But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty, and the base things of the world and things which
are despised hath God chosen, yea, the things which are not,
to bring to naught the things that are. that no flesh should
glory in his presence. No flesh. We are the true circumcision
to worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confidence in the flesh. Tom, we're gonna sing the hymn
on the back of the bulletin. Let's stand together. Okay. O Lord, how wondrous great is
Thine exalted name! The glories of Thy heavenly state
Let men and babes proclaim! When I behold thy works on high,
The moon that rules the night, And stars that well adorn the
sky, Those moving worlds of light, Lord, what is man, or all his
race, who dwells so far below, that you should visit him with
grace and love his nature so? that thine eternal son should
bear to take a mortal form, made lower than his angel's arm to
save a dying worm. Please be seated. Those pink
slips are for special music that Jim and Kay Recente will do after
the next congregational hymn. So you might have to share those.
Hi. Good morning. I have to apologize. My speaking voice is at a baby
level volume. So if I've ever been speaking
too softly and you all can't hear me, I'll try to amp it up
a little bit. Alright, Ephesians chapter 2
please. I've been so blessed by this
scripture. It's so full and complete and just really points us to
Christ and I'm hopeful that the Lord blesses us this morning.
Verse 12. that at that time you were without
Christ being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers
from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God
in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were
far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for he is our
peace, who hath made both one. and hath broken down the middle
wall of partition between us, having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in his ordinances,
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.
and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross,
having slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to
you, which were far off, and to them that were nigh. For through
him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. Now,
therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
with the saints and of the household of God. and are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief cornerstone, and whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, and
whom ye also are builded together for inhabitation of God through
the Spirit. Amen, let's pray. Merciful heavenly Father, Lord,
and your word is perfect. And you are that word, Lord.
Thankful for you and your grace and pray that you would be pleased
to reveal yourself to us. Please open our ears to hear
your message In our hearts Lord cause us to believe Lord increase
our unbelief and decrease our unbelief Lord Please increase
our faith in you We're sinners Lord and we know
that you sent yourself down to save sinners Pray that you would
save us today Lord in your name. We pray amen Let's all stand together once
again. We'll sing hymn number 158, 158. ? Come Holy Spirit,
heavenly dove ? With all thy quickening powers,
Kindle a flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. Look how we grovel here below,
fond of these earthly toys. Our souls, how heavily they go
to reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs. In vain we strive to rise. Hosannas languish on our tongues,
and our devotion dies. Dear Lord, Our love so faint, so cold to
Thee, And Thine to us so great. ? Come Holy Spirit heavenly dove
? ? With all thy quickening powers ? ? Come shed abroad the Savior's
love ? ? And that shall kindle ours ? Please be seated. Just by way of introduction,
this song is a bit personal to me because it's about my greatest
foe, which is my depravity and my constant habit of looking
at the waves and the wind and getting my eyes off of Christ.
And that's why I'm here today, of course, to hear the gospel
and set my eyes again and again back on Christ and hear the gospel
again and again. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not want. Yet I cry and complain about
the things that aren't. This is not fair. Why is this
happening to me? Thou art all I need and all in
all. Yet I look to myself and so I
fall. Turn me and I will be turned. Have mercy on this world. Turn my eyes to Christ, the living
sacrifice. Risen Savior, sovereign over
all. Working good for all that thou
hast called. With my eyes so blind and my
heart so cold, only Christ alone can save my soul. With all my worries and all my
fears, a gospel message I need to hear. Turn me and I will be
turned. Have mercy on this worm. Turn my eyes to Christ, the living
sacrifice. Risen Savior, sovereign over
all, working good for all that Thou hast called. No greater power in all the earth
than the power of God to remove our curse. Thou workest in the
lowest of low, so all the glory to Thee shall go. Turn me and I will be turned. Have mercy on this world. Turn my eyes to Christ, the living
sacrifice. Risen Savior, sovereign over
all. Working good for all that Thou
hast called. Working good for all that thou
hast called. Thank you, Jim K. And you know,
you know that all things work together for good. Them who are
called according to His purpose. God has a purpose in calling
out a people and He works all things out for their salvation. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Mark chapter 15, Mark chapter 15. And then also I'd like to ask
you if you would open your bulletin to the little article that Scott
Richardson wrote many years ago. I'd like for us to read this
by way of introduction. What I want to happen to you,
I also want to happen to myself, namely, that God the Holy Spirit
would bring us down so low that we can't see a single good thing
in us and when we look inside our hearts we could see nothing
but that which would condemn us. Oh, that we would come to
God as criminals in prison clothes with a rope around our neck and
confess that we have nothing of our own but sin. Remember, God would have us to
be real before Him. Truth is, until we become nothing,
Christ will not be everything. The message this morning is taken
from Mark chapter 15, beginning at verse six. Now at that feast, he released
unto them one prisoner whomsoever they desired. There was a custom
in Jerusalem that the Romans and the Jews had agreed upon
that on the Passover, the Romans would release one prisoner back
into the population depending on who the Jews wanted. And there was one named Barabbas
which lay bound with him that had made insurrection with him
who had committed murder in the insurrection. And the multitude
crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had done unto
them as he had ever done unto them. But Pilate answered them
saying, will you that I release unto you the king of the Jews?
