Address—David Mearns
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Our little card here says that, umm.
This is an address to young people.
Trust to respect the exercise of the brethren here in Montreal and address.
You young people.
This I trust will be.
Not very deep, it will be simple.
But I do have you, dear young souls, in my heart. Those of you who are older are welcome to listen in, but I'm going to direct my comments particularly to those here who are younger. First Kings Chapter 18 and our last meeting we had a scripture that said follow after that, which is good.
Follow after that, which is good. I have in my heart this afternoon at noon to speak about following.
Following here in first Kings chapter 18 we have Elijah speaking part way through verse 21.
And he says here, if the Lord be God, follow him.
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If the Lord be God, follow him. Let's pray.
I look at your young hearts this afternoon and umm.
I recognize I'm not where you're sitting.
You look at me and you see an old man.
Umm.
And you're right.
Umm, this week.
The, umm, young people in Rio Ferry, they encouraged me to, uh, to go to a fitness class.
And, umm.
It was a moment of weakness for me. I agreed to go and so I went with them and umm.
The door opened up and it was a a bike spinning class and a TRX class. Half an hour of biking, half an hour TRX. We walk in the room. I look at all these lean.
Fit bodies and umm.
My uh, heart rate, umm, rarely goes over 100.
And I'm, I look at the instructor and he kind of smiles and he looks at me. He's standing there like a, like a tree trunk and umm, looks like, you know, he's in a pair of sweats and a, and a T-shirt and it looks like he's been chiseled out of pure marble. And, uh, he comes over to me and he, he puts out his hand and I, I grasp his hand. It's, it's like grabbing a, it's like grabbing a brick. And he's very gently kind of smiles at me. But I, I.
I have the recognition that if he had to squeeze my hand, you would have just crushed it. So I look around at all this equipment and I, I'll, I'll be honest with you, I was terrified. Absolutely terrified.
And I say that, young people, because I realize that there's a gap between me and between you. My teenage physique has, uh, evaporated a long time ago.
But I did at one time sit in the very seat that you're sitting this afternoon.
Yes, I'm not faced with exactly the same things perhaps that you are, but the bottom line is, yes, I was.
And my, my desire this afternoon is that you would follow wholly after.
The Lord Jesus.
Perhaps there are some here who are following?
And we trust that this afternoon that you would continue to follow.
And maybe there's some here and you have not followed at all and you're wondering whether you should or not. Or we trust to exercise your heart and your soul this afternoon.
That you would indeed follow the Lord Jesus.
And perhaps there are some here this afternoon even who have followed the Lord Jesus and you've decided to turn away.
And we trust that as we look into this blessed book.
But your heart would be touched.
And that once again you would follow after.
The Lord Jesus, you know, we read of many people in the word that followed the Lord within the book of Joshua and he says, I, I wholly followed after the Lord my God.
We read about Caleb.
And it says he's wholly followed after the Lord.
We read about David and actually maybe we could turn to that in UMM, in First Kings.
First Things, Chapter 14.
Partway through the through the versus the tremendous encouragement to me. It says as my servant David who kept my commandments and who followed with me with all his heart to do that which was right in mine eyes. You know, as I reflect on the life of David and see how is beset with much failure. What an encouragement this is to me to see that the Lord looks at David and through repentance he says.
David, who follows me with.
All his.
Heart. What an encouragement that is. I want to I read some scriptures actually this, umm, this past Tuesday evening.
At our prayer meeting in Rio Ferry, not realizing I was gonna be asked to take an address here. And I'd like to just go through some of those scriptures again. Umm, if you turn with me to Luce Gospel.
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Luke's Gospel.
And I'm just going to simply go through some scriptures. You're going to have to turn quickly. We're not going to spend any time on them. A little bit later on in the meeting, we will turn to Luke 9 and spend a bit of time there. But if you would first turn with me, The Loose Gospel, Chapter 5.
And we read this in connection with the disciples.
In the earlier verses in verse 11 Luke chapter 5 and when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all and followed him. Look at later on in the in the chapter in verse 28 in connection with Matthew, he's called Levi here verse 28 and he left all rose up and followed him.
