Frank Baker - "Brother Saul" (October 15, 1972)

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	(choir singing)	0:04
	(organ music)	0:57
	(choir singing)	1:36
	(organ music)
	♪ Field and forest, vale and mountain ♪	2:37
	♪ Flowery meadow, flashing sea ♪	2:41
	♪ Shouting bird and flowing fountain ♪	2:47
	♪ Call us to rejoice in Thee ♪	2:51
	♪ Thou art giving and forgiving ♪	2:59
	♪ Ever blessing, ever blest ♪	3:04
	♪ Wellspring of the joy of living ♪	3:09
	♪ Ocean depth of happy rest ♪	3:14
	♪ Thou our Father, Christ our Brother ♪	3:19
	♪ All who live in love are Thine ♪	3:24
	♪ Teach us how to love each other ♪	3:28
	♪ Lift us to the joy divine ♪	3:33
	(organ music)	3:39
	♪ Mortals join the mighty choir ♪	4:54
	♪ Which the morning stars began ♪	4:58
	♪ Father love is reigning over us ♪	5:03
	♪ Brother love binds man to man ♪	5:08
	♪ Ever singing, march we onward ♪	5:13
	♪ Victors in the midst of strife ♪	5:17
	♪ Joyful music leads us sunward ♪	5:22
	♪ In the triumph song of life ♪	5:27
	♪ Amen ♪	5:34
-	As we come together this morning,	5:42
	we know that our transgressions as individuals	5:45
	and groups have been frequent.	5:48
	We choose this time and this place to make our public	5:51
	confession to God and our neighbors of our corporate	5:54
	and individual transgressions.	5:58
	Let us pray.	6:00
	(choir singing)	6:13
	Oh, holy and righteous God, we acknowledge before thee	6:41
	that we do not fear thee and that we do not love thee	6:46
	above all things.	6:50
	We do not delight in prayer nor take pleasure in thy word.	6:52
	We do not really love our neighbor.	6:57
	We lack the conscience that should accompany	6:59
	our Christian profession.	7:02
	Our hearts are divided, crossed by doubts	7:04
	and guilty desires.	7:08
	We accuse ourselves before thee, oh God,	7:10
	and we implore thee whose nature and whose name is love	7:13
	to forgive us, and in forgiving, to heal us	7:18
	so that in our lives we'll finally be changed.	7:22
	Amen.	7:27
	I acknowledge my sin to thee and I did not hide my inequity.	7:29
	Then didst thou forgive the guilt of my sin.	7:35
	The Lord redeems the life of his servants.	7:38
	None of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.	7:42
	Let us pray the Lord's Prayer.	7:47
	Our father who art in heaven,	7:50
	hallowed be thy name.	7:53
	Thy kingdom come,	7:55
	thy will be done	7:57
	on earth as it is in heaven.	7:59
	Give us this day our daily bread	8:02
	and forgive us our trespasses	8:05
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	8:08
	And lead us not into temptation,	8:12
	but deliver us from evil	8:14
	for thine is the kingdom	8:17
	and the power and the glory forever.	8:18
	Amen.	8:22
	(soft organ music)	8:31
	(choir singing)	10:07
	(organ music)	11:18
	(choir singing)	11:32
	(soft organ music)	14:49
	Lord be with you.	15:13
Congregation	And also with you.	15:15
-	Let us pray.	15:16
	Praise is due to thee, oh God in Zion	15:24
	and to thee shall boughs be performed.	15:28
	Oh, thou who hearest prayer.	15:31
	To thee shall all flesh come on thee account of sins.	15:34
	When our transgressions prevail over us,	15:38
	thou dost forgive them.	15:42
	blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near	15:44
	to dwell in thy courts.	15:49
	We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house	15:52
	and thy holy temple.	15:56
	By dread deeds, thou dost answer us with deliverance.	15:58
	Oh God, of our salvation,	16:03
	who art the hope of the ends of the Earth	16:05
	and of the fartherest seas,	16:08
	who by thy strength has established the mountains,	16:11
	being girded with might.	16:15
	Who dost still the roaring of the seas,	16:17
	the roaring of their waves,	16:21
	the tumult of thy peoples	16:23
	so that those who dwell at the Earth's fartherest bounds	16:25
	are afraid at thy signs.	16:30
