Isaiah chapter 38 and I want
to begin reading in verse 9. Isaiah chapter 38 and verse 9. Let them get the children back. I said chapter 38 and verse 9,
the writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick
and was recovered of his sickness. I said in the cutting off of
my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave. I am deprived of
the remainder, the residue of my years. I said I shall not
see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living. I shall
behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed
and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver
my life. He will cut me off with pining
sickness. From day even to night will thou
make an end of me. I reckon until morning that as
a lion So shall he break all my bones. From day even until
night will thou make an end of me. Like a crane or swallow,
so did I chatter. I did mourn as a dove. Mine eyes
failed with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed. Undertake for me. What shall
I say? He hath both spoken unto me and
Himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years
in the bitterness of my soul. O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these things is the life of my spirit. So will Thou
recover me and make me to live. Behold, for peace I had great
bitterness, but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it
from the pit of corruption. for thou hast cast all my sins
behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee,
death cannot celebrate thee, they that go down to the pit
cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall
praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the children shall
make known thy truth. The Lord was ready to save me,
Therefore will we sing my songs to the strange instruments all
the days of our life in the house of the Lord. For Isaiah had said,
let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaster upon
the boil, and he shall recover. And Hezekiah also had said, what
is the sign that I shall go up into the house of the Lord? Verse 17 is the verse I want
us to look at this morning, and we'll also consider the context. But he says here in verse 17,
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, but thou hast in
love delivered my soul from the pit of corruption. Thou hast
in love delivered my soul. I love that old song that we
sometimes sing, I was sinking, deep in sin, far from the peaceful
shore, very deeply stained within, seeking to rise no more. But the master of the sea heard
my despairing cry, from the waters lifted me, now save am I. Love lifted me. And that's the title of my message
this morning. lifted me. Thou hast in love
to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. As I've
studied this verse 17 through the years, I know of no other
verse of scripture in the Bible that has been translated in so
many different ways. This entire verse could take
up pages of translation. Those who know the Hebrew language
says it's one of the most amazing verses in the Old Testament because
of the different ways that it can be translated. And it has
so many different translations. One is this. Instead of peace,
I had great bitterness. I thought to have peace and prosperity,
but bitterness to me, bitterness. And another translation, while
I thought to have lived in rest and ease, being delivered from
my enemy, I had grief upon grief. And I imagine this last translation
probably gets nearer than any of them. While I thought to have
rest and peace, being delivered from my troubles, yet I had grief
upon grief. And the reason I say that, if
you read the context beginning in chapter 36, the king of Assyria
had a great army, a mighty army. And they were a cruel army. He
had sent them out of Syria on a campaign of war. He tells us
in chapter 36 that they had literally destroyed nine nations. Nine nations that came against
the cities of Judah, captured them, and now here they were
surrounded Jerusalem to besiege it and take it. Sennacherib stood
outside the city and he spoke to the Jews that were on the
wall. Their hearts were trembling. And he said, my master, my king
has sent me to tell you that when I'm finished with you, now
get this, this is vulgar. And we wouldn't use language
like this if the Bible didn't use it. He said, when I'm finished
with you fellows, he said, you're going to be eating your own dung.
And you're going to be drinking your own urine. Only he used
a word that we don't much use in our day. He was a very vulgar
man. And he said, and he said, if
you think God's going to deliver you, ask yourself this question.
Has He delivered those other nine nations that I utterly destroyed? And when word got back to Hezekiah
the king, he was so humble, he was so fearful, and he took this
letter, he took a letter that Shemesh and Rabbah have sent
to him, and he took it to the house of the Lord, and he laid
it out before the Lord. And he said, Lord, here is what's
happened. Here is what this man says. He's
not only reproached us and put us in fear, but he's reproached
the living God. And he said, Lord, all the truth.
