Good evening. Let's all stand
and begin our evening service by singing 489 down at the cross,
489. at the cross where my Savior
died. Downward for cleansing from sin
I cried. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His
name. His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. I am so wondrously safe from
sin Jesus so sweetly abides within There at the cross where he took
me in Glory to his name Glory to his name Glory to his name
There to my heart was the blood applied, glory to His name. O precious fountain that saves
from sin, I am so glad I have entered in. There Jesus saves
me and keeps me clean, glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. Come to this fountain so rich
and sweet. Cast thy poor soul at the Savior's
feet. Plunge in today and be made complete. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. Thank you. Well, it's good to be back, brethren.
I'm back with my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I'm thankful
to be here. It was a good trip, and the people
there were very kind and receptive. I got to hang out in a 27-foot
camper all to myself. It was really nice. It was pretty
hooked up, so I enjoyed it. It was comfortable. And the weather
was nice, they said, at this time of year. I didn't get the
snowstorm Darwin had. when he went up there, so that
was very nice. All right, we're gonna be in
Psalms 8, or Psalm 8. We're gonna read the Psalm. O
Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth,
who has set thy glory above the heavens, Out of the mouth of
babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou
hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and
the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory
and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under
his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,
the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea. and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas. Oh Lord, our Lord,
how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your power, your grace, your mercy, which has
delivered us from death and darkness and evil works which cannot save. Lord, we thank you for your grace.
We thank you for the liberty which we have in our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ. Lord, we thank you for brethren.
We thank you for the fellowship that we have in the truth of
the gospel. And Lord, we cry out to you.
knowing how many have confessed what blessedness they've heard
in Christ and then depart and walk no more among us. Lord,
we thank you because we know that it's only by your grace
that we continue to hear and to believe and to walk by faith
in the light of our Savior. Lord, we thank you. We give you
all the praise, all the thanks, all the glory for this because
we know that in our flesh there is nothing but sin and unbelief. There's nothing but temptation
and failure in our sin. But Lord, we thank you that in
Christ Jesus we can do all things. And Lord, we thank you for one
another. We thank you for our brethren.
We pray that you would continue to heal those who have had surgeries,
those who have suffered loss and sickness. Lord, we pray that
you would strengthen them, that you would encourage their hearts,
that you would heal them, that you would restore our brethren
again to us soon. that you would gather us together
this Sunday and bless the services there. And Lord, that you would
bless us tonight, that you would be with us. As you say, where
two or three are gathered together in your name, you are there in
the midst of them. And Lord, we thank you for that
encouraging word and pray that you would indeed bless this word
to our hearing, to our hearts. Bless this body. It's in Christ's
name we pray and give thanks. Amen. Let's sing 249 just as I am 249. Just as I am without one plea,
but that Thy blood was shed for me, and that Thou bidst me come
to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Just as I am and waiting
not to rid my soul of one dark blot, to thee whose blood can
cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Just as I am, though tossed about,
with many a conflict, many a doubt, findings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Just as I am, o'er wretched,
blind, Sight richest healing of the mind, Yea, all I need
in thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve, Because Thy promise
I believe. O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Thank you. Okay brethren, let's go to Galatians
chapter five. It's nice when I am called to
go preach to other brethren because it's a time where I often reflect
on a lot of the truths that the Lord has blessed my heart and
they often find their way recently and they often find their way
into the message that is on my heart to bring to the people
that I go to and so it's a joy for me to hear it
again and to be reminded of the blessedness and the grace of
our God in Christ and how wonderful he is in his salvation to me
and so and to to my brethren and so you'll hear some familiar
themes in this message, not the least of which is the gospel,
but you'll hear some familiar illustrations that we've used
recently as the Lord's laid them on my heart. So Galatians chapter
five, I'm gonna read the first six verses to begin. Stand fast,
therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold I, Paul,
say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every
man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole
law. Christ is become of no effect
unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are
fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait
for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision,
but faith which worketh by love. So the scriptures here tell us
to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free. Stand fast means that you are
to stay right there, to remain in the simplicity of the Lord
Jesus Christ because He has provided everything that you need. Christ has given all and provided
everything that you need is found right there in Him. He's paid
the debt of your sins, they are put away. He's made you perfect,
righteous, spotless, holy. He's covered you in His righteous
robe made of His holy blood. And what the scriptures tell
us is that because of Him, we are faultless before the throne
of God. He's delivered you from death
and He's given to you life in Himself. He's all, He's provided
everything for you. Now Paul speaks of liberty which
is accomplished for us by the Lord Jesus Christ. He makes us
free. And so we want to know and understand
what is this freedom? What does he make us free from? And we see that it's free from
the bondage of death and free from that bondage which constrains
us by fear, The fear of death and punishment and wrath that
that bondage which constrained us in the flesh We've been delivered
from that by the Lord Jesus Christ because we see we know it's not
my works that make me Righteous. That's not what saves me. That's
not what the father is looking to me for He knows what I am
in this flesh He looks to Christ whom he has sent to put away
our sin and to deliver us from that bondage and that fear that
we labored under when we were yet spiritually dead in trespasses. sins. So that's what we're talking
about. We're free from that and free
to worship and praise and glory and boast in the Lamb of God. So I titled this message Stand
Fast in Christ's Liberty. So let's read verse 1 because
that's where we're going to focus the majority of our time tonight.
