William H. Willimon - "The Right Sort of People" (April 9, 1995)
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All | Power of your Holy Spirit, | 0:00 |
so that even as Jesus lead his disciples into Jerusalem, | 0:03 | |
we might follow him where he would lead us, amen. | 0:08 | |
- | The Old Testament lesson is | 0:14 |
from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 50 | 0:16 | |
beginning with verse four. | 0:18 | |
"The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher | 0:22 | |
"that I may know how to sustain the weary with the word. | 0:27 | |
"Morning by morning, he wakens, | 0:33 | |
"wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. | 0:37 | |
"The Lord God has opened my ear | 0:44 | |
"and I was not rebellious. | 0:47 | |
"I did not turn backward. | 0:49 | |
"I gave my back to those who struck me | 0:52 | |
"and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard. | 0:56 | |
"I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. | 1:01 | |
"The Lord God helps me, | 1:07 | |
"therefore I have not been disgraced. | 1:09 | |
"Therefore, I have set my face like flint | 1:12 | |
"and I know that I shall not be put to shame. | 1:16 | |
"He who vindicates me is near, | 1:21 | |
"who will contend with me. | 1:24 | |
"Let us stand up together. | 1:27 | |
"Who are my adversaries? | 1:29 | |
"Let them confront me. | 1:32 | |
"It is the Lord God who helps me. | 1:34 | |
"Who will declare me guilty?" | 1:37 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 1:42 | |
All | Thanks be to God. | 1:44 |
- | The gospel reading is from Luke, Chapter 23, | 1:49 |
beginning with verse one. | 1:53 | |
"Then the assembly rose as a body | 1:59 | |
"and brought Jesus before Pilate. | 2:02 | |
"They began to accuse him, saying, | 2:05 | |
"'We found this man perverting our nation, | 2:08 | |
"'forbidding us to pay taxes to the Emperor | 2:11 | |
"'and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.' | 2:15 | |
"Then Pilate asked him, 'Are you the King of the Jews?' | 2:20 | |
"He answered, 'You say so.' | 2:25 | |
"Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, | 2:30 | |
"'I find no basis for an accusation against this man,' | 2:33 | |
"but they were insistent and said, | 2:39 | |
"'He stirs up the people by teaching | 2:41 | |
"'throughout all Judea, from Galilee, | 2:44 | |
"where he began, even to this place.' | 2:47 | |
"When Pilate heard this, | 2:51 | |
"he asked whether the man was a Galilean. | 2:53 | |
"And when he learned that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, | 2:56 | |
"he sent him off to Herod, | 3:00 | |
"who was himself in Jerusalem at that time. | 3:02 | |
"When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, | 3:06 | |
"for he had been wanting to see him for a long time | 3:09 | |
"because he had heard about him | 3:12 | |
"and was hoping to see him perform some sign. | 3:14 | |
"He questioned him at length. | 3:19 | |
"But Jesus gave no answer. | 3:22 | |
"The chief priests and the scribes | 3:26 | |
"stood by vehemently accusing him. | 3:28 | |
"Even Herod, with his soldiers, | 3:31 | |
"treated him with contempt and mocked him. | 3:33 | |
"Then he put an elegant robe on him | 3:37 | |
"and sent him back to Pilate. | 3:39 | |
"That same day, Herod and Pilate | 3:42 | |
"became friends with each other. | 3:45 | |
"Before this, they had been enemies. | 3:47 | |
"Pilate then called together the chief priests, | 3:52 | |
"the leaders, and the people, and said to them, | 3:55 | |
"'You brought me this man as one | 3:59 | |
"'who was perverting the people. | 4:01 | |
"'And here, I have examined him in your presence | 4:04 | |
"'and have not found this man guilty | 4:07 | |
"'of any of your charges against him, | 4:09 | |
"'neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. | 4:12 | |
"'Indeed, he has done nothing to deserve death. | 4:16 | |
"'I will therefore have him flogged and release him.' | 4:20 | |
"Then they all shouted out together, | 4:25 | |
"'Away with this fellow! | 4:28 | |
"'Release Barabbas for us.' | 4:30 | |
"This was a man who had been put in prison | 4:33 | |
"for an insurrection that had taken place | 4:35 | |
