William H. Willimon - "The Anger of Jesus" (March 3, 1991)

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	(solemn organ music)	0:00
-	Good morning.	2:42
	And welcome to this service of worship	2:43
	at Duke University Chapel on this third Sunday in Lent.	2:44
	Our preacher for today's service	2:48
	is the Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon, Dean of the chapel,	2:50
	and our lector is Mr. Andy Baxter,	2:53
	former president of Wesley Fellowship.	2:55
	According to our usual practice,	2:58
	a brief, ecumenical service of prayer will be held each day	3:00
	at 12 o'clock noon here in the memorial chapel.	3:04
	For the coming week, Taizé music and liturgies will be used	3:08
	at this service continuing in the same style of worship	3:12
	which we enjoyed this week during the visit	3:15
	of two brothers in the Taizé community,	3:18
	and two Little Sisters of Jesus.	3:20
	All are encouraged to attend.	3:22
	Please note that the deadline	3:25
	for the engaged encounter weekend is approaching very soon,	3:26
	as of March 6th, and those of you who are interested	3:29
	are encouraged to call the chapel as soon as possible.	3:32
	Please note the remaining announcements	3:35
	as they are printed in your bulletins.	3:36
	And now, please stand for the greeting.	3:38
	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.	3:48
Congregation	And also with you.	3:51
-	Bless the Lord, oh, my soul.	3:53
	And all that is within me, bless God's holy name.	3:55
Congregation	Bless the Lord, oh, my soul,	3:59
	and forget not all his kind deeds.	4:02
-	Who forgives all your sins and heals all your infirmities.	4:05
Congregation	Who redeems your life from evil	4:10
	and crowns you with mercy and (murmurs).	4:13
	(regal organ music)	4:18
	(congregation singing)	4:47
-	God of all mercy,	9:20
	your kingdom has broken into our troubled world	9:23
	through the life, death, and resurrection of your son.	9:26
	Help us to hear your word and obey it	9:30
	so that we become instruments of your redeeming love.	9:33
	Through your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord,	9:37
	who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,	9:40
	one God, now and forever, amen.	9:43
-	Let us pray the prayer for illumination.	9:55
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	10:00
	by the power of your Holy Spirit,	10:04
	so that, as the word is read and proclaimed,	10:06
	we might hear with joy	10:10
	what you say to us this day.	10:12
	Amen.	10:14
	The first reading is taken from the book of Exodus.	10:16
	"Then God spoke all these words:	10:20
	"I am the Lord your God,	10:23
	"who brought you out of the land of Egypt,	10:25
	"out of the house of slavery;	10:28
	"you shall have no other Gods before me.	10:30
	"You shall not make for yourself an idol,	10:34
	"whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above,	10:36
	"or that is on the earth beneath,	10:40
	"or that is in the water under the earth.	10:43
	"You shall not bow down to them or worship them;	10:46
	"for I the Lord your God am a jealous God.	10:50
	"Punishing children for the inequity of parents,	10:54
	"to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me,	10:57
	"but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation	11:01
	"of those who love me and keep my commandments.	11:05
	"You shall not make wrongful use of the name	11:10
	"of the Lord your God,	11:12
	"for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses His name.	11:14
	"Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy.	11:20
	"Six days, you shall labor, and do all your work.	11:24
	"But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.	11:27
	"You shall not do any work.	11:31
	"You, your son, or your daughter,	11:33
	"your male and female slave, your livestock,	11:37
	"or the alien resident in your towns.	11:40
	"For in six days, the Lord made heaven and earth,	11:43
	"the sea, and all that is in them,	11:47
	"but rested the seventh day.	11:50
	"Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day	11:52
	"and consecrated it.	11:55
	"Honor your father and your mother	11:57
	"so that your days may be long in the land	12:00
	"that the Lord your God has given you.	12:02
	"You shall not murder.	12:06
	"You shall not commit adultery.	12:09
	"You shall not steal.	12:13
