I want to talk about seven blessings
of faith this morning. Last week I preached from Mark
7, 22 on have the faith of God. And today I'm going to preach
on seven blessings of faith. And in these verses that I read
to you this morning, how that woman from Canaan came out there
in verse 22 and cried unto Him saying, have mercy on me, O Lord. Son of David, my daughter is
grievously vexed with the devil. He didn't answer a word, not
a word, not a word. And faith, we'll talk about faith. Faith is what a blessed, blessed
gift God gives to people when He gives them faith. I know what
it was like when I didn't have it, and it's become so precious. is so precious. There are several
precious things in the Bible, and it's faith that makes Christ
precious. How precious is the Lord Jesus
Christ? We couldn't begin to tell you
how precious He is, but I know who He's more precious to than
anybody else. That's His Father. Oh, how precious
He was to His Father. His Father would love Him and
love us, And I tell you, He's precious to us that believe.
Oh, He's special. He's precious. Precious to our
souls. Precious to our minds. Precious
to our wills. Precious to our understanding.
Oh, He's precious. And it's His faith that makes
His blood precious. How much could we say about the
blood of Christ? What could we say about it? It
cleansed us from all our sins. And God gave His Son to shed
His own blood. And He said, it's the blood that
maketh atonement for sin. And oh, the blood of Christ.
I tell you, the blood is what makes our conscience clear. It's
the blood that cleanses us from our sin. It's the blood that
God says, when I see it, He said, I see it. I see it. I'll pass over you, I'll pass
over you. And it's faith that makes the
righteousness of Christ precious to us, because that's the only
righteousness that there is. Men can talk about their righteousness,
talk about the righteousness they're gonna accomplish, talk
about, you know, when they get to the end that they'll be accepted
because they've done righteous deeds. But I'll tell you the
only righteousness that God approves of, the only righteousness God
gives a man is the righteousness of his son. That's the only righteousness
there is in this whole universe. I'll stand before God only on
the righteousness of Christ. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness, not to anybody that does anything, but for him
that believes, believes. And I'll tell you something else
that faith does, it makes the promises precious. You know,
Peter says there's precious promises. Let me give you a promise. Just
let me give you a promise, right off the top of my head. It says
in John 6, 37, all that the Father gives me shall come to me. That's
a promise. That's a promise, all that the
Father gives me, they gonna come to me. Here's a second promise
in that verse. And him that cometh to me, I'll
never cast him out. he may sin like David, he may
get drunk like Noah, he may curse like Simon Peter, and he may
deny his Lord, but our Lord Jesus Christ said there's nothing that
he'll ever do, ever do in this world, once he's come to me,
that I was nothing that he'll ever thank, say, or do that'll
make me cast him out. You know why he said that? He
says, because, I'll tell you why, he says, they're standing
in my righteousness, they have no sin. I put every sin that
they ever thought could do, every sin that they would, past that
they've done, present that they've done, and the future that they'll
do. Now is that gonna make us go
out here and say, well, let's continue in sin that grace may
abound? No, we're not gonna do that.
We're not gonna do that, because the blood is too precious. Faith
is too precious. Christ is too precious. And we're
not gonna do that. No, no. And I tell you, no wonder,
that's another thing that's called, it's called, faith is called
precious. It's called precious. Oh, how precious it is. Because
faith brings life, Christ, to us. And then this Canaanitess
woman, this Seraphimician woman, faith is made so clear to us
and so plain to us, and there's seven glorious truths about her
faith that was given to her here. And let me give you, let me tell
you the first blessing of faith. The first blessing of faith.
First of all, faith is given to the most unlikely people.
Look what it says there in verse 22. He's up in Tyre and Sidon,
and a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast. When it talks
about the woman of Canaan, that means she's a Gentile. She comes
from a cursed race. Did you know that? She comes
from a race that's absolutely cursed. God cursed them. Now
you keep Matthew here and look over in Genesis 24. Look in Genesis
24. Look here in chapter 24 and verse
3. Oh, she's a Gentile, a godless
pagan, a Canaanite, a child of a of a cursed race. Do you remember Cainan when the
Shem, Ham, and Japheth and then Cainan came? And God said, he's
cursed. Cain is the one that went in
and looked at his father. And here's Abraham. He said,
oh, I've got to have a daughter for, I've got to have a wife
for Isaac. And then he said in verse three,
I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, the
God of earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of
the daughters of the Canaanite among whom I dwell. So he said,
don't you dare bring me a wife of a Canaanite. Oh, I dwell among
a bunch of godless pagans here. And that's what she was. And
the scriptures tells us, for you see your calling, brethren.
