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A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. Sermon by Dr Richard Mouw. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/RYcbtn Sermon begins at: 42:09 Opening Excerpt from the Sermon: (42:09) "It's a delight to be back in this pulpit at the Duke Chapel. Looking back in the last couple of decades, I realize that I preached on this pulpit just 20 years ago, so I see the sermon today as the second of a series that I will complete in the year 2032. I hope you will join me but it is an honor open God's word with you today and to reflect especially on the psalm that was read to us this morning; psalm 73. While the psalmist describes a tension in his life, not unlike what the rich young ruler experienced in the lesson from the gospel that we just heard, except the psalmist's experience ends up a little better than the rich young ruler's who went away sad over the fact that he could not respond in obedience to the call to follow the paths of God's righteousness. The psalmist on the other hand describes a terrible time that he experienced in his life, but things got straightened out. much better time when he got in a very bad pattern of thinking, It's a bad pattern of thinking that's familiar to all of us, when the definition to the calls to fulfillment we hear on a regular basis in our daily lives, so get a hold of us that we are tempted to reject the way of God's righteousness and follow these other patterns. The psalmist had been a person of deep faith, a deep faith in God. But there was another way that beckoned him, he says that 'my feet almost stumbled for a while, my steps had nearly slipped, for I envied the arrogant and I saw the prosperity of the wicked, they have no pain, their bodies are healthy and strong-you've been watching episodes of the bachelor and the bachelorlette, see, they are not as in trouble as other people are, they are not plagued like other people, pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment...Psalm 73-" Closing Excerpt from the Sermon: (1:33:44) "We are here as believers and as folks who are seeking something that we can believe and we can here Jesus say to us today, ' come and follow me, walk in my way of righteousness, offer your obedience to the only one who is the true and righteous servant of the universe, ...sit on that throne, the throne that governs your life, but knew that throne is too big for you. Follow me, because if you don't, you can't get 'no satisfaction' and if we respond in obedience once again, today, to that call from the savior, we too can say, ' and then I went into the house of the Lord, and I saw things straight , again. We can go forth from this place saying, 'as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the sovereign God, my refuge. May this psalm preach to us, in the name of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen."