William H. Willimon - "He Has Been Raised" (April 7, 1996)
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| (upbeat church organ music) | 0:02 | |
| - | Grace and peace to you in the name of the risen Christ. | 0:30 |
| We welcome you to this service of worship. | 0:34 | |
| A special welcome to our guest musicians | 0:37 | |
| and our thanks to the chapel choir | 0:40 | |
| for this glorious week in which they have led us in music. | 0:42 | |
| I remind you that the choir's | 0:45 | |
| spring oratorio is next Sunday afternoon. | 0:47 | |
| And now, let us stand and praise the God of life. | 0:52 | |
| (church organ music) | 0:58 | |
| ♪ Christ the Lord is risen today ♪ | 1:45 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 1:50 | |
| ♪ Earth and heaven in chorus say ♪ | 1:56 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 2:01 | |
| ♪ Raise your joys and triumphs high ♪ | 2:07 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 2:13 | |
| ♪ Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply ♪ | 2:19 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 2:25 | |
| ♪ Lives again our glorious King ♪ | 2:33 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 2:39 | |
| ♪ Where, O death, is now thy sting ♪ | 2:45 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 2:51 | |
| ♪ Once he died our souls to save ♪ | 2:57 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 3:03 | |
| ♪ Where's thy victory, boasting grave ♪ | 3:09 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 3:15 | |
| ♪ Love's redeeming work is done ♪ | 3:24 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 3:30 | |
| ♪ Fought the fight, the battle won ♪ | 3:35 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 3:41 | |
| ♪ Death in vain forbids him rise ♪ | 3:47 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 3:53 | |
| ♪ Christ has opened paradise ♪ | 3:59 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 4:05 | |
| ♪ Soar we now where Christ has led ♪ | 4:14 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 4:20 | |
| ♪ Following our exalted Head ♪ | 4:26 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 4:32 | |
| ♪ Made like him, like him we rise ♪ | 4:38 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 4:43 | |
| ♪ Ours the cross, the grave, the skies ♪ | 4:50 | |
| ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, alleluia ♪ | 4:55 | |
| ♪ Thine be the glory ♪ | 5:14 | |
| ♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪ | 5:19 | |
| ♪ Endless is the victory ♪ | 5:24 | |
| ♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪ | 5:30 | |
| ♪ Angels in bright raiment ♪ | 5:35 | |
| ♪ Rolled the stone away ♪ | 5:41 | |
| ♪ Kept the folded grave clothes ♪ | 5:46 | |
| ♪ Where thy body lay ♪ | 5:51 | |
| ♪ Thine be the glory ♪ | 5:57 | |
| ♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪ | 6:02 | |
| ♪ Endless is the victory ♪ | 6:08 | |
| ♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪ | 6:13 | |
| ♪ Lo, Jesus meets thee ♪ | 6:19 | |
| ♪ Risen from the tomb ♪ | 6:24 | |
| ♪ Lovingly he greets thee ♪ | 6:29 | |
| ♪ Scatters fear and gloom ♪ | 6:35 | |
| ♪ Let the church with gladness ♪ | 6:40 | |
| ♪ Hymns of triumphant sing ♪ | 6:45 | |
| ♪ For our Lord now liveth ♪ | 6:50 | |
| ♪ Death has lost its sting ♪ | 6:56 | |
| ♪ Thine be the glory ♪ | 7:01 | |
| ♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪ | 7:07 | |
| ♪ Endless is the victory ♪ | 7:12 | |
| ♪ Thou o'er death hast won ♪ | 7:17 | |
| ♪ No more we doubt thee ♪ | 7:32 | |
| ♪ Glorious Prince of life ♪ | 7:37 | |
| ♪ Life is naught without thee ♪ | 7:42 | |
| ♪ Aid us in our strife ♪ | 7:48 | |
| ♪ Make us more than conquerors ♪ | 7:53 | |
| ♪ Through thy deathless love ♪ | 7:59 | |
| ♪ Bring us safe through Jordan ♪ | 8:04 | |
| ♪ To thy home above ♪ | 8:09 | |
| ♪ Thine be the glory ♪ | 8:15 | |
| ♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪ | 8:21 | |
| ♪ Endless is the victory ♪ | 8:26 | |
| ♪ Thou o'er death has won ♪ | 8:31 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 8:54 |
| God almighty, by raising Christ your Son, | 8:57 | |
| you conquered the power of death | 9:03 | |
| and opened to us the way of eternal life. | 9:05 | |
| Let our celebration today raise us up | 9:09 | |
| and renew our lives by the Spirit that is within us. | 9:13 | |
| Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, | 9:17 | |
| your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, | 9:20 | |
| one God forever and ever, amen. | 9:24 | |
| Congregation | Amen. | 9:27 |
| - | You may be seated. | 9:28 |
| And we ask that as you are possible | 9:29 | |