	Thou makest the outgoings of the morning	16:33
	and the evening to shout for joy.	16:36
	Though visitest the Earth and waterest it.	16:39
	Thou greatly enriches it.	16:43
	The river of God is full of water.	16:45
	Thou providest their grain	16:48
	for so thou hast prepared it.	16:51
	Thou waterest the furloughs abundantly,	16:53
	setting its ridges,	16:57
	softening it with showers	16:59
	and blessing it's growth.	17:01
	Thou crownest the year with thy bounty.	17:03
	The tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness,	17:07
	the pastures of the wilderness drip,	17:10
	the hills gird themselves with joy,	17:13
	the meadows clothe themselves with green,	17:16
	they shout and sing together for joy.	17:19
	Amen.	17:23
	Let us continue our prayers	17:25
	with prayers of intercession and supplication.	17:28
	Almighty and most merciful God,	17:32
	we feel intensely moved to offer our prayers	17:35
	for all those people in this world who need your love	17:39
	and the love of their neighbors.	17:44
	Enable us to be good and effective neighbors.	17:46
	Help us to move from thinking about others,	17:50
	to taking action for them.	17:53
	Even those we may know nothing about.	17:56
	We pray for people everywhere who are affected	17:59
	and threatened by the effects of pop progress.	18:03
	We remember particularly the newly discovered	18:07
	Stone Age peoples in our world	18:10
	who have to cope with being studied,	18:13
	the victims of automated war	18:15
	and those whose jobs have been taken over by machines.	18:18
	We pray for people everywhere	18:23
	who are subjected to violence of every kind in our world.	18:25
	Those who are being killed and killing in war	18:30
	on our streets,	18:33
	in our prisons,	18:35
	by drugs,	18:36
	by starvation,	18:38
	by discrimination,	18:39
	by neglect.	18:41
	Help us to remember that people need more	18:43
	than the absence of bullets for an active and healthy life	18:46
	and help us to work for both the absence of bullets	18:51
	and the other necessities that people need.	18:55
	We offer our prayers for all those that we misunderstand	18:59
	and for ourselves, when we are misunderstanding.	19:03
	We know we often misunderstand those	19:07
	who do not live as we do.	19:10
	Whether they be on the other side of the world	19:13
	or across our state or next door.	19:16
	Give us the courage to listen to others	19:19
	and the strength to begin to live in harmony	19:22
	with those who are different from ourselves.	19:25
	We pray also for those who are uncared for,	19:29
	those who are sick	19:33
	and those who are dying.	19:34
	Help us to bring warmth and affection	19:36
	into the lives of those who feel unwanted,	19:39
	to nourish and strengthen the body and the spirit	19:42
	of those who are suffering an illness.	19:45
	And when we have exhausted our ability to prevent death,	19:48
	we ask your comfort and blessing for those who are dying.	19:52
	And finally, dear God,	19:57
	we ask your guidance and blessing for our own lives.	19:59
	Give us good health as we move into the winter months.	20:03
	Give us freedom within our spirit	20:07
	so that we can change and grow	20:10
	without fear our inhibition,	20:12
	and give us the courage and the ability	20:15
	to help the people who need us in our world.	20:18
	All this we ask in the name of our God and Christ.	20:22
	Amen.	20:26
	The lesson is written in the first letter of John,	20:42
	beginning in the second chapter	20:46
	at the ninth verse.	20:48
	"He who says he is in the light	20:52
	and hates his brother is in the darkness still.	20:55
	He who loves his brother abides in the light	20:59
	and there is no cause for stumbling.	21:02
	But he who hates his brother is in the darkness	21:05
	and walks in the darkness	21:08
	and does not know where he is going	21:10
	because the darkness has blinded his eyes.	21:13
