |
| Holy, holy, holy | 14:51 | |
| is the Lord God Almighty | 14:54 | |
| who was, and is, and is to come. | 14:56 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:02 | |
| Just and true are Thy ways, oh King of the Ages. | 15:07 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:11 | |
| Worthy art Thou, our Lord and God, | 15:18 | |
| to receive glory and honor and power, | 15:22 | |
| for Thou didst create all things, | 15:25 | |
| and by Thy will they existed and were created. | 15:26 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:31 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:35 | |
| Blessing, glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, | 15:41 | |
| and honor and power, and might, | 15:45 | |
| be to our God forever and ever. | 15:47 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:51 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 15:55 | |
| We give thanks to the Lord God Almighty, | 16:00 | |
| who art, was, | 16:04 | |
| and now has taken Thy great power and begun to reign. | 16:06 | |
| Hallelujah for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns. | 16:10 | |
| Let us rejoice and, in so, we give Him the glory. | 16:15 | |
| Amen. | 16:20 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 16:21 | |
| (congregation responding faintly) | 16:25 | |
| Eternal God, | 16:27 | |
| our Heavenly Father, | 16:30 | |
| we would worship Thee, | 16:34 | |
| praise Thee and give Thee thanks | 16:37 | |
| with hospitable hearts, | 16:40 | |
| welcoming Thee to our minds and to our lives. | 16:43 | |
| Knock, knock on the door, | 16:48 | |
| but give us grace and hope. | 16:52 | |
| Come to us in stimulating thoughts, | 16:56 | |
| clear insights, | 17:00 | |
| and illuminate things. | 17:02 | |
| In moving gratitude that makes us and keeps us humble, | 17:06 | |
| in a kind of penitence that cleanses us, | 17:12 | |
| and in a sense of blind vocation that challenges us. | 17:17 | |
| Come to us in a fresh vision of Jesus Christ. | 17:23 | |
| His grace, His mercy, His call to our conscience, | 17:28 | |
| His appeal to our strength. | 17:34 | |
| As thus, amid the earthquake, wind, and fire | 17:39 | |
| of this noisy world, | 17:44 | |
| we wait for Thy still, small voice. | 17:46 | |
| Give us sensitive hearts to listen, | 17:50 | |
| teachable minds to learn, | 17:54 | |
| humble wills to obey. | 17:57 | |
| Here today, as we worship together | 18:01 | |
| let some revelation of Thy light | 18:04 | |
| fall on our particular darkness. | 18:08 | |
| Some guidance from Thy wisdom, | 18:11 | |
| save us from our own personal will. | 18:14 | |
| Some power from Thy infinite resource, strengthen us. | 18:19 | |
| Our impunity. | 18:23 | |
| We pray Thee, O God, for special help | 18:28 | |
| as the old year has gone out | 18:32 | |
| and the unknown future, | 18:36 | |
| full of dangers and yet full of possibilities, | 18:38 | |
| is open before us. | 18:42 | |
| Make us great enough for these great days. | 18:45 | |
| Make us humble enough for understanding, | 18:50 | |
| cooperative members of our one command. | 18:54 | |
| Lift us above the petty, the grasp, | 18:59 | |
| the import of these momentous times. | 19:03 | |
| Thus help us to build | 19:08 | |
| the only kind of world that shall save our children | 19:11 | |
| from chaos and from catastrophe. | 19:14 | |
| O God for all who labor in Church and in state | 19:20 | |
| this coming year, | 19:25 | |
| save them | 19:30 | |
| from a disordered world, | 19:34 | |
| from disloyal followers, | 19:36 | |
| from anxious hearts. | 19:38 | |
| Let no failures so frighten them, | 19:42 | |
| no difficulties so dishearten them, | 19:46 | |
| or us who stand behind them, | 19:48 | |
| they may surrender to discouragement, | 19:51 | |
| so that when another year comes | 19:56 | |
| and begins as this one is beginning, | 19:59 | |
| our eyes may look out upon a better world. | 20:04 | |
| Traveling a highway toward genuine brotherhood, | 20:08 | |
| in the church, | 20:14 | |
| in society, | 20:16 | |
| and among the nations of the world. | 20:19 | |
| We make this prayer, in spirit of that better prayer | 20:23 | |
| which Thy Son has taught all His disciples to pray. | 20:27 | |
| Saying, "Our Father, who art in heaven, | 20:31 | |
| hallowed be Thy name, | 20:36 | |
| Thy kingdom come, | 20:38 | |
| Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 20:40 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread; | 20:44 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses | 20:47 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 20:49 | |
| Lead us not into temptation, | 20:53 | |
| but deliver us from evil. | 20:56 | |
| For Thine is Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever." | 20:57 | |
| Amen. | 21:03 | |
| May the words of our mouths, | 21:36 | |
| and the mediation of our hearts | 21:40 | |
| be acceptable in Thy sight | 21:43 | |
| O Lord our strength | 21:47 | |
| and our redeemer. | 21:49 | |
| Amen. | 21:52 | |