Turn over now to Chapter 7.
Luke Chapter 7.
And verse 9 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him.
Turn over to Chapter 9.
Luke Chapter 9.
And verse 11.
And the people, when they knew it, followed him.
Verse 23.
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Turn over now.
Later on in the book.
To chapter 18.
And verse 28 and Peter said, lo, we have left all.
And follow thee.
And in connection with the blind man at the end of the chapter, verse 43, immediately he received his sight and followed him.
A little further on in Luciko.
Chapter 22.
Verse 39.
The end of the the end of the verse of 22 and 39. And his disciples also followed him. Chapter 23.
Verse 27.
And there followed him a great company of people and of women, verse 49. And his acquaintance, and the people that followed him, verse 55.
The women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after.
Now turn with me to mark Chapter 10.
You young people, after I read these scriptures, you're assessing now your life, aren't you?
Are you following the Lord or are you not? Have you turned back? Have you?
Been in a position where you're wondering whether you should or not?
In Mark chapter 10.
We find that there's this man that comes to the Lord Jesus in verse 17 when he has gone forth into the way, there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him, Good master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why call us thou me good? There is none good but one that is gone down. Also commandments do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not honor thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these things have I observed from my youth and Jesus.
Beholding him, loved him, and said unto him one thing.
The Lord Jesus might not be a big thing, might be a little thing.
Maybe you're like the prodigal, you know, the Prodigal said.
I will arise and go to my father. But you know, the prodigal footsteps never started taking him to his father until he took that first step. And maybe there's someone here this afternoon and you just haven't taken that first step in following the Lord Jesus. And there's maybe nothing hindering you just maybe haven't thought about it. And you just, you just have, you're just not following. You know, I had an interesting thing happen in UMM in Florida two years ago.
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My wife and I were down there and umm.
Right close to where, umm, we stay, there's this outlet into the ocean from all the intercoastals.
As the tide goes in and out there, when the tide comes in, it's very interesting because it's a narrow, umm, it's a narrow waterway, not much wider than this room.
And because of that, when the tide comes in, it's just a raging torrent that comes in.
Well, there's a little park there and people come every night and they fish. One of the things they fish for is shrimp. They have this 5 gallon bucket and they fish away. They do it different ways. They cast in a net, they use a little dip net and they catch these shrimp and you know, in an hour's time they might catch 15 shrimp.
And, umm, when we were down there two years ago, something happened that only happened about once every 10 years, and that was there was a shrimp run.
And what that is, is schools of fish down in Florida, they, they travel up the, umm, the Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream where we are is right close to the shore. And occasionally there's these huge schools of shrimp. And when I say huge, maybe 10 kilometers long by half a kilometer wide, like big schools of shrimp. And they usually come up the coast and they're on the eastern side.
But occasionally.
Once every 10 years, they come up on the eastern side, which is right on the shore. And if that happens at a time when the tide comes in, there's lots of shrimp. And this was happening when I, you know, I just arrived there and I got down to the dock and people were screaming. There's this, this shrimp run. And what it means is they have these Nets and they put a net in the water and they pull it out and it's full of shrimp. Like the water was literally like thick soup.
And people were literally filling up these buckets and they're opening up their trunks and they were just dumping the buckets in until the trunk was completely full of shrimp because this never happened.
Once in a long time and I.
I was watching this. I was just enthralled with with all these shrimp. It was just, it was fascinating to me. And someone said to me, so do you like shrimp? I said, yeah, I like shrimp. So did you get any? I said no.
And they said, well.
Umm, did you have a net? I said that, actually I did. There's there's one in the place where you stay.
Well, why didn't you use it?
I don't know, I just didn't.
I'm wondering if there's someone here this afternoon.
And that's the only excuse you can give for not following the Lord, that you're just not doing it.
No, I love shrimp. Some of these people I'm sure would have spent days cleaning these shrimps. I could have had all kinds of shrimp, but I just didn't do it. I'm I'm just wondering, dear young person this afternoon.
