Eighteen. Jeremiah chapter eight. Excuse me. We don't make. Ministry. Out of tearing down. Men and churches and all. I quite
often I call names I bring. To your attention, I bring preachers
that say things they say and do and so forth and not. Trying
to build ourselves up by. By tearing them down. And we're
not by any means saying that we exclusively and only have
the truth. Not saying that by any means. God has not left himself without
a witness throughout the earth. And it could be. I haven't run
into many. It could be even in Franklin
County. I have my doubts. I'm real pessimistic. Because this building and the
men who preached here have preached this same message now for a number
of years, and most around here have seemed to reject it. Could
be, though, there are some who believe the truth of the gospel
and maybe preach it. I don't know. I'm not trying to tear people
down per se, but I'm just trying, I want to call a spade a spade.
I want to call things as I see it, as a faithful watchman who
watches for our soul, as someone who is supposed to be, above
all else, zealous for the truth, which every true preacher is
supposed to be first and foremost, not a men pleaser, that is, not
to seek to tell people, things they want to hear, but rather
tell what God says exactly to the T, to the Word, every jot
and tittle. Tell it like it is. You remember
how that God told Ezekiel, as well as all of his prophets,
that you go down and you tell them what I said. I mean, tell
it. He told Jonah they're not going
to like it. Tell them anyway. Why? Because I said it, that's why.
So that's a true and faithful watchman or preacher is one who
goes out. Who stands up every time and
said, Now this is what God's word say and then apologize for.
And if others are not preaching this. If others are so obviously
preaching the opposite of that, you've got to call attention
to it. Jeremiah did it read for yourself sometime Jeremiah twenty
three just read through there and cry and apply that to the
twentieth century. It's it perfectly applies. OK I'm not I want to say that
from the outset before I start tearing into these. Nothing listen
nothing could be farther from the truth than what the most
preachers are preaching today. What's being preached from the
average pulpit. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. The world Christ himself said it the word throughout the
word. It talks of false prophets coming false Christ coming Christ
said many shall come. And by their lies and their own
pernicious ways and so forth deceive the hearts of the simple. That is, those who don't understand. And you've seen them. Everybody
here has turned the TV on and the radio on and listened to
them. Some you can't even understand
because they're preaching in a language you can't understand. And trying to get their foolishness
goes on in the name of this preaching. That's the reason I hate to be
called a preacher because of these nuts out there. fruitcakes. They tell our silly dreams. Telling
their silly dream I swaggered and a lot. They tell their silly
dreams and their visions and what they think and all rather
than stand before the people and take verse by verse and go
through the Bible. You can see it on the average
church billboard. They would rather put up their
clever little sayings. They don't even make sense. You
bear a grudge, you bear it before God or something like that. His pain, your gain. That sort
of blasphemy. Rather, there's thousands of
verses of Scripture. Countless number of Scriptures
that they could put on their bulletin board. Not good enough,
is it? The word's not clever enough
for it. It's not catchy enough. People won't read. Let's put
up a silly little saying. I tell you, that's an abomination
to God. But what they do, Jeremiah said
it in chapter 23, he said, what they're doing is making people
forget about this book by telling their silly dreams and their
thoughts. You see it when they start preaching. They may give
a verse, you know, this is what the devil did. Is it not written
when he approached Christ, he said, it is written. He gave
him three verses of Scripture, misquoted one. And that's it. Quote a verse, close a book,
and then start, you know. That's no good. That's a lie. That man's lying. Make people
forget the Word. That's what Jeremiah said. Forget
the Word of God in favor of their silly visions and dreams and
false healings and so forth. And this has been going on for
a long time. A long time. The Scripture says in 2 Timothy
3, verse 13, it's going to get worse and worse. He said, John,
evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, didn't they? I don't see... I don't... Joe,
do you see how it's going to get any worse? Jim and Tammy,
you know, they get put away and somebody two-fold more worse
in their place, Robert Tilton, comes along. It's worse and worse. And people keep sending it money.
Believe in it. I don't see how it can get much
worse. But it said it. The scripture says it would.
