Gospel—A. Coleman
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Beautiful gospel hymn. I'm going to read this gospel hymn tonight very slowly and reverently because I want you to get all the words of this hymn. It's beautiful. It says behold. You know that word Behold is probably just a stop and observe. Stop and look.
Stop and look.
Behold the Lamb of God and the cross on the cross for us. He shed His precious blood on the cross. On the cross, or hear the overwhelming cry.
He lie lamis abacked, and I draw near and see the Savior die on the cross, On the cross see see his arms extended wide.
On the cross, on the cross, behold this bleeding hands and five.
On the Cross In the cross, the sun withholds its rays of light.
The heavens are closed in shades of night while Jesus wins the glorious fight. On the cross. On the cross. Come Sinner, see him lift it up. On the cross. On the cross he drinks for you that bitter cup in the cross, in the cross.
The rocks do rend, the mountains quake while Jesus death atonement mate.
While Jesus suffers for our sake on the cross.
On the cross that sing this wonderful gospel hymn.
Be evil.
Gospel well known. We'll read them again. John's Gospel chapter one, verse 29 the next day and John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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And again the next day after John stood.
And two of his disciples and looking upon Jesus.
As he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God. Isaiah 45 verse 22 Look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else. Shall we pray?
And I was younger.
I used to be thrilled as I would go to the first two books of the book of Samuel and I want to go there tonight, and I was thrilled that the many gospel stories in those first two books of Samuel.
And you see all those that were associated with David, with Samuel, all those wonderful gospel stories like David and Goliath and Abner and a Mesa and Joab and Absalom and all those. And these are wonderful stories. And I just thrilled over and over again as I read. I've read them and many times in the gospel I have referred to some of these.
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Wonderful portions in these first two books of Samuel and tonight I wanna I want to go to one that is especially so beautiful and would just point us tonight to the Lord Jesus. And there's some there's one special verse in this chapter that I want to take up tonight.
That is just beautiful and.
Let's go to First Samuel Chapter 7.
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Samuel, Chapter 7.
Now I want to first of all go through.
What had transpired here before we get to this chapter, and I think we can go back to the land of Egypt so many years before this and we find the children of Israel in a hard bond, Indonesia in Egypt, and they cried to the Lord.
To help them, there they were.
In ******* to Pharaoh and they cried to the Lord to the Lord hear him. He said, I have seen, I have come down and I will deliver only the wonderful God. And so he said the very God that sent his beloved son. He came down here into this world 2000 years ago, but for to deliver you and I.
From our sins, from our sins. And I thank God that He's delivered me.
From my sins and I would ask this one question tonight to you.
He delivered you from your sins. But you know God told the children of Israel, He says, I want you to take a little lamb, and I want you to kill that lamb. And I want you to put the blood on the lentil of the doorpost. And then he says, when I see the blood, I will pass it over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you. And that night in Egypt so long ago.
When the destroying Angel came over the land of Egypt.
If those didn't have that blood on the door, the first born in every house was slain and all what a cry in Egypt that night when the first born was slain of those that didn't have the blood on the door. Even Pharaoh his son was slaying that night and there was a great cry. But oh, we think of this if we could apply this right now.
Tonight, this very day.
And I say this, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
And I would say tonight to you, dear friend, here tonight, are you sheltered under the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you know Him as Lord and Savior of your life? And now we find that the children of Israel were.
A wonderful redemption out of Egypt. And they crossed the Red Sea, and then they stood on the shores of the Red Sea, and there they sang a wonderful song to the Lord. They praised the Lord. There they saw all their enemies dead upon the seashore. What a wonderful provision by that God gave his people.
And then they went into the desert and you know.
They got discouraged without with that desert. You know that God, that the God, very God that led him out of Egypt and across the Red Sea with the very God that could take him all the way through the desert into the palm of slant. And he promised them that he would take him into that promised land.
But, you know, they grumbled and complained, didn't they? You know, And so when they got into the land, the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey and you know, I believe tonight, you know, was it was expressed and Dorothy, a month ago that the United States and Canada is a land flowing with milk and honey. And we've had the gospel.
We've had it.
And what are we doing with it? You know, coldness and difference to the gospel, to the claims of God, you know?