If you're not following the Lord, it's well worth it to follow the Lord.
It is well worth it. I've never, never once talked to anyone who has followed the Lord. That said it wasn't worth it. As you sit there in your chair, perhaps not following the Lord Jesus, yes, you're saved.
What's the hindrance from following the Lord when there's so much benefit?
Let's turn back to Luke's gospel.
Luis Hospital.
Chapter 9.
Whose cost will Chapter 9 and verse 57?
I'd like to spend a little bit of time on verse 57.
Through verse 62.
Came to pass.
As they went in the way Luke 9 verse 57 As they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord.
I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
You know, there was a willingness there.
And there has to be a willingness to follow the Lord.
Are you willing this afternoon?
But it takes more than willingness. I will follow the rules to our goals. And And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have wolves, the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay.
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His head. It's not gonna be easy. No one ever said it was gonna be easy. I did something, umm, 2 days ago, I was sitting at my desk and I was reading and I pulled out a volume.
Umm.
It was actually the.
Table of contents for the Bible Treasury.
And on that table of content.
Discipled this piece of paper.
It's a birthday card.
That the young people in Montreal.
Gave to me.
When I turned 21.
So 42 years ago I had a staple there. It means something to me. There are.
52 signatures on here.
Interesting.
Michelle Pay Epson here and Francine Payette before they have any children.
Francois and Joanne are not on here as before they were saved.
Fake albrights on here.
Luis Taffe, Diana Ross Wendemore. There's a long list of people on here.
There's some people that have passed away. Eleanor Wills, Pierre Bierkoff, Charles Smith, Jacques Cheney, Fran Newton, so on.
And there's a large number of people who are following the Lord.
However.
There are some and I'm sure that those who are older here would like to see this afterwards and you're welcome to have a look at this this.
Birthday card There are a handful of people on here that sat in chairs just like this.
I thought they were following the Lord and there is no evidence whatsoever now that they belong to the Lord Jesus.
There are a handful of people.
That we're following the Lord very definitely.
And turned away.
They turned back.
Yeah, it's such a solemn thing to to reflect on a birthday card like this.
From years ago.
You know what? What if, what if I gathered a sheet of paper and wrote everybody's name down here? And if the Lord leaves us here?
15 years from now and we again looked at the list. Where would you be?
You earnestly have a desire this afternoon to really, truly follow after the Lord Jesus after all that He's done. Did you have that in your heart to follow the Lord Jesus?
Let's go on to the 59th verse.
And he said.
To another.
Follow me.
And he said.
Lord.
Suffer me first.
To go.
And bury my family.
One of the major obstacles in seeking to follow the Lord is 2 little words that we find in here, and that is me first.
Me first.
Said to another, follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer.
Me first.
To go.
And very my father.
Sometimes there's natural ties and they keep us from following the Lord. You know, I did something interesting this summer.
Umm.
I drove.
To Montreal here from Rita Ferry.
I called Francois and Joanna and wanted to have breakfast with him. Got to Montreal early.
And, umm.
I went to my old high school.
Early in the morning, nobody there.
Park haven't been there for 40 years.
Parked in the parking lot, John Rennie High School.
It's just South of.
Fairview Shopping Center on Saint Johns Rd. There I sat.
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And I reflected.
As we often do, it's good to reflect sometimes on our on our lives at various different times. I sat there and I reflected on my life.
I looked across the street.
At the police station.
We have spent some time.
And the chief of police's office for a misdemeanor.
And there I sat in my car this summer, and I reflected on the many, many different directions my life could have gone.
I'm so thankful that the Lord Jesus put it in my heart to follow Him. I didn't have the strength of my own, but He put it in my heart. A young person, you don't have the strength of your own either, but if you ask the Lord, He will indeed put it in your heart to follow holy after Him.
And I'm so thankful that by the grace of God, that has happened.
Our stand before you as someone who has made every mistake possible in the book.
The Lord has restored my soul time and time and time again.
As I sat there, I just marveled at the grace of God.