| to scoot toward the center and perhaps | 9:31 | |
| make room for some of the folks in the aisle. | 9:34 | |
| - | Let us pray together the prayer for illumination. | 9:47 |
| O living God, bring us forth from death to life | 9:53 | |
| so that as the scriptures are read, | 9:58 | |
| and your word is proclaimed, we might be brought | 10:00 | |
| to a sure and living faith in your Lordship, amen. | 10:04 | |
| The epistle reading is from Paul's letter to the Colossians, | 10:11 | |
| chapter three verses one through four. | 10:16 | |
| "So, if you have been raised with Christ, | 10:23 | |
| "seek the things that are above, where Christ is | 10:26 | |
| "seated at the right hand of God. | 10:30 | |
| "Set your minds on things that are above, | 10:35 | |
| "not on things that are on earth. | 10:39 | |
| "For you have died, and your life is hidden | 10:42 | |
| "with Christ in God. | 10:46 | |
| "Where Christ who is your life is revealed, | 10:49 | |
| "then you also will be revealed with him in glory." | 10:53 | |
| This is the word of the Lord. | 11:00 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 11:03 |
| - | This morning's psalter is Psalm 118 | 11:12 |
| verses 14 through 24 found in your bulletin. | 11:15 | |
| Please stand and sing the psalter and Gloria responsively. | 11:18 | |
| (mellow church organ music) | 11:24 | |
| ♪ The Lord is my strength and my power ♪ | 11:31 | |
| ♪ The Lord has become my salvation ♪ | 11:36 | |
| ♪ There are joyous songs of victory ♪ | 11:41 | |
| ♪ In the tents of the righteous ♪ | 11:46 | |
| ♪ The right hand of the Lord does valiantly ♪ | 11:51 | |
| ♪ The right hand of the Lord is exalted ♪ | 11:55 | |
| ♪ The right hand of the Lord does valiantly ♪ | 12:00 | |
| ♪ I shall not die, but I shall live ♪ | 12:08 | |
| ♪ And recount the deeds of the Lord ♪ | 12:14 | |
| ♪ The Lord has chastened me sorely ♪ | 12:19 | |
| ♪ But has not given me over to death ♪ | 12:24 | |
| ♪ Open to me the gates of righteousness ♪ | 12:32 | |
| ♪ That I might enter through them ♪ | 12:37 | |
| ♪ And give thanks to the Lord ♪ | 12:40 | |
| ♪ This is the gate of the Lord ♪ | 12:44 | |
| ♪ The righteous shall enter through it ♪ | 12:49 | |
| ♪ I thank you that you have answered me ♪ | 12:56 | |
| ♪ And have become my salvation ♪ | 13:01 | |
| ♪ The stone which the builders rejected ♪ | 13:07 | |
| ♪ Has become the cornerstone ♪ | 13:12 | |
| ♪ This is the Lord's doing ♪ | 13:18 | |
| ♪ It is marvelous in our eyes ♪ | 13:23 | |
| ♪ This is the day which the Lord has made ♪ | 13:28 | |
| ♪ Let us rejoice and be glad in it ♪ | 13:34 | |
| ♪ Glory be to God, Creator ♪ | 13:53 | |
| ♪ Praise to God, Redeemer Lord ♪ | 13:59 | |
| ♪ Glory be to our Sustainer ♪ | 14:07 | |
| ♪ Ever three and ever one ♪ | 14:15 | |
| ♪ As it was in the beginning, ♪ | 14:24 | |
| ♪ Now, and evermore shall be ♪ | 14:31 | |
| - | The gospel reading is from Matthew | 14:56 |
| chapter 28 verses one through 10. | 14:59 | |
| "After the Sabbath, as the first day | 15:07 | |
| "of the week was dawning, | 15:10 | |
| "Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. | 15:12 | |
| "And suddenly, there was a great earthquake, | 15:18 | |
| "for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven | 15:21 | |
| "came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. | 15:25 | |
| "His appearance was like lightning, | 15:29 | |
| "and his clothing white as snow. | 15:32 | |
| "For fear of him, the guards shook and became like dead men. | 15:37 | |
| "But the angel said to the women, | 15:42 | |
| "'Do not be afraid. | 15:45 | |
| "'I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. | 15:47 | |
| "'He is not here, for he has been raised, as he said. | 15:52 | |
| "'Come, see the place where he lay. | 16:00 | |
| "'Then go quickly and tell his disciples | 16:04 | |
| "'he has been raised from the dead. | 16:07 | |
| "'And, indeed, he is going ahead of you to Galilee. | 16:09 | |
| "'There you will see him. | 16:13 | |
| "'This is my message for you.' | 16:16 | |
| "So, they left the tomb quickly, | 16:19 | |
| "with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples. | 16:21 | |
| "Suddenly, Jesus met them, and said, 'Greetings.' | 16:26 | |
| "And they came to him, took hold | 16:32 | |
| "of his feet, and worshipped him. | 16:34 | |
| "Then, Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid. | 16:37 | |
| "'Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. | 16:41 | |
| "'There they will see me.'" | 16:45 | |
| This is the word of the Lord. | 16:49 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 16:53 |
| (mellow church organ and brass instrumental music) | 17:20 | |
