Image of the unseen God
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First before the whole creation
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May the love of
all space and matter
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Far beyond
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All across
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The nations
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All through
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Our times and then
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Your mighty
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Your mighty love
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Let's bow our heads to pray.
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Father in heaven,
we love You so much.
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We're so thankful
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that we can be here this morning
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to worship and praise Your name.
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Lord, we give You all the honor,
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and glory, and
praise this morning,
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and thank You for
already being here with us.
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I pray these things
in Jesus' name, amen.
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I invite you
this morning to stand
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as we sing our opening hymn
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"All hail the
power of Jesus name,"
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hymn number 2:29. Please stand?
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All hail the
power of Jesus' Name
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Let angels prostrate fall
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Let every kindred, every tribe
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On this terrestrial ball
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Oh, that with
yonder sacred throng
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We at His feet may fall
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all Join
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In the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Amen. Amen.
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I invite you to join with us
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as we continue
to sing this morning
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about the power of Jesus' blood.
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It's powerful, right?
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There is power in
the blood of Jesus Christ
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that was shed for us,
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so sing about that
power in the blood.
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Would you be free
from the burden of sin?
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There's pow'r in the
blood, pow'r in the blood
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Would you o'er
evil a victory win?
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There's wonderful
pow'r in the blood
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the blood of the Lamb
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the precious
blood of the Lamb
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Would you be free from
your passion and pride?
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There's pow'r in the
blood, pow'r in the blood
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Come for a
cleansing to Calvary's tide?
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There's wonderful
power in the blood
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the blood of the Lamb
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the precious
blood of the Lamb
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Would you do
service for Jesus your King?
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There's pow'r in the
blood, pow'r in the blood
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Would you live
daily His praises to sing?
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There's wonderful
power in the blood
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the blood of the Lamb
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the precious
blood of the Lamb
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the blood of the Lamb
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There is pow'r,
pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
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In the precious
blood of the Lamb
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In the precious
blood of the Lamb
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In the precious blood
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Of the Lamb
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There is power in the blood.
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And that blood is so powerful
that it saves me, it saves you,
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it can save the entire world.
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That power, that blood
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is mighty to save
each and every one of you.
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And I invite you to
make that the prayer
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of your heart this morning
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because Jesus is mighty to save.
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Everyone needs compassion
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A love that's never failing
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Let mercy fall on me
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Everyone needs forgiveness
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The kindness of a Savior
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The hope of nations
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The hope of nations
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is Mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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So take me as you find me
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All my fears and failures
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Fill my life again
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I give my life to follow
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Everything I believe in
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Now I surrender
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I surrender
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Shine your light and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the
glory of the risen King
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Jesus Shine your light
and let the whole world see
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We're singing for the
glory of the risen King
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Amen.
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We are a moment.
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We are a moment, You are forever
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Lord of the
Ages, God before time
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We are a vapor, You are eternal
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Love
everlasting, reigning on high
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Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the lamb who was slain
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Highest praises, honor and glory
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Be unto Your name
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Be unto Your name
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We are the
broken, You are the healer
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Jesus, Redeemer, mighty to save
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You are the love
song we'll sing forever
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Bowing before
You, blessing Your name
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Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the lamb who was slain
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Highest praises, honor and glory
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Be unto Your name
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Be unto Your name
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Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the lamb who was slain
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Highest praises, honor and glory
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Be unto Your name
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Be unto Your name
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Sing that again.
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Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
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Worthy is the lamb who was slain
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Highest praises, honor and glory
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Be unto Your name
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Be unto Your name
00:14:03.07\00:14:09.04
Be unto Your name
00:14:09.08\00:14:15.72
Be unto Your name
00:14:15.75\00:14:23.06
Well, good
morning, boys and girls,
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nice to see you all.
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Oh, we got some more coming.
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Come on up,
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nice to have you
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on this last
Sabbath of February.
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February 25,
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only 10 more
months to Christmas.
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And one of you...
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Was one of you praying for snow?
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Anybody here
been praying for snow?
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You're the one, I
wondered who that was.
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Oh, I wish we had
a little more snow
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actually to be honest with you,
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not much here but
reminds us we're in winter.
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Nice to have you, thank you
deacon Kim Moore, bless you.
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All right.
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So thank you, my
friend Don Wilson
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who sent me this story.
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I just need a boy and a girl.
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So I got little something
right here, if I get...
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The red vest,
sir, come on forward,
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don't step on any
of those kid's hands
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while you're coming.
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I need a front row girl.
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Okay, I got a front
row girl right here.
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Perfect.
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So, hey, boys and girls,
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what if your
mother did this to you?
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I want you to watch this now,
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tell me if your mother
has ever done this to you.
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So let's see here, okay, kids
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I've been thinking it
would be really nice for you
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to go visit grandma...
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So I'm putting a
little this on you
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and I want you to visit grandpa.
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Where is your grandpa live?
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Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin, that
will get you Wisconsin.
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Where is your... She lives here.
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She lives here.
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Well, let me
get that stamp back.
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Okay, put you two stamps.
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All right, now what
if your mother did this,
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she put the stamps on you,
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and then she said,
"Okay, now come with me,
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come with me kids."
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And she drive
down to the post office
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and she walks you
into the post office
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and she says, "Hey, I
got stamps on my kids,
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would you please mail them?"
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What would you say
if your mother did that?
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Let me tell you something.
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In the United States of America
that's what they used to do.
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I'm telling you the truth.
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Back in 1900
they made a provision
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for what was
called rail delivery,
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meaning, we'll take
packages up to 50 pounds.
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They started first with 10,
then they raised it up to 50.
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You're okay with 50? Okay.
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You're okay with 50?
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Yeah. Good.
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So 50 pounds or under
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and you could mail your
child, anywhere in America.
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That was back when
they trust the mailman.
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All right, and they say,
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you would take the big
mail babies in the mail.
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No, I'm telling you the truth.
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Look, you got the stamps
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and if you show up
at the post office,
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they will take
you to your loved one.
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Wherever your mother
wants to see you, send you,
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wherever your
daddy wants to send you.
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In fact, listen to this,
a 103 years ago right now
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according to the
Wall Street Journal...
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I got it right here.
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A 103 years ago February 1914
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they had a
little girl named May,
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her name was May
Pierstorff just shy of six,
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mother said, I wanna mail you
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from Grangeville,
Idaho to Lewiston.
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It was a distance of 73 miles
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she was 48.5 pounds
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so she's under
the limit just barely.
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And guess how much
mama had to pay to mailman,
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53 cents.
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What? Yeah.
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What? What?
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What?
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How will you? What?
00:17:43.69\00:17:46.43
Can you believe that, 53 cents.
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And then get this...
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So that was fare.
But here is another one.
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Oh, he was a little...
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I guess this is a girl Edna.
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Edna Neff also six years old
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under the weight
limit she can go...
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This turns out to
be the longest mailing
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ever in U.S. history,
00:18:04.45\00:18:05.81
mailing a child
from Pensacola, Florida
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to Christiansburg,
Virginia 727 miles.
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And guess how much it cost?
00:18:12.92\00:18:14.86
15 cents.
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What?
00:18:17.59\00:18:19.96
Can you believe it?
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No plane...
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No plane ticket...
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Actually the
kids ended upon trains
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and the conductors
had to look after the kids
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and make sure they were fed
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till they got to
where they were going.
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Oh, thank you, kids, sit down.
00:18:31.84\00:18:34.21
I can't believe it.
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In 1930 then they
said enough no more,
00:18:36.18\00:18:39.41
so it's all over.
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Don't tell your
mother to do it now,
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they won't do it.
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But what would
happen if Jesus came to you
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and Jesus said, "Hey, yo,
00:18:46.65\00:18:48.32
I'm putting a
stamp on your shoulder.
00:18:48.36\00:18:50.39
Sissy, I'm putting a
stamp on your shoulder.
00:18:50.43\00:18:52.69
Junior, I'm putting a
stamp on your shoulder.
