We Have An Advocate

Q: What does the Bible say about having an advocate?

The Bible teaches that we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous (1 John 2:1). In 1 John 2:1, the Apostle John writes, 'My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' This verse assures believers that Jesus Christ stands as our intercessor before God, advocating for us in the presence of the Father. This is a reminder of God's grace and mercy, and that despite our failings, we have a Savior who appears on our behalf.

Q: How do we know Jesus is our advocate?

The assurance of Jesus as our advocate comes from the clear teaching of Scripture (1 John 2:1). The Scriptures provide the foundation for understanding Jesus as our advocate. In 1 John 2:1, it is explicitly stated that Jesus is our advocate with the Father. He fulfills this role based on His righteousness, not our own. This partnership underscores the sovereignty of God in salvation, reminding us that it is through Christ's merit that we are accepted, rather than by our works. Therefore, our assurance rests in the promise of His intercession, affirming our identity as children of God.

Q: Why is having an advocate important for Christians?

Having an advocate is crucial as it assures Christians of their salvation and ongoing relationship with God (1 John 2:1). The importance of having an advocate cannot be overstated for believers. It signifies that when we fail, we are not left to our own devices or condemned; instead, we have Jesus Christ standing before the Father on our behalf. This role as our advocate supports our sanctification, continually bringing us back to grace, even when we falter. Additionally, it underscores the assurance of eternal security through Christ's ongoing intercession, thus fostering deep confidence in our relationship with God, enhanced by the understanding of His love and mercy.

Q: What role does Jesus play as our advocate?

Jesus serves as our lawyer and mediator, interceding for us before the Father (1 John 2:1). Jesus Christ's role as our advocate encompasses both that of a lawyer and a mediator. In 1 John 2:1, He is described as advocating for believers with the Father. His intercession is vital because it affirms that, although we sin, we are not cast away. Instead, Jesus intercedes on our behalf, upholding His righteousness to cover our sins. This role ensures that we maintain communion with God, reinforcing the gravity of His sacrifice and the effectiveness of His blood to cleanse us from all sin. Therefore, we can approach God with confidence, knowing that our case is represented perfectly in Christ.

My visit here with you today
is a surprise to me, too, really. It came about in a most unusual
fashion. For the last seven or eight weeks,
I have had a severe throat problem. went to the doctor several times,
and just couldn't—we couldn't find the solution. And this past Tuesday, it got
worse, and I could Wednesday morning scarcely talk. So I arranged
to have someone speak for me Wednesday night. I knew that
I couldn't speak Wednesday because I couldn't talk Wednesday morning. And I, at the same time, arranged
to have someone speak for me both services today, my Sunday
school class at 9.30, morning service and evening service three
times. And Wednesday afternoon or Thursday
morning, I went to Lexington, Kentucky to see a specialist,
a friend of mine in Lexington arranged for me to visit with
a throat surgeon. And he examined my throat carefully. He was a specialist. From the
time we got into the office to the time we left, I knew that
I was in the hands of someone who knew what he was doing. And after he finished examining my
throat, he said, Well, I've got good news for you. You don't
have throat cancer. And that was good news. I didn't
want it. It's like Brother Paul said this
morning. These things are in the hands
of our Father. And I was, I was I hope submissive and willing,
whatever was in his purpose, but I didn't want that particular
direction. And I was glad when he said that.