| (soloist singing) | 18:29 | |
| ♪ The Lord is gone ♪ | 18:37 | |
| ♪ The Lord is gone ♪ | 18:39 | |
| ♪ The Lord is gone ♪ | 18:42 | |
| ♪ The Lord is gone ♪ | 18:51 | |
| ♪ The Lord is gone ♪ | 18:57 | |
| ♪ The story's done ♪ | 19:01 | |
| ♪ The story's done ♪ | 19:04 | |
| ♪ The story's done ♪ | 19:07 | |
| ♪ Why do you seek the living ♪ | 19:11 | |
| ♪ Why do you seek the living ♪ | 19:15 | |
| ♪ Among the dead ♪ | 19:19 | |
| ♪ He is not here ♪ | 19:23 | |
| ♪ He is not here ♪ | 19:25 | |
| ♪ Why do you seek the living ♪ | 19:27 | |
| ♪ Why do you seek the living ♪ | 19:31 | |
| ♪ Among the dead ♪ | 19:35 | |
| ♪ He is not here ♪ | 19:41 | |
| ♪ He is not here ♪ | 19:44 | |
| ♪ He is not here ♪ | 19:46 | |
| ♪ For he has risen ♪ | 19:48 | |
| ♪ For he has risen ♪ | 19:49 | |
| ♪ For he is not here ♪ | 19:52 | |
| ♪ For he is not here ♪ | 20:01 | |
| ♪ The way of God ♪ | 20:05 | |
| ♪ The way of God ♪ | 20:09 | |
| ♪ Take away the Lord ♪ | 20:13 | |
| ♪ Take away the Lord ♪ | 20:18 | |
| ♪ From the living ♪ | 20:22 | |
| ♪ My heart is full of sorrow ♪ | 20:27 | |
| (soloists singing) | 20:35 | |
| (choir singing) | 20:47 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:22 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:25 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:27 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:29 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:31 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:34 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:37 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:41 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:44 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:48 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:51 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:54 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:58 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 22:01 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:09 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:15 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:21 | |
| ♪ Why are you seeking ♪ | 22:26 | |
| ♪ Why are you seeking ♪ | 22:28 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:30 | |
| ♪ Why are you seeking ♪ | 22:34 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:36 | |
| ♪ They have taken away my Lord ♪ | 22:41 | |
| ♪ I don't know ♪ | 22:47 | |
| ♪ Where they have taken him ♪ | 22:49 | |
| ♪ Why are you weeping ♪ | 22:53 | |
| ♪ Who are you seeking ♪ | 22:56 | |
| ♪ Why are you weeping ♪ | 22:58 | |
| ♪ Who are you seeking ♪ | 23:00 | |
| ♪ They left the wrapping in the grave ♪ | 23:04 | |
| ♪ And then call you ♪ | 23:09 | |
| ♪ And then call you ♪ | 23:11 | |
| ♪ Where are you ♪ | 23:14 | |
| ♪ And I will sing for you ♪ | 23:24 | |
| ♪ Have you died here ♪ | 23:28 | |
| ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪ | 23:32 | |
| ♪ A hope, a hope ♪ | 23:37 | |
| ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪ | 23:40 | |
| ♪ A hope, a hope ♪ | 23:42 | |
| ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪ | 23:44 | |
| ♪ A hope, a hope ♪ | 23:47 | |
| ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪ | 23:50 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 23:51 | |
| ♪ Oh, Jesus ♪ | 23:53 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 23:56 | |
| ♪ The Lord is near ♪ | 23:58 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:01 | |
| ♪ The Lord is near ♪ | 24:04 | |
| ♪ For thy have not left us ♪ | 24:06 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:08 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:13 | |
| ♪ My hope ♪ | 24:17 | |
| ♪ My hope ♪ | 24:20 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:25 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:28 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:32 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:35 | |
| ♪ My hope, my hope ♪ | 24:42 | |
| ♪ As we all hope ♪ | 24:46 | |
| ♪ You will find us ♪ | 24:48 | |
| ♪ And we hope in the Lord ♪ | 24:50 | |
| ♪ Salvation ♪ | 24:58 | |
| ♪ Salvation ♪ | 25:00 | |
| ♪ Salvation ♪ | 25:01 | |
| ♪ Salvation ♪ | 25:03 | |
| ♪ Salvation in the Lord ♪ | 25:05 | |
| ♪ Jesus, our Savior on high ♪ | 25:13 | |