You know, you can see how you're called. how God called you. He didn't call many wise men,
oh no, after the flesh. There's a lot of wise men after
the flesh. I mean, people after the flesh,
you can't tell them anything because they already know it.
Why do you try to talk to them? Oh, I know that, I know that,
I know that. But I tell you, God, He chose
the foolish, foolish, He chose the foolishness of preaching,
just like what I'm doing this morning. You're sitting and listening.
He called foolish people. People that had no sense. People
that didn't know God. People that weren't interested
in Him. He called the foolish. He called the unlearned. He called
the weak. He called nobodies. Why? That no flesh should ever go
in His presence. And when you think about yourself,
you think about yourself right now. Why in the world did God
call you? Why did He call you? Why did He call you? What do
you know? What do you amount to? What have
you accomplished in life? Why did He call you? Huh? And oh, I'll tell you what, but
I'll tell you something else about this. I mean, it's given
to the most unlikely people. Ain't you one of the most unlikely
people in the world when you start thinking about why in the
world is God in it? Why did he even look in my direction?
Why did he look, why did he consider me? Who in the world am I? That's what Jacob said, who am
I, O Lord? Abraham said, I'm dust and ashes. Job said, I'm vile, I'm gonna
bore myself. Oh, that's what we were. And
yet he said, why in the world would he look on me? Well, the
same reason he looked on her. She was an object of God's eternal
electing love in Christ. God loved her, chose her in himself
before the foundation of the world. And the people who value
faith, who prevalue faith, is the people that possess it. And
they wouldn't part with it for 10,000 worlds like this here. Would you give up your faith? I ain't gonna give mine up. I
know where mine come from. I know who's the object of it. And I know who has to sustain
it. I can't sustain it by myself. I can't produce it by myself.
I can't go and buy it. If I've got it, God gave it to
me, and I ain't gonna part with it. I ain't gonna trade it for
yours. No, no, you're gonna have to deal with the more faith you
got, I'm gonna keep mine, you keep yours. And I ain't gonna
give you 10,000 whales like this one right here for that little
bit of faith that God gave me. Wouldn't do it, wouldn't do it. You know why? Because God gave
it to me. And he gives every man faith
according to our severability. And I'll tell you something,
second blessing of faith is this. Faith is born in the heart by
hearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know that? That's how
faith, you know how faith is born, comes to a person's heart?
by hearing about the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to see that.
Keep Matthew again, because we're going to stay there, but look
over here in Romans chapter 10. Romans chapter 10. I could quote
this to you, but I think we need to look at it one more time. But also, you know it says over
in Mark 7, 25, Now here it didn't say about hearing him, but Mark
7, 25, you don't have to look at it, but said, when she had
heard of him, when she had heard of him, he was in a house and
a lot of people was there, people was crowding around him, when
she had heard of him, she came, when she had heard of him. And
here's the thing, everybody's got, you know, look what it says
here in verse 13, Romans 10. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's a fact, that's a fact.
But now then he starts, he asks four questions. How then shall
they call on him to be saved in whom they have not believed?
If you don't know Christ, you may believe Christ, how are you
gonna call on him if you don't believe him? And then how shall
they believe in him? Listen to this now. How shall
they believe in him of whom they've not heard? If you've never heard
anything about him, how are you going to believe him? If you
don't know who he is, if you don't know what he did, if you
don't know about any of his blood, you don't know about his righteousness,
you don't know about his person, you don't know about his work,
If you don't know anything about him, how in the world are you
gonna call on him? And that's a great, great fault of preachers
today. That's a great fault of preachers.
They'll have a person come into a service, first service they've
ever been in, they said nothing about Christ, and yet they'll
do their dead little best to get them to make a profession
of somebody they don't know anything about. And the first thing they
do is after they come in there, they'll get them busy doing something.
And then after they get tired of that, they're right back out
in the world and they gotta start all over again, just keep pumping
people up, keep making people make false professions. And how
many false professions will be wangled out of men and women
today? But I'll tell you what, that's
why people come in and say, well, you all do things different.