I sat there in my car reflecting on the time young people when I was exactly your age, as you sit there in your chair with life before you. I don't look at it that way now. It's very different.
But where are you tonight, this afternoon, in your relationship with the Lord Jesus?
Are you willing to follow him?
Holy, that's what he desires for you.
He wants your affections.
He wants them all.
You know the 59th verse, he said, Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father. There's a half heartedness there.
The Lord doesn't want half our hearts. We turn to the proverbs. The Lord says, My son, give me half thine heart. No, he wants our whole heart. He wants it all.
Now it's interesting being at this fitness class and umm.
Umm.
That was Tuesday. This is Saturday. I'm still sore.
But the instructor, he, he was good. He was good, he was kind, but he was good. And when he saw half heartedness, he just screamed at us.
If he saw pumping away there at 75%, he wanted 100%. And you know when we put it up to that 100%, he wanted 110% and he just screamed at us. He didn't want half heartedness. What about us and our Christian pathway? Is it half hearted? Is it half hearted? You know, we had a scripture that was read to us and referred to a number number of times this day and it was in connection with Ephesus.
And it's, it was quoted this way, and it's often quoted this way above the Ephesians Saints and how they lost their first love. You know, it doesn't say that.
And since they left it.
They didn't lose it, they left it.
What a solemn, solemn thing.
They left their first love. They did it with purpose.
Where are you and I?
And our souls experience.
Afternoon. Let's go to the next one.
Verse 61.
And another also said Lord.
I will follow thee. Here we have the same wording. But let me first go and bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
Now this is an analogy to what we have in the first part of Second Kings. Or maybe it's perhaps the, uh, the, maybe it's the first part of second teams or the, the end of, uh, first teams. I'm not sure where we find Elijah and Elijah. This is discourse and, uh, Elijah is plowing, but turn with me to, uh, First Samuel chapter 15 for a moment.
For Samuel 15.
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For Semio 15.
And verse 11.
1St 10 router.
First time you know. 15 and verse 10. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he is turned back from following me. What a sad, sad commendation for someone who had so much benefit.
Someone who has granted so many things, someone who has so much opportunity and.
And the commendation here is he is turned back from following me, a young person. Maybe you're right in that that spot where we read about the disciples that says, you know, they came to a place where two ways met. And maybe you're right at that point of decision in your life, whether you're going to follow or maybe you've been following the Lord and you're thinking, you know, the cost is just too great.
It's just too discouraging. I'm just going to throw the towel in and I'm going to turn back like Saul did. What a sad, sad conversation. Turn with me to Psalm 78.
Psalm 78.
We have a a a similar scenario.
Psalm 78.
And verse 9.
The children of Ephriam Eprim being armed.
Carrying.
Turned back.
In a day of battle.
Well, I find that so sad.
So sad and yet as I've gone through this birthday card.
I recognize that there's so many names that are written there.
That have done that exactly the same thing, those young people who at that time when I was young.
Were a tremendous encouragement to my soul. And then they threw the towel in and turned back. What a sad, sad commendation.
Turn with me now to Mark's gospel.
Mark's crossfall.
Marsh Gospel, chapter 14.
This takes place after the garden scene with the Lord Jesus and his disciples.
And there comes Judith, and now they take the Lord Jesus. He says in the 49th verse, I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and he took me off. But the scriptures must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him and fled. Now we have here another man following.
And there followed him.
A certain young man.
Having a linen clothes cloth cast about his naked body and the young man laid hold on him and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.
You know this speaks to my heart.
About reality.
And I would just challenge you young people.
This afternoon.
Just challenge your own heart while you sit there in your chair.
Are you real?
Are you real?
You know David speaks in the 51St song of having truth in the inward parts.
This man perhaps looked like a priest. He had a linen garment. The priests were supposed to have linen breeches on underneath. If they had to take this this garment away, and he had his linen britches on underneath, he wouldn't have been. He wouldn't have had the flea naked. Where are you at in your reality, you know?
