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[Silence] We have the privilege today of uniting our hearts in praise and in worship. We'd like for you to get a hymnal please and turn to page 27, "Blessed Assurance." We're going to sing This without any musical accompanist.

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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Number 27. ♪ Blessed assurance ♪ ♪ Jesus is mine ♪

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♪ Oh what a foretaste of glory divine ♪ of glory divine, heir of salvation, purchase of God, bond of his spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story.

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This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song.

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Praising my Savior all the day long. Perfect submission, perfect delight. Visions of rapture now burst on my sight. Angels descending, bring from above, echoes of mercy,

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whispers of love. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long.

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This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. Let us read our call to worship.

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Let us stand. Blessed be the Lord God who alone has worked wonders. You shall know that I am the Lord your Savior. For the Lord will be our everlasting light.

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And our power and our glory. Let us bow our heads. Almighty God, our gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for the privilege of gathering together again in the house of prayer. We thank you that you have kept us safely through another week.

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We thank you for this new expression of your grace. We thank you for your love and for your care. And we ask your blessings upon us as we gather here though few in number We know that you have promised to be wherever two or three are gathered together in your name

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And so we bless you We bless you for the privilege of calling you our father And we pray that you will be with us as we seek to glorify you this day Have mercy upon every one of us and bless us in Jesus name. We ask it

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Let us pray together the large prayer our father Which are in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

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For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. You may be seated. We're going to ask that Betty Batson will lead us now with the responsive reading as we remain in our seats. Beatitudes 602, the back of the hymn.

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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain. And when he was set, his disciples came unto him. And he opened his mouth and felt them say, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

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"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake,

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for they are in the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revive you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,

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by great assurance of heaven, by so great a duty to prophesy which were before you. - We come now to a time of the dedication of an infant, the blessing of a baby,

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The parents and those who are with them. I ask to come forward at this time. Parents I got parents that would be sharing in this dedication of John Richard Marshall

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and the parent Linda Brown. So we're asking that you will come now. [ Silence ] [Pause]

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The scripture says That the children are a heritage of the Lord And blessed is the man whose kiva is full of them So every child is an expression of new life

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the gift of God it is a gift that is growing and becoming

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And as we celebrate this gift in the life of this family, we recognize also our responsibility as the people of God to be instrumental in providing the kind of guidance, the kind of resources, the kind of help

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that will enable this child to grow, even as Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. What is the name of your child?

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John Richard Marshall Brown. Do you hereby present this child to the Lord, and do you promise to the best of your ability, God being your helper,

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that you will seek to rear this child in the fear and admonition of the Lord so that this child may grow even as Jesus grew? I'll say to you, the members of the congregation, do you promise to the best of your ability

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to render whatever assistance may be possible in providing the kind of physical as well as spiritual help that will enable this child to grow in the proper manner? If you so promise, you will answer, "We do." Let us bow our heads.

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God, our gracious Heavenly Father, we bless your name for the gift of John Richard Marshall Brown, an expression of new life, an expression of your love, and we pray for this parent and for the members of this family that as we ask your blessings upon this child that your blessings may be upon them. That all that is necessary to provide the kind of guidance,

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the kind of strength, the kind of help and hope may be provided by your spirit. That this child may grow to be in keeping with your divine design. And so may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. May the Lord lift up the light of his

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countenance upon you and give you peace now and forevermore. Amen. Let's all say amen. [Silence] Again I want to commend you for your presence here.

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People have been calling beginning with last night Wondering whether or not we were going to have service and of course a number of churches announced over the television and other Means I suppose that I know I saw it on television that they would not be having services Today and some counsel the early services and having services now

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At the 11 o'clock. It's always been my practice to to sort of, if I could get to the church, I'd always get there and deal with those who came. And sometimes it's been two or three and sometimes it's been seven and in our case it's more. So I can't help but think of Calvary when I think about what Jesus did for us

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in coming out from the snow as a small matter when I think about the crucifixion and what he endured, what was his experience in order to to provide salvation for us then I rejoice at the opportunity to get out even in weather like this which is really pleasant after you get out in it but it

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happens so seldom in Austin that we are not familiar with it but in other parts of the country it's sort of a matter of course for this time of the year so we want to thank you for having the courage to come out and to be here and we're going to have some announcements now. You will

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notice that the bulletin carries a line here concerning the tape ministry. This is the seventh anniversary recognition and so we're going to postpone that because it's a very

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important ministry and we want to highlight it when we have a considerable number of people present to share in it and also to make a dedication of some new tape recorders. So we

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possibly will do that if all goes well next Sunday. And that will be a part of the worship program at that time. I received an announcement concerning Garden Parks who is a famous producer.

