with me to the inside you'll
notice on the bottom left hand page that there's an announcement
for covered dish luncheon here on March 15th so we'll plan to
stay together after the services and should have floor and walls
up in our new building so we'll be able to look at that anyway
but March the 15th covered dish plan on that Alright, and then
on the other side of the bulletin. To begin our service together,
I want us to read Ephesians 4. Verses two through six. With
all lowliness and meekness. With long suffering for bearing
one another in love. Endeavoring to keep the unity
of the spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, one
spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all who
is above all and through all and in you all. Let's stand together. Tom, you're
going to come lead us. 42 in the spiral handle, number
42. ? Let us praise the name of Jesus
? ? Prophet, priest and sovereign king ? ? To him render adoration
? ? Lord and homage to him bring ? ? Let us praise the name of
Jesus ? God incarnate from above Came to save his chosen people
Sent by God in covenant love Let us praise the name of Jesus,
who upon Mount Calvary, shed his blood and sealed our pardon,
died for sin to set us free. Let us praise the name of Jesus,
risen, conquering, gracious friend, advocate and mediator, all our
hopes on him depend. ? Let us praise the name of Jesus
? ? For he brought us to his fold ? ? Come exalt his name
and worship ? ? May the Savior be extolled ? ? Let us praise
the name of Jesus ? till we see him face to face. Then throughout the endless ages,
praise him for his love and grace. Please be seated. Please turn with me in the word
of God to Luke chapter 7. Luke chapter 7. And when we read this, we want
to know what this tells us about Christ and how he saved sinners.
If you don't see that, then you might as well read Aesop's Fables,
because it's done you no good. We begin at verse 36. And one of the Pharisees desired
him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's
house and set down the meat. And behold, a woman in the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus set up meat in
the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment
and stood at his feet behind him, weeping. and began to wash
his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her
head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee which had
bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, Christ,
if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of
woman this is that touches him. for she is a sinner. Aren't you
glad Jesus eats with sinners? I know that's the comfort I get
out. He eats with sinners. And Jesus
answered and said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And he said, Master, say on. There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors. The one owed 500 pence and the
other 50. And when they had nothing, nothing
to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which
of them will love him the most? And Simon answered and said,
I suppose that he to whom he forgave the most. And he said
unto him, thou hast rightly judged. And he returned to the woman
and he said to Simon, Seeth thou this woman? I entered into thine
house. Thou gavest me no water for my
feet, but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them
with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss, but this
woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but this woman hath anointed
my feet with ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, her
sins, which are many, which are many. That's the difference
between religion and gospel. Has God made you a sinner? And
only God can make you a sinner. Then you know my sins are many,
are forgiven, for she loved much. And here's what I want to see.
But to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And the converse is that to whom
much is forgiven, loves much. And I say to you, I ought to
be the most loving man you've ever seen in your life. That is why the difference, you
know, I say you go in religion, I hear all family, this one don't
speak to that one, they don't, because they don't see that many
sins have been forgiven. They think they have righteousness.
But the sinner loveth much and sees everyone as better than
them. I pray that Lord would make somebody a sinner this morning.
Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Lord, we thank you for the great
blessing of gathering before you. And we ask this morning
that you would send your spirit to us to enable you, worship
you in truth. We pray your blessing upon your
servants, wherever your people gather, that you would speak
to us through them. that you would bless their time
of study and that you would enable them to organize their thoughts
and speak clearly and concisely with boldness. And Lord, we ask as your people
that you would give us the faith to believe what is preached. And Lord, we pray that if there
be any here that hear our voice today, that you might be pleased
to make them a center for it's only sinners that you came to
save. And to us that hear the message of your grace, to know
that we have been forgiven much, and that it would enable us to
love you much, and love Christ, his gospel, and to love one another. We ask all this for your glory. Let's all stand together once
again. We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Great Father of glory, how rich
is thy grace! What wonderful love is displayed
in thy face! In Jesus thy image with brightness
we view, And hope to be formed in that likeness anew. O wanderer of wonders, astonished
I gaze To see in a manger the ancient of days From sin to release
us, that yoke so long worn, My God, my Creator, of Mary was
born. For unworthy sinners my Lord
bowed his head. For unworthy sinners he suffered
and bled. My spirit rejoices, the work
is all done. My soul is redeemed, my salvation
is won. great father of glory how rich
is thy grace what wonderful love is displayed in thy face in jesus
be Beloved, we're washed in his blood and with confidence come
to the throne of our God. Please be seated. Will you open your Bibles again
with me to the first chapter of Acts, please? Acts chapter
one. True believers are few and far between in this
world. And to the child of God, nothing is more precious than
the unity that the Lord gives by His Spirit to his and her
Brothers and sisters in Christ. It's the way it's always been.
