Wade P. Huie, Jr. - "A Long Robe with Flowing Sleeves" (August 19, 1990)

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	(organ music)	0:02
-	Welcome to this service of worship at Duke University	4:54
	Chapel on this the 11th Sunday after Pentecost.	4:57
	I have been asked to invite anyone interested in singing	5:02
	in the Duke Chapel Choir next Sunday,	5:05
	to attend rehearsal on Saturday, August 25th,	5:08
	at 2:45pm in the Chapel.	5:12
	Auditions for the 1991 choir will begin on August 26th.	5:16
	Our preacher for today is the Reverend Dr. Wade P. Huie Jr,	5:24
	Peter Marshall professor of Homiletics,	5:29
	at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.	5:32
	Dr. Huie, a Presbyterian, has had a distinguished career	5:37
	in the church in both preaching and teaching	5:42
	in this country and abroad.	5:46
	We welcome Dr. Huie to this pulpit today.	5:49
	Our lector is Dr. Robert Durdan, professor of history	5:54
	at Duke and a member of the congregation at Duke Chapel.	5:58
	Our soloist is Miss Laura Baxter, a member of the	6:03
	Duke Chapel Choir.	6:07
	Let us continue our worship of God.	6:10
	(organ music)	6:16
	♪ Praise my soul the King of Glory ♪	6:49
	♪ To His feet thy tribute bring ♪	6:56
	♪ Ransomed healed restored forgiven ♪	7:01
	♪ Who like thee His praise should sing ♪	7:06
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	7:12
	♪ Praise the everlasting King. ♪	7:17
	♪ Praise Him for His grace and favor ♪	7:25
	♪ To our fathers in distress ♪	7:32
	♪ Praise Him still the same for ever ♪	7:37
	♪ Slow to chide, and swift to bless ♪	7:42
	♪ Alleluia alleluia ♪	7:48
	♪ Glorious in His faithfulness. ♪	7:53
	♪ Father-like he tends and spares us ♪	8:02
	♪ Well our feeble frame He knows ♪	8:09
	♪ In His hands he gently bears us ♪	8:14
	♪ Rescues us from all our foes ♪	8:20
	♪ Aleluya ♪	8:25
	♪ Aleluya ♪	8:28
	♪ Widely as His mercy flows ♪	8:31
	♪ Frail as summer's flower we flourish ♪	8:39
	♪ Blows the wind and it is gone ♪	8:46
	♪ But while mortals rise and perish ♪	8:52
	♪ God endures unchanging one ♪	8:57
	♪ Alleluia alleluia ♪	9:03
	♪ Praise the high eternal one ♪	9:09
-	Let us pray.	9:21
	O eternal God, in your presence we rejoice.	9:23
	For by it our lives are given significance	9:27
	and through it the passing moments are enriched.	9:31
	Startle us so that we may receive	9:36
	new bursts of understanding.	9:38
	Open us so that we might behold your wonder and your glory.	9:41
	Turn us to yourself so that we might move	9:46
	from the lure of death to the joy of life	9:51
	through Jesus Christ our Lord,	9:55
	who lives and reigns with you	9:58
	and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever, amen.	10:01
	Be seated.	10:08
-	Let us pray.	10:22
	Open our hearts and minds, O God, by the power of your	10:24
	Holy Spirit so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	10:28
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	10:34
	Amen.	10:38
	The first reading is taken from the gospel according	10:41
	to St. Matthew.	10:44
	And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the	10:48
	district of Tire and Sidon.	10:50
	And a Canaanite woman from that region came out	10:53
	and cried, have mercy on me Lord, son of David.	10:56
	My daughter is severely possessed by a demon.	11:00
	But Jesus did not answer her a word.	11:04
	And the disciples came and begged Jesus, saying,	11:09
	"Send her away for she is crying after us."	11:12
	Jesus answered,	11:17
	"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."	11:19
	But she came and knelt before Jesus saying,	11:24
	"Lord, help me."	11:27
	And Jesus answered.	11:30
	"It is not fair to take the children's bread	11:32
	and throw it to the dogs."	11:36
	She said,	11:39
	"Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs	11:40
	that fall from their owners table."	11:43
	Then Jesus answered her.	11:47
	"O woman, great is your faith.	11:49
	Be it done for you as you desire."	11:52
	And her daughter was healed instantly.	11:56
	This is the word of The Lord.	12:00
	♪ Jesus loves me this I know ♪	12:16
	♪ For the bible tells me so ♪	12:23
	♪ Little ones to Him belong ♪	12:34
	♪ They are weak ♪	12:41
	♪ They are weak ♪	12:48
	♪ But He is strong ♪	12:54
	♪ Jesus love me He will stay ♪	13:07
	♪ Close beside me all the way ♪	13:16
	♪ If I love Him when I die ♪	13:24
	♪ He will take me home on high ♪	13:32
	♪ Ah ♪	13:43
	♪ Ah ♪	13:45
	♪ Ah ♪	13:48
	♪ Ah ♪	13:52
	♪ Ah ♪	13:56