"in the city and for murder. | 4:37 | |
"Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again. | 4:40 | |
"But they kept shouting, 'Crucify, crucify him!' | 4:44 | |
"A third time he said to them, 'Why? | 4:49 | |
"'What evil has he done? | 4:53 | |
"'I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death. | 4:56 | |
"'I will, therefore, have him flogged | 5:00 | |
"'and then release him.' | 5:02 | |
"But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts | 5:04 | |
"that he should be crucified. | 5:08 | |
"And their voices prevailed. | 5:11 | |
"So, Pilate gave his verdict | 5:16 | |
"that their demand should be granted." | 5:19 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 5:24 | |
All | Thanks be to God. | 5:27 |
- | By a happy confluence of events, | 5:49 |
Lent this year has fallen at exactly | 5:54 | |
the same time as the O.J. Simpson trial. | 5:58 | |
I say happy because | 6:03 | |
around here Lent can be | 6:06 | |
the preacher's greatest challenge. | 6:09 | |
It isn't easy for a preacher to convince mostly young, | 6:14 | |
upwardly mobile, politically correct people, | 6:18 | |
people like you, | 6:21 | |
that you are, despite your Masters degree, | 6:24 | |
fallen, sinful, and in need of salvation. | 6:27 | |
I know what you're thinking now. | 6:31 | |
My Lord, I got up and came to Chapel | 6:32 | |
and on a big weekend. | 6:35 | |
Doesn't that count for something? | 6:36 | |
Lent, the Christian season of sin, | 6:40 | |
and the cross of repentance, an honest confession, | 6:46 | |
always seems out of place | 6:51 | |
among people like us. | 6:57 | |
But, happily, not this year, | 7:00 | |
not with your rushing home every afternoon | 7:03 | |
to watch the trial of the century. | 7:06 | |
And don't lie to me, all of you are watching it. | 7:08 | |
You can't get enough of it, hooked on it like heroine. | 7:11 | |
You love O.J. with his mix of Leer and Othello | 7:15 | |
and the National Inquirer | 7:19 | |
and daily parade of Hollywood sleaze, | 7:21 | |
a celebrity hood who dabbles | 7:25 | |
in cocaine between rental car commercials, | 7:28 | |
a woman abused but too hooked on the lifestyle | 7:31 | |
of the rich and famous to leave. | 7:34 | |
All presided over by the oiliest collection | 7:36 | |
of attorneys since the Inquisition, | 7:39 | |
who for $5 million in legal fees might give you | 7:41 | |
the right to do anything you want to your wife | 7:44 | |
and it's all during Lent. | 7:48 | |
And so, you see, the preacher in me can say, | 7:52 | |
"See, boys and girls, | 7:55 | |
"if you don't straighten up, | 7:57 | |
"if you don't repent and get saved, | 7:58 | |
"you might grow up to look like Bob Shapiro." | 8:01 | |
(congregation laughs) | 8:04 | |
Maybe even F. Lee Bailey, marine to marine. | 8:05 | |
Now, how to account for this phenomenon. | 8:11 | |
Well, there are many reasons | 8:14 | |
that you may be hooked on O.J., | 8:15 | |
not the least of which is | 8:19 | |
here is a trial with which | 8:22 | |
few of us can closely identify. | 8:26 | |
That may surprise you. | 8:32 | |
Drama teachers, though, will tell you | 8:34 | |
that for a play really to have its way with you, | 8:38 | |
for a drama to really engage you, | 8:43 | |
there must be certain amount | 8:45 | |
of what is called distancing, distancing. | 8:48 | |
We often think that the reason we love a drama | 8:52 | |
is because we can identify with the characters. | 8:56 | |
But, no. | 9:00 | |
Drama teachers say that if we | 9:03 | |
too closely identify with the characters, | 9:06 | |
then during the play | 9:09 | |
we are so busy defending ourselves, | 9:10 | |
we can't really get into the drama. | 9:13 | |
If we immediately say when a character walks on stage, | 9:15 | |
"Hey, that's me," | 9:20 | |
the drama really can't get to us. | 9:23 | |
And that's why the great playwright Bertolt Brecht | 9:25 | |
spoke in his plays of the need for some distancing. | 9:29 | |
The word he used was defamiliarization. | 9:34 | |
Defamiliarization, | 9:39 | |
some space between the viewer and the play. | 9:40 | |
And if you will note that sin | 9:47 | |
is always more accessible | 9:49 | |
when sin pertains to other people, | 9:52 | |