We see at the very beginning. Of the. Establishment of the
New Testament Church in Acts chapter one. Even before the
coming of the day of Pentecost, notice with me in verse 14 of
Acts 1. These all. Continued with. one accord in prayer and supplication
with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren. That's a reference to the half
brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus Christ who did not believe
that he was the Christ, though they lived with him all their
lives. It wasn't until the Lord gave
them understanding after the resurrection by his spirit that
they were brought to believe that he is the Christ. They all gathered together in
one accord Their bond in Christ superseded
all other differences that they may have had. Notice in the previous
verse, and when they were come in, they went up into an upper
room where bowed both Peter and James and John and Andrew and
Philip and Thomas and Bartholomew and Matthew and James, the son
of Alphaeus and Simon the zealot and Judas, the brother of James,
These men differed as much in personality and in experience
and in, as you and I do. And yet they were all together
in one accord. What is it that brought them
together? Well, the better way to ask that question would be
who brought them together? It was their union together in
Christ. It was their common faith. Listen to what Paul said to Titus. To Titus, my own son, after the
common faith. All of God's people believe the
same thing. Christ is not divided. They believe
in the same Christ. They believe every word that
God has spoken. They believe that salvation is
completely of the Lord. They believe that had the Lord
not chosen them in the covenant of grace before time ever began,
they would not be saved. They believe everyone of God.
This is the common faith. This is what we believe. And
anybody that doesn't believe this is not part of the faith.
This faith is common to us all. It doesn't mean that it's common
and that it's mundane. It means that it is, we hold
it together as a community. We believe the same thing. We
believe that what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished on Calvary's
cross was the successful redemption of all of God's elect. Every
one of God's people believe that. How few, how few believe that. We believe that Christ is all
and that he is in all. This is what we have together
in unity and this is what distinguishes us from the rest of the world. We believe that our new birth
was a work of sovereign grace apart from any contribution that
we made. We believe the Lord arrested
us on our way to hell, in our rebellion. He stopped us in our
tracks. He shined a light from heaven.
He gave us a new heart. He made us to believe. He turned
us and we were turned. We all believe that. We don't
believe it was by will or by works. We don't believe that
we gave him the approval. Or we made any contribution.
We didn't put our hands to the work of Christ. We believe that,
don't we? How many people do you know that believe that? Most
of them sitting right here, aren't they? We believe that we're kept by
the power of God. That is the Lord that has to
keep us from falling. We know our own hearts and our
own sin and how the Lord took his hand off of us. We would
depart from Him, and we are as dependent upon Him, more dependent
upon Him now than we've ever been in our lives. And the more
we grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ, the more we see our
need for Him. We believe we're sinners. And
we don't look down our self-righteous nose at one another. We believe
ourselves to be the chief of sinners. We believe every child
of God believes themselves to be in need of grace more than
anybody else. How can they stand in judgment of anyone? You see,
this is the common faith, isn't it? We believe that when the
Lord Jesus Christ ascended into glory, that everything necessary
for our salvation was prepared. When he sat down at the right
hand of God, we believe that he intercedes for us. He's our righteous advocate before
the Father. We believe that he's going to
have to receive us into glory. Make us acceptable to God. He
gets all the glory for our side. How many people do you know that
believe that? How many people do you know?