	♪ Ah ♪	13:59
	♪ The bible ♪	14:09
	♪ The bible ♪	14:14
	♪ The bible ♪	14:22
	♪ Tells me so ♪	14:27
-	Coming to the Duke Chapel this morning,	15:02
	reminded me of this that 18 years ago,	15:06
	when my wife and I brought our first son	15:11
	to spend his college years on this campus.	15:15
	We are very grateful to what Duke did for our son.	15:20
	I'm glad I don't have to keep sending those checks up	15:25
	here though.	15:28
	And I'm most grateful for the opportunity	15:32
	of sharing in this service of worship with you.	15:34
	And have that delightful surprise this morning	15:39
	to find that the lector, Dr. Robert Durdan	15:41
	was to be here	15:46
	and to be reminded that we were fraternity brothers	15:48
	together at Emory University, and he kept insisting	15:52
	how much older I was than he was.	15:57
	But that is a real pleasure.	16:01
	In a couple of weeks I will be meeting	16:05
	returning students at Columbia Theological Seminary	16:08
	and will begin my 34th year teaching them.	16:12
	Teaching preaching.	16:16
	Sometimes I assigned a particular passage of scripture	16:18
	for students in a class to preach from.	16:21
	Once I asked all students in a class of about 50	16:25
	to preach from the Joseph story, some aspect of Joseph.	16:29
	At the end of that term, I said never again	16:35
	did I wanna hear a sermon on Joseph and certainly	16:40
	I would never preach one.	16:43
	Enough of Joseph.	16:45
	But then I heard John Claypool of Birmingham	16:47
	lead some bible studies on Joseph.	16:50
	He led me to an experience that I've often talked about	16:54
	that one can go to a very familiar passage of scripture	16:57
	and one can be led deeper and find enrichment.	17:02
	So with his help, I turn to that Joseph story	17:08
	for our sermon this morning.	17:12
	Now the whole story of Joseph comes in the last	17:14
	14 chapters of the book of Genesis.	17:17
	I shall not read all 14 chapters,	17:20
	but I do wanna read a scene from the opening of his life	17:24
	from the 37th chapter and then a scene from the	17:28
	closing of his life in the 50th chapter.	17:31
	Listen now, for the good news.	17:35
	Joseph, a young man of 17 took care of the sheep	17:40
	and goats with his brothers.	17:44
	The sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's concubines	17:47
	and he brought bad reports to his father about what	17:52
	his brothers were doing.	17:55
	Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons,	17:59
	because he had been born to him when he was old.	18:03
	He made a long robe with full sleeves for him.	18:08
	When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph	18:13
	more than he loved them, they hated their brother	18:15
	so much that they would not speak to him	18:18
	in a friendly manner.	18:21
	Now that's from the early part of his life,	18:25
	a scene in Canaan and now we go to the latter part	18:27
	of his life, a scene in Egypt.	18:31
	After the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said,	18:35
	"What is Joseph still hates us and plans to pay us back	18:39
	for all the harm we did to him?"	18:43
	So they sent a message to Joseph.	18:46
	Before our father died he told us to ask you,	18:49
	please forgive us the crime your brothers committed	18:52
	when they wronged you.	18:55
	Now please forgive us the wrong that we,	18:58
	the servants of your father's God have done.	19:00
	And Joseph cried when he received this message.	19:05
	Then his brothers themselves came	19:09
	and bowed down before him.	19:11
	Here we are before you as your slaves, they said.	19:13
	But Joseph said to them,	19:17
	"Don't be afraid.	19:19
	I can't put myself in the place of God.	19:21
	You plotted evil against me,	19:25
	but God turned it into good.	19:29
	In order to preserve the lives of many people who are	19:33
	alive today because of what happened.	19:36
	You have nothing to fear, I will take care of you	19:40
	and your children.	19:43
	So he reassured them with kind words	19:45
	that touched their hearts.	19:50
	This is the word of the Lord.	19:52
	Now we turn to Romans the eighth chapter,	19:59
	the 28th verse.	20:05
	While the apostle Paul seems to be interpreting	20:08
	the Joseph story or some other story like that.	20:11
	Listen to the good news.	20:18
	We know that in all things God works for good	20:22
	with those who love God.	20:26
	Those whom God has called,	20:29
	according to God's purpose.	20:32
	This is the word of The Lord.	20:36