Verse 1 and then we'll summarize the rest of the the verses very
quickly at the end. Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free. And be not entangled again
with the yoke of bondage. The Galatian believers, who are
believers now, they had, just like every other man who comes
forth in this world, just like every one of us, the Galatian
believers had been in spiritual bondage. But now they were delivered
from that bondage through the preaching of Christ crucified
brought to them by Paul. Paul came and preached the gospel
to them. But following at some point behind
them came the Judaizers. And they told them, that's wonderful
that you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's great. But
there's still something more for you to be done. so that they
were now being lured back into spiritual bondage. I don't think
they recognized that it was spiritual bondage. It came in a new packaging. It sounded good. It had a form
of some closeness through the Judaizers who were speaking to
them. It looked good. It was in new
packaging. But the reality is it was the
same bondage. It was words of men, traditions
of men, practices and works that cannot save us. Because they
were looking to the flesh. And they were looking away from
the Christ whom the Father hath sent. And so, that's the bondage. All men are born into bondage.
And when we look to the flesh, it doesn't matter if it's before
we've heard of Christ or after Christ. When we look to the flesh,
it's bondage. It's death. It's separation from
the true and living God. The Scriptures declare that in
Adam all sinned and all died. When he sinned against God and
rebelled against God, we being in him sinned against God and
rebelled against Him. And when he died and was corrupted
within, all his seed died and was corrupted within, and we
come forth ruined sinners, and we see the truth of that. We
all grow up and we do show forth the wickedness of our own heart.
We all speak it from the earliest of time and age. And so anything
that looks back to this flesh, this corrupt, ruined flesh, is
bondage. It's death. Now these Galatians
had been delivered from these things. Paul describes them as
rudimentary or elementary things of this world, the rudimentary
course of this world. And they were delivered through
the preaching of Christ, through the preaching of Christ crucified.
That is, according to the scriptures, why he came in the flesh and
why he was crucified, what he accomplished in his death for
his people. And so we see this described
in verse three. That is what they were prior
to Christ. We see a description in Galatians
4 verse 3. Even so we, when we were children,
were in bondage under the elements of the world. And so, for the
Galatians, that would consist of things like idolatry. That
would consist of things like superstitions. Things which we've
heard at some point in our life, but that is the practice of man. Idolatrous words. Superstitious
words. That is, don't do that, or else
God's gonna get you. But if you do this, in this manner,
you'll receive a blessing. That's all nonsense. It's all
works of the flesh. And Paul, when he wrote to the
Colossians, said it this way. He described it as philosophy.
And vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments,
or same word, elements, of the world, and not after Christ. And so that's exactly what we
still do in this flesh. We're no better, no different.
We all come forth in bondage. Anything that looks to this flesh
is bondage. Anything that looks to this flesh
for righteousness is bondage. So having heard the gospel of
Christ, they rejoiced for a time. It was blessedness to them. They
rejoiced in the salvation that they heard preached in Christ's
name. And so Paul, in Galatians 4,
verse 15, he asked them, where is then the blessedness ye spake
of, you heard what was preached. And for a time you manifested
that which had the appearance of the blessedness of the Spirit,
that fruit which is not of this flesh but of the Spirit, you
profess to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and to trust Him
that He is Lord and Savior and working all things sovereignly
according to His will and purpose. and he has a purpose in what
he's doing, and it was blessedness to you. But now, you are seemingly
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. And so Paul asks,
or said in chapter three, verse one now, look at Galatians 3.1,
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? Who has charmed
you? Who has put a spell upon you
that ye should not obey the truth? They were obeying something,
but what they were obeying was not the truth. before whose eyes
Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you."