I'll tell you what we do different. We want you to sit still and
listen to what we got to say about Christ. You know who He is? He's God's
beloved Son. He's the Christ. He's the Son
of God. He was the eternal Lamb. He come
into this world before the world ever began. He's eternal. And
then that eternal word come into this world and was made flesh
for one reason, to make God known about us. A man cannot know God
apart from Jesus Christ. A man won't have a clue of how
a sinner's saved if he don't know Jesus Christ. And if he don't know nothing
about what took place on the cross, what happened on that
cross? Is God making a valiant effort
to convince people that how much they love him? I love you so
much that I gave my son. So listen, listen, listen, because
you know what? He loved you so much that he
died. So won't you please come to him? No, I'll tell you why
he died. If righteousness could come by
the law or by any other way than through the Lord Jesus Christ,
then he died in vain. But the Scriptures tells us that
he, when he was on that cross, he was bearing a particular people's
sin. He wasn't bearing everybody's
sin. He was bearing the sins of his people. He said, for the
transgression of my people was he stricken. He lays down his
life for the sheep And when you make this death
particular, and not only particular, but it's effectual. It does what
it was purposed to do. The death of Christ on that cross
did exactly what God purposed it to do for all eternity. That
goes back to that promise, I'll let the Father give me, what
wouldn't He give them to you? Father they were thine, they
belong to you. But you turn around and you gave
them to me. What do you want me to do with
them? I want you to bear all their sins. I want you to bear all their
guilt. I want you to bear all their shame. And I want you to
take it in one body and then what I'm going to do is I'm going
to punish you in their stead. I'm going to Make them die in
you. And then you're going to be buried
and you're going to leave all their sins behind. And I'm going
to bring you out of the grave and you're going to come out
by your own power. And then when you rise again and you go up
to glory, you're going to go there to justify everyone whom
I gave you. Huh? Oh, you know how it's effectual? Just look at yourself. It works, don't it? The blood of Christ works, the
gospel works, hearing of Christ works. Oh my. And then look what it
says, you're going on in Romans 10. Let me say a few more things
about this. So how are they gonna believe in Him who they've not
heard? And how are they gonna hear without a preacher? Listen,
you find me one person in the scriptures that wasn't converted
without a preacher. Just one. You can't do it. Sometimes it was only one person.
Sometimes it was only one person. There's only Lydia down there
by the riverside. It was only Zacchaeus up that
tree. It was only one woman at the well. Bartimaeus was one man. But that's the way he gets them,
one at a time. And then look what it says there
now. Down in verse 17. So if you're gonna hear, if you're
gonna get faith, If you're gonna have it, listen to this now. It comes to where you are. He
said it comes. And how does it come? By listening
to what some preacher's saying about Christ. And then you hear
the word of God. By his own will begat he us with
what? The word of truth. Huh? Didn't he do it? Didn't he do
it? So faith is born in the heart by hearing of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now how it happens or when it
happens, that don't make no difference as long as you're here. And I'll tell you something else
she did here, back over in our text now. There in verse 22. She's a Gentile woman, you know,
most unlikely thing to get faith. And is born in the heart by hearing
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And look what she called him.
She called him Lord. She said, Lord. You know what
that word Lord there means? That means God. The Jehovah of the Old Testament
is the Jesus of the New Testament. One and the same. One and the
same. And she called him Lord. She called him God. She called
him Jehovah. She called him son of David.
You're the one that come to be the Messiah. You're the one that
come to be the king. And she had been blessed. Truth
had been revealed to her. No man calleth Jesus the Lord
but by the Holy Ghost. And here's the third blessing.
Here's the third blessing. Oh, what a blessing it's only
given to certain born in the heart by hearing. And faith always
seeks only what God can give. Faith only seeks what God can
give. You know what she was looking
for? There in verse 22, she cried
unto him saying, have mercy on me. She asked, she always, faith
always seeks what only God can give, mercy. Mercy. Huh? Oh my. She made no attempt to tell the
Lord what to do. She made no attempt. She made
no demands on the Lord Jesus Christ. She didn't claim any
merit come told what all she had done, what all she had accomplished.