	Jacob usually did his shopping at the K-mart stores.	20:48
	A sensible place for a man with 12 sons plus some	20:54
	daughters, probably.	20:57
	But when he wanted to buy clothes for Joseph,	21:00
	he went to Nieman Marcus.	21:02
	He could not stand for this special son to go	21:04
	around in ordinary clothes.	21:08
	One special birthday, he went to the designer section	21:11
	of Neiman Marcus and picked out a special robe	21:15
	for his son Joseph, it was something like a birthday	21:18
	or some special occasion.	21:22
	He picked out a robe of many colors.	21:25
	According to the King James translation	21:30
	which was the way I first heard the story.	21:32
	Scholars tell us that's not a good translation,	21:35
	it comes close to being as we read,	21:39
	a long robe with full sleeves.	21:43
	Now those who worked in the field, wore short sleeves	21:49
	so they could do the manual labor so	21:53
	a robe with full sleeves set Joseph apart from his brothers.	21:55
	He didn't have to do the menial task that they had to do.	22:00
	Indeed one report we have of his field activity	22:04
	was that he came back reporting who was working	22:07
	and who was not working, and of course	22:10
	that really set him off with his brothers.	22:12
	So the robe was a symbol of how special Joseph was	22:16
	setting him apart from his eleven brothers,	22:22
	it was Jacob's way of saying, you are very	22:24
	special to me you are my favorite.	22:27
	Now, Jacob should have known better.	22:33
	He was a victim of family favoritism.	22:37
	His brother Esau was his father's favorite,	22:42
	Jacob was his mother's favorite and the tension	22:45
	between them came out.	22:49
	Then when he went courting, he got mixed up	22:51
	with Laban's family with all their distortions.	22:55
	Jacob should have knows better but like so many of us	22:59
	fathers and mothers, he simply passed on to the next	23:03
	generation this distortion in family relationships.	23:08
	As someone has put it, the only thing we learn	23:13
	from history is that we don't learn very much from history.	23:17
	So Jacob gave to Joseph this long robe with full sleeves	23:23
	a sign of his special care for this son of his old age.	23:28
	I hear this and then I look.	23:35
	A long robe with full sleeves.	23:42
	A symbol of that I too have	23:48
	received special care.	23:53
	I belong to the small proportion of people on this planet	23:56
	who've received a college education.	24:00
	And I have received three more years in seminary	24:04
	and I've been given even more post-graduate education.	24:08
	And now I am paid to keep on reading and studying	24:13
	and learning indeed at the seminary	24:16
	our business is to put men and women into	24:19
	long robes with full sleeves.	24:23
	Also I belong to an organization, the church.	24:28
	Which claims to have a book, which is the source	24:33
	of the abundant life, the eternal life	24:37
	the kind of life every human being longs for.	24:39
	What a gift.	24:43
	And I am a citizen of a nation which has many many	24:47
	special gifts which even claims to offer	24:51
	liberty and justice for all.	24:55
	What a gift.	24:59
	So I see this long robe of full sleeves,	25:01
	I want to believe it's not a sign of partiality	25:04
	or favoritism but here it is.	25:09
	I wear it and I gather with you,	25:12
	students who come here in order that you at least	25:17
	for an hour can one day wear a long robe with full sleeves.	25:22
	And you work with instructors and supporters	25:26
	who wear their long robes with full sleeves.	25:30
	Even though you may be a person who never wears a long	25:34
	robe with full sleeves, you have your own symbol	25:37
	of your special gifts.	25:41
	And the question before us this morning is	25:45
	how are we using these special gifts?	25:48
	Well, how did Joseph manage the special gifts	25:57
	that he received?	25:59
	Well, one night he had a dream.	26:02
	Next morning he put on his long robe with full sleeves	26:05
	and came down for breakfast and said,	26:08
	"I had a dream last night!"	26:09
	And his brothers said,	26:10
	"Yeah, what did you dream?"	26:11
	"Well, I saw us tying up sheaves of wheat and	26:14
	mine stood in the center and yours	26:18
	gathered around it and bowed down to it."	26:21
	"Yeah?"	26:26
	To have such a dream is one thing but share your dream	26:31
	with his brothers demonstrated the fine art of	26:36
	losing friends and alienating people.	26:40