| We have just crossed | 21:58 | |
| the threshold of a new year. | 22:01 | |
| We're beginning to write 1971 | 22:06 | |
| on our letters and checks, | 22:11 | |
| so that will take some getting used to. | 22:14 | |
| Tomorrow, Monday, | 22:20 | |
| may actually begin the New Year for many of us, | 22:23 | |
| for we will be returning to work after holidays. | 22:29 | |
| At nine o'clock tomorrow morning, | 22:36 | |
| classes will begin again | 22:40 | |
| in Church. | 22:43 | |
| We are aware | 22:47 | |
| that, once again, | 22:50 | |
| we are at the time of beginning. | 22:52 | |
| I would like to talk for a little while | 22:58 | |
| this morning about time. | 23:02 | |
| It seems to me that we have two | 23:08 | |
| very different experiences of time. | 23:13 | |
| Or, to put it another way, | 23:18 | |
| that we experience | 23:22 | |
| at least two different kinds of time. | 23:25 | |
| Time is not simply abstract, | 23:33 | |
| but is versatile. | 23:37 | |
| There is, first of all, that kind of time | 23:45 | |
| which we acknowledge by writing 1971. | 23:47 | |
| It is linear, | 23:53 | |
| chronological, | 23:56 | |
| historical time. | 23:59 | |
| The time we measure and part | 24:02 | |
| from the beginning towards the end. | 24:06 | |
| The Jewish calendar begins | 24:12 | |
| with the date traditionally | 24:16 | |
| given for the creation. | 24:18 | |
| The Christian calendar, as you know, | 24:21 | |
| begins with the year | 24:25 | |
| traditionally given for the birth of Jesus. | 24:28 | |
| In this case, a historical event, | 24:33 | |
| provides the mark by which time is kept. | 24:39 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 24:43 | |
| For ages. | 24:46 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 24:46 | |
| Also, in the case of Muslims, | 24:51 | |
| a historical event provides the beginning, | 24:54 | |
| for the Islamic calendar begins with the year | 24:59 | |
| of Mohammed's Hajj, | 25:03 | |
| the migration to Mecca. | 25:06 | |
| And so, the Muslims are now | 25:12 | |
| in the year 1390. | 25:15 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 25:18 | |
| That is, thirteen hundred and ninety years | 25:20 | |
| after migration to Mecca. | 25:24 | |
| This linear, chronological time, | 25:28 | |
| is also the kind of time | 25:32 | |
| by which we measure our lives | 25:34 | |
| on Earth. | 25:39 | |
| It is the time of birthdays, | 25:43 | |
| one after another. | 25:47 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 25:51 | |
| Needless to say, this time, | 25:54 | |
| the time of our lives. | 25:59 | |
| But, I want to say, that there is, | 26:06 | |
| in fact, another kind of time, | 26:10 | |
| which is also (indistinct), | 26:14 | |
| and is also important. | 26:18 | |
| By contrast with linear time, | 26:23 | |
| this time is cyclical. | 26:27 | |
| It recurs. | 26:32 | |
| That is, to say it returns again and again. | 26:34 | |
| We do have this | 26:42 | |
| so-called primitive and archaic religion, | 26:45 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 26:50 | |
| it is this second kind of time | 26:54 | |
| that is difficult, | 26:58 | |
| recurring time | 27:00 | |
| that is considered the real time, | 27:03 | |
| the time that lasts. | 27:06 | |
| But I want to suggest | 27:10 | |
| that the experience of this kind of time, | 27:12 | |
| is not (indistinct) or a primitive religion, | 27:17 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 27:22 | |
| for we have it all, | 27:24 | |
| have it more commonly and (indistinct). | 27:27 | |
| Time as man naturally experiences it | 27:37 | |
| is cyclical. | 27:44 | |
| The moon, for example, with its phases ever repeated, | 27:46 | |
| (indistinct) | 27:51 | |
| a living, rhythmical time. | 27:54 | |
| In similar fashion, the seasons of the year | 27:59 | |
| with summer, | 28:06 | |
| fall, | 28:07 | |
| winter, | 28:09 | |
| and spring. | 28:11 | |
| The eternal round. | 28:15 | |
| Such time | 28:21 | |
| is always a time of something. | 28:23 | |
| We recently experienced Christmas time, | 28:30 | |
| the time of, | 28:34 | |
| the coming again of that joyful season | 28:37 | |
| with its festive history. | 28:40 | |
| It is now winter time. | 28:44 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 28:49 | |
| The winter solstice (indistinct), | 28:54 | |
| and the start of winter. | 28:57 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 29:01 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 29:04 | |
| Spring time, | 29:05 | |
| bursting with life as always. | 29:09 | |
| When it comes we will know it. | 29:13 | |
| Who does not know | 29:21 | |
| who can't remember | 29:25 | |
| that special quality of time. | 29:27 | |
| It is that time the Song of Solomon celebrates, | 29:33 | |
| "My beloved speaks and says to me, | 29:40 | |
| arise, my love, my fair one, and come away, | 29:44 | |
| for, lo, the winter is past, | 29:50 | |
| the rain is over and gone; | 29:54 | |
| the flowers appear on the earth; | 29:57 | |