Now, listen, while these wild tactics, all these wild dreams
and sayings and tactics and and claims and all of these TV preachers,
they upset me. They do upset me when I watch
them. I just just grit my teeth. They are not the ones that upset
me the most. It's your average so-called preacher
out here in the average pulpit in Franklin County. Let me give
you, for instance, did anybody read the paper Friday afternoon? Did you read that article by
this Methodist preacher up on the hill? Did you? It's the most
blasphemous thing I've ever read in my life. What he said throughout
that article was, now the title of the article was, What have
we done? Took a verse of Scripture completely
out of context and ran wild with it. And what he'd say, here's
the gist of what he said. He asked three questions. What
have you done with God? That was his first question.
Isn't that what they're all saying? Your poor God is wanting this,
wanting that. What are you going to do? What
are you going to let him do? What have you done with God?
I hate to even take that sentence in my mouth, in my lips and repeat
it. And then he said, secondly, what have you done with his son?
To add insult to injury, what have you done with Jesus Christ?
And then thirdly, now here's the blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost. What have you done with the Holy Spirit? That's what
he said. Now you're talking about boiling
my blood. Did it boil your blood to just
hear that? Do you understand the implications of what was
being said in a statement by a pimhead like that? Men are making God out to be
completely helpless, dependent upon the will and the good pleasure,
the sovereign pleasure of men. And they say silly statements
like this. Now, you've heard these all your
life. God has no hands but your feet, your hands. No feet but
your feet. In other words, God can't do
anything unless you let him. God can't go anywhere unless
you call him. God has no eye, he can't see
anything. God has no mouth, but unless
you speak for God, he'll just not speak. They say God wants to do this
and that, and he can't. You won't let him. Poor God,
he's crying his eyes out. God has done all he can do for
you, and now it's up to you. In other words, what they're
saying is the God of heaven And the God of Earth is in the hands in our hands. Isn't that what they're saying?
God is in your hand. Now, what have you done with
God? What are you going to do with God? That's no God at all, folks.
God that they're talking about like that, that's no God at all.
The Scripture talks speaks throughout of a God of men's imagination,
another image, something they've contrived, something they've
thought up, an idol. You know what an image is? It
comes from an idol, an image, something you mold and make in
the way you want. There's my God. And this is what
people have done. They picked out the name God,
the name Jesus, a few choice sayings, mercy, grace, and they
fixed him up the way they think he is, all love and wanting and
can't and trying and unable and helpless and man can't. There's
my God. Isn't that what they're doing? A God of men's imagination. Let
me show you from this book who God is. Look at it with me, Jeremiah
18. The word which came to Jeremiah,
now he took Jeremiah, he took him and showed him, didn't he?
And if you'll take a trip with me to the potter's house this
morning, God the Holy Spirit, by his mercy and grace, according
to his good pleasure, will show you this morning. You'll go out
of here with a totally different conception of who God really
is. And you'll take that little idol and you'll dash it against
the wall, buddy. And you'll fall on your face
before this God. Now, the word which came to Jeremiah
from the Lord is saying, now you get up. And when God says
rise, you rise. You reckon he did, Henry? Oh,
he got up quick. Go down to the potter's house.
Everybody here knows what a potter is. A man that works with clay and
makes pottery. And there I will cause thee to
hear my words." You're going to hear. Then I went down to
the potter's house, and behold, he wrought. He was working a
work on wheels. Now, I used to have a potter's
wheel. My brother and I, we used to make pottery on it, and I
used to make sculptures and all, an art class. Everybody here
knows what that is. Jeremiah evidently actually went
down to a potter's house and stood outside and watch this
man making. First for now, the vessel that
he made of clay. Was marred in the hand of the
potter, it had a defect. It is something wrong with it,
he didn't like it, so what did he do? Now I can tell you, I've
had a potter's wheel, I know what you do. You don't sit over
here at the side and say, well, I'll save it. It's got some virtue
to it. No, you don't do that. It's a waste of clay. You flatten
it out and work over again, make something else. So he made it
again, another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, Cannot I do with you as with
this potter, saith the Lord? Behold, understand it, make no
mistake about it. As the clay is in the potter's
hands, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Do you understand what he's saying
here? The whole gist or the whole summary of what he's saying here
is that the potter has sovereign power over the clay, right? The clay is clay. The potter
is the potter. The potter has power over the
clay. Do you understand that? My six-year-old
daughter can understand this. I can sit her down and read this
if she wasn't listening. She could read this and understand
it. Oh, that's easy to understand.