	To strut in your dream is one thing but to strut	26:44
	your dream about strutting before others,	26:49
	then Joseph had another dream.	26:59
	Next morning he put on his long robe of full sleeves	27:01
	and came down to breakfast and he said,	27:03
	I had a dream last night.	27:05
	Yeah.	27:07
	Last night I dreamed that the sun and the moon	27:10
	and the stars fell down, bowed down before me.	27:13
	Now, such arrogance was too much even for his father.	27:19
	But for his brothers, this just incensed them and	27:25
	poured oil on the fires of jealousy,	27:29
	they were fed up with Joseph strutting around	27:33
	with his long robe of full sleeves	27:35
	and with all his gifts.	27:37
	One day when his brothers were out in the field working	27:41
	his father said to him,	27:43
	"Son, now I hate for you to miss your happy hour.	27:46
	But I do want a report on your brothers out in the field.	27:51
	Will you go out and just check up and come back	27:55
	and tell me who is working and who is not?"	27:57
	"Shall I wear my robe?"	28:01
	"Why not?"	28:04
	So those brothers out in the field see Joseph coming	28:08
	wearing that long robe with full sleeves,	28:11
	strutting across the way,	28:14
	there their anger just boiled up in them	28:17
	like Cain's anger boiled up against his brother Abel,	28:21
	they said, "Let's kill him!"	28:25
	No, let's do it differently.	28:29
	Let's sell him to these traders so he can be a slave	28:32
	in Egypt and we will be through with him forever.	28:36
	And the robe, they smeared it with animal's blood	28:40
	and took it home and laid it before Jacob	28:44
	and said,	28:47
	"Do you recognize this?"	28:48
	what grief, what pain they inflicted on their father	28:51
	what a distortion in family relationships.	28:55
	But at least they'd be through with Joseph, they thought.	29:00
	In the meantime, Joseph was dragged across the	29:05
	Gaza strip, sold into slavery in Egypt.	29:09
	Bought by Potiphar, the captain of the palace guard.	29:14
	Again Joseph is getting special treatment.	29:19
	Not the slave of an ordinary citizen	29:22
	but someone who has access to the Oval Office.	29:24
	Not an ordinary slave but put in charge of everything	29:28
	in Potiphar's household.	29:31
	Potiphar liked him, and so did Mrs. Potiphar.	29:33
	She really liked what she saw and she offered	29:38
	Joseph very special treatment.	29:43
	But Joseph kept resisting, no, no!	29:48
	Until finally one day she lunged at him,	29:52
	he got away but she got his robe and used it	29:55
	as evidence against him.	30:00
	Again it was his robe that got him into trouble	30:02
	but this time not because he was strutting around.	30:05
	But now the story begins to take a different twist	30:10
	in the way her responds to special gifts.	30:13
	Potiphar believed his wife's accusations,	30:17
	threw Joseph out of the house.	30:19
	He could have killed him, that would have been	30:21
	a normal thing to do to a foreign slave but no,	30:22
	he just put him in prison.	30:24
	But not an ordinary prison, he put it into a prison	30:26
	for the king's prisoners, I suppose it's like	30:31
	one of those limited security prisons down on the	30:34
	Florida beaches where we put some of the watergate	30:37
	crowd and others went down.	30:41
	Sometimes I say it's kind of a Presbyterian prison.	30:43
	It wasn't long before Joseph began to make friend there.	30:50
	First time we find him making friends of two prisoners.	30:53
	The King's baker and the King's butler.	30:57
	And evidently close friends because they share	31:00
	their dreams with Joseph and Joseph shared his gift	31:02
	of dream interpretation with them.	31:05
	No longer now strutting with his gifts	31:07
	but sharing his gifts with those in need.	31:10
	The baker's dream, bad news, he was taken out and	31:15
	executed but the butler, good news.	31:18
	He restored to his place in the king's palace.	31:21
	But before he left the prison he said,	31:26
	Joseph, remember me when you get out.	31:28
	But the butler did what I have done many many times.	31:32
	He forgot his benefactor.	31:36
	That is he forgot for two years until the king had a dream.	31:39
	So traumatic that he tried to get people all around	31:43
	to help interpret the dream, that jogged	31:47
	the butler's memory.	31:50
	And Joseph now was brought and had opportunity	31:52
	to interpret the King's dream.	31:55
	Seven years of plenty, seven years of famine	31:59