when there's some distance here. | 9:56 | |
Surely, this is hardly the basis for our current assault | 10:01 | |
upon unwed mothers and food stamp frauds, | 10:07 | |
by our politicians and our right wing radio rabble. | 10:10 | |
Most of the fulminations of messers Gingrich, Bennett, | 10:15 | |
and Buchanan against American ethical chaos, | 10:18 | |
tend to be aimed, you will note, | 10:23 | |
at the ethical afflictions of the poorest Americans. | 10:25 | |
And we like it that way, | 10:31 | |
because that way the virtuous few, | 10:34 | |
that is those of us who compose the present company, | 10:36 | |
those of us who are here in this room, | 10:39 | |
those of us who are lounging by the pool at this club, | 10:42 | |
those of us round the table | 10:45 | |
at this faculty meeting, | 10:46 | |
we always know ourselves to be innocent | 10:48 | |
of the ethical chaos which causes such concern. | 10:50 | |
It is other people who stand in need of correction. | 10:55 | |
Other people, people who don't go to Woody Allen movies | 10:59 | |
and didn't got to Yale. | 11:03 | |
I've sometimes noted, in the strident moralism | 11:04 | |
which infects political discourse today, | 11:08 | |
that there does seem to be | 11:12 | |
a kind of precise correlation | 11:13 | |
between people's net worth | 11:15 | |
and the extent of their ethical alarm. | 11:18 | |
The more well-off the commentator | 11:22 | |
on the world's ethical corruption, | 11:24 | |
the more earnest that commentator's indignation. | 11:27 | |
A woman I know has just returned from visiting her father | 11:34 | |
who is in retirement at some | 11:38 | |
exclusive golf commune in Florida. | 11:40 | |
And she complained, upon her return, | 11:44 | |
he spent the whole time talking about | 11:47 | |
how nobody in America wants to work, | 11:50 | |
about how welfare moms are bearing scores | 11:54 | |
of bastard babies to burden the future | 11:56 | |
and the world's going to hell. | 11:59 | |
"This," she said, "This from a man | 12:01 | |
"who has spent his last 10 years | 12:05 | |
"and maybe the next 30, | 12:08 | |
"living off of a social security system | 12:09 | |
"he will take more out of than he's put in, | 12:11 | |
"who's plush retirement was purchased | 12:14 | |
"mainly through the sleazy sell out of his company | 12:16 | |
"and who has spent no more than a third of his life | 12:20 | |
"actually working for a living." | 12:22 | |
Have you noticed moral condemnation | 12:27 | |
appears to work somewhat like binoculars? | 12:30 | |
If you look through one end of the binoculars, | 12:35 | |
at somebody else's trespasses, | 12:39 | |
if you look at safe distance, | 12:41 | |
things are magnified. | 12:44 | |
They always seem greater. | 12:46 | |
But if you will flip those binoculars over | 12:48 | |
and look at it backwards, | 12:50 | |
back at yourself through the other lens, | 12:52 | |
everything is tiny, insignificant, mere peccadillo. | 12:55 | |
When we moved to Durham, | 13:04 | |
we noted how real estate prices in Durham | 13:07 | |
are always lower in the city than in the county. | 13:11 | |
"Why?" we innocently asked our real estate agent. | 13:16 | |
"Simple, a lot of black kids go to the city schools. | 13:21 | |
"There are fewer blacks in the county schools." | 13:25 | |
Well, perhaps sensing my rising glimmer | 13:30 | |
of intellectual indignation in my eye, | 13:34 | |
at the nerve of this real estate salesman | 13:37 | |
to make a racist remark in front of a liberal professor | 13:39 | |
like me, he added, he added, | 13:43 | |
"You know it's funny, lots of Duke faculty | 13:47 | |
"worked for the integration, the racial integration | 13:51 | |
"of the Durham schools. | 13:53 | |
"But once a school's integrated, | 13:56 | |
"those same faculty did anything | 13:57 | |
"to keep from sending their own kids to those schools." | 13:59 | |
I don't know about you, but in such moments, | 14:06 | |
something like defamiliarization occurs to me. | 14:08 | |
It begins to move in a kind of different direction. | 14:14 | |
Does it for you? | 14:17 | |
And I remember the distinguished professor | 14:21 | |
who jetted about the country, | 14:23 | |