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Solemn, isn't it? You know, I believe that we're living in the last days of the day of grace. We've had much before us about the coming of the Lord this day. And you know, when is He coming? You know, it may be tonight, maybe tonight. And think of that. If you're still lost and in your sins, you'd be left behind for the judgment of God. What a solemn thing it would be.
If there would be some here tonight and you know, when the children of Israel got into their land.
And they were settled down in their land, you know, he said on the 8th chapter of Deuteronomy. See that you forget not.
See that ye forget not but they did they forgot they forgot God and what happened all we find in these chapters previously that the ark of God was taken and within the Philistines land the God allowed the ark of God to be taken the very the very place where God dwelt. He says in Exodus 25. I believe it is it says let them make me a.
That I made dwell with him. There he dwelt between the cherubims.
And that ark of God was taken. And so now let's read the 7th chapter.
And the man of came and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the House of Eminidab in the hill, and sanctified Eliza his son, to keep the ark of the Lord. And it came to pass, while the ark abode and Kyraem, that the time was long.
For it was 20 years, and the House of Israel lamented after the Lord.
And Samuel spake unto all the hosts of Israel, saying, If ye do, return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and ashtroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Balaam and astroth, and serve the Lord only. And Samuel said, Gather all.
Thrill to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto the Lord. And they gather together to mitzvah, and drew water and poured it out before the Lord, and passed it on that day, and said, there we have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mispa. And when the Philistines.
Heard that the Children of Israel were gathered together to misfire. The Lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.
And with the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. And the children of Israel said to Samuel, cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will serve us out of the hand of the Philistines. Now I just want to stop right there. And this next verse I want to read.
This is so beautiful.
Nine and Samuel.
Took a suckling lab.
And Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering, holy unto the Lord. And Samuel tried unto the Lord.
And the Lord heard him. And as Samuel was offering the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel.
But the Lord thundered with a great Thunder in that day upon the Philistines.
And discomforted them, and they were smitten before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mispa, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them until they came unto Bethcarr. Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mispa and Shin, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying hitherto.
Hath the Lord helped us?
You know, you go to the second verse and what does it say? And it came to pass while the abode and purgat Durium that the time was long. It was 20 years, 20 years, 20 years. And I asked this question to you tonight. How are you going to keep the Lord waiting? He's waiting for you, dear. 1:00 tonight.
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Think about it. Here we are, the opportunity of another gospel. Meaning tonight you're under the sound of another gospel meeting.
How many more gospel meetings are you going to hear? I'm speaking to you, dear ones tonight who are still lost and in their sins.
Are you going to keep them waiting another 20 years?
Better still, I'm going to say this. Are you going to have another 20 years? You're not.
You know, I believe that we're not going to have 20 years. No, we're not. I believe the coming of the Lord, as our brother said this afternoon is very nine, perhaps this very day, 20 years. Are you going to have 20 hours? How much time have you got? You know, it says, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold now.
Is the day of salvation. God's time is now. Remember now.
Thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Dear young ones, here tonight.
You are under the sound of the gospel. Have you accepted this wonderful invitation that God is offering you tonight?
A God of patience, a God of long-suffering, God lengthening out the day of grace. Here it is.
A January, December 26th, 1998. You know, how much time have we got? You know everybody saying Are you ready for the new Millennium? Are you ready for it? We got what is it?
370 some odd days left to the new Millennium. That's what everybody's saying.
All kinds of things are going to change in the new Millennium. Are we going to make it?
No, no, I trust not. I think the Lord's coming is so very soon, you know. Are you ready for the new Millennium?
Are you ready to meet God? It says in Amos chapter 4. Prepare to meet thy God.
Are you prepared? Are your sins all forgiven? Are they washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Is the blood in the doorpost? Are you sheltered under the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Oh dear one, these are the issues of life. Your eternal destiny, your precious never dying soul. Where are you going to spend an eternity? Is it with the devil and the damned or with the Lord Jesus in the coming scene of glory? Oh, wait a moment, I believe that it's just before us over here. That show.
It'll take us out of this scene into his very presence. It's so soon, It's so soon, and that's why tonight.
This gospel message is so urgent. Dear one, is urgent.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is a day of salvation. What an awful impact. What an impact it had upon me about a month ago when a man in our very apartment had a had a stroke and was taken to the hospital, paralyzed and yet to go to the hospital and stand beside him and serve. I want to read to you the word of God. And he said, no, get out of here.
