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[Silence] God, the Lord God, has spoken and summoned the world from the rising to the setting sun. [Audience] Christ is risen! Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High.

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[All] We give you all the glory in the name of the Lord. God will come to your rescue and you shall not be afraid. Let us pray. Lord God, our Father, we thank you for the gift of this day,

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for life, for the enjoyment of all of its privileges, for the gift of fellowship and for the privilege of worship. We ask that you would be with us as we seek to glorify your name today.

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Renew the right spirit within us and grant that we shall seek to do that which is pleasing in your sight. We ask in Jesus' name, amen.

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Would you greet one another this morning? Good morning and welcome to the worship of God. Now let's sing hymn number 126, "He is Lord." We're going to just repeat that several times,

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maybe three times, "He is Lord." Three or four times. ("He is Lord") [Music]

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♪ He is Lord, He is Lord ♪ ♪ He is risen from the dead ♪ ♪ He is Lord ♪ ♪ Every knee shall bow ♪

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♪ Every heart shall know ♪ ♪ That He is Christ, He is Lord ♪ ♪ He is Lord, He is Lord ♪ He is risen from the dead and He is born

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Every day shall know, every hour come to know How Jesus Christ is born He is born, He is born He is risen from the dead and He is born

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♪ Every nation, every country ♪ ♪ Our dear old country of gold ♪ - Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and

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wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory that which I preached unto you, unless ye had believed in vain. delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and

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that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present. But some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James and of all the Apostles. And

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last of all he was seen of me also as a one born out of due time. For I am the least of the Apostles that am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church of God but by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain but I labored more abundantly

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than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach and so ye believed. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ not risen and if Christ be not

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risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain. Yea we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised and if Christ be not raised your faith is

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vain ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. May the Lord bless to us the reading and hearing of his holy word. Would you join hands with the person next to you as we pray together. As we

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come to this time of prayer there are some special concerns that have been made known to me. There are those who are in the hospital. Brother Otis Hodges is in Seton Hospital, room 361. I saw him on yesterday. He had a heart flare up and had to be rushed there, but he seems to be recovering. He's in good spirits. I understand Frankie is in the hospital. She's out. All right so

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she's already out. Let's remember brother Kinchin's sister he has requested prayer for his sister who is critically ill. She's being brought out of the hospital to her home, Sister Pearl Kinchin. There may be other concerns that have not been made known to me that you have, but whatever they may be, let us all go to

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God in prayer. Lord God our Father, here we are. Your children gathered in your house with bowed heads and humble hearts. We give thanks to you for the many mercies that you have showered upon us. We confess that we have sinned and we come short of your glory.

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We have not attained into the high mark that you have set for us. Lack of faith and uttermost surrender to you have kept us back. faltered, we've blundered along the way. And so as we bow today, we would ask your loving forgiveness for what we have done wrong. We ask that you would cast it from

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your presence into the sea of forgetfulness where it will never rise again to testify against us in the judgment. Have mercy upon us and bless us. Give us courage for the living of these days. Sometimes the way is dark, we are perplexed, and we know not where to turn but to look to you to guide us through

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the darkness. So we pray that you would hold our hand. Bless us as a church family, especially do we remember now those who are sick and suffering from the various ailments of body and mind. Grant unto them healing if it be your will. Be with all who are in hospitals and in homes and give them especially the faith to know that with you everything may

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be made to work together for good. Bless our city and our nation and all of the nations of this world. Hasten the day when there shall be peace in our world that we might give you the glory now and always is our prayer in Jesus name amen

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(papers rustling) (papers rustling) [BLANK_AUDIO] (soft music)

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[BELL RINGING] [ Pause ] [SILENCE] (door slams)

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(footsteps) [piano music] [piano music] ♪ God made my vow to the Lord ♪

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♪ And I never will turn back ♪ ♪ I will go ♪ I shall go to see what the end will be. God made my path to glory.

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I will turn back. I will go, I shall go, to see what the end will be. When I was a foreigner just like you. I will go, I shall go, see what the end will be.

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I'm gone and I'm home till I'm eight to noon. I will go, I shall go, see what the end will be. Don't break my vow to the Lord, I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go, to see what the end will be.

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When every star refused to shine, I will go. I will go. I shall go. I shall go.

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See what the end will be. I know King Jesus will be mine. I will go. I will go, I shall go, I shall go, see what the end will be.