Pilate wanted to release Christ. He wanted to. For he knew that
the chief priest had delivered the Lord Jesus Christ for envy. But the chief priest moved the
people that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. And Pilate answered and said
again unto them, what will ye then that I should do unto him
whom you call the king of the Jews? And they cried out again,
crucify him. Then Pilate said unto them, why,
what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly,
crucify him. And so Pilate willing to contend
the people. released Barabbas unto them and
delivered Jesus when he had scourged him to be crucified. What a beautiful picture of the
gospel we see in the substitution of the Lord Jesus Christ taking
Barabbas' place. The scripture tells us that he
was a notorious criminal. Scripture tells us that he was
an insurrectionist. Scripture tells us that Barabbas
was a murderer. And the scripture tells us that
he was a robber or a thief. If God gives us grace to see
ourselves as we are, we will identify ourselves with Barabbas. We will see that all of those
things that Barabbas was guilty of, we're guilty of before God. And we will see that our need
is for the Lord Jesus Christ to take our place, to take our
place. That's exactly what happened.
Barabbas was the one that was supposed to be on that middle
cross between the two thieves. Those were Barabbas's cohorts. He was the one that was to be
crucified that day. And knowing that that was the
day in which he knew what crucifixion meant. He knew the agony and
the end of crucifixion. I don't know how brave he may
have been in life, but I'm certain of this, that in the last hours
of knowing that he was going to the cross, he was probably
a very scared man. bound in a dungeon by chains
to the floor. He heard the prison keeper, the
guard, come down that cold, dark hall, clanging the keys, and
convinced that this was the end for him. I can just imagine the feelings
and the fears that were gripping his heart. and then to hear the
door open and the guard come in and unhook and unchain the
shackles and to walk him down the hallway and to get to the
opening of the prison and say to him, you're free, you're free. Another has taken your place. Now that's salvation. That's
salvation. You all know that I'm big on
interpreting names because I think there's a lot of things to be
understood in the scriptures when it comes to understanding
names as we just saw with Simon's name meaning to hear. You know
what Barabbas's name means. Bar in the Hebrew translated
means son, son. Simon Barjona, Simon, son of
John. And when the Lord said that the
spirit of God will come and cause us to cry from our hearts when
we pray, Abba, father. And so Abba translated means
father. Barabbas's name translated means
son of the father. Son of the Father, and He represents
every one of God's elect. He represents every child of
God. I had people say to me, well,
isn't everybody a child of God? No, no. God is every man's creator, and
ultimately, God will be every man's judge, but God is not every
man's father. The scripture says, he came unto
his own and his own received him not. The Lord Jesus Christ,
when he was made flesh and dwelt among us, he came to the Jews
as a Jew and they received him not. But as many as received
him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name. So apart from believing on the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and trusting him for all your
salvation, you cannot claim God as your father. But if the Lord
Jesus Christ is your elder brother, if he has taken your place on
Calvary's cross, then you can say, When the Lord, when the
disciples asked the Lord, Lord, teach us to pray. What did the
Lord say? When you pray, say our father,
our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. We come
to God as a loving, compassionate, heavenly father. I had someone
say to me one time, they said, well, you can't tell people that
God's your father because what if they had a really bad example
as a father and they may identify God with that? Actually, I think
that person might have an advantage because the person who grew up,
and it's a blessing to have a great father, but the person who grew
up with a good father might be tempted to identify God with
that man. That would be a problem. But perhaps the person who did
not have such a good father has in their hearts and minds the
image of a man who would love them and care for them and provide
everything for them, unlike their earthly father. Truth is, if
you had a good father, thank God for it. But your heavenly
father is nothing like your earthly father, nothing like him. Son of the Father. When the Lord
Jesus Christ prayed in John 17, He prayed to His Father. Father, I pray. Turn with me to that passage,
John chapter 17. In our Lord's high priestly prayer,
He mentions, He calls to the Father. Look
at verse one. Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son that thy son
also may glorify thee as thou has given him power over all
flesh. God, the father gave to his son
power over all flesh. And that's what you and I need.