Look what they've done. Look what a mighty army that's
surrounding us. Look at the nations that they've
destroyed. Look at the idols that they've
burned in the fire and broken up. But he said, those are just
idols. You're the living God. You're
the living God. And the Lord sent a message back
to Isaiah. And He sent a message back and
said, you go tell King Hezekiah that that man is not going to
shoot an arrow into this city. I'm going to put my hook in his
nose, my bridle in his lips, and I'm going to lead him back
from where he came, and I'm going to kill his army myself. And boy, he did. In the last
portion of chapter 38, He sent His angel out and they killed
in one night 185,000 of these Assyrian army. We don't know
how He killed them. It's easy for God to destroy
His enemies, isn't it? He just wills it to be so. They
got up the next morning, the few that was left, and 185,000
men lay slain on the ground. But just as he was delivered
from that awful fear and trouble, he got sick. He had this flesh-eating
boil that broke out in his flesh. And the Lord sent Isaiah to him
and said here in verse 1, look at this. And those days was Hezekiah
sickened to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son
of Amos, came unto him and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
set thou house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. And then Hezekiah turned his
face towards the wall and prayed unto the Lord. So he was thinking
about the rumors that had come about war was coming. He kept
getting these letters, he kept getting these runners came and
said, they've destroyed another nation. Then another runner came
to him and said, now they've invaded the northern part of
Israel. Another runner came and said, they've taken the cities
of Judea. And another runner came and said,
they're outside our city and surrounding our city. And just
about the time he was delivered from all his fears and rumors,
he got sick unto death. So this translation here that
said, while I thought to have lived in rest and peace and ease,
being delivered from my enemies, oh, here come more grief. Grief
upon grief upon grief. Brothers and sisters, isn't that
the way life is sometimes? I mean, it's grief upon grief.
Somebody said, you seldom see one cloud in the sky. Usually
if you see one, you see many. And we seldom just suffer one
affliction at a time. Usually it's like rain. It comes
in waves, doesn't it? Eels seldom come alone. You remember poor Job and all
of his trials and one messenger after another kept coming. Now
this has happened. Now that's happened. And sometimes
we wonder, will it ever end? And that's one of the interpretations,
one of the translations of this one verse here. While I thought
to live in rest and ease, being delivered from this Syrian army,
lo, now I find that I'm sick unto death. And God has told
me, you're going to die and not live. And we're told of the cause
of this bitterness here in chapter 38 and verse 1, that after all
these rumors had ceased, now it's this sickness. Oh, it's
this sickness. So that's a good translation.
That's a good way to translate this. While I thought to have
ease and rest being delivered, lo, here come another trouble.
bitterness upon bitterness. And you know, isn't it amazing?
It's a miracle in itself, brothers and sisters, that you and I aren't
just swallowed up with sorrows. This world is full of sorrows,
isn't it? I often repeat to you what old
brother Scott Richardson said. He said especially about the
children of God. He said they're either going
in their sorrows, in the midst of their sorrows, or coming out
of their sorrows. But life is full of sorrows.
And if it wasn't for the mercy of our God, we'd be swallowed
up with them. That's how many there are. For
my rest that I thought was coming. No grief. Grief upon grief. Another translation of this text
is this. For my peace I had great bitterness. My bitterness came that out of
it might come peace. Now here's a good way of looking
at this. He said, My bitterness came for this reason, to give
me peace. There was a good end attached
to this bitterness that came upon me. The end of it was for
God to give me peace. Now that's scripture, isn't it?
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. We often use that old adage,
the darkest hour is just before dawn. And you know why sometimes
we face the dark nights? It's that we may appreciate the
day. Those who go through dark, agonizing nights appreciate the
day. I've talked to Gally so many
times after she's been up all night and her heart racing 150
and 170 times a minute, all night long. And I talked to her and
she has just wore to a frazzle. And you know what she says? She
says something like this, Yes, but when the Lord removes this,
when He delivers me, I'll be so thankful. I'll be so thankful. That's why sorrows come sometimes.
