By way of announcement, the meetings are going very well
in Australia. Everybody's doing well. So continue
to pray for Greg. I know there's more meetings
scheduled for this week. But I think they've been averaging
around 40, and a lot of guests being invited. So pray the Lord
we'll continue to bless what's going on there. So anyway, let's go ahead and open up the
service to hardback number 125, number 125, Jesus Faded All. If you could please stand, number
125. I hear the Savior say, thy strength
indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and
pray. Find in me thine all in all. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. Lord, now indeed I find Thy power
and Thine alone. can change the leper's spot and
melt the heart of stone. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white of stone. For nothing good have I Whereby
thy grace to claim I'll wash my garments white In the blood
of Calvary's Lamb Jesus paid it all All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. And when before the throne I
stand in Him complete, Jesus died my soul to save, my lips
shall still repeat, Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. May be seated. I have tunnel vision, and the
tunnel vision is getting less and less to see. I'm almost at
the point where I can't read. I'm going to try to use this
thing this morning. If it quits on me, I'll want
to apologize beforehand. Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse
14. Ecclesiastes 3 and 14. I know that whatsoever God doeth,
it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor
anything taken from it. And God doeth it that men should
fear him. That which hath been is now,
and that which is to be hath already been. And God requireth
that which is past. And moreover, I saw under the
sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the
place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. I said in
my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for
there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. I
said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that
God might manifest them, and that they might see that they
themselves are beasts. Because that which befalleth
the sons of man befalleth beasts. Every one thing befalleth them
both. As the one dieth, so dieth the
other. Yea, they all have one breath.
So that a man hath no preeminence above a beast, because all is
vanity. All shall go unto one place,
all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth
the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the earth? Wherefore, I perceive
that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice
in his own works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring
him to see what shall be after him? The only one that can bring
us to see what's after us is the Lord Jesus Christ. Life is
vanity, but Christ is salvation. That which is being, like Todd
said, is right now. And that which is right now is
forever. Whatever God does is forever. father we come before you this
morning father wanting to know father more about you more about
the lord more about salvation father we ask that you'd open
our hearts and our minds to the scriptures that you'd be with
todd as he brings us the word of god father that we might receive
it, Father, and adhere to it. And we ask that you'd be with
Greg and all of his people that went with him, Father, with Brian
and Jill, with Tricia and the girls. We'd ask that you'd watch
over them, Father. You'd bring them safely back
to us, Father. You know, we miss them and we
love them. And we'd ask that you'd give
Greg the grace, Father, to bring the gospel of the people over
there with liberty, Father. And we ask that you'd watch over
us, Father. Take us safely home, keep us
every day, bring us safely back. We ask in Jesus' name, amen. We're gonna take the hymn now
in the back of your bulletins. You can remain seated, but we're
gonna sing the hymn in the back of the bulletin. you ? Come ye saints, admire and wonder
? ? Jesus matchless love adore ? ? Sing for Sinai's awful thunder
? ? Shall upon thee burst no more ? ? Sing those sins are
black and large ? ? Sing for Jesus by his death ? Set you
free from every charge Set you free from every charge Sing,
though sense and carnal reason Fain would stop the joyful sound
Sing and count it, highest treason, for a saint to hold his tongue. Sing aloud whose holy calling
your election surely shows. Sing no fear, a final falling,
Jesus' love no changes knows. ? Sing for you shall heaven inherit
? ? Sing and ne'er the song be done ? ? Sing for he alone is
worthy ? ? He our sins did all atone ? ? Sing aloud among God's
people ? ? In your heart when all alone ? Sing to Father, Son
and Spirit, one and three and three and one. Thank you. Well, I've got to apologize.
I didn't know services started at 1045. I thought they started
at 11. But that's your pastor's fault because he always talks
about the first hour. He didn't talk about the first
45 minutes. He talks about the first dollar. So I just assumed,
I assumed 11, sorry. Would you turn to first John
chapter four verse 20. If a man say, I love God, and
hates his brother, he's a liar. And this is one of six times
in this epistle that we read this statement, if a man say. Look in chapter one, verse six. If we say, if we say that we
have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and
do not the truth. Verse eight, if we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Verse 10, if we say, there's
the we say again, If we say that we've not sinned, we make him
a liar, and his word is not in us. Look in chapter two, verse
four. He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not
in him. Verse nine of the same chapter.