Why don't men believe this? Huh? He said, I do with you,
that is a human being, as with the potter, saith the Lord. As
the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand. Why don't
people believe this? Is it because they don't understand
it? That's not it at all. That's not it at all. That's
right, they don't believe it. Why do some believe and some
don't? Because it's been good to the potter to make so-and-so,
to take him like that, like Jeremiah, and take the Word. Now, if we
can't understand from the Scripture, Surely we can understand this.
What is that? It's clay. That's clay. Wet, dead dirt. It's mine. I bought it. I paid
good money for it. I bought it. It's mine. And I
can do anything I want to with that. Cannot. The clay has no
power. The clay has no power. It is
helpless and dead, right? Now, let's sit here. It's probably got some life in
it somewhere. If we wait long enough, it may
evolve into something good. Let's wait a little bit. But we'll be waiting a while,
won't we, through eternity. There's no power, no life, no
nothing in that clay. Right? It's helpless. It's dead. It's dead. It's totally in my
power and in my hands to make what I want to with it. Now,
as I said a moment ago, our refusal to believe this doesn't alter
our understanding of it. This is the problem, you see.
It's not that people don't understand it. Anybody can understand the
lesson of the lump. This is clay. I own it. I can do what I want to with
it. It's mine. You can't say anything about
it either. God is God. We are clay. That's what it says. We are clay. He can do anything he wants to
with it. Clay has no power. Scripture
says we're dead. The clay is dead. We have no
power. Christ said, without me, you
can do zero, zilch, nothing, nada. Clay is dead. The scripture says, Ephesians
2, 1, we're dead in trespassing sin. Say that, John? Dead. That's dead. It won't move from
here to eternity. What will it do if it sits there?
It'll harden. Look at Romans 9 again. Look
back there at Romans 9. We read it a while ago. The clay
is totally dependent upon the potter. And the potter now can
make what he wants to with his clay. I can make out of that. I used to be a pretty good sculptor. Made some statues and some busts
of my grandfather and so forth. Wasn't bad. I was pretty good.
Made some pottery and all. I can make whatever I want to
with that within my power, within my ability. Make whatever I want
to. I can make it a vessel of honor.
Look at Romans 9. Look at verse 21. Now hath not the potter power
over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel under honor
and another under dishonor? Now I can divide this lump in
half and take half of it and make a beautiful rose vase. Or
a wine glass. Beautiful. And sit it on my coffee
table and admire it and look at it and enjoy it. Use it for
my own personal usage. I can take the other half and
make a chamber pot with it. Can I? Yes, I can. A spit tune. Cuspidor,
excuse me. Can I? Well, sure I can. It's mine. The same lump. I'm able to take of that lifeless,
dead, useless, worthy, massive, one beautiful vessel, or two
beautiful vessels, three, and discard the rest, or make something
else out of it as I can. I can do what I want to with
it. Make one otter and one of dishonor. Now, I can either keep
the vessel or throw it away. If I make a special vase for
my usage, I can place it on my shelf. I can put it on my coffee
table, like I said, and enjoy it. But you know why I would
do that? You know the only reason why I would make something? Why do artists paint pictures?
Why do sculptors sculpt sculptures? so that they might get the honor
and the glory. People see the painting they've
done, they say, now that's beautiful. Who did that? Oh, that's Pablo
Picasso. That's a bad, that's a bad illustration. That guy, my daughter could do
that stuff. Norman Rockwell. That's beautiful. Who did that, Norman Rockwell?
Oh, isn't he a great artist? Do you know why God saves people? Why God changes, molds, conforms,
makes people in the image of his Son? Vessels of honor? Vessels
of salvation? You know why he goes to heaven
and sits them up there? They're trophies of his grace,
so that all will pass by and say, who did that? God did that. Oh, isn't he a great God? I can make a plane and use it
and throw it away. Like Pharaoh, like Esau, like
Judas, the number goes on and on. This is the lesson the scriptures
teach us. Now the only hope, like I said,
the only hope for that clay is in my will. And folks, the only
hope for a human being is in the will and the good pleasure
of God Almighty. Why? Because it says, all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. And the only hope
we have is that God in his good pleasure will decide to make
us a vessel of honor. He will if you ask him. You say,
that doesn't sound right. Well, that's just the way it
is. And if you do ask him, and if he does do that, he had determined
it before the foundation of the world anyway. All who call, he
chose from the foundation of the world. What makes the difference? Take those two vessels again.