That we may have peace. Bitterness sometimes brings us
peace. Aren't there times in your Christian
life when you suffered something awful and you look back on it
now and you say, you know, I wouldn't take nothing for that. I wouldn't
take nothing for that trouble I went through because of the
end of it, what it finally brought to me. Deliverance was so sweet
out of that trial. Look over here in chapter 61
of the book of Isaiah on page 816. Isaiah chapter 61, look
at this. I think there's such a good lesson
in this. For peace, that I might have peace, I had great bitterness. And look here what he says in
chapter 61. In verse 1, this is speaking
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon me. This is what Jesus, the Son of
God, said when He was here. Because the Lord hath anointed
me to preach good news unto the meek, unto the humble. He hath
sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our
God, to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourning
Zion, to give unto them beauty for their ashes, the oil of joy
for their mourning, the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planet
of the Lord, that he might be glorified. See what he says here? Nobody wants to be a captive,
do they? Nobody wants to be broken hearted.
Nobody wants to set in ashes. But if the end of those dreadful
things is for the Lord Jesus to come and set me free from
my captivity, If the end of those things is for Him to take me
out of my bed of ashes and clothe me with His garments of righteousness,
to take the Spirit of heaviness and give me the Spirit of joy,
then all right. Let me sit in ashes. Let me have
a sense of my captivity in my conscience. I used to resist
sin. I tell you what, I resisted sin
when I was lost. If conviction of sin ever touched
my conscience, I resisted it like crazy. Because it hurt. Who wants to have a heavy spirit?
Isn't it needful though? Isn't that needful sometimes?
Who is it that the Lord saves? The lost. Who is it that He heals
but the sick? Who is it that He lifts up but
the humble? And that's what he's telling
us here. Out of this humiliation, out of this being brought low
is the lifting up. Out of this sickness comes the
physician to heal us. For peace came bitterness. This bitterness came that I might
have peace. And it's only after we've been
there, humble, and brought low that he lifts us up. And then
we say with Hezekiah, the living, the living shall praise thee
as I do this day. Well, this is the most difficult
lesson to learn. We have to learn it in salvation
and we learn it in our Christian life. But it's the most difficult
thing in the world to retain that sometimes out of suffering
Sometimes out of heartache, sometimes out of bitterness, comes our
greatest blessing. Wayne, Wayne referred to this
not long ago and it's stuck with me ever since. 2 Corinthians
chapter 4, I think it's verse 17. Our light afflictions, which
are for a moment, worketh for us. They work for us. How do they do that? I don't
understand all of that. But he's saying these things
that you suffer, these things that come upon you sometimes,
that grieves your heart, that burdens your spirit, is for your
eternal good. And one thing we know, the more
trouble the believer has in this life, the sweeter heaven's going
to be. There's some friends of mine
that came into quite a bit of wealth. And they moved on this
ranch. I used to call it a farm, but
he said, don't call this a farm, this is a ranch, he said. It
was absolutely gorgeous. I don't know how many thousand
square feet they had. Had a guest house, a huge lake
with elk running in their yards and stuff. And they were showing
me all the pictures of this. And they seemed so happy and
that's all they wanted to talk about. And when they left, their
pastor came up to me and whispered in my ear, it would be difficult
to leave all of that and go to heaven, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? And I'm saying what Paul is saying.
These sufferings, they wean us from this world. They put a more
longing in our hearts for heaven and for rest and for comfort.
Poor old Lazarus was full of sores. begging for crumb from
the rich man's table. But when the angels wrapped him
up and took him up to Abraham's bosom, what did the Lord Jesus
say about him then? Now he is comforted. Now he is comforted. I don't
pray. I'm not in the habit of praying
for trouble. I don't say, Lord send this trouble
and Lord send that trouble. But I have learned to pray like
this. Oh my Lord! If it will manifest to me Your
power, if it will manifest to me Your grace and Your love in
me, then let it come that I may experience it. For it is out
of this bitterness and trials and heartaches and heaviness
that I experience Your grace and Your love. For bitterness,
for bitterness will bring so often joy and peace and sorrow,
if God wills it to be so. For peace I had great bitterness. We learn something here in Hezekiah's
condition about prayer, don't we? If we had only, if this was
the only place in the Bible that taught us about praying and never
fainting, it would be this place right here. This would be the
place, because here was this king, and I read it to you there
in verse 1 and verse 2, that the Lord sent His prophet and
said, set your house in order, you're going to die. You're going
to die. You shall die. Boy, that sounds
pretty certain, doesn't it? And yet he turns his face to
the wall, and tears start coming from his eyes, and he begins
to seek the Lord to let him live. Deliver me, Lord, from this corrupt
pit of death and sin. Can you imagine how difficult
it was to pray? God's own Word seemed to be against
it. Set your house in order. You shall die. Boy, he not only
faced a wall to pray against, but he faced a wall mentally,
didn't he? Why would a man even pray about
it when God says you're going to die and not live? Boy, that's
tough, isn't it? But doesn't this teach us, brothers
and sisters, sometimes even when God seems to be against us, when
His Word seems to be against us, when we know that it's Him
that's brought us low because of our sins. And Satan whispered
to us, there's no need for you to even pray. No need for you
to seek the Lord. It's settled. You're doomed.
