Good morning. It's a delight,
a pleasure to be with you. Thank you, Paul, for that wonderful
message. Outstanding. And Todd and Bruce,
last night, Cody Henson came up to me after Paul preached
and said, boy, I know you don't want to hear this, but man, I'd
hate to be following that. Thanks, Cody. Thanks. I'm not quite as bold as Bruce
Crabtree. What did he say last night? Good
preaching, Bruce. Thank you, Bruce. Will you turn with me to Acts
chapter 9? Acts chapter 9. A very familiar
passage. I want to preach to you on the
subject of a real conversion. a real conversion. This is what
we read here. This is what happened to Saul
of Tarsus. He experienced the true grace
of God that's in Christ Jesus this day on the Damascus Road.
And Paul told Timothy that his conversion was a pattern for
those that should afterward believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. But
let's begin at verse 1 in Acts chapter 9. And Saul yet, yet,
notice that, just same old, same old as we say, just going about
the same business, breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went into the high priest.
He had chased the believers, all but the apostles from Jerusalem.
He heard they were in Damascus, so he wanted authority to go
there and arrest them, to drag them back to Jerusalem to stand
trial. He desired of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues,
that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or
women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed,
he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him
a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth and
heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou
me? And he said unto him, Who art
thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus. What a shock that must
have been to Saul of Tarsus. I am Jesus. Not Jesus the imposter,
not Jesus the deceiver. I'm Jesus. Whom thou persecutest,
it is hard for thee to kick against the prigs. And he, trembling
and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And
he said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall
be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed with
him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And
Saul arose from the earth, and when his eyes were opened, he
saw no man. But they led him by the hand,
and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without
sight, and neither did eat nor drink. And there was a certain
disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and to him said the Lord in a
vision, Ananias, and he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. And
the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which
is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one
called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he prayeth. And he has seen in
a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand
on him, that he might receive his sight. Then Ananias answered,
Lord, I have heard by many of this man how much evil he hath
done to thy saints at Jerusalem. And here he hath authority from
the chief priest to bind all that call on thy name. But the
Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto
me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and children
of Israel. For I will show him how great
things he must suffer for my name's sake." There you have
the record of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, conversion,
the great change. the great change, being turned,
being turned by God's grace, we turn. This is exactly what
we read in Psalm. I'm reading from Psalm 80, verse
3. The Psalmist prays, turn us,
O God, turn us again and cause our face to shine and we shall
be saved. Being turned by God's grace,
We turn to him. I hope by considering Paul's
conversion, we'll be reminded of our own, as we have been already
this morning, and remember that it's only grace that's made us
the different. And be made hopeful for our lost
loved ones. We want them to know him, don't
we? We want our children, our sons
and daughters, to know him. Like he told that poor woman
at the well. Lady, woman, if you knew, if
you knew how often, how often I've looked at my sons and daughters
and thought, oh, if they just knew the gift of God, if she
knew that woman at the well, If she knew who it was that spoke
to her, if she knew the gift of God and who it is that speaks
to you, would ask of Him and He would give unto you living
water. Oh, to experience, not a man-made
imitation. That's what men and women will
be exhorted to do all over Crossville tomorrow morning, won't they?
and where I live, and all you other pastors all over this world,
be invited to make a decision for Jesus." Oh no, no, that's
not what happened to Saul of Tarsus, was it? I remember hearing
Henry tell a story years ago, Henry Mahan, and he said when
someone had professed to have been saved Someone else would
ask the question concerning that individual, is he well saved? Is he well saved? And what they
meant by that, does he seem to have really experienced the true
grace of God? Has he really had an experience
with God Almighty? I remember when God brought me
down and got me lost. I went to people who professed
to know him, asking, what must I do to be saved? I'm lost. That's all I know for sure. God's
convinced me that I'm lost. What must I do to be saved? And
they told me to make a decision. And I tried it. And it didn't
work. Didn't work. Didn't help. I laid down in bed
at night and said, I'm lost. I'm lost. I went to another.
