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[INAUDIBLE] [inaudible] Thank you, Dr. Nightingale, Dr. Boyd, officers, my brothers and sisters in Christ. It's a delightful privilege to come again to this, the National Baptist Sunday School and Training Union Congress,

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as we seek to work with the teacher training department. There are two sections of this department. Dr. T.T. Newman has one section and I have the other. For several years now we have been giving attention to the book "You Who Teach" in the Black Church. [Unintelligible]

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Each year I bring to the Congress in printed form the lectures that were delivered in previous Congress. Those that were delivered last year are available. Teaching Christ through the Black Experience re-addresses first,

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ebony angels and dark clouds dealing with the contributions of Black leaders and the struggle for liberation. The second message, the religion of the slave songs.

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And the third, black, blue, and blessed, having to do with blackness, having to do with the blues, and the blessedness of the black experience. These messages are available and you may get them during the Congress. I would like for those of you who are not close to somebody to get next to somebody. I'm going to ask you to do something before we get into the message.

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I invite your careful attention to the passage of Scripture which is found in Romans, the twelfth chapter, the first and second verses. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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I want to read that in the Living Bible paraphrase. I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living sacrifice, holy, the kind he can accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?

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I don't know. I don't know. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world. Mm-hmm. But be a new and different person.

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Yeah. with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you.

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I want us to think about this theme, Teaching Christ through body language. - All right. - Teaching Christ through body language.

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- Yes. - Now I'd like for us, every one of us, sitting next to someone, would you turn to that person that you're sitting next to

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and look directly into the eyes of that person for just a moment. Would you do that? [Audience chatter]

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I see that some of you can't bear to do that. [laughter] The body is the house we live in. The body is the external extension of ourselves.

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It determines how we relate to each other. It's a medium of communication. Body is the way we demonstrate the particular details of practical Christian living. For you see, the body is the organ of action.

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For the Christian, the body is an organ and instrument of God. It is to be used by God to tell others of His presence and power. It is to be used by God to reveal His goodness and His love. In recent years, we have become increasingly aware of the significance of body language in teaching.

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More attention is given to behavior patterns, what is called nonverbal communication. The Christian teacher is to use the whole self, the entire being, in sharing Christ with others. The message we convey with our bodies sometimes contradicts what we really mean to say. Sometimes we say yes with our bodies when we are saying no within ourselves.

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And sometimes when we are saying no within ourselves, our bodies are saying yes. Yeah, yeah. Fix it. - Our bodies have a way of revealing our hidden force.

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Our bodies have a way of proclaiming the nature of our character. I plead with you, Christian workers, to present your bodies to God.

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[Audience member] Well, what you do, thunders so loudly, that people cannot hear what you say. [Mrs. Powell] Yes, sir. [Audience member] We send and receive messages through body language, The touch of a hand or an arm around someone's shoulder can be a more vivid and direct message

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than dozens of words. And the world understands body language. The world understands body language. Touching a girl at the wrong time may turn her off. Touching a girl at the right time may turn Touching a girl at the wrong time may turn her off abruptly.

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Touching her at the right time at the right place may turn her on. [Laughter] Well, understand. [Unintelligible]

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Flip Wilson's Geraldine says to a casual acquaintance, "Don't touch me. You don't know me that way." [laughter] The world knows the use of body language. We send out little messages to the world through body language.

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We wink an eye for infamousness. Do I have to say anything, just wink an eye? [Laughter] I can remember when I was a teenager, I went to a church-gushers convention in Longview, Texas,

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and there were some young ladies there, who were all in high school. I was rather bashful, but that one young lady, girl, just kept winking her eye at me. [laughter] And because of that wink, I overcame my bashfulness.

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[laughter] Just because of that wink. [laughter] We convey a message through body language.

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We may lift an eyebrow in disbelief, or we may rub our noses in puzzlement. We clap our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference, take our fingers for impatience, slapped our forehead for forgetfulness.

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Many times we use these gestures unconsciously. Nevertheless, we are sending out messages to the world. I plead with you to prevent your bodies

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from being fixed on fixed. Now the old black preacher has always known the significance of body language. Even during slavery, when he couldn't read and write,

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and was very limited in formal education, the preacher, that black preacher, often said with his body what he could not say with his words. and the people got the message.

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[audience murmurs] We're sending out messages. We speak to each other through body language. What we need to do is to be sure that we use this body language to teach heart.

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[audience murmurs] There are ways of getting people to understand what we want. One, the fluent white woman who was hired a maid Gave her some instructions at the beginning.