| ♪ Jesus, our Savior on high ♪ | 25:24 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:32 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:34 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:36 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:37 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:39 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:41 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:43 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:46 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:50 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:53 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 25:57 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 26:00 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 26:03 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 26:07 | |
| - | Lumière, who invented motion pictures, | 26:50 |
| 100 years ago last year, | 26:55 | |
| said when he unveiled his marvelous invention, | 26:58 | |
| which fixed moving | 27:04 | |
| pictures on film forever. | 27:09 | |
| Lumière said, "Death has now been o'ercome." | 27:14 | |
| Really? | 27:23 | |
| In the movies? | 27:25 | |
| We wish it was so easy. | 27:29 | |
| We were traveling in the south of England. | 27:34 | |
| We had car trouble. | 27:36 | |
| While we were waiting for our car to be fixed, | 27:37 | |
| we wandered in the little churchyard of the village. | 27:41 | |
| I found myself in the cemetery, | 27:47 | |
| and over in the corner of the cemetery | 27:49 | |
| there was a plot with 50 identical graves. | 27:51 | |
| The tombstone said they were all young men | 27:58 | |
| between the ages of 18 and 25. | 28:00 | |
| They were all from New Zealand. | 28:05 | |
| I wondered, who were these, and why did | 28:10 | |
| they end up here so far away from home? | 28:14 | |
| There was no hint there in the cemetery, | 28:19 | |
| except in the wall over the 50 graves | 28:21 | |
| now grown up with grass around there, | 28:26 | |
| there was a sign which said, | 28:29 | |
| "We will never forget your sacrifice." | 28:32 | |
| I inquired at the town museum. | 28:40 | |
| The local historian said she didn't know. | 28:43 | |
| She could probably find out in a few days. | 28:45 | |
| I asked other people in town, who were these graves? | 28:49 | |
| Nobody knew. | 28:53 | |
| Somebody said, well, perhaps they were | 28:54 | |
| soldiers from New Zealand, World War I. | 28:56 | |
| The flu epidemic 1918, maybe that's it. | 28:59 | |
| Nobody remembered. | 29:04 | |
| The sign in the cemetery was a lie. | 29:09 | |
| We had forgotten. | 29:14 | |
| This, this I think is what the | 29:19 | |
| philosopher Ernest Becker called the vital lie. | 29:22 | |
| The vital lie. | 29:27 | |
| That somehow through some effort of ours | 29:30 | |
| there is immortality to be had in this world. | 29:33 | |
| Oh, we do it in different ways. | 29:37 | |
| Some say it with granite monuments in cemeteries. | 29:40 | |
| Others attempt to say it by putting on a uniform, | 29:44 | |
| marching behind the flag, merging our | 29:47 | |
| fragile existence into that of the group. | 29:49 | |
| Others do it by endowing chairs at universities. | 29:54 | |
| See, you will die, but your name | 29:57 | |
| shall live on into eternity. | 30:00 | |
| And Elie Wiesel stands and says | 30:06 | |
| to the millions of victims of Nazi Holocaust, | 30:09 | |
| "We will remember. | 30:12 | |
| "We will not forget." | 30:15 | |
| But over time, we do. | 30:21 | |
| Eventually we can forget even so | 30:24 | |
| great a horror as Auschwitz. | 30:27 | |
| Things slip through our fingers. | 30:32 | |
| Everything dissolves. | 30:35 | |
| We wish this were not so. | 30:41 | |
| In his last speech, Socrates gathers his disciples, | 30:45 | |
| and he says to them, "Always ponder | 30:49 | |
| "the eternal, immutable truth." | 30:52 | |
| The intelligent person keeps eyes | 30:59 | |
| fixed on that which is eternal. | 31:02 | |
| But Socrates was wrong. | 31:09 | |
| Socrates died, despite the best efforts | 31:11 | |
| of the Duke Department of Philosophy. | 31:14 | |
| We forget about Socrates. | 31:16 | |
| He is fodder for finitude and decay and mutability. | 31:19 | |
| You know this. | 31:27 | |
| Those of you going through grief, | 31:30 | |
| will you not admit that | 31:33 | |
| one of the most frustrating parts about grieving | 31:37 | |
| is that you swear to the person whom you love | 31:40 | |
| who has died, I will not forget. | 31:43 | |
| I will go on grieving every day of my life. | 31:46 | |
| I will remember that voice and that laugh and that face. | 31:49 | |
| But scarcely few days after the funeral, | 31:56 | |
| you can feel this person slipping from your grasp, | 31:59 | |
| slipping through your fingers. | 32:02 | |
| You do forget. | 32:04 | |
| You know that that person is no longer | 32:07 | |
| available to you in the way that once was. | 32:09 | |
| And to say that they are is a lie, | 32:16 | |