	"You shall not bare false witness against your neighbor.	12:16
	"You shall not covet your neighbor's house.	12:20
	"Your shall not covet your neighbor's wife,	12:23
	"or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey,	12:26
	"or anything that belongs to your neighbor.	12:32
	This is the word of the Lord.	12:35
	Thanks be to God.	12:38
-	Please stand as we join in singing responsively	12:44
	Psalm 19, verses seven through 14.	12:47
	(organ plays)	12:54
	♪ The law of the Lord is perfect, ♪	13:00
	♪ Reviving the soul ♪	13:03
	♪ The testimony of the Lord is sure, ♪	13:06
	♪ Making wise the simple ♪	13:10
	♪ The precepts of the Lord are right, ♪	13:14
	♪ Rejoicing the heart ♪	13:18
	♪ The commandment of the Lord is pure, ♪	13:21
	♪ Enlightening the eyes ♪	13:25
	♪ The fear of the Lord is clean, ♪	13:29
	♪ Enduring forever ♪	13:32
	♪ The commandments of the Lord are true, ♪	13:35
	♪ And righteous altogether ♪	13:39
	♪ More to be desired are they than gold, ♪	13:44
	♪ Even much fine gold ♪	13:47
	♪ Sweeter also than honey ♪	13:50
	♪ And drippings of the honeycomb ♪	13:53
	♪ Moreover by them is your servant warned ♪	13:58
	♪ In keeping them there is great reward ♪	14:04
	(background noise drowns out other sounds)	14:09
	♪ Keep me from hidden faults ♪	14:13
	♪ Also keep your servant from being insolent ♪	14:18
	♪ Let them not have dominion over me ♪	14:24
	♪ Then I shall be blameless ♪	14:29
	♪ And innocent of great transgression ♪	14:33
	♪ Let the words of my mouth ♪	14:38
	♪ And the meditation of my heart ♪	14:42
	♪ Be acceptable in your sight ♪	14:46
	♪ O Lord, my rock and my redeemer ♪	14:51
	♪ All glory be to you, oh God, ♪	14:58
	♪ And to Jesus Christ our savior ♪	15:01
	♪ And to the Holy Spirit ♪	15:05
	♪ As Trinity ♪	15:08
	♪ As it was since time began ♪	15:12
	♪ Is now and will be forever more ♪	15:16
	(organ plays)	15:39
	(choir sings)	15:51
-	You know that I have a choice	18:40
	on which scriptural text to preach here on Sundays.	18:42
	I have four possible scripture lessons assigned	18:48
	by the common lectionary.	18:51
	I can go with any of them.	18:52
	My first inclination today was to go with a lesson	18:56
	which Andy has read from Exodus, "The Ten Commandments."	19:00
	After all, newscaster Ted Koppel	19:05
	delivered one of the most moving	19:09
	and memorable commencement addresses ever.	19:12
	Mr. Koppel went down through the Ten Commandments	19:16
	after saying, "in today's world, we have all these problems.	19:22
	"What are the solution to all these problems?	19:27
	"How can we have a better world?"	19:30
	And then he just went right down through	19:32
	The Ten Commandments.	19:33
	And it if worked for Ted Koppel,	19:34
	why wouldn't it work for me?	19:36
	The graduates and their parents just loved it.	19:39
	And there is something about me	19:44
	that would love to preach that for you, too.	19:45
	Don't commit adultery: I haven't.	19:49
	Don't steal: I wouldn't.	19:53
	Don't kill: I couldn't.	19:54
	Don't covet your neighbor's wife: I probably wouldn't.	19:58
	(laughter)	20:03
	And I could preach that.	20:05
	And as Ted demonstrated, you would like to hear it.	20:09
	And coming out on a rainy Sunday,	20:15
	you deserve something like that.	20:19
	But the gospel text today	20:24
	is one which I find more difficult to preach	20:28
	because it speaks to me.	20:33
	On the third Sunday of Lent,	20:38
	we got dressed up and we came down through the rain	20:40
	to Chapel, and we were all settled down and quiet	20:42
	and reverent, ready to worship.	20:46
	And then there was a fierce banging at the door,	20:49
	and this intruder came crashing down the aisle.	20:52
	The ushers tried to restrain him at the back,	20:55
	but they couldn't.	20:57
	Here's what happened.	21:01
	The Passover was near,	21:06
	and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.	21:09
	In the temple, he found people selling cattle,	21:12
	and sheep, and doves,	21:15
	and the moneychangers seated at their tables.	21:18
	Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them	21:22
	out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle.	21:26
	He also poured out the coins of the moneychangers	21:30
	and overturned their tables.	21:34
	He told those who were selling doves,	21:37
	"take these things out of here.	21:40
	"Stop making my Father's house a place of trade."	21:42