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She said, "Now, Kelly, I want you to understand that I am a woman of a few words. And when I do my hand like this, that means come here immediately." She said, "Well, ma'am, I want you to know that I, too,

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am a woman of a few words. And when I do my head like this, that means I am coming." [applause] [background noise]

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[background noise] [background noise] [background noise] [background noise]

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[background noise] [background noise] Our body language is important. Alright.

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We may express pleasure and satisfaction with just a smile.

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We may express serious concern or displeasure with a frown. All right. The use of body language has a great deal to do with the effectiveness of the Christian teacher. The body calls.

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How the pupils are arranged in a class tells a story. If the class is seated far apart, a great distance from each other, It reveals that the members are indifferent toward each other. Yes, sir.

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Body language. Body language. Yes, sir. You can do a lot with the eyes. If you look away from the person who is speaking to you while you're supposed to be listening,

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it's a signal that I'm not completely satisfied with what you're saying. I have some qualifications. If you look away while you are speaking, it may mean that I'm not certain of what I'm saying. All right.

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If you are listening, you look at the speaker. You signal the speaker by saying, "I agree with you," or, "I am interested in what you are saying." Body language. If while you're speaking you look at the listener you may be signaling, I'm certain of what I am saying.

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You look away while another is speaking, it's a way of saying, I don't want you to know what I feel. Body language. This is particularly true if one is critical or insulting. like an ostrich burying his head in the sand,

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if I cannot see you, you cannot hurt me. See, my brothers and sisters, movements of the body have meaning. None are accidental.

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A body movement may mean nothing at all in one situation and yet be extremely important in another. [All right, all right.] Emotion can only be meaningful if it is easily signaled and easily received.

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I pleaded with you to present your body to God. Body language is important because no single motion stands alone. It's an important pattern. It's part of a revelation of an individual's personality. Our bodies are related to each other. You remember that old Scottish melody, "If a body meet a body?"

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[Murray] Yeah, yeah. [Murray] If a body kiss a body, need a body cry. Every lad, every laddie needs a lassie. Name they say have I for all the lassies smile at me when coming through the ride.

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Everybody needs somebody. [R. Campbell:] All right. All right. [B. J. Reynolds:] And it is important how we communicate through body language, the use of the head, the use of the face, the shoulders, the arms, the hands, the fingers, the legs, the ankles, the foot, the neck, all of it, I plead with you to present your apologies to God.

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Well, Dr. Edward T. Hall, who's professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, says that a person's use of space is important. How the bodies are situated in relation to each other. I spoke of it a moment ago in class. and you convey certain messages by distance. If you are 6 to 18 inches from another person, that's a very intimate position.

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That suggests intimacy. And if you are a little farther, you may call that personal distance, from one and a half to two and a half feet, that's called personal, personal range, personal distance.

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And then social distance is no farther, from seven to 12 feet. Then the distance that I have here, from 12 to 25, that's called public distance.

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That's used for public lectures and the like. And the distance, I'm glad to hear that it conveys a message. As far as body language is concerned.

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I've been married for 31 years. And when we first got married, my wife and I were in the, she was with me in seminary, and they had twin beds in that apartment that we had.

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But we slept most of the time on one of the twin beds. [laughter] One of the twin beds. [laughter]

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But now we have a double bed. [laughter] And she's on one side and I'm on the other side. And he says, if I get over, don't you get on my side.

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[APPLAUSE] Listen, the body language. The body language. I plead with you to present your bodies to Christ.

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The world understands body language. - All right, all right. - A woman says a great deal with her hips that she will never say with her lips.

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(audience laughing) Body language. Body language. [audience chatter]

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And of course, legs have a way of telling a story. [audience laughter] How one sits, how one sits, how the legs are placed may tell a story. Alright, alright.

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The world understands the language of the Bible. But I've come, my beloved, to plead with you to present your bodies to God. Now who is the teacher anyway? The teacher is one from whom, through whom, or with whom the pupils learn.

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Alright, alright. The teacher is one from whom, through whom, or with whom the pupils learn. Alright. A real teacher also learns with the pupils.

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Teaching comes through human personality. It may be said that teaching is the communication of truth through human personality. We have this treasure in Urgent Message. Therefore, be sure that you present your body to God.

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Yes. But Christian teaching is essentially the interaction of personality with personality, the influence for God and righteousness of one person by another, whose personality has been touched and transformed by Jesus Christ.

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personality is composed of body and spirit. All right. I plead with you Christian workers to present your bodies to God. Yes, sir.

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Not only is it important to study and to have all the techniques and have all the skills and the materials, but it is necessary to present your bodies to God. Fix it, fix it. so that both body and spirit are used to his glory.