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God made my love to go to war, God I never will turn back. I will go, I shall go to see what the end will be. [The Lord is with you. Amen.] time there will be the dedication of an infant so we're asking that the parents

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will come forward please. Children, our heritage of the Lord. Blessed is the man that has his skivvah full of them. Our children are not our own, they are alone from God. It is a gift of new life, representing new hope. And as Hannah came presenting her child

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to the Lord you come presenting your child. What is the name of your child? Omar Kwame Montique. Do you present Omar Kwame Montique to God in the presence of this assembly? And do you covenant together that you will seek to rear him in the fear and admonition of the Lord, God being your helper. Let us bow our heads. Eternal God, our Father, we thank you

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for the gift of this new life to this family. We pray that you will now bless Omar as his parents come dedicating him to you. We pray that you will be the guiding light in the home, that you will be the force molding Omar so that he might grow even as Jesus grew in wisdom, in stature, in favor with God and man. We ask it in his name. The Lord bless

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you and keep you. The Lord cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up the light of his countenance on you and give you peace, now and always. Amen. God bless you. (gentle music)

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(somber music) [MUSIC PLAYING] (soft music) We come now to worship the Lord and the dedication of our gifts.

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Let us all give according to how the Lord has prospered each one of us. Let us pray. Giver of every good and perfect gift, be with us now as we share according to how you have blessed each one of us.

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us to give with a liberal spirit, remembering that the liberal soul shall be made fat. So grant that we may give with love, not grudgingly, but with a spirit of sacrifice. In Christ's name, amen. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] (gentle music) (gentle music)

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

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

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[MUSIC PLAYING] (gentle music) (gentle music) [MUSIC]

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(gentle music) [Music] [Music] [music]

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Last Sunday afternoon, we had the St. John Choir of Dallas, Texas with us, and they presented an outstanding musical program. I think all of us who were present could attest to that fact. But I want to especially express my deep gratitude

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to all of the persons who worked to provide the entertainment. I had to go to Florida for the convention and I spoke to Sister Kennedy, Sister Mary Lee Kennedy, to sort of see that things would move on and ask the choir to help and so with

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the leadership that she gave, Brother Leroy Davis and others, we had in my opinion very, very good meal prepared and served. The hospitality was outstanding. We were here to greet them as they arrived

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and they were high in their praise concerning the arrangements that were made and the entertainment that was given. So I want to thank every one of you

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And it was done at a most economical price. If you really wanna know how to buy something and buy it for the best price and then have a delicious meal

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and it's all over, you see Sister Kennedy. She knows how that's done. And it was really outstanding. And for all of you who did it,

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choir members and other persons who assisted the preparation of that food and in the entertainment that was provided I want to thank you from the very bottom of my heart. Now you will notice in the bulletin that the choir is invited to participate in the rehearsals

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arranged for the musical to be presented in connection with our association the St. John Tabernacle on July the 16th. The rehearsals will be tomorrow night at 730 at the Mount Zion Baptist Church and they will continue each weekday night that's listed there, it will not be held on the 4th and you will see the schedule. So all persons

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who will, we invite you to share in that particular musical program. Next Sunday I will have completed 33 years in the pastoral ministry. I served as minister pastoral minister at New Hope in Waco for 18 years and next Sunday I shall have been here for 15 years, making a total of 33 years.

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And during those years we've had some unusual experiences. I've had to work with a number of people, and I've had some delightful experiences, And I've had some unpleasant experiences, but the more delightful experiences have outweighed the unpleasant experiences.

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There's been a great deal of talk that I want to sort of bring you up to date on concerning our music ministry. A lot of people say, "Well, you know, I didn't know what's wrong or what's this or that." And the pastor is the leader of the worship service. The pastor is the leader of the worship service.

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Not the deacons, the pastor. The pastor is the leader of the flock. And there are some people who don't quite understand that. And every pastor is responsible for the selection of his staff.

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And that staff, whatever it may be in a large church, it's larger. Anyone who follows churches, church administration will know that some pastors who leave, particularly in the larger churches, will take their staff with them. So that when a staff is selected, sometimes the staff works with the pastor, and sometimes that staff doesn't work with the pastor.