But he said, you have an inflamed carotid artery going up from
your heart to your brain. That's that blood supply. He
said, I'll give you some things that'll take care of it. And
I began to take the medicine, and thus far it's been very successful. And so I called Paul. I had the weekend off. I certainly
wasn't going to tell the fellas I'm well. I'll preach to you
fellas. I wanted to honor my commitment,
and I wanted them to honor theirs. took it to be a blessing to get
to come over here. I called Paul and I said, I believe
your mother and I will come visit you this weekend since our men
are preaching at 13th Street and we'll come fellowship with
you all because we both enjoy so much coming over here and
sharing the worship services and fellowshipping with you. And he asked me to preach. Incidentally,
this specialist, this throat surgeon that we met with, when
he finished examining my throat and telling me what the problem
was and how it was to be corrected, I said, Well, you know, I preach five or six
times a week, and I just wonder if I ought to not preach if I
ought to just be silent for a couple of weeks and rest my throat. He said, you know, four or five
of your members called down here and asked me to tell you that. But he said, I can't tell you
that because it won't hurt you to preach. Just go ahead and
preach. Men did thought he really heard
from four or five of the members. I hope—he said he was joking. Now, tonight I'm going to preach
from 1 John chapter 3. Tonight, I like to—our folks
at home like to know what we're going to deal with in the evening
service so they can read it on Sunday afternoon. So I'll be
speaking tonight, the Lord willing, from 1 John 3. verses 1 through
5. 1 John 3, 1 through 5. Now this morning, our text will
be 1 John 2, verse 1. 1 John 2, verse 1. Now this is
my text. I'm speaking on the subject,
We Have an Advocate. We have an advocate. It says
in chapter 2, verse 1, My little these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Now, that's
my text. That's where we're going. That's
where we're going to wind up at I John 2, verse 1. That's
the text. But I must go back to chapter
1, verse 1. That's where I want to begin
the message, because that's where the message begins. I John 1,
verse 1. Now let's look at it. He says,
this is the beloved John writing, and he says, That which was from
the beginning, which we have heard, which we've seen with
our eyes, which we've looked upon in our hands of handle of
the word of life." Who's he talking about here? Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the way he begins his
epistle, or rather his gospel, John's gospel. He says, in the
beginning was the Word, was Christ, and the Word was with God. Christ
was with God. And He was God. and all things
were made by him, without him was not anything made that was
made." And that's what he's saying here in his epistle. I John 1,
he says, I'm talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God. And we've heard him, we've seen
him, our eyes have looked upon him, and our hands have handled
him of the word of life. Now watch how in these verses
he repeats this several times. I've seen him, The Word was made
flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld, we saw His glory. We beheld His glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
I've seen Him. I listened to Him talk. My hands
touched His hands. You know, when He rose from the
grave and, you know, Thomas had said, Well, except I see nail
prints in his hands and the mark of the spear in his side. I won't
believe. And he appeared to them and he said, Reach hither thy
hand and touch my hand. Reach hither your hand and touch
my side. John said, I've touched him. I've seen him. I've touched him. My hands have
handled the word of life. Look at verse two. For the life
was manifested, God was manifested in the flesh. This is the great
mystery of godliness. Very God of very God, the eternal
Creator, was manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, justified
in the Spirit, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the
world, received up in the glory, and the life was manifested.
Here he says it again, And I bear witness and I show
to you that eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested
unto us. Behold, the Lord himself will
give you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bring
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel, God with us,
God with us. Who is Jesus Christ? He's God
with us. He's God with us. In the beginning
was the Word. The Word was made flesh. The
Word was with God. He dwelt among us. The Word was
God, and we beheld His glory. The glory as of the only begotten
of the Father. In verse three, John says, And
that which we see and heard we declare unto you. that you also
may have fellowship with us, that you might be in this blessed
body, in this glorious church, in this wonderful sheepfold,
that you might have fellowship with us. And I'll tell you this,
truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ. And these things right we unto
you, that your joy may be full." Now I want you to watch verse
five carefully. And this thing is the message
we heard of him. Now an apostle, an apostle had
to have these credentials. An apostle, number one, must
have seen the Lord in the flesh. an apostle must have seen the
Lord. And John said, We saw him. We
saw him. We saw him. You know, when Judas sold out, denied our Lord, betrayed
Him, he revealed that he was that son of perdition from the
beginning, and that he was not truly an apostle. He professed
to be one. He acted like one for a while,
but he was not one of the twelve apostles. He was rejected. And after our Lord arose from
the grave and ascended back to heaven, the eleven apostles who
saw him, and he chose out twelve apostles. One of them was Judas,
but these eleven met together. And they cast lots and selected
an apostle to take Judas' place—selected Matthias, you remember? He's
not heard of anymore. I believe the apostles got ahead
of themselves there. They sort of took upon themselves
something that wasn't their place to do, and they made a mistake,
as we all make mistakes. And the Lord later on revealed
who that twelfth apostle was to be Saul of Tarsus, Paul. He's the apostle. He's the apostle
to the Gentiles. He said, I am an apostle. I've
seen the Lord. You say, did Paul see the Lord? He saw him as one born out of
due time. He saw him on the road to Damascus.