How many people in your family believe that? How many people
you work with believe that? Where do you hear any of these things
on television or espoused by politicians or religious leaders
for that matter? Most of them sitting right here,
aren't they? or in some other congregation of believers that
you've had the pleasure of being a part of. You see, the people of God truly
are few, and they truly are far between. And by God's grace, look at what
they did. Paul said it like this to Jude,
he said, I give all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation and to exhort you to earnestly contend for the faith.
I'm writing unto you to exhort you. to earnestly give your whole
heart to the contention of the faith. It's a common salvation
that God's people have that people don't know anything about. What do we have in common with anybody
else? We believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the first cause and the end purpose of all things. That he is all and that he is
in all. How many people do you know that
believe that? How precious is that to us? This common faith,
this common salvation that we have. You see, it overrides and
supersedes any other differences that we might have. Notice in our text in verse 14,
these all continue. They continued. I looked up that
word, and it's defined in other places of the scriptures. They
continued steadfastly, or to give oneself continually, to
adhere, or to be devoted, to persevere, and not to faint. That's what it is to continue. The only sure evidence of your
salvation and mine is that we will be kept to the end. The evidence that we have now
is the faith that God has given us. But if that faith ever ceases,
it only proves that it wasn't of God. The gifts of God, the scripture
says, are without repentance. In other words, he doesn't give
faith and then withdraw faith. If he gives faith, it's faith
that will persevere to the end. Paul said in 2 Timothy chapter
4, I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I
have kept the faith. all the way to the end. Henceforth,
there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the righteous
judge shall give unto me, and not me only, but unto all them,
unto all them that love his appearing, that persevere to the end. And the child of God says, Lord,
keep me. I've seen better men than me
fall. I've seen better men than may walk away from the gospel.
Lord, if you don't keep me, I won't be kept. They continued steadfastly
in one accord. To the end. Turn over one page with me to
Acts chapter two. Look at verse 41, this was after
Peter preached the gospel on the day of Pentecost. And in
verse 41, then they that gladly received his word. You see, God
doesn't twist our arms to save us. We may have some... There may be some screaming and
kicking and being grog before we're converted, but when the
Lord regenerates us, we come gladly. He makes us willing in
the day of his power, and we're thankful for whatever dragging
he had to do before that. Then they that gladly received
his word were baptized. If you've gladly received the
word of God, if you rejoice in Christ, you believe the gospel,
you know, the Lord's done something for you that the rest of this
world knows nothing about. Confess him in baptism. That's,
that's the, that's what the Lord's called us to do, isn't it? And
what a blessing it is. And they were baptized that day,
3000 of them. and they were added unto them
about 3,000 souls. Don't you love it the way the
Lord puts that? Not 3,000 bodies, not 3,000 persons. This is a
matter of the soul. Your soul is immortal. Your soul
is going to live forever somewhere. It's not going to die. It's not going to cease to exist.
It will die spiritually in terms of being separated from God if
we don't know Christ. The Lord saves our souls. What
a blessing. You see, the rest of the world,
they're just concerned about the flesh, aren't they? That's
the only nature they have. You know, what am I going to
eat? What am I going to drink? Where am I going to live? What am I
going to do? How am I going to be happy? How am I going to gratify
the needs of my flesh? God's put in your heart a concern
for your soul. That's a very, very unique thing. And that day, 3,000 souls saw
their need for Christ and they gladly received the word. They
gladly received the gospel and believed on Christ. And they
continued steadfastly. That's the same word that's used
in our text. They continued steadfastly. in
the apostles doctrine, in fellowship, in the breaking of bread. Now that's the Lord's table and
in prayer. They continued, they continued
steadfastly in these things. And brethren, we live in a world
that is contrary to everything we believe. And we go out into that world
every week. We feel the draw of that world. And if the Lord
doesn't deliver us from this world, we'll fall. We'll fall. Turn to me to 1 Timothy 6. 1
Timothy 6. You know, sometimes young people
have a need to make a name for themselves in this world. They
wanna be somebody. Young people, you're gonna have
an opportunity to climb the ladder in this world and become somebody.
