William H. Willimon - "The Lord of the Word" (January 26, 1992)

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-	Good morning and welcome to Duke Chapel.	0:05
	There are several announcements	0:08
	I'd like call to your attention.	0:09
	This morning Dr. Dale Martin	0:12
	from Duke's Department of Religion	0:14
	began a four week series entitled: Looking at Jesus Today.	0:16
	The second lecture in this series	0:21
	will begin next Sunday in Room 211	0:23
	in the Divinity School at 9:45 a.m.	0:26
	This coming Tuesday, Yehezkel Landau, the director	0:30
	of the Religious Zionist Peace Movement in Israel,	0:34
	will be speaking in Duke Chapel	0:37
	about solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian dilemma.	0:40
	The informal discussion will be held	0:44
	in the Chapel basement from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.	0:46
	Ongoing worship opportunities in the coming week	0:50
	include daily noon prayer in Memorial Chapel,	0:54
	Taize evening prayer and meditation	0:58
	at 5:15 on Tuesdays in Memorial Chapel	1:01
	and choral vespers on Thursday at 5:15	1:05
	also in Memorial Chapel.	1:08
	Next Sunday we'll begin a monthly collection of food	1:11
	for the Durham Urban Ministries Center.	1:14
	We'll collect canned and packaged foods	1:17
	on the first Sunday of each month	1:20
	and there will be a collection box in the narthex	1:22
	for those of you who are able to help.	1:25
	Let us continue now with our worship.	1:28
	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.	1:32
Congregation	And also with you.	1:36
-	The splendor of Christ shines upon us.	1:37
Congregation	Praise the Lord.	1:41
	(organ music)	1:43
	(congregation singing a hymn)	2:48
-	Bring your doubts and fears, your grief and pain	6:57
	to these moments of prayer	7:02
	as we seek forgiveness and healing.	7:04
	Turn to page 890 as we pray together	7:07
	the prayer of confession.	7:11
Congregation	Most merciful God,	7:23
	we confess that we have sinned against you	7:25
	in thought, word and deed	7:29
	by what we have done and by what we have left undone.	7:31
	We have not loved you with our whole heart.	7:36
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	7:40
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	7:44
	For the sake of your son Jesus Christ	7:48
	have mercy on us and forgive us	7:51
	that we may delight in your will	7:55
	and walk in your ways to the glory of your name.	7:57
	Amen.	8:02
-	Almighty God have mercy on you.	8:04
	Forgive all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ.	8:06
	Strengthen you in all goodness.	8:11
	And by the power of the Holy Spirit	8:13
	keep you in eternal life.	8:16
	Amen.	8:19
	You may be seated.	8:20
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	8:32
	Open our hearts and minds O God	8:38
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	8:41
	so that as the word spread and proclaimed	8:44
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	8:47
	Amen.	8:52
	This reading from the Old Testament	8:54
	comes from the Book of Nehemiah	8:57
	the eighth chapter starting with the first verse.	8:59
	When the seventh month came	9:03
	the people of Israel being settled in their towns	9:05
	all the people gathered together	9:08
	into the square before the water gate.	9:11
	They told the scribe Ezra	9:14
	to bring the book of the law of Moses	9:16
	which the Lord had given to Israel.	9:19
	Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law	9:21
	before the assembly, both men and women	9:24
	and all who could hear with understanding.	9:28
	This was on the first day of the seventh month.	9:31
	He read from it facing the square before the water gate	9:35
	from early morning until midday.	9:39
	In the presence of the men and the women	9:42
	and those who could understand.	9:44
	And the ears of all the people	9:46
	were attentive to the book of the law.	9:48
	The scribe Ezra stood on a wooden platform	9:51
	that had been made for the purpose.	9:54