We need the power of God to put our flesh to death to take up
our cross, to look to the Lord Jesus Christ for all the hope
of our salvation. We'll never have the ability
to do that on our own. Now we have our Lord, our intercessor
praying to his father. And the amazing thing, every
time the Lord speaks to his father, he said, father, I thank thee
that thou hast hid these things from the wise and the prudent
and revealed them unto babes. Even so, it seemed good in thy
sight, father. And then when he teaches us to
pray, he teaches us to pray, our father, our father. See, the only way we can claim
God as our father is to be united to the son. He said, no man knows
the Father, but the Son. No man knows the Father, but
the Son. And them whom He reveals Him. Show us the Father, and it sufficeth
us. Oh, Philip, have you been with me so long that you don't
know that if you've seen me, you've seen the Father? For I
and the Father are one. Everything that you and I are
ever going to know about God Almighty, our Heavenly Father,
we're going to discover it, have it revealed to us in the person
of His Son. Barabbas represents every child
of God in that he is the Son of the Father. The Son of the
Father. Oh, we have a Father who provides
everything for us, everything. Now, the scripture also tells
us something about Barabbas that every believer can identify with
and that is that he was an insurrectionist. Now, our form of government not
only tolerates demonstrations against the government but actually
encourages it. I think it was Thomas Jefferson
that said dissent is the highest form of patriotism. And as Americans, we have a mindset
in our culture that makes us suspicious of governing authorities,
makes us self-sufficient and, in some degrees, seditious to
our government. We fire them and hire them every
two to four years, don't we? And that's good. It's good. It's a good form of government,
I think, because men are fallible. They need checks and balances
to keep them true and faithful. But my friend, do not even entertain
the thought of thinking that God needs to be checked and balanced. You see faith, faith is in fact
when God beats our swords into plowshares. when he beats our
spears into pruning forks, when he bridles us and causes us to
bow and say with that Syrophoenician woman, truth, Lord, and worship
him. You know what the opposite of
rebellion is? A rebel spirit might be a healthy thing to some
degree as a citizen of the United States of America, but it will
do nothing but separate you from God. The opposite of rebellion
is worship. Worship. It's to bow before God
and to confess your absolute, total dependence upon Him. To
have no if, ands, or buts to say about what He says. To say,
truth, Lord. Truth. Whatever you say is right. Lord, who am I? Who am I to question
you? Who am I to do anything but bow
in submission to you? I was talking to Angus Fisher
this week and he'll be here in a couple weeks from Australia.