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That's it. That's it. Sometimes we don't get the body and the spirit rightly related. Ever so often a person says to me, "Well, Reverend, I wasn't there. My body wasn't there, but my spirit was there."

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Well, we want the spirit and the body. Yes, sir. The Lord's command to us is, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, your body." In writing to the Romans, the Apostle Paul says, "I plead with you to present your bodies to God."

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And in writing to the Corinthians, the Apostle says, "The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body." Don't you know that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that you are not your own? That's right. When you think of what he has done for you,

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isn't this too much to ask? I plead with you to present your bodies to God. For the teacher may teach a little by what he says, but he teaches more by what he does,

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and most of all by what he is. Yes, sir. Present your body. Yeah.

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Young people in the civil rights movement recognize the significance of the body. And one of the things they said, if you're going to work in this movement,

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you've got to put your body on the line. Yes, sir. And if one is to be a dedicated servant of the Almighty, As Christian teachers, it is significant that we present our bodies to the Lord.

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Let's look at the way a teacher may be evaluated. Past year, I've been a member of the Austin School Board, and the teachers are evaluated from time to time. They have a certain form for evaluation. The principal checks certain characteristics, certain traits, certain things related to the teacher's performance.

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And the teacher also has the same form, so the principal checks off what he thinks, and the teacher checks off what she thinks. She evaluates herself. All right. And they come together and they look the teacher gets to see what the principal has said and the principal turns in that evaluation file to the administration.

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Well let's look at some of the things that a Christian teacher ought to have as we consider the personality of the teacher P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y. Personality.

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Yes, sir. Let's use it in a prosthetic way today and see what the teacher ought to have. First of all, we'll consider the P. The teacher ought to have patience.

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Ought to have a certain inner peace. The teacher ought to have perseverance. Yeah. And the teacher ought to have a personal appearance that is good.

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All right. It's a wonderful thing to have a good physique. Politeness, poise,

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posture, practicalness, promptness, punctuality,

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purity, and purpose. It's a wonderful thing for the teacher to exemplify these. Then let's consider the E for a moment.

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The teacher ought to have earnestness. He ought to have education. Yes, that's necessary to have formal training. We talk about that a great deal. Efficiency, endurance, energy, elasticity.

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Not to be so rigid that you can't be somewhat flexible. And then to have enthusiasm, to be enthusiastic about what you're doing. This is the E. Look for a moment that there are a reliability, resourcefulness, respect, responsibility, responsiveness, and readiness.

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The teacher needs all these. Then the teacher needs the S, which stands for sacrifice, scholarship, self-control, sense, just good common sense. Sensibility, to be sensitive to others, how they feel, how they react. Then to have strength and to surrender yourself and to have sympathy, to be able to sympathize

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with others. Oh, how important it is. The old objectivity, open-mindedness, and optimism, looking for the best. Then the teacher ought to consider the end by being neat. See, the body tells a great deal.

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To have nerve, mobility, nobility. To have knowledge. The A, accuracy, action, achievement, adaptability, alertness, ambition,

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Approachableness, happiness, and attractiveness. All this is wrapped up in teaching Christ through body language. Look at the L, leadership, liberty, love, and loyalty,

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and attention to what we may call little things. That I, my ideas, ideals, imagination, impartiability, initiative, insight, inspiration, intelligence, interest, intuition.

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Then the T, tact, temperance, tenderness, thought, thrift, tolerance, and truthfulness. And then finally the Y, yourself at your best. - Yes, sir.

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Christian teacher. Now there are certain physical traits and characteristics that are of great importance if you've got it. If you can use your body to a great advantage to teach Christ. That's a wonderful thing if you've got good personal appearance, if you've had a blessing of having a body that is robust and is wonderful to behold as far as your appearance

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is concerned, that's a wonderful thing if you have that. For the teacher who attracts by personal appearance or by physical appearance has an advantage that will enhance teaching effectiveness.

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But it doesn't matter what your size may be. You may be tall or you may be short. You may be slim or you may be heavy. You may dress attractively and in good taste,

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But whatever may be your size you can use the body that God gave you to the best advantage of teaching Jesus Christ Now

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Physical health has a great deal to do with the use of your body and your spirit So a teacher ought to take time to get the necessary rest and to take the time to develop good habits of recreation. It's a wonderful thing to recognize the place of health

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in the development of the basic condition for the use of the body to the best advantage in teaching Christ. Now the teacher who has a countenance that never smiles, the face that never lights up in sympathetic response

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to the feelings of pupils, that teacher has liabilities. A teacher who always appears tired doesn't create a favorable situation for learning. But good carriage, good posture, suggests physical and mental control.

