If you have turned in your Bibles
to 1 Samuel chapter 20, let me read the first three verses.
And David fled from Nilth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? What is mine iniquity? And what
is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life? And he said
unto him, God forbid that thou shalt not die. Behold, my father
will do nothing, either great or small, but that he will show
it me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is
not so. And David sware moreover and
said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine
eyes. And he saith, Let not Jonathan
know this, lest he be grieved, But truly, as the Lord liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and
death. There is but a step between me
and death. I thought about this verse of
Scripture many, many times lately. This verse of Scripture wherein
David is mindful that he's very near death because Saul is going
to kill him. Now, this was David's description
of his own condition at that time. He said to Jonathan, he
said, there's just but a step between me and death. That's
where he was. And this was his condition. King
Saul was filled with malice. and he would not be satisfied
with anything short of the blood of his rival. He considered David
indeed to be his rival. It's amazing how unbelieving
that Saul was and how that even though at times he would indicate
that he believed that God was almighty and that God was sovereign,
yet in the matters concerning his personal life and the kingdom,
he felt that it was his responsibility and obligation to weed out and
do away with those that he felt was a threat to him. And this
is always an indication of unbelief, terrible, tragic unbelief. when you feel that it's necessary
for you to manipulate your situation to make it work out like you
want it to work out. You make the decision in your
mind and your wisdom dictates that things should be a certain
way and you set out to make them that way. This is wrong and it
always leads to tragedy. And so it was so in the case
of Saul. Saul needed to trust God concerning
David. God had designs on David. God purposed to bring David to
power. He purposed that he would be
king in Israel. And my friend, you cannot thwart
the purpose of God. The best thing for you to do
in regard to the purpose of God is to bow your knee. Isn't that
right? Don't you think that's exactly
what you ought to do in regards to the purpose of God? Is not
fight. Don't, you know, in some way
try to thwart God's purpose by doing something by your own hand
But submit yourself to God. Humble yourself under the mighty
hand of God. And God, we read in the book
of Peter and also in James, will exalt you in due time. God will
exalt you, but you bow your knee. But Saul would not do that. Saul
was going to have David's life. Now, on one occasion, Saul made
this known to Jonathan, And Jonathan said, well, this is the one that
killed Goliath. This is the one that delivered
Israel. Why would you shed innocent blood? And he talked, as it were,
for just a little while. Saul into forgetting about killing
David. But then, David is here informing
Jonathan that Saul's purpose is just the same. Saul intends
to kill me, and Jonathan just can't believe it. He can't believe
that his father is still out to kill David. But David knew
better, and he said, it's certainly so. This is exactly what he intends
to do. There is but a step between me
and death at the hands of your father. Now it was by knowing
his danger that David escaped. It was by knowing what was coming
that he escaped. Had he remained as ignorant of
his peril as Jonathan was, He would have walked into the lion's
mouth. He would have fallen by the hand of Saul. And so we might
say to be forewarned is to be forearmed. If a man knows his
danger, then he's on much better ground than what he would be
on if he knew nothing about his danger. Now, if there was but
a step between you and death, would you want to know it? Would
you want to know it? Would you want somebody to tell
you? Would you want somebody to tell you that, hey, My friend,
listen up. There is but a step between you
and your leaving this world. I believe that we ought to be
forewarned. I believe God would have it to
be so, and I am here this morning for that purpose. David was able
to save his life because he was aware of his danger. And Jonathan,
when he became persuaded of his intentions, then he aided David
in his escape. You remember, he shot the heirs
and told the young lad, they're beyond you, they're beyond you.
And then David and Jonathan got together and had a little time
together. and Jonathan sent him away. He said, you go away because
my father's intention is to kill you. Now many people are in great
danger and they don't know it and they don't even think about
death and they do not want you to mention this unpleasant, it
is a very unpleasant subject to many people. They don't want
you to mention it to them. If our object were to please
men, of course, we wouldn't speak about death, we wouldn't speak
about judgment to come, we wouldn't speak anything about hell, we
would never say anything about unpleasant things, if our object
was just to please men. But it's appointed, the Bible
says in Hebrews 9, 27, unto men once to die. And after this, the judgment. There is coming a judgment. And
men are going to die. It's appointed unto men. It's
appointment. It is an appointment that you
cannot escape. It is an appointment that you
must face. It is an appointment that you
must keep. You cannot get out of meeting this appointment.