What must I do to be saved? I want to know God. I want to
have peace with God. What must I do? And they said,
well, come with me to service and go forward. And I did that.
And it didn't work. It didn't work. Oh, no. Is he
well saved or did he just make a profession of faith is what
they meant. If God does it, if God Almighty
during these meetings is pleased to do for some lost sinner what
he did for Saul of Tarsus this day on the Damascus Road, they'll
be well saved. They'll be well saved because
he does everything well. Today's conversion doesn't amount
to much, does it? You can experience it without
having a change. It produces no wonder, no marvel,
no bowing down, like we sang earlier this morning. Oh, Lord,
my God, when I in awesome wonder Oh, I would love to see a sinner
brought down by the grace of God in awesomeness, wonder at
the Lord that should have such mercy upon him. Today's so-called
conversions don't do that, do they? No marvel, no wonder, no
bowing down in true worship. You can have it and not even
know it. You can lose it and never miss it. Is that really
true? Is that all the grace of God
amounts to? Is that really God's salvation?"
asked Saul of Tarsus. Saul, what happened to you? You
make a decision out there on the Damascus Road? Did you take
the first step, Saul? Oh no, no, I am what I am by
the grace of God. Paul's experience on the Damascus
Road, he spoke of it many times after that, didn't he? He said,
I was a blasphemer, injurious, a persecutor. In Galatians chapter
1, why aren't you still that way, Paul? Why aren't you still
that self-righteous, self-made man, that Pharisee? And Paul will say, but God, but
God, don't you ever forget that child of God. Are you like me? with a heart that's prone to
wonder and to take for granted. Oh, remember when God first spoke
peace to your heart. The wonder, the wonder of it. Donnie, he saved me. I kept pinching
myself. Is it true? He saved me. He had mercy upon me. May we
never get over that. I wonder what Paul would think
about today's so-called conversions that produced none of those things
that we've spoken of. Paul wouldn't know what they
mean by a first step or a decision or opening up your heart, would
he? No, it takes a miracle for a real conversion. One hymn writer
put it this way, It took a miracle to put the stars in place. And
it took a miracle to hang the world in space. But when he saved
my soul, cleansed and made me whole, it took a miracle of God's
love and grace. Oh, let's look first for a moment
at the convert, Saul of Tarsus. Then we'll look at his conversion.
We'll be brief concerning each of these things. And then we'll
look at the consequences of his conversion and then draw a few
conclusions. First of all, the convert, Saul
of Tarsus, verse 1 of chapter 9, and Saul. Saul. Now I'll tell you, I don't think
it's an exaggeration for me to say that the most unlikely candidate
for God's grace that day was Saul of Tarsus. The most unlikely
convert to Christ in all Jerusalem that day was Saul of Tarsus. If you'd went to the high priest
and said, you know that Saul of Tarsus that you're sending
to Damascus with authority, with a saddlebag full of warrants
to bring God's people back to stand trial, that he might get
his voice against them, you know he's going to come back preaching
that gospel that now he's trying to destroy. And the high priest
would say, man, you're out of your mind. Not Saul. I don't know who you're talking
about, but not Saul of Tarsus. It'll never happen to him. Paul
in Philippians 3 refers to his background, said he was a Hebrew
of Hebrews, a Pharisee among Pharisees. He was of the tribe
of Benjamin. Most likely he was named after
another one that was of the same tribe as himself, the tribe of
Benjamin, that is Israel's first king, Saul of the Old Testament. Saul who persecuted David of
old. So Saul of Tarsus persecuted
the son of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to him as he speaks
of that time in his own words. Turn if you will to Acts chapter
22. Here he goes to Jerusalem and
he's been arrested. And he begs permission to speak
to his people. He said, I have great heaviness,
continual sorrow in my heart for my brethren according to
the flesh. I want them to know God. And he asked that he might
speak to them. In Acts chapter 22, look at verse
3. I am barely a man which am a
Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this
city at the feet of Gamaliel. and taught according to the perfect
manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God as
you are all this day. And I persecuted this way unto
death, binding and delivering into presence both men and women,
as also the high priest doth bear me witness in all the state
of the elders, from whom also I received letters, unto the
brethren went to Damascus to bring them which were there bound
unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. Turn over a few pages to Acts
chapter 26. Acts chapter 26. This is his testimony before