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It's a way of saying that you've got it all together. I plead with you today to present your bodies to God. Yes, sir. Slouchy posture and the slow uncertain movement

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suggests the movement of a lazy mind. The herky, jerky, and useless movement suggests flighty mental activity. So maintain the best physical expression. We owe this to our students in order to stimulate them to good decisions and right actions.

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And that voice that God has given you should be pleasing in quality and distinct and intense and emphatic. This is using body language in the right way. You know, some teachers talk too loud. Some talk too long.

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But the use of the body language in the teaching situation is manifested many times in a most fruitful way when the teacher just uses an eye. Sometimes you may just wink the eye at the student and the student understands. That can mean so much to a discouraged student, when the teacher just sort of winks the eye, when the student has done well. That's using body language.

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And then sometimes just a smile. Just a smile. Not a word, but just a smile. Just to say, "Well, the teacher smiled at me." That says so much. So much.

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Then, sometimes just to put your hand on the shoulder, and let that child who may come from a broken home, who may have all kinds of problems, that seeking to tear that child apart, but with that teacher just put the arm around, [audience laughter] says that I am accepted.

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Yes, sir. That means so much. I agree with you. To use your body to teach Christ.

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Well, I know maybe you don't have the kind of body you'd like to have as far as physical appearance is concerned. Maybe you're on the job and you've been there a long time, but maybe your health isn't what you'd like for it to be.

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- Yes, sir. - But whatever it is, I plead with you to present your body to Christ. - Yes, sir.

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- The one who said this, the one who gave us this word, didn't have a strong body. - Yes, sir. (audience laughing)

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- Yes, sir. - They tell me that Paul was short, stockings, bald head, and full beard. He didn't have a pleasant body to look at.

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And the Caribbean's were a little disturbed. Apollos was tall and handsome, had a good-looking, not a good-looking appearance, but in addition to that, he could put the words together.

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And then in addition to all of that, Paul said, well, my health was not up to par because I had a thorn in my flesh. - Yes, sir.

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- But I dare any man to question my newtness to Christ. - Yes, sir. - Because I've used my body. - Yes.

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- I've presented my body. - That's right. I've been stolen. Fix it, Doc.

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Fix it. I have been leaking with rocks. Yeah. I've been shipwrecked.

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I've been cold. And I've been without food. And I've used my body for Christ. My body bears the mark of the Lord Jesus.

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Yeah. So and so I plead with you to present your body unto God, a living sacrifice. Now don't let the world squeeze you into its mold.

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Don't copy the behavior and customs of the world. If you be a new kind of person, be a Christian teacher, Jesus himself is our pattern. >> Yeah.

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>> You see, he had a body. Make no mistake about it. Paul had to tell him, don't get confused about this. Our Lord had a body.

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>> Yeah. >> The Gnostics were trying to say, well, he had a spirit, and he just appeared to be. He was sort of like a ghost. No, no, he had a body.

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>> Yes, sir. >> He sat side by side with sinners. >> Yeah. He demonstrated his acceptance of those who society rejected.

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Use your body for the glory of God. And Jesus used body language in order to transcend racial barriers. Rather than practice racial segregation and exclusion, he went through Samaria. He used body language to settle the battle between the sexes.

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When he came to that well, he met that Samaritan woman, even though the customs said that you don't speak to a woman in public, Jesus spoke to her. He used body language. And the Master said, he says to his disciples, "Except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you." The successful teacher must put on the body of Jesus Christ.

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The successful teacher must identify with the one who speaks saying, "This is my body, which is broken for you." That body has nail prints in the hands. That body has nail prints in the feet.

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That body has wound in the side. This body was broken for you. And this body that has been broken for you speaks today saying present your body. A living sacrifice.

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Acceptable unto God. Well, is that asking too much of you? Well, that's all you have to do. all you have to do, get all the information that you can,

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all the skills that you can, but present your body. - Yes, sir. - As well as your spirit to the Lord. - All right.

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- That's all you need to do. You see, dedicate your body. You dedicate. - Yes.

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- That's what man does. Man dedicates. - All right. - But when man dedicates, God consecrates.

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[laughter] That's right. That's what we need to do. I've been many times when I've gone to the pulpit.

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During these 20 some years I've been a pastor. The Lord has blessed me. I haven't missed a Sunday from the pulpit because of illness. But many times I've gone there not feeling well. I didn't tell anybody. The Lord knew it.

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I went there in the weakness of the flesh. I go there. All right, now fix it. And sometimes I've taught classes not feeling so well in the weakness of the body.