00:18:52.73\00:18:54.53
I'm putting a
stamp on your shoulder
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and I'm sending you,
it's a stamp of my love
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and I'm sending
you to a lonely boy
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in your classroom..."
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Are you going to school?
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A lonely boy, the
kids never play with him,
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at recess time he's...
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At lunch time he
is all by himself.
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Jesus puts a
stamp on your shoulder
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and He says,
00:19:12.05\00:19:13.38
"Girl, I'm sending you to
that boy right over there,
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I want you to have
lunch with him today,
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and let him know that
you wanna be his friend."
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What if Jesus put a stamp on us
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and sent us somewhere,
00:19:26.09\00:19:27.93
somebody that needs
His love through you.
00:19:27.96\00:19:32.10
That's what God did with Jesus,
put a stamp on Him and said,
00:19:32.13\00:19:34.14
"You're a baby, you go,"
00:19:34.17\00:19:35.60
and Jesus was mailed to
earth, and He lived among us.
00:19:35.64\00:19:40.48
So we could learn how
to love just like Jesus.
00:19:40.51\00:19:44.88
Aren't you glad
that God sends us...
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You know,
somebody who is all alone,
00:19:46.48\00:19:49.18
find that
somebody this next week,
00:19:49.22\00:19:51.05
put your arm around her and say,
00:19:51.09\00:19:53.25
"I'm bringing you
Jesus' love, let's be friends."
00:19:53.29\00:19:58.19
How many of you are glad
that Jesus was mailed to us?
00:19:58.23\00:20:00.96
And how many wanna say,
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.33
"I wanna be sent by Jesus
00:20:02.36\00:20:03.70
wherever He needs
across the street.
00:20:03.73\00:20:05.60
I don't need a stamp,
all I need is His love."
00:20:05.63\00:20:09.54
Who would like to pray today
and thank Jesus for sending us?
00:20:09.57\00:20:13.24
Sissy, you come,
you held your hand up.
00:20:13.27\00:20:15.48
You come here...
00:20:15.51\00:20:16.85
Can I get that mike, guys?
00:20:16.88\00:20:18.81
Bless you.
00:20:18.85\00:20:20.62
And, Sissy, what's your name.
00:20:20.65\00:20:22.02
Camille. Camille.
00:20:22.05\00:20:23.39
Let's fold our
hands, close your eyes
00:20:23.42\00:20:26.99
and, Camille, thank
Jesus for sending us.
00:20:27.02\00:20:30.33
Thank you, Jesus, for
sending us to this world.
00:20:30.36\00:20:35.23
And thank You for
putting a stamp on us,
00:20:35.26\00:20:39.93
in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
00:20:39.97\00:20:41.94
Amen.
00:20:41.97\00:20:43.30
Beautiful prayer,
Camille, thank you.
00:20:43.34\00:20:45.01
And as you go quietly
00:20:45.04\00:20:46.37
and reverently
back to your seats,
00:20:46.41\00:20:47.74
you say, "Thank you,
Jesus, put that stamp on me,
00:20:47.78\00:20:49.88
I will go for you."
00:20:49.91\00:20:51.81
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:21:04.46\00:21:08.53
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:21:08.56\00:21:13.70
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:21:13.74\00:21:17.74
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:21:17.77\00:21:22.91
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:21:22.94\00:21:27.55
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:21:27.58\00:21:32.12
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:21:32.15\00:21:36.19
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:21:36.22\00:21:42.10
A grain of weed may
be knocked to the ground
00:21:42.13\00:21:46.87
And suffer
through the winter storm
00:21:46.90\00:21:51.61
Only to rise, rise up again
00:21:51.64\00:21:55.84
And bear its
seed a thousand fold
00:21:55.88\00:22:00.82
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:00.85\00:22:04.92
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:22:04.95\00:22:10.06
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:10.09\00:22:14.06
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:22:14.10\00:22:19.33
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:19.37\00:22:23.97
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:24.01\00:22:28.58
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:28.61\00:22:32.55
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:22:32.58\00:22:38.72
Never can our journey fail
00:22:38.75\00:22:43.29
A little child
will lead the way!
00:22:43.32\00:22:47.80
Whose eyes are
filled with a shining light
00:22:47.83\00:22:51.83
To whom the
night is bright as day!
00:22:51.87\00:22:56.54
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:22:56.57\00:23:00.71
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:23:00.74\00:23:05.81
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:23:05.85\00:23:09.88
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:23:09.92\00:23:15.22
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:23:15.26\00:23:19.93
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:23:19.96\00:23:24.67
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:23:24.70\00:23:28.74
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:23:28.77\00:23:34.84
The love that
rolls the stone away
00:23:34.88\00:23:40.02
Gives us life that we may sing!
00:23:40.05\00:23:44.42
Grave, where is thy victory?
00:23:44.45\00:23:48.96
Death, oh, death,
where is thy sting?
00:23:48.99\00:23:55.96
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:23:56.00\00:24:00.04
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:24:00.07\00:24:05.21
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:24:05.24\00:24:09.31
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:24:09.34\00:24:14.52
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:24:14.55\00:24:19.05
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:24:19.09\00:24:23.83
The stone that
the builders rejected
00:24:23.86\00:24:27.86
Became the
cornerstone of a whole new world
00:24:27.90\00:24:33.34
The cornerstone
of a whole new world
00:24:33.37\00:24:41.28
Thank you, Chelsea and singers.
00:24:53.62\00:24:55.86
A cornerstone
that the world rejected
00:24:55.89\00:24:59.73
became a whole new world.
00:24:59.76\00:25:03.06
So we need as old
world broken down...
00:25:03.10\00:25:07.87
Jesus a cornerstone could...
00:25:07.90\00:25:11.57
be a foundation for
a brand new creation
00:25:11.61\00:25:17.15
in the little time we have left.
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.58
Let's pray.
00:25:19.61\00:25:20.95
Dear, God, thank
You for the singers,
00:25:20.98\00:25:24.45
thank You for that song,
00:25:24.49\00:25:26.82
A cornerstone the a
builders rejected...
00:25:26.86\00:25:33.63
of a whole new
world, oh, we need...
00:25:33.66\00:25:36.63
Given what's been happening,
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.00
Father, we need that
cornerstone right now.
00:25:38.03\00:25:42.60
So Jesus had at it,
00:25:42.64\00:25:43.97
please just gonna
keep me out of the way,
00:25:44.01\00:25:47.91
maybe clear enough
what we're about to share
00:25:47.94\00:25:52.15
so that we know what we must do.
00:25:52.18\00:25:55.95
You speak, we listen,
00:25:55.98\00:25:59.32
in the name of our
Savior we pray, amen.
00:25:59.35\00:26:01.89
Something happened in
this sanctuary on Thursday.
00:27:04.49\00:27:10.69
And it had God's
fingerprints all over it.
00:27:10.73\00:27:14.73
I've never seen
anything like it.
00:27:14.76\00:27:16.30
I've been attending
chapels for over 30 years,
00:27:16.33\00:27:20.17
never, never one like this one.
00:27:20.20\00:27:24.91
And strangely enough,
00:27:24.94\00:27:26.27
it all began the weekend before,
00:27:26.31\00:27:29.54
last weekend.
00:27:29.58\00:27:31.48
A little video clip
00:27:31.51\00:27:32.85
produced and released
by some black students
00:27:32.88\00:27:35.05
here at the University
along with their campus pastor.
00:27:35.08\00:27:39.19
Hashtag it is time AU.
00:27:39.22\00:27:43.93
I saw the clip on Sunday,
00:27:43.96\00:27:46.86
100,000 others saw
by the end of the week.
00:27:46.90\00:27:49.30
And I can summarize I
think the message of that clip,
00:27:52.77\00:27:59.07
simple message
really, something like this.
