McCracken Sermon, 1964-03-01, The Seven Cardinal Virtues: #4 Courage

the text is taken from the book of the head gets the fourth chapter the seventeenth of us no when they so the baldness off the tap and john and perceived that they wear uneducated common man they wonder and they recognize that they have been with jesus we all admire parent james body said about it courage is the thing the lovely virtue or goal is if courage goals and he went on to quote samuel johnson unless a man has set the show he has no security fall preserving any other

regional isolation it's sleeping is sound where courage is elected and there is no power and t although integrity without it the person under pressure will live when he should tell the truth will does ambo when he should be the sort of on that well given when you should hold out is the lovely version face a situation from which one in planes to run away to take hard knocks and come up smiling to upset optioned and turned

it from a liability into a message who among us does not admire sat down for a woman for example who when affliction jamie remarks i am like a deeply built ship i drive based on the stormy when she had learned that it is not so much what happens to us in life that matters as the parish we bring to it the ancients made a cardinal that show off color if they lauded detained soldiers who braved any danger and heroic from a lay down their lives in the service of their country much of state is deemed physical

courage and recognize marvel comics as rare and no blood the spinach and fearless big eight year old man like socrates who played no tricks with their own minds who's pardoned the great to compromise with principal who stood below but what was just and right no matter what the consequence to themselves they lay a particular emphasis on the cultivation of courage the development off in their associates off stay mr matt and grips with snow out what circumstances however at this could exhaust and they did marlins theorize about

coverage they displayed it epictetus was a slave in the court on narrow anything could happen to anybody in every date association with a scoundrel like nero did epictetus live in fear of him now does the tide and say he will throw me in prison he cannot imprison my spirit does he tell me what he can only cut off my head in the new testament little is said about the issue of marriage the emphasis is different a great deal is made of it and

no one there to be a christian nowadays is reckoned a simple matter by many people you join a chat you want to end with that and as you say to be a christian in new testament names required courage physical and moral were you were in the minority and you had to take a stand that the majority are they're all closed or ridicule you were connected to a struggle against the odds and your memoir is all the situation prism death that is frequently used in the new testament all the military metaphors but the exhortation to be christians so there is not to cultivate coverage and work up in kenya resources of

stamina it is to put on the whole armor of god and be strengthened with mike why is it in the end are the first christians had rage was the lovely the show it was for jesus also he spoke a lot about it and again he said to his followers be not afraid he bedlam be rid of the fear of man and of the rebels and dangerous that undoubtedly would confront them whatever lawsuits the barrow sees said on longer a really enjoyable to the end just as much as the ancients jesus called for coverage but the difference between him and then is not and what he said about its nature off its value

it isn't what he said about its source he puts the emphasis not on courage as a matter of physical constitution or as of action to be self engendered but on cottage as the outcome and the consequence of faith in god having proved it in his own experience he was stronger that's when men have the confidence that god is with them and supporting them they can meet all the circumstances of life fearlessly and likely hate it and the quiet mind not because we have the physique of the samsung tvs yet not but because heathrow and define i can do all things he said so then who strengthens we

believe that was a man for all seasons without know a good start and back him do you expect the prince's to take care of you are arrested were like do i tell you know and where will you be then tell me that where you be then then as know i'm so over in lands oh almighty god when you read about the deputy the play that has caused this debt in europe that note is causing a step in you you all these things yourself or there's another side to that full story of dietrich bonhoeffer imprisoned in baltimore my biggest apple on saturday he was conducting a service on his fellow prisoners and not just rhode island's the

benediction when the door opened and to you all three shows and didn't say it is not on offer come with us but every man in the world and those words come with us man oh i'm staying on may the scaffold they bad on hoffa goodbye drawing one of the mice it said with simple dignity this is the air and for many the beginning of life the next day he was hanged and courage is the lovely version and we ought to have it facing difficult situations we caught up on ourselves to be plucky and spunky

a loss the springs of courage and as all three rules to sell all over their minds made on us and even the finest cottage where it's been unless it is fortified by something beyond cottage one of the saddest things in life is to see people up against of taking obnoxious tank to put a brave face on things desperately in need of sustenance i'm not going look beyond any of that where it says that means is to be found when i see them and in my calling scarcely a week passes but i do john ruskin was saying comes to my mind i'm not surprised at what people suffer i am surprised at fort lee a mess somebody may be listening to make

no you're in church are over the radio who has a fight on his hands who does himself don't whine don't let this get it down stand up to it and moscow it isn't all that there is to say i'm a veteran and i'm sure that there's another source of courage faith in yourself unique what i don't get it i'm going to have that with faith a lot what you're up against and fighting in a

trusted him to help you get a polarized innovative it about your situation brain got into it nolan oh does will never be disappointed no one just you think of the courage of days he had physical courage he steadfastly cities face the bow to jerusalem though he knew very well and they would say see donations and this is motown he was utterly fearless in denouncing what was wrong and been championing what was right he had the courage so much needed to get the courage to be but getting to do the courage to speak up and vote regardless of

consequence especially among young people the impression that lingered is that jesus was soft we know from the france somebody sent in anonymously at a poem to the london spectator jesus rose lot with us was passed who start out from first to last patient and fearless true that the bond sale on a jew who know as you're our near it it not feel all were those fate trembling in the scale with your half hearted banter dying and chat

across the bread and wine man went out to face the end along without a single friend ward i go to wayne and he can feel that hot although that spirit of steel where did he get his carriage it made no secret but he got it from the confidence that broad was within that god was supporting him something that wendell phillips said at the height of the struggle for the abolition of slavery flights are the reason for the fearlessness of jesus it is easy to be brave when all behind you agree with you the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety nine of your

friends think you are wrong they it is the brave so who stands up one among a frozen but remembering that one with a lot meeks a majority there