	And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people	9:57
	for he was standing above all the people.	10:01
	And when he opened it all the people stood up	10:04
	then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God	10:09
	and all the people answered Amen, Amen	10:13
	lifting up their hands.	10:17
	Then they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord	10:19
	with their faces to the ground.	10:22
	So they read from the book	10:24
	from the law of God with interpretation.	10:26
	They gave the sense	10:29
	so that the people understood the reading.	10:31
	And Nehemiah who was the governor	10:34
	and Ezra the priest and scribe	10:37
	and the Levites who taught the people	10:40
	said to all the people:	10:41
	This day is holy to the Lord your God.	10:43
	Do not mourn or weep.	10:46
	For all the people wept	10:49
	when they heard the words of the law.	10:50
	Then he said to them: Go your way.	10:53
	Eat the fat and drink sweet wine.	10:56
	And send portions of them	10:59
	to those for whom nothing is prepared.	11:01
	For this day is holy to our Lord.	11:03
	And do not be grieved	11:06
	for the joy of the Lord is your strength.	11:08
	This is the word of the Lord.	11:11
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	11:14
	(organ music)	11:19
	(choir singing a hymn)	12:31
-	Now we are going to do something strange.	14:51
	We're going to do something weird,	14:56
	something potentially subversive, counter-cultural.	14:58
	Trouble is you've seen me do it so often	15:04
	it no longer impresses you as strange.	15:06
	We're going to read from a very ancient book, the Bible	15:10
	and then I'm going to preach.	15:12
	Here you see modeled a very different epistemology,	15:16
	a different way of knowing from that of the world.	15:21
	Hear the word.	15:27
	He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up.	15:31
	And he went to the synagogue	15:34
	as his custom was on the sabbath.	15:35
	He stood up to read.	15:38
	And there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah.	15:41
	He opened the book and found the place where it is written,	15:43
	the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.	15:47
	He's anointed me to preach good news to the poor.	15:50
	He sent me to proclaim release to the captives,	15:54
	recovering of sight to the blind,	15:57
	to set at liberty those who are oppressed,	15:59
	to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.	16:02
	He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant	16:05
	and sat down and all eyes were fixed upon him.	16:08
	And he said to them: Today this scripture	16:13
	has been fulfilled in your hearing.	16:15
	All spoke well of him and wondered at the gracious words	16:20
	which proceeded out of his mouth.	16:23
	Truly I say to you, he said,	16:28
	no prophet is acceptable in his own country.	16:30
	In truth I tell you there were many widows in Israel	16:34
	during the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut up	16:37
	for three years and six months	16:40
	and there came a great famine over the land.	16:42
	Elijah was set to none of them	16:46
	but to the widow at Zerapath in the land of Sidon,	16:48
	a woman who was a widow.	16:51
	And there were many lepers in Israel	16:54
	in the time of the prophet Elijah.	16:56
	None of them was cleansed, healed	16:59
	but only Naaman the Syrian.	17:02
	When he heard this all in the synagogue	17:06
	were filled with wrath and they rose up	17:07
	and they put him out of the city.	17:09
	This is the word of the Lord.	17:12
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	17:16
-	Want you to think about this story that we just read.	17:18
	Jesus returns to his home town synagogue in Nazareth.	17:22
	What do they do?	17:27
	They do not say: Jesus, tell it how it has been for you	17:30
	up at rabbinic school in Jerusalem.	17:33
	They do not say: Jesus share with us	17:37
	from some of your racial, gender, cultural experiences.	17:39