	and you better get ready.	32:04
	And the King chose this unknown nobody,	32:08
	this foreign slave to head up the whole process	32:12
	of getting ready during the seven years of famine,	32:18
	seven years of plenty for the seven years of famine.	32:22
	And in the appointment, he gave to Joseph	32:27
	a royal ring for his finger and a gold necklace	32:31
	around his neck and on his shoulders he put	32:33
	a fine linen robe.	32:37
	Joseph again, in a special robe.	32:40
	But this time not to strut around.	32:45
	But the robe becoming a symbol.	32:49
	A symbol of the fact that Joseph now had	32:53
	an opportunity to serve and he would serve.	32:57
	He became the Prime Minister, the chief servant	33:00
	of those in need, he poured out himself in feeding others.	33:04
	As the story unfolds, his family up in Canaan,	33:11
	were afflicted by the famine and they were brought	33:16
	they finally came down to Egypt to get food.	33:19
	Finally the whole family arrived, Jacob and all the	33:21
	11 brothers and all their families.	33:24
	They didn't recognize Joseph at first,	33:28
	he revealed himself to them and their response,	33:30
	shock, fear, oh yes, they were afraid,	33:33
	they were afraid that Joseph might do to them	33:38
	what they had done to him.	33:43
	And when Jacob died they really became afraid,	33:47
	now Joseph would really do it to them.	33:49
	So they came and bowed down, like the dream said,	33:53
	bowed down begging for mercy.	33:56
	Joseph again in that special robe,	34:00
	but this time not strutting around.	34:03
	Not bragging about his gifts, certainly	34:07
	not wanting to pay back, to get even.	34:10
	Instead Joseph saw his gifts as an opportunity	34:14
	to serve others.	34:17
	"Don't be afraid" Joseph said to his brothers.	34:20
	Don't be afraid, I'll take care of you and your children.	34:22
	I won't hurt you, I'll take care of you and your children.	34:25
	You did evil to me, yes.	34:30
	But God , but God meant it for good.	34:33
	So that you and many others could be fed.	34:39
	Up in Canaan, Joseph was given a long robe with full	34:47
	sleeves, in which he could just strut around.	34:50
	With his many gifts.	34:56
	Now down in Egypt, he was given another special robe,	34:59
	but a robe this time that became a symbol	35:04
	for feeding or serving those in need,	35:07
	even prisoners and foreigners and enemies.	35:09
	Now how do you account for the big change in Joseph?	35:16
	Well, maybe something happened on the Gaza road	35:20
	as he was traveling, maybe he had a kind of	35:23
	conversion experience like a Damascus road experience	35:26
	on the Gaza road, maybe, maybe.	35:29
	Or perhaps the change came because Potiphar did something	35:33
	that Jacob never did, he gave Joseph responsibility,	35:38
	put him to work.	35:43
	And that has a way of maturing some people.	35:45
	Or perhaps Joseph was changed because of all the	35:50
	suffering he had gone through.	35:52
	Yes he was favored in Egypt but he had been a slave,	35:53
	he was away from his family, he was put in	35:56
	prison unjust, suffering has a way of changing people.	35:58
	But whatever be the historical situation,	36:03
	whatever be the human explanation	36:05
	for the big change, we got a clue as to what	36:09
	really happened as Joseph spoke to his brothers	36:12
	in this final scene.	36:16
	You meant it for evil,	36:19
	but God meant it for good.	36:24
	How did Joseph learn this?	36:30
	It was as though Joseph finally became a part of the	36:34
	story he had often heard form his father.	36:38
	As they gathered around the fireside in the evening.	36:42
	The story of how God	36:47
	had come to great grandfather Isaac	36:51
	of great grandfather Abraham.	36:54
	And how something had passed on to	36:58
	grandfather Isaac and to father Jacob.	37:00
	And as they sat around the fireside,	37:05
	Jacob would tell the story over and over	37:07
	about grandfather Isaac, great grandfather Abraham.	37:09
	How God had called Abraham and said,	37:14
	I want you to start a new family,	37:19
	I want you to start a new movement Abraham	37:21
	and this will be the key to this new movement.	37:25
	I will bless you and you will be a blessing to others.	37:29
	I will bless you Abraham, and through you,	37:34
	others will be blessed.	37:38
	Now in Canaan, Joseph heard the first part,	37:42
	I will bless you, I will bless you, I will bless you	37:44
	but now down in Egypt, Joseph can hear the second part	37:46
	of this key to this new movement.	37:51
	I will bless you	37:54
	so that you can be a blessing to others.	37:57
	A gift received becomes a present for others.	38:02
	A gift received becomes a present for others.	38:08
	I, I Wade Huie need to hear this.	38:13
	The church needs to hear this.	38:18
	Our nation needs to hear this.	38:23
	Joseph could hear it because his focus was not	38:27
	on the evil around him or the evil within him	38:30
	and certainly not on anything he had done, no.	38:32
	Joseph could hear this because his focus was on God.	38:38
	On the God who started this new movement,	38:43
	on a God whose ultimate concern is for good.	38:49
	On a God who can turn a strutter into a servant	38:54
	to feed others.	38:59
	On a God who can take all the evil	39:02
	that humans can do and turn it into good.	39:04
	On a God who can take evil, addressed even to God's own son	39:11
	yes they tried to kill God on a cross.	39:16
	And yet God took that evil and turned it	39:22
	into eternal life for all.	39:27
	I want to believe this with all my heart.	39:35
	During the last 10 days I have found it	39:40
	increasingly difficult to believe it,	39:42
	but it's one thing I can get a hold of.	39:47
	Hopefully it will get hold of me with all the evil	39:52
	around us, even with all the evil within us.	39:58
	God can turn that into good.	40:04
	The book of Genesis begins with the story of creation	40:11
	and God looking and saying it's good,	40:14
	it's good, it's good all of it's good.	40:16
	And now at the end of the book of Genesis	40:20
	we hear, "You meant it for evil,"	40:25
	People mess up so much yes, they bring about	40:28
	so much evil, yes	40:32
	but God intends good for the whole creation,	40:34
	yes God is still working God's purpose out.	40:39
	And what begins in the book of the beginnings of Genesis,	40:47
	echoes all through the bible,	40:51
	whose message can be summed up in this words.	40:56
	In everything, in everything,	41:01
	God works for good.	41:07
	God is working God's purpose out	41:14
	even for us	41:20
	who wear long robes with full sleeves.	41:22
	In the name of the Father and the Son and The Holy Spirit.	41:32
	Amen.	41:37
	(organ music)	41:46
	♪ O God our help in ages past ♪	42:11
	♪ Our hope for years to come ♪	42:17
	♪ Our shelter from the stormy past ♪	42:23
	♪ And our eternal home ♪	42:28
	♪ Under the shadow of thy throne ♪	42:36
	♪ Thy saints have dwelt secure ♪	42:42
	♪ Sufficient in thy arm alone ♪	42:48
	♪ And our defense is sure ♪	42:54
	♪ Before the hills in order stood ♪	43:02
	♪ Or earth received her frame ♪	43:08
	♪ From everlasting thou art God ♪	43:14
	♪ To endless years the same ♪	43:20
	♪ A thousand ages in thy sight ♪	43:29
	♪ Are like an evening gone ♪	43:35
	♪ Short as the watch that ends the night ♪	43:41
	♪ Before the rising sun ♪	43:50
	♪ Time like an ever-rolling stream ♪	43:56
	♪ Bears all it's sons away ♪	44:02
	♪ They fly forgotten as a dream ♪	44:08
	♪ Dies at the opening day ♪	44:14
	♪ O God our help in ages past ♪	44:23
	♪ Our hope for years to come ♪	44:29
	♪ Be thou our guide while life shall last ♪	44:36
	♪ And our eternal home ♪	44:42
-	The Lord be with you	44:55
Congregation	(mumbles)	44:57
-	Let us pray.	44:58
	Oh holy and everlasting God, age after age	45:08
	the living wait upon you and find that	45:14
	your faithfulness has no end.	45:17
	In the quietness of this morning moments,	45:21
	we worship you as our God, near and far.	45:24
	High and lifted up, drawing unto yourself	45:29
	all of us in this place and in all places	45:34
	where listening ears are found.	45:37
	Manifestations of your grace abound in the world.	45:42
	The sunshine and the rain, summer and autumn.	45:46
	Morning and evening, food and flowers	45:51
	family and friends.	45:56
	O gracious God we thank you for the perfect way	45:59
	you rule and overrule.	46:02
	The perfect way you love.	46:05
	The perfect way you redeem.	46:07
	As we come before you O Lord,	46:10
	we see the sin and sorrow in ourselves and in our world.	46:13
	Without your heavenly vision of a kingdom	46:18
	where no more tears, suffering or hatred will be found.	46:21
	We would be lost.	46:25
	Your promises sustain us with hope in the darkest hours	46:27
	of trouble, heartbreak, sickness and death.	46:31
	Thank you O God for being with us in all the famines	46:35
	of soul and body, saving us from despair.	46:39
	You are so merciful God as we turn to you in prayer	46:45