And to do so, you're gonna have to leave the gospel. and I've seen many do it. Many. Don't do it. I don't care what
the world offers you. Don't forsake the gospel. Don't forsake the church for
the advancement of this world. It's a bad trade. 1st Timothy chapter 6 But they
that will be rich. Oh, the love of money is the
root of all evil. The enticements that the world
offers us. They that would be rich. And
in other places, well, they fall into temptation and a snare and
into many foolish and lustful hurts which drown men in destruction
and perdition. For the love of money is the
root of all evil. Nothing wrong with money. And
this is not speaking of people that are rich. This is a condition
of the heart. You see, you can have nothing
in this world and this fits you. This is a covetous spirit. And you can be the poorest person
in the world and have your heart set on being rich. It's not how
much you have. It's what the desire of the heart
is. This is the world we live in.
You know, what do we say whenever there's a, whenever there's a
situation, just follow the money and you follow the money and
you're going to get to the root of the problem, aren't you? While some have coveted after,
that's the problem. It's a covetous heart. They have
erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows, but thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow
after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness,
fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called and has professed a good profession before
many witnesses." I shared that. passage with someone
one time, and they said, well, that's for preachers. You believe that, you're going
to find yourself snared into many hurtful things. Demas was one of the Apostle
Paul's faithful companions. Preach the gospel. traveled with
him, made sacrifices with him, and Demas, the scripture says,
hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Listen to these verses from the
book of Revelation, and I'm gonna answer this question after I
read these verses as to what it means to be an overcomer. He that overcometh will I give
to eat of the tree of life. He that overcometh shall not
be hurt by the second death. He that overcometh, I will give
to eat of the hidden manna. He that overcometh, the same
shall be clothed in white raiment. He that overcometh, I will make
to be a pillar in the temple of my God. He that overcometh,
I will grant to sit with me on my throne. And he that overcometh
shall inherit all things. What is it to overcome? Is it
to live your life above the fray of this world and not be affected
by the things of this world? To live an overcomer life? As
if you're just walking in the clouds all the time, is that
what it means to overcome? Turn with me to 1 John chapter
5. 1 John chapter 5. And look at verse 4, for whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world. You see, all these draws
and enticements of the world is to take us away from Christ,
take us away from the gospel, take us away from his church. And this is the victory that
overcometh the world. even our faith. Who is he that
overcometh the world? But he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God. To believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, to hold faithful to the end by the grace of God, that's
what it is to be an overcomer. They continued steadfastly in
the apostles doctrine and in fellowship and the breaking of
bread and in prayer. They continued in one accord. They continued by the grace of
God. These men, as I mentioned a moment
ago, that are identified in verse 13 were as different as you and
I are. We've got fishermen, we've got
zealots, we've got tax collectors, publicans, we've got men that
are impulsive and impetuous, we've got Some that are called
the sons of thunder. We've got others that are tenderhearted
and enthusiastic, men that were well-versed in the scriptures
and who were familiar with the Greek language and culture, and
then common fishermen that would have had very little education.
We've got men like Bartholomew, Nathaniel, who was skeptical. We've got a despised publican. We've got a twin by the name
of Didymus or Thomas who was very doubtful and yet was the
first one to declare that the Lord Jesus Christ was God. You see, these men all differed,
but they continued in one accord. Behold, how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. If we've got our eyes
on Christ, then Everything else pales in comparison,
doesn't it? Nothing else is significant.
Not in terms of keeping us in unity. Turn with me to Galatians
chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3. Verse 26. For ye, you, are all the children
of God by faith in Christ Jesus. That's what overcomes the world,
faith. And if we've got saving faith,
the Lord will keep us in that faith. And the means by which
he keeps us is the command to persevere, to fight the good
fight, to not walk away from the gospel. You see, this road of faith has
a dangerous precipice on both sides of it. On one side, it's
the precipice of assumption and presumption upon God. You know,
I'm just, if I'm saved, the Lord's going to keep me. On the other
side is a works gospel, legalism. And so we have promises in the
scriptures to keep us from being legalistic. The promises that
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. And we have warnings in the scriptures to keep us
from being presumptuous. And those warnings and those
promises are God's way of keeping our eyes on Christ. And the Lord
will keep his people looking to Christ. John put it like this,
they went out from us because they were never of us. For had
they been of us, they would have remained with us. As many, look at verse 27, for
as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Christ is our unity. He's the head of the body. How
important is your head to the rest of your body? It's everything,
isn't it? Your finger can't have a thought.