	His disciples remembered that it was written,	21:48
	"zeal for thy house shall consume thee."	21:51
	The Jews then said to him,	21:56
	"what sign can you show us for doing this?"	21:59
	And Jesus answered,	22:03
	"destroy this temple, and in three days,	22:05
	"I will raise it up."	22:08
	Then the Jews said,	22:11
	"this temple has been under construction	22:14
	"for 46 years, and you will raise it up in three days?"	22:16
	But he was speaking of the temple of his body.	22:22
	After he was raised from the dead,	22:27
	his disciples remembered that he had said this,	22:30
	and they believed the scripture,	22:35
	and the word which Jesus had spoken.	22:38
	Have any of you ever seen Jesus this mad?	22:46
	Matthew, Mark, and Luke also tell this story	22:51
	of the cleansing of the temple,	22:53
	but they discreetly put it at the end of their gospels.	22:55
	And somehow, if you hear this story at the end	22:59
	of the gospel, it makes Jesus' behavior	23:02
	a little more excusable.	23:04
	His critics have been picking and poking at him	23:08
	his whole ministry, and finally,	23:11
	there at the end of the gospel,	23:13
	Jesus is at his wits' end.	23:15
	His patience has at last been overcome	23:18
	with their cruelty, and he just lashes out at them,	23:20
	and he just drives them out of the temple.	23:24
	But John puts this story at the beginning of his gospel,	23:30
	and here, less than two chapters into the gospel,	23:34
	nobody's criticized Jesus.	23:39
	Everybody's thought that everything Jesus said	23:41
	is just wonderful.	23:43
	Everyone is marveled as he turned the water into wine	23:48
	at the wedding.	23:52
	They've marveled at his teaching.	23:54
	Nobody said a word against Jesus	23:56
	so you can't chalk this event up to Jesus' anger	23:57
	at his opposition.	24:02
	This outburst occurs right at the beginning	24:05
	of Jesus' ministry.	24:08
	And can you see him there,	24:13
	white-hot fury, whip in hands,	24:14
	turning over their tables,	24:16
	squawking birds set loose, coins clinging on the floor,	24:19
	"get this stuff out of here,	24:23
	"you shall not make of my Father's house	24:24
	"a place of trade."	24:26
	It was the maddest,	24:31
	the meanest, the angriest anybody had ever seen Jesus,	24:33
	before or since.	24:38
	And you see, my problem with this story	24:43
	is not just that Jesus is mad.	24:45
	But he's in the temple mad.	24:48
	He's at Passover mad.	24:52
	The temple, Passover.	24:54
	Passover: the greatest victory celebration of Israel.	24:56
	The Passover: when we all get together	25:02
	and celebrate and remember	25:04
	how we were delivered out of Egyptian slavery.	25:05
	The Passover is the Fourth of July for Israel,	25:08
	and everybody's excited and happy.	25:11
	The temple.	25:15
	The temple is where the nation gathers	25:16
	to come and meet God,	25:18
	comes to be close to God.	25:20
	And everybody there at the temple, so happy to be there	25:22
	at Passover, so happy to be there at the temple,	25:26
	it is stark contrast with this fierce,	25:30
	white-hot anger of Jesus.	25:34
	Kicking over tables, whip in hand,	25:38
	"get this stuff out of here."	25:41
	Judgment begins with the house of God.	25:48
	I would rather go down through the Ten Commandments.	25:54
	Adultery, stealing, covetousness, your sins, not mine.	25:57
	If Jesus is gonna barge in here and disrupt our worship,	26:05
	I'd rather he tackle your sin, not mine.	26:10
	But you note that when he got to the temple that day,	26:16
	he didn't mention adultery,	26:18
	didn't mention stealing or covetousness.	26:19
	Rather, Jesus attacked worship.	26:24
	He assaulted religion.	26:29
	I would rather Jesus light into the Pharisees	26:36
	for their legalism, the scribes for their snobbishness.	26:38
	I would rather him attack	26:42
	the divorced for their divorcing.	26:43
	Or those who steal for their stealing.	26:48
	But here, he attacks the religious	26:52
	for our religion.	26:55
	This is not an assault on the Pagans in Pergamum.	26:57
	This is an attack upon church-talk at the chapel.	27:02
	'Cause the temple is where we go to meet God,	27:09
	that's why you've come out this morning; to meet God.	27:12
	And preachers are those who are paid to help us meet God.	27:15
	Today we sometimes refer to our pastors	27:21
	as members of the helping professions.	27:24
