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[Silence] Rejoice the soul of thy servant for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Let us pray. Gracious God, our Father, we gather here to praise your name. We come here to express the gratitude of our hearts. We come here to seek a sense of direction for our lives.

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We come seeking strength. We pray that you would be with us. We pray that your word may be spoken to your people and that your word may be heard and that we may go on our way with renewed strength this day through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.

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You may be seated. You turn to hymn number 329, "I am thine, O Lord." I'm going to sing this hymn, a cappella, so to speak.

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329, "I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice, and it told thy love to me, but I long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to thee.

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Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding side.

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Let everyone get a hymnal, and we want everyone to sing. Draw me nearer. I am thine, O Lord; I have heard thy voice, and it told thy love to me. But I long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to thee.

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Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. Consecrate me now to thy service, Lord, by the power of grace divine. Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope, and my will be lost in Thine.

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♪ Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where thou hast died. ♪ (singing) Our scripture, the eighth Psalm. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above

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the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, but thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou

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hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visitest him. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, the beasts of the field, the fowl of

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the air and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. This is our time of prayer. It is a time when we gather together at the altar.

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It is a time of thanksgiving. It is a time to seek forgiveness for our sins. It is a time to seek strength for our journey. It is a time to not only pray for ourselves but to remember others.

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So in this call to prayer, those who are led to do so, we ask that you would come forward and gather here as we pray together to our Heavenly Father. The Bible says that men ought always to pray. Everyone needs to pray.

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People of all sorts and conditions, whatever may be our plight in life, there's not a lot so confined or a condition so destitute that we cannot carry it to God in prayer. Oh what a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and griefs to bear, oh what a privilege it is to carry everything, everything, everything, everything to God in prayer.

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God has promised to hear us when we pray. Whatever may be the burden today, take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. teach us to pray. Teach us to rely on you and to carry our burdens there and to seek your strength and your help. Let us pray now. Lord Jesus here we are

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gathered here in prayer on a day which you have made. We've just come and we'd like to say good morning to you because it is a good morning. No matter what may be the condition or circumstance we say good morning Lord you've blessed us and permitted us to see the sunlight of a new day and we want to say thank you.

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You've been good, you've been gracious, you've been kind. So in this day that you've made help us, O Lord, to rejoice and be glad in it. Guide our feet that we may walk in your precepts. Guide the words that we speak. And then, O Lord, we would ask that you would forgive us. Oh, you have told us to do so many things that we haven't done.

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Sometimes we haven't had the faith. Sometimes it's been because we just haven't surrendered ourselves to you, because we know that you will give us the strength to do that which you require of us, but Lord forgive us those things that we have done which we ought not to have done and those things that we have left undone. We pray that

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somehow in your love and in your forgiveness that you would cast it into the sea of forgetfulness where it will never rise again to testify against us. Forgive us dear Lord. And then we pray that you would renew the right spirit within us.

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Some of us gather here are perplexed in mind. We are faced with difficult decisions and we don't know which way to go. You promised to be a guide. You promised to be a comforter for us.

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You promised to be with us every step of life's way, so we pray that you would guide, strengthen, and comfort us this day. Then dear Lord, we pray for those who are bereaved among us, and help us in the celebration of this day that we might be able to celebrate, O God, not only when things are going well

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with us but to celebrate your goodness when things aren't going so well. Bless Ebenezer and not only for Ebenezer do we pray but we would ask for your blessings upon the church the world over and bless the work which you have assigned to our hands and grant that we may labor faithfully until that day when you call

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us from labor to reward. We ask this all in the name of thy son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (eerie music) (doorbell rings) (eerie music)

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(eerie music) (eerie music) (eerie music) (ominous music)

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(door creaking) (eerie music) (doorbell buzzing) (doorbell buzzing)

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(phone buzzing) - Good morning. I have no announcements at this time. I would ask that you please read your church bulletin for church announcements Are there any visitors this morning, so would you kindly stand?