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But sometimes, even though I was feeling good, I didn't seem to do so well because sometimes maybe you're trusting in what you can do. Yeah. But I've seen the Lord.

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Fix it now, fix it. Take that weak body. Yes, sir. When I was wondering how I was going to make it through the day.

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And the Lord has taken that body, that feeble flesh, and blessed it. The Lord, just give it to the Lord, and the Lord will consecrate it. That's all that's needed. So that that body, that body, that body that Christ presents,

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is a body that's able to open and close doors. The body of Christ will feed hungry minds. That body of Christ will teach those who are hungry. That body of Christ will heal diseased spirits.

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And the body of Christ will cast out demons. I plead with you to present your bodies a living sacrifice. Well, Christ is the answer. Christ is the answer.

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When you present your body to Christ, I mean when you really give your body, your mind, your heart, your heart to Christ, I'm talking about when you really place your heart on the altar, He'll bless you.

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Yes, He will. He'll take in and He'll enable you to perform miracles in His name. I plead with you to present your bibles. Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.

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Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet and let them be. We'll stand beautiful for thee. Take my voice and let me sing.

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Always only for my king. Take my silver and my gold. Not a mite would I withhold. Take my moments and my days.

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Let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my will and make it mine. It shall be no longer mine. Take my heart.

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It is thine own. It shall be thy royal throne. Lord. Lord.

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Lord. Yes, sir. Lord. Say it, doctor.

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Lord. Yeah. Lord. Yes, sir.

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Lord. Lord. Yeah. Lord.

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Lord. Lord, Lord, Lord, I give myself to thee. I give my life to you, Lord. Not much of it, but you take it.

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Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, I give my life to thee. Thine forevermore to be. Lord, I give my life to thee, thine forever more to be. Be sure that you use your body to teach Christ.

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Amen. [APPLAUSE] [applause] [background chatter]

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May we all say amen to that great message. [background chatter] We are grateful to Dr. Griffin for that wonderful message. [background chatter]

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[B3]Would you remain silent. Just one moment. Just one moment. Don't go out. [B3] Please wait just a moment. [B3] Ms. Davis has something she wants to tell you and then I don't think you hear her. You might wanna listen to her. [B3] Just remain where you are.

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[B3] We have something very unique that we had not had in Congress before to my knowledge. [B3] And we have an young man who is going to play a two-verse solo. [B3] And he is a member of our Griffin's church. And I'm sure he would like to hear this play. He's going to play for us the Lord's Prayer.

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His name is Norman Joseph Swift. And he also has played with the Operation Red Basket in Chicago, etc. And I'm not going to keep you by long introductions. He is a member of the Brethren Church of St. George.

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And I'm sure you're going to enjoy hearing him play this time. Mr. Swift. (soft music) (soft music)

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(soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (gentle music)

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[Music] (dramatic music) (dramatic music) [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Come on, boy. (gentle music) (wind blowing) (soft music)

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(wind blowing) (soft music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music)

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[MUSIC PLAYING] (soft music) (eerie music) (eerie music)

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[MUSIC] (dramatic music) (slow, dramatic music) [MUSIC]

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[Music] [MUSIC] [ Music ] [APPLAUSE]

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Now we will see the treat that we received by remaining on the end part. We said that was very beautifully done by [INAUDIBLE]

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We're going to let you go just in a matter of a few minutes, but we do have a few announcements that we would like to make at this time. Reverend Butler, that's the call operator number 7,

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816-464-2200. He worried how he can be reached. Now, this is for Reverend Butler, call operator number 7.

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Also, I have in my possession here a car key. And I also have a note here that says if anyone pick up a bag containing books and keys, please return it to the National Department. You can keep the book, but give me the key. So we want to make these announcements.

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and also in the audience with Mrs. Griffith, the lifeblood of Mrs. Griffith's staff. Mrs. Griffith. [applause]

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Also, we have some programs that if any of you are interested, you might see Mrs. Griffith. Thank you, Mrs. Griffith. Now, if nothing else, anything else, Dr. Boyd?

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Nothing else to demand our attention. We're going to ask that Dr. Griffin would come at this time and dismiss us. Dr. Griffin. Those who wish to get last year's lectures may get them from my wife on the other stage. Now unto him who is able to keep me from falling, present me for his glorious presence with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Father, with glory and majesty, dominion and power,

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now and forevermore, amen. Amen. Doctor, thank you for the great message. It's dynamic, Doctor.

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Dynamic. Dynamic. Yeah. Thank you.

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[INAUDIBLE] I didn't take that. I forgot to turn it on. [ Silence ]

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