	I am writing to you, little children,	21:17
	because your sins are forgiven for his sake.	21:19
	I am writing to you, fathers,	21:22
	because you know him who is from the beginning.	21:25
	I am writing to you, young men,	21:29
	because you have overcome the evil one.	21:32
	I write to you, children, because you know the father.	21:35
	I write to you, fathers,	21:40
	because you know him who is from the beginning	21:43
	and the word of God abides in you	21:46
	and you have overcome the evil one.	21:48
	Do not love the world or the things in the world.	21:52
	If anyone loves the world,	21:56
	love for the father is not in him.	21:58
	For all that is in the world,	22:00
	the lust of the flesh	22:02
	and the lust of the eyes	22:04
	and the pride of light	22:05
	is not of the father, but is of the world.	22:07
	And the world passes away and the lust of it.	22:10
	But he who does the will of God abides forever."	22:14
	Here ends the lesson.	22:18
	(organ music)	22:21
	(choir singing)	22:30
	Let us join together in the unison affirmation of faith.	23:02
	We believe in God	23:07
	who has created and is creating.	23:10
	Who has come in the true man, Jesus	23:13
	to reconcile and make new.	23:16
	Who works in us and others by his spirit.	23:19
	We trust him.	23:23
	He calls us to be in his church,	23:25
	to celebrate his presence,	23:27
	to love and serve others,	23:30
	to seek justice and resist evil,	23:32
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	23:36
	our judge and our hope	23:39
	in life, in death, in life beyond death.	23:42
	God is with us.	23:46
	We are not alone.	23:48
	Thanks be to God. Amen.	23:50
-	Let us pray.	24:04
	May the words of my mouth	24:10
	and the meditations of our hearts	24:13
	be acceptable in thy sight.	24:16
	Oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer.	24:19
	Amen	24:23
	By his own confession,	24:28
	Saul of Tarsus	24:31
	was a narrow minded stickler for the old ways	24:33
	in religion.	24:38
	He seems to have taken both pride and joy	24:40
	in putting down the Jesus people	24:44
	who were trying to turn the world upside down.	24:48
	And then his life was changed completely	24:53
	by a vision.	24:57
	A vision of Jesus.	24:59
	And also, I believe,	25:02
	by two words	25:04
	spoken to him by one of the intended victims of his campaign	25:07
	to stamp out the Christians.	25:11
	From this transforming personal experience	25:15
	came the new theme which he proclaimed to his life's end,	25:19
	summarized in his second letter to the Corinthians,	25:24
	chapter five, verse 17.	25:27
	"Therefore, if any man be in Christ,	25:31
	he is a new creature.	25:35
	Old things are passed away.	25:39
	Behold, all things are become new."	25:42
	As a symbol of this tremendous change in his own life,	25:48
	he took a new name,	25:52
	Saul the Pharisee	25:54
	became Paul, the Christian.	25:57
	Keeping in mind Paul's insistence that a man	26:02
	could be made new	26:05
	by coming into spiritual touch with Jesus Christ,	26:07
	a principle which is just as true today as 19 centuries ago,	26:12
	I want to direct your attention to those two words	26:17
	which illustrate some of the ways in which this change	26:22
	took place for him and for others.	26:25
	There are two accounts of the occasion	26:30
	when they were spoken.	26:33
	Saul had been struck blind	26:35
	during a thunderstorm on his way to liquidate	26:38
	the Christian group in Damascus.	26:42
	The first account related by Luke	26:45
	tells how a leading Christian of Damascus, Ananias,	26:48
	entered the house of Judas in straight street	26:52
	where the blinded Saul had been taken by his companions.	26:56
	Ananias entered into the house,	27:01
	and putting his hands on him said,	27:05
	"Brother Saul,	27:08
	the Lord, even Jesus,	27:10
	that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest,	27:13
	hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight	27:17
	and be filled with the Holy Ghost.	27:21
	And immediately," Luke goes on,	27:24
	"there fell from his eyes as it had been scales	27:27
	and he received sight forth with	27:31
	and arose and was baptized."	27:34
	The second account was given by Paul himself	27:39
	as he pleaded in Hebrew	27:43
	with a crowd of Jerusalem Jews	27:46
	who were threatening his life.	27:49
	"One Ananias,	27:52
	a devout man according to the law,	27:55
	having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,	27:58
	came unto me and stood and said unto me,	28:02
	'Brother Saul, receive thy sight.'	28:06
	And the same hour, I looked up upon him."	28:10
	The accounts differ in detail,	28:16
	but both agree on the essence of what Ananias said.	28:19
	He began with the words, "Brother Saul,"	28:23
	and ended, "receive thy sight."	28:27
	It seems to me that the simple	28:32
	opening address	28:35
	is in some ways of more importance	28:38
	than the dramatic climax.	28:40
	Before we can fully appreciate this, however,	28:44
	we need to realize that both men	28:46
	were living in the middle of a near Eastern spy story.	28:50
	And both knew it.	28:56
	This is what gives these two words such significance.	28:59
	For Ananias,	29:05
	they were a demonstration	29:07
	of the new courage	29:09
	that had come to him because of his acceptance	29:12
	of Christianity.	29:14
	Try to place yourself in his shoes,	29:17
	or perhaps I should say his sandals.	29:21
	Paul later testified	29:24
	that Ananias was a devout and prominent Jew,	29:27
	highly respected by the Jewish community in Damascus.	29:31
	Undercover, however,	29:36
	he was also a member of Jewish sector, who in Antioch	29:39
	far to the north, where perhaps already being nicknamed	29:42
	Christians,	29:46
	because they maintained that Jesus of Nazareth	29:48
	was the long awaited Jewish Messiah,	29:50
	the Christ.	29:53
	Jesus himself had already been executed as a criminal.	29:56
	And Saul had begun to ferret out his followers	30:00
	in Jerusalem.	30:03
	After Stephen had been stoned to death,	30:05
	the survivors were driven either into exile	30:09
	or underground.	30:14
	They dare only meet for worship in private.	30:16
	Gaining entry by passwords and secret signs.	30:20
	Now Saul left Jerusalem	30:25
	with the authority to eradicate the Christians in the north,	30:28
	including Damascus.	30:32
	Then came his blinding vision of Jesus.	30:35
	Ananias of Damascus	30:43
	also had a vision of Jesus,	30:45
	challenging him to visit a repentant Saul	30:48
	and to welcome him to the Christian community.	30:53
	A dream it surely was.	30:57
	Or a nightmare.	31:00
	Suppose Saul himself had started the rumors,	31:02
	which for three days had been percolating	31:07
	through the narrow streets of Damascus.	31:10
	The unlikely rumors that he had come under the spell	31:13
	of the same Jesus who's followers he was persecuting	31:17
	and that he was now seeking their help.	31:21
	This was one of the oldest tricks	31:25
	in the secret agent's manual.	31:28
	How to penetrate the enemies in a circle in 10 easy lessons.	31:31
	If his instincts were wrong, Ananias knew	31:37
	he might well find himself a second Stephen,	31:41
	stoned to death.	31:45
	Worse still, he would furnish a key by which Saul	31:48
	might unlock the secrets of the Christians in Damascus.	31:52
	Their meeting places, their names,	31:56
	their degree of involvement.	31:58
	But he was convinced from past experience	32:02
	that he could distinguish the voice of the Lord in his mind	32:06
	from the voice of pride,	32:12
	of self-preservation.	32:15
	He was sure that Jesus was calling him.	32:17
	And so he went.	32:20
	Whether it was to death	32:23
	and possible disaster for the Christians,	32:25