	They do not say: Jesus say something to us	17:45
	that will pump up our self-esteem for the week.	17:47
	These are Jews.	17:50
	They hand him the book.	17:53
	They unwrap the scroll, they say: Read it.	17:56
	And he reads.	18:00
	These are Jews.	18:02
	How appropriate for our choir to sing in Hebrew,	18:03
	let the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart.	18:08
	These are Jews, people of the word.	18:11
	And so he reads those beautiful words	18:18
	from the prophet Isiah.	18:22
	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,	18:23
	he's anointed me to preach good news to the captives.	18:25
	There's an excited stirring that morning	18:28
	when Jesus says:	18:31
	Today these words are fulfilled in your hearing.	18:32
	For we are captives under the heel of Rome.	18:36
	At last God has heard our prayers,	18:39
	at last God is coming for his people, us.	18:41
	Run the Romans out and set us up in Judea.	18:46
	But then the trouble starts	18:51
	when the preacher starts to preach.	18:54
	Speaking of our book, as I remember	18:58
	there were a lot of hungry women in Israel	18:59
	during the days of the prophet Elijah,	19:02
	during the great famine.	19:04
	Isn't it interesting that God's prophet,	19:06
	the one who speaks God's word,	19:09
	fed none of those good women	19:10
	but went over and fed a widow over in Zerapath,	19:13
	an outsider of a different race?	19:16
	The congregation started to get quiet.	19:21
	Yes and I believe that there were a lot of sick people	19:25
	in Israel during the days of the prophet Elijah.	19:27
	Isn't it interesting that God's prophet	19:32
	healed none of them but healed Naaman the Syrian,	19:34
	the Syrian Army officer?	19:39
	And the once adoring congregation	19:43
	was turned into an angry mob	19:45
	and they wanted to kill the preacher.	19:47
	'Cause it wasn't pleasant to be assaulted by our own book.	19:51
	We had come that morning to hear a word for us.	19:57
	Only to be surprised that this book	20:01
	speaks of a God who is alive and large and big	20:04
	working the other side of the street along with ours.	20:07
	It was an intrusive word.	20:11
	That's why we had as we do on Sunday morning	20:13
	we had Tom Espy bring in the Bible.	20:16
	Did you notice it coming in the processional?	20:19
	It intrudes among us.	20:21
	It was an intrusive word.	20:24
	I tell you don't come here on Sunday morning	20:26
	unless you have the courage	20:29
	to risk linguistic assault, the intrusive word.	20:30
	It wasn't pleasant that day in Nazareth.	20:35
	And we hated the book for it.	20:37
	Well, the first lesson today is from Nehemiah.	20:42
	Nehemiah 8.	20:46
	We have been on exile in Babel and everything is in ruin.	20:49
	We're finally back home in Jerusalem.	20:52
	And what do we do to build things back?	20:56
	The first thing we'll build back is the temple.	20:57
	The first thing we build back is the temple,	21:01
	the great building, center of national prestige.	21:04
	Just like Mr. Duke said when he built the West Campus.	21:09
	First thing I want you to work on is the chapel.	21:12
	Put it right in the center.	21:14
	We put the temple up first.	21:16
	The temple, the house of God.	21:18
	It has to be a big building, big enough to contain God,	21:19
	big enough to show that we're a people	21:23
	worthy of the presence of God.	21:25
	After we got the temple built	21:27
	next thing we worked on was the wall,	21:28
	the Wall of Jerusalem.	21:31
	The wall is what we use to keep out the outsiders	21:32
	to protect them from the insiders.	21:37
	The wall is how we separate them from us.	21:39
	The wall is how we protect what we've got.	21:42
	How we hold on to what we've accumulated.	21:44
	So, we started work now on the wall.	21:46
	During the building of the wall,	21:50
	this is where today's scripture takes up.	21:51
	In the foundation of the ruins of the old wall	21:55
	a scroll is found, it is a Torah scroll.	21:58
	It is a scroll of the law and the prophets.	22:02