This year, since I was here last year, something is taking place in my own family life that umm, uh, has been exercising and that is, uh, the Lord has taken home one of my siblings. There's been five of us now they're four.
My brother Peter.
The Lord took home to be with the Lord.
At his funeral, I told a little story about him.
I've told it to my local UMM brethren as well.
It's a story when my.
My P and my brother Peter was four. OK, so being eight years older than me, I don't remember anything about it. Just my mother told me this story and she said that she was dressing my brother Peter up one day. He wanted to go and play in the snow and she dressed him up in his no suit. And just before she sent him out, she told him, she said, Peter, I there's one thing I don't want you to do when you're outside there. And I don't even know what it was. But she told him he wasn't to do this one thing.
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So he goes outside and she's.
At the sink, the kitchen window, she can see them out there. He goes and directly does the very thing that she told him not to do.
So he comes in and she challenges them.
She says umm get it such and such.
No, I didn't.
Well, she watched them do it. Umm yes she did. No I didn't. And then he said umm, how do you know?
And in my mother's very French way of trying to.
Explain to him that he had a guilty look on his face, she says. It's written all over your forehead.
Well, some days later he's in the basement playing and he comes upstairs and he's, umm.
He's again got a guilty look on his face, but this time, as he approaches my mother, he's pulling his hair down in front of his forehead.
You know young people.
At your age.
You're a bit more sophisticated than that.
But we can do exactly the same thing.
And the Lord desires that there would be reality in our souls. He wants us to be real. He wants us to be real. This young man, there wasn't reality there. Yeah, he followed. He followed afar off. He had a linen garment. But when that was taken away, there was nothing on underneath. And young people, when the tests come.
There's gonna be no passing the test, but there's no reality and the Lord desires that you would have reality in your soul as.
He says to you this afternoon, follow me, follow me. I'd like to look at one other portion.
Because.
1.
Perhaps the?
Chief sources of discouragement.
For us in following the Lord Jesus is failure in our Christian lives.
And subsequent to that.
A lack of restoration.
I want to speak for a few minutes.
About the restoration.
Of our souls. It's something I know about. I've been restored thousands and thousands and thousands of times. That's not a compliment. But the Lord in his matchless grace has restored my soul. I think of the little.
Prayer that Peter prayed, and I perhaps prayed that prayer more times in my life than ever before. And it's just three words. Lord, save me. You know, I prayed just before this meeting. I was over there in the in the corner and I was.
Feeling very desperate as to how to put these thoughts together and as to how to relay a message that will connect. Umm, you know, there's nothing worse than than standing here and and looking this, looking at this glazed looking in young people's eyes because there's no connection. And I was over there just beseeching the Lord that that he would just help me to be able to do that. And I just said, Lord save me. And a brother came over from my own assembly knowing I had.
The address and he just came over and he just started praying.
And I was so thankful.
For a dear brother to come over and to see me in my need, and to come and to commit this time to the Lord, not just me, but He was praying for you, dear young people, that there would be reality in your souls.
Is the reality in your soul?
Are you real?
You know, this young man, there wasn't reality there. Well, let's look at John's Gospel. And it's John's Gospel Chapter 20.
Stop.
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I'm thankful for the scripture that we have.
Where David said in the 23rd Psalm, he restoreth my soul.
He restoreth my soul.
In John 20.
OK.
I'm sorry, it's John 21.
John 21 and verse 22.
1St 21 Rather Peter's seeing him. That's umm, John sayeth to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? And Jesus saith unto him, if I will, that he tarried till I come, What is that to thee? Follow thou me. Now the Lord had said this to Peter earlier. If we're to turn to Matthew's Gospel, Mark's Gospel, and Luke's Gospel, the Lord Jesus at the beginning of his ministry hits that he said to Peter, Follow me.
And now we're saying that again here in the 22nd verse, but we know something has happened in between.
And that is that Peter has denied the Lord.
Peter has denied the Lord and it's very interesting.
To notice in the 15th verse when the Lord deals with this scenario.
In Peter's life.
Because in order for there to be restoration in our own souls, the Lord's desire is that we, each one, would get to the point of departure.