I make one under honor and one under dishonor. Chamber pot as
opposed to a to a flower vase. What makes the difference? I made the difference, right? 1 Corinthians 4, 7 says, Who
maketh thee to differ? We talked about that a while
ago. Who makes thee to differ? Ed Berry, you're sitting here
clothing in your right mind, seemingly loving the Lord. You're
a healthy family, you've got a job. All the food you could
eat, obviously. All the clothes you need, a house
to live in. What about old heathen in the jungle? His little
girl is starving to death. Her belly is beloaded. She's
going to die in a matter of a few days. Flies all over her face. Who maketh thee to differ? Did
Ed Berry, by his industry and by his strength and resolve and
all, was he born in the United States and raised under the sound
of the gospel and now sitting here cloaked because of what
he did? Who maketh thee to differ? The answer is in the who. Who? What do you have that you have
not received? Huh? And the only hope for this
lump, the only hope for you and I, like this lump, is that God
will do something for us and make us a vessel of mercy. Now
listen to these lessons. Here's a few lessons and I won't
take long at all. The lessons of the lump. Some
things the lump needs to realize. First of all, the lump, now that's
us, a lump of clay, dead, lifeless, sinful flesh, that is spiritually
lifeless. in the hands of God Almighty
to do as He will. That's the first lesson. That's
lesson number one. We need to realize we're a lump. Lesson number one. You're a lump. A lump. Adam's son. We've come forth from the same
loins that brought forth Cain, that brought forth Pharaoh, that
brought forth Judas, brought forth Demas, brought forth Hitler. that brought forth that mass
murderer over in Milwaukee, the same lump of flesh and clay,
the same generation, the same father, ultimately, Adam. Right? We're all in the same
lump, lumped together. Secondly, something we need to
learn, we're a lump. That's the second lesson. A lump
of clay has no say. Clay has no say. It's dead. It's totally in the hands of
the potter, completely in the hands of the one who works with
it as he will. No amount of me just speaking
to it Please, Clay, won't you please make yourself something
beautiful? Wouldn't you call me a fool for
doing that? You know what people are calling
God? Aren't they making? Taking lifeless, dead, worthless,
wretched, vile, hell-bound sinners, lumps and masses of flesh, and
God's saying, Oh, please let me make you something. Please,
my hands are tied. Come on, Clay. I want to and
I can't unless you let me. And I have no feet but your feet.
How in the world is a potter going to make anything with no
hands, no feet, no eyes? God says, I'm the potter, you're
the clay. I can make anything I want to
with it. Anything I want to, it's all
in my hands, literally. Why God would want to fool with
such a mess as beyond me and get his hands dirty? You know
what Christ did? Came down here and got his hands
dirty in this mess. Why? To mold and make us a little
man, beautiful creatures like Christ. I can't make anything really
beautiful out of that, but God can. He can take this lump of
clay of nothingness and make something out of it because clay
has no say, no power. Christ said, without me you can
do nothing. Nothing. Nothing. The scripture says,
the Lord hath made us and not we ourselves. Evolution. It's a smacking, a slapping God
Almighty's face. I tell you what, if we have anything,
if we know anything, if we can do anything, it's because God
Almighty has given it to us, has done it for us. We're in
His hands. If we've received mercy, if we've
been saved, if we're clothed and in our right minds, it's
because God Almighty moved in compassion and love and mercy
and grace upon us, came to us, formed us. talked to us, spoke
to us, molded us, made us, or else we'd still be dead lumps
of clay. He can have mercy on whom he
will. He can have mercy on us, make us a vessel of honor. He
can leave us alone, not do anything. Can he? Is anybody having any
problem at all? Listen to this. Hannah, do you
understand what Daddy's saying about the potter and the clay?
It's my clay, I can do what I want to with it. And the clay can't
do anything. Clay is a receiver, a receiver,
a recipient of everything that the potter gives to it. A vessel
of clay is a recipient. It only can hold, it can only
contain what the potter puts into it. Right? If I had not made it a
recipient, I could pour water on it all day and it'd run off
of there, wouldn't it? I've got to make it a vessel
to receive mercy and grace, to receive the Word, right? God
changes the heart. God changes the mind. We no longer
think like the world does. God wants to and can't. No, He
changes that to receive it. Hey! And then everything He pours
in. And sometimes he pours so much
in, it runs over. Our cup runs over. The only way
a cup runs over is when somebody's pouring into it, right? Clay
is recipients. Vessels are recipients of mercy,
not fountains. There wasn't any water in there
until I poured it in there. How am I going to get it out
of there? Receivers. What do we have that
we have not received? Clay adds nothing to the potter.