And yet he prays. Oh, we shouldn't give up so easy. You say, well, I've prayed and
I've sought the Lord. Well, continue to seek Him. Seek Him in faith. You say, it's difficult. Nothing
encourages me to pray. Was there anything that encouraged
him to pray? He kept having this ringing in
his ear. You shall die. You shall die. But he prayed anyway. And you
know something? Out of that prayer came great
joy. Out of that prayer came great joy. People have told me,
we used to go to the jails and preach to those prisoners there.
One of the most difficult things I ever did. They'll cuss you,
then they'll laugh at you and spit at you. One of the most
difficult places when we used to go to jail to preach to those
fellows. But I never will forget, one fellow was so burdened, and
he kept interrupting me because he was so burdened. He said,
what is the sin against the Holy Spirit? And I said, give me just
a minute. Let me finish preaching to you
and I'll tell you. I want to know now. He said, I've got to know
now. And finally had to stop. You know, I tell you. There have
been people who were convinced that they had committed the sin
against the Holy Ghost. They've been convinced. That's
the unpardonable sin. I'm gone forever. But you know
what? They sought the Lord anyway.
And found out to their great joy and amazement that they hadn't
committed that sin. There's obviously, we didn't
know it, but here in verse 1 of our text, there was obviously
an unless in this verse. You shall die unless. I mean,
if it had been settled absolutely, he would have died. But there
was obviously a secret unless. You shall die unless you seek
my face. How do we find out these unlesses?
Sometimes prayer. Sometimes prayer. You remember
when the Lord sent Jonah to preach to Nineveh? And He said, 40 days
and Nineveh shall be overthrown. That sounded final, didn't it?
But you know what the king did? He said, put away the violence
that's in your hands and turn and cry unto the Lord that He
may spare us and turn from His wrath. Who can tell? Who can tell? And sometimes we
face these who-can-tells, just like this man did. And you know
what we'll find out? You know what we'll find out?
God's mind. Prayer. Honest and sincere prayer. And boy, hear this man. Hear
this man. He said, I know what God has
said, but there may be something there that I don't know. I'm
going to seek Him. And he sought Him to his great
joy. And He heard me. He turned His
face to the wall and prayed to the Lord and He said in verse
2 that He heard me. Oh, what a lesson in prayer.
When you are under afflictions and burden and bitterness, seek
the Lord. I have talked to so many lost
people and They said they're in trouble. Oh, I'm in trouble.
I am in trouble. I need to be saved. And you talk
to them for a while and you ask them this simple question. Have
you been seeking the Lord? Have you been praying to the
Lord? Have you been getting along in secret? Well, no. Oh, my goodness,
man. Why do you want to talk to me?
