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[Silence] When we really can test the validity of our witness, when the weather changes, sometimes people say, "Well, the weather's the reason I wasn't there." But you are here, and this day is also our annual ushers day,

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and we want the Ebenezer family to be here. Now we have the Reverend J.H. Penn. He hasn't been here as a guest minister since I've been here. I don't know whether he's ever been here before or not,

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but he's going to be here with his congregation this afternoon at three o'clock. And the family should be here, all of the members of the family who possibly can.

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Deacons, don't stay home this evening, come out. Choir members, come out. Be here to welcome the choir. Members of the church, all of you,

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come here this evening and let us join with the ushers in having a grand and glorious time as we celebrate this day, beginning at three o'clock.

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I have a letter here from Senator Lloyd Doggett Concerning the 1980 United States Census, which will be conducted beginning April 1st, the information that will be received during this particular effort is of great importance. It serves many purposes,

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because it has to do with the allotment of federal and state tax revenues, needs to determine nations for public services, apportionment of representation in Congress and other legislative bodies, and the measurement of the economic well-being of communities and their residents. It's very

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important that everybody gets counted because if we get overlooked, it means that there will be some consideration that maybe we ought to receive as a community, as a people, that we will not receive.

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So this is a very important undertaking, the 1980 census which begins April 1st. Now there will be temporary jobs available for this particular effort.

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They include secretarial or clerical jobs that will pay from $3.55 to $4 per hour. clerical jobs and then there will be field operations. Those jobs will pay from four dollars to 450 per hour. These jobs will last from a few weeks to a few

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months. So if you are interested you may contact Senator Lloyd Doggett's office. Some time ago, Brother Alfred Dotson came to us and he was instrumental in suggesting a tape ministry for our church. We secured the necessary materials and there were workers who volunteered for this service and now this Tate ministry has been in progress for some time. Today is the

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anniversary of this ministry so I'm asking that Brother Dotson will come forward now and have a word to say concerning this Tate ministry so that we are still making our witness to those who are unable to come to the worship services. Some persons who may never come to services at Ebenezer again are present with us through the Tate ministry.

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Brother Dotson. Thank you and good morning. I've been in here in your presence on this matter three times with today. That was once in 1978 in January, once in 1979 in January, and today, 1980 in January. And on that first day when Reverend Griffin dedicated three recorders, three small hand recorders, and

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a group of people to begin the tape ministry, we were very happy. Now I want you to know that after two years, two full years, this is our third anniversary I guess we would call it almost, the beginning of the third year and the ending of the second year, we want you to know that our purpose is still just as

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high, our committed commitment just as lofty, and our dedication as high as it ever was. So we want to thank you for all that you've done for us. Later on we did receive three more recorders from the church and then you began to give us recorders here and there as our need grew. So this morning we want to say

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thank you. The Ebenezer Tape Ministry, through the month of January, marks the end of our second year and the beginning of our third year of the Tape Ministry at Ebenezer. Our purpose of the Tape Ministry is to reach out and carry by tape our church services to the sick and shut-in. Our ministry reaches into

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private homes, hospitals, and the following nursing homes. Arnold's Nursing home, Johnson's custodial home, East Fair nursing home, Cantex nursing home, Rebecca Baines Johnson nursing home, LBJ nursing home, and the Belmont nursing home.

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Aside from visiting with and playing tapes of church services, we sing and pray with them. We carry refreshments and remember them at Christmas time with Christmas cards, bags of fruit and nuts and candy.

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Many of these courtesy of Ebenezer Baptist Church and the tape ministry. We also attempt to send a word of condolence whenever God calls one of our members

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that we serve each week home. We thank you very much for it. I would like to read for you our slate of offices. They have changed since we began.

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started out as the chairperson for this but I've been fired along the line and so now I'd just like to read the new slate. The chairperson is Sister Hattie Lee Hodge, co-chairperson Sister Jeanette Walls, secretary Sister Juanita Russell, treasurer Sister Mary E. Scott and we have included at this last

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year one of technician the one who prepares the duplications of the tape brother Alfred Dodson I couldn't get anybody to feel the others unless I stayed in that position this year but this is is going to move around and we're going to train others to do this I do want to show you this because this is

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the only time we really get chance to talk to you together this is the tape we tape. And on this tape, which is 45 minutes on each side, we condense out of the early morning service everything that's meaningful to the sick and shut in. And that is the songs, the prayers, the scriptures, certainly the

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sermon, the sermon we carry in its entirety. On the second side we condense from this service, the later morning service, 11 o'clock service, also 45 minutes out of serve. Now that may not seem like it's very long, but in 45 minutes when you cut out everything else that's that's not totally meaning to the