I hope you all are praying for him and for Todd and for Chris. But he brought out something. We preachers talk, we always
talking about what we've been preaching or what we're going
to preach or what scripture says and he brought something I've
never seen before. In Matthew, in Romans chapter 5 verse 6 the
scripture says, in that while we were yet sinners Christ, in
that while we were yet without strength Christ died for the
ungodly. And he said, look up that word
ungodly. And I did. Because, you know,
you think of someone who's ungodly as being irreligious and licentious and
indulging themselves in all sorts of godless behavior. But that's
not what that word ungodly means. In the Greek language, if the
letter A is put before a word, it negates that word. And the word ungodly in Romans
5-6 is the word worship with the A in front of it. In other words, in that while
we were yet without strength, Christ died for those who were
incapable of worshiping Him. That's what God calls ungodly. Ungodly is not bowing in worship
to Him. And by nature we all come into
this world as Barabbases, insurrectionists. rebelling against God. I'll not have this man reign
over me. I'm going to do it my way. I'm
going to have it my way. And if you want to tell me something
that the Bible says, fine, but I'm going to question it. And
maybe it'll work for me and maybe it won't. That's the nature of
the natural man. And when the Lord delivers you
from the prison of your rebellion. He causes you to turn from a
rebel to a worshiper. And you just bow. Lord, I don't
understand it all. I don't know what you're doing.
It's not comfortable. I wish it was different. But
Lord, I know whatever you do is right. And I know that you
are occupying the highest throne that there is in all eternity. And that you are ruling over
all the inhabitants of the earth, over all the armies of heaven,
that no man can stay thy hand and no one can say unto thou,
what doest thou? Lord, you're just right. You're
right. That's what worship is. Worship
is bowing. It's bowing. And all this stuff
that men do in religion, you know, if you read on in Mark,
you'll find that the Roman soldiers mocked the Lord Jesus Christ. They put a crown of thorns on
his head. They smote it with a reed. They put a purple robe
on him. They bowed before him. They called
him king. They spit upon him. They were
mocking what he was claiming to be, the king of the Jews.
And that is a perfect description of what happens in man-made religion. Men are mocking God. They pretend
to worship Him, but they don't believe that He's sovereign.
The only God that you're going to worship, the only God that
you're going to bow to, is a God who's absolutely sovereign, a
God who's omnipotent, a God who has conquered death, put away
sin, risen from the dead, a God who rules and reigns from his
throne on high. And they don't believe that.
The natural man who's religious, who's feigning worship, who's
mocking God, believes himself to be on the throne of God. He
believes that God's subject to him. You listen to him. God loves everybody. God wants
to save everybody. Christ died for everybody. God's
done everything he can do. Now it's up to you. Man has put himself on the throne
of God. He makes God dependent on him,
even for his sanctification. Well, you know, God's God did
all the saving, but now we got to do our part in order to stay
saved, in order to... Here's the glorious truth, brethren,
is that God doesn't force his children into submission. One
day, one day, the scripture says, every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the
Father. And the only way I can understand
that is that God's going to take His rod of iron and smite the
unbelievers on the back of the knee and force them to bow. But He doesn't do that now. You
see, one day, every knee's going to bow. Every knee's going to
worship. The ones who are made willing
in the day of His power The ones who see the Lord Jesus Christ
as the only hope of their salvation ruling and reigning at the right
hand of the majesty on high and willingly bowing in worship and
submission to him. No more spirit of insurrectionist
with God in the heart of the child of God. The truth is that God loves us into a willing
submission. Saul of Tarsus, riding on his
high horse, breathing out threatenings against God, was knocked off
his high horse, wasn't he? A light shined from heaven, he
found himself in the dirt. Lord, what would you have me
to do? Was he resistant? He called, first word out of
his mouth was Lord, Lord. The unbeliever doesn't worship.
They feign worship. They pretend to be worshiping.
And the truth is, until the Lord Jesus Christ comes into the prison
of our sin and delivers us as our substitute, we're just like
Barabbas. We're just like Barabbas. We
have an insurrectionist. We're ungodly. We're unable and
unwilling to worship God. High treason. And it carries the death penalty. When Onesimus ran away from his
master Philemon, he was an insurrectionist. He was a rebel. He was going
to have it his way until he met up with the apostle Paul in Rome
and heard the gospel and God broke him. God bridled him. And
Paul was able to send Onesimus back to his master with a letter
saying, receive him as a brother. Receive him as a brother. And
if he owes you anything, put it to my charge. Their substitution,
that's what the Lord Jesus Christ is doing. You see, being ungodly
is not necessarily being outwardly licentious or profane or irreligious. It's just being destitute of
a reverential awe toward God. It's being unable to worship. Scripture tells us that Barabbas,
the son of the father, was a notable prisoner. Notable means notorious. Everybody
knew it. Everybody knew it. He knew it.
