WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.720 You 2 00:00:30.260 --> 00:00:35.100 Our readings today are about the greatness and divinity of man 3 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:41.300 So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him 4 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.080 male and female created he them and 5 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:50.200 God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and 6 00:00:50.860 --> 00:00:52.940 replenish the earth 7 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:56.800 Tell me what do you think when you read these 8 00:00:57.080 --> 00:01:00.520 Familiar words from the book first book of Genesis 9 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:08.560 I think of the King's treasurer the man the maker of coins who engraves the King's image on metal and stamps out hundreds of coins 10 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.680 Each coin is alike each image exact 11 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:18.540 The Lord also stamps out the King's image for each man and woman is in the likeness of the Lord yet 12 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:22.140 Behold each man and woman is different and unique 13 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.600 this is the glory of man his 14 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:29.700 His greatness his divinity I read from the eighth Psalm 15 00:01:31.580 --> 00:01:36.480 When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars 16 00:01:37.380 --> 00:01:44.560 Which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 17 00:01:45.420 --> 00:01:51.420 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor 18 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:58.040 Thou made his tim to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou has put all things under his feet 19 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:02.160 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 20 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:09.700 The foul of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas. Oh 21 00:02:09.700 --> 00:02:10.820 Lord our Lord 22 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:15.120 How excellent is thy name in all the earth? 23 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:16.840 Yes 24 00:02:17.420 --> 00:02:19.480 Man is a little lower than the angels 25 00:02:20.920 --> 00:02:22.740 Immortal yet mortal 26 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:32.620 And perhaps this is the divinity of man that he is mortal that he is born that he lives to know good and evil and 27 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:33.660 That he dies 28 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:37.360 It is irony 29 00:02:39.020 --> 00:02:41.180 Man is greater because 30 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:48.900 One day he dies. I read from the book of Ecclesiastes the third chapter beginning with the 18th verse 31 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:55.100 I 32 00:02:55.100 --> 00:03:02.680 Said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves 33 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:04.420 are beasts 34 00:03:04.420 --> 00:03:10.680 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts every one thing befalleth 35 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.520 As the one dire so direth the other 36 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:16.680 Yea, they have all one breath 37 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.620 So that a man hath no preeminence above a beast for all his vanity 38 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.160 These readings were from Genesis Psalms 39 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:27.800 the book of Ecclesiastes 40 00:04:10.340 --> 00:04:11.040 You 41 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:13.900 Our reading today is about the return of the ransom 42 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:20.040 Therefore prophesy and say unto them thus saith the Lord God 43 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:26.760 Behold all my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and 44 00:04:26.760 --> 00:04:28.340 Bring you into the land of Israel 45 00:04:30.460 --> 00:04:33.140 What a remarkable book is the Bible 46 00:04:33.140 --> 00:04:36.820 Think of the terrible annihilation of the Jews in Europe 47 00:04:37.940 --> 00:04:39.740 mothers fathers and children 48 00:04:41.020 --> 00:04:43.520 slaughtered and only a remnant left 49 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:47.020 I read the prediction of Jeremiah 50 00:04:50.260 --> 00:04:55.660 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them 51 00:04:55.660 --> 00:05:00.880 And will bring them again to their foes and they shall be fruitful and increase 52 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:07.580 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed 53 00:05:08.440 --> 00:05:10.900 Neither shall they be lacking set the Lord 54 00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:20.820 Behold the days come set the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a king shall reign and prosper 55 00:05:20.820 --> 00:05:24.680 And shall execute judgment and justice in the earth 56 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:31.000 In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely 57 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:39.580 During the worst days of the Hitler terror when the congregation of Israel had in fact become a congregation of the dead 58 00:05:39.580 --> 00:05:45.860 Developed men and women would not abandon hope because they remembered the pledge of the scriptures 59 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:54.880 I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counselors as at the beginning 60 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:00.200 Afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness the faithful city 61 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:04.540 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with righteousness 62 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:12.080 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads 63 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:17.540 They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away 64 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.920 Even the songs of the redeemed are written down. This is Psalm 126 65 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:30.720 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them the dream 66 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.960 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing 67 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:41.540 Then said they among the heathen the Lord had done great things for us whereof we are glad 68 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:49.200 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and weepeth beareth precious seed 69 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:54.720 Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him 70 00:06:57.220 --> 00:07:04.200 This reading has been from the book of Ezekiel, the book of Jeremiah and the Psalms 71 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:54.860 The Book of Jeremiah 72 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.200 This is the book, the Bible. There's no other book like it 73 00:08:00.760 --> 00:08:04.160 Here in my hand the word of God 74 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.780 Between these covers the wisdom, the knowledge, the truth, the poetry and the law of life 75 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:14.840 I read the first words 76 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:19.460 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 77 00:08:19.460 --> 00:08:23.980 And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep 78 00:08:23.980 --> 00:08:31.820 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and God said let there be light and there was light 79 00:08:31.820 --> 00:08:37.120 And God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness 80 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.460 And God called the light day and the darkness he called night 81 00:08:42.060 --> 00:08:45.360 And the evening and the morning were the first day 82 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:51.220 And God made the beasts of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind 83 00:08:51.220 --> 00:08:54.280 And everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind 84 00:08:54.280 --> 00:09:02.760 And God saw that it was good and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness 85 00:09:02.760 --> 00:09:04.220 After our likeness 86 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.560 Before God created man he created beasts of the field and all creeping things 87 00:09:13.560 --> 00:09:16.420 And this is a lesson in humility 88 00:09:16.420 --> 00:09:24.740 For when man becomes arrogant even a grasshopper or a fly can say to man I came before thee in creation 89 00:09:24.740 --> 00:09:26.420 I read further 90 00:09:30.940 --> 00:09:32.680 This is from Deuteronomy 91 00:09:32.680 --> 00:09:39.520 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness 92 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:45.620 And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manner which thou knewest not 93 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:51.960 Neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only 94 00:09:52.620 --> 00:09:58.660 But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord 95 00:10:00.060 --> 00:10:06.620 The prophet Isaiah in languages is a shadowing of things to come cries out almost with exultation 96 00:10:09.260 --> 00:10:09.900 The prophet Isaiah in languages is a shadowing of things to come cries out almost with exultation 97 00:10:09.900 --> 00:10:16.220 O every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eat 98 00:10:16.220 --> 00:10:20.080 Ye come buy wine and milk without money and without price 99 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:23.720 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? 100 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:29.620 Incline your ear and come unto me here and your soul shall live 101 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:38.340 These readings have been from the books of Jeremiah, Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Isaiah