She just simply said and cried. I believe she was crying tears. I believe she was weeping. And
she cried, Lord, Have mercy on me. Have mercy on me. I tell you, sinners need mercy. I don't want
justice. I don't want God to deal with
me justly. He's already dealt with me justly in Christ. People
say, I believe I'll stand on my own legs before Him, but oh
no, not me. Sinners need mercy. And what
she's saying is, I'm a sinner. I ain't got nothing to bring.
And that's why, Lord, just have mercy on me. I need mercy. My hope for pardon is mercy. My hope for anything is mercy.
You keep Matthew 15, look at Psalm 51. This is that Psalm
where David, Nathan, had come. and told David, you know, you're
the man, you're the man. After he had taken Uriah's wife Bathsheba, and oh my, look what
he says here. This is David, you know, after
he had sinned and fell so grievously. You know what he asked for? He
said, have mercy. Have mercy upon me. Oh God. And do it, do it. Not because
I deserve it. According to your loving kindness. Your loving, you're loving and
you're kind. And listen to this now. Unto
the multitude, and I love this term right here. Thy tender mercies. Tender, tender mercies. You know, if we show mercy, most
of the time they're not very tender. But he says, you're tender
mercies. You're tender hearted. You're
tender towards sinners. Your mercies are so kind. Your
mercies are so tender. Have thy tender mercies. And
then he says, let your mercies blot out my transgressions. And then he says this, after
you've blotted them out, after you've had their tender mercies
on me, wash me, just wash me, thoroughly from my iniquity,
cleanse me from my sin. And that's what this woman's
saying. She said, oh, faith always seeks what only God can give.
It's mercy, mercy. And back over here in our text,
what she's saying is, is I'm a sinner. Oh, Lord, have mercy
on me. Have mercy on me. That's all
I'm asking for, mercy. Ah, boy, I tell you. People talk
about being mercy beggars. Oh, that's what I am. And she
submitted to the will of God, and she submitted to the power
of the Lord Jesus, confident in his ability to show mercy. Show mercy. How often, how often? God only knows how many times
we said, Lord, have mercy. God only knows how many times
we said, Lord, please be merciful. Oh, Lord, have mercy. How many
times have we said that for ourselves and said that for somebody else?
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. And then I'll
tell you something else about faith that's such a blessing.
Here's the fourth thing about faith that's such a blessing. Faith can't be silenced. Once
you start crying out, You ain't gonna stop crying. You're not
gonna stop crying. Look what happens now. In verse
23, she asked for mercy, but look what our Lord did. He answered
her, not a word. He ignored her. He ignored her. Do you ever feel like God's not
hearing you? You ever feel like the heavens is
brass? You know, one person said, he
said, boy, don't you ignore me. There's some people it's hard
to ignore. Some people are hard to ignore. But the Lord ignored her. Now
listen, she's sitting there asking for mercy. And what did he say? He answered her, not a word.
He never said a word to her. Now, what if you was asking for
mercy? and you wanted salvation, and you needed mercy, and God
just act like you wasn't there. Uh-huh. Oh my. And then, oh my, he never answered
a word. And then look what it says there
in verse 23. His disciples come to him, because evidently she
has followed him around, and his disciples came and said,
Lord, why in the world don't you send her away? She's aggravating
us to death. She's crying after us. Like all
these disciples are special. She's not interested in the Lord.
She's just bothering us. She's aggravating us. Now you're
talking about a bunch of arrogant men crying after us. Oh my. They said, oh listen,
shut her up, shut her up. That's what they told about Bartimaeus.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was going by, Bartimaeus cried out,
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And they told him,
they said, oh, they went over to him and said, shut up, shut
up. Be quiet, you're making too much
noise. You know what the scripture said? He cried the more. And that's what happened to her.
Oh my, send her away. Listen, would you ever tell anybody,
would you ever send anybody away from Christ? But these fellas
was gonna do that. Send her away. We're doing, we're
preaching all we possibly can preach to get people to come
to Christ and these fellows said, send her away. Oh my, that'd be the awfulest
thing, that's what, that's one of the most troubling things
in the world to me, is people that don't forsake Christ. We're
trying, we want people to come to Christ. We want people to
embrace Christ. We want people to know Christ.