lecturing on the need for the liberation of women, | 14:25 | |
on the need for the equality of women, | 14:28 | |
while his own wife stayed home raising, | 14:31 | |
fairly much on her own, | 14:34 | |
the kids he had fathered. | 14:36 | |
Isn't it interesting in our current | 14:41 | |
public policy debates about unwed mothers? | 14:43 | |
Have you noticed, there's no unwed fathers? | 14:47 | |
Poor, American women appear to be bearing | 14:50 | |
poor children by parthenogenesis. | 14:52 | |
(congregation laughs) | 14:55 | |
Give me O.J. on the tube, Marsha, | 14:58 | |
Johnny, F. Lee, and dear Kato. | 15:01 | |
We need you now. | 15:03 | |
We need you now, more than ever, | 15:05 | |
to lead us in our national rituals | 15:07 | |
of national self-delusion and thin denial. | 15:09 | |
Oh, you graciously bear for us | 15:14 | |
the sins of an entire nation, | 15:16 | |
you, along with the welfare moms | 15:18 | |
and the homeless men and the food stamp frauds. | 15:21 | |
Last summer, last summer I saw this expose on TV | 15:29 | |
about bank robberies in Los Angeles. | 15:33 | |
It turns out that Los Angeles is experiencing | 15:36 | |
a veritable plague of bank robberies. | 15:39 | |
During a business day, a bank in L.A. | 15:44 | |
is held up like every hour. | 15:46 | |
And they were interviewing this F.B.I. man | 15:49 | |
about this plague of bank robberies. | 15:51 | |
And he said, "Yeah, it's a serious problem. | 15:54 | |
"We really worry about it. | 15:55 | |
"We worry that some innocent person is gonna get | 15:56 | |
"caught in the crossfire when one of these | 16:00 | |
"bank robberies goes bad. | 16:02 | |
"It's really terrible." | 16:04 | |
And he showed, there on the screen, | 16:06 | |
there captured on the bank security camera, | 16:08 | |
where these people in ski masks | 16:10 | |
are thrusting a gun at the bank teller, | 16:12 | |
holding up the bank. | 16:14 | |
And indignation grew within me. | 16:17 | |
I thought, I could be making a deposit. | 16:19 | |
I could get caught in this thing. | 16:21 | |
They've got to do something about these bank robberies. | 16:24 | |
Then the F.B.I. agent said, | 16:28 | |
"You know, it's funny, | 16:30 | |
"bank robbery is really a stupid crime. | 16:32 | |
"We captured the whole thing on the security camera. | 16:36 | |
"Most of people holding up these banks | 16:38 | |
"are people high on cocaine. | 16:40 | |
"Last three bank robbers we caught | 16:44 | |
"were mothers with little children." | 16:45 | |
"What can they do with the money? | 16:48 | |
"We get back most of the money. | 16:49 | |
"We only lost about $120,000 | 16:51 | |
"last year in L.A. in bank robberies. | 16:53 | |
"What can they do? | 16:55 | |
"It's all captured on the film." | 16:56 | |
Then he said, "You know, it's funny, | 17:00 | |
"In the Los Angeles area, | 17:03 | |
"we lost nearly $1 billion in the savings and loan scandals, | 17:06 | |
"but those bank robberies were committed | 17:13 | |
"by people wearing business suits. | 17:15 | |
"And none of them have gone to jail." | 17:20 | |
And I, sitting there in my business suit, | 17:26 | |
(congregation chuckles) | 17:30 | |
I got what you might call defamiliarized, | 17:31 | |
I got, discomfort grew. | 17:35 | |
I began to wonder. | 17:37 | |
I wonder, was C.S. Lewis right when he said | 17:41 | |
of his own conversion to Christ, | 17:45 | |
"For the first time, I examined myself. | 17:48 | |
"and there I found a zoo of lusts, | 17:52 | |
"a bedlam of ambition, | 17:59 | |
"a nursery of fear, | 18:01 | |
"a harem of fondled hatreds." | 18:04 | |
Now, before you continue in this service | 18:15 | |
of Palm Passion Sunday, | 18:18 | |
before you continue, | 18:21 | |
I have for you a warning. | 18:22 | |
This service begins well enough | 18:28 | |
with the waving of palms, | 18:30 | |
with archaic dance and ancient music. | 18:32 | |
You will note that the stories we have read to you | 18:36 | |
are stories of ancient people, | 18:38 | |
Jews of another time, Jews of another place. | 18:41 | |
We will hear read shortly, | 18:47 | |
a sad story of betrayal, | 18:49 | |
as those who were closest to Jesus | 18:52 | |
forsook him and fled into the night | 18:56 | |