Now, what? Now, seriously, really, what
good is that to me? Now, somebody tell me. I've been
fooled with this mess all morning. I'm going to, you know, I'm going
to deal with it and I get done with it. I'm going to throw it
away. Tired of messing with it. What
good is that to me? The only good it would be to
me is if I made it in such a way as to bring glory and riches
and honor and esteem to me, right? If I put it somewhere and everybody
loved it and came by to look at it and he praises upon me
and I got rich by it. And the only way you and I are
going to be any good to God Almighty at all is if He makes us like
Christ, just like His Son who gave Him all honor, all glory,
all thanksgiving, brought Him riches. Right? Everything he
had returned back to God and came out a hundredfold. His talents,
his ministry, everything, his life brought forth fruit, you
see, like seed planted, brought forth fruit. That's the only
way you and I are going to be any good at all to God Almighty. We can't add anything to God.
So the first thing we have to learn, the first thing we have
to learn is that we're useless. What a simple lesson. What a
simple childlike lesson to learn. Folks, if you understand this,
better you There's nothing hard about that,
is there? I'm insulting your intelligence
by asking you if you can understand that. You see, the trouble, Joe,
is not in your understanding, is it? The problem is in the
will, the heart, the mind, the affection, the pride and all
that. I won't have that. I'm not clay. Well, let's just wait till you
die and they put your body in the ground and we'll see. You
know what that comes from? There's probably several human
beings in that right there. Dead bodies. Decaying organic
matter. People who've been laid in the
grave and they've rotted and decomposed and they went back
to the dust. Dust thou art and dust thou shalt
return. And now here I am up making a an illustration out
of their dead bodies. I ain't no plague. We'll see.
We'll see. Let me look real fast. Here's the potter's works. The
potter has to have a plan. Has to have a plan. If I'm going
to make something beautiful, I've got to have something to
go by. I've got to have a plan, right? I couldn't preform it
if I was smart enough, talented enough, I could freeform it and
make something as the impulse hit me. But most good artists,
artisans, they have plans to go by. Some have pictures or
whatever they've taken. You've got to have a plan. I
don't wait for the clay to do something. I've already done.
Before the clay ever was, before I went to the store to purchase
the clay, I got me a plan. I said, I'm going to get me some
clay. Here's what I'm going to do. Tomorrow, I'm going to buy
me some clay. I'm going to put down the price.
I'm going to go down and buy me some clay. I'm going to come
home. I'm going to sit down. I'm going
to mold it and make it into a beautiful vase to enjoy. And put me some flowers, some
roses. I've been growing those roses
out there, and I'm going to put in that vase, and I'm going to
enjoy it. That's my plan. That's my decree. That's my purpose.
The Scripture says, God worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will, right? He hath purposed it from the
foundation of the world. Read from Isaiah 40 through—read
from Genesis 1 all the way through to Revelation 22. God's purposes
shall stand, and who shall—what does it say?—let it. Who shall—who
art thou, O man, that set the replies against God and said,
You can't do this. Too late, buster. He's already
decided to do it. So the thing for us to do is
say, Yes, you're God. Please make me a part of that
purpose. Make me a vessel of honor. Lord,
I hope it's in your will and your purpose and your plan to
make me a vessel, recipient of water of life. Make me like Christ,
a vessel of honor for salvation, for your glory." So God predestinated. Yes, that word predestinated.
Four times. Us to be conformed to the image
of His Son. He had a plan. Like Barnard said,
how many times have I quoted it? Don't count. He said, God loves His Son so
much, He said, He's going to make a whole bunch just like
Him. Christ was the only perfect man who ever lived. And so God
said, well, if I'm going to have any sons in heaven, they're all
going to have to be just like Him. Ain't none of them and none
of these guys on their own fit for eternity. But my son is,
boy, he's well pleasing to me. I love, look, ooh, beautiful.
And so God decides and then God works. He puts down the price
for the clay. It was precious blood. It's the
blood of God's Son. A price of infinite worth. Infinite
worth. The blood of God's Son. God's
Son had to come down here and pour down redemption's price.
The blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no redemption. No remission. There's no salvation
without the shedding of blood. Death, you see. Death. You've
got to add water to dirt to make it clay, don't you? You've got
to add blood to dust to make a man like Christ. And he laid
down the price of redemption, and then God the Holy Spirit
begins the work. How does he begin it? What we're
doing this morning. God's speaking through his Word.
Molding, making, shaping our thoughts, our hearts, our affection,
our understanding. Aha, yes, I see. Hey, I like
that. Praise God. Thank you, Christ. He begins the work and begins
to mold and make Every fabric and fiber of our being to fit
us to be inhabitants of eternity, like gold in a refiner's fire.
You know, after the potter, after the potter makes a vessel too,
the thing he does, now listen, some of you can understand that.
After I make a vessel out of this, a sculpture or whatever,
it's no good, it's no good, it won't last until I what? Fire it. Any of you take an art? You've got to put it in the oven,
right? And turn it up, or you kill every imperfection. You
harden it. You crystallize it. You make
it into a durable vessel. And God Almighty, the Scripture
says in 1 Peter 1, by trials, fiery trials, trials, afflictions,
tribulations upon this earth, He's making us vessels that will
endure vessels of mercy that will endure through this world. It will crack, won't it? If God
doesn't put us in the fire of affliction and trials and so
it will crack under pressure. But if God, through this process
of trials and all, fits us, makes us, there's lumps and imperfections.
When you make a... I've made many different vessels,
some of them You have to take a knife and carve it, depending
on what you want to do with it. Lumps and imperfections sometimes
are painfully removed. And the trials of this, the heavy
afflictions of this world are painful, painful. But it's like
gold in the refiner's fires to remove the dross, the excess,
the problems, to make us like cracks. And then, you know what
you do every time after a After you get finished, that's
a leaky vessel. God's vessels aren't leaky vessels.
They hold the water. But every time after you make
something, whether it be a pot or whatever, you turn it over,
put your signature on it. Pablo. That's a good artist's
name. 1991, I made that. So nobody will mistake that for
anybody else's work. the signature. You know what
God Almighty signs His name with upon His people? We talked about it Wednesday
night. Grace. It's got grace written all over
it. His signature. He implants grace
upon the mind. We think upon grace, right? He
implants grace upon the heart. We're thankful for His grace.
He implants grace in the attitude. We become gracious. He implants
grace in the walk. We walk and act graciously. He implants grace upon the conversation,
the talk. Our speech is seasoned with grace.
It's not of works, is it? You want to know who's God's
people out there when you run into somebody on the street?
Ask them about their salvation. Just get them to talk a little
bit about their salvation. And if you'll hear grace 100%
from start to finish, from the time they start talking to the
time they shut up, when they're talking about their, their, their
salvation being their repentance, everything about it, their repentance,
their decision, if they, that's so-called, uh, their baptism,
whatever it may be. If their talk is of grace, of
God doing it all. That's the child of God. It's
got God's signature on it. Now, anywhere in there they give
any indication to you that there's something they did, it's a lousy
lump yet to be worked on. Right? I hope, I'm certain, I believe
that many of you here have learned the lesson of this lump. We've
been to the potter's house, like old Jeremiah. I hope you really
have. I hope, spiritually speaking,
you've been to the potter's house and learned this lesson, because
that's just the way it is. That's just the way it is. I
hope God has given you the eyes to see and ears to hear and understanding. If He has, you thank God, because
that's the way it is. That's the truth. This is the
truth of salvation. Salvation is 100% by the grace
of God, what he does, what he gives, what he supplies, what
he makes. Unto him, this is the reason our song in heaven is
going to be unto him, unto him, unto him. We're going to sing
a hymn, John, unto him. Well, Joe, come up here and lead
us in this number 388, Jerry. This first line of this talks
about the potter. Have thine own way, Lord, have
thine own way. Thou art the potter, and I am
the flesh. Mold me and make me after your
will while I'm waiting, yielding and still. Let's stand and sing
the first and last verse. Lord, have thy own way. Thou
art the Father, I am the Grail. Lo, thee have made me. After thy will, I am waiting,
yielding and sparing. Have thine own way, Lord, have
thine own way. O Lord, my being in absolute
praise, Fill with Thy Spirit, till all shall see Christ only,
always living in me. I tune your dissonance.