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00:22Let us pray.
00:41Let us pray.
00:56May all arrogance be ever cast down. May all longing for the praise of men be extinguished. May all wantonness
01:03of self-conceit be quenched within me.
01:07Give me grace, O Lord, to flee any honour, to hate distinction, and to submit myself with readiness to all
01:14men for your sake.
01:17Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, as a little child, did with your tender mother suffer
01:24persecution, and did not refuse to be carried as an exile fleeing into Egypt.
01:31Give me grace amidst the storms of adversity and the blasts of persecution and misfortune, to fly for refuge to
01:39you alone, to seek you, to call upon you.
01:44Grant that I may receive all things with gladness at your hands, may endure all things in meekness of heart,
01:51and may cleave with thanksgiving without wavering to you.
01:56Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when you remained behind in the temple, your mother sought
02:04for sorrowing, and at length with joy found you sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing and asking them
02:10questions.
02:12May you so give and communicate yourself to me, that I may never be separated from you, and never be
02:19without the comfort of your blessed friendship.
02:22Drive sloth from my heart, dispel any dullness that is displeasing in your sight.
02:29Grant me perfect devotion, and such an ardent thirst after piety, that my soul may be so affected and possessed
02:37by it,
02:38as never to feel satisfied with worshipping you.
02:43Praise, honour, and glory be to you, who gave yourself up to live in concealment for thirty years,
02:50to be reputed by the Jews the son of Joseph the carpenter, and be subject to the commands of your
02:56mother and the same Joseph.
02:59May your grace, I beg you, root out and thoroughly pluck up from the innermost recesses of my heart,
03:06any ambition and seeking of glory, that I may become belittled in my own eyes,
03:13and may love to be unknown and considered of no account, submitting myself to all, and obeying them for your
03:21honour.
03:22Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who did not refuse to come to the River Jordan,
03:28and be baptised there by your servant John.
03:33May you thoroughly cleanse me by your merits in this life,
03:38that freed from all vices and sins, I may be filled with the love of you,
03:44and long for my heavenly country.
03:47Make me, I beg you,
03:49before my soul quits this body,
03:52pleasing to you in all things,
03:54that, departing from this life,
03:56I may be for ever in heaven with you,
03:59to see you,
04:01to enjoy you,
04:02and to praise your holy name for ever and ever.
04:06Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
04:09who for our sake dwelt in the wilderness,
04:12amongst the wild beasts,
04:14and fasted and watched in prayer for forty days and forty nights,
04:19permitting yourself to be tempted by the devil,
04:21whom you overcame when angels came and ministered to you.
04:26Grant me grace to discipline, overcome,
04:29and bring into subjection my sinful flesh
04:32with its evil affections.
04:37Give me grace to be instant in prayer
04:39and all other spiritual exercises,
04:42and grant that with your continual help
04:45I may completely overcome sins of gluttony
04:48and may escape the snares and schemes of the devil.
04:54Let no temptations, I beg you,
04:56defile me,
04:57nor separate me from you,
04:59but may they rather purify me
05:02and unite and join me with you.
05:06Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
05:09who gave himself up to preach repentance,
05:13to call to you disciples,
05:14and from them choose the twelve apostles
05:16to be the special heralds of the faith,
05:20gathering together the children of God
05:22that was scattered abroad.
05:24Draw me after you
05:26and powerfully excite my heart to love you.
05:30Do not permit me to neglect the grace
05:33with which you called me,
05:35but make me ready to despise the world
05:37and all perishable things,
05:39following you,
05:40taking your humility and charity as my example.
05:43Give me grace to look for you alone
05:46and with earnest longing
05:48to sigh continually after you.
05:52Amen.
05:56O Lord, open our lips
05:58and our mouths shall sing your praise.
06:08O be joyful in the Lord,
06:13O be gladness,
06:15serve the Lord with gladness,
06:19and come in one's presence with a song.
06:26Be sure that the Lord,
06:29He is His God,
06:32it is He that can kill us
06:34andnot by ourselves.
06:37These are His people
06:40and the sheep of His master.
06:45O pour your ways
06:47to this peace we can sing
06:49and reach you
06:52The Lord is God's great praise, be thankful unto him and speak to the Lord of his name.
07:03For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures from generation to generation.
07:27Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning,
07:41is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
07:56Amen.