	for ourselves and others.	46:48
	We pray for the nations and leaders involved	46:52
	in the middle east crisis where the amassing of troops	46:54
	and war machines strike terror in our hearts.	46:58
	And where the hot, arid desert reminds us of the	47:03
	multiple enemies of body and spirit.	47:06
	Bring a healthy solution to this hateful conflict,	47:10
	so that war may be averted.	47:15
	May compassion replace madness and might.	47:18
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	47:22
	We pray O God for those frightened because of	47:28
	loneliness and illness.	47:31
	Befriend them so they may find a friend in you,	47:34
	the best of friends, in your mercy,	47:37
	hear our prayer.	47:41
	We pray O God for those facing death	47:45
	whom we name in this quiet time in our hearts.	47:47
	May they find comfort for their pain	47:55
	and assurance of your divine presence.	47:57
	O Lord in your mercy, (congregation mumbles)	48:01
	We pray for those who live without homes	48:06
	and those who live in harsh, inhumane circumstances.	48:08
	Prick the consciences of those of us who can make	48:13
	a difference in the lives of these abandoned people.	48:16
	May relief and sanctuary be found for these your children.	48:20
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	48:26
	For those who are in prison by confused, sick	48:31
	or twisted minds and spirits.	48:33
	For those growing weary of life,	48:36
	grant them release from the scriptures that bind them.	48:39
	Lord, in your mercy	48:43
-	(Congretation) Hear our prayer.	48:45
	Help us O living, giving God, to share the burdens	48:48
	of all people everywhere.	48:51
	Grant that we may be your holy people, the church.	48:54
	Reliable witnesses in your gospel in word and deed.	48:58
	God in your mercy,	49:03
-	(Congretation) Hear our prayer.	49:06
	Faithful God, cover us with your mantle	49:08
	of righteousness and peace.	49:11
	You are our hope, our joy and our salvation	49:13
	and whose kingdom is forever and ever,	49:18
	world without end.	49:22
	Amen.	49:24
	May our God free us to share without apology or arrogance	49:28
	not only the gifts we have, but the gifts we are.	49:33
	♪ Ah Turn me not away ♪	50:06
	♪ Receive me though unworthy ♪	50:11
	♪ Ah turn me not away ♪	50:18
	♪ Receive me though unworthy ♪	50:22
	♪ Hear Thou my cry ♪	50:27
	♪ Behold Lord, my distress ♪	50:30
	♪ Answer me from thy throne ♪	50:39
	♪ Haste Thee Lord to mine aid ♪	50:44
	♪ Thy pity shew in my deep anguish ♪	50:48
	♪ Thy pity show in my deep anguish ♪	50:54
	♪ Let not the sword of vengeance smite me ♪	50:59
	♪ Though righteous thine anger ♪	51:05
	♪ O Lord shield me in danger O regard me ♪	51:08
	♪ On Thee Lord alone will I call ♪	51:15
	♪ O Divine Redeemer ♪	51:25
	♪ O Divine Redeemer ♪	51:33
	♪ I pray Thee grant me pardon ♪	51:39
	♪ and remember not remember not my sins ♪	51:47
	♪ Forgive me O Divine Redeemer ♪	52:00
	♪ I pray Thee grant me pardon ♪	52:13
	♪ And remember not remember not ♪	52:19
	♪ O Lord my sin ♪	52:24
	♪ Night gathers round my soul ♪	52:32
	♪ Fearful I cry to Thee ♪	52:37
	♪ Come to mine aid O Lord ♪	52:42
	♪ Haste Thee Lord haste to help me ♪	52:47
	♪ Hear my cry ♪	52:54
	♪ Hear my cry ♪	52:56
	♪ Save me Lord in Thy mercy ♪	52:59
	♪ Hear my cry ♪	53:06
	♪ Hear my cry ♪	53:09
	♪ Come and save me O Lord ♪	53:12
	♪ O Divine Redeemer ♪	53:21
	♪ O Divine Redeemer ♪	53:29
	♪ I pray Thee grant me pardon ♪	53:35
	♪ And remember not ♪	53:43
	♪ Remember not ♪	53:45
	♪ O Lord my sin ♪	53:48
	♪ Save in the day of retribution ♪	53:56
	♪ From Death shield Thou me O my God ♪	54:00
	♪ O Divine Redeemer ♪	54:06
	♪ Have mercy ♪	54:12
	♪ Help me my Savior ♪	54:26
	(organ music)	55:04
	♪ All creatures of our God and King ♪	55:25
	♪ Lift up your voice and with us sing ♪	55:30
	♪ Aleluya ♪	55:36
	♪ Aleluya ♪	55:39
	♪ Thou burning sun with golden beam ♪	55:44
	♪ Thou silver moon with softer gleam ♪	55:50
	♪ O praise Him O praise Him ♪	55:55
	♪ Aleluya, Aleluya ♪	56:01
	♪ Aleluya ♪	56:08
-	O wondrous God, your divine love enfolds us	56:21
	into your everlasting arms.	56:26
	Bringing us out of the drought of our barrenness	56:28
	into the womb of the fruitfulness of your grace.	56:31
	As we raise this gifts to you,	56:35
	awaken in us gratitude for all of life	56:38
	and your creation.	56:42
	For joy and what is human and holy.	56:43
	For challenges, which enable us to reach beyond ourselves	56:46
	and for opportunities of new directions.	56:51