And with the blessing of God, my warning you that there is.
But a step between you and death and judgment may be the means
that God uses to enable you to escape from eternal ruin. Eternal ruin. Now, it is noticeable
here that David is conscious of his danger. Now, he here tells
Jonathan that he's in danger. Now, we don't often meet with
a case like this. We have to keep warning men of
their danger. They don't come to us and say,
Preacher, there's just a step between me and death. Is there
anything you can say to me? Is there anything you can help
me? Is there any way you can help me? Is there any way you
can can prepare me for death? There's just a step between me
and death. Generally, well, you know, we'd like to see it this
way. We'd like to see David coming to Jonathan. We would like to
see that. We would like to see sinners
coming to the preacher. and saying, Preacher, I need
help. I know that there's something terribly, terribly wrong in my
life. I know that I'm a sinner, and
I know God has made it clear to me that my life may be cut
short, and I need the Lord's salvation. Is there any way that
you can help me? And so, men and women who are
in danger, oh, if we could see them coming, but that seldom
is the case. When the Spirit of God is at
work in the souls of men and women, in the souls of sinners,
they begin to be aware of their condition and they want to escape
the wrath of God. But beloved, it is not a work
that we want to carry on such as warning people all the time
when they're hard-headed and when they're indifferent and
cold-hearted and they won't respond at all, but they'll only respond
as the Spirit of God works in their hearts and makes them alive
and makes them conscious. Spurgeon well said that a man
doesn't have a left life to know his death until the Spirit of
God quickens him and makes him alive, makes him mindful of his
condition. But it's pleasant work to tell
an awakened sinner. It's pleasant work to address
somebody who knows that they're in danger and knows that they
must flee from the wrath to come and are seeking a refuge and
finding and wanting a place to hide their soul away from the
wrath to come. Oh, to find a refuge. and so
that the calamity will pass, that Mike was referring to in
his prayer, that the indignation of God, the wrath of God will
pass to find a refuge. And there are not very many people
looking for that. I found very few in my lifetime
that I can truthfully say was really, genuinely, sincerely
looking for our refuge. Only the Spirit of God can move
upon a sinner and make him want the way out. Too many people
think that it is following to look just a few days ahead and
they say, well, it's just a needless sorrow right now for me to think
about eternity. For me to think about dying now?
Look at me. Well, I don't have a gray hair
in my head. Preacher, I'm healthy and I don't
need to be thinking about eternity now. That's the last thing I
want to be talking about or thinking about is dying. But we understand this morning
that there's a lot of people leave this world without a gray
hair in their head. We understand there's a whole
lot of people leave this world in the prime of life. We understand
and it's our observation that there's many of those who appear
to be very strong and able and drop over dead while those who
are crippled and afflicted linger on to suffer for many, many weeks
and years. We understand and we've observed
that very thing in our life. Well, there may be but a step
between you and death. How does it stand with you this
morning? There's a couple things here that I want to talk about
a little bit. First of all, there's a sense in which this text is
true, no doubt literally true of every man, woman, boy, girl
in the world. There is but a step between you
and death. I say there's a sense in which
this is true, literally true of every soul. Life is so short. It is so very, very short. It
is no exaggeration to compare life to a step. doesn't make
any difference how long your life is, it doesn't exaggerate
any at all to say that there's just a step, however much more
time you have between you and death. Suppose we live 70 or
80 years, that's a very short time to compare with eternity. Eternity is forever and ever. We read this morning in Psalm
90 that the Lord from everlasting to everlasting is God. Can you
think about what it means for something to be everlasting to
everlasting? Eternity, my friend, is forever. And we don't have the ability
to describe the meaning of that word forever. Never ending. Forever and ever and ever the
soul is going to be somewhere in eternity. So when you think
about 70 or 80 years, 60, 70 or 80 years, beloved, that is
so short compared to eternity that we're going to call it just
a step this morning. Just a step between you and death. Life is long when you look forward
to it, but mighty short when you look back upon it. When you
look forward to it, I remember when I was 16, 17 years old,
and I thought I never would be 18. I thought I never would be
21. I just thought it never would come. It's just going to be forever. But my friend, when you get my
age and start looking back, life is so short. Life is so very
short. There are times when I think,
well, now it seems to me that the older I get, life just quickens
its pace and time is going so much faster and it seems to me
like Sundays are getting closer together. I don't know whether
you've observed that or not. Some of you probably not, most
of you probably not to the place yet where it be true with you. And I know this is a trite observation,
but I recognize that when you look back, it's life's a whole
lot shorter than when you look forward to it. And we still think,
even if we're past 60, we still think, well, it's a long time
out there, you know, before you get to 70. Or it's a long time
before you get to 75. And every once in a while you'll
read up about your ancestors and see how long they lived.