08:35Amen.
09:03Amen.
09:35Amen.
10:04Amen.
10:26Amen.
10:31Amen.
10:34Amen.
10:35Amen.
10:37Amen.
10:38Amen.
10:39The Gospel according to Saint Luke, chapter 5.
10:45The Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples saying,
10:51Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?
10:55Jesus answered them
10:57Those who are well don't need a physician
11:00but those who are sick do
11:05I have not come to call the righteous
11:07but sinners to repentance
11:11Then they said to him
11:13John's disciples fast frequently and pray
11:18And so the disciples of the Pharisees
11:21but yours continue to eat and drink
11:26So Jesus turned and said to them
11:28You cannot make the wedding guests fast
11:32while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
11:35But the days are coming
11:37and when the bridegroom is taken from them
11:40at that time they will fast
11:45He also told them a parable
11:47No one tears a patch from a new garment
11:50and then sews it onto an old garment
11:52If he does, he will have torn the new
11:55and the piece from the new will not match the old
11:59And no one pours new wine into old wineskins
12:04If he does, the new wine will burst the skins
12:06and will be spilt
12:08and the skins destroyed
12:11Instead, the new wine must be poured into new wineskins
12:16No one after drinking old wine wants the new
12:19for he says
12:21The old is good enough
12:24This is the word of the Lord
12:27Thanks be to God
12:33We read today that there were two classes of people
12:37amazed and offended
12:40Those to whom the old ways
12:42and recognised canons of respectability
12:45were the very essence of the religious life
12:48and those whose minds occupied
12:51a sort of intermediate position
12:53who had broken so far from the old
12:56but had not yet received the spirit of the new
13:00which had begun in Galilee
13:03Here is this rabbi
13:05whose fame has spread far and wide
13:09who is undoubtedly possessed of marvellous powers
13:13associating with people
13:15whom every respectable person would have shunned
13:18accepting a tax-gatherer's invitation
13:22and freely mingling with the worthless people
13:25found at the tax-gatherer's table
13:28Surely this was an outrage
13:31against social and religious decency
13:35The scribes and the Pharisees
13:37the one of these two classes
13:40murmur
13:41observe against the disciples
13:43for they do not dare address the Lord himself
13:45Why do you eat and drink
13:48with publicans and sinners?
13:52The disciples, guileless souls
13:55were probably unable to explain
13:57or account for their master
13:58and so he himself replies
14:01by quoting an Old Testament scripture
14:03one of those great prophetic words
14:06which express the spirit of all true religion
14:10prefacing and following this quotation
14:12by sentences of searching irony
14:17They that are well
14:19do not need the physician
14:21but those that are sick
14:24but go and learn what that means
14:26I want mercy and not sacrifice
14:29for I have not come to call the righteous
14:32but sinners to repentance
14:36Let us think for a moment
14:38how significant is every one of those clauses
14:43They who are whole or well
14:47Will the murmurers take that description
14:49as fit for them?
14:52Then the Jesus whom they surround
14:54has nothing for them
14:55His work is not for the self-righteous
14:58but for those who are conscious
15:00of their sin and their needs
15:04But whoso would be teachers of the people
15:06as they may be
15:07Let them go and first learn
15:10the lesson of divine wisdom
15:11that it is the delight of God's love
15:14to find out fatherless souls
15:18That he is satisfied
15:20not by formal acts of worship
15:22rendered in mere obedience to usage
15:24but by the seeking of poor outcasts
15:27from ordinance and society
15:29and by fellowship with them
15:31he reveals the purpose
15:33I want mercy and not sacrifice
15:38Then comes the moment
15:40at which along with the Pharisees
15:41the other of the two offended classes
15:44those occupying an intermediate position
15:47between the old and the new
15:48appear on the scene
15:51Some disciples of John the Baptist
15:54have been scanning
15:55the movements of the prophets of Nazareth
15:58and the feast just held
16:00gives increased force
16:01to their doubts and difficulties
16:06The joyous life
16:08which Jesus and his followers are living
16:12contrasts massively
16:15with the sternly simple
16:17aesthetic life
16:18which they had been taught
16:19to regard as best
16:23Can the joyous life be right?
16:26Why this disregard
16:29of the fundamental principle
16:33outward discipline?
16:35Why is he so lax
16:37with those whom he has called?