Agrippa. Verse 4. My manner of life for
my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem,
know all the Jews. which knew me from the beginning
if they would testify that after the most straightest sect of
our religion, I lived a Pharisee." Verse 9. I verily thought within
myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of
Jesus of Nazareth. which thing also I did in Jerusalem,
and many other saints that I shut up in prison, having received
authority from the chief priest, and when they were put to death,
I gave my voice against them, and I punished them oft in every
synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly
mad against them, I persecuted them even into strange cities. The first picture we get of Saul
of Tarsus is not a very attractive one. Look here back in chapter
7 of Acts. The first glimpse we get of this
young man Saul, he's standing holding the cloaks of those who
are stoning Stephen. Afterwards he would say, I gave
my voice against him, verse 58 of chapter 7. And they cast him out of the
city, that is, Stephen, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down
their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul. And Saul's rage just increased
from that day until that eventful day on the Damascus Road. But
remember this. Don't neglect this. During all
that time, all that persecution, All that hate against God's people. Saul of Tarsus thought he was
doing God's service. He was very religious. He was
very religious. He was blind as, we say, a goose
in a snowstorm. He didn't know who God was. He
didn't have a clue who God was. He didn't know who Christ was
and he didn't know himself. He was religious like so many
people today. Religious but lost. I think it was Bruce that referred
to those folks in Matthew chapter 7. Our Lord said that in that
day many, not one or two crazy moonies, but many shall stand
before me in that day and say, Lord, you know us. You remember
us. We've done many wonderful works
in your name. Can you imagine? I can't imagine. The horror that must grip their
hearts and minds when then they hear Christ Himself say, depart
from me, then shall I say, then. They go right up to the judgment
seat of Christ thinking they're going to enter heaven and He'll
say, I don't know you. Salvation is not what? We say
it all the time. These preachers have said it.
And those that follow after this weekend will say it. But salvation
is not in what? It's in who? Oh, I must know
Him, the only true God. As the brother sang a moment
ago, John. I want to be wrapped in His righteousness,
not my works, but His work, His merit, His robe, that perfect
robe of righteousness that presents me before God Almighty, before
God's holy law, looks me up and down, up and down. I don't see
any fault. I don't see any fault without
spot or blemish. As a matter of fact, he looks
like my son. Accepted in the beloved. Oh Saul of Tarsus, all
this time he thought he was doing God's service. And that brings
us to this day. Acts chapter 8, look at verse
1. Chapter 8 and verse 1. And Saul was consenting to his
death, that is the death of Stephen, and at that time there was a
great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem,
and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea
and Samaria except the apostles. Verse 3, as for Saul, he made
havoc of the church, entering into every house and hailing
men and women, committed them to prison. And we already read
in chapter 9, verse 1, Saul yet breathing out threatenings and
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord. Breathing out threatenings. That's all he lived for. It became
his meat and his drink. He was obsessed by his rage. And so with authority from the
high priest, he journeys to Damascus. Can you picture Saul, that proud
Pharisee? Oh, there he goes with his band
of temple police behind him as an escort. Did he pass that place
as he left Jerusalem that day? Did he ride past Calvary? Did he shake his fist toward
that place where Christ laid down his life for his people
and think under his breath and curse and say, you deceiver,
you imposter, I'll put a stop to this, son of God indeed. Proud Saul, Pharisee. He's going
to Damascus to arrest God's people. Yeah. But it won't happen. It
won't happen. Somebody else is going to be
arrested. And it's not going to be the disciples at Damascus.
It's going to be Salatarsus. Salatarsus is going to be apprehended. He's right in the midst of his
rebellion. Right in the teeth of his fury
and hate, God Almighty is going to speak from heaven with supreme
authority and say, arrest that man. Sovereign love, arrest that
man. You'll not take another step
further, Saul of Tarsus. You're going to come down. Oh
yeah. He marches boldly toward Jerusalem,
or rather to Damascus, but he ends up being led there by his
hand like a little child. He's a trophy. a trophy of King
Jesus. God's decree said the day at
noon on the Damascus Road, Saul of Tarsus is going to come down.