Talk to Him. Call upon Him. He can satisfy
you. Not me. Something else we can learn here
from this sickness of Hezekiah. If God so order it, boy, these
sicknesses, these afflictions can be messengers of instruction. Nothing can correct us sometimes
and cause us to put our priorities in order like afflictions. If God send them, if He order
them, And look here in verse 1 again. Look here in verse 1
again. In those days was Hezekiah sickened
to death, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, came unto him
and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in
order. What was the matter with his house? What order was out of
order? Did He have His priorities all
messed up? What was wrong with it? Set your
house in order. Well, these afflictions, these
afflictions are going to help you to do that. Okay. He seemed to tell us two things
here in verse 19. He seems to hint at these two
things. And one thing that's always helped
me when reading the Bible, consider the context. And when he said,
set your house in order, here's two things that I looked at that
could be the things that got out of order. Look what he said
in verse 19, the living, the living, he shall praise thee
as I do this day. I wonder with all his business
of being a king, if he didn't get neglectful in praising the
Lord, in worshiping the Lord. He got so taken up in his business
that he came home every evening to his palace and he was so worn
out mentally and worn out physically, all he could manage was just
a little short prayer and off to bed he went. He slept and
he got up the next day and through the same routine again. And for
weeks or maybe months altogether, he wasn't living in the heart
praises of his covenant God. I wonder if that's what he meant
when he said, the living shall praise you as I do this day. What about yesterday? What about
last week? Were you praising Him last week?
You know why Peter said that God has called us out of darkness
into His light? You know why he said God has
did that? That we should show forth His praises. Could I ask
you a personal question? I don't want you to answer it.
I don't want you to raise your hand. I don't want you to tell me after the
service. Just answer this within yourself. What's your home life
like? What's your home life like? Is it a worship center? Is your
home life a worship center? Is that something in your own
personal life that needs to be set in order? Have you ever had a neighbor
come to your door and he heard you singing, Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory
divine. Has one of your neighbors ever
caught you with your head bowed out in your garage? saying, Oh,
I bless Him. I bless you, Lord, for your sins
forgiven, for tender mercies. Oh, I bless your name. Is your
home life a worship center? You know, sometimes we get so
backslidden, don't we? We get so backslidden that the
name of Jesus Christ is seldom heard in our house. His praises are not being sung I'm just asking you that question.
And I just wonder if this wasn't partly what was wrong with him.
Something needs to be set in order. And something else he
states here too, secondly in verse 19, and look at this. The
last portion. The Father to the children shall
make known thy truth. Is your house a teaching center? Is that where the way of salvation
is taught? You know, something is wrong
and I know we all go through this. Man, nobody here has any
more dysfunctional family than I do. I'm telling you the truth.
You who know me and my family know that my family is one of
the greatest burdens on me. My children, my grandbabies.
But you know there's something wrong when our children become
adults. And they cannot remember ever
being taught of the character of God, of the nature of Jesus
Christ, of their own nature as sinners, and the way of deliverance. If they can't talk to those things
at all, if they say, I've never heard about that in my own home,
something is wrong, isn't it? Something is wrong. Our homes
should be a teaching center. Set thy house in order. And boy,
sometimes if we don't do it simply because we have the Word to tell
us, if that Word won't do it, sometimes the Lord may send something
that will. And that's afflictions. They're
instruments of instruction. Let's go back again to verse
17. For peace I had great bitterness. but thou hast in love to my soul. Now look at this. Here's another
way that they have translated this so many times. But thou
hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. Thou hast in love to my soul.
The bitterness is past and now I have peace because you loved
me. That's the way that's translated.
Now I have peace because you love me. All because you love
me. Why did He deliver me from the
pit? Because He loved me. He traced all His deliverance
to the love of God in Jesus Christ. Are you saved this morning? Do
you know the Lord? What do you trace that to? You
trace it to your free will? You say, well, it was just a
difference in me. I'm different than everybody else. What do
you trace your salvation to? Is it the love of God in Christ?
What does the love of God have to do with our salvation? Everything. Everything. Why did God send
His Son? God so loved. Why did the Son
come and die? He loved me and gave Himself
for me. Why does the Holy Spirit come
to us when we're dead in sins and gives us life and woos us
to the Savior? Why does He do that? Why does
He do it? He loves us. I have loved you
with an everlasting love. Therefore, with love and kindness
have I drawn you. And why won't He let us go? Why
are we more than conquerors through everything that we face in this
life? We're more than conquerors through Him who loves us. I tell
you, when we get to heaven, brothers and sisters, you who are going
there, when we get there, I tell you, we'll see more of the love
of Christ there than we can here. We attribute it all to His love. Every deliverance we have, we
attribute it to His love. But wait until we get there,
we'll really see it then. He loved me. What are you doing
in heaven? He loved me. He loved me. That's what we attribute it to,
is it not? But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it. Another
translation said it like this. Thou hast been lovingly attached
to me from the pit. Even in the pit you loved me. Think of that. You have been
lovingly attached to me even when I was in the pit. If there's anybody here this
morning that thinks that Christ loved you more now than He did
when you were in the pit, you're wrong. He manifests His love to you
now where He didn't then, but you know what? He loved you as
much then as He does now. He was loving attached to you
while you were in the pit. Wayne quoted it this morning.