00:27:59.11\00:28:03.51
It's time for
the faith community
00:28:03.55\00:28:04.88
that is on this campus
that owns this university
00:28:04.91\00:28:10.72
to own up to the
racial injustices
00:28:10.75\00:28:14.92
against black
students in the past,
00:28:14.96\00:28:18.13
as well as to a
lack of sensitivity
00:28:18.16\00:28:19.93
to in representation of
black students in the present.
00:28:19.96\00:28:24.10
It's time to
respond with an apology.
00:28:24.13\00:28:30.04
And so when the word went out
00:28:30.07\00:28:32.51
at the speed of light by the way
00:28:32.54\00:28:35.18
through social media,
00:28:35.21\00:28:37.98
the word, the
news at the university,
00:28:38.01\00:28:40.02
and its administration
had not only heard
00:28:40.05\00:28:42.08
these black students' message,
00:28:42.12\00:28:44.42
but would
present a formal response
00:28:44.45\00:28:48.56
to their appeal
at Thursday chapel.
00:28:48.59\00:28:54.13
I felt like
whole world was here,
00:28:54.16\00:28:55.50
I've never seen a
chapel so packed in my life.
00:28:55.53\00:28:57.73
And by the way the
faculty staff forum
00:29:01.34\00:29:04.64
the Tuesday
before this Thursday.
00:29:04.67\00:29:07.61
Somebody near the
end of the forum got up
00:29:07.64\00:29:09.28
and said, "Yo, I
think we need to have...
00:29:09.31\00:29:11.61
We need to call for a
day of fasting and prayer
00:29:11.65\00:29:14.58
on the campus of
Andrews University."
00:29:14.62\00:29:16.85
And so lead chaplain
June Price and I were tasked
00:29:16.89\00:29:19.82
with spending Tuesday evening
00:29:19.85\00:29:21.32
crafting a call to
prayer and fasting.
00:29:21.36\00:29:26.39
Went out Wednesday
morning to every student,
00:29:26.43\00:29:28.20
every faculty
member, every staff member
00:29:28.23\00:29:31.03
in this
institution of higher learning.
00:29:31.07\00:29:34.47
And the suggested
day of prayer was, okay,
00:29:34.50\00:29:36.44
Wednesday 7 pm to Thursday 7 pm.
00:29:36.47\00:29:39.97
Well, the beauty of that
is Wednesday 7 pm we're here,
00:29:40.01\00:29:43.65
house of prayer,
00:29:43.68\00:29:46.05
on the beginning of that
day of fasting and prayer.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.02
And so we could not,
00:29:49.05\00:29:50.69
not come from out of the
pews on to this platform,
00:29:50.72\00:29:56.29
and pray for the woman
00:29:56.32\00:29:58.26
who would stand in less than
00:29:58.29\00:30:01.76
24 hours at this spot,
00:30:01.80\00:30:05.33
and who would
address this institution,
00:30:05.37\00:30:07.67
and through live
streaming a whole lot more.
00:30:07.70\00:30:12.77
And so we prayed
for three categories
00:30:12.81\00:30:16.75
one, the
president, two, the students,
00:30:16.78\00:30:20.12
three, the faculty and staff.
00:30:20.15\00:30:22.05
Three volunteers, two
of whom I've never met...
00:30:22.08\00:30:24.65
I could not tell you their names
00:30:24.69\00:30:26.62
but I wanna to tell you, I
wanna testify to the passion,
00:30:26.65\00:30:30.73
and the earnestness
of those three prayers
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.06
and everybody on
this platform is swept
00:30:33.09\00:30:35.06
into those prayers
00:30:35.10\00:30:36.43
as they ascended
the throne of God.
00:30:36.46\00:30:38.37
And so because it was a
day of fasting and prayer,
00:30:38.40\00:30:40.97
when I walked
into this chapel space
00:30:41.00\00:30:43.77
on Thursday morning,
00:30:43.81\00:30:45.81
I'm coming with a
sense of expectancy as well,
00:30:45.84\00:30:49.58
turns out
everybody else was too.
00:30:49.61\00:30:52.05
I'm not gonna
rehearse what took place
00:30:52.08\00:30:53.42
during those 50
minutes in this space.
00:30:53.45\00:30:56.52
You can watch the entire service
00:30:56.55\00:30:58.05
on YouTube now.
00:30:58.09\00:31:01.06
But I can only tell you
00:31:01.09\00:31:02.42
that in the context of a
day of fasting and prayer,
00:31:02.46\00:31:07.93
my spirit immediately recognized
00:31:07.96\00:31:09.86
there's something going on here.
00:31:09.90\00:31:12.13
From the opening prayer
to the final prayer of appeal
00:31:12.17\00:31:16.57
both delivered by
two of our chaplains.
00:31:16.60\00:31:20.58
For me it was
absolutely crystal clear
00:31:20.61\00:31:25.31
that the spirit was in our midst
00:31:25.35\00:31:27.62
moving the details.
00:31:27.65\00:31:30.52
I sat in a group
of black students,
00:31:30.55\00:31:34.09
listening keenly
every one of them, me too.
00:31:34.12\00:31:39.49
And I'm starting to get
moved by what's happening here
00:31:39.53\00:31:41.76
from the prayer at
the beginning to the end
00:31:41.80\00:31:43.13
and in between the president
in her own gracious humble way
00:31:43.16\00:31:47.47
begins to speak from her heart,
00:31:47.50\00:31:49.20
she goes to Mark 2...
00:31:49.24\00:31:50.97
I've never heard anybody
interpret the story in Mark 2,
00:31:51.01\00:31:54.71
the way she did
and I said to myself
00:31:54.74\00:31:56.68
Holy Spirit way to go.
00:31:56.71\00:32:00.52
You got it... Just go,
you watch it on YouTube.
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.98
And I'm beginning to resort
00:32:06.39\00:32:08.66
to the universal
motion for emotion.
00:32:08.69\00:32:11.49
You know, what
that universal motion
00:32:11.53\00:32:12.86
for emotion is.
00:32:12.89\00:32:14.23
And I'm seeing the students
around me going like this.
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.53
God was here.
00:32:21.74\00:32:24.61
He was moving on us all.
00:32:24.64\00:32:27.18
But for worship this morning,
in the same space here we are,
00:32:27.21\00:32:31.41
exactly two days later
00:32:31.45\00:32:33.88
we have not come to rehearse
but it's already happened.
00:32:33.92\00:32:37.99
Rather we must
seriously ponder now... come on.
00:32:38.02\00:32:40.42
We got to ponder now,
what needs to happen next,
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.92
right here in
this campus church.
00:32:42.96\00:32:45.26
It's a only space I can talk to.
00:32:45.29\00:32:47.90
But in the space of
faith community churches
00:32:47.93\00:32:52.70
all across this nation
00:32:52.73\00:32:54.34
and I'm thinking
of America right now.
00:32:54.37\00:32:57.34
What is it to God would have us
00:32:57.37\00:32:58.94
as Seventh-day
Adventist do next.
00:32:58.97\00:33:01.44
I'm talking about
racial reconciliation,
00:33:01.48\00:33:04.25
I'm talking about the
unspoken, unhidden agenda
00:33:04.28\00:33:06.92
that like the
proverbial elephant
00:33:06.95\00:33:08.28
is sitting on top of us
00:33:08.32\00:33:09.65
whenever we gather as
blacks, and reds, and yellows,
00:33:09.68\00:33:11.95
and whites, and
browns in one space,
00:33:11.99\00:33:13.76
that elephant is
sitting on all of us,
00:33:13.79\00:33:15.29
and we know exactly
what it is, it's racism.
00:33:15.32\00:33:20.83
It may not look like
the 1950s and the 1960s,
00:33:20.86\00:33:23.63
it is very
suddenly different perhaps
00:33:23.67\00:33:26.00
but it's still racism.
00:33:26.03\00:33:30.64
And the truth is,
00:33:30.67\00:33:32.41
racism did not
disappear on Thursday.