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I've had to select a number of secretaries since I've been here. Some of them have been good secretaries. Some of them I've helped to get other jobs because they wanted jobs paying more. more, some of them haven't. And where they haven't, I've discharged those and gotten

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new ones. And this has been true in connection with the music ministry. There are some things that you may not have known because you haven't been here to know. You don't supervise the music, I supervise that music. And there are a lot of things that I'm not going to be revealing publicly but when the time comes just as persons were hired they will and if they don't do

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the job as I see it as it was understood those persons are discharged. A lot of people who may not know that when I was a boy the pastor of my home church fired the whole choir because the choir was not dealing as they should have with the worship. And so the congregation provides the kind of staff to help the minister do his job.

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And the minister is going to make some mistakes when he selects a staff. I saw in an article, in a little line on a sweatshirt the other day, the man said, "The boss makes some mistakes. He hired me."

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So from time to time mistakes are made, but those mistakes need to be corrected. So as we go through a transition with our choir, I'm hopeful that we will make this in the smoothest manner. There's an article that appears in the paper today in the Villager. This article also appeared in the

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Neighborhood section of East Austin concerning some activities that were carried on by Ebenezer Church. And someone sent that to the paper without it having been approved by the pastor, sitting on Ebenezer stationary.

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And these are the kinds of things that I have been experiencing for some three years. And those statements that appear in those articles are not correct. I understand that it has been canceled. But the prayers and the support of people who are genuinely concerned

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about the development of this church and this music ministry will be helpful. There have been some times when I hired a young lady once in our office and I had to be away the first week she was to work.

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I gave her the instructions she was to carry out and I had to be in California that week for a convention. And I called back in the middle of the week to ask her how she was getting along.

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She said, "Rev. I just can't do this." I said, "Well, what's the trouble?" She said, "There's so many people coming in telling me so many things that I just don't think I can do this."

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And so she left. So, so often so many people try to poison the minds of young people who begin new work. They need your help, they need your prayers, and they need your support. And I'm hopeful that with the new beginning which we are having in our music ministry,

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that it will have that kind of support. Because as pastor, I'm not going to make decisions based on likes and dislikes. I'm going to make decisions based on what's right as God gives me the vision to see the right and those decisions will not be made by people who go out and try to consort with

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other people to stir up confusion based on the fact that they have not performed their duty when the persons don't know that. I'll continue to make those decisions as long as I'm in the position on the basis of what is right because most of you don't know what's happening when I'm supervising someone.

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As the old deacon said to me once, "Rev. a heap sees but a few knows." And so that's very true when it comes to pastoring. Most of you have not ever pastored, but if you ever pastored you'll come to know that it's not always easy. Now I think there's an announcement to be made by brother

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Roland Hayes. That's a kind of a hard act to follow. I want to say amen to what the pastor said to some degree. If you have a lead, you do have to do some things that people don't understand.

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I want to say that we, one of the most important events that occurs in a person's tenure is the time when they get paid. And we know that most of us who work, we get paid every pay period, every week, every month, or bi-monthly, whenever we get paid.

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But there's nothing like saying thank you. No matter how much money you make, there comes a time when you would like for someone to say I appreciate what you've done and thank you very much for that. I think what we just heard this morning is a sermon within itself, even though some people

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may not want to accept it. I'm here to say that on page 11 in your bulletin, it speaks of what we intend to do next week in reference to our pastor. I think that he has been here 15 years and there are a lot of things I personally know

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that no one else knows other than the Lord, the pastor, myself, and maybe my family. And some of you may have the same experiences. It's the fact that we have a person here we can come to and we can talk to about things that bother us or things that we ought to be aware of.

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There comes a time when even though we may pay him every week or when we pay him, there comes a time when we need to, I think, say thank you. Now somebody asked a question, why do we do this? do we have anniversaries and why do we have appreciation for pastors and it's not to try

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to give them as much money as you know to put on a show it's just to say thank you in a nice way it's like our birthday it's our anniversary it's that kind of a way and next week at three o'clock we will appreciate as we who appreciate what the pastor has done and what this church has done for him and what he's done for this for this community

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We want to say thank you. He wants you to participate. Now there will be some some order about how we're going to do this. Miss Dorothy Malone is the chairperson and we would like for you to contribute what you want to contribute or do what you would like to do if it's a card or some kind of a gift. We'd like for you to give it to the auxiliary that you belong to. If you don't belong to one give it to brother Owens.