He said, who are you, Lord? I'm Jesus of Nazareth. See what I'm saying? He saw the
Lord. So an apostle had to have seen the Lord. John said, I've
seen him. But secondly, an apostle, the
second credential, which is absolutely necessary. There are no apostles
today. No apostles. The second credential is this.
He must have gotten his gospel straight from the Lord. John
said, I've seen him. I've heard him. I've heard, he
told me. Now, if anybody tells you they,
Lord told me this, don't listen any further. Just cut him off
right there. The Lord never told any man anything. I've been preaching
42 years. God has never spoken to me, not
one time, and I don't expect Him to. And if a voice ever comes,
I'm going to say, that's not the Lord. That's another spirit. Because God speaks through His
Word. Through His Word. He speaks to His people through
His Word. And if they speak not according to the Word of God,
it's because there's no dawning, no light in them. We don't need
any revelation beyond the Word of God. That's all you need,
His Word. If anybody adds to this Word, God will add to him
the plays in the book. If anybody takes away from this
Word, God will take away his part in the book of life. But
the apostles saw him, and they heard him, and the Galatians
1, Paul said, I didn't, when God When it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb to call me by His grace, immediately
I did not confer with flesh and blood. I didn't even go to those
who were apostles before me. I went into Arabia, and there
I got my gospel from Him. Him. See? An apostle. Like our pastor said this morning,
Paul wrote fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament, all
God-breathed, God-inspired. God's Word spoke by holy men. God spoke and revealed the Word. And John says, I've seen Him.
I'm an apostle by the will of God. I've heard Him. I've heard Him. Now, this is
what he told me. See verse five? Then is the message. Oh, I tell you, that's so clear,
isn't it? Now, God came down here in human flesh, and He says
two or three times, I saw Him, my hands touched Him, I heard
Him. He says it over and over again,
doesn't He? I saw Him and heard Him, saw Him and heard Him. And
this is what He told me. This is the message which we
heard of Him. and we declare unto you." Now,
brethren, young people, everybody here, if a fellow has any judgment
at all, he'll prick up his ears here, won't he? If he's doodling or something,
he'll lay it aside and say, now, you mean you're going to tell
me what Christ told you to tell me? That's exactly what John
is saying. I'm going to tell you what He
told me to tell you. This is the message which we
heard of Him and declare unto you." Now look at it. Here it
is, that God is light. God. Everybody run around talking
about God. Well, this is what the Lord Jesus
said about God. He's light. And in Him is no
darkness at all. What's that mean, pastor? It
means God is holy. immutably, indisputably, unsearchably,
unspeakably, unchangeably, infinitely, holy. God is light. God is holy. God is righteous. God is just. With God there is no darkness
at all. There's no compromise. There's
no alloy. There's no clearing of the guilty.
God is holy, holy, holy, holy. Holy, holy, that's what God is. And God requires and must have
perfection, because he's perfect. And you see, this is the thing
that Job and his friends wrestled with way back yonder, the book
of Job. is, according to all of the reputable
sources, the oldest book in the Bible, before Moses. They believe that Job is a contemporary,
perhaps, of some of the oldest ones. And this is what Job and his
friends wrestled with. How can God be just and justify
the ungodly? You know what he wrestled with?