| though a lie with enough vitality | 32:21 | |
| to keep many going for a while. | 32:25 | |
| So, maybe the best that you can do | 32:30 | |
| in the face of omnivorous death | 32:32 | |
| is to be honest. | 32:36 | |
| Let's have a little stoic honesty. | 32:39 | |
| And there's something to be said for that. | 32:42 | |
| The great orator Pericles stands before the, | 32:45 | |
| those families mourning the victims of the Athenian War. | 32:50 | |
| And Pericles, in one of the greatest | 32:54 | |
| funeral speeches ever given, | 32:56 | |
| he does not attempt to assuage grief with false consolation. | 33:00 | |
| He says, "You pray to God you will | 33:06 | |
| "never die in battle as these have." | 33:09 | |
| He says to parents who've lost a child. | 33:14 | |
| Some of you are young. | 33:17 | |
| Maybe you will have other children. | 33:19 | |
| Maybe they will give you some | 33:21 | |
| modicum in comfort in your grief. | 33:23 | |
| But at least Pericles does not lie. | 33:29 | |
| He is honest to admit that that's about as far | 33:37 | |
| as this consolation can go, and I admire him for that. | 33:41 | |
| Death | 33:46 | |
| is death. | 33:48 | |
| And that's at least partly the bible's view. | 33:53 | |
| Your friend, who is not a Christian | 33:58 | |
| and who says to you when hearing the Christian | 34:02 | |
| belief in resurrection, your friend who says, | 34:05 | |
| "Well, look, the way I see it, | 34:08 | |
| "when you're dead, you're dead." | 34:10 | |
| In a way that person is partly right. | 34:13 | |
| The ravages of death cannot be assuaged | 34:20 | |
| through cheap consolation, a vital lie, | 34:22 | |
| no matter how well meaning or finely crafted that lie. | 34:26 | |
| It's in our story. | 34:33 | |
| Jesus was dead. | 34:34 | |
| The one in whom there had been such life was now dead. | 34:38 | |
| In the grip of death, and as if to drive home that point, | 34:44 | |
| Matthew says, he was entombed, and there was | 34:48 | |
| this huge rock in front of the door to the tomb. | 34:50 | |
| Huge rock. | 34:53 | |
| And there was a squad of soldiers, | 34:55 | |
| and he had been in the tomb for three days, dead. | 34:57 | |
| And despite all of our lives and wishful thinking, | 35:05 | |
| when you're dead, | 35:08 | |
| you're dead. | 35:11 | |
| And that's the end | 35:14 | |
| of our story. | 35:18 | |
| "Never let it be said that brave blood | 35:22 | |
| "has been shed in vain," says Sir Walter Scott. | 35:25 | |
| It sends an imperious challenge down through the ages. | 35:29 | |
| Poor old romantic fool. | 35:32 | |
| You know | 35:35 | |
| innocent, heroic blood is shed all the time in futility. | 35:38 | |
| Even the greatest heroics, on the battlefield, | 35:46 | |
| in the hospital operating room, on the football field, | 35:49 | |
| none of this brings immortality. | 35:53 | |
| Each year at Duke commencement, | 35:59 | |
| we stand and sing the Duke hymn. | 36:00 | |
| We sing, "Time, like an ever rolling stream | 36:03 | |
| "bares all who breathe away. | 36:08 | |
| "They fly forgotten as a dream | 36:11 | |
| "lies at the opening day." | 36:13 | |
| It's quoting the somber words of Psalm 90. | 36:16 | |
| "The flower fades. | 36:20 | |
| "The grass withers." | 36:22 | |
| We are dust. | 36:23 | |
| Honesty. | 36:29 | |
| Stoic honesty. | 36:32 | |
| When Dante is led by Virgil down into the afterworld, | 36:36 | |
| when Dante sees | 36:43 | |
| that somber processional of silent dead, | 36:44 | |
| the millions who have died, Dante says to himself, | 36:48 | |
| "I had not known that death had undone so many." | 36:53 | |
| T.S. Eliot remembers that line | 37:02 | |
| when one late afternoon in London | 37:05 | |
| he sees people going home across London Bridge | 37:07 | |
| down King William Street, | 37:10 | |
| going, Eliot thought, not from work to home | 37:14 | |
| but shuffling in processional | 37:20 | |
| from life to death. | 37:25 | |
| "I will show you fear," Eliot said, | 37:30 | |
| "and a handful of dust." | 37:36 | |
| And that's honest. | 37:41 | |
| Not much to live for or die for, but at least it is honest. | 37:44 | |
| If there is to be hope for us, | 37:52 | |
| it must be hope which is not a lie. | 37:57 | |
| Therefore, it must not be hope of our own creation, | 38:02 | |
| mortal as we are. | 38:07 | |
| It will not be hope as result | 38:09 | |
| of wishful thinking, human potential. | 38:11 | |
| It must be some hope come | 38:16 | |
| from outside us and our finitude. | 38:21 | |
| Some stunning intrusion, some act of God | 38:26 | |
| reversing our shuffle toward the grave, | 38:30 | |
| overcoming the final enemy. | 38:33 | |