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Thank you very much [Silence] You will notice the fact that this is recruiting time for prospective firefighters

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in the Austin area Particularly as it desired that we may have members of the minority group to Qualify for this Position of these positions and this will last this particular period for recruitment until June the 8th and

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I think that will be next Saturday So if you know of persons who may be interested It would be good for you to tell them to apply And also there is a need for volunteers to work with the blind

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So if you will follow this This afternoon there was be a dedication of the official, Texas historical marker For the Thompson home with the zeta Phi Beta sorority house at 4 PM so you are asked to take advantage of the opportunity to

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Share in that Observance we have the High school and college graduates in our church that have been reported to us if there are others you will appreciate it

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If you report it to us, we have those that have been reported and we wish to congratulate each one and to wish for you much happiness and God's choices benedictions upon you as you

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continue to go forward All of the heads of departments and auxiliaries are asked to meet immediately following the 11 o'clock worship service and we ask that you will observe that particular

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announcement. [Pause] [inaudible] [Music]

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

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(upbeat piano music) (upbeat piano music) (upbeat piano music) [ Music ]

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We are soldiers in the Army. We have to fight, although we have to fight. We have to hold up a blood-stained banner. We have to hold it up until we die.

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We are soldiers in the Army. We have to fight, on war we have to fight. We have to hold up the bloodstained banner. We have to hold it up until we die. My mother was a soldier. She had her hands on the gospel plow.

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But one day she got old and couldn't fight anymore. She just stood up and fought anyhow. Oh. We are soldiers in the Army.

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We have to fight, although we have to cry. We have to hold up the bloodstained banner. We have to hold it up until we die. Well, I'm glad I'm a soldier.

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I got my hands on the gospel plow. But one day when I get old and can't fight anymore, So I'll stand up and fight anyhow. We are soldiers in the Army.

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We have to fight, although we have to cry. We have to hold up the bloodstained banner. We have to hold it up until we die. [Music]

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[Pause] Honor the Lord with thy substance, with the firstfruits of all thine increase, so shall thy bonds be filled with plenty. As the ushers come forth now and the officers join with them,

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let us worship the Lord in our giving. Let us give according to how God has prospered us. And as the giving takes place, we're going to ask that the chancel choir will sing their number during this particular time.

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May we bow our heads. Bless us, O Lord, and be with us in our giving. Grant that your Spirit may possess us, and that we may give the spirit of love and sacrifice through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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[ Pause ] [MUSIC PLAYING] [ Music ] Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.

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Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King. Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we're going to see the King Don't walk right there, we are going to see the King

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Don't walk right there, we are going to see the King No more crying there, we are going to see the King Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we are going to see the King No more dying there, we are going to see the King

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No more dying there, we are going to see the King Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we're going to see the King Soon and very soon we are going to see the King. Soon and very soon we are going to see the King.

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Soon and very soon we are going to see the King. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we're going to see the King. In the eighth Psalm and the fourth verse are these words, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him?"

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What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visitest him?" The subject of the message, "Who am I?" The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that one progresses in life by learning to ask the right questions.

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Question that is being raised today, "Who am I?" The ancient Psalmist asked the question, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?" This penetrating question concerns the heart of human existence.

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Who am I? This is an existential question. It's a question which pertains to one's existence. Who am I? It is a question that every person needs to ask himself or herself, "Who am I?" It's a question that deals with the mystery of me and the mystery of you. Who am I? One of the problems of our time,

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I often say is that so often we are answering questions that no one is asking. But here is a question with which every one of us is concerned because it pertains to our existence. It has to do with our understanding of ourselves, it has to do with our relationship to ourselves, our attitude toward ourselves, as well as our understanding of others, and our attitude

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and relationship toward others. Who am I? we begin to answer this question, when we begin to consider the response, we recognize that much of our frustration and our despair may be due to the fact that we are not answering this particular question, so much like the theologians of the Middle Ages who spent a

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great deal of time arguing about how many angels could stand on the point of a needle. This particular question is a relevant question. It has a concern with meaning. It's concerned about our origin,

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our nature, as well as our destiny. Who am I? The scientists have tried to answer this question by saying that man is an animal.