How can he that's born of a woman be clean in God's sight? How
can man be just with God? God's holy. In him there is no
darkness. There is no sin. It's perfection. There's no alloy. There's no
mixture. God will by no means clear the guilty. He can't and
be And Job said, look at the sun,
the moon, the stars, they don't shine in God's presence. God
outshines them all. He puts no trust in His saints. How much more abominable is man
to drink the liquid like water? God is like Isaiah saw him, and
he sat around the throne. The seraphims even covered their
faces and their feet and cried, holy, holy, holy. That's the message. All right,
look at the next verse. So if we say, if I or you or anybody else says,
I have fellowship with God, I walk with God. I know God. If anybody says, I know God, and he walks in darkness, we're If a man's God is perfectly holy,
immaculately, infinitely holy, dwells in a light, Paul said,
in Timothy, to which no man can approach, and a man down here
who walks in the darkness of nature, in the darkness of worldliness,
and he says, I know God, I walk with God, he's not telling the
truth, because God's holy, and he's not holy. If a man says,
I walk with God, and I know God, and yet he walks in ignorance
and unbelief, in the darkness of unbelief, he's lying. He doesn't
know God. He doesn't walk with God. God's
holy. If a man says, I know God, and I walk with God, and I have
fellowship with God, and God and I are like that, and yet he walks in the darkness
of traditional religion. in that religion you were talking
about this morning. He's lying. Truth's not hidden. If a man says, I know God, I
walk with God, I fellowship with God, and he walks in the darkness
of his own righteousness by his own sparks, the Scripture says,
he's lying. He's lying. You see, God is light. We're darkness. God is holiness.
We're sin. God is truth, and we're life. If we fellowship with God, we've
got to fellowship with God on the basis of perfection. Isn't that right? Absolute holiness. If I say, I know God, and I walk
with God, I fellowship with God, then I've got to be before God,
in God's sight. Holy. Righteous. Isn't that true? I've got to
walk in the light as He's in the light. All right, let's see
the next verse. Bah! This is, oh, listen. If we walk in the light, what
is this light? The light of our own sparks and
self-righteousness and candle? Oh, no. If we walk in the light,
as God is in the light, then we do have fellowship with Him.
With one another, that's with Him. That's not talking about
my fellowship with one another, talking about fellowship with
Him. And the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from
all sin. What is this like? All right,
turn to John 1, John chapter 1. Oh, I tell you, this is so
clear here. Listen, John chapter Listen, there was a man sent
from God whose name was John, John the Baptist. The saying came for witness,
to bear witness of the light. Here it is. Here's the light
in which we walk. This is the light. This is the
light. The same came for witness, to
bear witness of the light that all through him might believe.
John was not that light. John was not that light. God
was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light,
the Lord Jesus Christ, that lighteth every man that cometh into the
world. He was in this world, and the
world didn't know him. The world was made by him, and
the world didn't know him. He came unto his own, and his
own received him not. Folks that talked about, they
knew. They said, God's our Father. We know God. We fellowship with
God. They're walking in darkness, in the darkness of tradition,
religion, custom, ceremony, law. They didn't know God. He came
to his own, his own received him not, but as many as received
him. To them gave He the privilege,
the right to become sons of God, to fellowship with Him. Even
to them that believe on His name. These people do know God. These
people walk with God. These people fellowship with
God in Christ. These people were born not of
blood, not of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man,
but of God. Now turn to 2 Corinthians chapter
4. Listen to this. 2 Corinthians
chapter 4. Now God is holy. God is light. In God there's no darkness. He
dwells in a light to which no man by nature can approach. And it says here in verse 4 of
2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 3, "...for our gospel be hid."
It's hid to them that are lost. in whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves.
We preach Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for
Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts." Watch
it now. to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. God is light, holiness, righteousness,
justice, and truth. If a man in his natural weariliness
and darkness says, I know that God, I walked with that God,
I felt—he's If a man in his own self-righteousness says, I know
that God, I fellowship, he's lying. If a man in the ceremonies
and laws of religion says, I know that God, I walk with that God,
I fellowship with God, he's lying too. But if God in His grace,
who sent His Son into this world, is pleased to shine in our hearts
and give us a sight of view of His glory in the face of Christ
Jesus, who is our righteousness, who is our redemption, who is
our sacrifice for sin, we can say, I know that God. I have fellowship with that God. I walk with that God in Christ
Jesus. Now back to the text. Verse seven, and if we walk in
that light, as He is in that light. Who is that light? Christ. God was in Christ. God is that
light. God gave us that light in Christ. They said, show us the Father.