as Cesar's soldiers lead away Jesus to capital punishment. | 19:00 | |
Don't worry, these ancient words seem to say to us. | 19:05 | |
Don't worry, this isn't your story. | 19:10 | |
This is not about you. | 19:13 | |
We stand, you will note, | 19:16 | |
at some reassuring distance from all this. | 19:19 | |
Tension builds, | 19:28 | |
the pace quickens, | 19:30 | |
as we move from Pilate's pretorium | 19:32 | |
and the trial of the ages. | 19:35 | |
The trial of the ages is taken to the streets | 19:38 | |
for a verdict by the people. | 19:41 | |
We, the people, we, the people in unison | 19:44 | |
are about to have our say in this whole matter. | 19:47 | |
What will we do with this Jesus of Nazareth? | 19:52 | |
How answer we to this question? | 19:57 | |
Listen, listen to the voices, | 20:03 | |
the voices which cry in unison, | 20:08 | |
"Crucify him! | 20:12 | |
"Crucify him!" | 20:13 | |
It is a stunning, unforgettable moment | 20:17 | |
in the worship of this chapel. | 20:20 | |
Listen, listen to those voices | 20:24 | |
which cry out for death. | 20:27 | |
They're our voices. | 20:32 | |
They ricochet off the walls, | 20:35 | |
they bounce back in our brains. | 20:37 | |
They are our voices. | 20:39 | |
It is our sin, | 20:41 | |
my sin. | 20:43 | |
And so, the old scriptural, the old spiritual ask, | 20:49 | |
were you there when they crucified my Lord? | 20:54 | |
It is today that we know the answer. | 21:02 | |
Yes. | 21:08 | |
The sin which hung him there, | 21:11 | |
the well-organized, national self-deceit | 21:15 | |
that nailed him to the wood, | 21:18 | |
it's my sin. | 21:21 | |
It's my systems of justice and security, my sin. | 21:24 | |
My sin. | 21:31 | |
I told one of you coming in here for the law school | 21:38 | |
alumni weekend and the festivities. | 21:40 | |
I said, "You know, I warn you. | 21:42 | |
"Attorneys don't come off | 21:44 | |
"that well in today, in the service. | 21:45 | |
"But just remember, please remember this, | 21:48 | |
"clergy do much worse with this story." | 21:51 | |
(congregation chuckles) | 21:54 | |
And so, years ago G.K. Chesterton | 21:57 | |
was asked by a magazine editor in England, | 22:00 | |
he said, "I want to do a whole issue of my magazine | 22:03 | |
"on the theme, what is wrong with the universe? | 22:07 | |
"What is wrong with the universe? | 22:11 | |
"Would you write us an article, Mr. Chesterton?" | 22:13 | |
Chesterton sent back an article | 22:17 | |
that consisted of one sentence. | 22:21 | |
On the theme, what is wrong with the universe? | 22:25 | |
Chesterton responded simply, | 22:29 | |
"I am." | 22:33 | |
A service that begins with such joy and youthful exuberance, | 22:39 | |
will end in somber, confusing, | 22:44 | |
cacophony of drum beats marching toward blood and death. | 22:48 | |
We will leave this trial of the ages | 22:56 | |
confused, defamiliarized, | 23:00 | |
encountered, stripped of moral pretension, | 23:05 | |
asking, what shall he do this week with my sin? | 23:10 | |
My sin. | 23:24 | |
(solitary organ tone) | 23:37 | |
(single-voiced operatic singing) | 23:46 | |
(cheery choral singing) | 24:11 | |
(single-voiced operatic singing) | 24:45 | |
♪ Someone to show me the way ♪ | 24:53 | |
♪ And to Jesus as I pray ♪ | 24:56 | |
(cheery choral singing) | 25:00 | |
(single-voiced operatic singing) | 25:17 | |
♪ When I can't follow the way ♪ | 25:25 | |
♪ Jesus as I pray ♪ | 25:29 | |
(cheery choral singing) | 25:32 | |
(overlapping choral singing) | 25:52 | |
(angelic choral singing) | 27:57 | |
Debra | The Lord be with you. | 28:22 |
Congregation | And also with you. | 28:25 |
- | Let us pray. | 28:27 |
Oh, God, we welcomed you today with shouts of Hosannah, | 28:32 | |
but you know how quickly our accolades of praise | 28:36 | |
turn into words of condemnation. | 28:40 | |
We sing and praise you when we are | 28:44 | |
among others who praise you, too. | 28:46 | |
But in times of stress, we seek scapegoats | 28:49 | |
to be targets for our anger. | 28:53 | |
Forgive us from our tendency to shift blame to others. | 28:58 | |
Save us from self-righteous moralism. | 29:03 | |
Free us from our obsession with other people's sin | 29:07 | |