Your leg can't take a step. Not without your head. Your eyes
and your ears can't even work without your head. I mean, Christ
is the head of the body. Every member of the body of Christ
is. And we're all looking to him,
aren't we? And so he says, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there
is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for
you are all one in Christ. They continued steadfastly in
unity and in prayer. You are all one in Christ, and
if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed, heirs according
to Now turn over a couple pages to Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians
chapter 3. Look at verse 20. Now unto him, who's him? Christ. Now unto him he gets
all the glory. Now unto him to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the
power that worketh in us. He gets all the glory. It's his
power. It's his work of grace. Unto
him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages
world without end. I therefore In light of that,
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called, with all lowliness
and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. You know what that word forbearing
means? Put up with each other. Put up
with your differences. It actually means to hold one
another up. You know, sometimes we just got
to put up with each other, don't we? You want folks to put up
with you? You know, the folks that have
the hardest time putting up with other people are the people that
are the hardest people to put up with. It always works that way. And the Lord confirms that in
His Word. He says, you the judge and other are guilty of the very
same thing. You show me a person that's easily offended all the
time, and I'll show you a person that's very offensive. It's just
the way it works. Endeavoring to keep the unity
of the spirit in the bond of peace. Endeavoring. This is his
work in us. They continued in one accord. For there's one body, one spirit.
We read that earlier. Turn over one page to Ephesians
chapter four, verse 29. Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth. What does James say about the
tongue? It's a fire of iniquity. That's usually the problem, isn't
it? You know, the best advice we can give one another is just
stop talking. You know, just stop talking.
If you've got to talk to somebody, talk to the Lord. Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use
of edifying. There you go, building up. that
it may minister grace unto the hearers, and grieve not the Holy
Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil
speaking be put away from you with all malice, and be ye kind
one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." You know, most offenses just
need to be just You don't have to challenge. I knew some people,
every time somebody looked at them cross-eyed, they thought,
you've offended me. You've sinned against me. You
need to repent. You know, unless it's just a
really serious, just let it go. Just let it go. Get over it. And remember, here's how you're
going to get over it. Look at how much the Lord's forgiving
you. Forgiveness is not a matter of,
you know, trying to find some reason to forgive in that other
person. It's realizing that look what God's done for me. Who am
I? Who am I to stand in judgment?
This unity of the spirit is going to be challenged. And it's, you know, the world
we live in, and the draw of this world, and the flesh that we
live in, and the spiritual presence of spiritual powers that are
always fighting against the things of God, all these things are
contrary to the gospel, but they continued in unity, steadfastly. Why? Because each and every one
of them knew how much God had forgiven them. Proverbs chapter 6, the Lord
tells us seven things that he hates. And those seven things
are set up in progression. Each one, it seems like the Lord's
saying, this one I hate more than the last one. You know what
the seventh one is? The seventh one, he that soweth
discord among the brethren. Oh Lord. No man can tame the
tongue. It's a, you know, we, we steer
mighty ships. The scripture says in James chapter
three with a little rudder, One of the duties I had when
I was in the Navy was I was a helmsman for a 600 foot long naval vessel. And captain would tell me what
course to put it on and I'd put it on that course and look at
the, this is before autopilot. And I'm here to tell you that
a 600-foot naval vessel's got a lot of forces going against
it out there in the middle of the ocean. It's hard to hold
that thing on the compass. You've got the wind and the waves
and the ocean currents moving that big vessel, and that compass
is constantly doing this. And it is a constant effort to
compensate for all those other influences that keep that ship
straight. And James uses that illustration
about the tongue. There's a lot of influences in
there. And we're constantly compensating against those influences to keep
this ship straight. They continued in one accord. And who continued in one accord?
Who continued in one accord? Go back with me to our text.