Christ said, you're looking at Him. I'm a Father of one. Have I been this long with you
and you don't know? He that has seen me has seen my Father. We walk in that light. as He
is in that life, we have fellowship with Him. And not only that,
but the blood of His Son cleanses us from all sin, makes us holy,
perfectly, perfectly holy. Old Augustus Toplady wrote Rock
of Ages, cleft for me. He took an oddly mathematical
approach to sin. He said that if we sin every
second, which we do, every second. Not to love God with all your
heart, sin. Not to love your neighbor as yourself, a sin.
The thought of foolishness is a sin. The transgression of the
law is a sin. He said we're sinning every second.
So if a fellow lives to be eighty years of age, he commits two
and a half billion sins in his lifetime. That's the reason he wrote Rock
of Ages Clem for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flow be of sin the double cure. Justify
me and sanctify me, the double cure. Save from wrath and make
me pure." One of our fellows wrote a little article in the
Bulletin Sunday, two ago, on the double He said when those
Hebrew children went in the fiery furnace and the Lord Jesus was
in there with them, they came out, they were not only rescued
from the fire, but there wasn't even any smell of smoke on them. Not even the smell. You couldn't
even tell they'd been in the furnace. And that's the way you
are in Christ. There's not even the smell of
sin on you. That's right. That's the only
way we're going to fellowship with God. Now, he said, I've
seen him, and I've heard him, and I've touched him. And this
is the message that I heard of him, that I deliver unto you.
God's holy. Don't you ever forget it. Don't
you try in your efforts to get close to him to bring him down.
He's going to have to reach down here on the dunghill and bring
you up. And he's going to have to do it in such a way that not
even the smell of smoke remains on you, not even the smell of
sin, not even the scintilla of sin, as old Muse used to say.
The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin. Now then, look
at this verse here, verse 8. If we say we don't have any sin,
we deceive You say, that message not for
me. Oh, yes, it is. Yes, it is. If we say we don't
have any sin, yes, I am. We deceive ourselves. We say,
well, I didn't have a part in Adam's fall. I don't have the
nature of sin. I have no root of evil. Oh, yes,
that's why you do, and I do what I do because what I am. My big
problem is not what I do, it's what I am. I have sin. and go to verse 10, if we say
we have not sinned, S-I-N-N-E-D, like old top lady, two and a
half billion times, then we're making God a liar. You know where
it says? I'll tell you one writer said
this, sin pollutes the best thing I do. The highest degree of goodness
to which I can attain is marred by sin. Oh horrible thought,
sin even invades my prayers. no evil nature. We're deceived.
I don't want to be deceived. I don't. What a horrible thought
to be deceived. And what a more horrible thought
is to deceive somebody else. To deny the Word of God and teach
men so? Well, it'd be better if the millstone
hanged around your neck and you committed suicide this afternoon.
We say we don't have any S-I-N-N, S-I-N-N-S, any sins, we make
God a liar. But look at verse nine. If we
confess our sins, if we confess our sins. It didn't
say if you confess the general thought of sin, our sins. It's not if you confess your
neighbor's sins. It's our sins. David said, My
sins are ever before me. Against thee I have sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight. It's my sin. What that old black
spiritualist is saying, ain't the preacher, the deacon, it's
me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me. We confess our sin. Now watch
this. He's faithful. He's faithful
to his promise, he's faithful to his covenant, he's faithful
to his Son, he's faithful. But that's not the subject we're
on right now, God's faithfulness. We're on the subject of God's
holiness. Well, he's faithful and he's just! He's just. How can he be just? And forgive me, Christ the light
Christ the truth, Christ the way, Christ the life. That's how. Jesus Christ came
and died just for the unjust to bring us to God. That's how. We confess our sins. He's faithful.