	We're the ones that help you meet God.	27:29
	We provide a much-needed service	27:32
	in helping to get you close to God.	27:35
	But the trouble is, that was exactly	27:41
	what those merchants were doing in the temple.	27:43
	They were busy helping people get close to God.	27:47
	Because, you see, the only coinage in Judea	27:52
	were Roman coins.	27:56
	You couldn't pay the temple tax with Roman coins,	27:58
	you had to pay with shekels.	28:00
	And if you came to the temple and you wanted to offer	28:03
	an unspotted dove up at the alter,	28:05
	you had, then, to deal with the moneychangers,	28:08
	and you had to deal with the merchants	28:11
	to get that offering.	28:13
	These merchants were simply there helping everybody	28:15
	get close to God, helping them to worship.	28:18
	You see,	28:24
	the table which Jesus is overturning is mine.	28:26
	Because that distant,	28:34
	awesome God that we had to go up with Moses	28:39
	on Sinai to meet that we read about in Exodus 20,	28:43
	that distant, awesome God has now been tamed, domesticated,	28:47
	honed down to the level of a business transaction.	28:55
	Here, here, put your money in here,	28:59
	and then you'll get a little dose of the divine.	29:02
	Does our society have problems?	29:07
	Well it's simple.	29:09
	Just obey the Ten Commandments.	29:12
	It pays to do right.	29:14
	Things will go better if you're good.	29:15
	So don't steal, don't cheat, don't lie,	29:17
	and you'll be rewarded.	29:19
	Come to me with your problems.	29:22
	I'm your pastor.	29:24
	Pastor, I got this problem and I tried to do	29:25
	what I think is right, and I don't know if I did right.	29:28
	Do you think I did right?	29:30
	And then I say, "oh, yes, you're a caring, sensitive person.	29:31
	"I'm sure if you agonized over this,	29:34
	"you probably did right.	29:36
	"Yes, you did right."	29:37
	See, I'm a member of the helping professions.	29:40
	And there's no agony, there's no confusion,	29:46
	no unknowing, and there's no smoke	29:48
	and there's no command and there's no screams	29:52
	of slaughtered animals on the alter	29:55
	with blood trickling down marble steps.	29:58
	There's no God.	30:03
	It's all transaction.	30:06
	You put your cares and worries right in here,	30:10
	and then we'll send you out here with a little blessing.	30:13
	How many times have I heard people say,	30:19
	"Oh I think of Sunday morning as like a filling station.	30:20
	"I come empty, and I get filled up.	30:24
	"Help me make it through the week."	30:28
	I'm supposed to be helping you meet God,	30:33
	not avoid God.	30:36
	I'm a priest.	30:38
	That's right, even though I'm a Methodist, I'm a priest.	30:40
	I'm supposed to be bringing you close to God.	30:42
	And this is supposed to be Passover.	30:48
	Even if it's the third Sunday in Lent, this is Passover.	30:50
	That is, we're here helping you pass over.	30:52
	From death to life.	30:56
	From whatever that is that would enslave you in your life,	30:57
	over to true freedom that comes from being close to God.	31:01
	But alas,	31:08
	we have worked over that dark, threatening,	31:11
	frightening temple, and made it into Kroger's.	31:14
	Get out of bed, get all dressed up, yes,	31:20
	get dressed up, come in, open the hymnal,	31:22
	stand up now, say hello to God, okay,	31:25
	sit back down, let's stand for the benediction,	31:27
	say goodbye to God.	31:29
	And it just made Jesus mad.	31:34
	Just made him mad.	31:40
	I think John chose to tell this story,	31:44
	this strange, confrontational, controversial story,	31:49
	I think he chose to tell it right up front in his gospel	31:54
	because he wanted us to know, right at the first,	31:59
	right upfront, the sort of God	32:02
	that we had got in Jesus.	32:06
	If anybody thought that we could be saved,	32:11
	that our salvation was gonna come from a	32:14
	nice young man from the near east,	32:17
	come to turn a little water into wine at the wedding,	32:19
	come to invite a few fisher folk to join his prayer group,	32:23
	to say really nice things like,	32:28
	"come unto me all you heavy-laden, I'll give you some rest,"	32:30
	John shows Jesus	32:37
	pounding at the door.	32:40
	Storming in, kicking over tables,	32:43
	slinging coins on the floor.	32:45
	Unleashing oxen down the carpeted aisles	32:49
	of First Baptist Gainesville.	32:52
	That's Jesus.	32:57
