Late, Late Lecture; McCracken: Life Is Ever Lord Of Death (Easter Sermon 1964)

the man nice and made the team nice nice tonight and every night this week the late late night it is privileged to present a special lecture for the easter season robert j mccracken preaching minister of the riverside church will speak on life is ever lot of debt this

talk was nineteen sixty four easter sunday sermon at the riverside church the text is taken from the book of job the fourteenth chapter the fourteenth verse if a man die shelby live again it isn't your whole question from the beginning of his life on math man has asked to say not only care it conference each of us navigate classes but that our obituary notices in the newspaper we got on set the morning by morning on interest quickened when we recognize and made them complicated

when did in vegas also affects us personally takes away one who was at the very same pair of our existence and at once the hbo immemorial christian raps and no alps and and tears in our so if a man die charlie live again in the main that ought to answer is to the question that of our associate that death is the greatest of our needles because it just being in it writes and this woven everything involved with a solution all the faculty this is say some of our activities the

extension the company and i know all crisis like if this is what you'd feel all obliged to say and death in vegas your circle believe in you on one day you don't tell you that life than use are all we know you're maybe speech unless you maybe rebellious whatever are your reaction there is nothing to do on your premise but surrender to the inevitable those who believe that debt it's the end of everything will perhaps more humorous in our generation than in any preceding generation are in the minority one of the questions the convictions all the human race is that there is and i ought to

get the history of religion the history all the last thing a poor most people have difficulty in reconciling themselves to their own ultimate extinction that won't all survival seems to them in braids and intuitive not of their own making all the things i noticed in them requires a half my conscience may have an instinctive assurances rod and in something which they feel is of the very essence of them being the dead have not be the end on the sundays over when this year

when considering with seven primal ritual we took into account the teaching of the leading more arrests of police and roll well juan off in another video from their belief in immortality consider the case of socrates just before he was booked a day and he said to his disciples where the man we are going to hear about it so if only it be outweighed in its proper joys in temperance and justice nobility day and throw that's a bar and it will be ready when the outcomes to start on its journey to the other world and there it will derail it mentions fanfare the lead here

it will be like going wrong captivity the hall and others on personal survival after day of socrates had no doubt listened to room i do not want you to say perhaps we lay out socrates or less we follow socrates to the grave you cannot barry socrates there's also one of the world's greatest teachers and the conviction enshrined in his words has never been without advocates in generation after generation profits boy that's the law's supporters have declared their belief in a world beyond this one a phantom better we do in our lives beyond this one reactor fuel out just that

it seemed to the that the very irrationality of the universe requires all they have been unable to convince themselves by any kind of logic that madness ultimate yesterday is a rendezvous with the dust billowing the brightness with which the spin it lands in the body they have refused to concede that it could be extinguished and dave reads a may have said it says stop right here must be the prelude to a higher complete unlike iraq that otherwise it is a haul this at the heart of things i think today of what one of my boss who teaches mcneil pick some role in the human situation to proclaim the man but there is the only a model

andrew exum receives texts mortal blow amounts to the top human history is army has grammar our loyalties terry means broken pol pot on it is a rule and every man knows a man will not be easily going so far so much terry so much insurance so much faith so much affection so much bleakness cost and the line when they recall our friendly faces is or mr go and they remember the mother was weeping for their children snatched away and

lost eight slaves they would be if they accepted these anthologies with fire some resignation in the world in its scientific wisdom vanishes humanity's large airport warrior excellent inventions your alleviation as or discomfort than disease for only a wise saws and directed films oh never never never never never already it will make your parents measure is he make believe man a sense all sup location will invade all for four brands friends in every word of that impression protest don't you say it is the demand and the mangueira for immortality and on this easter morning

don't you share something lovely them on and the hunger no guarantee of mind to have the conviction at the centre of the easter last clue the gospel that has brought us to get your question if a man dying joanie arise again the eastbound senate is a succession of isis are a lot of jesus christ has abolished and brought light and immortality to light through the gospel because he lives we say live also get his word up in victory or death when his guys dig while grave where is my victory they beat the bar who gives us the victory through long long had jesus christ or some blind

assurance want absolute certainty this is the gospel which led to the writing of the gospels and gave the new testament to the wedding this explains how the most sacred and all jewish institutions the day of rest and worship was changed from the seventh day of the week not to the sixth day today all kinds of action but the first day the day all resurrection and this explains the most remarkable phenomenon of all the establishment of the christian church its expansion all of the roman word of its existence and presses comes to this video of christianity broke on the warning with a gospel proclaiming a landing or for the resurrection of jesus christ from the dead it was not the gospel that

ended with the crucifixion of jesus it had its climax its consummation in the proclamation barbara res them from the bed where we eyewitnesses and this is no advantage of the christian they tacked on to make a happy ending this is no myth known mentioned earlier creation to the biblical narrative this as a christian faith and it to support it has sustained by three beliefs one concerning the nature of man the second concerning the director of goal and the third resurrection of christ and what he believes about man christianity takes high ground it puts tremendous

emphasis on the value of every individual i'm the supreme was our human personality journey of fact of the barn in mind why although i'm making a stand for human rights and it does this because it sees madeline that as a maid in the lesson in the image and like most of god and baffled as having him in the break off an immortal life the shari is a major and these all make her yet he is capable of grandstanding nature and he never had be finally come ten with our reading of the facts which sees existence as air physiological process with no more than a physiological meaning he has aspirations for something