We want people to submit to Christ. And these fellows said, send
her away. Send her away. I was telling somebody the other
day, next March I'll be here 43 years and I've never, God's
my witness, I've never You brought anybody before the church that
said, these folks sinned, and we gotta deal with them. Never done that. I've never went
to anybody and said, I wish you'd leave. I've never said to anybody, said,
listen, you're such a burden, you're so aggravating, and you're
such a headache to me, why don't you just leave? I've never done
that in all them 43 years. I have seen some folks leave
and I was glad to see them go. And then I've seen some folks
come, so glad to see them come. But oh my, I'd never, never,
never try to keep somebody from Christ. But these men did. But oh my, what did she do? And then in verse 24, oh my,
they treated her with contempt and arrogance. And then the Lord
Jesus said to her in verse 24, and he answered and said, I'm not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. She is confronted with God's
sovereign election. I've got sheep and I'm only after
them sheep. And he said, they're lost sheep, but I'm looking for
them, and I'm after them. Said, I'm going after them lost
sheep. She was confronted with God's sovereign election. She never said a word about that.
She said, that ain't fair. That ain't fair, that ain't right. And then look what she said.
Oh my. Then she came. and worshipped
him. He ignored her, but she still
kept coming. Told him to go away, but she
kept coming. She said he confounded her with,
I'm not sent to save lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then,
it says, she came and worshipped him. She came and worshipped
him. And now, listen to why she cries.
Lord, help me. Help me. Help me. I may not be of the house of
Israel, but help me. I know you're going after lost
sheep, but help me. Help me. Help me. She would not give up her plea
for mercy. She wouldn't do it. And here's
the fifth blessing of mercy. Faith always, always takes its
proper place before God. Look what she said, what our
Lord told her in verse 26. Well, she said, Lord help me.
He answered, he finally answered her, finally began to talk to
her, finally addressed her. And that word is not meet, that
word meet means it's not fit, it's not right. That I take the
children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. Oh, my. It'd be awful to be called
a dog, wouldn't it? But you know what she did? Look
what she said in verse 27. She said, truth, Lord. Truth, Lord. That's true. That's true. Everything you say is just right.
Oh, what you say is right. She acknowledged the truth, our
Lord said before. She acknowledged the truth of
herself. She said, yes, Lord, you're telling the truth. You
know, and here's the thing, Christ, He is the truth. Every word that
ever come out of His mouth was absolute truth. And oh, she talked
about the truth of the justice of His sovereignty in dispensing
mercy. She said, truth, Lord, truth,
Lord. Tell you something faith doesn't
do. Faith doesn't argue with God.
Faith doesn't find fault with God. Faith doesn't bargain with
God. You know how many peoples make
bargains with God? I read a story the other day.
I read a story the other day. True story. There was a young
man got up in front of a whole crowd of people and he was telling
how he was an atheist and how he didn't believe in God. He
said all kinds of blasphemous things about God. And he went
on and on about how mean God was and how unjust God was. didn't
need God and all he went on and on about that. And all he got
a great big hand clap, everybody just clapping and carrying on. When he got through doing that,
there's an old man in that crowd, he said, there was a young man
caught in a boat and that boat was in a storm and he was about
to drown, he was about to perish. And I heard him and I went out
there to go after him and said he was crying to God, oh Lord
help me, Lord have mercy on me, Lord save me. That old man said I found that
old, that boat and I got that boy off that boat, that young
man off that boat and I saved him and I brought him to shore. And he said, you know who that
young man was that was crying for mercy? Lord, save me. Don't
let me die. Save me. Please save me. Lord,
don't let me perish. Have mercy on me. He said, that
young man just stood up here and cried against God. He said,
that's the man I just saved. Oh my. That's the kind of people
God does save. Every one of us, one time or
another, in our whole life, we've dated God. And God came and took
that hatred out of our hearts and put in a heart of flesh and
He put His love inside that heart. He put Christ in that heart.
He put faith in that heart. He put everything that we need
to know God in that heart. Oh my. And she never bargained
with God. You know what she just did? She
said, Lord, everything comes out of your mouth is true. It's
true. It's true. Faith submits to the
Lord, whatever he does. Todd, every time you talk to
him about what he goes through and what Lynn's been going through.