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And we want to make one presentation and not have everybody parading down and and drawing out a long evening of making gifts, but we do want to say thank you and we would like for you to come out next week at 3 o'clock to say that we'll be here a very short period of time. We do think it's important. Thank you.

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[ Silence ] [ Music ] ♪ Sun and morning ♪ ♪ Will be my reward ♪

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♪ How ♪ ♪ God will ♪ ♪ To love and love ♪ ♪ As you have so shown ♪

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♪ How ♪ ♪ God will ♪ ♪ How ♪ ♪ I'm really going my way ♪

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♪ This is my life ♪ ♪ Hallelujah my God ♪ ♪ My way ♪ ♪ When the shadows of this life have grown ♪

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I'll fly away, oh like a bird from prison bars has flown And I'll fly away, I tell you I'll fly away Oh, lonely I'll fly away With my life I'll endure the fight

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I'll fly away For just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away to a land where joy shall never end. And I'll fly away.

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I tell you, I'll fly away. Oh, I'll fly away. When I die, Hallelujah, I'll fly away Oh, some glad morning when this life is over

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And I'll fly away Or to a home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away I tell you I'll fly away

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Oh Gloria I'll fly away When I die, hallelujah, my God, I'll be away. Amen. Amen.

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And if Christ be not raised, your faith is in vain, ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

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But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound

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and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. That's the 52nd verse of that 50th chapter of 1 Corinthians, the subject of the message, The dead shall rise.

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This particular message deals with the heart of the Christian faith, the gospel of the resurrection. The dead shall rise. That's good news.

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It's the miracle of miracles. It's really true. The dead shall rise. takes us to the graveyard where we walk among the tombs.

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We recognize the awfulness of death, the grim reaper, the angel death that comes announcing the end. Is that pestilence that walketh in noonday and that destruction that wastes? death is real. It's the worst thing that can happen, it's the last thing. It is said

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by a notable theologian that in the end God is going to kill us all. Christianity recognizes the reality of death, for death is not fantasy or fiction, it's a part of life. The moment we begin to live we begin to die. Death is on our trail. It's a part of the human situation that the pilgrim of faith understands. Am I

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born to die to lay this body down. As Paul nears the end of his epistle to the Corinthians, he takes the wings of the Spirit and soars to the summits, declaring with ringing certainty, "Death shall be raised incorruptible." This is the abiding assurance that confronts us on the journey of life. We know this is

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not the end. Death does not have the last word. If death is all there is, then all of our lives are most miserable. We are born, we live, we work, we die, but there is more. The copy that is prepared for the newsroom, in many instances at the end of a page there appears the word more, more. So there is always more when we come to the

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end of this life, there is more. Death is not the end and that's good news. Death consigns us to the realm of meaninglessness. Death is a sign of separation, as a way of saying that nothing matters anymore. But here is a word of hope. The dead shall rise. This is not just idle chatter. Paul is not just making a philosophical

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argument. He is expressing the reality of the Christian faith. Sometimes we speak paying our last respects. We talk about the dead as having made their last journey, but here is a word that embraces all who from their labors rest, all who have their abode in a grave, the dead shall rise. This is a word of hope. If you

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don't have this faith then your life is not worth living. There is rampant injustice in our world, millions of victims of gross inequities when it comes to the distribution of those things necessary for life on this planet. So much we hope for is not realized in our lifetime, but cheer up

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the dead shall rise. This faith is anchored in Christ's resurrection, Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith. His resurrection is the foundation of our faith. Christ is crucified, there's no question about it. They recognize that he is dead. Those who stand by the cross listen as he utters

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the last word, "Father into thy hands I commend my spirit." He was taken down from the cross and buried. Some of our burial services are without the radiant hope that Paul exemplifies through these words. But we need to look again and we need to realize the significance of the statement "the dead shall rise" for

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soldiers are placed on guard outside the tomb but the word is "the dead shall rise" that's the testimony of Scripture. On the third day the Messiah the only begotten Son of the Father shall rise again. Scriptures indicate that. The dead shall rise. Jesus himself said that Jonah who was in the belly of the whale for three

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days, just as he was in the belly of the whale for three days so shall the Son of of man be in the bowels of the earth, but the dead shall rise." This is the proclamation of the impossible possibility. It is impossible from the human standpoint, but it is possible from God's side.