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He's a curious creature that parades the earth in an upright position, made of flesh, blood, bones. He's composed of chemicals which at the inflationary prices today's market would possibly be two dollars. It used to be said that man was worth just about a

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dollar, a little less according to the chemical value. But how can we really identify ourselves? And I'm often disturbed when I go in, sometimes it's a request for some identification as to who I am. And when I'm asked for that I immediately go into my billfold and I come out with credit cards and my driver's license and all of these things when I'm asked for some

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identification and those cards, these cards are supposed to tell somebody who I am, how strange it is when I'm asked for identification that a car I'm really not a card. I'm not something that can be placed in a computer, neither are you that somehow that computer tells someone else or this card or that card may tell

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someone else who we are. There's no way of really understanding who I am and so when the psalmist asks this question, who am I? An existential question about your existence, a question about my existence, who am I? Well the philosophers of old used to say that essence precedes existence. I think therefore I am because

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I can think I am. Well the existentialists have said well I am therefore I think, and I exist first. So we focused on one's existence and what pertains to me just as I am. And how can we really identify ourselves? Who am I? You think of a man, child being born with the phallus symbol and when we look and determine the sex and we exclaim that

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here is a man-child and we determine a man as far as his identity is concerned primarily on the basis of the sex organ. And sometimes we have identified certain other habits as telling us that here is a man. Well cigar smoking, pipe smoking, one slogan used to be man to man, smoke Roy Tan, We were children, one would say, "I can read, I can write, I can smoke, my dad is pipe." Smoking

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was a sign of manhood, we thought. But this doesn't really tell us who we are, it doesn't somehow determine one's identity. How long we've been in the world doesn't do that either. To say that you're 21, that you've come of age, who am I? How can we really answer this question? Like, we cannot say that we understand ourselves just by saying that one is an animal. We are more than

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being an animal creature. Certainly we have certain biological urges, but we are far more than that. And when we are asked to identify ourselves, when we are asked concerning our background, when we are asked to answer this question, "Who am I?" we cannot truthfully answer this question by ourselves. We must look beyond ourselves because no person is the foundation of

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himself or herself. Man is not his own father. So when we begin to ask this question, "Who am I?" When we begin to answer it, we are somewhat engaged in a grand symphony here that the Psalmist gives us, "Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth." This is a grand symphony of three movements, God, humanity, the world, and

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then we come back again to that first movement, God. We begin with God and we end with God. "Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens; out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest steal the enemy and the

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avenger. When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers, the sun and the moon, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him. The mystery of the meaning of human existence is in God's hands. He knows the riddle of life.

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He has the answer to the perplexing question regarding my identity. Or sometimes I remember hearing older people when they would talk about me, someone asked, "Do you know Marv?" And I said, yes I knew that boy before he was born. They really hadn't known me that long. In fact, in many instances they didn't even know when I was born. And we often say that. But really

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knowing a person, how well do you know the person? How well do you know yourself for that matter? And the husband may say, oh yes I know my wife, and a wife may say, oh yes I know my man. But how well do we really know ourselves and how well do we know one another? Who am I? Someone has said that that something like seven or eight-tenths of the

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iceberg is underneath the water and that what we really see is just the tip of that iceberg, that most of it is really underneath. That's the way it is with people. We only see the tip of the iceberg. We only see the faces and the expressions and the like and how they may look in their clothes. That's only the tip of the iceberg. But the real

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you and the real me, most of it is underneath the water. And it is only when we are able to probe into the depths of one's being that we really come to know one another. And who is it that can probe into the depths of another? We only permit just a few people to do that. Sometimes we have to go to the psychiatrist and get on a couch and spend hours for him to do it,

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and sometimes he doesn't do a good job of it. But there is only one who really knows me from the earliest of my existence before I was found in my mother's womb thou has known me and searched me O God there is one who knows O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth that God who is above us who is our

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creator who knows us he is above all that we can say all that we can know or think and we can join with the psalmist in saying that such knowledge is too wonderful for us to comprehend and yet somehow he has revealed this knowledge to bathe them sucklings and yet somehow in many instances it has confounded the

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wise, but he has seen fit to reveal it to the simple. So we understand ourselves only in relationship to the eternal. It is only when we consider that which is beyond ourselves that we come to understand ourselves. When we recognize God as our maker. We can truthfully say in our heart of hearts it is he that