| the time of the singing of birds is come, | 30:01 | |
| and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land." | 30:05 | |
| We take for granted the linear, | 30:13 | |
| chronological character of time, | 30:16 | |
| but we need to remind ourselves that such a view of time | 30:19 | |
| has not come easily (mumbles). | 30:23 | |
| For, traditionally, men have been born and bred | 30:28 | |
| by the cyclical character of time. | 30:32 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 30:35 | |
| For the emphasis on the linear, chronological | 30:39 | |
| character of time is most of all (indistinct) | 30:42 | |
| For it seems to have been the heathens, | 30:48 | |
| that discovered (indistinct) | 30:51 | |
| the values of historical time, | 30:54 | |
| and the uniqueness of historical descent. | 30:57 | |
| The God (indistinct), | 31:03 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 31:06 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 31:09 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 31:12 | |
| The struggle between two views of time, | 31:15 | |
| historical time on the one hand, | 31:20 | |
| what we may, perhaps, call natural time on the other, | 31:24 | |
| this struggle of interest for many centuries. | 31:28 | |
| It is reflected in the Old Testament (indistinct). | 31:35 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 31:40 | |
| That the historical view of time deemed the (indistinct), | 31:43 | |
| and the judge of the interpretational | 31:49 | |
| (mumbles). | 31:52 | |
| Thus, the execution, being unexplored | 31:55 | |
| as the central event, | 31:59 | |
| that the (mumbles) | 32:02 | |
| for many centuries we have celebrated the past. | 32:05 | |
| It is a belief, | 32:12 | |
| displaying as nothing else of God, | 32:15 | |
| God's power, | 32:19 | |
| the kind to rise and fold agriculture, | 32:24 | |
| (mumbles) | 32:28 | |
| natural festival, for the very (indistinct). | 32:31 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 32:36 | |
| What was natural, became history. | 32:41 | |
| What was biblical and recurring was made (indistinct), | 32:47 | |
| (mumbles). | 32:52 | |
| This historizes any (mumbles). | 32:56 | |
| One of the fundamental characteristics | 33:02 | |
| of a difficult religion, | 33:06 | |
| and, it is a characteristic (indistinct) | 33:09 | |
| as the power term, a book, | 33:12 | |
| it is a term of this (indistinct) that they understand | 33:17 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 33:22 | |
| (indistinct) of Christ. | 33:28 | |
| At the same time, | 33:32 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 33:36 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 33:39 | |
| Our religious experience, | 33:42 | |
| exceeds our theology, | 33:45 | |
| and our theology (indistinct), | 33:49 | |
| the first, the (indistinct). | 33:55 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 33:58 | |
| And yet, when Christmas time comes, | 34:02 | |
| it is, again, the time of new birth. | 34:06 | |
| We may speak as we will on remembering and celebrating | 34:12 | |
| that historical event of long ago, | 34:17 | |
| and then, in the time of Christ | 34:22 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 34:28 | |
| hunts us again, | 34:32 | |
| a kind of reincarnation, | 34:35 | |
| the remembering, but also the (indistinct). | 34:42 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 34:48 | |
| Another (indistinct) | 34:57 | |
| hath begin like (indistinct) point, | 35:00 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 35:04 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 35:08 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 35:11 | |
| For then the Lord comes, I come as (indistinct) do, | 35:14 | |
| from a particular (indistinct) which has emphasized, | 35:21 | |
| above all, a warrior character, of the (indistinct). | 35:26 | |
| This, (indistinct). | 35:33 | |
| Hear that? | 35:39 | |
| That is the whole of what we explored (indistinct)/ | 35:43 | |
| But, other Christian traditions have emphasized the | 35:51 | |
| presence of Christ, celebration for his supper. | 35:53 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 35:58 | |
| For in (indistinct) away. | 36:02 | |
| This latter emphasis on the presence of Christ, | 36:09 | |
| for all impossibility for a magical | 36:13 | |
| rather than the religious sense, (indistinct) | 36:16 | |
| more than historical (indistinct) | 36:25 | |
| of our experiences of the lord (indistinct). | 36:29 | |
| Pure to our deepest and richest experience, | 36:34 | |
| than our (indistinct) will not allow. | 36:38 | |
| The true emphasis, the Lord suffers who comes for us. | 36:43 | |
| Holy, the past and the present, | 36:49 | |
| the present of (indistinct) | 36:54 | |
| As I suggested already, difficult religion | 36:58 | |
| He emphasized (indistinct) times, | 37:02 | |
| in order to establish reality, | 37:06 | |
| (indistinct) of linear historical times. | 37:09 | |