He's saying, we preached the gospel to you, we declared the
truth, you called it blessedness for a time, but now you're being
lured away back into that which is, yet again, bondage. Doesn't
matter how it's packaged, it doesn't matter that they sprinkle
the name of Jesus in there, they have you looking to your flesh. They have you doubting the confidence
that we are given, the hope that we are given by the Spirit in
Christ, that He is all and sufficient to save to the uttermost. And
now you're looking back to your flesh again. What happened? What's
going on here? Our Savior has delivered us from
having to keep the law for a righteousness for our acceptance with God,
and he gives us his Spirit whereby we cry out to him. for help in
our infirmities, for help in our weaknesses, for help in our
doubts and unbelief, and to keep us. Abba, Father, save me, Lord. Have mercy upon me. And we cry
out to Him who is the successful Savior. And we cry out to Him
because we see the truth that there are many who, in our own
estimation of them, were better than we are, better people, nicer,
kinder, more consistent, gentler, more loving, more faithful, and
yet they, having professed the blessedness that they heard,
can now somehow justify leaving that truth and going towards
something that is not the truth, especially in the flesh. And so we cry out, Lord, keep
me, because if they can fall away, I can certainly fall away.
If not for your grace, Lord, keep me, keep me. And so he brings
us to cry out to him, which is that walk of faith, to see our
own weakness, to see what we are in the flesh, to be reminded
of that, that we would not be proud and arrogant and filled
with conceit and thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought
to think. But we need his grace to do that. And if we are crying
out to him, It is by His grace and mercy that we do cry out
to Him. So the liberty spoken of here,
it regards our sin. And I want to explain that because
when you think that we have liberty from sin, what does that mean?
It definitely doesn't mean we have license to sin, but we have
liberty from sin. And that in and of itself needs
some explanation. Because one thing that we know
is in this flesh, Sin yet dwells in me, in this flesh. I know
it. I know that sin yet dwells in
me. So if we're to be have been delivered
from that sin, why am I yet a sinner? Paul said it this way in Romans
7 20. Now if I do that, I would not. It is no more I that doeth. but sin that dwelleth in me."
Present tense. The Apostle Paul is telling you
that sin yet dwells in his flesh. And we know. We know that's true
of me. That's true of me. Sin yet dwells
in his flesh. Another thing that we see is
that we're yet tempted by sin in this flesh. Not only is it
yet dwelling there, we are yet tempted by the sin of this flesh.
So that Peter, the apostle Peter, wrote to the brethren, saying,
Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, that
ye abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. They're
yet there. They're yet a temptation to us
in the flesh. people in religion will come
up with various ways to explain away the sin in their flesh and
the temptation of sin. I remember working in the factory
long ago, and I worked with a lot of Spanish Pentecostals, and
there was one fella in particular that I worked closely with a
lot, and we were talking, and he said something, and I was
like, so, it's sin. And he said, oh, no, no, no,
not sin. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. And so religion tries to find
clever ways to deny the truth that's in the scripture and what
we know to be true in ourselves. Sin yet dwells in this flesh.
I'm yet tempted by sin. And I cry out to the Lord for
grace and mercy. as a result. So then, what liberty
does Christ give us from sin? Well, there are three ways in
which I like to explain the liberty that we have in Christ. One is
we have liberty from the guilt of sin. The second is that we
have liberty from the dominion of sin. Liberty from that, well
I'll explain, that liberty from that hatred, that enmity that's
in us, that dominion of that enmity which is in us by nature. And third, we have liberty from
the condemnation of sin. That is, that inheritance with
all those who are yet found in their own works of righteousness,
that condemnation which they are yet under, who do not believe
the truth of Christ. So let's turn to Romans 6, verse
6 and 7. Romans 6, verse 6 and 7. It says here, Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin, for
he that is dead is freed from sin. So the first thing, the
way we understand that is that we are freed from the guilt of
sin. We are freed from the guilt of
sin. When Christ was crucified on the cross, he was there not
for his own sins, but for the sins of his people. And he shed
his own blood to make a sin-atoning sacrifice, a covering for his
people. He is called in scripture the
propitiation for our sins. He is the propitiation for the
sins of his people. 1 John 4, verse 10, the apostle
there said, herein is love, not that we loved God. but that he
loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. And when I was preaching to the
brethren up there, I thought, you know, I wanna make sure I
define this word properly, because what does propitiation mean?