A man 85 years old, you know.
God, in his long-suffering mercy, has allowed that man to.
Recover to the point that I believe this week he comes home to our apartment and perhaps maybe there'll be the opportunity again to tell him, to tell him.
That there's a God that loves him, you know, he could say to me, get out of here. But I said, you can't stop me from praying for you. You know what I got, you know?
I see this, you know, it's in our apartment. There's so many.
Old folks, because we're in the seniors apartment, you know, but lived all their life without Christ.
What a tragedy. What a tragedy to live your life without Christ. I know when I was young I did just that.
And wasted years.
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That time was long, for it was 20 years, and the House of Israel lamented after the Lord. Verse three and Samuel, speak unto all the hosts of Israel, if ye return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away strange gods, and asked, Draw from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the.
House of the Philistines and to the Philistines, you know.
I think what we see in this chapter, in this verse here is idolatry. Idolatry, You know, they were guilty of idolatry. And you know, if we were to play to apply this tonight, what is an idol? It's something that turns my eyes away from the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't it something that turns my eyes away from the Lord Jesus Christ?
Is there something tonight?
That is stopping you from coming to Christ and owning Him as your Savior.
Is there something I say this to you tonight, whatever it is?
That is hindering you something in your life. Get rid of it. Get rid of it right now. You know the God of this world delights to put.
Something wonderful in front of your eyes.
Whatever the case may be in your life, in your circumstances, the enemy of your soul knows.
Just what would attract you and turn you?
Away from the Lord Jesus Christ, from accepting his wonderful.
Offer of salvation. You know, I know for my own self that the enemy did that very thing to me when I was a young man.
Idolatry.
Verse four. Then the children of Israel did put away Balaam and Astroth.
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And serve the Lord only. You know, I want to tell you this tonight. I think it was very plain and simple when our brother got up here last night and went to the third chapter of Romans. And it says there, and I'm going to repeat it again. You've heard it over and over again.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Those sins that you committed have separated you.
From a holy God. And if those sins aren't washed away in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, they will take you, dear one, to a lost eternity forever.
Where there is no hope.
Think of that, how solemn the soul that sinneth it shall die.
That soul, that Sinner, it shall die.
Verse five and Samuel said gather all Israel to MISPA and I will pray.
Unto the Lord for you, you know.
We had a prayer meeting in that room over there.
A few minutes ago.
And you know, it was touching. It was beautiful.
To think that all the prayers that went up to the throne of grace for those that would be here in their sins and lost tonight, how many prayers that we're not tonight for the loss, you know, their mothers and fathers that are praying for.
Children for grandchildren, for great grandchildren. Thank God for those parents that are praying. I've got one. My grandmother, my mother is 93 years old and she still prays for her son. And thank God for a praying mother and a praying father. Thank God for them. I believe that I wouldn't be able to stand here.
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Tonight, if it wasn't for the prayers of my parents and there were many praying for you tonight. Oh, think of that. Is there, I repeat this again, is there still one loss in their sins tonight, rejecting this gospel? You know, I can't, I can't conceive of it.
That a person could be under the sound of the precious word of God.
Lord's Day after Lord's Day, gospel meeting after gospel meeting and go out unsaved.
I can't conceive of it, but you know, we have a will and that will says no, I don't want it, I don't want it.
Verse six And they gathered together to mispe and drew water.
And poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day and said, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged Israel, the children of Israel in Mizpah, and they gathered together and poured water out before the Lord. What does that speak of? Oh, I believe this.
One thing our utter helplessness, you know it says in Second Samuel 1414.
We are as water that is spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered at our utter helplessness, unable to save ourselves. Only the Lord Jesus can save us. He's the Savior of sinners. What a Savior.
What a person that we have to proclaim tonight the Savior of sinners. Do you know this wonderful person but it says we are as water that is spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up our other helplessness. You know there are two places in the in the word of God that bring this out so and wonderfully and then we get that in the 5th chapter of John's Gospel where we find.
Man, there he was for 38 years, lying at the pool of Bethesda there, and he was waiting for the moving of the waters. No, no, he he couldn't get down to that pool. All he had to do was get down there to that pool and get down there before anybody else did. But how could he? He was totally paralyzed there. He was laying there for 38 years.
Totally helpless, unable to.