that we might recognize our own sin. | 29:12 | |
We have so often betrayed you in ways great and small | 29:17 | |
with angry words and vindictive actions, | 29:23 | |
we have harmed our brothers and sisters. | 29:26 | |
We have dehumanized those we do not wish to understand. | 29:30 | |
We have distanced ourselves from those | 29:35 | |
who disappoint or remind us of our human frailty. | 29:37 | |
We have turned away from you, | 29:43 | |
too busy to seek you, | 29:45 | |
too selfish, too self-righteous to obey you. | 29:48 | |
Forgive us, Lord, | 29:54 | |
both for what we have done and for what we have left undone. | 29:55 | |
Send your compassion again, oh God of steadfast love. | 30:02 | |
Renew us and teach us to be steadfast in our love for you. | 30:07 | |
Help us draw as close to each other | 30:14 | |
as you draw to us in Christ. | 30:17 | |
Give us a repentance that lives in works of love. | 30:21 | |
Make us quick to forgive, | 30:25 | |
even as we have been forgiven. | 30:27 | |
Restore to us a right spirit and bring us together | 30:31 | |
in worship and mutual service. | 30:35 | |
Stretch our boundaries, stir our hearts, | 30:39 | |
and inflame our souls to behold you | 30:44 | |
in every fragment of life, | 30:47 | |
too feel you in every moment of time | 30:50 | |
and to serve you in every occasion | 30:54 | |
with obedience and joy. | 30:58 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, | 31:01 | |
who taught us to pray together saying, | 31:03 | |
All | Our Father, who art in heaven | 31:07 |
hallowed be thy name. | 31:10 | |
Thy kingdom come, | 31:12 | |
thy will be done | 31:13 | |
on Earth as it is in heaven. | 31:16 | |
Give us this day, our daily bread, | 31:18 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 31:21 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us | 31:23 | |
and lead not into temptation | 31:27 | |
but deliver us from evil, | 31:30 | |
for thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 31:32 | |
and the glory forever, amen. | 31:35 | |
- | As recipients of the love, the forgiveness, | 31:41 |
and the graciousness of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, | 31:45 | |
let us offer ourselves and our resources. | 31:48 | |
(rhythmic organ music) | 31:54 | |
(soft choir singing) | 32:17 | |
(rhythmic organ music) | 35:52 | |
- | "They went to a place called Gethsemane, | 36:59 |
"and he said to his disciples, | 37:02 | |
"'Sit here while I pray.' | 37:05 | |
"He took Peter, James and John | 37:08 | |
"and began to be distressed and agitated. | 37:11 | |
"And he said to them | 37:14 | |
"'I am deeply grieved even to death. | 37:15 | |
"'Remain her and keep awake.' | 37:17 | |
"And going a little farther, | 37:21 | |
"he threw himself down and prayed that if it were possible, | 37:22 | |
"this hour might pass from him. | 37:26 | |
"He said, 'Abba, Father, for you all things are possible. | 37:29 | |
"'Remove this cup from me | 37:35 | |
"yet not my will, but thine be done.' | 37:38 | |
"He came and found them sleeping an he said to Peter, | 37:43 | |
"'Simon, are you asleep? | 37:45 | |
"'Could you not remain awake one hour? | 37:49 | |
"'Keep awake and pray that you may not come into | 37:52 | |
"'the time of trial, for the Spirit is indeed willing, | 37:54 | |
"'but the flesh is weak.'" | 37:58 | |
- | "He came again, a second and third time. | 38:01 |
"And found them sleeping and said to them, | 38:04 | |
"'Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? | 38:08 | |
"'The hour has come. | 38:12 | |
"'The son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. | 38:14 | |
"'Get up, let us be going. | 38:19 | |
"'See, my betrayer is at hand. | 38:21 | |
"Immediately, while he was still speaking, | 38:25 | |
"Judas, one of the 12, arrived. | 38:28 | |
"And with him there was an angry crowd | 38:31 | |
"with swords and clubs. | 38:34 | |
"And they laid hand on him | 38:36 | |
"and arrested him. | 38:38 | |
(military drumming) | ||
"They took him to, | 38:40 | |
- | Hey you, you there! | |
- | Who, what? | 38:42 |
Man | You, you're one of his followers. | 38:43 |
- | Who, who? | 38:46 |
- | She's one | |