And the dictionary, online dictionaries, even in blueletterbible.org,
it defines propitiation as the act of propitiating. So that
doesn't really help us very much there. And also another word
that's with it is appeasement, appeasement. So in that sense,
God is appeased with his people by the Lord Jesus Christ. And
what that means further for our understanding to help you remember
it is that God was angry with me and His wrath rested upon
me justly because of my sin and what I am and have done in this
flesh and the fact that I cannot work a righteousness for myself.
God's wrath and anger was justly upon me. But Christ came, the
Lamb of God, to take away the sin of His people scattered throughout
the world and took that anger and wrath of God from me and
took it to Himself. By bearing my sin in His own
body on the tree, He took that wrath and anger from me and put
it on Himself. And that's what He is, the propitiation
for our sins, the one who bore and took my wrath and my judgment
that I earned. And so by him, we are free of
the guilt of our sin. And we are set at liberty from
the guilt of our sin. We go from that courthouse a
free man, set free. No charges can be brought against
us. Christ has paid the whole of it. I like what Augustus Toplady
wrote in one of his hymns where he said, if Christ my discharge
has procured and freely in my place endured the whole of wrath
divine. God will not payment twice demand,
first at my dying Savior's hand, and then again at mine. Turn then my soul to joy and
rest. The merits of my great high priest
have bought my liberty. Trust in his all-sufficient blood,
ending my banishment from God, for Jesus died for me. And those are sweet words that
we sing when we by His grace, by His Spirit, do understand
what the Lord has done in coming as our sin atoning sacrifice
and delivering us from that just condemnation. Now the next way
that we understand our liberty from sin is with regards to its
dominion over us. Let's read Romans 6 verse 6 once
more. Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin. That body of sin,
the best way to describe that or understand it, that body of
sin is the enmity and the hatred that this old man comes forth
with in Adam. This old man hates and sees God
as enmity. Enmity. So that we will not believe
God. We will not seek the true and
living God. We're going to do it our own
way. We're going to fix what we broke.
We're going to do it ourselves. And I don't need God to help
me. That's the natural man. That's the enmity and the hatred
of man that we must be given liberty from. And so to illustrate
this, we go back to Adam and Eve. And we read of Adam and
Eve that when they ate that fruit, it says that the eyes of them
both were opened and they knew that they were naked. They judged themselves naked,
and the way they fixed it wasn't going to God and crying to Him
for grace and mercy. They got to work Him. Self-righteousness. They went to sew together and
make for themselves an apron, a covering for their nakedness. That's what we do. when we work
under that bondage to try and reconcile ourselves to God, to
reconcile ourselves really to righteousness, to make ourselves
righteous so that God cannot condemn us. That's self-righteousness. And that's what man did from
the very first start when it said, they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons. They got the most worthless thing
that they could get to cover themselves. And that's what we
do in this flesh. And just as Adam and Eve did
it, so we do it, because we come forth of Adam's seed, dead in
trespasses and sins. Now having made a covering for
themselves, they didn't seek the face of God, they sought
refuge from the face of God. As it says in Genesis 3.8, and
they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in
the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the
garden. And so we see there, man doesn't
seek after God. Man isn't looking for God to
reconcile him and to save him and to put away his sin and to
redeem him. He's looking for a way to hold God off. Lord,
I'll do better under the law. Just keep your distance from
me. Just don't come near me. I'll do what I need to do. You
just stay back because that's enmity in our hearts, that natural
enmity. And we need liberty from that
so that you that have been baptized by the Holy Spirit do now confess
the Lord Jesus Christ. He has reconciled me to the Father. I have fellowship in life with
my Lord and Savior, with my God. And so we're not afraid or trying
to hide from God, we want to be drawn near to God. That's
by His grace and mercy. That's because you have the Holy
Spirit of the Father and the Son given to you to draw you
to Christ, the only salvation given by God to men. That is
it, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so that enmity, that root
of bitterness, which had dominion over us in the flesh, has been
put away. It's been crushed, destroyed,
and you are delivered from it and given life in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Turn over to Colossians 2. Colossians
2, and we'll look at verses 11 And then just stay right there
in Colossians, because we'll look at one more, another two
verses there. in whom also ye are circumcised
with the circumcision made without hands. You don't need to be circumcised
under the law. You've been circumcised by that
which is done without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, buried with him in
baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith
of the operation of God, not of your flesh, but of God, who
hath raised him from the dead. This is that new birth that Christ
speaks of to you that hear when he tells you ye must be born
again. And it's a work of grace that
he causes you to hear that word and to know Lord I need you to
do this work. I need that circumcision. I need
that birth because I can't do it. I can't affect it. I need
your grace and mercy, the blood of Christ to forgive me, to cover
my sin, and to reconcile me to the true and living God. And
as his power is poured out upon us by grace, through the preaching
of the gospel, by the spirit making effectual to our hearts,
that's where we grow and continue to cry out that I may know Him
and the power of His resurrection. I need to be raised from the
dead by that same resurrection power that raised my Lord up
from the tomb. I need to be raised up from this
death and this enmity that's in me because sin yet dwells
in me and the temptation of sin yet dwells in me. Lord save me,
keep me, Don't deal with me as my sins deserve. Deal with me
in Christ, my righteousness, my hope, my all. And so, in Christ,
that's where we rejoice in Him and have no confidence in this
flesh. We're not going to get circumcised.