Save himself. Then we find in another.
There's probably more that you know in the in Second Kings Chapter 7.
Yeah, Second Kings Chapter 7, we have the four leprous men at the entering the end of the gate of Samaria. And there they were. They were leopards. You know, leprosy is sin, isn't it? They were leprosy is a, is a, is a type of sin. And there they were at the entering end of the gate of the city.
And it says there if we enter into the gate, we'll die there. Better read that.
Chapter 7.
Verse 8 and when these lepers came.
No, sorry. Verse three And there were four left first men at the entering in of the gate. And they said one to another, why sit we here until we die? What a question. Why sit we here till we die? You know, if you're sitting in your seat.
Ah, in your sins lost, and if the Lord would come tonight.
That's just your case. Why is it we here until we die?
And it says here.
Why sit we here until we die? Here's the helplessness of it. Verse four. If we say we enter into the city, then famine is in the city. They went into the city. There was nothing to eat in the city that they would starve.
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And we shall die there. And if we sit still here 3 at the end of the gate of the city, that's where the battle was going to be the the most. They would have died there.
Now therefore let us come and fall into the host of the Syrians, and if and if they save us a lie, we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die. But look at the 8th person. When these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried dense silver and gold and raiment, and went and hit it, and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried dents also, and went and hit it.
And they said one to another, we do not. Well, this is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace.
Think of that, what would a statement, I love that statement, these four leprous men. He says this is a day of good tidies that we hold our peace in it all. This is the gospel tonight. And you know, we just can't hold our peace because it's a wonderful story to tell that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. This is the gospel.
How wonderful. What wonderful. News to a lost world. You know, you look at the newspapers and what do you see?
Ah, not very good is it a But here it is, the word of God. Oh, think of it, this precious word of God that lives and abides forever. Dear one, it is are the words of life. Oh wonderful words of life. I want you to read this precious word.
Meditate on every day. Wonderful, isn't it, to get up in the morning and hope in the precious Word of God. Start the day with the Word of God. How wonderful.
Go back to our chapter.
Verse seven. And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to miss by the Lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.
And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. Oh, you know there is the opposition of the enemy, and you know the enemy would come to you tonight. Suppose new earth it you, you exercised about your soul salvation, but the enemy would whisper to you tonight.
Wait another day, just wait another day, another ah, wait through another gospel meeting. Wait another week, wait another month, wait another year, you know, Oh, don't listen. God's time is now, you know. God is offering salvation tonight, full and free to whosoever will, He says. Whosoever will may come. But you know, I believe.
There is one stipulation and that is now, now, now, right now, tonight. You haven't got a better moment than tonight. Come now, that verse that was read last night. Let us reason together, says the Lord. Behold now.
Is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
And the children of Israel, verse eight, said unto Samuel.
Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. Oh yes, a God that is mighty to save, and willing to save, and longing to save. And his arms are outstretched to you, beloved ones. Tonight listen to these words he said to you. Come unto me, all ye that labor.
That are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Think of it from his heart of love.
His arms wrote, Stretched to you tonight, longing for you to come. Won't you come? He says, I am the way, the Truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. This song that we sang this summer in the gospel meetings in the Maritimes, over and over again.
We we taught the children this song. Newfoundland.
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I am the Way, the truth, and the life. That's what Jesus said. I won't go the whole song, but He is the Way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Now verse 7 now for you.
Dear ones, tonight little boy, little girl here tonight, sitting beside your mom and dad, I want you to do something for me if you've got a pencil or crayon.
Little notepad, little coloring book. I want you to put that down for a minute because I want you to listen to this first.
And Samuel took a suckling lamb. Dear young Lance, have you ever seen a lamb? You know, in Princeton, ME this year in the gospel meetings we were taken to South Christian couple that had adopted five children and they had a sheep farm and.
They took us through their sheep farm and you know there was some lambs in that cheap farm.
And, you know, you think of those lands, they're cute, they're sweet. You know, I, I don't think there is not one of us here tonight can just picture a lamb out there in the pasture, frisky, jumping, running around. And I.
You just got to say cute. So beautiful. Nothing could be more sweeter than a little lamb, you know? Here it is, a suckling lamb. A suckling lamb is still on his mother's mill.
Maybe one 2-3 weeks old.