He that saith, he is in the light. And hateth his brother is in
darkness even until now. And the passage in chapter four
of a man say, I love God. Now there we have six. If we say, if we say now a true
believer can say all of these things truthfully. All six of these things. I say. I have fellowship with
God. And I do. He speaks to me. Through his
word. He hears me speak. For Christ's
sake. I have fellowship. I have communion. with the God of glory, the creator,
the absolute sovereign of the universe, the one whom the heavens
cannot contain, the God of glory, the living God. I have fellowship
with him. Every believer has fellowship
with the living God. Every believer is fit for fellowship. I've been born of the Spirit.
I'm a partaker of the divine nature. I have the very righteousness
of God and I can have fellowship with the living God. That's true
of every believer. I can say I have no sin. Look in 1 John 1 verse 8 If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in it. That's very
true. But I can also say, every believer can say, I have no sin. Look in verse 5 of chapter 3.
And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins. Question, did he do it? Did he do it? That's the one
issue. Did he do it? Yes, he did. When he said, it is finished,
every sin was taken away and in him is no sin. That means that if I am in him,
I have no sin. God looks at me. There's no sin
there. There's no sin there. I'm aware
of it, but that doesn't change the fact that there's nothing
there. I have no sin. And look in verse 10 of chapter
1. If we say we've not sinned, We make him a liar and his word
is not in us. But I can say, if I'm a believer,
I've not sinned. That's a verb. It's talking about
what we actually do. I've not sinned. Look once again
in chapter three, verse six, whosoever abideth in him. What's it say next? Sinneth not. Now, remember, in him there is
no sin. What's it mean to abide in him? If I told you that every joy
there is is in this room, and outside of this room there's
nothing but pain and misery and torture, you know what you'd
want to do? You'd want to stay in this room, wouldn't you? All
you could possibly want, all the beauty, all that God has,
all that God is, is in this room. All the pleasure of knowing God,
all the pleasure of acceptance, everything is in this room. And
outside of this room, there's nothing but hell. You know what
you're going to do? You're going to stay here, don't you? To abide in Christ
is a conscious desire to not be anywhere else. So that when
God sees me, all he sees is Jesus Christ. You abide in Christ when
you don't want to be, I'm not leaving by his grace. I want
to be right. This is the only place I want to be in Christ.
That's exactly what Paul meant when he said, Oh, that I may
win Christ and be found in him. When God comes looking for me,
I just want to be found in Christ. I don't want him to see me in
my preaching or my faith or, or my, no, just let me be seen
in Christ. Now, whoever abides in him. Sineth not. That's what the Bible
says. I don't sin. Somebody says, well,
that means you don't practice sin. You can't be honest with
that passage of scripture and say it even means that, because
it doesn't. It's talking about an act. If you sin more than
once, you're practicing it, aren't you? I mean, that's the practice
of sin. Somebody's talking about practice
of sin in your trouble, if that's what it means. And I'm in trouble.
That's not what it means. That one who abides in him sinneth
not. Look in verse nine. Whosoever
is born of God doth not commit sin. Now, this thing of being
born of God, God's holy. God gives birth. God gives life. He communicates life. The life
of God in the soul is what the new man is. It's the life of
God. Can God beget something that sins? No. It's impossible. Now look at
this verse of scripture. Whosoever is born of God does
not commit sin for his seed, the seed of God remains in him
and he cannot sin. The new man lacks the ability
to sin because he's born of God. Now, every believer, it's hard
to say it. I mean, we read it in the scriptures,
we believe it, but it says, whoso abides in him sinneth not. He does not commit sins. He cannot commit sin. He's born
of God. 1 John 2. Now, I can say I have fellowship
with God. I can say I have no sin. If Christ
took it away, I don't have it. It can't be two places at once.
If he bore my sin in his own body, I don't bear him. I have
no sin. I have not sinned. The new man's the real me. That's
the real me. That's that which is born of
God. It does not commit sin. And look
in verse four of chapter two. He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments is a liar. But he that saith,
I know him. Now this is something every believer can say. I know
him. I know him. And that's not name dropping
when I say I know him. He knows me. And the reason I
know him is because he first knew me. Just like the reason
I love him is because he first loved me. The reason I know him
is because he made himself known. And I know the living God. I know Him. And I love what the
scripture says about Moses. The Lord stood with Moses and
spake to him face to face, as a man speaketh with his friend. Abraham was called the friend
of God. Now, when I say I know Him, it's
not bold presumption. It's just faith. I know Him. I know him. Now, I know his doctrine,
and I love his doctrine. You know what? Sometimes, if
you're like me, you've been afraid that all you know is doctrine.
And you've wondered if you even know the living God. You're afraid
all you know is doctrine. Well, let me tell you how you
can know if all you know is doctrine. I'm sure of this. If you don't
know that you personally are totally and completely depraved, if you don't know that, all you
know is doctrine. If you know that you personally,
not just the doctrine, but if you know that you personally
are totally depraved, you know it. It's because he's made himself
known to you and you know him. And you know when you're hearing
about him, it's not him. You can discern, you understand.
When you hear a preacher preaching and it's not the one you know,
you know, that's not him. That's not him. I know because
I know him. That's not him. That's not at
all like it. Every believer knows God through Christ. I know him. Verse 9, he that saith he's in
the light, he that makes this claim, I'm in the light. You
know what? I am in the light. I am in the
light. I understand what that light
is. The Lord said in John chapter
8 verse 12, I am the light of the world. And he said that right
after this woman, this poor woman, I think she'd been set up, but
she was taken in adultery in the very act. And there wasn't
any way you could say anything about this woman not being guilty.
And these men brought her in before the Lord. I think she
was set up. How did they do this physically? And they catch her
in the very act and they bring her in before the Lord and throw
her down there and said, tell us, Master, in mock respect,
Moses in the law said that such one should be stoned. But what
sayest thou? And they thought, we've got the
Lord trapped. He can't win this argument. If he says, stoner,
thought you were merciful, thought you were gracious. If he says,
let her go, Moses said to Stoner, you don't have any respect for
the law. You don't have any respect for God's commandments. They
thought they had omniscience trapped. What idiots. How stupid. And the Lord just bent down and wrote
on the ground. There's two times in which he
was the finger of God wrote something in the Old Testament. One, the
law. Remember the finger of God wrote
the law? Thou shalt not commit adultery. And the other time
it's in Daniel chapter 5. Thou art weighed in the balances
and found wanting. I don't know what he was writing
in the sand, but that's a Pretty good speculation. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. You brought this woman in, thou
shalt not commit adultery. Thou are weighed in the balances
and found wanting. And he lifted up himself and
looked at them. And he said, he that is without
sin. And I have no doubt that he meant
without this sin. this sin if you're without it
throw the rock go ahead get it going and then he stooped down
again and the scripture says each man beginning with the eldest
being convicted by his own conscience not by the holy spirit because
if you'd been convicted by the holy spirit he would come to
christ for mercy but his own conscience made him leave And
all of a sudden, the Lord is left alone with that woman, taken
in the very act. Woman, where are those thine
accusers? Who shall lay anything at the
charge of God's elect? Woman, where are those thine
accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? No man, Lord, neither do
I condemn thee. Nothing to condemn her for. Her
sin had been put away. Go and sin no more. I am the light of the world.
Now, I'm in the light. I know how God, the holy God,
the God of the Bible, can embrace me and say, I do not condemn
you. It's wholly because of the Lord
Jesus Christ. I am in the light. And then it says in 1 John chapter
4, if a man say I love God, now listen to me. I do love God. Not like I should. Not like I
would. Not like I will. But I do love
God. I love Him as He is. I love His
holiness. I love His absolute justice.