We're not going to the law to try and work a righteousness
for ourselves, because by His grace and power that enmity is
put away, the dominion is conquered, and He conquers our hearts, and
we live by faith in Him. Finally, the liberty we have
in Christ is that He delivered us from the condemnation, that
damning power of sin. And we see this and understand
this in the sense that we no longer stand in the inheritance
of Adam. That old man of flesh has been
crucified with Christ. It's put away. He's dead. He has no say on where we shall
spend eternity. Christ has all the say there.
because we are born of His seed. We stand in the inheritance of
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is everything unto us. Now it says in Colossians 2 verse
14 and 15 that he says everything which
was contrary to us, Christ took it out of the way, nailing it
to his cross. So that everything that opposed
you, everything that opposed your reconciliation, everything
that the accuser had against you because of what we are in
this flesh, all of that was taken by Christ, nailed to the cross,
and when he died, he satisfied the justice and the holiness
of Almighty God so that those things don't stand opposed to
you anymore. We have free access unto the
Father through Jesus Christ, the Son. When God looks upon
us, he sees the blood of his Son, and there is nothing, nothing
that stands opposed to our coming to him. And as Paul wrote, verse
15, having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of
them openly, triumphing over them in it. And so the accuser
is silenced, the only One who has any claim to you is the Lord
Jesus Christ your Redeemer. Your Redeemer. He purchased you.
You're His purchased possession and all the claim is His upon
you. You're His. Amen. So that, brethren,
is the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Stand fast
in it, esteem it highly, defend it. Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage. And so that bondage is that laboring
of the law. It's that working by the flesh
to add to or to obtain, to maintain or to retain my righteousness
and my acceptance with God. All that bondage is put away
by Christ. That's not our hope. Christ is
all our hope. So neither circumcision or uncircumcision
will profit you. If you think it does, then your
salvation is founded upon your flesh's work, and Christ shall
profit you nothing. He profits his people greatly. He's everything to them. But
if your hope is in the flesh, then he profits you nothing.
You're responsible for every demand of the law. But in Christ,
by His Spirit, we walk by faith, believing the promises of God.
Let me close with verses five and six. For we, through the
Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. That
takes faith. Trusting Christ has done everything
for you. That does require faith. And it's faith which is the fruit
of the Spirit which is given to you freely by the Lord Jesus
Christ. As that down payment, that earnest,
that He has purchased you, and He shall return for you in that
final day. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision
availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. Amen. All right, let's close in prayer,
and then we'll have the final hymn. Our gracious Lord, We thank
you, Father, for your grace and your mercy in the Lord Jesus
Christ, who came and took everything that opposed our coming to you,
everything that stood in the way, and delivered us from it
all, putting away our sin and putting away the enmity which
is in us. Providing all our standing in
the Lord Jesus Christ, so that you don't look to us in our flesh
for anything. This flesh is dead. And Lord,
you are satisfied in your Son Jesus Christ. Keep us in that
blessedness of which you've drawn from us, that faith which you've
given to us by your Spirit, and having led us forth from darkness.
Keep us ever walking in that walk of faith. which your saints
and your people are in. Lord, keep us there, because
we're nothing in ourselves, but Christ is all. Help us, Lord,
in that, as He alone is salvation. We pray this in Christ's name.
Amen. Let's sing 291. Guide thou me, O great Jehovah. 291. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty. Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. And now the crystal fountain
whence the healing stream doth flow. Let the fire and cloudy
pillar lead me all my journey through. Strong deliver, strong
deliver, thee thou still my strength and shield. Be thou still my
strength and shield. When I tread the verge of Jordan,
bid my anxious fear subside. Bear me through the swelling
current, land me safe on Canaan's side. Songs of praises, songs
of praises, I will ever give to thee. I will ever give to thee. Thank you.