It wasn't any question in Barabbas' mind that he was a prisoner and
that he was about to die. It was obvious. Actually, the
word notable means to have a mark on you, to be sentenced to death. All his appeals had been exhausted. There was an irrevocable sentence
of death that had been passed down by the highest court. There was no place to escape.
Notice in our text in chapter 15, verse 7, He laid bound. He laid bound. Now here's the
voice of an unbeliever. I can quit anytime I want. I master my own shit. I can control
my needs and desires and I've got this under control. And the child of God says, Lord,
I'm bound. I'm bound. I can't believe if
you don't enable me to believe. I can't resist temptation if
you don't lead me not into temptation. Lord, I'm without strength. I'm
by nature ungodly. I'm completely dependent upon
you. You see, the child of God knows
beyond any shadow of a doubt that all his appeals have been
exhausted. I'm sure that a prisoner in his
early days in prison would be looking for a way of escape.
Don't you know, I mean, they're rattling the bars in the windows,
making sure there's not a loose one in there. You know, maybe
there's some scratches in the wall where the previous prisoner
has tried to make a hole to get out. You know, they're trying
to figure out every possible way to get out of prison. And when God makes you to be
a notable prisoner, you come to realize there's no getting
out of here. There's no escape. If the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't
take my place on Calvary's cross, there's no way for me to get
out. There's no way for me to appeal my charges. I'm hell deserving,
and if God doesn't do something for me, I can't be saved. I can't
be saved. Lord, you're going to have to
do it all. You're going to have to do every bit of it. Barabbas, he was an insurrectionist. What about you? Unable to worship, ungodly, rebel,
won't have God to reign over you. He knew that he was a prisoner. He knew he deserved what he was
getting. Thirdly, the scripture says that
Barabbas was a murderer. You say, well, I've never, people
say, well, I've never murdered anybody. Well, listen to what
the Lord said. He said, you have heard it said
that if you kill your brother, you're guilty of murder. But
I say unto you that if you have ought in your heart without a
cause, you're guilty of murder. You see, man looks at the outward
appearance, God's looking at the heart. And when God looks
at a man's heart and he sees the animosity that he has towards
another man, God says, you just killed him. You murdered him. How many times in addition to
what's in our hearts, we've murdered men with our slandering gossip,
saying things about people we should have never have said. That being put aside, The murder
that you and I are guilty of is much worse than that. You
see, a crime is judged in its severity by the importance of
the person that it's committed against. You take the life of the President
of the United States, and I guarantee you, you're going You're going
to face the, you might be able to get off if you take just a
common person's life. But you see, the more important
a person is, the more weight that crime holds. And God says
in Zachariah, when the spirit of grace and supplication is
poured out on the house of Israel, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall
mourn after him as one mourneth after his only begotten son.
When the Lord Jesus Christ went to Calvary's cross, he was bearing
the sins of all his Barabbases. And had you or I been the only
one that was going to be saved, he would have had to do exactly
what he did in order to save one than to save all. A holy substitute. God made him
who knew no sin to be made sin for us that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. There had to be a substitute
in order for us to walk free. In order for them to come unlock
the prison, in order for this son of the father to have his
liberty, the Lord Jesus Christ had to bear my sins. He bore all the shame of them.
He bore the guilt of them. He, he, he bore the penalty of
them. And he put them away once and
for all. The holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners. He's the one that we killed. And just like Barabbas, we are
guilty before God as a murderer. The murderer of the worst type. Not only was he an insurrectionist,
a rebel against God, not only was he a prisoner, not only was
he a murderer, but the scripture says that he was a robber. He was a thief. Now there's something
we all know something about. So I've never stolen anything
from anybody. Malachi asked it like this, will
a man rob God? And then the people said, where
in have we robbed thee? In that you've taken from me
tithes and offerings. You've robbed God. You've robbed
God of, of, of his ownership. That's the, I'm not preaching
on tithes and offerings, I'm convinced that if a If a man
trusts the Lord Jesus Christ, truly trust Him for the forgiveness
of their sins and for the salvation of their souls, they'll trust
Him with everything else. You trust Him with the greater
and you won't have any trouble trusting Him with the lesser.