	It had been hidden there during days of turmoil.	22:05
	It had been lost there for years.	22:08
	And there at the water gate the scroll is unrolled	22:11
	and they start to read.	22:14
	They read the words of the law, the book.	22:16
	Nehemiah 8 says that the people wept	22:21
	when they heard the law. They just wept.	22:24
	The question for this Sunday in Epiphany:	22:29
	Did they weep tears of joy?	22:33
	Or did they weep tears of sadness and terror?	22:36
	That's the question.	22:41
	Maybe they wept for joy.	22:44
	Maybe they wept for joy at being reminded,	22:47
	we're Jews, we are people of the word.	22:49
	This book is holding us together.	22:51
	We're being reformed again around this word.	22:54
	Maybe they wept for joy.	22:58
	Finding out again who they were and whose they were.	22:59
	On the other hand, that day in Nazareth	23:04
	nobody wept for joy they wept but they were tears of rage,	23:07
	angry at the young preacher.	23:11
	We had all come to synagogue that morning	23:14
	all in our seats, all to be reminded of the eternal verities	23:17
	only to be shocked by our very own book.	23:20
	We were in rage.	23:24
	Were they tears of joy or tears of rage?	23:25
	I bet you have shed some of those tears	23:28
	on a Sunday morning here.	23:30
	Intrusive word, linguistic assault.	23:35
	George Lindbeck of Yale notes	23:41
	that the Church defeated Rome in less than 400 years	23:46
	using none of the conventional Gentile ways	23:52
	of ordering society:	23:55
	The military, family, race, culture.	23:57
	In less than 400 years the Church had defeated	24:02
	the greatest empire the world had ever known	24:05
	on the basis of nothing more substantial	24:07
	than the word, book.	24:10
	Just the word, the word assaulted and dismantled the empire.	24:13
	As my friend Will Campbell says:	24:20
	The word is our first offense	24:24
	and our very last defense.	24:30
	All we've got is the word.	24:33
	Don't come down here on a Sunday morning	24:35
	if you're not willing to be exposed to the word.	24:37
	The sabbath Sunday fun	24:42
	always begins when we bring in the book	24:45
	and we open it up and we read and then we talk about it.	24:48
	This disruptive fun of the word.	24:52
	Do you remember where you were this time last year,	24:59
	earlier in the month?	25:02
	Remember what you were getting ready to do	25:02
	this time last year?	25:04
	On January the 6th I was down	25:07
	at a big Methodist Church in Atlanta.	25:08
	January the 6th last year.	25:12
	Remember what we were all getting ready to do	25:14
	on January the 6th, making preparations for?	25:15
	Well, I went to church.	25:18
	And during the service in this big Methodist church	25:21
	the preacher indulged in a practice	25:24
	not dear to my heart called a children's sermon.	25:26
	You know, the minister gathers here	25:31
	all the little boys come and he squats down on the steps	25:32
	and he talks to the children.	25:35
	He said: Boys and girls who can tell me what today is?	25:39
	Who knows what today is?	25:41
	And some little boy said:	25:43
	January the 6th.	25:48
	He said: Yes, January the 6th.	25:49
	But it's more than January the 6th.	25:51
	Today in the Church is Epiphany.	25:53
	Can you say Epiphany, boys and girls?	25:57
	It's a big day in the Church.	26:00
	It falls on January the 6th which means	26:01
	that most of the time it doesn't fall on a Sunday	26:03
	but we're real excited 'cause today it's on a Sunday.	26:06
	And this is Epiphany.	26:08
	We Methodists did not know about it 'til a few years ago.	26:10
	The Episcopalians told us.	26:13
	And so, today is Epiphany.	26:15
	And the word epiphany means manifestation,	26:19
	it means revelation in Greek, it means opening up.	26:22
	And if you never heard of epiphany boys and girls	26:28
	I know you've heard of a favorite Epiphany story.	26:30
	The story of the Three Wise Men	26:33
	who came to worship the baby Jesus at Bethlehem.	26:36