00:33:32.44\00:33:36.18
Today is Sabbath.
00:33:36.21\00:33:38.61
A new day and a new
week are about to begin.
00:33:38.65\00:33:42.12
We need to confront the truth.
00:33:42.15\00:33:48.52
I wrote my weekly
blog on Wednesday.
00:33:48.56\00:33:53.03
And with your permission
00:33:53.06\00:33:54.76
I'm gonna read
that blog right now.
00:33:54.80\00:33:57.50
But I wanna read it
without your permission.
00:33:57.53\00:34:02.74
You can get the
blog by the way online.
00:34:02.77\00:34:04.91
And if you go to my blog online,
00:34:04.94\00:34:06.94
at the bottom of the blog
00:34:06.98\00:34:08.31
will be a link to everything
that happened Thursday,
00:34:08.34\00:34:11.21
Andrews University, everything.
00:34:11.25\00:34:13.68
So as title of the blog
is, "How can you heal the pain,
00:34:13.72\00:34:17.05
when you can't feel the pain?"
00:34:17.09\00:34:20.22
www.newperceptions.tv
00:34:20.26\00:34:22.66
those of you watching
right now live streaming
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.43
from somewhere on earth
00:34:24.46\00:34:26.56
or you watching it
later on a television program.
00:34:26.59\00:34:28.90
The blog begins this way,
00:34:28.93\00:34:30.27
how can you heal someone's pain,
00:34:30.30\00:34:31.63
when you can't
feel someone's pain?
00:34:31.67\00:34:33.34
There is a pain deep
within our faith community
00:34:33.37\00:34:35.50
and our university campus.
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.37
And the truth is
most of us can't feel it.
00:34:37.41\00:34:39.77
How could we
possibly feel it, we're white?
00:34:39.81\00:34:42.38
Years ago a
friend gave me a book
00:34:45.71\00:34:47.05
that I never got
around to reading
00:34:47.08\00:34:48.42
until a few days ago.
00:34:48.45\00:34:50.09
It's Paul Kivel's exploration,
titled Upending Racism:
00:34:50.12\00:34:53.69
How White People Can
Work for Racial Justice.
00:34:53.72\00:34:56.79
One glance at
the title back then
00:34:56.83\00:34:58.29
and I knew this
wouldn't be book for me,
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.93
since I'm not a racist,
00:34:59.96\00:35:01.30
since I see very little
of any racism around me,
00:35:01.33\00:35:03.33
so why should I worry?
00:35:03.37\00:35:04.70
That was 20 years ago.
00:35:04.73\00:35:06.47
Now the book
speaks volumes to me.
00:35:06.50\00:35:09.74
I put a few words from the
book on the screen for you.
00:35:09.77\00:35:12.64
This is Kivel writing.
00:35:12.67\00:35:14.01
"It is not necessarily
a privilege to be white,
00:35:14.04\00:35:17.45
but it certainly
has its benefits...
00:35:17.48\00:35:21.45
Privileges are economic 'extras'
00:35:21.48\00:35:23.45
that those of us
who are middle class
00:35:23.49\00:35:25.35
and wealthy gain
at the expense of poor
00:35:25.39\00:35:27.02
and working class
people of all races.
00:35:27.06\00:35:29.32
Now hold on.
00:35:29.36\00:35:30.69
Benefits, on the other hand,
00:35:30.73\00:35:32.26
are the advantages
that all white people gain
00:35:32.29\00:35:35.13
at the expense
of people of color
00:35:35.16\00:35:36.97
regardless of
economic position...
00:35:37.00\00:35:39.50
Just because we don't
have the economic privileges
00:35:39.53\00:35:41.50
of those with more money
doesn't mean we haven't enjoyed
00:35:41.54\00:35:44.87
some of the
benefits of being white."
00:35:44.91\00:35:48.28
And then Kivel
runs through for me
00:35:48.31\00:35:50.55
an eye opening
checklist of such privileges.
00:35:50.58\00:35:53.92
And this is just six of them,
00:35:53.95\00:35:55.78
they're two pages
worth in his book.
00:35:55.82\00:35:58.12
Let me run six of them by.
00:35:58.15\00:35:59.49
One, "We whites
are able to count on
00:35:59.52\00:36:02.09
police protection
rather than harassment.
00:36:02.12\00:36:04.46
Two, we're able to
choose where we want to live
00:36:04.49\00:36:06.86
with safe neighborhoods
and decent schools.
00:36:06.90\00:36:08.83
Three, we're
given more attention,
00:36:08.86\00:36:10.70
respect and
status in conversations
00:36:10.73\00:36:12.47
than people of color.
00:36:12.50\00:36:13.84
Four, in news, music,
history books, and the media
00:36:13.87\00:36:16.40
we see people who look
like us in a positive light.
00:36:16.44\00:36:19.51
Five, we have more access,
00:36:19.54\00:36:21.31
credibility, and recourse
with lawyers and courts.
00:36:21.34\00:36:23.98
Six, nothing that we
do is qualified, limited,
00:36:24.01\00:36:26.58
discredited, or acclaimed simply
00:36:26.61\00:36:28.28
because of our
racial background."
00:36:28.32\00:36:32.25
And then he says by the way
that's not when you're adult
00:36:32.29\00:36:34.79
and white
privilege actually starts
00:36:34.82\00:36:36.52
when you're a child.
00:36:36.56\00:36:37.93
And he runs by five, one,
00:36:37.96\00:36:40.26
"People around us will
have higher expectations
00:36:40.30\00:36:42.73
for us as children.
00:36:42.76\00:36:44.33
Two, more money will
be spent on our schools.
00:36:44.37\00:36:47.04
Three, we'll get
called on more times in class.
00:36:47.07\00:36:49.44
Four, we will see people
00:36:49.47\00:36:50.91
who look like us
in our textbooks.
00:36:50.94\00:36:52.44
Five, and if we get into trouble
00:36:52.47\00:36:54.41
adults will expect us
00:36:54.44\00:36:55.78
to be able to
change and improve,
00:36:55.81\00:36:57.15
and therefore will
discipline or penalize us less
00:36:57.18\00:36:59.78
or differently
than children of color."
00:36:59.81\00:37:04.09
Kivel concludes his
words on the screen.
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.46
"All else being
equal, it pays to be white.
00:37:07.49\00:37:11.99
We will be
accepted, acknowledged,
00:37:12.03\00:37:13.50
and given the
benefit of the doubt.
00:37:13.53\00:37:15.33
Since all else is not equal
00:37:15.36\00:37:16.77
we each receive
different benefits
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.67
or different levels
of the same benefits
00:37:18.70\00:37:20.77
from being white."
00:37:20.80\00:37:23.74
So the question repeats itself,
00:37:23.77\00:37:25.31
"How can you
possibly heal someone's pain,
00:37:25.34\00:37:27.81
when you can't
feel someone's pain?"
00:37:27.84\00:37:31.48
The blog moving to its wrap.
00:37:31.51\00:37:33.85
Ask the Good Samaritan.
00:37:33.88\00:37:35.52
The crime victim was a
Jew, and Jews hated Samaritans.
00:37:35.55\00:37:38.32
So why should the
Samaritan bother at all?
00:37:38.35\00:37:40.76
He couldn't feel
the victim's pain.
00:37:40.79\00:37:42.62
But as Martin Luther King,
00:37:42.66\00:37:43.99
Jr. observed
about Jesus' parable.
00:37:44.03\00:37:46.23
Whereas the priest
and the Levite fretted,
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.66
"If I stop to help this
man, what will happen to me?"
00:37:48.70\00:37:51.57
The Samaritan asked,
00:37:51.60\00:37:53.57
"If I do not
stop to help this man,
00:37:53.60\00:37:55.47
what will happen to him?"
00:37:55.50\00:37:58.27
And there is a
universe of difference.
00:37:58.31\00:38:00.64
Got that from a
biography of Martin Luther
00:38:00.68\00:38:02.94
that I have in my library,
"Let the trumpet sound."