the necessities of instinctive like he has a consciousness offering prayers but always insurgent that he belongs to another honor of being his destiny is being stalked and all are with in financial and only their know with this what is intrinsic nature made by god made all god made i got and their own with a reasoned with affection with spinach and done with at the open law isn't it inconceivable the day's shoot be the end of everything violent and irrational as well as inconceivable as think after think it has booked it was there is no other like yet nothing faces you and me and all mankind except annihilation all the things is

irrational or it has been asked what so we say of the power behind the universe if it reaches the individuality of heroics almost like what's the shadows man who is from the table today oro or the next course sitting there think about friends you have a long since then lost a while think about and then think about the profits and the state and he knows all over race then i ask you where they may deliver their life and do their work or later out in the grave was squandering of

creators do over its intelligence of normal personality on easter sunday standing in this book that dr bostic read that into this map that burst out if this space nobody is the greatest waste that in the us nothing could be so irrational believe lamp and is there anything back of things about a medal for which there is no explanation and bronn went and they got no meaning christianity will not have it so and not only because of what he believes about the nature of man but even more because of what he believes about the character of god it's believed it alight is inseparable from its beliefs for

jesus this was fundamentally body told the set to seize who would be what you missed so that they all cotton question the possibility of anything like resurrection god is not the god of the dead but of the living he is not it was he has a lot of abraham on the rise up and we'll kick in the relationship not a thing of the costs not been surviving enduring parliament he was the guardian that do it he watched over and protected them although a lifelong what for was it to see death all deliberate as though they had never be no price says nobody who knows what god is and tolerate such a conclusion everything you see based on the fact that of all his father and the father minister is they all misses his

goodness what are they here would consent to the extension all these giant will the heavenly father do what it would never occur to an earthly father to do the only way to dispose of it is to deny the premise on which to raise which is the premise christianity arrests of gong god and man really it man has made by god like god and is love my god man must matter got it man is due to god he must share god's there's a sentence in the old testament dr walter withdrawal and what came out of that god took him

not old age not disease not again god help you this was our long last conviction he said that it would be a denial of gods or nature in his children could be wiped out by did to enter into friendship with god is to enter into a relationship which they can not say mr hugh you've got this and bought most well sure guards who are the last to leave us in the gray would not be the bottom and warm christ believed he would not be the bargain on we you have come to believe on my own part i think often a walk in a

time i believe month wants to go would it not be just a week have more of a lab in our nature that he has the solid is a monstrous and hear how to get rid of it except to bomb the supposition of another and that there were two i do not see and so we come to christianity is climactic belief but as an action of crimes for christians easter is transform our and belief in their mortality the new testament does not nearly claimed that the spirit of jesus lived on though his body molded in the grave that would have been nothing distinctive about that that's what his disciples believed about socrates it was

not what the apostles believed about the masked out this jesus did blog ray's that that was the best the money that was what who back going to them that was what's in the microphone at three of the roman empire so that when the apostle paul got to athens the intellectual center of the world of his big what'd he do he went to moscow and preach jesus and the resurrection and the thought of greece the keyword is immortality in the thought of the new testament the key word is resurrection law believe that the survival of song baby leave iraq intangible passes but the re establishment talk us more light on the father saint of the gray the convent show that the court or personality invest in

by god's gift and gone with the perfect organism really is all new we do not profess to understand what happened on the first easter morning we do not profess to understand how to it happened resurrection far the ancient you know mine the modern mind visibility phenomenon add the evangelist suspected it about any ordinary man was on from lobbying against them but when the person all the resurrection is plaguing is crisis then the phenomenon is really is delivering or in an alarm robert wagner manifested as you know that and if in life why not india we talk

about the miracle of the resurrection but what a miracle it wouldn't be if jesus had remained under the solo over burying what we are dealing with is not that raising up over me a man but the resurrection of the price not them yet only aiming up all the next day next so like but the creative breaking through all that define life which jesus from the beginning knew to be is all look percival rain off his mortal body and which on the thirty eight not that he's dead reuniting shoreham body more than glorified is poor human nature with the majesty or are

they say it's the east of us the age all the memorial question if a man die shirley live and then there's an ounce a succession of dancers now being trumpeted all around the length of a message be the guardian of that of our lord jesus christ i had these great massey we have been borrowing and you do a living all through the resurrection of jesus christ from the day because he lives we shall live also yet his wallet up in victory or death where is feisty long grave where is thy victory thanks be the law who gives ask the victims who our lord jesus christ those who have made their dogs metal on this fare

easter sunday and left out remind them that voice in the gentleman declaration of the tedium oh christ the everlasting son of the father when know had stolen prime the sharpness of their own gets told on the kingdom of heaven to all the leaders our speaker this evening on a late night lecture has been the reverend dr robert j mccracken preaching minister of the riverside church tucked in the crack and talk was titled life is ever lord of death tonight's talk was a recording of the nineteen sixty four easter sunday sermon at the riverside church in new york next week on the late night lecture you hear dr john c been president at the union theological seminary speaking on the moral issues in vietnam

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