I love his sovereignty. I love his independence, how
he has no needs. I love his wisdom, how he's made
a way to be just and justify me. I love his eternality, how
he never had a beginning. I love his immutability. Every
attribute of God I love. Lord knows that, if I'm being
serious. I'm like Peter, Lord, you know
all things. You know how weak I am, you know how contradictory
I am, you know of my faults, you know all things, but you
know I love your person. I love God as he is, I love Christ
as he is, I wouldn't change him if I could. He's the only person
we know that we wouldn't change. You know, I've made that statement
before, and I've had people come up to me after and said, I wouldn't
change you. You don't know me then. You don't know me. If you
did, you'd never say anything like that. You just wouldn't
do it. But there is only one person would say, we don't want
any change in him. He's perfect. He's all together.
We'd really love him as he is. Not like we want to, not like
we would, not like we will. But we do love Him. Every believer
loves the Lord Jesus Christ as He is. Now, a man who is saved
can truly say, I have fellowship with Him. And I have no sin. And I'm not
sinned. And I know Him. And I'm in the
light. and I love him. Every believer
can make those statements when enabled by God the Holy Spirit
to see the truth. We can make those statements.
But John warns of saying if a man says he has fellowship
with him. A lot of people make that claim.
You go into every church in Apopka, you have fellowship with God.
Yes, I have fellowship with God. I have communion with God. I
speak with him. He speaks to me. Yes, I have
fellowship with God. Well, John says if we say we
have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and
do not the truth. Now, what does John mean by walking
in darkness? If we say we have fellowship
with him, but we're walking in darkness. Does that mean that
you claim fellowship with him, but in the dark, when nobody
sees you commit sins in the dark, in secret, you claim you have
fellowship with him, but you sin in the dark. Well, if that is what it means,
I mean, you won't be saved. nor will anybody else. Is that
clear? I hope it is. You know, Moses said, thou hast
set our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Now, there's
no excuse for secret sins or sins in the dark. They're awful.
But if somebody says, well, I've dealt with those. I've got rid
of them. Well, nobody believes you. I sure don't. I sure don't. What he's talking about is walking,
if we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in the darkness
of salvation by works, the darkness of free will, the darkness of
reformed religion. If we say we have fellowship
with him and walk in darkness, we're liars. We don't have any fellowship
with him. It's all talk and nothing more. If we say we have fellowship
with him and walk in darkness, the darkness of salvation depended
in some way upon us. Look in verse seven of chapter
one. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light. We have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth, cleanseth
us from all sin. Now that word cleanseth is in
the present active. I presently, right now, need
to be cleansed of my sin. Right now. right now. And you
know the only people I can have fellowship with are people who
feel just like me. Birds of a feather flock together,
don't they? People who see Christ as all they have in their continual
need of His continual cleansing blood. We have fellowship in
the gospel. And the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. Now, if we say we have fellowship,
Walk in darkness, we lie. We do not the truth. Look in
verse 8 of chapter 1. If we say we have no sin, if we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves. We've told ourselves a lie and
got ourselves to believe it. Lost all credibility. The truth
is not in us. If we say we have no sin. Would you turn with me for a
moment to John chapter 9. John chapter 9, verse 39. And Jesus said, for judgment
I'm coming to this world that they which see not might see. and that they which see might
be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which
were with him heard these words and said unto him, are we blind
also? Jesus said unto them, if you
were blind, you should have no sin. if you could not see, now what
is it when you're blind means you can't see? If you can't see
one single reason into you as why God did that favor on you,
you can't find one reason, you know what? You have no sin. But if you say, I can see, I
can see why God would have mercy on me because I, Your sin remains. It's still there. You're still
in your sin. Now, the man who can say, I have
no sin is the man who has a sinful nature right now and knows that
that is all he is in and of himself. That is the only man who can
say, I have no sin. Look in verse 10. If we say we've
not sinned, now they're the words of verb and it's talking about
any action we do. Don't care what it is. If we
say we've not sinned, we make him a liar. Didn't God say the
wickedness of man is great on earth and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually? Didn't
God say that? Now, with regard to anything
I do, I don't care what it is. Now, I know when I tell a lie,
it's a sin. I know if I become angry and
hate somebody, it's a sin. I mean, go on. I know if I steal
something, it's a sin. Lost man knows that. Do I know
that everything I do is sin? Everything I do, whatever it
was, if I did it, it was sin because of who did it? Me. That's
what makes it sinful. the problem. As someone who says
I've not sinned, you are so wrong and you're certainly
no one who can say I've not sinned because all you've done is sin.