of his followers! | 38:46 | |
- | Who are you talking about, who? | 38:48 |
- | This man, this man who calls | 38:49 |
himself Jesus. | 38:50 | |
- | Who, I-- | |
- | This Jesus of Nazareth. | 38:52 |
- | I don't know what you're talking about. | 38:53 |
I have never seen this guy. | 38:55 | |
- | Look, I don't know who you are, | 38:57 |
but you've no right to be here. | 38:58 | |
- | No right? | 39:00 |
- | No. | |
- | No right? | 39:01 |
Do you know what trouble this man is causing? | 39:02 | |
He's crazy. | 39:05 | |
He stirs up the students and the common people and the poor. | 39:06 | |
He speaks out against everything that we hold valuable, | 39:10 | |
our traditions, the foundation of our religion. | 39:13 | |
Debra | Excuse me, excuse me, look. | 39:17 |
I don't know what you want, | 39:19 | |
but you're interrupting our service of worship. | 39:20 | |
If this man is part of your religious sect, | 39:23 | |
you'll have to deal | 39:25 | |
with that yourself. | 39:26 | |
(murmuring) | ||
I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with us, please. | 39:27 | |
- | Well, it should. | 39:31 |
You have much more power and authority than we do | 39:32 | |
and yet you don't see what a danger this man is to you | 39:36 | |
and to me and to all of us here. | 39:38 | |
- | That's right. | 39:40 |
- | Well, tell me, just what has he done? | 39:42 |
- | He stirs up the students and the common people. | 39:45 |
He speaks out against family values and free market society. | 39:47 | |
- | That's right. | 39:51 |
He is a terrible influence on our youth. | 39:52 | |
He has no respect | 39:55 | |
for this church. | 39:56 | |
- | None, whatsoever. | |
Man | That's right, and not only that. | 39:58 |
I saw him hanging around | 39:59 | |
the divinity school | 40:00 | |
- | Is that right? | |
- | stirring up trouble. | 40:02 |
He will not conform to what is taught | 40:03 | |
or the way things should be done. | 40:05 | |
- | [Man In Beige Shirt] That's right. | 40:07 |
- | He feels people's head with foolish ideas | 40:08 |
that have nothing to do with reality. | 40:10 | |
- | No base in reality. | 40:12 |
- | He's perverting our nation, | |
forbidding us to pay taxes and he claims himself | 40:14 | |
to be a Messiah, a savoir, and a king! | 40:17 | |
- | My God, he claims to be divine, this man. | 40:20 |
He's a blasphemer. | 40:22 | |
He should go to his death. | 40:24 | |
He should be killed! | 40:25 | |
- | Kill him, kill him! | |
He's a blasphemer! | 40:27 | |
- | Crucify him. | |
- | This man is a revolutionary nut. | 40:30 |
(men yelling over each other) | 40:34 | |
Man In Crowd | Religion and break up our families. | 40:36 |
He said so. | 40:39 | |
- | God only knows what kind of paramilitary group he's | 40:41 |
responsible for forming. | 40:44 | |
- | He's some kind of nut. | |
- | And he's got his dad. | 40:46 |
He says he will destroy this temple, | 40:47 | |
this very temple and raise it in three days. | 40:49 | |
- | [Man In Beige Shirt] Right, | 40:51 |
and you still wonder why this man is trouble? | 40:52 | |
You wonder (chuckles)? | 40:55 | |
My God. | 40:57 | |
William | Stop, stop this, all of you. | 40:59 |
This is all very irregular. | 41:01 | |
Get out of here. | 41:04 | |
(crowd clamoring) | 41:05 | |
Man | What are you saying? | 41:07 |
- | Stop. | 41:09 |
If you insist, I will speak to him. | 41:15 | |
Then you've got to go. | 41:19 | |
We, this all, uh, (scoffs). | 41:21 | |
Well, you hear what they're saying. | 41:26 | |
How do you answer? | 41:29 | |
Man With Beard | Yeah, go ahead. | 41:30 |
- | Are you some kind of revolutionary? | 41:31 |
Are you a king? | 41:36 | |
- | Of course, he is. | |
- | You have said so. | 41:42 |
- | No, no, I didn't say so. | 41:44 |
No, they said that you said. | 41:46 | |
Man | No, we didn't. | 41:49 |
- | Well, how do you answer? | 41:59 |
They've made accu, | 42:02 | |
I find no basis for your accusations of this man. | 42:05 | |
I mean, look at him. | 42:08 | |
I have a suggestion. | 42:10 | |
Why don't you just correct him | 42:11 | |
and then let him go? | 42:14 | |
Man | Because this man | 42:16 |
is a threat to our society. | 42:17 | |
Ask him some more questions. | 42:20 | |