Oh, it's all good. It's all good. That's all he
ever says, ain't it, Shirley? It's all good. It's all good. He never says it's bad. It's
all good. It's all good. That's the fifth blessing of
faith. Let me give you the sixth blessing
of faith. Faith makes need an argument
for mercy. Faith makes need an argument
for mercy. Look what it says in verse 26
again and 27. He answered and said, it's not
right that I take the children's bread and cast it to dogs And
she said, truth, Lord. Now I love this right here, I
love this. Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs. Now listen to this now, which
fall from their, their master's table. Not just the master, their master. The Lord said, you're a dog.
He said, well, I'll be the dog. Ah, don't bother me. Oh Lord,
you told the truth. She said, Lord, every master
that has their own dog, said they eat the crumbs that comes
off that master's table, their master's table. What she said
was, you're the master. And I'll take any crumb you can
give me. You just get, I don't care what the crumb is. And you
know, she made her low character an
argument for mercy. She owed that name dog. Dogs
gotta be fed. And dogs under the table suggest
that the master had plenty. And you know dogs will settle
for anything. Or a dog will settle for any
little old thing you give him. And you know what they'll do?
They'll be so happy you gave it to them, and then they'll
come back and give me some more. They'll be thankful and they'll
come back and give me some more of that. And, oh, she said, I'm your,
do your, said, oh, they, the comes which fall from their master's
table. Well, here's the sixth blessing
of faith. Oh my, bless his holy name. Thank God for faith. It comes
to Christ, looks to Christ, needs Christ. Faith, always, always,
gets what it seeks. Faith here sought mercy, and
guess what she got? She got mercy. Faith seeks mercy, and mercy
always gets it. You know, faith comes and deals
with and seeks necessities. We don't want anything but what's
necessary for us. You know what's necessary for
us? Mercy for our sins, healing for our sins, freedom from our
sins, life, mercy, and the will of the Lord to be done. That
comes out of our mouth as much as we say this all the time.
God will and I'll see you. God will and I'll be there. God
willing, I'll do this, that, or the other. I'll never say
I'll be there at this time or that time without saying God
willing. I'll tell you another true story. I was preaching a meeting way
over in Clifty, Tennessee. And I come home that night and
said, I'll see you in the morning, God willing, if the creeks don't
rise. Well, the creeks rose and I didn't get to go. It rained
real hard and the creeks rose. I went over and started over
there and come up there and said, I'm not going in there. So I turned
around and went home. And you know that's what I mean,
the Lord willing, God willing, I'll do this. That's why I always
say, God willing, I'll see you tonight. God willing, I'll see
you Wednesday. It may be God's will that I see some of you,
but I may not see all of you. It may be God's will that one
of you would already be going to glory. And that'd really be
wonderful. But oh my, Lord, when faith always
seeks what it, obtains what it seeks, and we don't seek nothing
but what God sees necessary for us to have. I don't want anything
God don't want me to have. Do you? He gives us life, freedom,
and the Lord Jesus, let me say this, the Lord Jesus always,
look what he answered her now there in verse 28. Then Jesus
answered and said unto her, O woman, we still don't know her name,
don't make any difference whether we know her name or not. Then
old woman, listen to what he said, great is thy faith. You just would not quit. You
just would not stop. I've thrown every obstacle in
your way. I've done everything and the
disciples done everything to keep you from enclosing with
me, but you just refuse to stop. You wouldn't go quit. Oh woman,
oh man, oh brother, oh sister, great is thy faith. And then
look, we said, be it unto thee for what you ask for. You will
for something to be done? And look what it says, and her
daughter was made whole from the time he said it. Faith always
honors the Lord Jesus by believing. And the Lord Jesus honors faith
by giving. Seven blessings of faith. I hope
that was a blessing. I hope all seven of them was
a blessing. I do, all seven of them. Our Father, thank you for meeting
with us today. Thank you for the gospel. Thank
you for the truth. Lord, we stand on the ground
you put us on. And we're not going to move off
that ground. We're not going to move off it.
We're going to stand right where you put us. And Lord, we're going to cry of mercy day in and day out. Cry for your will to be done
day in and day out. Cry, O Lord, for all that's necessary
for us in this life for you to grant it to us and do it for
Christ's sake. Lord, open hearts, open minds,
open understandings. Save your people in this place.
We ask it for Christ's sake. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There's just something about
that faith. Master, Savior, Jesus. like the fragrance after the
rain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Let all
heaven and earth proclaim. Kings and kingdoms will all pass
away. But there's something about that
name. There is, ain't there? There
really is. See you tonight, God willing.