And you'll think about your, I think about my mother and she
lived to be 89 years old, just almost 90, before she left this
world. And you know, you keep thinking,
boy, that's a long ways away. You know, 80 or 90, that's a
long ways out there. But you see, that's all really
very, very deceiving. because that time is going to
pass so fast. Jacob, when he was an old man,
he said, my days, they've just been few. They've been just a
few days. And he was an old man when he
said that. And he said they've been full of trouble too. The
older you get, the shorter your life will seem to have been.
The shorter your life will seem to have been. All men, when they
come to die, confess that their life has been brief. that it
was but a step. That's all it was. They were
here just a short time and then they were cut down. They were
like the flower that comes up in the morning and has the dew
of the morning upon it. The sun comes out and the flower
wilts and it fades away. Man does fade, the Bible says,
as a leaf. He just fades away as a leaf. Now then, yesterday Somebody
said I was born, today I live, tomorrow I must die. We're shadows and we come and
go with the rising and the setting of the sun. Truly there's but
a step between me and death. Oh Lord, if life be so short,
prepare me for its end. Teach me to number my days, Psalm
90 said that we read this morning. Help me to stand ready for its
close at hand. It's close at hand. In another
sense, there is but a step between us and death because life is
so uncertain. How unexpectedly life ends. Sometimes, you know, we come
close and we have a brush with death. And it's so unexpected. It's so unexpected. There are times on the highway,
and thank God it hadn't been very many times for me because
the Lord spared me. Many, you know, I haven't had
very many close calls in automobiles. I know a lot of people have had
very close calls and they Maybe I had some that was closer really
than I thought they were but I haven't had very many But I've
had a few when I thought well, it could go either way not an
automobile, but in other situations But life is short, and it can
end very, very unexpectedly. No man can reckon upon the full
term of life. We read there in Psalm 90 about
man's days being three score years and ten, and if by reason
of strength it be four score years, then it's still sorrow,
it's still strength and labor. But listen to me, no man can
reckon upon a full term of life. You may or may not reach three
score and ten. There's no guarantees. There's
no guarantee. Life is uncertain and we need
to remember that and it's so important whenever we begin to
deal with our soul and the need of our soul. is the fact that
life is so uncertain that there's no way we can count on having
time later on to deal with the important matters of our soul. Now listen to me, you cannot
be sure you will ever, ever be called a senior citizen. You cannot be sure of that. You
may never be asked. Are you a senior citizen? Are
you entitled to a senior citizen discount? You may never be asked
that. Because you may never grow to
be a senior citizen or an old person. There's but a step between
us and death. For what is your life? James
4.14 says, it is even as a vapor that just appears for a little
and then it just vanishes away. A bubble is more solid, somebody
said, than human life. And somebody said, and a spider's
web is as a cable compared with the thread of our existence.
Can you think about that? A spider's web is as a cable
compared to our existence here in this world. And this is all
the more true when we consider that there are so many gates
open to the grave. Always, listen to me, we can
die, God alone knows, anywhere at any time by any means. There
was a preacher in the long ago that I read about who stood up
and spoke the words of an old hymn one morning, and these are
the words, Father I long, I faint to see the place of thine abode,
I leave thine earthly courts and flee up to thy seat my God. And he fell back and was gone.
And I've heard and read of this happening quite often. You can
die in the pulpit. You really can. And you can die
in the pew also. There's a gate. As I've reminded
you a few times, it opens out into eternity right where you're
sitting today. Right where you're sitting today.