	You've heard that story.	26:39
	Well, that's an Epiphany story.	26:40
	They were led by the star.	26:42
	It was manifested to them, it was revealed to them	26:44
	who the baby Jesus was.	26:47
	Hate to tell you boys and girls	26:50
	the Bible doesn't say that they were Three Wise Men.	26:52
	It says they brought three kinds of gifts.	26:56
	It doesn't say how many there were.	26:58
	They bought gold, frankincense and myrrh	26:59
	but we don't know how many of 'em there were.	27:01
	Another thing I hate to tell you,	27:03
	the Bible doesn't call them Wise Men.	27:05
	It doesn't call 'em Three Kings of Orient are.	27:08
	It calls them Magi, that's the word in the Bible,	27:11
	they're called Magi.	27:15
	It's where we get our English word magic, magi.	27:16
	They were, they were magicians.	27:20
	They were these stargazing, horoscope reading magicians.	27:24
	That's probably how they saw the star.	27:30
	And that gold, frankincense and myrrh some people feel	27:32
	may have been the tricks of their magic trade	27:35
	that they brought and laid at the manger.	27:37
	Matthew says	27:42
	that the people who knew the story missed it,	27:45
	and these Magi came over from the East	27:49
	and they were the first to see the baby Jesus.	27:54
	And Epiphany is when we get together and remember them.	27:58
	Now, the question for today boys and girls is:	28:02
	Where did the Magi come from?	28:05
	Who knows where they came from?	28:08
	Someone said, the East.	28:11
	He said well all right, the East but where in the East,	28:12
	what country do you think they came from?	28:14
	Well, some little girl said: Persia.	28:18
	He said: Good, Persia, we think they came from Persia.	28:20
	That was a Bible way of saying, they came from Persia	28:23
	they came from the East.	28:26
	Persia was to the east.	28:27
	Where is Persia today on the map boys and girls?	28:28
	Who can find Persia on the map?	28:30
	It's not there anymore, there are countries.	28:34
	What are some countries that are	28:36
	part of what used to be Persia?	28:37
	Can somebody name?	28:38
	Somebody said: Iran.	28:39
	He said: Good, Iran that used to be part of Persia.	28:42
	But it wasn't only Persia.	28:46
	There were other countries in Persia.	28:47
	What are some other countries that are part of Persia?	28:48
	And finally someone said: Iraq, Iraq.	28:52
	He said: Yes, that's good Iraq.	28:59
	In fact, Baghdad was sort of the capital of Persia.	29:01
	They had these ziggurat, still have them in Baghdad	29:05
	where they looked at the stars.	29:07
	Maybe that's how they saw the star at Bethlehem.	29:09
	Yes, I think they probably came from Baghdad.	29:12
	And Epiphany is the day that the Church gets together	29:17
	and says thank you God for sending these Iraqis	29:20
	to show us the baby Jesus.	29:24
	And now we can go back to our seats boys and girls,	29:29
	it's the end of the sermon.	29:32
	I noticed as they went back to their seats	29:35
	their mothers and fathers	29:40
	seemed to be fumbling for their seatbelts.	29:41
	You don't know how you might mess up a young child	29:45
	telling them a story like that.	29:48
	Well, you don't know how they may view the world	29:50
	after hearing a story like that.	29:52
	John Calvin said: Scripture is the lens	29:53
	through which we see the world correctly.	29:56
	Well you...the fun starts	29:58
	when we open up the book and just tell the story.	30:02
	I wanted to say to that congregation	30:07
	you know, I'm sorry you thought we all got dressed,	30:09
	came down here to look bourgeois, middle class.	30:12
	No, no, no, this we came down here to risk assault,	30:14
	dislodgement, disruption.	30:18
	It's the word, the word.	30:22
	Well, in a moment you're gonna come down here	30:29
	and receive the bread and the wine in the name of Jesus.	30:31
	Now, what could be more basic than bread?	30:36
	You need bread to live.	30:40
	You can't live without bread.	30:41
	And yet just before telling this story of Jesus in Nazareth	30:44