	Our petty, polite, preacherly domestication	33:01
	of his good news,	33:05
	our little cause-effect religiosity, it just made him mad.	33:07
	It was to him a violation of the utter holiness of God.	33:15
	God's commands, whether we get them in the Ten Commandments	33:25
	or elsewhere, God's commands are not to be obeyed	33:30
	as a means of getting what we want.	33:35
	We're to obey because this is what Holy God wants.	33:39
	The temple is not just another technique	33:46
	for achieving our ends in life.	33:51
	This is God's means of revealing	33:55
	how selfish our ends are.	33:58
	They are God's ways of bending our lives,	34:02
	of remaking us into a people more attuned	34:09
	to God's ways than our ways.	34:13
	These commands, this story, reminds me that	34:18
	we do not stand, this Lent,	34:23
	before the mirror of our own introspective gaze.	34:27
	Oh, let's see, yes, I'm doing all right,	34:31
	I at least got up on a rainy morning	34:33
	and came to chapel, that's a lot.	34:34
	No.	34:36
	We stand before the white-hot,	34:39
	burning blaze of a demanding, righteous God.	34:43
	His standards are not our own, writ large.	34:48
	His demands always intrude, in, upon us,	34:54
	upon our easy complacency.	34:57
	Overturning tables, setting wild birds loose.	35:01
	Sometimes, his presence is the sting of the whip	35:08
	upon the neck.	35:12
	He barges in and dislodges us from our burrows	35:16
	of religious seclusion.	35:22
	And so, we ask Jesus, that day in the temple,	35:28
	after his outrageous behavior,	35:32
	we ask Jesus, what gives you the right to come in here,	35:34
	in the temple, and act like that?	35:40
	After all, Jesus, it really doesn't matter	35:44
	what we believe or do religiously	35:47
	as long as we're sincere, right?	35:48
	If you recall the text, Jesus had a very strange reply.	35:53
	"Destroy this temple.	35:58
	"In three days, I'll raise it back up."	36:00
	Destroy this chapel, we said,	36:05
	it's taken us 50 years to build this chapel.	36:08
	Later, after we dragged him out of the temple,	36:14
	stripped him, beat him, hung him up on a cross to die.	36:20
	Three days later, when he barged in again	36:27
	and kicked down the doors of death,	36:31
	passed over to victory,	36:35
	we remembered what he said to us	36:38
	that day in the temple.	36:42
	We had asked him for a sign.	36:46
	We wanted a sign about what real religion is all about.	36:48
	And the only sign he gave us	36:54
	was that of his death and resurrection.	36:58
	The only temple he left us where we could meet God	37:03
	was that of his own body and blood.	37:07
	A new Passover in which God comes	37:12
	and stands among us in the form	37:17
	of his own bloodied son.	37:22
	And then, we remembered.	37:27
	We remembered that day of disruption back at the temple	37:30
	and then we knew, and then we believed.	37:33
	This Jesus is about something big.	37:38
	(solemn organ music)	37:48
	(congregation sings)	38:24
Woman	The Lord be with you.	40:20
Congregation	And also with you.	40:22
	♪ In peace let us pray to the Lord ♪	40:25
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	40:29
-	You may be seated.	40:35
	Oh God, whose power extends beyond the realm	40:45
	of our imaginations, and whose mercy reaches farther	40:48
	than our gravest sin,	40:52
	hear today the cries of your people.	40:53
	For those who seek to establish	40:57
	a lasting peace in the Persian Gulf,	40:59
	for those who have suffered in the midst of battle,	41:02
	for those held captive while ceasefire agreements	41:06
	are inactive,	41:09
	for the people of Kuwait and Iraq,	41:11
	as they seek to rebuild their countries amidst	41:13
	the devastation of war,	41:16
	for all who mourn the loss of those who have died.	41:18
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	41:23
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	41:26
-	For lands where extremes of wealth and poverty	41:32
	are bitterly divisive,	41:34
	for lands where power is grossly abused,	41:36
	and the dispossessed bear the heaviest burden,	41:40
	for lands where wrongs suffered by earlier generations	41:43
	nourish bitterness and hatred among the young.	41:47
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	41:51
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	41:55
-	For the sick, for those awaiting operations,	42:00