	or to begin a new chapter in the history of Christianity.	32:28
	And the new courage that had come to him	32:33
	from his master, Christ, was shown that its greatest	32:36
	as he walked into your Saul's presence saying,	32:40
	"Brother, Saul,	32:44
	the Lord, even Jesus,	32:46
	hath sent me."	32:49
	Through the ages since,	32:52
	many other men and women	32:54
	have similarly been summoned to put their reputations,	32:56
	their lives on the line at the call of Jesus Christ.	33:00
	To attempt tasks seemingly beyond their capacity.	33:05
	I think of Hugh Bourne,	33:12
	a Staffordshire carpenter,	33:14
	who after his conversion in 1799,	33:16
	felt called upon to preach,	33:20
	but dare not.	33:22
	He wrote down an account of his religious experience	33:24
	in the hope of converting a friend.	33:28
	The reading of this led to the spiritual awakening	33:31
	of several men who pressed Bourne to preach,	33:34
	and did it to such good effect that eventually,	33:38
	he was given the new courage to attempt the impossible task.	33:41
	All the time he was preaching, however,	33:47
	he held his left hand over his eyes	33:50
	so that he could not see the congregation.	33:54
	He also attempted to shut them out of his thought	33:59
	and to speak as if he were addressing one person only.	34:02
	Bourne became one of the founders of the	34:09
	Primitive Methodist Connection.	34:11
	And 40 years later, conducted successful missions in Canada	34:14
	and the USA.	34:19
	We too, in one way or another,	34:22
	are called to serve God.	34:25
	We too are ready with excuses.	34:28
	I can't stand up in public.	34:32
	I can't sing.	34:35
	I can't give a pint of blood.	34:38
	I can't risk my reputation.	34:42
	There are so many things we can't do.	34:44
	Paul said,	34:48
	"I can do all things	34:50
	through Christ who strengthens me."	34:54
	If Christ needs us,	34:58
	he will surely strengthen us	35:01
	with new courage	35:04
	for the venture to which he calls us.	35:06
	The new courage of Ananias,	35:11
	as demonstrated by those two words, "Brother Saul,"	35:14
	made possible a new vision for Saul.	35:18
	There are various theories about Saul's blindness,	35:23
	which was possibly caused by shock,	35:26
	and were certainly accompanied by a vision,	35:29
	perhaps aided by a flash of lightning.	35:32
	Now came another shock.	35:35
	A prominent Jew was telling him	35:38
	that he was also a Christian	35:41
	and that he had been sent by the Lord Jesus to Saul	35:46
	as to a seeking fellow Christian.	35:49
	"Brother Saul," he said.	35:53
	He trusted the arch enemy of the Christians.	35:58
	Called him brother.	36:03
	Luke's narrative states that,	36:06
	"As it were, scales fell from Saul's eyes	36:08
	and he looked up and saw Ananias."	36:12
	Restored sight was indeed a precious gift.	36:18
	But it was a physical symbol	36:22
	of something even more precious,	36:25
	the new spiritual vision which then came to Saul.	36:28
	Til that moment he had been blind and numb,	36:32
	not knowing what to do.	36:36
	He was a sophisticated man,	36:39
	trained at Tarsus University	36:41
	and Jerusalem Seminary.	36:44
	He knew the subtle forces at work in people's minds	36:47
	and really expected no help in his distress	36:52
	from the underground persecuted Christians.	36:56
	But here was Ananias come to change all this.	37:00
	The spiritual impact Jesus had made	37:04
	upon this man	37:08
	had made him both kind and courageous	37:11
	in confronting Saul.	37:15
	What a Jesus this was, truly the son of God,	37:18
	reconciling man to God	37:22
	and man to man	37:25
	and making them new men in him.	37:27
	Notice that this new vision is two-sided.	37:31
	Saul received it	37:37
	because Ananias gave it.	37:40
	We also may be involved in either side of this process.	37:44
	Some years ago,	37:50
	a Lebanese Methodist told of a missionary hospital	37:51