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sick and shut-ins, they have just what they need. So they get an hour and a half each week and if you want to see who served just look on the back of your bulletin this morning and you'll find that most of those people have served every week. Now the members of the committee as I call your names I wish

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you would stand and remain standing until our prayer of dedication by the the minister has been finished. Now I try to press our officers would you please stand those whose names I've called already. In addition to that brother Albert J. Cafferty, sister Mary L. Kennedy, sister Algerine Craig, sister

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Alberta Hurd, sister Emma Lyons, sister Willie B. Manning, sister Mildred Madaris, Sister Annie Mae Mercer, Sister S.T. Mitchell, Sister Maud Overton, Sister Celia B. Pearson, Sister Mary E. Scott, Sister Vernice T. Smith, Sister Janet, Jeanette Walls, Sister Valeria Warren, and our two most recent members

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and ones we wish to congratulate for joining up with us, Sister Eunice Need and Sister Julia B. Clark. Reverend? Did I? I'm sorry. Sister Edna James is our chaplain, and devotional leader. - Now is that everybody?

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May we bow our heads. Here we are, oh God, to thank you for the work of the Tate Ministry in our church and for these who have given of their time,

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of their energies so that others may hear thy word and share with us in the worship and the glorification of your name. And after two years, we come back to say,

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oh God, that we want to rededicate ourselves to this service. Each one of us in our heart of heart would say to you, Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee. With this spirit of dedication, we offer ourselves

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and pray that you would consecrate our efforts in every way as we seek to magnify your name. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. [MUSIC - "HIGHER AND HIGHER"]

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Higher, higher, Lord. ♪ Chariot rollin' on Tick-Tock ♪ ♪ I'm gonna build up a science block ♪ ♪ I'm gonna storm down the giant stop ♪

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♪ I'm gonna build up a science block ♪ ♪ Great deal, great deal ♪ ♪ I just want you greatly ♪ ♪ I'm gonna build up a science block ♪

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♪ Great deal, great deal ♪ ♪ The light is sparkling, reigning ♪ ♪ Boston, we love Science Park ♪ ♪ This is the day of jubilee ♪

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♪ Boston, we love Science Park ♪ ♪ All this land is filled with glee ♪ ♪ Boston, we love Science Park ♪ ♪ Reigning, reigning ♪

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♪ The light is sparkling, reigning ♪ ♪ God's going to build a science wall ♪ ♪ Great day, the night is marching ♪ ♪ Great day, God's going to build a science wall ♪

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[music] [music] [music] [music]

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[music] [music] A scripture lesson is in the gospel according to St. Luke, the fourth chapter, the 14th through the 21st verses. [music]

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Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day

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and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at

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liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he opened, or rather he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."

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endeth our scripture and the subject of our message is Jubilee, Jubilee. Jubilee is a special day. It stands out as a day among days in a unique way. The words of Scripture around which the message is woven, announced the day of Jubilee. It is the ushering in of a homecoming celebration. One has been away from home a long time. The return is

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usually accompanied with a high degree of anticipation and expectation concerning conditions, changes, and the response of the people. Jubilee is a homecoming. It is a homecoming which was anticipated by the exiles. It is here portrayed in a prophetic word for people who have been uprooted from their homes

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and victimized by slavery in a foreign country. Now comes a time for change, a a new era, the day of emancipation, for exiles to return home. Jubilee is homecoming as it is anticipated by the Prophet Isaiah. When Johnny comes marching home again, hooray, we say. It calls for celebration. Celebration for one who has

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been away, for one who has been engaged in battle and comes home to be where he belongs for the time of separation is over day of reunion is come. W.E.B. Du Bois in his book Souls of Black Folk tells of the coming of John he describes two young men, one black the other white, who come home after graduation from

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college. It's a strange homecoming. One is satisfied with things as they are and seeks to perpetuate the status quo, the other is bent on change. It's a strange homecoming which ends in anguish and violence. Now Jesus comes home, he comes to Nazareth, the place where he was brought up. He comes back to the familiar haunts of his childhood,

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where his family is known, comes to the place of precious memories, he comes home. And when Sunday comes he goes to church. This is his custom, to be in the Lord's house on the Lord's day. The synagogue, the place where he is accustomed to attending Sunday school and worship services, it is said that he's 30 years of age now, but he has not graduated from Sunday

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school, neither does he absent himself from the worship services. He goes to church as is his custom. There are some customs which should last a lifetime, some habits, good habits, which should pervade and permeate our entire life. Jesus goes to church, this is his custom. So when Jesus comes home to Nazareth, that little town where everybody knows