He's faithful and he's just to forgive us of all our sins. Now
my text. Chapter 2, verse 1. My little
children, that's believers. That's people walking in the
light. That's not folks that say, we have fellowship with
God, and say, we have no sin, and say, we have a sin. These
people know what they are. They know God's light, and they
know that their light is Christ, and their righteousness is Christ,
and their holiness is Christ, and their cleansing is Christ,
and everything's Christ. Now my little children, These
things are right unto you that you sin not." This is what the
pastor dealt with a while ago. This is the desire of every believer. He does not want to sin. He hates
sin. He hates sin. He despises sin. He wants to be holy. Somebody
asked Mr. Spurgeon one time, if God Almighty would give you
right now, anything you wanted, what would you ask for? Right
immediately Spurgeon said, holiness. I'd want God to make me right
now just like Christ. That's my supreme desire, to
be like Christ. David too, I shall be satisfied
when I awake with thy likeness. You know what David said? That's
the desire of every believer. It's not the experience, but
it's the desire. The Apostle Paul spoke of our
experience. He said, The things I would do,
I don't do. The things I would not do, I do. I find when I would do the will
of God, another law warring in my members, didn't it? Bringing
me into captivity to that which I hate. Oh, wretched My little children, I write unto
you that you sin not." Wait a minute, and if any man sin, and if we
do, thank God we have an Advocate. Now watch this. Listen to me. Be still. Old Brother Hughes
used to say, don't move a hand nor a It does not say, if we sin, we're
lost. Is that what it says? It doesn't
say that. If any man sins, he's lost. No. Let's get saved again. No. If any man sins, he's forfeited
his inheritance. He's lost his inheritance. He's
lost his family. Kick him out. Put him out of
office. No. Well, if he sins, he's no
longer a son of God. That's not what that says. It
says, if any man sin, we have an advocate. What is an advocate? A lawyer, an intercessor, a mediator,
someone to take up my cause. The apostle who saw him and heard
him and touched him said, my little children, don't sin. But
when you do, you've got this you got an advocate. It doesn't say if any man's righteous,
he has an advocate. He doesn't need one. It doesn't
say if any man's perfect, he has an advocate. What does a
perfect man need with an advocate? Who needs a lawyer? A fellow
in trouble. That's who needs a lawyer. Who
needs a mediator or a sinner? I wrote down when the pastor
closed his message, your sins should not keep you from Christ.
It's your righteousness that keeps you from Christ. Your sins
ought to drive you to Christ. If any man's saying, look, you
have an African. I'm cold. Well, come to the fire,
dummy. You know? Well, I'm thirsty. Uh-oh, I broke
the... no water. I'll get fired for that one.
I'm thirsty, come to the well. I'm hungry. Well, you going to
stand off over there and talk about being hungry, or you going
to do something about it? I'm a sinner, then I have an
advocate. It doesn't say if any man be
without sin, he has an advocate. It says, my little children,
I write to you that you sin not. And if any man sin, thank God
we have an advocate. We have one, not we'll have one. We have one present right now. Where is he? With the Father. Where'd you expect him to be?
He's with the Father. He's in the highest court of
the universe. The Father selected him, elected
him, accepted him, exalted him, and hears him. Every word he
says. Every word he says. My Father
always hears me, he said. You know what he said? Always. And he ever lives to make intercession
for us. I tell you, that's comfort. Don't
come telling me what to do. I know what to do. It's doing
it where I have trouble. Tell me what He's done, and where
He is, and who He is, and what He is to me. He's my light, my
love, my hope, my sacrifice, my righteousness, my salvation. He's with the Father. And look
at it. Who is He? He's Jesus Christ
the righteous. The righteous. I'm not righteous.
But I'm righteous in Him. I'm perfect in Him. Perfect in
Him. And my forerunner has already
entered within the veil. So lift up your hearts. Lift up your heads. Don't look
in here. Look back. Did a man sin? We
haven't had to come. He's with the Father. Jesus Christ
the righteous. And that's the reason we have
fellowship with the Father and with His Son. All right. Thank you, Brother Paul. God
bless you. Oh my, how comforting. This is
a good hymn to sing, number 226. Him number 226. That was a blessing. I'm glad
I was here. 226. Let's stand as we sing the
first, second, and last verses. I am not but still to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know at
His right hand He is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His word indeed,
Christ died for sinners this I read, For in my heart I find
the need of Him to be my Savior. Ye living, dying, let me bring
my strength, my soul that's promised free, that he who lives to be
my King wants I to be my Savior." You're dismissed.

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