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I don't know whether that's canceled or not but you will notice that a person of his statue doesn't always come among us where we can have a chance to hear him. He's a renowned photographer. He has produced a number of films. A chef is one and he's written a novel, The Learning

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Tree, several of those which was made a movie and so he's been an unusual person in many ways famous and as a photographer his work is being displayed at Laguna Gloria Art Museum today at three o'clock where he's also to give an address and then some of his work may also be seen at the Carver Library and

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museum. So I would urge us during this period to take advantage of it to the best of our ability. We had hoped to have today a discussion by Terry Davis concerning single member districts. There

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a number of things that we had to consider on the ballot on Saturday and single member districts is one of them the airport is another and the rapid transit is another and there are many things that are important to the life of this city that will be on

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that ballot. One of the things that I'm urging all of us to consider doing and that is to vote to move the airport and that is very important it's a number of people who are trying to confuse voters about this whole matter saying that it's It's going to cost a billion dollars. It's nothing like that. The most

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accurate reports that I've seen that have been produced by the chamber and the neighborhood of 300 million dollars That will cost to move to airport It's a noise factor It has some danger there because it is built in what is convenient for many people and many people want to keep it because it's convenient

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Well to be honest with you it's convenient for all of us. It's convenient for me and for you and everybody and that's a rather selfish reason but if we really look at it from the standpoint of the development of this city and The fact that Austin is growing and in the next 20 years, we're gonna have a million people here We've got about a half million now next 20 years. We're gonna have a million

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It's growing just at that rate and we need a larger Airport and if we don't if we expand that one It will cost more to expand and it will to move because land is going up all the time make no mistake about it and the plan which is being presented by the chamber has had a great deal of study and

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It will contribute more to the vitality of the community the business community and if we've got good business Then we're gonna have more jobs and then we're gonna have more prosperity and that's going to be good for all of us So it's important at this time And I think it's event it's an advantage for the people of East Austin to vote in large numbers because what's involved here is

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Our future because if they vote to keep it there then some of our homes are going some of us will be uprooted from our homes and that's going to be a very unpleasant thing and I think that we'll do well to to remember that the rapid transit system or the transit system

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being improved To the point of having a rail system that will save not only Austin but surrounding districts That's very very important and you know cities many times don't vote for these issues because it's a way it's gonna cost them a dollar Or two well

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it's gonna cost even more than that if we wait 20 years from the day when You have all the pollution and everybody trying to go to work in a car and then to try to develop the system It's gonna cost far more than and it does now. So these are some issues that require some vision They're going to require some some output the airport is to be paid for by revenue funds

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Which means that the funds that come from the income of the airport Expected to to retire the the indebtedness of it. So these Issues that are very important the Arts Center

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all of that has to do with the development of this city and providing the kind of cultural offerings that are necessary for a city of the size of Austin. So I think that it's not only important that we remember to go to the polls and vote but that we urge others to do so. And you know what? The weather may not be so pleasant.

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And if we let that weather keep us away like some people have done on church, that election can go any sort of way. You know, so it's very important to determine that if you can get out, if they're gonna have the polls open, to get there. because what they often depend on is us not going when the weather's bad and So it's very important that we get up and get out if the polls are going to be open that day

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and It might well be brothers and sisters that the outcome of this election may be determined by us But how we stick together and vote in on these matters, so it's very important that we do that But about some how did y'all come out with the the zoning thing? Is that been decided? Do you have another meeting?

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Two victories All right that had to do with the housing building some apartments over here that involves some of our members So we are glad to hear that Now I have another announcement. It is our pleasure to invite you to join with us in our preannual musical

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This is from Mount Zion Church Reverend GV Clark minister now that is tonight at 8 o'clock at Mount Zion Church. This is a pre-annual musical That you're invited to attend at 8 o'clock The program will feature the choirs of Mount Zion and greater Mount Zion

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Baptist churches under the direction of Jimmy D Hunter and Harriet Hardin the following Sunday January the 20th 85 it's next Sunday at 3 p.m We will observe our annual services with our guests the Reverend Heywood Wiggins and the Gethsemane Baptist Church of Houston

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Texas join with us as we sing praises to the Lord and magnify his name Yours in Christ the Mount Zion Baptist Church combined choirs sister Jewel Walker president the choir sister Cassandra Hubbard president of the George V Clark choir

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Now at six o'clock Terry Davis is supposed to discuss single-member districts and also at seven o'clock we're supposed to have a presentation by Melvin Wren and Marilyn Poole dealing with investments in law the legal aspects of that. The Midwinter Institute which is sponsored by the St.