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everybody, Nazareth, the humble village with closely knit family ties, there's no homecoming parade, no bands to greet him, the mayor does not give him the key to the city, he comes quietly and gently without fanfare he comes and that's the way he comes. That's the way he comes quietly and gently and he goes to church

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In the course of the worship services, he's given the Bible from which he has to read the scripture for the day. He selects that well-known passage which may well be called the Jubilee text. The 61st chapter of Isaiah,

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as he stands up to read, he says, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me." For he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

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This text announces Jubilee, for Jubilee is a special day. The word Jubilee is taken from the Hebrew word which means trumpet. It is a trumpet call for a new day, for a real homecoming celebration. According to the calendar, Jubilee occurred in the 50th year. It was a part of the sabbatical celebration after

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seven times seven, there comes the 50th year which was the time of emancipation, the year of freedom. And many things happened in connection with Jubilee, the celebration of Jubilee. First the land was to be free, it was not to be used that year for crops, it was to remain fallow. It was to be left plowed and

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uncultivated. The land was to be free. Slaves were set free in the year of Jubilee. Debts were forgiven, property was redeemed, so whatever one owed when the year of Jubilee came it was owed no longer. Property may have been mortgaged but that property was redeemed. For Jubilee is a special dispensation

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of grace, Jubilee, Jubilee. So Jesus issues the trumpet call of ministry here. This scripture is the text for his inaugural sermon announcing the dawn of a new day in human history, Jubilee. He comes to his hometown to announce Jubilee, a time for every person to return to his ancestral home.

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For Jubilee is a time for every person to return to his roots, to return to the essence of one's being, Jubilee. It is an experience which Jesus brings.

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Listen to what he says. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach the gospel. Jesus brings jubilee to preach the gospel to the poor. It is interesting to note that these words are addressed to persons in society who are

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ordinarily thought of as being the disinherited ones, the poor, the poor. People who are deprived, the poor. People who are disadvantaged, the poor. Those who are sort of relegated to the lowest rung on the social ladder, the poor. people who are neglected, who are overlooked, who are forgotten about, the poor. And yet, somehow, the word here is that the gospel is preached to the poor.

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And you see, Jubilee is somehow making a highway in the wilderness where ordinary people would not have good news. Good news so seldom comes to the poor. And yet Jesus identifies with the poor. He becomes poor for our sake. And Jubilee announces that there is good news for the poor, for the disadvantaged, for the

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disinherited, there is good news. You can live your life. You may not have many things you'd like to have. In a sense all of us are poor, but you can still live your life.

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In fact some of us may never have what we'd like to have. There's always something we're gonna be without it to that sense. We'll always be poor But here is good news for us good news right now in the hearing now It's good news expressed in Jubilee Jubilee has come for the poor because you can live your life

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You can be the person God wants you to be And none of the things of this world can really keep you from being in essence

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The kind of person that God wants you to be That's good news Comes to those who are deprived to a disadvantage to a disinherited good news to the poor He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. That's a word addressed to every person. Oh yes,

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there are times when we soar on wings of achievement and have great joy. And there times when we walk on lame feet and we become weary. There are times when our spirit is crushed. We grope in the valley of disappointment and defeat and we are broken by sorrow. In such a time as that, there comes a good word for Jesus

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singles out those who are broken in heart, who have somehow been bruised and beaten by the cruel clutch of circumstance, there comes the word that there is a good word. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted. So no matter how we may be bruised by circumstance. No, no matter what may really happen to us that may cause us to

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be so battered and so broken, so down in the dumps, that Jesus has come to heal us and to show us that we can live our lives even in the midst of all of the brokenness of society that we can live our lives. That's Jubilee. We can be free no matter how much sadness may be around us, how much despair, how much we may be deprived of the things of life, that there is that freedom which Jesus gives us

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in the experience of Jubilee. Then there comes deliverance to the captives. Well, we read the other day where there was a jailbreak. Those were people who were in jail and they broke out. And most of the time when that happens they are not out very long before they are put back in again, a kind of jailbreak. Well, that's

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really what has happened to us. Eric Fromm talks about it when he talks about escape from freedom. Man was free in the Garden of Eden, but he really couldn't appreciate his freedom, so he escapes from his freedom and he finds himself in in bondage because he escapes from freedom.

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And so often, so often we do that. It happens over and over again. The boy who goes to the far country is really escaping freedom.