But you can't take this promise to yourself that of the new nature. He that's born of God does not
commit sin. You see, it's the new nature that sees the sinfulness
of the old nature. If you can't see what I'm talking
about, it's because you've never been born again. You've never
been given a new heart. You don't understand what sin
is in the first place, because if you did, you'd know that if
you did it, it's sin. You'd know that. Chapter 2, verse 4. He that saith, I know him. How
many people make that claim? I know God. I know him personally. I know him personally. A lot
of people make that claim. You make that claim. If you're
a believer, I know him. I know him. He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth not his commandments. is a liar. And there's no truth
in him. He doesn't have any credibility
at all. He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments. Now, notice it doesn't say he
doesn't admire his commandments or know what his commandments
are. It says this man who knows him must keep, keep his commandments. Well, is that talking about the
Ten Commandments? Well, yes, I have kept them. You see, I don't try to keep
the law. I've kept the law. When Christ kept the law, I kept
the law. And somebody says, well, I'm
trying to keep them. No, you're not. Don't say that. Don't even say
that. That's hypocrisy because you've not kept in yourself one
commandment one time. But you can say, yes, I've kept the commandments,
because Christ kept the commandments. But I don't really believe that
that's what he's talking about. Turn to 1 John chapter 3, verse 23. See if you've kept this commandment,
you personally. Don't think about anything. Don't
wonder if the person beside you has kept it. Think about yourself
right now. 1 John 3, verse 23, and this
is His commandment, that we should believe on the
name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as He gave
us commandment. Now this is His commandment,
that we should believe, and that word believe is not just a cognitive
acknowledgment of this is true. It has within it rely upon. Rely upon. See, in faith there
is an actual reliance. And believe what? Believe that
you're saved? Believe that God's done something
for you? Believe that Christ died for you? Believe that you're
one of the elect? Believe that you've been born
again? were to believe on the name, the name of His Son. Now His name is who He is. When I believe on His name, I'm
relying on His power to save me. I'm relying on Him to do
something for me that I can't do for myself. I'm relying on
His justice to save me. to save me in a way that honors
His justice through the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm
relying on His love to save me. It's a saving love. I'm relying
on His wisdom to save me, a way All of his attributes, whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord. I'm saying, Lord, save
me as an act of your sovereign will. Will my salvation. Save
me by your justice. Save me by your holiness. Save
me by your power. I'm calling upon all of his attributes.
Lord, save me. Now, what is it to believe on
his name? Same thing the thief did. Lord, he knew who he was,
didn't he? One thing I'm sure about that
thief, he knew who the Lord was. He saw him hanging on the tree
and he knew he was the Lord. He saw him hanging there and
he said, you're not gonna stay dead. You're not gonna stay here.
You're gonna come back as a mighty reigning king. You can't stay
dead. You must be victorious. Remember
me when you come into your kingdom. Now that's what it means to obey
this command. You believe on the name of His
Son. You really believe that the only
way you'll be in heaven is for His namesake. Be ye kind, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven
you. I love that passage in Psalm
106, verse 6, we've sinned We've done wickedly. We've committed
iniquity. Our fathers understood not thy
wonders. They remembered not his mercies,
but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. But nevertheless,
he saved them for his namesake. Not because of anything they
did. He saved them for his namesake, that he might make his mighty
power Do you believe on his name? Do
you love everybody who loves him? Now you can answer that.