00:38:02.98\00:38:06.35
What will happen to
him? What will happen to her?
00:38:06.38\00:38:08.22
What will happen to
them if I don't stop
00:38:08.25\00:38:09.75
and pour myself into their pain?
00:38:09.78\00:38:11.92
It's the golden
rule hammered out
00:38:11.95\00:38:13.99
in the crucible
of another's pain.
00:38:14.02\00:38:16.09
The Samaritan
knelt beside the victim
00:38:16.12\00:38:18.33
and administered to him
00:38:18.36\00:38:20.00
the emotional and
physical intervention
00:38:20.03\00:38:22.26
the brutalized man
desperately needed.
00:38:22.30\00:38:26.30
And in his self-sacrificial love
00:38:26.33\00:38:27.90
for his neighbor,
00:38:27.94\00:38:29.27
we see not only
the truth about Christ
00:38:29.30\00:38:31.61
who knelt beside us at Calvary
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.31
because that's exactly
what Jesus did at the cross,
00:38:33.34\00:38:35.38
He knelt beside us.
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.48
But we also see the truth
00:38:37.51\00:38:38.91
Christ calls His
radical followers to embrace
00:38:38.95\00:38:41.78
as you would
have others treat you,
00:38:41.82\00:38:44.52
you treat them.
00:38:44.55\00:38:47.39
Final line, there is a pain deep
00:38:47.42\00:38:49.69
within our faith community
and our university campus.
00:38:49.72\00:38:53.03
It may not be your pain
00:38:53.06\00:38:54.46
but until it
becomes your business,
00:38:54.50\00:38:57.83
the pain, plain
and simple cannot
00:38:57.87\00:39:00.27
and will not be
healed in the school,
00:39:00.30\00:39:03.64
in the church,
in our own hearts.
00:39:03.67\00:39:06.64
The end.
00:39:06.68\00:39:11.28
Young friend of mine
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.21
an African-American
attorney wrote me
00:39:13.25\00:39:16.99
after reading the blog.
00:39:17.02\00:39:21.16
"Pastor Dwight, how
is everything going?
00:39:21.19\00:39:24.86
I pray and hope
that you are doing well.
00:39:24.89\00:39:26.86
First of all, I
wanna let you know
00:39:26.90\00:39:29.36
that I was deeply
moved by your blog yesterday.
00:39:29.40\00:39:32.57
What I connected with
most was the genuine Spirit,
00:39:32.60\00:39:34.87
capital S, Spirit behind it.
00:39:34.90\00:39:37.41
As you prepared to
minister this coming Sabbath,
00:39:37.44\00:39:39.67
I feel impressed to
simply say don't hold back.
00:39:39.71\00:39:42.54
I don't know what God is
impressing upon you to say
00:39:42.58\00:39:45.01
but I implore you to
let the Spirit lead you
00:39:45.05\00:39:47.62
as you help
ShepherdPMC, AU campus,
00:39:47.65\00:39:50.15
and the surrounding community
00:39:50.19\00:39:51.52
through this process of
transparency and healing."
00:39:51.55\00:39:54.72
And then he observes,
00:39:54.76\00:39:56.09
"We are at a critical
point in our church's history
00:39:56.12\00:39:58.93
and I believe
that we are at a time
00:39:58.96\00:40:00.43
in which we will no
longer be able to hide
00:40:00.46\00:40:02.36
from these questions, and
sweep things under the rug,
00:40:02.40\00:40:05.27
regardless of how folks may feel
00:40:05.30\00:40:07.07
about the method
chosen by, it is time AU team.
00:40:07.10\00:40:10.74
It has brought us
to this critical moment
00:40:10.77\00:40:12.87
and there is no turning back.
00:40:12.91\00:40:16.85
No going back to the old passive
00:40:16.88\00:40:18.75
non-confrontational
fairytale of post racial harmony
00:40:18.78\00:40:22.45
that we have tried
to convince ourselves
00:40:22.48\00:40:24.02
is true knowing
all along it was a lie,
00:40:24.05\00:40:26.65
it is time for us, all of us
to take a look in the mirror,
00:40:26.69\00:40:30.26
and start getting
unapologetically real
00:40:30.29\00:40:33.03
with ourselves
and with each other.
00:40:33.06\00:40:35.06
I wanted you to know
that I'm praying for you.
00:40:35.10\00:40:37.43
We're stronger
together and we will make it
00:40:37.47\00:40:39.17
through these difficult days
00:40:39.20\00:40:40.64
with our eyes
fixed on the promise
00:40:40.67\00:40:42.17
that He will be with us,
guide us, hold us, carry us,
00:40:42.20\00:40:44.77
and empower us until
our faith is made site.
00:40:44.81\00:40:48.34
Let me know if there's any way
I can be of assistance to you
00:40:48.38\00:40:51.35
with love and respect."
00:40:51.38\00:40:52.78
He signs his name.
00:40:52.81\00:40:55.12
Now he does not know
this Andrews University alum.
00:40:55.15\00:40:58.29
He does not know
00:40:58.32\00:40:59.65
that when he sent me that email.
00:40:59.69\00:41:01.32
Before I read it
I was on my knees
00:41:01.36\00:41:05.83
because I'm writing
a sermon for Sabbath,
00:41:05.86\00:41:07.23
it's the next in this series.
00:41:07.26\00:41:09.00
But all the
while that I'm writing,
00:41:09.03\00:41:10.40
it is now getting
late in the afternoon,
00:41:10.43\00:41:12.20
there's just a sense
00:41:12.23\00:41:13.57
that maybe I should
not be writing the sermon.
00:41:13.60\00:41:15.97
Maybe I should be writing
another sermon right now.
00:41:16.00\00:41:19.94
And finally I went to...
00:41:19.97\00:41:21.31
I was so bothered by
it, I went to my knees,
00:41:21.34\00:41:22.68
and I said, "God,
what's going on here?"
00:41:22.71\00:41:25.11
I said, "God, its' 3
o'clock in the afternoon.
00:41:25.15\00:41:29.52
I need to know very clearly
whether You want this or not,
00:41:29.55\00:41:33.05
and so here's the deal
I'm giving you 30 minutes.
00:41:33.09\00:41:36.93
Thirty minutes
you send me a text,
00:41:36.96\00:41:39.06
you send me a phone call,
somebody walk into my room,
00:41:39.09\00:41:42.23
somebody sends me an
e-mail, I don't care.
00:41:42.26\00:41:43.90
You send in 30
minutes you get word to me."
00:41:43.93\00:41:47.27
And then I went
back to my knees,
00:41:47.30\00:41:48.80
prayed for bit, got up,
00:41:48.84\00:41:50.17
and said, "Man, I
can't sit around here,
00:41:50.21\00:41:51.54
I got to keep
working on the sermon."
00:41:51.57\00:41:52.91
So I kept writing
00:41:52.94\00:41:54.28
and I finally
look down at my watch,
00:41:54.31\00:41:55.64
it was 34 minutes past 3.
00:41:55.68\00:41:59.08
I went to my phone, I
said no text messages,
00:41:59.11\00:42:02.55
no phone messages,
well, I'm gonna try email
00:42:02.58\00:42:04.55
so I go email
and I see his name,
00:42:04.59\00:42:06.12
and see the email
and I opened it up
00:42:06.15\00:42:07.72
what I just read to you.
00:42:07.76\00:42:09.22
And God said to me,
"Boy, that's your answer."
00:42:09.26\00:42:14.36
That was my answer, so
I pushed everything aside,
00:42:14.40\00:42:16.26
I said, "Okay,
it's 4 o' clock now,
00:42:16.30\00:42:18.40
let's start over."
00:42:18.43\00:42:19.77
So here we are
00:42:25.77\00:42:27.21
you and I in a predominantly
white congregation.
00:42:27.24\00:42:30.31
Just look around.