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hath made us and not we ourselves. That we are the sheep of his pasture. It is then that we began to understand ourselves and our relationship to the eternal. God created this world, so man's trip to the moon, oh some have said over some 500,000 miles, shows the vastness of the heavens which are the work of his

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fingers. Great and wonderful are the works of God. But who am I? Whenever one is able to take a flight and you are able to sail through the air like a bird and you can look and you can see the universe how vast it is and you can see how small we seem to be in comparison to it and yet somehow God has seen fit to visit us so that we can

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have his presence, the eternal can dwell with us. Who am I? Well every person is made in the image of God. And I only come to know myself and to understand myself and you only come to know yourself

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and to understand yourself as you really are in relationship to God, the source of all being and I can only be myself in relationship to him and then also in relationship to his world, in relationship to the world that he is made. And to have the right relationship toward that world. God hasn't made us to

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be creatures of things. He hasn't made us to be a creature of the car that we drive or the cattle that we may have on our farm so that we submit ourselves to and really become slaves of those things, the house we live in, the clothes we wear. He hasn't made us for that. He's made us to have dominion over everything. That

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everything God has placed in this world, that God has placed it, that we may rule over it, and that it might not rule over us. He said here, the psalmist says, "Thou has put all things under his feet. So when we probe into the mysteries of the universe, we go to the moon and we go all the other places and we discover the

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mysteries that God has somehow placed here and permitted us through his gift of wisdom to fathom, we do all of those things. It's somehow this is what God intends. He wants us to be the rulers over his universe, but he wants us to rule in such a way that we will reflect that we are made in his image and that we will use these things in the way that

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God intends for us to use them. So the dignity and the grandeur of man, this is what we are concerned about, oh I think Tennyson expresses it beautifully when he says, "Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies. I hold you here root and all in my hand. Little flower, if I could understand what you are root and all and

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and all in all, I should know what God and man is. Our relationship to the world, the dignity of man, yes, that's important. And that dignity that we have is because of the divinity

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that is within us. Dignity, divinity, and then duty. If you would remember those three things, that you have dignity. You're not a worm.

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You're not somehow to be referred to in such a way that degrades your personality. No, every one of us is sacred and we are significant in the sight of God. We have dignity. Who am I?

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Well, I'm a child of the King. I'm a child of the King. That's important to recognize that. Howard Thurman talks about an experience that he had as a child with his grandmother.

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He said he'd sit on the porch and listen to his grandmother. She had been in slavery, and she would tell him stories about how during slavery time they would be referred to as niggers. they had to live with that but she said that there was a slave preacher who

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would come and say to them that you're not niggers that you're God's children and she said he said when she would say that and sitting in her rocking chair chair she would brace up. And look with a new sense of dignity, you're God's child. Even though you may be in poverty, you may be in rage, you may somehow be

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hewn in in life, but you're God's child. You're not a worm, you're not someone that somehow has been cast on the dump heap. You're God's child, and you ought to stand upright and walk with a sense of dignity and respect because you've been made in God's image. I'm a child of the King my father is rich in houses and land he

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holdeth the wealth of the world in his hands rubies and diamonds of silver and go. Well, let's sing that as our hymn of invitation. Who am I? I'm rightly related to the eternal. I reflect a sense of dignity and divinity and I perform my duty in the world so I come to know who I am in regard to my relationship to God.

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who is the beginning and end of life, O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Hymn number 206, now let us all join in singing and as we do so we extend the privilege of the church. If you really want to know who you are, hook up with God. He'll tell you who you are, you come to know the hidden abilities and the

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You don't realize the potentials that you have when you are hooked up with the eternal. Would you come down while we sing, I'm a Child of the King.