| The Church did not (indistinct) | 37:15 | |
| for the Church developed the concept of the Church year, | 37:20 | |
| in which the fruitful events in the light, | 37:25 | |
| burst | 37:32 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 37:34 | |
| These crucial events in the minds of the people, | 37:39 | |
| are (indistinct) year after year after year. | 37:44 | |
| Think how much poorer we would be (indistinct) | 37:51 | |
| if the birth of Jesus, | 37:53 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 37:55 | |
| resurrected, were not (mumbles). | 37:58 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 38:04 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 38:07 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 38:10 | |
| There are other events in the year which are not | 38:15 | |
| (indistinct) Christian in origin, | 38:19 | |
| or necessary (mumbles). | 38:23 | |
| Some of these events are (indistinct), | 38:26 | |
| I referred earlier to (indistinct). | 38:31 | |
| We find the coming of Christ | 38:36 | |
| a remarkable event because | 38:40 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 38:45 | |
| It is, indeed, no accident that the Church | 38:49 | |
| has chosen to celebrate | 38:52 | |
| the resurrection of Jesus Christ. | 38:54 | |
| In this springtime. | 38:58 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 39:02 | |
| For in this celebration, | 39:05 | |
| there is a conjunction | 39:08 | |
| coming together. | 39:12 | |
| The natural and the (indistinct), | 39:15 | |
| both divine. | 39:19 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 39:22 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 39:25 | |
| But again, by (mumbles). | 39:31 | |
| Celebration of the new year, | 39:37 | |
| religious or (mumbles), | 39:42 | |
| whether in this time or another, | 39:45 | |
| a (indistinct). | 39:51 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 39:53 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 39:56 | |
| Feature of the Gregorian calender | 39:57 | |
| is that times are located | 39:59 | |
| in (mumbles). | 40:01 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 40:04 | |
| That is, time and date, | 40:08 | |
| January 1st. | 40:12 | |
| Now, that they did not (indistinct). | 40:15 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 40:19 | |
| However that may be, | 40:24 | |
| I would argue that we, in fact, | 40:26 | |
| believe and do bad (indistinct). | 40:29 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 40:33 | |
| We need it, most of all, | 40:40 | |
| I think, because, | 40:41 | |
| when you're in historical time, | 40:42 | |
| if you (mumbles), | 40:44 | |
| and we who live in that time, | 40:47 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 40:51 | |
| Heard them talk. | 40:54 | |
| At the end of an old year, | 41:02 | |
| there is all different types of (mumbles). | 41:06 | |
| I doubt that we ever (indistinct). | 41:13 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 41:17 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 41:22 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 41:26 | |
| For the end of the whole year, | 41:32 | |
| and the beginning of the new, | 41:35 | |
| signals the possibility | 41:37 | |
| of the (indistinct). | 41:39 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 41:44 | |
| Is the good news, | 41:47 | |
| (indistinct speech). | 41:49 | |
| And good news | 41:53 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 41:55 | |
| Of liberated | 41:58 | |
| the spirit of the Lord | 42:01 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:03 | |
| For he has anointed me. | 42:06 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:10 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:14 | |
| In the past and recovering of (indistinct), | 42:18 | |
| for Thou has delivered. | 42:25 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:28 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:32 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:37 | |
| In our (mumbles). | 42:43 | |
| We are still bound, | 42:48 | |
| chained ourselves as (mumbles). | 42:52 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 42:58 | |
| Wrong relationships we have (indistinct). | 43:01 | |
| Prejudice (mumbles). | 43:06 | |
| Dishonest (mumbles). | 43:12 | |
| Habit. | 43:16 | |
| Destruction of (mumbles). | 43:19 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 43:23 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 43:27 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 43:30 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 43:33 | |
| Our problem, | 43:37 | |
| it is not whether there is good deeds (mumbles). | 43:38 | |
| Our problem, our habit . | 43:45 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 43:49 | |
| It is almost as if the good news is | 43:56 | |
| good (mumbles). | 44:00 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 44:03 | |
| So, carrying our burden | 44:07 | |