16:41The answer given
16:43has an abiding interest
16:45for the church in all times
16:47First of all
16:48observe Christ's word
16:49with regards to the special issue raised
16:51and secondly
16:53observe his setting out
16:55of the fundamental truth
16:56as to his gospel
16:58and kingdom
17:01First of all
17:02we have
17:02the issue of fasting
17:05Jesus does not
17:07deny its usefulness
17:08He fasted
17:10Moreover
17:11in his sermon on the mount
17:13he recognised fasting
17:14as one of the elements
17:15of a religious life
17:17What his saying
17:19bears on its observance
17:20as a fixed habit
17:21or rule
17:22This time the rule
17:24Christ teaches
17:24must come from
17:26within the heart
17:28He goes to the root
17:29of the matter
17:29when he asks
17:30Can the children
17:31of the bride's chamber
17:33mourn?
17:34There is nothing
17:36if there is not mourning
17:38Mere non-eating
17:39is nothing
17:40Mere austerity
17:42is nothing
17:42Self-denial
17:44for the sake of denial
17:45is nothing
17:47It is the relation
17:48to the spiritual end
17:50the power of interpreting
17:52and helping
17:52spiritual life
17:54that gives service
17:55to its value
17:58How can you make
17:59these children mourn
18:00while I am with them?
18:02Their fasting
18:03at present
18:04would be wholly
18:05artificial
18:06It is the worship
18:08in spirit and truth
18:09that I want
18:10When they can really mourn
18:12they will
18:12but until then
18:14let them rejoice
18:17These days
18:18did indeed
18:18come
18:19The bridegroom
18:20was taken from them
18:21and they mourned
18:22And still
18:23as then
18:24there are
18:25as one has called them
18:26fast days
18:27which God
18:28appoints souls
18:32Christ's disciples
18:33should have
18:34their retreats
18:35when the round
18:36of pleasure
18:37or of care
18:37is given up
18:38and the blessing
18:39of solitude
18:40with God
18:41can be realised
18:43Only let these be
18:44not because of a law
18:45made for them
18:46but because of the law
18:48by which the Lord
18:49through the dealings
18:50of his Holy Spirit
18:51writes within
18:52their own hearts
18:56Supposing the space
18:57for such retreats
18:58cannot be secured
18:59Remember
19:00there is a fasting
19:01which all
19:02can practice
19:04Anyone
19:04can abstain
19:06at any time
19:07from self-pleasure
19:08and indulgence
19:09All may consider
19:11whether or not
19:12it is a duty
19:13to abstain
19:13from things lawful
19:14when the use
19:16of such things
19:16is an occasion
19:17of stumbling
19:18to a brother
19:21All should recollect
19:22the grand old words
19:24Is not this fast
19:26that I have chosen
19:27to loose
19:28the bands
19:29of wickedness
19:30to undo
19:30the heavy burdens
19:31and to let the oppressed
19:32go free
19:33that everyone
19:34break every yoke
19:37Is it not to deal
19:38bread to the hungry
19:40and that you bring
19:41the poor
19:42into your house
19:44when you see
19:45the naked
19:46that you cover them
19:47and that you do not
19:48hide yourself
19:49from your own flesh
19:54The word as to the fasting
19:56brings into sight
19:58the whole question
19:59as to the requirements
20:00and the nature
20:01of the truth
20:01as it is
20:03in Jesus
20:07Glence at the
20:08outstanding verses
20:11of the ever memorable
20:13parable
20:14between the 36th
20:17and 39th verses
20:20the bearing
20:21of the sentence
20:22as to patching
20:24tells us
20:25the disciples
20:26of John
20:26and the Pharisees
20:27virtually ask
20:28that Jesus
20:28sew the new cloth
20:30which is woven
20:31from his person
20:32and sacrifice
20:33into an old
20:34rotten garment
20:37and the new cloth
20:38the answer is
20:38no
20:39that which has decayed
20:41and is waxing old
20:42is ready to vanish
20:43let it go
20:45when it comes to this
20:47patching and mending
20:49is a worthless policy
20:50because it does not
20:51benefit the old
20:52whilst it spoils
20:55the new
20:56for the new
20:57cannot hold on
20:58to the seam of the old
20:59and when it gives way
21:00not only is the rent