Oh my, so I've had people ask me, tell me if I believe what
you believe, this thing about sovereign mercy and sovereign
grace and man's will not being greater is God's will, if I believe
that an election, that nasty word election, Most churches
today would rather hear you. They would be less shocked if
I came into this pulpit, Donnie, and cursed rather than say, election. Oh, we can't stand that. We can't
stand that. You mean it's not of him that
willeth? But God that shows mercy. That's exactly right. And if
God ever gets you lost, If God ever gets you lost, if He ever
strips you, you're going to be glad that that's so. You're going
to be tickled to death that there is at this present time an election
according to God's grace and no other reason. That'll be all
right with you. It was Saul of Tarsus. He said,
oh, we're bound to give thanks. We're bound to give thanks. In
the midst of this religious apostasy, this darkness, this insanity,
God has chosen a people unto salvation. And Saul of Tarsus
was one of them. Come down, sinner. Thus the eternal
counsel ran. Oh, mighty love, arrest that
man. Oh, gift of gifts, oh, grace
of faith, my God, how can it be that thou who has discerning
love should give that gift to me? Oh, grace in two unlikeliest
hearts, it is thy boast to come, the glory of thy light to find
in darkest spots of home. Arrest that man, the Lord told
Ananias. Ananias said, wait a minute.
You sure you got this right, Lord? Let's stop. Let's take a time
out and think about this. Saul of Tarsus? You want me to
go to Saul of Tarsus? I've heard about him. He's infamous.
He's done much harm to your people in Jerusalem. And that's why
he's coming here. And you want me to go find him?
What did the Lord say? Don't be afraid, Saul of Tarsus.
He's one of my chosen. Jesus said, He's one of my chosen. Oh my soul, is that not amazing
grace? He's a chosen, not Saul of Tarsus. Yeah, He's one of my chosen.
He's one that God the Father put into my hands and I became
surety for before the world was ever created. He's one that's
included in the covenant of God's grace. He's one that I've redeemed
with my own precious blood. Ananias, he's mine. He's mine. He's one of my chosen. And he
bowed down to King Jesus, didn't he? Grace brought him down at
the footstool of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know why? Because
Christ said, most of those that the Father giveth me shall come
to me. No. You know it doesn't say that.
He says all those. that the Father giveth me shall
come to me. Other sheep I have which are
not of them fold, them I'm going to try to bring. Oh no, them
I must bring. I must bring. And Saul was one
of those sheep. Now look at the conversion again
in chapter 9, verse 3. As he journeyed, as he journeyed,
as he went his way, The same as always, and so it is. So it is. Our brother read it
to us earlier this morning. You had he quickened who were
dead. You were just like everybody
else. You were no different. You were children of wrath, even
as others. Well, what happened? Why are
you sitting here now on a Saturday morning, hearing the gospel of
God's free grace, instead of just running here and there?
Who's made you the dipper but God? But God. The great shepherd seeks his
sheep. because they won't seek Him,
they just want to. He finds them where they are,
and He finds them as they are, just like He did that poor demoniac. He said, let us pass over into
the other side. Why? Because he's got a sheep
over there. And he said, the good shepherds
come to seek and to save. And he found that poor demoniac.
Can you imagine him saying to Peter, Peter, we wasted our time. We should have never came over
here. Because he's not willing. He won't let me do nothing for
him. He won't take the first step. Oh, no, no, no, no. No,
Jesus Christ by his matchless grace takes all the steps, all
the way my Savior leads me. Aren't you glad? I know Lazarus
was. I know Lazarus was tickled to
death not to hear, if you'll take the first step. That's what
the idiots, I'm trying not to say something worse than that.