	O keeper of promises, grant us joy in our hearts	56:54
	even in the midst of our brokenness.	56:59
	Give us prayers on our lips	57:01
	songs for our journey, and a vision of your kingdom	57:04
	may these offerings be used	57:09
	to extend your liberating rain in this world	57:12
	and in the world to come.	57:15
	For we pray in the name of the one	57:19
	who taught us to pray, saying	57:21
-	(Congregation) Our father who art in heaven	57:24
	hallowed be thy name	57:27
	thy kingdom come	57:29
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven	57:31
	Give us this day our daily bread	57:35
	And forgive us our trespasses	57:38
	As we forgive those who trespass against us	57:40
	And lead us not into temptation	57:44
	But deliver us from evil	57:46
	For thine is the kingdom	57:49
	And the power	57:50
	And the glory	57:51
	Forever and ever	57:53
	Amen.	57:54
-	And now may the eternal God	57:56
	who dwells in mystery and holiness	57:58
	And who loves us with an everlasting love	58:01
	Guide and sustain us in our times of trouble	58:04
	As we go forth to care for the world around us	58:08
	And to share the good news of that love	58:11
	in the name of The Father and of the Son	58:14
	and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.	58:17
	(organ music)	58:21
	♪ We've a story to tell to the nations ♪	59:05
	♪ That shall turn their hearts to the right ♪	59:10
	♪ A story of truth and mercy ♪	59:16
	♪ A story of peace and light ♪	59:21
	♪ A story of peace and light ♪	59:25
	♪ For the darkness shall turn to dawning ♪	59:31
	♪ And the dawning to noonday bright ♪	59:35
	♪ And Christ's great kingdom shall come on earth ♪	59:40
	♪ The kingdom of love and light ♪	59:46
	♪ We've a song to be sung to the nations ♪	59:52
	♪ That shall turn their hearts to The Lord ♪	59:57
	♪ A song that shall conquer evil ♪	1:00:03
	♪ And shatter the spear and sword ♪	1:00:08
	♪ And shatter the spear and sword ♪	1:00:13
	♪ For the darkness shall turn to dawning ♪	1:00:18
	♪ And the dawning to noonday bright ♪	1:00:23
	♪ And Christ's great kingdom shall come on earth ♪	1:00:28
	♪ The kingdom of love and light ♪	1:00:33
	♪ We've a message to give to the nations ♪	1:00:41
	♪ That The Lord who reigneth above ♪	1:00:45
	♪ Has sent us His son to save us ♪	1:00:50
	♪ And show us that God is love ♪	1:00:55
	♪ And show us that God is love ♪	1:01:00
	♪ For the darkness shall turn to dawning ♪	1:01:05
	♪ And the dawning to noonday bright ♪	1:01:10
	♪ And Christ's great Kingdom shall come on earth ♪	1:01:16
	♪ The Kingdom of love and light ♪	1:01:21
	♪ We've a Savior to show to the nations ♪	1:01:28
	♪ Who the path of sorrow has trod ♪	1:01:33
	♪ That all of the world's great peoples ♪	1:01:38
	♪ May come to the truth of God ♪	1:01:43
	♪ May come to the truth of God ♪	1:01:48
	♪ For the darkness shall turn to dawning ♪	1:01:54
	♪ And the dawning to noonday bright ♪	1:01:59
	♪ And Christ's great kingdom shall come on earth ♪	1:02:04
	♪ The kingdom of love and light. ♪	1:02:09
-	Let us go forth in the name of The Lord	1:02:21
-	(Congregation) Thanks be to God.	1:02:25
	(organ music)	1:02:32

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Title:

Wade P. Huie, Jr. - "A Long Robe with Flowing Sleeves" (August 19, 1990)

Description:

Over the course of his life, Joseph experiences a change in the way he responds to and uses his gifts. Whereas in Caanan with his brothers and fathers he struts his gifts and uses them to puff himself up, by the time he reaches Egypt, he as learned to use his gifts to bless others. Whatever the historical causes for this change in character, what this story teaches us is that what humans have done out of evil, God can work to the good of all creation. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 15:02. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 41:39.
Key quotation: “Up in Canaan, Joseph was given a long robe with full sleeves, in which he could just strut around with his many gifts. Now, down in Egypt, he was given another special robe, but a robe this time that became a symbol for feeding or serving those in need, even prisoners and foreigners and enemies.”

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August 19, 1990

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Huie, Wade P., Jr.

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Duke University. Chapel

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