21:02made worse
21:03but in the end
21:04the new
21:04will be rejected
21:05also
21:07so what is
21:08particularly meant
21:09by the similitude
21:11of the garment
21:12is the manner
21:13of life
21:14that which forms
21:15the envelopment
21:16of the soul
21:18as to this
21:19Christ wants
21:20no patching
21:22Christianity
21:23is not Judaism
21:24with something
21:25bolted onto it
21:26something sewn
21:28into it
21:28it is not a
21:30conglomerate
21:31of two religions
21:34it comprehends
21:35all that is good
21:36anywhere
21:36but it destroys
21:37nothing
21:39it is a new robe
21:41however
21:42and all that is old
21:43is made new
21:46and so it must be
21:48with the character
21:48it is not a mere
21:50amending at this point
21:51or at all
21:52that will suffice
21:54merely to sew
21:55a new piece
21:56of the cloth
21:56to have a fragment
21:58of Christ's religion
21:59packed onto
22:00the old rotten self
22:01will that suffice
22:04truly no
22:06put away
22:07the old man
22:08put on the new
22:10for if any man
22:11be in Christ
22:12he is a new creature
22:17then we come
22:18to the bearing
22:19of the sentence
22:20as regard to the wine
22:22by this
22:23it would seem
22:24the Lord means
22:25the inward
22:26spiritual principle
22:27the grace
22:28that the best wine
22:29which goes down
22:30smoothly
22:31gliding through
22:32the lips of those
22:33that are asleep
22:35this is not
22:36some compound
22:37of old dregs
22:38of wine
22:39but has all
22:41the strength
22:41and flavour
22:42of the old
22:44but it is new
22:46it is the fruit
22:47of the grape
22:47which none
22:48but the Son of God
22:49could bruise
22:50it is the product
22:52of a wine
22:52which none
22:53but he could tread
22:54it has the power
22:56of a sustenance
22:57which none
22:58but he
22:59could infuse
23:01this new life
23:02must be put
23:03into new bottles
23:04it demands
23:05forms of worship
23:07and action
23:08peculiar to itself
23:10forms of worship
23:11adapted at once
23:12to the richness
23:13of sentiments
23:14and the simplicity
23:15of its utterance
23:16the natural
23:18and becoming vehicles
23:19of its own voice
23:20of prayer
23:21and praise
23:22forms of action
23:24in harmony
23:25at once
23:25with its spirituality
23:27and its humanity
23:29it is too living
23:31and strong
23:31for any receptacle
23:33of its influence
23:34except that
23:35which has been created
23:36for and by itself
23:39new wine
23:40and new bottles
23:42let the hearer
23:43of the word
23:43ponder this
23:44for a moment
23:47note
23:48the point of junction
23:49between liberty
23:50and discipline
23:51in the Christian life
23:53where the spirit
23:54of the Lord is
23:55there is liberty
23:57but to realise
23:58this liberty
23:59the will presented
24:01to the Lord
24:02must be opened
24:04and ordered
24:05that the movements
24:06of his love
24:07flow in
24:08and the power
24:09of his grace
24:10be fulfilled
24:12it is all of grace
24:13but the new bottle
24:15is needed
24:15for the new wine
24:18the Lord is very clear
24:20about this
24:22the principle
24:23of an entire
24:24subjection
24:25to God
24:25must be asserted
24:26over every
24:27impeding tendency
24:31in our present state
24:32pain must go
24:34with prayer
24:34that the heart
24:35be kept believing
24:36true
24:37and clean
24:39a wineskin
24:40fit
24:41for the new wine
24:43hereafter
24:44in the eternal year
24:45of the bridegroom
24:46joy
24:47it shall be otherwise
24:50then they who wait
24:52upon the Lord
24:53shall run
24:53and not be weary
24:55walk
24:56and not grow
24:58tired
25:01amen
25:06let us pray
25:09O Lord
25:10who never fails
25:11to help
25:11and govern
25:12those
25:13who you bring up
25:14in your steadfast fear
25:16and love
25:17keep us
25:18we beseech you
25:19under the protection
25:20of your good providence
25:22and make us
25:23have a perpetual fear
25:25and love
25:25of your holy name
25:27through Jesus Christ
25:29our Lord
25:30amen
25:36may the Lord bless us
25:38and keep us from all evil
25:40bringing us to everlasting life
25:43amen