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It is a human impossibility, yes, but for God here is the manifestation of the impossible possibility the dead shall rise. The human says what is dead is dead that's the end it's all over but as we look at Jesus as he goes about in his earthly ministry if we were to ask the daughter of Jairus the testimony would be the

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dead shall rise. If we would ask the widow of Nain concerning her son the testimony would be the dead shall rise and if we were to ask Lazarus concerning this word he would say yes it's true the dead shall rise the dead in Christ for it is God's action in Adam all die and Christ all shall be made

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alive. That's good news. The God who raised up Jesus Christ will raise us up. The dead in Christ shall rise. So for every one of us it's a word of comfort and it's a word of hope. It was a word that was delivered in the long ago but it has relevance for our time. The Greeks were in agreement concerning the

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immortality of the soul, but they didn't believe in the immortality of the body. There were those who believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but they did not believe in the resurrection of his followers. But Paul somehow as he gathers up and sums up the Christian faith. He says in this chapter, "The dead

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shall rise incorruptible," that not only are we having presented to us the immortality of the soul, but there is the immortality of the body. For this body that is physical, that is sown in corruption, is raised in incorruption. that that which is sown in dishonor is raised in glory, that this natural body

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is raised a spiritual body, the dead shall rise. And this is what is manifested in the faith of every person who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord of his life. You may be able to say that I know that I have come from death into life, that the dead shall rise in Jesus Christ, that the life of meaninglessness and the

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life of despair is overcome through him, that Christ is alive because he is alive in me, that he walks in the garden of my life just as he walked in that garden in the long ago, that he travels into the highways of my own history just as he traveled the highways of Palestine in the long ago. That's the resurrection

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story that was proclaimed by the women. That's the word that was proclaimed by the disciples that the dead shall rise. That's the story of salvation. That's the story and that's the hope and that's the glory of every true-born child of God. And one can say that when I go to the grave that I'm not going there to stay,

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I'm going to get up. But when this poor lip-springs tampering tongue lies silent in the grave, still in a nobler sweeter song, I'll sing his power to say the dead

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shall rise. As the choir sings now, or as we join with the choir in singing, Our hymn of invitation, "There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from

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Emmanuel's veins." We extend the privilege of the church, those who believe the gospel, this good news that Christ is alive, that he has spoken to you, that you want to identify with his people, his church, in giving testimony to the fact that the dead shall rise and live forevermore.

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[MUSIC] ♪ How can we remember ♪ ♪ Our God in heaven above ♪ ♪ God save us once ♪

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♪ We remember ♪ ♪ You know that in Christian life ♪ ♪ His praise ♪ ♪ To God and Him ♪

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♪ Praise ♪ ♪ To God and Him ♪ ♪ Praise ♪ ♪ Our Savior's love ♪

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[MUSIC] [music] We come to the table of the Lord because we have the abiding assurance in our heart of hearts that the dead shall rise.

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We have experienced the resurrection of Jesus Christ in our own lives, so his resurrection is ours. And as we come now, let us bow our heads as we go to God in prayer. Oh God, we thank you for this word and we pray that you will bless this table

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representing the blood and body of our Lord. We pray that you will bless us as we rededicate ourselves to proclaiming his will and his way so that those whose lives we touch day by day can bear testimony to the fact that the dead in Christ shall rise.

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Bless us as we commune at his table we pray, amen. (indistinct) [INAUDIBLE] [inaudible]

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC] If you lift your hand, we will come to serve.

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If you lift your hand, we will come to serve. [MUSIC PLAYING] ♪ Let us pray in prayer ♪ ♪ On our knees ♪

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♪ Let us pray in prayer ♪ ♪ On our knees ♪ ♪ We will go on our knees ♪ [Music]

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♪ Lord of mercy ♪ ♪ Haunt me ♪ ♪ Let us drink wine ♪ ♪ To the holy ♪

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♪ Let us drink wine ♪ ♪ Forever on our knees ♪ ♪ And I fall on my knees ♪ ♪ With my praise to the rising sun ♪

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♪ Oh, what a beautiful ♪ ♪ And I'll always be here for you ♪ ♪ Let us praise God again ♪ ♪ For our healing ♪

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♪ Let us praise God again ♪ ♪ On her knees ♪ ♪ I fall on my knees ♪ ♪ With my face to the rising sun ♪

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♪ Oh, how I ever ♪ ♪ Seek the Lord ♪ [Music] Has anyone in the audience who has been overlooked or should be served, would you raise your hand?

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