I tell sinners dead in Christ, take the first step. Then God,
oh no, no, no, no. No, I need him to come. He who
is the resurrection and the life. And speak life into my dead soul. And say, Larry, live, live. That's just exactly what he does. That's what happened to Saul
of Tarsus. And suddenly, suddenly we read,
there shined a light from heaven. Right as he neared Damascus,
right in the midst of his spiritual darkness, God said, let there
be light. Going to turn the light on. Saul
of Tarsus, I'm going to turn the light on in your darkened
soul. God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, has shined into our hearts to give
us the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And Saul of Tarsus, we read,
he fell to the earth. He came down. That proud, self-righteous
rebel, that Pharisee, came down. When Christ is pleased to reveal
himself to a soul, he's brought low. Come down, sinner. Zacchaeus, come down. Saul, come down. You must come
down. Preachers everywhere tell sinners,
stand up. Stand up. Stand up and be counted. God owes you mercy. God's obligated
to show you mercy. If He doesn't do all that He
can to save you, then it's just not fair. It's not fair. Oh no,
that's not so. And the result of that is that
there's no fear of God before their eyes. The true grace of
God. strips every center before it
closed them. Is that not so? It kills them
and then makes them alive. Verse four, and Saul heard a
voice, heard a voice saying, Saul, the soldiers heard something. They couldn't make any sense
of it. They couldn't understand it, just noise to them because
the great shepherd wasn't talking to them. One time he told the
Pharisees, the Pharisees gathered around and said, how long will
you make us to doubt? If you're the Christ, why don't you just
tell us plainly? He said, I have told you plainly. But you believe
not. You believe not. And he said, you believe not
because you're not my sheep. I'm not talking to you. My sheep
hear my voice. They know me and they'll follow
me. Saul came down. It was a particular call, a distinguishing
call. Saul, I'm speaking to you, and
so it is. When Christ speaks, you know
that I'm the sinner. I'm the sinner." Has he ever
spoken to you that way? Have you ever heard the voice
of the Son of God? And you may be in a crowd like
this this morning, but you can't hide. He's found me out. He's
found me out. He's speaking to me. He's not
talking to anybody else. Saul, Saul. And he asked the
question, rather Saul did, who art thou, Lord? And he said,
I am Jesus. I am Jesus. Jesus, not the deceiver,
not Jesus the imposter, Jesus the mighty God, Jesus the everlasting
Father. Jesus, who's everything he claimed
to be. Jesus, Lord over all, and God
blessed forever. Yes, that one. And we read in
verse 6, and he that is Saul, trembling and astonished. Trembling. He was in the presence of God,
astonished. This is not the Jesus he thought
he knew. He's the Lord Jesus Christ. Doesn't that sound familiar? He's not the Jesus our religious
generation think they know. He's not Jesus my lucky charm. He's not Jesus my fire escape
out of hell. He's not Jesus, my doormat into
heaven. He's not Jesus, my little buddy. No, no. He's King Jesus. He's the mighty God. And as the
brothers preached last night, if you don't bow to Him, you'll
be cast into hell. He demands that you bow to Him. He doesn't come before you and
say, well, let's see if we can't reach some kind of agreement,
some kind of compromise. It's bow or perish. Bow to the
Son of God. Sue for mercy. Lord, if you will,
you can make me clean. The consequences of Saul's conversion? Saul was obedient. Well, now
imagine that. That's what he said afterwards.
He was obedient to the heavenly vision. He bowed to Jesus Christ. Saul of Tarsus was a changed
man. He was no longer the same. And
you know what? He never would be, David. He
never would be. That's what grace does. It's
reigning grace, abounding grace. Grace that reaches deeper than
the stain has gone. It's amazing grace. Will anything
less than that do? Would anything less than God's
sovereign, reigning, abounding grace do for a helpless, lost
sinner? Old Newton said, I'm not what
I want to be. I'm not what I ought to be. And
I'm not what I'm going to be. But bless his name, I'm not what
I used to be. I'm not what I used to be, a
Christ rejecter, a God hater, captain of a slave ship. Oh,
no. No. What are you doing there,
Newton? What are you doing there? You picking up a pen? Are you
going to tally up your profits and loss in your cargo of human
souls? Is that what you're calculating?