These all continued, every one of them. The gifts and callings
of God are without repentance. The Lord doesn't give faith and
take it away. That verse I quoted a while ago, they went out from
us because they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they
would no doubt have continued with us, but you have an unction
from the Holy One. What is that unction? I met a
guy Friday who lives here in Apopka, invited him to come to
church, and he said, well, I'm one of those crazy charismaniacs. We've got an unction from the
Spirit of God. That's what he called himself.
He made a joke about it. That's not the unction. The unction
of the Spirit of God is the anointing of the Spirit of God, and when
the anointing of the Spirit of God comes, what do we do? What's
the first thing the Spirit of God convicts us of? Our own sin. Our own unbelief. He convicts
us of our unrighteousness and of the righteousness of Christ
for we have an advocate Christ Jesus the righteous one sitting
at the right hand of God and he convicts us that the Lord
Jesus Christ accomplished our salvation at Calvary's cross
and the prince of this world is judged that's the anointing
of the Spirit of God the Spirit of God brings peace he doesn't
bring foolishness he doesn't bring some sort of ecstatic behavior
When the Spirit of God, where the Spirit of God is, there is
unity. There's liberty, there's peace.
That's the unction. You have the unction of the Spirit
of God. Lord, give me more of your Spirit.
To continue steadfastly in unity, and they all did. Every single
one of them. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
going to lose one of his sheep. Not a one. He will leave the
99 and he will go out in the wilderness and he will recover
that one lost sheep. Every single one is going to
be saved. He gets all the glory, doesn't
he? One more point. Go back with
me to our text. Acts chapter 1. These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication. Now
there's the means by which the Lord causes us to continue in
one accord. The Lord sets the heart To confess
it's complete dependence upon him. That's what prayer is. You
know, you hear people talk about they're a great prayer warrior
or they've just got stalwart faith and they just standing
there, they're, they're living the overcomer life and they spend
all their time. Prayer is the broken submission
of a, of a, of a center who can't stand on his own two feet and
crawling out to God for help. Be careful for nothing. In other
words, God says, stop worrying. But God doesn't say, don't worry,
be happy. God says, be careful for nothing, but in all things
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests
be known unto God. And the peace of God. which is
better than any understanding that you can have will keep your
heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. That's what prayer does. How do I know if I'm praying?
Because I'm looking to Christ. Prayer has one effect and that
causes me to rely upon and believe on and rest in the Lord Jesus
Christ. And notice the Lord put supplication.
You know what that word means. It's the word supply. What do
you need God to supply you with? What do you need him to supply
you with? A new car? A new house? Most people pray
when they've got a need for something physical. And James says, you
ask, but you ask amiss that you might consume it upon your own
lust. In other words, he's talking about just praying for physical
things. What is it that we need God to
supply us with more than anything else? Grace, mercy, forgiveness,
wisdom, light, truth, love. Lord, that's what you're gonna
have to supply me with because that's not in my nature. You're
gonna have to give me that. And they continued in one accord
with prayer and supplication with the women and with Mary
and with his brethren. And after the preaching of the
gospel, they continued still with 3000 more steadfastly. You see the evidence that God
is among us. Will be seen in him keeping us. And causing us. To keep looking
to Christ. Keep looking to him. Resting
in him and believing on him, that's the overcoming. Of our
faith. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're thankful for your word and we ask now that your Holy
Spirit would make it effectual to our hearts. Forgive us, Lord,
for our sin. We ask it in Christ name. Amen. 294 let's stand together 294. Yeah. Savior, like a shepherd lead
us, much we need thy tender care. In thy pleasant pastures feed us, for
our use thy folds prepare. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are. We are thine, do thou befriend
us, be the guardian of our way. ? Keep thy flock from sin defend
us ? Seek us when we go astray ? Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
? Hear, oh hear us when we pray ? Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus
Hear, O hear us when we pray. Thou hast promised to receive
us, poor and sinful though we be. Thou hast mercy to relieve
us, grace to cleanse and power to free. Blessed Jesus, blessed
Jesus, early let us turn to Thee. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
early let us turn to Thee. ? Early let us seek thy favor ?
Early let us do thy will ? Blessed Lord and only Savior ? With thy
love our bosoms fill ? Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus Thou hast
loved us, love us still. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast loved us, love us still.