| Something which in power defeats death, gives life. | 38:36 | |
| Some dawn not of our devising. | 38:42 | |
| Something which shakes our death-dealing, | 38:47 | |
| death-denying world to its foundation. | 38:50 | |
| Some descent to us. | 38:54 | |
| Some divine rolling back of the | 38:56 | |
| great stone under which we labor. | 38:59 | |
| Some light shining in the dark of death. | 39:03 | |
| Oh, that would be hope. | 39:06 | |
| Paul says, "We grieve, | 39:11 | |
| "but we do not grieve as those who have no hope." | 39:16 | |
| Wherein is our hope? | 39:22 | |
| As the first day of the week was dawning, | 39:29 | |
| Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to the tomb, | 39:32 | |
| and suddenly there was a great earthquake. | 39:37 | |
| An angel of the Lord descending from heaven | 39:40 | |
| came and rolled back the stone. | 39:42 | |
| His appearance was like lightning. | 39:45 | |
| His clothing white as snow. | 39:47 | |
| The angel said to the woman, "Do not fear. | 39:50 | |
| "I know that you're looking for Jesus who was crucified. | 39:55 | |
| "He is not here. | 39:58 | |
| "He is raised." | 40:00 | |
| (mellow church organ music) | 40:06 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 40:27 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 40:32 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 40:38 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 40:42 | |
| ♪ All fair beauty of the earth ♪ | 40:48 | |
| ♪ From the death of the winter arising ♪ | 40:53 | |
| ♪ Every good gift of the year ♪ | 40:58 | |
| ♪ Now with its Master returns ♪ | 41:03 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 41:09 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 41:13 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 41:19 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 41:23 | |
| ♪ Rise from the grave now, O Lord ♪ | 41:30 | |
| ♪ The author of life and creation ♪ | 41:33 | |
| ♪ Treading the pathway of death ♪ | 41:40 | |
| ♪ New life you give to us all ♪ | 41:44 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 41:50 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 41:55 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 42:01 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 42:05 | |
| ♪ God, the Almighty, the Lord ♪ | 42:11 | |
| ♪ The Ruler of the earth and the heavens ♪ | 42:16 | |
| ♪ Guard us from the harm without ♪ | 42:22 | |
| ♪ Cleanse us from evil within ♪ | 42:27 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 42:32 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 42:36 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 42:42 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 42:46 | |
| ♪ Jesus the health of the world ♪ | 42:53 | |
| ♪ Enlighten our minds, great Redeemer ♪ | 42:56 | |
| ♪ Son of the Father supreme ♪ | 43:03 | |
| ♪ Only begotten of God ♪ | 43:07 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 43:13 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 43:18 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 43:24 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 43:28 | |
| ♪ Spirit of life and of power ♪ | 43:35 | |
| ♪ Now flow in us, fount of our being ♪ | 43:39 | |
| ♪ Light that enlighten us all ♪ | 43:45 | |
| ♪ Life that in all may abide ♪ | 43:50 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 43:56 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 44:00 | |
| ♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪ | 44:06 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 44:10 | |
| ♪ Praise to the giver of good ♪ | 44:17 | |
| ♪ O lover and author of concord ♪ | 44:20 | |
| ♪ Pour our your balm on our days ♪ | 44:27 | |
| ♪ Order our ways in your peace ♪ | 44:31 | |
| ♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪ | 44:38 | |
| ♪ Blest day to be hallowed forever ♪ | 44:42 | |
| ♪ Day that our Lord was raised ♪ | 44:48 | |
| ♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪ | 44:52 | |
| Debra | You may be seated. | 45:06 |
| The Lord be with you. | 45:12 | |
| Congregation | And also with you. | 45:14 |
| - | Let us pray. | 45:16 |
| Author of life, by the resurrection | 45:20 | |
| of your Son Jesus Christ from the dead, | 45:23 | |
| you have shown us your steadfast love. | 45:26 | |
| We do not fully understand, but we embrace | 45:30 | |
| the mystery of your grace. | 45:34 | |
| We accept this gospel, this good news, this resurrection, | 45:36 | |
| a resurrection not only of Jesus Christ but also of us. | 45:44 | |
| The stone is rolled away. | 45:48 | |
| Unwrap the shroud that confines us, O God. | 45:51 | |