Or in Ephesians chapter 2 where he talked about we being led
around by the prince of this world. We were dead in trespasses
and sin. And he made this statement in
verse 4. But God who is rich in mercy,
for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when... Now get that. Even when we were dead in sin. And that's what he's saying here.
You loved me. You were lovingly attached to
me even when I was in the pit. Boy, a pit. That's a stinking
thing, ain't it? Ain't sin a stinking thing? In
the pit of sin, bound for hell. Those who were ready to perish,
in our own estimation, weren't we ready to perish? And we knew
nothing about Christ loving us, did we? I knew something about
God hating me. He hates my sin. Oh, that scared
me to death. But having an idea that He loved
me? Oh, my goodness. Even when I was lost to death. Another translation is this.
I like this, too. You have loved me from the pit,
or thou hast embraced my soul from the pit of corruption, or
you have kissed me from the pit. You have loved me out of the
pit. See, all of these are different
translations of this one passage. And what that translation is
teaching this, his love, Judas from the pit. A very knowledge
of his love. wooed us from the pit. That's
the power of the love of Christ. I believe in conviction of sins,
brothers and sisters. We've got to have conviction
of sin. If a man's never lost, he'll never be saved. If a man's
never guilty, he'll never be forgiven of his sin. But you
know one of the things that woos us to Christ more than anything
else? It's His love. When we've been backslidden before
and our hearts are cold and indifferent, to remember He loved me. And He loves me. There's an old
poem that says it best. If thou had bid the thunders
roll and lightnings flashed to blast my soul, I still had stubborn
bid. But love has my heart subdued. A bleeding Savior is in view. And now I hate my sin. Love restrains
us, doesn't it? Love. His love brought me from
the pit. His love keeps me coming to Him.
He loved me. He loved me. And last of all
is found here in verse 17, this. The last portion of verse 17.
For thou hast cast all my sin behind thy back." Now, to live
in a knowledge of that and bring peace, well, that will make bitterness
depart. Thou hast cast all my sins behind
thy back. And love affected this too. Thou
hast cast all my sins behind your back. They're behind your
back. He makes these statements so
you and I can get a hold of them. Behind your back. We go through
some terrible event in our life and sickness or something, and
we finally get through it and we say, that's behind me. No,
that's all behind me. I forgot about that. I've got
on with my life. Well, that's what he's saying
here. We had all these sins, these miserable weight of sins
upon our conscience, but now we found out that they're behind
God's back. He's forgiven them all. They're
gone. We'll never face them in this life or in the life to come.
I was in such bitterness about it, this man said. Oh, my spirit
was so heavy. But then I found out that he's
put them all behind his back. And you know, when something's
behind you, you can't see it, can you? Can't see it. The Lord says some amazing things
about the sins that he's purged away. He said, I cast them into
the depths of the sea. They're as far from me as the
east is from the west. They're in this bottomless pit.
They'll never be remembered again. They're all forgiven. Did you
hear what Jesus said to me? They're all taken away. Your sins are pardoned and now
you're free. The blood of Jesus Christ God's
Son cleanses us from all sin. Are you worried about your sin?
You can't die with your sins upon you and you know it. You're
not able and you're not willing to die, and die you will. Wouldn't it be wonderful to leave
you this morning and the reality of this verse dawn upon your
heart. He has cast all my sins behind
His back. Then you can leave here saying,
Oh, for bitterness I have great joy, this great joy. And you
attribute it all to the love of God in Jesus Christ. Love
did it. Love did it. Oh, the living,
the living shall praise you as I do this day because love lifted
me.