	Luke says that Jesus was once in the desert	30:49
	and was without bread for 40 days.	30:53
	He was starving to death.	30:56
	He was full of hunger.	30:57
	And at the very depth of his famine	31:00
	Satan came to him and said: You're hungry?	31:03
	I'll give you bread.	31:09
	Turn these stones into bread.	31:11
	Worship me.	31:13
	And Jesus, as hungry as he could be,	31:17
	said to Satan: Wait.	31:22
	He quoted to him the Old Testament.	31:25
	Hey, we don't live by bread alone.	31:27
	We live	31:34
	by the word.	31:38
	Amen.	31:41
-	The Lord be with you.	31:49
Congregation	And also with you.	31:51
-	Let us pray.	31:53
	Lord of the word as we come together	32:02
	to lift our voices in praise and our hearts in prayer	32:05
	we pray that our words and meditations	32:12
	may be acceptable in thy sight.	32:15
	As we listen to your word	32:20
	give us understanding and courage to obey	32:23
	and to follow wherever it may lead us.	32:27
	Almighty God we give you thanks for your word	32:33
	which intrudes upon our lives	32:36
	sometimes building us up	32:39
	and sometimes tearing us down.	32:42
	It always comes as a surprise when you speak to us	32:45
	through scripture, a sermon,	32:50
	a hymn, a prayer,	32:54
	a word from a friend.	32:59
	When we know in the depths of our hearts	33:02
	that you have spoken	33:05
	our response like those who heard Ezra	33:08
	is to worship you in awe with bowed heads	33:13
	and faces to the ground.	33:17
	For your word always carries a challenge	33:21
	as well as a promise.	33:26
	Your love is both a gift and a demand upon our lives.	33:29
	Like those who turned from Jesus in anger	33:37
	we too sometimes hear your word with anger,	33:40
	fear, shame or sadness.	33:45
	Your word judges and convicts us of our sinfulness	33:52
	at the very same moment that it forgives us	33:57
	and frees us from the power of sin.	34:02
	Your word reveals your vision for humanity	34:08
	and the reality that we have helped create.	34:12
	The distance between the kingdom of heaven that you intend	34:18
	and the earthly kingdom that we have created	34:22
	is so great we cannot help but feel shame and failure.	34:25
	But the good news is that you are the God	34:32
	who preaches hope to the poor,	34:35
	wholeness to the brokenhearted,	34:39
	deliverance to the captive,	34:42
	sight to the blind, joy to the grieving	34:45
	and praise to the heavy spirited.	34:51
	And we too are the poor, the brokenhearted,	34:55
	the captive, the blind,	35:00
	the grieving, the heavy spirited.	35:03
	Whatever condition you find us in	35:10
	you do not leave us in that condition.	35:13
	You see and bless us in our worst distresses	35:17
	and can change them in a breath.	35:22
	You are the God who triumphs	35:26
	over our anger and sadness, fear and shame.	35:28
	Your love lifts us up and helps us	35:34
	see ourselves as you see us, as sinful but beloved children.	35:37
	Your word disciplines us so that we might	35:45
	grow upright and strong in faith.	35:49
	Your grace convicts and changes us	35:54
	so that we might gladly obey you	35:57
	and thereby know life abundant.	36:01
	As we come to your table this morning	36:07
	let us come with open hearts	36:10
	ready to receive the gift of your love	36:13
	poured out for us in such a tangible way.	36:16
	Help us feed upon Christ in our souls	36:21
	so that we might be transformed and reshaped	36:25
	into the people you would have us be.	36:30
	Amen.	36:33
	Since Christ has opened his heart to us	36:38
	let us open our hearts to one another	36:41
	and God will be glorified.	36:43
	The peace of Christ be with you.	36:46
	Let us stand and offer signs of peace to one another.	36:48
	(congregation murmuring)	36:57
	You may be seated.	37:15
	Let us present ourselves	37:21
	and our gifts to the Lord in gratitude.	37:23
	(organ music)	37:38
	(choir singing hymn)	39:04
	(organ music)	44:23
	(congregation singing hymn)	45:06
-	The Lord be with you.	46:03
-	And also with you.