It's permanent, the point of departure.
And so in verse 15 here it says one hand dying. Jesus said to Simon Peter, umm.
Why did you deny me? You don't say that.
Wasn't that the issue with with Peter that he denied the Lord? Yeah, but that was not the point of departure. And the Lord gets right back to the point of the departure when he says Simon.
Son of Jonas.
Levisol me more than these.
You know, before Peter had denied the Lord, Peter had boasted about his affection for the Lord and that was the point of departure. And I would just suggest young people in our lives experience.
The point of departure in our lives is a very, very fine line.
It's a very fine line.
It's not a process. Sin is not a process.
The.
The nature that we're born with is one thing.
The nature of sin, but the committing of sin.
Is an act.
Every time I can remember.
Albert Hall, standing in Montreal, his Bible in his hand, his head lifted to the ceiling. Even the older ones can picture this. His eyes slam shut.
We're not sinners because we sin, we sin because we're sinners. And he took us through the book of Romans.
So true. We're sinners a long time before we sin, because we're born in sin. We're shaping inequity. We're born sinners.
But if we turn now to the book of James for a moment.
We have a process here that James brings before us in connection with our getting away from the Lord.
And James says in chapter one, verse 13, let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust half conceived, there's the line, there's a line that's crossed.
It bringeth forth Fin and Finn when it is finished, bringeth forth death. And in our souls experience, we need to find that line of conception and if we can find that.
That's the start of restoration for our souls and if we can't find it, sometimes there's just no way we can ask the Lord for help that way. I believe that is so often why we don't experience restoration in our souls because we can't establish where that point of, of departure is. We we find that so many times in the return over to the book of the Acts for a minute.
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Acts Chapter.
Acts Chapter 5.
This is an action with Ananias and Sapphira.
And since a certain man named Ananias Sapphire and his wife sold a possession and kept back part of the price, his wife also being Privy to it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the Apostle's feet.
Peter said analyze, why have Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and keep back part of the price of the land also remained. Was it not thine own after it was sold? Was it not thine own power? Why hast thou? And notice the wording here same as in James, Why hast thou conceived There's a line of departure? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
How it's not lied unto men, but unto God.
And young people.
Sometimes we're vague.
In coming to the Lord when we've got away, away from Him.
And it's good for us to be very specific.
You know, it's interesting if we look at David's life. Let's look at that portion and David's life with Naman and Nathan comes to him. To me, that's very instructive. As well as in, umm, Second Samuel chapter 12.
Nathan goes through this discourse with David after David has committed the sin of adultery, after he's killed Uriah Hittites, and he challenges them and he says, thou art a man. After he goes through this little umm, this little parable, But what he does is he brings before David the point of departure. Notice verse 9.
Wherefore hath thou committed adultery? No.
Killed Uriah.
No.
Wherefore half style despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight. That's the point of departure and young people, I would just stress that with you in your desire to follow the Lord. Sometimes we think you know how come I've just been enjoying the Lord so much and it's gone now and I just I just I just love to have it back and the Lord's desire is true repentance. We would get back to that point of departure.
It might not be difficult. We look at this and we think, Oh well, the depart, the point of departure was, was David when he committed adultery with, with, with Bathsheba. But that's not it at all, the point of departure.
Was despising the commandment of the Lord, and it's the same in our own lives every time.
In person, we're about to sing a hymn.
You know, we sang it already. Actually, let's turn to it.
First, uh, Robert gave it out earlier in the in the date, umm 46 in the in the back of the book.
It's so easy for us.
To get distracted from following the Lord and we have these last two words, last two lines of this beautiful hymn 46 in the back that I may undistracted be to follow, serve and wait for the could somebody please start #46 for us.
Oh, teach me quickly to return.
Perhaps there's someone here this afternoon and there's been coldness in your heart and you're just as tired as to once again follow the Lord Jesus.
Just turn to him, his desires that you would fall.
The desire that each one of us.
As we await that moment, we will hear that shout the following hard after the Lord Jesus. Let's just pray.