| of anxiety and ill from (mumbles). | 44:10 | |
| How can we | 44:18 | |
| (mumbles) | 44:20 | |
| truly and truly fix them? | 44:25 | |
| There are times, | 44:29 | |
| times and (mumbles), | 44:33 | |
| and that said, | 44:41 | |
| time is wed. | 44:44 | |
| The forgiveness and renewal | 44:47 | |
| that God always offered. | 44:48 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 44:53 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 44:56 | |
| It can become | 45:03 | |
| our personal (mumbles). | 45:07 | |
| Great (mumbles). | 45:11 | |
| The whole year and the (indistinct). | 45:14 | |
| From grace (mumbles). | 45:19 | |
| Giveth the (mumbles) | 45:25 | |
| in this time of beginning, | 45:31 | |
| it will come for us. | 45:35 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 45:37 | |
| Except (mumbles). | 45:39 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 45:42 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 45:49 | |
| O God of the past, | 45:56 | |
| O God of the future, | 45:59 | |
| O God of the hidden, | 46:02 | |
| If it rose from the tyranny of time past, | 46:08 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 46:12 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 46:16 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 46:19 | |
| Amen. | 46:22 | |
| (ethereal organ music begins) | 46:25 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:29 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:33 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:37 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:41 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:45 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:49 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:53 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 46:57 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:01 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:05 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:09 | |
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| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:24 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:29 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:33 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:37 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:40 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:44 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:48 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:52 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 47:56 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 48:00 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 48:05 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 48:09 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 48:13 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 48:17 | |
| (faint triumphant organ music) | 50:47 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 51:02 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 51:06 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 51:09 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 51:12 | |
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| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:11 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:15 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:18 | |
| (triumphant organ music) | 52:21 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:26 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:29 | |
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| (chorus faintly singing) | 52:36 | |
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| (chorus faintly singing) | 53:07 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 53:11 | |
| (chorus faintly singing) | 53:14 | |
| (chorus singing) | 53:18 | |
| (triumphant organ music) | 53:20 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 53:51 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 53:56 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 54:01 | |
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| (ethereal organ music) | 55:19 | |
| Our Heavenly Father, (mumbles), | 55:24 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 55:30 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 55:32 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 55:36 | |
| Dedicated them (mumbles). | 55:40 | |
| (indistinct speech) | 55:43 | |
| Now, may the grace (mumbles) in Jesus Christ. | 55:54 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 56:15 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 56:20 | |
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| Man | End one! | 1:02:31 |
| (heavy footsteps) | 1:02:38 | |
| (banging noise) | 1:02:43 | |
| (sweeping noise) | 1:02:47 | |
| (shuffling noise) | 1:02:55 | |
| (papers shuffling noise) | 1:02:59 | |
| (papers shuffling noise) | 1:03:07 | |
| (tapping noise) | 1:03:13 | |
| (papers shuffling noise) | 1:03:15 | |
| (man clearing throat) |