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John regular Baptist Association begins on Tuesday Tuesday now tomorrow we are to begin our evangelistic conference for the mission the Baptist General Convention of Texas which is the state convention of Southern Baptists to which we belong in Dallas Texas and that it will be seen are viewed over television

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cable television cable vision channel 34 how many of you have cable so channel 34 that would be viewed for the first time over acts that would be around 7 o'clock over channel 34 and you'll get to hear Dr. Criswell, Dr. Bassanio, and someone else. You'll be you'll be able to tune in on the evangelistic conference

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and understand in Waco that's not in Waco you know in Austin that's channel 34 channel 34 yes yes I think it starts around 630 or 7. Now then on Tuesday over at St. John Reverend Chu will be here for the Midwinter Institute. The Midwinter Institute is at St. John over there at

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the tabernacle on blessing every night we not have prayer meeting this week every night Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Now on the 23rd we will have our annual meeting. The annual meeting is on the 23rd. The annual meeting at which time we will have our recommendations and our reports and so on at our annual

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meeting that is on the 23rd. That should be in the bulletin here somewhere. Beg pardon? Yeah well it should be in there it was in there it was on the calendar last time and it should be back in here this time the 23rd of I don't see it there but it should be there at seven o'clock it's the 23rd that's on a

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Wednesday The WMU Council meeting today. Now the singles those 35 and under are invited to a luncheon I suppose at 3101 Cedar which comes after the worship services today. So that's the 23rd at 7 o'clock.

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All right now we're going to have our offering. We're asking that you come the ashes will come. (silence) [Silence]

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It is far ahead. Under you, oh God, we give thanks for the opportunity of sharing, of sharing that which you have entrusted to us as your stewards. We recognize that everything is yours and help us to use it in such a manner that

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we express our commitment to you in all that we say and do. ask in Jesus name amen. Pause to remember the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. this Sunday is nearest his birthday which we celebrate this week and we remember him as one of

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us as a gospel preacher as a civil rights leader as a pilgrim of peace we remember him because he so well articulated the divine dream not only for black Americans but for all Americans and for all people who are committed to living a godly righteous life. So we remember him for the life

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that he lived, for the contribution that he made, and we recognize also that the dream lives on in him and so we would at this time sing what has been recognized as sort of the theme song of the civil rights movement of the 60s on page 372 we shall overcome so if you'll get your hymnal please and turn to page 372 let

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us stand as we sing together we shall overcome We're going to sing the first, second, and the sixth and seventh verses. The first and second and the sixth and seventh all right? ♪ We shall overcome ♪

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♪ We shall overcome ♪ ♪ We shall overcome someday ♪ ♪ Oh deep in my heart ♪ I do believe we shall overcome someday.

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The Lord will see us through. The Lord will see us through. The Lord will see us through someday. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe

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the Lord will see us through someday. The truth will make us free. The truth shall make us free. The truth shall make us free someday.

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Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe The truth shall make us free someday. We shall live in peace. We shall live in peace.

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We shall live in peace someday. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe that we shall live in peace someday. You may be seated. [Pause]

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We have been considering a sermon series based on the book of Acts, and so we invite your prayerful attention as we consider now the eighth chapter of Acts, Acts chapter 8 and verses 5 through 14. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them.

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And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them,

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and many taken with pauses and that were lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city but there was a certain man called Simon which before time in the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man

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is the great power of God. And to him they had regard because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and name of Jesus Christ they were baptized both men and women. Then Simon himself

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believed also and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done. Now when the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who when they were come down prayed for them that they

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might receive the Holy Ghost. For as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only Only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost.

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And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, "Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the

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Holy Ghost." But Peter said unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of

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God. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be given thee. I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

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Then answered Simon and said, "Pray ye to the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me." And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. I've read a few more verses because I thought

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it would be good for us to consider all of those within the context of the message today. But the subject of the message, what money won't buy, what money want by, things money won't buy. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money saying give

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me also this power that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost. but Peter said unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." What money won't buy? There is a prevailing belief

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in many circles that if you have the money you can get anything you want. From time to time we hear the remark I don't have any problems that money won't cure. This way of thinking, however, suggests that what ails us is altogether material. It suggests that if everyone had enough money, that we would have our share of

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the comforts of life, that we would have all the food that we need and things that go with where we need to stay and all would be well with us. But I wish to suggest in this message that the basic problems of life are not material but spiritual. Before the problems concerning the distribution of food and housing and

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and jobs will be solved. We must take a spiritual journey in this world. And those are the main problems that we're really concerned about today.