- | Yes, ask him, ask him, ask him, ask him. | 42:22 |
You, ask him. | 42:26 | |
- | Well, how do you answer? | 42:27 |
Are you some kind of king? | 42:29 | |
- | Do you ask this yourself | 42:36 |
or did you hear about me from others? | 42:38 | |
- | No, I didn't ask it. | 42:41 |
I'm not one of them, am I? | 42:44 | |
You, I'm not sure that I've ever seen you. | 42:46 | |
I don't know that this concerns us. | 42:49 | |
I, what is with you anyway? | 42:51 | |
(congregation laughs) | 42:54 | |
- | My kingdom is not of this world. | 42:56 |
Man In Tan Suit | There he goes again. | 42:59 |
Debra | So, you are some kind of king? | 43:01 |
- | You have said so. | 43:06 |
Everyone who belongs to truth listens to my voice. | 43:10 | |
(crowd scoffs) | 43:15 | |
William | What is truth? | 43:16 |
- | They have accused you of many things. | 43:28 |
I'm sorry, we can't help you. | 43:32 | |
- | How can we even begin to help you? | 43:36 |
How can we get involved | 43:41 | |
if you just stand there in silence, | 43:42 | |
if you don't answer? | 43:45 | |
Have you no answer? | 43:48 | |
(crowd murmurs) | 43:50 | |
Look, I, take him out and all the rest of you, | 43:58 | |
get out. | 44:02 | |
(crowd clamoring) | ||
Man With Beard | Well, you heard it folks, | 44:05 |
he's a threat to our national agenda | 44:06 | |
and everything we hold dear. | 44:08 | |
William | I wipe my hands of this whole affair. | 44:10 |
Man With Beard | You do that, wash your hands. | 44:12 |
And we'll put it to you people. | 44:14 | |
What say you we do with this man, huh? | 44:15 | |
What say you? | 44:17 | |
Crowd | Crucify him, crucify him! | 44:18 |
(crowd clamoring) | 44:20 | |
- | Crucify him! | 44:24 |
- | Crucify him! | |
Put him to death! | 44:26 | |
Put him to death! | 44:27 | |
Crucify him! | 44:28 | |
Crucify him! | 44:29 | |
Crucify him! | 44:30 | |
Man | Crucify him! | 44:32 |
(male operatic singing) | 44:53 | |
(rhythmic organ music) | 45:05 | |
(rhythmic choral singing) | ||
(cheery organ music) | 45:24 | |
(organ and choral singing) | 45:42 | |
(military drumming) | 46:18 | |
(Middle Eastern theme) | 46:26 | |
(soft choral singing) | 46:36 | |
(intensified singing) | 46:55 | |
(ominous organ music) | 47:13 | |
(choral singing) | 47:34 | |
- | Please rise. | 49:15 |
There will be a service of worship each night | 49:24 | |
in this chapel during the coming week | 49:27 | |
as we move through the events of Holy Week. | 49:30 | |
Now, may the grace of Lord and savoir Jesus Christ, | 49:34 | |
who gave himself for us and our sin, | 49:40 | |
be with you now and always, amen. | 49:43 | |
(energetic organ music) | 49:51 | |
(solemn choral singing) | 53:26 | |
(soft organ music) | 53:35 | |
(choir singing) | 53:42 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 54:28 | |
(soft organ music) | 54:41 | |
(choir singing "Hallelujah" offering song) | 55:09 | |
- | Let us pray. | 56:09 |
Almighty God, giver of every good and perfect gift. | 56:11 | |
Teach us to render to you all that we have | 56:16 | |
and all that we are, | 56:19 | |
that we may praise you not with our lips only, | 56:21 | |
but with our whole lives, | 56:25 | |
turning the duties, the sorrows, and the joys | 56:27 | |
of all our days into a living sacrifice to you, | 56:30 | |
through our savoir and king, Jesus Christ, | 56:35 | |
who taught us to pray together saying, | 56:38 | |
All | Our Father, who art in heaven, | 56:41 |
hallowed be thy name. | 56:44 | |
Thy kingdom come, | 56:46 | |
thy will be done | 56:47 | |
on Earth as it is in heaven. | 56:49 | |
Give us this day, our daily bread, | 56:51 | |
and forgive our trespasses | 56:54 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us | 56:56 | |
and lead us not into temptation | 57:00 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 57:02 | |
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 57:04 | |
and the glory forever, amen. | 57:07 | |
(organ music) | 57:11 | |
(all singing) | 57:53 | |
- | The grace of our Lord and savoir, Jesus Christ, | 1:00:52 |
the love of God and the fellowship | 1:00:54 | |
of the Holy Spirit to be with you all. | 1:00:56 | |
(soft choir singing) | 1:01:05 |