John Gill was known for always being in his study. There was
a proverb that went around, as sure as John Gill was in his
study, such and such is going to happen. And a man one day
was walking along the street and there was a big tile that
fell off of a roof and killed him in the street. And John Gill
made the comment to a friend, at least if a man's in his study,
then he is saved. And just a few days after that,
John Gill was called away to visit a member of his church
that was sick. And while he was away, there
was a big wind came up and a chimney blew off right near his study
and crashed right through his study, broke his desk and his
chair down, fell right where he normally would always be sitting. And so he made this comment to
his friend. He said, I see I must not boast
of being safe in my study, for we're secure nowhere on earth. We're secure nowhere on earth. Life is so uncertain and can
end so unexpectedly. It could be at the bed, you could
be in bed, you could be at the table, and you might even be
at work, you might be at church, you might be on the road, you
might be in the air. All you know is, and all you
must remember is, wherever you are, there is but a step between
you and death. just a step all the time. You get up in the morning and
leave your house and you say, I'm going to the grocery store.
You get up and leave, I've got errands to run. You get up and
leave, I'm going to work. But remember this, there's just
a step between you and death. The poet said, dangers stand
thick through all our path to push us to the tomb and fierce
diseases wait around to hurry mortals home. Fierce diseases. I've been to the hospital a few
times this last week, visiting my brother-in-law, people sitting
up and down the aisles, people in the rooms with disease, sickness. Fierce diseases wait around to
hurry mortals home. Well, I want to leave this point
But I want to say to you, don't let anybody here count on the
light. Don't let anybody here count on it being long. Don't
let anybody here say, well, I'm going to be around a long time,
preacher. And don't postpone what ought to be done to some
future date. There was a woman that told her
preacher, she would sit and listen to him
preach the gospel. She listened very intently. And
she told her preacher, said, well, you know, all I need is
five minutes. And I'm sure that I'll have five
minutes when I come to die. And I'll get right with God.
I'll surely have five minutes. Well, one day the preacher was
walking down the sidewalk, and a little boy came running, tugging
at his coat, saying, preacher, preacher. Come see my grandmother. My grandmother's dying. Come
see my grandmother. And so the preacher followed
the little boy and followed him to his grandmother's house. He walked in and his grandmother
was this woman that said all she needed was five minutes.
Five minutes. She postponed her getting right
with God saying that I'll have five minutes. And a preacher
walked in and the lady said, I'm lost, I'm lost. And that
was her last word. She died having no time to seek
Christ, no time to lay hold on eternal life. That salvation
of His that will not fit into your life when you're well and
when you're healthy. You'll not find it when you're
ready to die. You will not find it. Nine times
out of ten, you will not time. You will not do it. What you
must do is seek the Lord's salvation while you're fit, while you are
in good health. And this salvation will make
you fit to live the Lord's salvation, and fit to die, and fit to rise
again, fit for the judgment, and fit for eternal glory. You
need to take care of this matter now because they're just a step
between you and death. But you know there's just a step
between us and death but there needs not be a step between us
and Christ. There needs not be. We can seek
the Savior. We can embrace the Savior. We
can call upon the Lord Jesus. We can believe on Him to the
salvation of our soul as God enables us to and there need
not be a step between us and Him. Oh, it's wonderful to be
in Christ and Christ be in us by the Holy Spirit and to know
that this is all taken care of. Well, there's another thing.
I said this is literally true. of all men there's just a step
between us and death but it's especially true of some if we
be up in years it is inevitable in the order of nature that you
should not live long if you be up in years now surely if you're
and I don't know maybe I'm the only one here this morning past
sixty I suppose I am I'll probably be the oldest one here this morning.
But there's some others that are involved with this church.
One other one that, is that right? Just one other one that's older
than I am? That's Grandma Ledford? Is that right? Maybe that's right. I don't know. Maybe that's right.