-	Lift up your hearts.	46:05
-	We lift them up to the Lord.
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	46:09
Congregation	It is right to give him thanks and praise.	46:12
-	Blessed are you Lord our God, our light	46:14
	and our salvation.	46:17
	Before the mountains were brought forth	46:20
	or you had formed the earth, you alone our God.	46:22
	And so with your people on earth	46:27
	and all the company of heaven	46:30
	we praise your name and join their unending hymn.	46:32
	(organ music)	46:37
	(congregation singing hymn)	46:47
	Truly holy are you Father.	47:23
	In the fullness of time you revealed yourself	47:25
	and your blessed son Jesus the light of the world.	47:28
	You sent a star to guide the Magi	47:32
	to where the Christ was born.	47:35
	And your signs and witnesses in every age	47:37
	and through all the world	47:39
	have led persons from far distances to him.	47:41
	In his table fellowship he ate with sinners	47:45
	and he preached good news to the poor,	47:48
	proclaimed release to the captives,	47:51
	set free the oppressed and announced the time	47:54
	when God would come and save your people.	47:56
	On the night his disciples deserted him	47:59
	he took bread, gave thanks to you and said take, eat,	48:03
	this is my body given for you.	48:09
	Do this in remembrance of me.	48:11
	When the supper was over he took the cup,	48:14
	gave thanks, gave it to his disciples and said:	48:17
	Drink from this all of you	48:20
	for this is the blood of the new covenant	48:23
	poured out for you and many for the forgiveness of sins.	48:24
	Do this as often as you drink it	48:28
	in remembrance of me.	48:30
	His presence is continued with his people.	48:33
	They have been baptized into him	48:36
	and shared in the breaking of the bread	48:37
	into Jerusalem and all Judea and Sumeria	48:41
	and to the ends of the earth.	48:44
	And so in remembrance of these	48:46
	your mighty acts in Jesus Christ	48:47
	we offer ourselves as praise and thanksgiving	48:49
	as a holy and living sacrifice	48:52
	in union with Christ sacrificed for us	48:55
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	48:57
	(organ music)	49:00
	(congregation singing hymn)	49:10
	Send the power of your Holy Spirit	49:21
	on us and on these gifts.	49:22
	That in the breaking of this bread	49:24
	and the drinking of this wine	49:25
	we may know anew the presence of Christ among us.	49:27
	Through him, with him and the unity of the Holy Spirit	49:31
	all honor and glory is yours Almighty God	49:34
	now and forever.	49:37
	(organ music)	49:39
	(congregation singing hymn)	49:48
Congregation	Our Father who art in heaven	50:02
	hallowed be thy name.	50:04
	They kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	50:06
	as it is in heaven.	50:09
	Give us this day our daily bread.	50:11
	And forgive us our trespasses	50:13
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	50:15
	And lead us not into temptation	50:19
	but deliver us from evil.	50:21
	For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.	50:23
-	Amen.	50:28
	When we give thanks over the cup	50:31
	is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?	50:32
	When we break the bread is it not a means of sharing	50:36
	in the body of Christ?	50:39
	Come to the Lord's table.	50:42
	(organ music)	50:57
	(choir singing hymn)	51:58
	(organ music)	55:42
	(choir singing hymn)	55:57
	(organ music)	59:22
	(choir singing hymn)	59:54
	Stand for the benediction.	1:01:02
	May the God of love pour out his spirit upon you,	1:01:13
	equip you for every good work as you go forth	1:01:17
	in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.	1:01:20
	(choir singing hymn)	1:01:30
	(organ music)	1:02:07
	(congregation singing hymn)	1:02:48

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "The Lord of the Word" (January 26, 1992)

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Sermon start time: 17:18. Sermon end time: 31:42.
Preached on Epiphany Sunday, the preacher pronounces the transformative and intrusive power of the Word, which is the revelation of Jesus. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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January 26, 1992

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Willimon, William H.

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