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He has freedom at home. He has everything at home, but he escapes from freedom and finds himself with a new kind of bondage. And so often people try to escape and they really do not understand the things that pertain to their peace.

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[laughter] There is a word that comes in the language of that poem which says, "Make me a captive, Lord." We sing it as a great hymn of the church, "Make me a captive, Lord, and then I shall be free. cause me to offer up my sword and I shall conquerer be. This is Jubilee to

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to be free of shackles, the shackles of bondage, of sin, of despair and defeat to somehow live in the midst of them and yet not be a victim of them. That is to have the experience of Jubilee, then to be able to see, because Jubilee brings the recovering of sight for the blind.

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Sometimes we just are able to see the goodness of the Lord because our eyes are blind. permit them sometimes it's a rather self-imposed blindness that we bring up on ourselves that we really don't have to have but we've chosen it. Some years ago we lived early in our married life with a couple in in Albin, New York and

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And this lady had a rather strange problem that we lived with. Every winter, she became blind from the snow. In the winter, she became blind from the snow

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and when the snow passed away, she no longer had her blindness, but the snow caused her to become blind. blind. Oh, one would think they could have moved to a different climate

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where they didn't have this. They didn't really have to stay there, but they did. And so often our situations are like that. We have our winter where we become blind and we, it's a sort of self-imposed blindness. Oh, we could have that freedom. It's open to us. Here it is. The man is announcing it. This is Jubilee. I have come that you may have the recovering of sight

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You may be able to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living No matter how Dismal how Difficult may be your winter of despair

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That I have come that you may see that God is good No matter how high you may be, God is good and God loves you. This is Jubilee to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, to tell men and women, boys and girls that this is the day of Jubilee.

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This is the time of freedom. This is the time where you are to return to your essence and be the person God made you to be. Oh, how I wish that I could have been there.

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How all of us could have been there on that day when Jesus entered the synagogue and opened the scripture and took his text and delivered his sermon. must have been a great day. Some of us would like to have been in the Amen corner when he preached, but that was not possible because we were not yet born. I wish that somehow the TV cameras could have been there, and could have somehow put it on film and preserved it, and that we could somehow have it and have it

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rehearse time and time again of really how the worship service was. How the choir sang and how the congregation conducted itself. How I would like to have been there. But those days are gone. Those who sat there have passed on, but all of us somehow live in the presence and that the experience of Jubilee, that scripture that Jesus read and said, "Today is it fulfilled

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your presence. When he said that and sat down and all eyes were fastened on him that that same Jesus, his spirit today is alive and he still speaks today just as he spoke in the long ago. He speaks to our hearts telling us of Jubilee, of freedom of hope of God's goodness, his presence, setting us free from the

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slavery of sin, helping us to live our lives and to be what God wants us to be. Announcing Jubilee when we are poor, he said, "Well, no matter how poor you may be, how deprived, you may not have what you'd like to have, but he said, "Blessed are you. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And if you're brokenhearted, I'll bind up the broken heart.

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And though you may be bruised, that I will somehow give liberty to those who are in the shackles of slavery. Well, this is the day of Jubilee. Today is the day. We were not there yesterday, but now is the time. Today is the day. And when Jesus comes, every day is Jubilee. Every day he comes. It's a Jubilee. It's a day of when we are emancipated. Jubilee comes when Jesus comes. Oh, ask Levi how it was. Levi said, "Well, I was despised, I was rejected."

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Oh, I had my bank account and I had many other things that you would ordinarily say that these spelled success, but I still did not feel accepted, even by my own countrymen. The things I treasured most I didn't have but when he came oh, I'll never forget it For when he came into my life

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That day when he came he said to me today I'm going to your house today is salvation come to your house It was a day of Jubilee the day of joy That's the dying thief about it. Oh

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I lived a rather rugged life I'd been a robber, I'd been identified with uprisings, and I thought that I could somehow win my way with the fruits of the gun. The sword was my way. But when Jesus came, boy, it was late in my life, it was the 11th hour, but when he came, he said to me, "Today shall thou be with me in paradise." Oh, that was the day of Jubilee. It was great joy. Jubilee is that vision, not only of the

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future, but it's that experience of the present reality. Jubilee, Jubilee. It's no wonder then, in the very dark and dismal period of our history, that our foreparents dreamed of a better day. Dreamed of a better day. Sunday was somehow a special day in the week. It was a day that was sort of set apart from other days. It was the Sabbath. It was a day

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of rest. And that day as we have it for Sunday that you believe was a sabbatical year. It It was a day of rest for the whole year, a day of freedom. And in that day somehow, there was no hope. Every day would be Sunday by and by.