But men rob God in that they don't trust Him. They don't trust
Him. They rob Him of His glory. They
rob him of his righteousness when they try to present themselves
before God based on something that they've done. They rob him
of the dignity of his death on Calvary's cross when they try
to atone for their sins by something that they do. They rob God. And just like Barabbas, We've all looked somewhere other
than the Lord Jesus Christ for our righteousness and our justification,
thus having robbed God of his glory. Barabbas, he had a substitute. He had one who died in his stead
and presented himself on behalf of his crimes and of his guilt. Oh, the scripture's full of substitutes,
isn't it? Don't you love it when God told
Abraham, take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest and
get thee up to Mount Moriah and offer him up as a sacrifice.
And as Abraham and Isaac are walking up that mountain, Isaac
says to his father, father, here's the wood and here's the fire,
where's the sacrifice? Where's the sacrifice for the
burnt offering? And what Abraham say to his son,
God will provide himself a sacrifice. And that's exactly what God did.
He provided himself a sacrifice. Abraham had to look behind him,
didn't he? Scripture says, As Abraham had
his arm up with knife in hand, ready to be obedient to God,
take the life of his son, the Lord stopped him. Told him, Abraham,
look behind you. Abraham looked over his shoulder
and he found a ram caught in a thicket. And that's the way
we're going to have to look. We're going to have to look behind
us, way behind us. We're going to have to look back
2,000 years. We're going to have to look back to eternity and
see that the ram that was caught in a thicket is the Lord Jesus
Christ who was slain before the foundation of the world. There's
our substitute. There's our substitute. Barabbas
had a substitute that day. We don't know anything else about
Barabbas. Scripture doesn't tell us whether he became a believer
or whether he went back to his insurrectionist, murderous, robbery
life. I don't know. I don't know. But
God put it in His Word. Jonah was a substitute, wasn't
he? You remember when Jonah, the Lord told him to go down
to Nineveh and preach? judgment against them and he
went down to Joppa and then he went down into the ship and fell
asleep. Fell asleep and the sailors are
caught in a storm and they all thought they were going to die
and they woke Jonah up and said, care it's not that we die. What
a picture of the disciples and the Lord Jesus Christ on the
Sea of Galilee. Lord don't you care that we're
going to perish? They drew lots and it was discovered
that the reason for the storm was Jonah. And what Jonah say,
cast me into the sea. And as soon as he hit the water,
just like the Lord, when he silenced the wind and the waves on the
sea of Galilee, Who is this man? Even the wind and the waves obey
his voice. Yeah, and as soon as Jonah hit
the water, the storm went away and the sailors lived. And Jonah went into the tomb
for three days and three nights. The gospel is a message of substitution. In every way, you and I have
to have a substitute. We're just like Barabbas. And
the Lord Jesus Christ is the only substitute that God's satisfied
with. And faith is looking to your
substitute for all the hope of your salvation before God. And every son of the father,
every Barabbas will do just that. Our heavenly father, we're thankful
for your word and know how we do hope that your Holy Spirit
would bring to our hearts a conviction of sin and a faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. For it's in his name we ask it. Number 168, let's stand together. Lord, I hear of showers of blessing,
Thou art scattering, full and free. Showers the thirsty land
refreshing, Let some drops now fall on me. Even me, even me,
let thy blessing fall on me. Pass me not, O tender Savior,
let thy love and cling to thee. I am longing for thy favor, whilst
thou art calling, O call me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not, O mighty spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see. Witness, sir, of Jesus'
merit, Speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, let
thy blessing fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and boundless,
magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not, thy lost one bringing,
Bind my heart, O Lord, to thee. While the streams of life are
springing, Blessing others, O bless me. Even me, even me, let thy
blessing fall on me. Amen. Thank you, Joy. Okay.