Oh, no, no, no. I'm not what I used to be. I'm
not that anymore. Well, what are you going to write
about? Amazing Grace. I heard that song all my life,
Donnie, growing up, and it didn't mean nothing. Didn't mean nothing. Until God turned the light on.
And I heard it for the first time. And I thought, oh, I don't
know who wrote that, but he wrote that for me. That's my song. That's my song. Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. He was a changed
man. What happened to Saul of Tarsus
wasn't a short-lived religious spasm. You know, about everybody,
before they reach a certain age, has one or two of those, and
they don't amount to much. They're like the stony ground
here. As soon as the trouble is gone,
it produced it. So is their profession of faith. You know what our Lord said to
prove to Ananias his complete conquest of Saul of Tarsus? He
said, behold, he prayeth. He's been conquered by my grace. He's a trophy of my mighty grace. Prayer, someone said, is the
breath of the new life returning back to God who gave it. You mean Larry Saul of Tarsus
had never prayed before this? No, not really. Not really. He
prayed like that Pharisee that Bruce Polk of in Luke 18. Lord,
I thank you that I'm not like other men, but he never really
prayed. He never really prayed, but he
is now. The conclusion of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus,
this real conversion, We must conclude with Saul's and everyone
else's that God is pleased to show his mercy to, to reveal
his son to. Salvation must be of the Lord. It must be of the Lord. Saul's
conversion proves that Paul's theology was no more than an
explanation of his own conversion. I am what I am by the grace of
God. But God, but God who is rich
in mercy, call me by his grace." Paul's sitting in prison years
after this Damascus Road experience. He says, Timothy, the executioner,
I think I can just about hear his footsteps at my dungeon door.
The time of my departure is at hand. It's very close. And he
says, Timothy, you know what? Paul still not got over it. That
Jesus Christ appeared to him that day on the Damascus road,
he's still not over it, the wonder of it. And he said, Timothy,
I obtained mercy. I obtained mercy. God Almighty
had mercy on this sinner. Mercy there was great and grace
was free. Pardon there was multiplied to
me. There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. It also proves
that if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. No exceptions. No exceptions. Saul's conversion
was the most, someone said it was the most monumentous, wonderful
conversion in all the world. No. No. No, it's not, Fred. There's one more. There's another
conversion. Long since Saul of Tarsus took
place, that to you and to me throughout eternity is going
to even eclipse his. And that's your own. That's your
own. God help us never to get over
the wonder of that. Fred Tuttle asked me, was I going
to tell one of my West Virginia stories this morning? That's where I grew up. As a
kid, my father worked in the coal mines. I was in West Virginia
when God Almighty, as old Ralph Barnett used to say, got me lost. Got me lost. And I still have
that pretty vivid memory of walking down those railroad tracks in
West Virginia, and God had stripped me. And all I knew for sure,
Donnie, was I didn't know much else but I knew I was lost. And
I knew if I'm ever saved, he'll have to do it. He'll have to
do it. And every railroad tire that I laid my foot on seemed
to shout back at me, lost. Larry Chris, you're lost. You're
lost. I lay down at night and tried
to go to sleep and God said, you're lost, you're lost. I mentioned
talking to folks who professed to know God, and they just sent
me in all kind of wild goose chase, and I'm just lost. And
then I fell before God as the nothing that I was. And I said,
Lord, all I know, I've done what they've said. I've went to altars,
and I've made decisions, and I've done this, and I've done
that, and I'm still lost. Lord, like that poor diseased
leopard, if you will, it's all up to you. It's all up to you. If you will, you can make me
whole. Please have mercy on me. Please
have mercy on me. And like he did to the leper,
I will. Larry Chris, thy sins, which
are many, are all forgiven thee. Oh, my soul. Oh, the bliss of
this glorious thought. My sins not in part, but the
whole, are nailed to his cross, and I bear them no more. Praise
the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. When
I stand before the throne, dressed in beauty not my own, when I
see thee as thou art, and love him with an unsinning heart,
then, Lord, shall I fully know, but not till then, how much I
owe. God bless you. Thank you for
your time.