| And we shall walk out of this place of death | 45:55 | |
| into the new life that you have made possible | 45:57 | |
| for you are our strength and our salvation. | 46:01 | |
| Holy is your name. | 46:05 | |
| Receive these our praises. | 46:08 | |
| Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 46:10 | |
| Despite the wonders you have shown forth | 46:16 | |
| throughout your creation, we still set | 46:18 | |
| our eyes on the things of this earth. | 46:21 | |
| We still deny the reality of death | 46:24 | |
| and work fruitlessly to secure our own immortality. | 46:27 | |
| There is still much in us that readily yields to darkness. | 46:31 | |
| Enter into the tombs of our lives and empty them out. | 46:36 | |
| Shine the light of Christ into the shadows | 46:40 | |
| that we might be freed from deceitful visions. | 46:43 | |
| Save us from false hope | 46:47 | |
| and cooperation with the forces of death. | 46:49 | |
| And lead us to boldly seek the truth, | 46:52 | |
| the life, and the way of hope in you. | 46:55 | |
| Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 46:59 | |
| In spite of all that you have done to bring us life, | 47:04 | |
| we keep the message of the good news | 47:07 | |
| of your salvation to ourselves. | 47:10 | |
| Forgive us for hiding your grace, | 47:13 | |
| for presenting to one another | 47:15 | |
| not the truth of your salvation | 47:17 | |
| but the lie of our own self-seeking importance. | 47:19 | |
| Forgive us for failing to witness | 47:23 | |
| to your new life in our lives. | 47:25 | |
| Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 47:28 | |
| You give the message of redemption to the whole world, | 47:32 | |
| touched by your grace, everyone who suffers affliction. | 47:36 | |
| Visit the people whose minds are in disarray | 47:41 | |
| and bring them a clear perception | 47:44 | |
| of the world which you have redeemed. | 47:46 | |
| Walk with those who travel the road of death from this life | 47:49 | |
| and carry them over the threshold into your eternal life. | 47:53 | |
| Empower us to serve the world as instruments | 47:58 | |
| of your healing, life-giving love. | 48:01 | |
| Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 48:04 | |
| By the power of your Holy Spirit, | 48:10 | |
| fill our hearts with rejoicing, | 48:12 | |
| and let us go into the world to sing your praises | 48:15 | |
| with our voices and by our actions. | 48:18 | |
| Make us effective witnesses to your grace | 48:22 | |
| that all the world might come to know | 48:25 | |
| the eternal love of God through Jesus Christ. | 48:27 | |
| For it is in his name that we pray and hope, amen. | 48:30 | |
| We who enjoy the work of our hands do not labor in vain. | 48:40 | |
| We who invest the fruits of our efforts | 48:45 | |
| and the sharing of good news are doubly blessed. | 48:48 | |
| May our gifts represent our commitment, | 48:52 | |
| even as they bear witness and offer healing. | 48:55 | |
| Let us give thanks through our offering. | 48:59 | |
| (upbeat instrumental music) | 49:18 | |
| ♪ The whole bright world rejoices now ♪ | 49:41 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 49:45 | |
| ♪ The birds do sing on every bough ♪ | 49:49 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 49:53 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 49:55 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 49:57 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 49:59 | |
| ♪ Then shout beneath the racing skies ♪ | 50:14 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 50:18 | |
| ♪ To Him who rose that we might rise ♪ | 50:22 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 50:26 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 50:28 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 50:30 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 50:32 | |
| ♪ And all you living things make praise ♪ | 50:44 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 50:53 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 50:57 | |
| ♪ And all you living things make praise ♪ | 51:04 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 51:13 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 51:16 | |
| ♪ Hilariter ♪ | 51:20 | |
| ♪ Hilariter ♪ | 51:22 | |
| ♪ Hilariter ♪ | 51:24 | |
| ♪ He guideth you on all your ways ♪ | 51:34 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 51:43 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 51:46 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 51:50 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 51:54 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 51:58 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:00 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:04 | |