Somebody that loves the Lord Jesus Christ, do you love that
person? He that loveth him that beget, loveth him also that's
begotten of him. That's a commandment. You obey.
You really do love those who love him. And then in verse nine
of chapter two, He that saith he's in the light, I understand
the doctrine of justification. I understand the gospel. He that
saith he's in the light, I understand how God can be just and justify
the ungodly. That's a good thing to understand.
But he that saith he's in the light and he hates his brother, he's in darkness. He's not light. What he says he knows, he knows
nothing of, doesn't really understand. What he says he believes hasn't
done a thing for him. He's in darkness even until now. Well,
what's it mean to hate your brother? Well, it means to not love him.
That's what it means. It means to not love him. Now,
I want to say this. You know, you can not like somebody
and love them. Did you know that? You can really
not like somebody and yet love them, love them dearly. What
does it mean when you love someone? Well, you want them to have the
same thing you have. You want them to have Christ. You want
them to have salvation. You want them to have the mercy
of God. You want them to have what you have, all that you have
in Christ Jesus. If you love somebody, you want
that for them, even if you don't like them. Now, it'd be better
if You could like everybody, but that's not going to happen.
If you're around me, you'll find out why that can't happen. But everybody who really walks in
the light loves his brother. And finally, chapter 4, verse
20. If a man say, I love God, and we've already talked about
what that means. I do love God. I love him as he is. I love him
as he's revealed in his word. I do love him. But if a man says,
I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth
not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has
not seen? It can't be. In this commandment
have we from him that he who loves God loves his brother also. Now, does brother mean every
man? Well, I guess it could. I guess
it could. I mean, we ought to love every
man, shouldn't we? Isn't that so? We ought to love everybody. But the brother he's talking
about is one of the many brethren. whom he did foreknow, he also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren." Oh, we love the
brethren. And if we don't, we don't love
God. Now, you remember what the Lord
said, inasmuch as you've done it to the least of these, my
brethren, you've done it to me. And inasmuch as you've done it
not to the least of these, my brethren, You've done it not
unto me." Now, if we say we have fellowship
with Him and walk in darkness, we lie. We don't do the truth. If we say we have no sin, we've
deceived ourselves. If we say we've not sinned, We
make him a liar. His word doesn't dwell in us.
If we say we know him and fail to love our brother,
we don't know him. If we say we're in the light,
all these, the point is, it's one thing to say something, and
it's another thing for it to be. May the Lord enable everybody
in this room to say from the very depths of their heart through
the gospel. I have fellowship with God. I have seen. I've seen. But I know him. I'm in the light. And I love him. And I love my
brother. Let's pray. Lord, how we thank you. That
salvation is utterly and entirely for Christ's sake. How we thank you for him, how
we thank you for the salvation that's in him. How we thank you
for making us your adopted children. How we thank you for giving us
the nature of your children in the new birth. How we thank you
for. Redeeming us. and calling us
by your grace. Lord. Accept our thanksgiving. For Christ's sake. Forgive us
of our sins for Christ's sake. And cleanse us from our sins.
For Christ's sake, Lord, we ask that you would order our steps
in your word. And let not any iniquity have
dominion over us. And Lord, give us the grace to.
Truly love one another. that comes from a love to you.
In Christ's blessed name, we pray, amen. We're gonna sing to him in number
37 of our spiral book. Number 37, approach my soul,
the throne of grace. If you could please stand, number
37. Approach, my soul, the throne
of grace in every time of need. There's mercy for the needy one
who Jesus' name shall plead. Though I'm a weak and sinful
wretch, I will approach the throne. I'll lean upon Christ's mighty
arm and bleed His blood alone. The blood, the precious blood
of Christ has opened up the way by which I can draw near to God
and to my Father pray. Though Satan tempts my heart
to sin, I'll call upon my God. And if I fall, He'll lift me
up and cleanse me in the blood. The way is open, God will hear
my groans and cries of grief. Nothing can keep me from His
throne but my unbelief. O Lord, my unbelief remove, and
turn my heart by grace. Compel me to approach your throne,
and dare spread out my case. th th