I suppose it is. But it shouldn't bother anybody
to talk about if they're, you know, past 60, past 50, 70, or
even 80 shouldn't bother them to talk about this. It's solemn
thought. But if you're right with God,
it cannot trouble you to remember that as your years multiply,
there must be fewer left. It should not trouble you that,
and of course it stands to reason, that there's less sand in the
hourglass. after you pass 50, 60, 70 years
old, and what there was, humanly speaking, when you were 18, 19
years old, we should not be afraid of death. 1 Corinthians 15, 55,
and 56 says, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is
thy victory? But thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. He that is afraid
of solemn things has probably solemn reason to be afraid of
them. Think about that. You say, I
just can't think about death, preacher. Well, why can't you
think about death? Probably because you've got solemn
reason to be afraid of facing Man is going to his long home,
and we ought to be prepared to go. Isaac Watts, when he was
an old man, told a friend, he said, I go to bed each night
with a perfect indifference as to whether I wake up in this
world or in the next. Every night when I go to bed,
perfect indifference. Doesn't make any difference to
me whether I wake up here or wake up in another world just
don't make any difference if i die i go to be with the lord
and if i stay here god will be with me well this is a sweet
way of looking at death is it not if i die i just go yonder
to be with the lord and there's not that much difference after
all between me being with god and god being with us uh... there's a great deal of difference
between the surroundings I know to be in the Father's
house is a great deal different than God being in my house. But
you see what I'm talking about. If we live in this world, God
is with us. If we go yonder, we'll be with
God. Every wise man ought to see to
it that as he must die, he's ready for it, ready for the bar
of God. Ready to go, ready to stay, the
song says, as the will of God dictates. Now I know it, that
song there, that verse is talking about ready to go somewhere,
to do the will of God, ready to stay here and do the will
of God here if that's what the Lord wants us to do, but then
I think it could apply to death too. Ready to go or ready to
stay. Paul on one occasion said he had a desire to depart and
be with the Lord, which is far better But he said because of
the need of the brethren, he said it would be better that
he stayed here because they needed him and needed him to preach
to them. So as the will of God dictates,
someone said to an old saint of God, you're on the wrong side
of 60. And the fellow said, oh no, he
said, I'm not on the wrong side of 60. He said, I'm on the heaven
side of 60. That's not the wrong side. That's
not the wrong side. And so if you're 70 and past,
you're not on the wrong side of 70. You're on the right side
of 70 and you're on heaven's side of 70. So keep that in mind
regardless of how old the Lord permits you to live. Susie was
mentioning, she saw in the paper where there was a uh... a brother
and a sister one of them was uh... the brother was a hundred
years old and just had a no i'm sorry the woman was a hundred
years old and her brother was eighty years old and they just
had a birthday i think the birthday was on the same day and uh... so that was quite interesting
to me that uh... one of them was a hundred the
other was eighty so regardless of how much time the lord gives
us uh... Just remember that the closer
we get down the road, the older we get, how true this text is
that much more. There's just a step between me
and death. Near my God to thee. This is
the way to look at old age. I'm just nearer, Lord, to being
with you. I'm nearer to being home. I'm
nearer of having all of this behind me. I'm nearer to that
time when I'd be in complete fellowship without any hindrance
with Almighty God. Well, let me ask you a question.
Suppose that it's not so with you and suppose you have a whole
lot of time left. Suppose you have a whole lot
of time left. What are you going to do if you're a very young
person? What are you going to do? Well,
my advice would be for you to remember that verse I quoted
in my prayer Matthew 6 33 seek the Lord seek you first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness and all these things will be
added unto you the first thing should come first it make no
difference how long we live we ought never to push the most
important thing into the future if you're going to live to be
a hundred begin with God in the beginning God there was a man
on board ship that I read about There was a big storm came up
and he began to pray. Got down on his knees and the
captain saw him and the captain said to him, he said, get up
off your knees and you pray in fair weather. Pray in fair weather. In other words, there's other
things to do now. We got a storm on our hands.
Pray in fair weather. Well, this young fellow never
forget, he never forgot those words. And as the story goes,
he lived to do it. and he was converted. He lived
to pray in fair weather. Now you see some of you are in
fair weather right now but praying is the last thing on your mind.
It's the last thing you think about. But this fellow prayed
in fair weather and he became a preacher and one day the old
captain of that ship came into the church in New York City where
he was preaching and the preacher looked him in the face and said,
say your prayers in fair weather and the captain of course remembered
him he remembered him but that's what you need to do is right
now while it's fair weather in your life seek the Lord call
upon the Lord don't push it away and saying after a while or later
when I get older I'll begin to deal with things like this start
when the mayor of is in your bones and your brain is clear
your eyes true and before you dishonor yourself with sin and
weaken your body by sin seek the Lord and I realize and recognize
and I would not discount for a moment the sovereign irresistible
call of God's grace I know that but I think there's a human responsibility
And I think you need to face the responsibility that you have
as a living soul before God. Be ready. There was a bricklayer
that was on a scaffold and he started to move and he fell off
the scaffold. He fell 30 or 40 feet down and
he was dying. And a priest came along and said
to him, he said, young man, he said, you're going to die. Make your peace with God. And
the young man was a believer. He was a Christian. And he said,
my peace was made with God over 1900 years ago. The Lord Jesus. He made my peace with God, and
so my peace is already made. And beloved, it's wonderful to
know that peace has been made with God, and that it's settled
with you. And that you've got it settled.