| ♪ He, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 52:29 | |
| ♪ Hilariter, hilariter ♪ | 52:34 | |
| ♪ Our God most high, our joy and boast ♪ | 52:39 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:45 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:49 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:53 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 52:57 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 53:00 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 53:08 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 53:17 | |
| ♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 56:51 | |
| ♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪ | 56:58 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:03 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:07 | |
| ♪ Praise God above you heavenly hosts ♪ | 57:11 | |
| ♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 57:17 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:23 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:26 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:30 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:33 | |
| ♪ Alleluia ♪ | 57:36 | |
| - | Thank you, God, for resurrection. | 57:51 |
| We rejoice in Christ as the first fruits | 57:54 | |
| of all that you make available to us. | 57:57 | |
| As you offered Christ to the world, | 58:00 | |
| so we would offer ourselves. | 58:03 | |
| May we, along with our gifts, testify to good news | 58:05 | |
| of your forgiving love and empowering acceptance. | 58:09 | |
| We pray these things in the name | 58:14 | |
| of the one who gave himself for us | 58:16 | |
| and who taught us to pray together saying, | 58:19 | |
| our Father, who art in heaven, | 58:22 | |
| hallowed by thy name. | 58:25 | |
| Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 58:27 | |
| on earth as it is in heaven. | 58:31 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread | 58:33 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses | 58:36 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 58:39 | |
| And lead us not into temptation | 58:42 | |
| but deliver us from evil. | 58:45 | |
| For thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 58:47 | |
| and the glory forever, amen. | 58:50 | |
| (upbeat instrumental music) | 58:55 | |
| ♪ All the power of Jesus' name ♪ | 59:29 | |
| ♪ Let angels prostrate fall ♪ | 59:34 | |
| ♪ Bring forth the royal diadem ♪ | 59:40 | |
| ♪ And crown him ♪ | 59:45 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 59:48 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 59:51 | |
| ♪ Crown him Lord of all ♪ | 59:56 | |
| ♪ Ye chosen seed of Israel's race ♪ | 1:00:04 | |
| ♪ Ye ransomed of the fall ♪ | 1:00:10 | |
| ♪ Hail him who saves you by his grace ♪ | 1:00:15 | |
| ♪ And crown him ♪ | 1:00:21 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:00:24 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:00:26 | |
| ♪ Crown him Lord of all ♪ | 1:00:31 | |
| ♪ Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget ♪ | 1:00:40 | |
| ♪ The wormwood and the gall ♪ | 1:00:45 | |
| ♪ Go, spread your trophies at his feet ♪ | 1:00:51 | |
| ♪ And crown him ♪ | 1:00:56 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:01:00 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:01:03 | |
| ♪ Crown him Lord of all ♪ | 1:01:08 | |
| ♪ Let ev'ry kindred, ev'ry tribe ♪ | 1:01:17 | |
| ♪ On this terrestrial ball ♪ | 1:01:23 | |
| ♪ To him all majesty ascribe ♪ | 1:01:28 | |
| ♪ And crown him ♪ | 1:01:34 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:01:37 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:01:40 | |
| ♪ Crown him Lord of all ♪ | 1:01:46 | |
| ♪ O that with yonder sacred throng ♪ | 1:01:55 | |
| ♪ We at his feet may fall ♪ | 1:02:00 | |
| ♪ We'll join the everlasting song ♪ | 1:02:06 | |
| ♪ And crown him ♪ | 1:02:12 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:02:15 | |
| ♪ Crown him ♪ | 1:02:18 | |
| ♪ Crown him Lord of all ♪ | 1:02:24 | |
| - | Now, may the grace of the risen Christ | 1:02:37 |
| be with you now and always. | 1:02:40 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:45 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:48 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:50 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:52 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:55 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 1:03:03 |