	and for all who suffer from chronic or terminal illness,	42:04
	for prisoners, their families, and those responsible	42:08
	for their care and custody,	42:11
	for all prisoners of conscious throughout the world,	42:13
	for the hungry, the homeless, the elderly, and the infirm.	42:17
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	42:23
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	42:26
-	For our daily work, for those whose work	42:32
	is dull and monotonous,	42:35
	for those whose work is dangerous,	42:37
	for those with whom we have relationships	42:40
	through our work,	42:42
	for those who have retired who miss their work,	42:44
	for those unable to secure meaningful employment.	42:48
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	42:52
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	42:55
-	For the encouragement, the faithfulness,	43:01
	and the warmth of friendship,	43:04
	for good friends who spring up in unexpected places,	43:07
	for parents, children, teachers, coaches,	43:11
	whose special gift is the ability to befriend another,	43:15
	for friendship that crosses divisions of nationality,	43:19
	race, or greed.	43:23
	♪ Let us pray to the Lord ♪	43:25
	♪ Lord have mercy ♪	43:29
-	Oh God, open us to your perfect awe,	43:35
	that we may live by its spirit of love.	43:38
	Empower us to embrace your foolishness	43:42
	rather than human wisdom,	43:44
	your weakness rather than human strength,	43:46
	the crucified and risen Christ	43:49
	rather than earthly principalities and powers,	43:52
	that we may offer glory unto your holy name,	43:55
	now and forever, amen.	43:58
	As a forgiven and reconciled people,	44:04
	let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God.	44:07
	(organ plays)	44:13
	(choir sings)	44:30
	(regal organ music)	52:11
	(congregation sings)	53:04
-	Oh eternal God, giver of all good gifts,	53:41
	we have been all too eager in our lives	53:44
	to pay back evil for evil,	53:47
	and slow to pay back your goodness to us.	53:49
	Yet you have summoned us to live by loss,	53:53
	to gain by giving,	53:56
	leaving all that we may be partners in your splendor.	53:58
	Receive these gifts as an outpouring of our gratitude,	54:01
	as we join in singing praise to your holy name	54:05
	with all the heavenly chorus.	54:08
	This, we pray, in the name of Jesus Christ,	54:10
	who taught us to pray with confidence.	54:13
	Our father, who art in heaven,	54:16
	hallowed be thy name.	54:19
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	54:21
	on earth as it is in heaven.	54:24
	Give us this day our daily bread,	54:26
	and forgive us our trespasses	54:28
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	54:31
	And lead us not into temptation,	54:34
	but deliver us from evil,	54:36
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power,	54:38
	and the glory forever.	54:41
	Amen.	54:43
	Go forth among your neighbors as ambassadors of the Lord,	54:46
	your eyes enlightened with God's commandments,	54:50
	your minds quickened with God's testimonies,	54:53
	your hearts rejoicing in God's law,	54:56
	and your souls aflame with God's love.	54:59
	And may the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ,	55:02
	the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	55:04
	be with you all, now and forever.	55:07
	(choir sings)	55:14
	(regal organ music)	55:36
	(congregation sings)	56:15

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "The Anger of Jesus" (March 3, 1991)

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Sermon start time: 18:40. Sermon end time: 37:43.
The preacher argues that Jesus’ indignant cleansing of the Temple shows a God whose demand for holiness is greater than human perception and therefore cannot be achieved by human action. The preacher invites his audience to rethink their understanding of worship and religion from the perspective of the holiness of God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Judgment begins with the house of God.”

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Date:

March 3, 1991

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

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Lent

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Duke University. Chapel

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