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(gentle music) My father is rich in houses and land. He holds the wealth of the world in his hand. ♪ Of rubies and diamonds ♪

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♪ Of silver and gold ♪ ♪ His heart was a fool ♪ ♪ He has raised his head ♪ ♪ On the throne ♪

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- Of the child of the king. ♪ Of the child of the king ♪ ♪ A child of the King ♪ ♪ With Jesus, Savior ♪

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♪ I'm a child of the King ♪ ♪ The poorest of them ♪ ♪ The poorest of them ♪ ♪ Was the poorest of them ♪

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♪ Was the poorest of them ♪ ♪ But now he is free ♪ [singing] ♪ Oh, Father, oh, Father ♪

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♪ My way may be His ♪ ♪ When He comes, I am mine ♪ ♪ I'm a child of the King ♪ ♪ A child of the King ♪

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Redeem us, my Savior, by the power of the King. Sister Buella Agnes Curry Jones has come to Reinstate her membership with us. She was away in school and united with the church in Houston just as it

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should be and following the Baptist Covenant and she comes now back home to Come back home. So all in favor of accepting her as a member of this church. Would you say aye? Those know it's carried and We come now to

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Observe the Lord's Supper, that we ask that our officers will come forward now. Before we do that, I want to make an announcement to come right on while they're doing that. I have an announcement here. Concerning Reverend Doc Reese. It was a good friend of mine

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he was a son of sister Minnie Reese of our church and He passed away Friday and Will be funeralized at Temple, Texas Thursday at 11 a.m the Reverend Doc Reese

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Passed away Friday and will be funeralized Thursday He is the son of sister Minnie Reese and the nephew of brother William Curley deacon William Curley, so let's remember this family in our prayers The act teams and the GA

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Girls the girls auxiliary the program which was scheduled for tonight Will not be held it will be possibly presented on the fourth Sunday instead of tonight May I see the hands of those who will not be remaining for the second worship service at 11 o'clock. All right [Silence]

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May we bow our heads. Gracious God, our Father, we thank thee for the privilege of holy communion. We thank you for the table which you have prepared. It's a table that you prepare for us that's present even in the midst of our enemies,

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a table which is made up of the body and blood of your darling son Jesus, that new covenant and that strength, the gift of every child of the King. us now as we come to eat at this table. Grant that your spirit may possess us, forgive us, and strengthen us for the journey which is before us. We ask in Jesus' name, amen.

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Would you just hold your hand until you're served so we will be sure that no one is overlooked? We want someone to go in the rear also Start at the back Will you take both there brother?

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All right Hold your hand until you're served so that no one will be overlooked, please Just hold your hand that I'll save time hold your hand if their hands aren't hold held brother just go to those with their hands up [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[Music] [Music] [MUSIC] ♪ When shall we all be healed ♪

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♪ Let's not forget ♪ ♪ That broken ground ♪ ♪ Leaving a memory ♪ ♪ Best I forget your symphony ♪

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♪ Best I forget my melody ♪ ♪ Best I forget the love for me ♪ ♪ We need to help the need ♪ ♪ Show me the way ♪

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♪ Gender beyond that way ♪ ♪ Angels in rows of wonder ring ♪ ♪ My dear ♪ - If there's anyone who has been overlooked

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who should be served at this time, would you lift your hand? ♪ Best time for blessing ♪ ♪ Lest I forget ♪

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♪ My Natalie ♪ ♪ Lest I forget ♪ ♪ My old Natalie ♪ ♪ He will have ♪

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♪ No need ♪ ♪ Let us commune together ♪ ♪ Yes, Lord, let us ♪ ♪ Let us commune together ♪

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♪ Yes, Lord, let us ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ Let us commune together ♪ (piano music)

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- They sang a hymn and they went out. I mentioned last Sunday at the 11 o'clock service, I did not do it in the early service, that Sister Bula Thompson retired,

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and I think there's another member of our church having an affair today that is retiring. She retires from the school system after many years of praiseworthy service

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to the pupils of this district. And I'm going to ask her if she'll join me at the rear of the sanctuary there, and I'd like for us to take a moment to congratulate her if she feels up to it, Sister Thompson. Let's all join hands one with the other.

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[inaudible] [MUSIC] ♪ I'm happy with you, happy with you ♪ ♪ Lonely with you, lonely me again ♪

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♪ Happy with you, happy with you ♪ [Music] [MUSIC PLAYING] It was my fault that she didn't get here on time,

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because I didn't wake up until 20 minutes to 8. She didn't wake me up. She was late. And I went through a journey to get here.

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She said, I'm going to be late. If you'd have told her, I would have been here. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [BLANK_AUDIO]

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