	built for poor people in this same Syria.	37:54
	Jealous, people spread the rumor that any patients	37:58
	would be used for experiments,	38:01
	perhaps slaughter.	38:03
	As a result, nobody would go no matter how ill they were.	38:05
	Then one morning on a walk,	38:10
	the mission doctor saw a dog with a broken leg	38:12
	and took it into the hospital.	38:15
	His first patient.	38:17
	One can imagine the wagging of tongues,	38:19
	the dreadful predictions.	38:22
	And then the dog was discharged.	38:25
	Well on the way to recovery.	38:27
	A different word now went around.	38:30
	"Look here, if the doctor was kind to a street dog,	38:32
	surely he won't hurt us."	38:37
	Soon, human patients came	38:39
	and found the missionary a true friend.	38:42
	They came because the demonstration of his	38:47
	instinctive desire to heal	38:50
	had given them a new vision	38:52
	of what Christianity really meant.	38:54
	And so, if Christ touches our lives,	38:58
	we shall surely be the means of transmitting a new vision	39:03
	of service and love and courage	39:07
	to those who say that Christianity makes no difference.	39:09
	A new man, a new woman in Christ	39:13
	will introduce others, sometimes quite unwittingly,	39:17
	to the Christ who makes people anew.	39:22
	The words	39:28
	brother Saul	39:30
	furnished not only a two-sided demonstration	39:31
	of new courage for Ananias and a new vision for Saul,	39:35
	they also heralded	39:40
	a new fellowship	39:42
	between those two persons	39:45
	and between many millions of individuals and groups	39:47
	of people from that time till this.	39:49
	Most revolutionary movements fling up a new term	39:53
	which becomes a password,	39:58
	a battle cry,	40:01
	a symbol.	40:02
	In the French revolution, it was citoyen, citizen.	40:04
	The sign of a democracy	40:08
	taking over from an aristocracy.	40:11
	In the Russian revolution, it was tovarishch,	40:16
	comrade, mate.	40:20
	The sign of a people's army	40:23
	marching against Capitalism.	40:25
	Workers of the world unite.	40:28
	And so, in the Christian revolution,	40:32
	the key word on the human plane was	40:36
	brother.	40:39
	It sprang from the our father,	40:41
	about whom Jesus constantly spoke	40:44
	and to whom he taught his followers to pray.	40:47
	It was foreshadowed in his words,	40:50
	"Whosoever shall do the will of God,	40:53
	the same is my brother and sister and mother."	40:55
	We form the family of those who love God.	41:00
	In the progress of this powerful idea,	41:07
	the words of Ananias,	41:10
	"brother Saul,"	41:12
	constitute an important landmark.	41:14
	Jesus had spoken of thy brother	41:17
	but before Ananias,	41:21
	there is no record	41:24
	of anyone addressing a non-kinsmen	41:26
	as brother together with his personal name.	41:30
	Either in the Old Testament or the new.	41:34
	Even though it does indeed seem likely	41:38
	that Ananias learned this practice	41:40
	from the apostles in Jerusalem.	41:42
	Ananias set a standard for Saul,	41:46
	which he passed on and made familiar throughout	41:49
	the Western world.	41:52
	Constantly, we find him using the term, brother	41:54
	in a spiritual sense.	41:56
	A beloved brother.	41:58
	Our brother, Apollos.	42:00
	Timothy, our brother.	42:03
	Titus, our brother.	42:05
	Epaphroditus, my brother.	42:07
	And so down the Christian centuries,	42:11
	in monasteries, in ecclesiastical hierarchies,	42:14
	in evangelistic campaigns,	42:18
	in the British Trade Union Movement,	42:20
	largely inspired by Methodist lay-preachers,	42:22
	in various brotherhoods and fraternities,	42:26
	note the title you Latin scholars,	42:29
	Christian culture has proclaimed that it stands	42:32
	for the fellowship of a family.	42:35
	Sometimes the word brother	42:39
	has been spoken tongue-in-cheek.	42:42
	Mumbled somewhat insincerely.	42:46