00:42:30.35\00:42:31.68
Pretty much unaware at least
I was that we have grown up
00:42:34.48\00:42:37.09
all of us whites
00:42:37.12\00:42:38.55
with a legacy
of white privilege.
00:42:38.59\00:42:41.49
And if I might
be honest with you
00:42:41.52\00:42:43.86
because I recognize
this in my own heart,
00:42:43.89\00:42:46.29
we have unconsciously...
00:42:46.33\00:42:47.66
And by the way
that's a key word,
00:42:47.70\00:42:49.03
that's a key word,
00:42:49.06\00:42:50.40
we have unconsciously
because nobody sets out
00:42:50.43\00:42:52.67
to embrace racial bias.
00:42:52.70\00:42:55.34
We have unconsciously grown up
00:42:55.37\00:42:57.31
with a modified
Jewish male prayer God.
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.38
I thank you, I
was not born a pagan,
00:43:00.41\00:43:02.24
I was not born a woman,
and I was not born black.
00:43:02.28\00:43:05.15
Why?
00:43:09.58\00:43:11.75
Because you don't
have to be a genius to know
00:43:11.79\00:43:14.42
that if you're a
white and particularly
00:43:14.46\00:43:15.92
if you're a white
male in this country,
00:43:15.96\00:43:17.53
you live with a
package of privileges,
00:43:17.56\00:43:19.43
and prerogatives of advantages,
00:43:19.46\00:43:21.20
and accoutrements
that your black neighbors,
00:43:21.23\00:43:22.83
and your black colleagues,
and your black friends
00:43:22.86\00:43:24.67
never get to live
with never, never, never.
00:43:24.70\00:43:29.57
And you know by the way...
00:43:29.60\00:43:31.24
Listen to me carefully
now, you know, they know,
00:43:31.27\00:43:36.01
but you pretend you don't know.
00:43:36.04\00:43:40.88
We pretend we don't know
00:43:40.92\00:43:42.25
that all this fuss about justice
00:43:42.28\00:43:43.62
and equality is a carry over,
00:43:43.65\00:43:44.99
it's a vestige from
a generation long ago.
00:43:45.02\00:43:47.26
But when I read Kivel's book,
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.12
I suddenly realized
how much white privilege
00:43:49.16\00:43:52.06
it has been my
privilege to enjoy.
00:43:52.09\00:43:54.36
And that my white, friends,
is what those black students
00:43:57.77\00:44:01.44
were reacting to when they said,
00:44:01.47\00:44:03.81
"Enough is enough,
00:44:03.84\00:44:06.07
it is time to
fish, or cut bait."
00:44:06.11\00:44:08.94
Take a week to
decide how to respond
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.68
but respond you must.
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.61
It was not an ultimatum.
00:44:12.65\00:44:15.42
Now looking at it
00:44:15.45\00:44:16.79
through our white
privilege glasses,
00:44:16.82\00:44:18.19
it may have felt
like a ultimatum.
00:44:18.22\00:44:20.22
It was not, it was a plea.
00:44:20.26\00:44:23.06
We know, that you
know, that we know,
00:44:23.09\00:44:26.09
you live with white
privilege so what we're asking,
00:44:26.13\00:44:29.03
will you do for us?
00:44:29.06\00:44:32.50
Don't tell us
manana, we need to know now,
00:44:32.53\00:44:37.77
that was the plea.
00:44:37.81\00:44:40.21
And they're right.
00:44:40.24\00:44:42.44
We must respond.
00:44:42.48\00:44:47.22
And I wanna say
on behalf of nobody
00:44:47.25\00:44:51.65
and that's
generally the best person
00:44:51.69\00:44:53.02
to be talking for.
00:44:53.05\00:44:55.42
I wanna say on behalf of
nobody that I must respond.
00:44:55.46\00:44:58.79
Our president with
humility and clarity
00:44:58.83\00:45:01.36
announced the beginning
00:45:01.40\00:45:02.73
of Andrews
University's response,
00:45:02.76\00:45:06.43
and I will do all I
can to help in any way
00:45:06.47\00:45:08.70
to assist her in this university
00:45:08.74\00:45:10.41
in a continuing response.
00:45:10.44\00:45:12.44
You know, why, because I
happen to believe God's promise
00:45:12.47\00:45:14.18
and I know that you do too.
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.54
And I put the
promise on the screen
00:45:15.58\00:45:16.91
for you Philippians 1:6.
00:45:16.95\00:45:18.28
I love this promise.
00:45:18.31\00:45:19.85
"I am confident of this,
00:45:19.88\00:45:21.82
that the One who
began a good work
00:45:21.85\00:45:23.18
among you will
bring it to completion
00:45:23.22\00:45:24.95
by the day of Jesus Christ."
00:45:24.99\00:45:27.49
God never start something
that He doesn't finish.
00:45:27.52\00:45:29.86
And I'm telling you
00:45:29.89\00:45:31.23
He started
something on Thursday,
00:45:31.26\00:45:32.59
His fingerprints
were all over this place.
00:45:32.63\00:45:36.26
And so we can't just
twiddle our thumbs down
00:45:36.30\00:45:37.63
and sit back well,
00:45:37.67\00:45:39.00
by the day of
Jesus Christ come on,
00:45:39.03\00:45:40.37
even so come, Lord
Jesus, get it done, get it done.
00:45:40.40\00:45:42.80
No, Jesus says,
"I'm not coming."
00:45:42.84\00:45:45.41
You got work to do,
00:45:45.44\00:45:46.84
don't you keep praying
that prayer even so come,
00:45:46.88\00:45:48.58
Lord Jesus, until you do
00:45:48.61\00:45:51.21
what the Lord Jesus
has commanded you to do.
00:45:51.25\00:45:54.08
"You obey me.
00:45:54.12\00:45:55.65
When you obey me,
00:45:55.68\00:45:57.25
you will do what
I'm asking you to do,
00:45:57.29\00:46:01.06
and then you'll heal
00:46:01.09\00:46:03.63
this gaping wound in yourself."
00:46:03.66\00:46:08.36
What wound? What command?
The 11th commandment, come on.
00:46:08.40\00:46:13.57
I want you to look it
up. Come on in your Bible.
00:46:13.60\00:46:15.60
John 13, you got a Bible,
pull your Bible out to John 13,
00:46:15.64\00:46:20.31
red letter words,
00:46:20.34\00:46:21.68
this is less than 12
hours and Jesus would be...
00:46:21.71\00:46:24.38
About 12 hours He'll
be hanging on the cross,
00:46:24.41\00:46:27.35
He will die, He
knows He's gonna die.
00:46:27.38\00:46:31.55
He's on death row
but before He dies
00:46:31.59\00:46:34.29
something is
passionately important to Him,
00:46:34.32\00:46:38.13
and He gets it out 31
times in this passage,
00:46:38.16\00:46:40.56
He will use the word love.
00:46:40.60\00:46:41.93
Thirty one times,
I've counted them.
00:46:41.96\00:46:44.07
This is not a
little passing fancy.
00:46:44.10\00:46:46.74
Verse 34 red letters.
00:46:46.77\00:46:48.10
"A new
commandment I give you..."
00:46:48.14\00:46:50.11
John 13:34 and 35,
00:46:50.14\00:46:51.91
"Love one another,
as I have loved you,
00:46:51.94\00:46:54.08
so you must love one another.
00:46:54.11\00:46:55.44
By this everyone will
know that you are My disciples,
00:46:55.48\00:46:57.71
if you love one another."
00:46:57.75\00:46:59.51
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:46:59.55\00:47:00.88
you have to admit
that the 11th commandment
00:47:00.92\00:47:02.75
is all about
racial reconciliation.
00:47:02.78\00:47:05.45
If it's about anything,
00:47:05.49\00:47:06.82
it's about
racial reconciliation,
00:47:06.86\00:47:08.22
it has to be.