Oh, how sweet, how sweet. But let me tell you dear young boys and girls here tonight, and older ones too.
That they killed that lamb and they put him on the altar.
They killed that lamb and they put him on the altar.
Why? You know why? Because the children of Israel had sinned against God, that lamb had to forfeit its life. Because the children of Israel had sinned. Had that lamb done anything wrong? No. That sweet little innocent lamb, had it done everything wrong?
No, but you know, you go to the cross of Calvary.
What a beautiful picture this is of the Lord Jesus and the cross of Calvary. Had he done anything wrong?
Had he done anything wrong? No.
The deep and the cross could say this man.
Have done nothing amiss. There was number spot no stain in this blessed One who hurry upon Calvary's cross first sin. You know I say this again, if the Lord Jesus had sinned only once, I would right now close my Bible and sit down because there would be no gospel. There could be no gospel.
Because he.
Was the perfect, holy, spotless Lamb of God. Behold, behold the Lamb of God on the cross, on the cross for you. He showed His precious blood on the cross, on the cross. This wonderful person on the cross was God's beloved Son. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
Oh what a Savior I can say tonight, Hallelujah, what a Savior, the Savior of sinners, the Savior that saved me for my sins. Has he saved you tonight? Are you a saved soul? Are you on your way to heaven? Do you know your sins forgiven?
Wonderful, isn't it, to know?
And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it.
And Samuel cried unto the Lord, verse 9.
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And the Lord heard him, and as Samuel was offering up, the burnt offering turned to Ephesians chapter 5.
The New Testament.
Is the Old Testament.
Testament revealed. I get that wrong.
Here we find Chapter 5 as Samuel was offering, that suckling lamb wholly had burnt offering on the altar.
Ephesians 5.
What verse two and walk in love as Christ also have loved us and hath given himself for us and offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling Savior. Oh what an offering went up to God.
At Calvary Strauss, Think of it. Oh, how wonderful this is.
And I can say, thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. The Lord Jesus was offered up in Calvary's cross for my sins. The gospel Peter could say, who himself bore our sins in his own body and the tree. Oh, he bore my sins, and he borne yours. Are you a saved soul tonight?
Oh, don't reject this wonderful offer of salvation.
Want you to see tonight the Lord Jesus dear one, tonight hanging on Calvary cross for your sin. He loves you and he wants your company with him in that coming scene of glory. Oh, he says in my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you.
Wonderful place prepared for those that love the Lord Jesus and know Him.
As Lord and Savior.
And the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a great Thunder on that day.
Upon the Philistines and the discomforted them, and they were smitten before Israel.
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them until they came to Bethcar. And Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mispa and Shin and Carl The name of it Debenezer saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us?
What a wonderful deliverance for God's people. Oh, I say this again, Who hath delivered us from the power of death and has translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, that your forgiveness of sin. Oh, what a Savior that we have to proclaim tonight. Do you know this wonderful person? What a wonderful deliverance.
He's done this for you on Calvary's cross, God's beloved Son.
What does He want from you? All the Thanksgiving of your heart? Have you thanked the Lord Jesus for what He has done for you? And calories crossed your young boy, Young girl here tonight from your lips. That's what the Lord Jesus wants to hear from you.
Have you ever thanked the Lord Jesus for dying on the cross for you?
That's what he wants to hear from you tonight. And I want to quote again that verse in Acts chapter 17. It says God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because He hath appointed a day into which he will judge this world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.
Oh, he wants you to repent, dear one, tonight. Won't you come tonight? This is the invitation of the gospel. Again I quote that verse. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Won't you come tonight? It's God's invitation to you. This might be the last invitation.
I say this again, this is a burden to my soul, that this might be the last opportunity I have to preach the gospel.
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This might be the last opportunity you'll have to hear the gospel, and so it's so urgent. It's so urgent. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. It says that if thou shall confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
How positive is Scripture? Thou shalt be.
Say let's sing that hymn in closing, just as I am, without one plea.
I believe it's 12.
But that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bids me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come. And I want you to think of this him as we're singing it. And you do one tonight. As we're singing, you can say, Oh Lamb of God, I come. Are you willing to come tonight? Will you come tonight? The Lord Jesus has his arms outstretched to you and is waiting to receive you.
Man receive the sinners, let's stand and sing #12.
When my soul.
Was.
Good.