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We look at our world with all of the billions of people that are in the world. The major problems that we see as far as our physical problems are concerned,

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our material problems is for everybody to have a roof over his or her head and everybody to have enough food in his or her stomach and to have a job and to be able to to live because you have the basic human comforts and necessities of life, but

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we're not going to have that to take place until people have taken a spiritual journey because it's through the journey with the spirit the spirit of God I mean that we face the realities of human existence and receive meaning in our lives

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Now we note as we read The book of Acts particular this particular section of the book that the early Christians were scattered Because of persecution in Jerusalem The Saints are scattered and they go to Samaria

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From Jerusalem to Samaria is not just a journey by foot by oxcart or by mule To use the more modern means of communication or transportation by car by plane or train It's really a spiritual journey

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Which involves overcoming estrangement What I mean by this is that you see the people who lived in Jerusalem were estranged from the people who lived in Samaria and so they had to take a spiritual journey because wherever there's estrangement there's a funny feeling. You know you can you say you know I don't get along well with

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so-and-so because we sort of feel funny toward each other. There's something between us that's estrangement. And so there was this estrangement. The people of Jerusalem had their way and the people of Samaria had their way. They were separated from each other and so we suffer from estrangement and we need to take a spiritual journey

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as individuals. You know there are just some people we don't feel as close to as we ought to feel. But we sit close to them you know and sometimes that can happen even in in the family circle sometimes a man and a wife don't even feel as close to each other as they ought to feel sister and brother by

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blood don't feel as close to each other as they ought to feel and members of the same family same relatives but yet don't feel as close as something between as this estrangement so Samaria represents this estrangement that must be overcome that keeps us apart. It's the crass racism that cripples, that stifles, that

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destroys harmony among people. Samaria. Samaria is that estrangement between nations, but the gospel must be carried to Samaria. We have that estrangement. We We feel it now, it's been flashed over the news, even though they're meeting at Geneva there's a kind of estrangement that separates the East from the West, the Communists represented

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by Russia from the other nations of the world, the democracies and the third world nations, estrangement. God has strange ways of getting the gospel to Samaria. Strange ways of getting the gospel. When we think about Martin Luther King today as we are somewhat on

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the eve of his birthday we recognize the fact that his life demonstrates how God can work in such strange ways. Here we have a man who was a pastor. He was comfortably situated as a young pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, but he was selected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott and

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And so he becomes one of the leaders of this nation. In fact, he becomes in a sense, the conscience of this nation. He becomes a distinguished leader

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in the civil rights movement. He starts out identified with a bus boycott and a bus boycott, that which was really designed to humiliate people, that which was designed

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as a means of making people feel less than they were. And yet God somehow worked through the bus boycott that was used where people, instead of riding a bus, walk. And yet God uses this in such a way

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that it becomes a blessing, not only for the people who had the courage and the determination to walk, but it becomes a blessing for the entire nation and a blessing for the world. God has a strange way of working in the world.

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And so this is true of the early church. It happens through persecution. God has a way of bringing prosperity out of adversity. So even though we may find ourselves in some rather adverse circumstances, God has a way

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of using those adverse circumstances as means by which to enrich our lives. And so when we look carefully at how God works in our lives, that what we may see as stumbling stones may become stepping stones to success. So he used the Civil Rights Movement to help redeem the soul of America.

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So the gift of the Spirit of God is revealed in Samaria. God sends his Spirit to Samaria, the Holy Spirit. Now that's a somewhat radical experience. real radical when you understand it because you know why it's so radical the

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Jews really thought of God just as being for themselves that's where they really thought of it so now you know he's great God but he's for us he's for us that so they really didn't didn't reach out to the Samaritans they they segregated the Samaritans Samaritans were over in their part so to speak of the of the country

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they were in theirs and they had no dealings with each other. Yes it's a wonderful thing for God to come in Pentecost and shower his spirit upon the Jews but there were many who thought that that's where it ended just with the Jews. But here God showers his spirit upon the Samaritans and when it's

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showered upon the Samaritans the camera is focused on one whose name is Simon Simon oh we may call him Simon the the magician Simon the sorcerer oh yeah he is a man who has certain gifts so the people say as certain gifts I don't know what kind of person Simon was you know we have people around us you know people

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say well these are two-headed folk you know they can tell you some things they used to say that about a lot of people from Louisiana you know these are two-headed folk that they can seven sisters and madam so-and-so and whatever this is Simon the magician Simon the sorcerer and Simon has a great deal of

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respect in Samaria the people had looked upon him because he could somehow work wonders you know in a sense he was able to do some things that people didn't quite understand he was a magician. Magician. You know what a magician is. Magician is a person who can somehow master certain circumstances and use

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them to his own advantage. It may involve taking a rabbit out of a hat. You see what I mean? I remember seeing Blackstone I think it was the great musician. [ Silence ]