00:47:08.26\00:47:10.49
Within the faith community,
00:47:10.53\00:47:12.99
which means to
experience racial reconciliation
00:47:13.03\00:47:16.33
we must take two steps.
00:47:16.36\00:47:17.80
Let me share with
you these two steps,
00:47:17.83\00:47:19.20
and then one
story, and I'm done.
00:47:19.23\00:47:21.34
All right.
00:47:21.37\00:47:22.70
Two steps, no study
guide, you just gonna get it.
00:47:22.74\00:47:26.27
Two steps.
00:47:26.31\00:47:27.64
Step number one,
00:47:27.68\00:47:29.01
we must admit
our white privilege.
00:47:29.04\00:47:33.28
Read it on the screen so
that sticks in your mind,
00:47:33.31\00:47:35.18
don't just listen to my voice.
00:47:35.22\00:47:36.55
We must admit
our white privilege.
00:47:36.58\00:47:41.32
I'm not saying
we must confess it.
00:47:41.36\00:47:43.22
No, no, no, we
were born into it,
00:47:43.26\00:47:44.93
never chosen,
00:47:44.96\00:47:46.29
never thought about it
even, not enough to care.
00:47:46.33\00:47:49.86
But racial
reconciliation must begin
00:47:49.90\00:47:51.83
with us admitting
that we have lived,
00:47:51.87\00:47:53.97
we have profited,
we have flourished
00:47:54.00\00:47:55.94
because of white privilege,
and by not knowing that,
00:47:55.97\00:47:59.37
or by at least ignoring it,
00:47:59.41\00:48:00.74
we have
inadvertently forced others
00:48:00.78\00:48:02.51
who are not
quite like us to live
00:48:02.54\00:48:05.21
without those privileges,
00:48:05.25\00:48:06.61
without those
benefits even in the church.
00:48:06.65\00:48:12.15
The church has someone doing
to do at the national level.
00:48:12.19\00:48:14.92
I'm absolutely convinced of
it, but that's not my business,
00:48:14.96\00:48:19.26
that's for somebody
with a higher pay grade
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.20
to deal with.
00:48:21.23\00:48:24.07
All we can deal with
this at the local church
00:48:24.10\00:48:25.43
and that's where we
ought to keep our attention.
00:48:25.47\00:48:28.07
When I talk about
this local church,
00:48:28.10\00:48:29.77
one of the privileges we enjoy
00:48:29.80\00:48:31.14
it's a house of
prayer for all people
00:48:31.17\00:48:32.64
is this spacious sanctuary.
00:48:32.67\00:48:36.01
My favorite place on earth.
00:48:36.04\00:48:37.55
Middle of the night
when there's nobody here
00:48:37.58\00:48:39.25
but me and God,
00:48:39.28\00:48:40.62
middle of the day on a Sabbath
it's just a beautiful place.
00:48:40.65\00:48:45.12
We are here in this space
while our friends at new life,
00:48:45.15\00:48:50.49
a predominately African-American
00:48:50.53\00:48:51.93
worship community
on campus are packed
00:48:51.96\00:48:53.66
into the seminary chapel
00:48:53.70\00:48:55.03
and they're given
one shot at that space.
00:48:55.06\00:48:57.33
One shot.
00:48:57.37\00:48:58.70
Spilling out into the atrium,
wherever they can find space,
00:48:58.73\00:49:01.70
and here we are
a 100 yards away,
00:49:01.74\00:49:03.20
and we have space to spare.
00:49:03.24\00:49:06.51
White
privilege, could it be that
00:49:06.54\00:49:10.45
there is some
way to share space.
00:49:10.48\00:49:15.08
Step number one,
00:49:19.99\00:49:22.29
we must admit
our white privilege,
00:49:22.32\00:49:24.59
until we do
00:49:24.63\00:49:25.96
we will never
take step number two,
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I promise you
will never take it.
00:49:27.90\00:49:29.23
What step number
two, on the screen.
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We must
relinquish, we must relinquish
00:49:30.73\00:49:34.67
our white privilege, how?
00:49:34.70\00:49:38.24
Hey, folks this is
not complicated at all,
00:49:38.27\00:49:39.91
you're gonna be
surprised at this.
00:49:39.94\00:49:42.31
Listen, the best
and most effective way
00:49:42.34\00:49:45.18
to relinquish your
privilege is to simply make sure
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.25
everyone enjoys
the same privilege,
00:49:48.28\00:49:50.19
then it's no longer a privilege,
00:49:50.22\00:49:51.55
it's a blessing shared.
00:49:51.59\00:49:54.36
The moment we
release it as mine,
00:49:54.39\00:49:57.19
it's over, it's
no longer a privilege
00:49:57.23\00:49:58.93
because everybody gets it.
00:49:58.96\00:50:02.03
That didn't hurt, did it? No.
00:50:02.06\00:50:07.64
Red and yellow, black and white,
00:50:07.67\00:50:09.00
all are precious in His sight,
00:50:09.04\00:50:10.44
we've been taught since
knee-high to a grasshopper
00:50:10.47\00:50:12.67
to sing those words and we have.
00:50:12.71\00:50:16.75
And if it take somebody
to come up to me and say,
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.38
"Hey, by the way, Dwight,
00:50:18.41\00:50:19.91
I see that you
enjoy a privilege,
00:50:19.95\00:50:21.28
I've never been granted."
00:50:21.32\00:50:22.65
Do you know what my
response needs to be?
00:50:22.68\00:50:24.35
It needs to be, "You
know, what I didn't realize it.
00:50:24.39\00:50:26.29
Let me go to work to make sure
this privilege is also yours
00:50:26.32\00:50:29.96
and that will be
a shared blessing."
00:50:29.99\00:50:32.29
Right?
00:50:32.33\00:50:34.30
We have work to do.
We've got to go to work.
00:50:34.33\00:50:38.00
Well, I let them do it.
00:50:38.03\00:50:39.37
Well, I'll let
the university do it.
00:50:39.40\00:50:41.54
We're a campus church
so we don't have to do it
00:50:41.57\00:50:43.41
because we're part community
and part campus anyway.
00:50:43.44\00:50:46.64
Good luck, Andrews University,
we're cheering you on,
00:50:46.68\00:50:48.74
we're praying for you.
00:50:48.78\00:50:50.11
No, no, no, you can't do that.
00:50:50.15\00:50:51.48
You can't, we can't
get, that be arsenide.
00:50:51.51\00:50:56.38
We have to respond.
00:50:56.42\00:50:57.85
Relinquish white privilege.
00:51:01.89\00:51:05.03
Because until
we're sitting together
00:51:05.06\00:51:06.39
at the same table
and transparently,
00:51:06.43\00:51:08.90
authentically listening
00:51:08.93\00:51:10.27
to our black
brothers and sisters,
00:51:10.30\00:51:11.63
we will never
spot the privileges
00:51:11.67\00:51:13.13
we've taken for granted
all our lives as whites.
00:51:13.17\00:51:16.81
I repeat the best
way for us to step away
00:51:16.84\00:51:19.54
from our white
privilege is to devote our lives
00:51:19.57\00:51:21.48
to making
certain everyone enjoys
00:51:21.51\00:51:23.41
the same
privilege we benefit from.
00:51:23.45\00:51:25.51
And since privileges
are never skin color based.
00:51:25.55\00:51:31.59
And since God's
blessings and benefits
00:51:31.62\00:51:33.46
are never skin color based,
00:51:33.49\00:51:38.73
we've had to find a way.
00:51:38.76\00:51:41.36
We have to do something.
00:51:41.40\00:51:45.77
What did Jesus say, "A
new commandment I give you
00:51:45.80\00:51:48.74
that you love one
another as I have loved you.
00:51:48.77\00:51:51.74
By this the whole world..."
00:51:51.77\00:51:53.11
I love that.
00:51:53.14\00:51:54.48
"By this the whole world
will know you are My people,
00:51:54.51\00:52:00.02
if you have love
for one another."