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Everything would be better. There was a brighter day. There was a new hope. There was something beyond that was better

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than the here and now. They sang Jubilee, Jubilee, oh my Lord, Jubilee. Jubilee, jubilee, oh my Lord, jubilee. Well, what obstacles we face,

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what are the difficulties that we encounter? And they thought about that. They said, what's the matter with the mourner? And they answered it by saying

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that the devil's in the amen corner. Jubilee, jubilee, oh my Lord, jubilee. No matter what's the condition, no matter what's the circumstance, that there is joy, that there is happiness, that there is jubilee, and that's the presence of Christ in our lives.

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It's something that he gives that cannot be taken away. Jubilee, jubilee, oh my Lord, jubilee. As we sing now the hymn of invitation, hymn number 150, we invite you to come softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me. As we sing hymn number 150 we

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extend the invitation. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[MUSIC] ♪ The other part of me is waiting and watching ♪ ♪ Watching for you and for me ♪ ♪ I'll always be here for you ♪

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [Music] ♪ Oh, sinner ♪

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♪ Oh, cross ♪ ♪ I should be dead when Jesus is slain ♪ ♪ Pleading for you and for me ♪ ♪ I should really be ♪

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♪ I need not His mercies ♪ ♪ Mercies for you, God ♪ ♪ For me ♪ ♪ For me ♪

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] ♪ In Jesus' name ♪ ♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪

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♪ Savior ♪ (bell ringing) ♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪ [MUSIC]

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♪ Of the Lord Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ I say you are worthy ♪ ♪ Of the ascending ♪ ♪ Of Christ the Lord ♪

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♪ I am worthy ♪ [music] [Music] [Music]

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[MUSIC] ♪ Tenderly Jesus is calling ♪ ♪ Calling ♪ ♪ Oh ♪

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♪ Savior ♪ ♪ Lord ♪ Let us listen now to our church clerk. My sister Gertrude brought them home and she has been a member here and she wants to come

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and be with us again now that she's living here. - Sister Watermeyer is one who has been with us and she's come home again and we're happy that she has come. All who are in favor of accepting her, would you say aye?

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Opposed, no, it's carried. Sister Watermeyer, we give you the right hand of fellowship, giving you all the rights and privileges as a full member of this church.

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May God bless you, strengthen and keep you. Thank you. Let's all say Amen. - Amen.

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- We'd like for our guests, if you would, to join with us at the rear of the sanctuary. If you could, at this time, stand and go to the rear of the sanctuary.

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All who are visitors, we'd like for the person who has brought you, if you will, to escort that person, if you brought the guest to the rear of the sanctuary during this time.

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On Wednesday night is our annual meeting. Every member is free and should be present for the annual meeting. That's on Wednesday night at 7.30.

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At that time, we look at what we've done in the past and what we hope to do in the future in the way of our budgets and in the way of the auxiliary's offices

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that will be elected at that time. at that time. We'd like for all of the deacons to be here at the church to meet the deacons and trustees at 7.30 on Tuesday,

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7.30 on Tuesday. We had missed our meeting on the first, last Sunday. For several Sundays, we had some activities. So tomorrow, Tuesday night,

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all of the deacons and trustees at 7.30. All of the young people who are interested in, someone spoke to me last Sunday, and the adults too, in I think church basketball and other things

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that may go with that league, would you come down front? I believe is Brother Darlington here? All right. And others that may have indicated an interest in this,

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would you come down front and meet? We want to encourage this. The church will sponsor this for our youth, and we want to get organized,

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and we ask that you would come down immediately following the benediction. May we bow our heads. Gracious God, our Father,

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we thank you for the day of Jubilee, which Jesus announces when he comes, wherever it may be and whenever it occurs, jubilee in the heart and life of the believer. Grant that this experience may come anew to us this day,

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as we seek to have that freedom which is complete in you. Grace, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father, in Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. (soft music)

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[inaudible] I don't look for this song. I don't look for this song. I just put it together on the floor.

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I have no trouble with this song. I get up in the morning and I come out. I get up in the morning and I come out. I didn't have to.

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I didn't have to. I didn't need to. I didn't need to. I just went on up.

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Mr. Cannon, have you started on the clock? Mr. Cannon, have you started on the clock? Have you started on the clock? (crowd chattering)

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I'm going up there, then come right back. You're going up there. Up to the, listen here. Go up to the fellowship, where you could have been.

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Just a minute. Listen, after-- [INAUDIBLE] Now, you come up there, too.

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After, tell her to come over to the fellowship hall. Tell her. Tell her. Tell her we're going up to that--

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