Whatever happens, that it's settled. already, and if that step you
take it today, between you and eternity, and you leave this
world, as we said, very unexpectedly, it's wonderful to know the peace
has been made. You don't have to try to find
out, get a preacher, find out something about the gospel in
the last minute. Now, thou shalt die and not live,
if that word were to come to you. Thou shalt die and not live. You're going to die. Well, there's
a lot of things I guess that somebody would maybe would recommend. Somebody
said, well, I'd say set the house in order. That'd be the first
thing I'd do. Another fellow said, well, I'd
say loose your grip gradually on all earthly things around
you. Another fellow said, settle your
quarrels and all your tiffs that you have at home, settle them,
get them settled. Like the fellow that went away
to work, he was a logger and his wife had been fussing and
he told her goodbye, said I love you, I wish that we could get,
I wish we could get this worked out so there wouldn't be any
differences between us, and she wouldn't say a word to him. So
he went out and the log that day fell on him and killed him.
Get your tiffs, somebody said. Settle at home. Settle your quarrels. You're going to die and not live.
Settle the quarrels. But this is not the most important
thing. Setting your affairs in order.
Loosening your grip on earthly things. Settle in your quarrels. That's not the most important
thing. Lay hold on Christ. If you're outside of Christ,
you're just a step from hell. You better lay hold on Christ.
If you're in Christ, it's only a step between you and heaven.
But if you're outside of Christ, then you're lost. Old Charles
Spurgeon told a story about preaching in a village, a village chapel,
on a hot summer afternoon. And he was preaching on the joys
of heaven. and there was an elderly lady that was sitting over on
his right and she kept looking at Spurgeon with, he said, with
intense delight and Spurgeon could tell that she was really
drinking up what he was saying and enjoyed it immensely and
after a while he noticed a kind of a strange light pass over
this woman's face And he said, I just went on preaching, but
I noticed that her eyes were still fixed on me and there was
no movement at all. And she sat just like a marble
figure. He said, I stopped and said to
the deacons, he said, I think yon sister over there is dead. I think she's dead. And of course
they went over and she was. He said while I was telling of
heaven, she had gone there. I like that. He said I did envy
her. He said I'm always looking for
the day when I shall see her again because he said I'm going
to know those eyes. I'm sure I shall know those eyes. I'll not forget that inward fellowship
which existed between me, between a soul that stood with wings
outspread for glory, and the poor preacher who was trying
to talk of that which he knew but little compared with her.
I thought that was good. I really did. So you see, if
you're ready to live, if you're ready to die, you're ready to
live. If you know Christ, then it's all well. He said, well,
well, he said it'll soon be my turn. Good night, poor world. Let us meet in glory. Let us
meet in glory for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. There is but a step
between you and death. May God work and move on each
one of us and enable us to take to heart what the Word of God
saith this day. and enable us to make whatever
move we need to make in faith toward the Redeemer, our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. And may God by the Holy Spirit
be pleased to come down upon each one and enable us effectually
to draw up near Him. We've been brought nigh by the
blood, may we experience it through the effectual working of His
grace and have a good hope. through grace. Let's pray. Father,
thank you for your word. Thank you for this privilege
this morning to speak to this little group of people that have
come out here in this basement. May this be the morning, Father,
when somebody here will say, it's fair weather with me, but
I will pray and I'll say my prayers in fair weather. I will seek
the Lord while I'm young, while I'm able. I'll commit myself
lock, stock, and barrel. I'll give up myself wholly to
the Lord because life is so filled with uncertainty and life is
but a step to the grave. And I will seek the Lord. I will
cry to my God. I will give up myself unto the
Lord. I'll trust Him as my Savior,
as my Lord. May you win a great victory here
today in some poor soul's heart. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.