00:52:00.05\00:52:03.55
Our journey towards obedience
of the 11th commandment
00:52:03.59\00:52:05.75
began on
Thursday, it is now Sabbath,
00:52:05.79\00:52:09.72
tomorrow a new week
and a new chapter begins.
00:52:09.76\00:52:14.50
But it must
begin with you and me,
00:52:18.00\00:52:19.93
and all of us
sitting at the same table.
00:52:19.97\00:52:22.60
I need to hear your story.
00:52:22.64\00:52:24.57
I need you to be honest
about the pain that you suffer
00:52:24.61\00:52:28.98
because until we
share our stories,
00:52:29.01\00:52:32.55
we will never share our pain,
and until we share our pain
00:52:32.58\00:52:37.52
we will never find the healing
that we desperately need.
00:52:37.55\00:52:40.62
We can't, we can't.
00:52:40.66\00:52:44.39
And by the way,
until we share our pain,
00:52:44.43\00:52:47.40
and find that healing, a
nation that is fractured,
00:52:47.43\00:52:51.03
and broken, and
bleeding to the core racially
00:52:51.07\00:52:55.70
will never think to look
00:52:55.74\00:52:58.41
at this faith
community for help,
00:52:58.44\00:53:02.24
their shadows will
never darken our doors
00:53:02.28\00:53:06.28
because they say,
00:53:06.31\00:53:07.68
"You got the same problem we do.
00:53:07.72\00:53:10.12
What good is your belief."
00:53:10.15\00:53:13.15
The great Christian apologist
of 20th century C.S. Lewis.
00:53:17.86\00:53:22.73
Got a letter one day
from an American woman.
00:53:22.76\00:53:26.00
She might have read
something that he had written
00:53:26.03\00:53:29.87
or she had a questions
00:53:29.90\00:53:31.24
that I write to this
bright mind in England
00:53:31.27\00:53:33.54
across the pond so
she sent the letter,
00:53:33.58\00:53:36.51
Lewis read the letter.
00:53:36.54\00:53:39.31
He was a gracious man
00:53:39.35\00:53:40.68
and he answered much
of his correspondence
00:53:40.72\00:53:42.12
so something prompted him,
he said, "I'll answer her."
00:53:42.15\00:53:44.59
So he answers her.
00:53:44.62\00:53:46.15
I don't know how
much time goes by,
00:53:46.19\00:53:47.52
mail travel a little slower
back in the 60s before he died.
00:53:47.56\00:53:52.29
But another letter
comes from the woman,
00:53:52.33\00:53:55.16
another
question, another comment,
00:53:55.20\00:53:57.30
he picks his pen up,
shoots an answer back.
00:53:57.33\00:54:00.70
Soon letters
are going like this,
00:54:00.74\00:54:02.20
they never met face to face.
00:54:02.24\00:54:05.57
These are not love letters.
00:54:05.61\00:54:07.31
She was just writing the
great mind, the great man,
00:54:07.34\00:54:10.31
and asking him.
00:54:10.35\00:54:12.75
He died the day JFK
was assassinated, he died.
00:54:12.78\00:54:17.09
In the world his
death is totally obscured
00:54:17.12\00:54:19.62
by the tragedy here.
00:54:19.65\00:54:22.72
She eventually died
and her family get this,
00:54:22.76\00:54:25.89
her family took the letters
00:54:25.93\00:54:27.26
that she had
received from C.S. Lewis
00:54:27.30\00:54:30.00
went to a publisher,
they didn't have her letters,
00:54:30.03\00:54:33.23
those are gone.
00:54:33.27\00:54:34.94
All they had were his answers,
00:54:34.97\00:54:37.01
they gave them to a publisher
and the publisher says,
00:54:37.04\00:54:38.37
"We can do this
00:54:38.41\00:54:39.74
and publish the
letters under the title Letters
00:54:39.77\00:54:42.14
from an American Lady."
00:54:42.18\00:54:43.95
And friend of
mine gave me the book,
00:54:43.98\00:54:45.35
I read the book,
00:54:45.38\00:54:46.72
and near the end of
the book, guess what?
00:54:46.75\00:54:48.32
C.S. Lewis talks about
Seventh-day Adventists.
00:54:48.35\00:54:52.05
I'm telling you the truth,
00:54:52.09\00:54:53.56
this woman
apparently has had an experience
00:54:53.59\00:54:56.29
with a Seventh-day Adventist,
00:54:56.32\00:54:58.09
fortunately it
was a positive one.
00:54:58.13\00:55:00.33
I'm just saying.
00:55:03.97\00:55:06.60
She writes to him
about it and says,
00:55:06.63\00:55:08.20
"Tell me what do you
know about these people?"
00:55:08.24\00:55:11.37
Verbatim now he writes back
00:55:11.41\00:55:14.08
these words on
the screen for you.
00:55:14.11\00:55:17.01
"What you say
about the seven..."
00:55:17.05\00:55:19.98
Oh, I like that. "The
Seven-day Adventists."
00:55:20.02\00:55:23.25
That's what we are to
call ourselves really, come on,
00:55:23.28\00:55:25.45
we're not
Adventists one day at a week.
00:55:25.49\00:55:26.96
We are Adventists
seven days at a week.
00:55:26.99\00:55:29.16
"What you say about..."
00:55:29.19\00:55:30.53
And he uses a
Roman numeral here.
00:55:30.56\00:55:31.89
"What you say about
the Seventh-day Adventists
00:55:31.93\00:55:33.86
interest me extremely.
00:55:33.90\00:55:35.83
If they have so much charity,
00:55:35.86\00:55:39.13
there must be something
very right about them."
00:55:39.17\00:55:44.84
Bright mind across the pond.
00:55:49.34\00:55:53.78
I don't know anything
about these Adventists,
00:55:53.82\00:55:56.02
but if they have
that kind of love,
00:55:56.05\00:55:58.52
there must be
something very right about them.
00:55:58.55\00:56:03.76
By this all people will know,
00:56:03.79\00:56:05.13
they will know beyond
the shadow of a doubt,
00:56:05.16\00:56:06.93
you are My people
because you love each other.
00:56:06.96\00:56:12.07
Let the word go forth
that in this church blacks,
00:56:12.10\00:56:17.17
and whites, and all.
00:56:17.21\00:56:21.51
There is something
very right about us
00:56:21.54\00:56:23.95
and that something is a someone
00:56:23.98\00:56:25.68
and His name is
Jesus and that's the truth.
00:56:25.71\00:56:29.32
Let's pray.
00:56:29.35\00:56:30.99
Oh, God,
00:56:31.02\00:56:33.15
please do whatever it takes,
00:56:33.19\00:56:37.96
Thursday is
gone, Sabbath will end,
00:56:37.99\00:56:41.76
the next chapter
00:56:41.80\00:56:44.20
please lead us to do
00:56:44.23\00:56:48.87
what our hearts compel us to do.
00:56:48.90\00:56:53.27
We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
00:56:53.31\00:56:58.98
I want to take an
extra moment to thank you
00:56:59.01\00:57:00.45
for joining us in worship today.
00:57:00.48\00:57:02.62
It's by the continued
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00:57:02.65\00:57:04.69
that we're able to
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00:57:04.72\00:57:07.42
Today I want to
invite you though,
00:57:07.46\00:57:08.79
to share with us
00:57:08.82\00:57:10.16
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00:57:10.19\00:57:11.63
Truth is, I get inspiring notes,
00:57:11.66\00:57:13.80
e-mails, letters from viewers
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00:57:13.83\00:57:17.77
sharing with us how
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00:57:17.80\00:57:19.60
through this program,
00:57:19.63\00:57:20.97
and I'd love to
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00:57:21.00\00:57:22.50
It's not that
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00:57:22.54\00:57:24.07
Just visit our
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00:57:24.11\00:57:27.08
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00:57:27.11\00:57:30.41
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00:57:30.45\00:57:33.08
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00:57:34.75\00:57:36.89
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