	But at its best, it is like our father.	42:49
	A gospel in itself.	42:53
	A reminder of the wonderful new fellowship	42:57
	into which Christians enter.	43:00
	Or should enter.	43:02
	Let me illustrate this worldwide Christian fellowship	43:04
	by the simple story of a book	43:08
	presented to the Duke Divinity School in 1970.	43:11
	It is a translation of the Greek New Testament	43:15
	into Syriac,	43:19
	the language of Damascus.	43:21
	Similar to the Aramaic which Jesus himself spoke.	43:24
	It contains also a Latin translation and notes	43:28
	by Martin Trostius of Westphalia, Germany.	43:32
	It was printed in Upper Saxony	43:36
	in 1621 and is bound in vellum.	43:39
	The book therefore, originated in Palestine	43:43
	and the Mediterranean world,	43:46
	was prepared and printed in Northern Europe.	43:49
	It employs five languages.	43:53
	Once belonged to a well-known Bishop	43:57
	of the Church of England.	43:59
	Was bought in Scotland by a British Methodist	44:01
	and was eventually deposited in an American University.	44:05
	And all along the way,	44:10
	through diverse centuries,	44:12
	diverse lands,	44:15
	diverse tongues,	44:17
	it was handled reverently	44:19
	because it enshrined a message	44:22
	which was brought to the world nearly 2,000 years ago,	44:25
	but remains to this day,	44:30
	fresh and vigorous	44:33
	and life transforming.	44:36
	A new spiritual relationship	44:39
	with a man of Palestine	44:42
	who became the savior of the world.	44:44
	A relationship which offers new courage,	44:48
	new vision,	44:53
	a new fellowship.	44:55
	As brother Saul once said,	44:58
	and as we now have from today,	45:01
	"If any man be in Christ,	45:05
	he is a new creature."	45:09
	Amen.	45:13
	Let us pray.	45:15
	Oh thou,	45:21
	who art the light of the minds that know thee,	45:23
	the life of the souls that love thee,	45:27
	and the strength of the wills that serve thee.	45:31
	Help us so to know thee,	45:35
	that we may truly love thee.	45:37
	So to love thee	45:40
	that we may fully serve thee,	45:42
	whom to serve is perfect freedom	45:45
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	45:48
	Amen.	45:51
	(organ music)	45:54
	(choir singing)	46:22
	(soft organ music)	49:41
	(woman singing)	50:20
	(choir singing)	52:26
	(organ music)	54:39
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	55:17
	♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪	55:22
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:27
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:30
	♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪	55:35
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	55:40
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:46
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:49
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:52
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:55
	♪ Alleluia ♪	55:58
	♪ Amen ♪	56:06
-	All that we have,	56:14
	we have of thee,	56:16
	creator and preserver of mankind.	56:18
	Accept these gifts which we now bring before thee	56:21
	and help us to make the whole of life an offering	56:25
	and every thought a prayer.	56:29
	We would seal this, our worship	56:31
	in a renewed consecration of ourselves	56:34
	and our coming days to thy service.	56:37
	Through Jesus, the Christ, amen.	56:40
	Find comfort in the steadfast love of God.	56:48
	Depart from evil and do good.	56:52
	Seek peace and pursue it.	56:56
	Amen.	56:59
	♪ Amen ♪	57:07
	♪ Amen ♪	57:14
	(choir singing)	57:21
	(bell ringing)	58:24
	(organ music)	58:38

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Title:

Frank Baker - "Brother Saul" (October 15, 1972)

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October 15, 1972

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Baker, Frank

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