Worship of God is presented as a vital privilege and responsibility for believers, stemming from an appreciation of God's character and Christ's sacrifice. The sermon emphasizes that true worship is not merely an outward act but a sincere and consistent offering of oneself, one's praise, and one's possessions to God. It draws parallels between the Old Testament sacrifices and the New Testament concept of believers as a holy priesthood, called to present spiritual sacrifices. The core lesson is that worship is rooted in understanding who God is and what Christ has done, leading to a life of continuous praise and service.
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Third chapter two, wherefore laying aside all malice and guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious, to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. Ye also, as lively stones, have built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be contained. Unto you, therefore, which believe, he is precious. But unto them which are disobedient, The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. And the stone of stumbling, and the rock of a fence, even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal preacher, a holy nation, of peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous life. May the Lord just add his blessing to these folks so familiar words on his own precious word. Sir, we are glad to see you back in your keys of honor again. You had a good time in prison last night? I was most concerned as to whether they let you out.
It's good to know the man with a key, isn't it? Oh, you have one. He is the man with a key. Look at that now. So let's turn to our core sheet, and we're all going to say, let's turn to our core sheet, please. And you know what I'd like us to sing, number seven. One Timothy one, seventeen. Now unto the king, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, the honor and glory, forever and ever. Amen. If you haven't a core sheet, please raise your hand. Our good steward at the door will hand one out. There's one on the back row needed, sir.
Thank you very much. And a very good singer, that young fella is, too. I might have him up the front in a moment. Well, there we are. Course number seven, but it's one Timothy, one, seventeen. So, as long as you read from the authorised version, you know, you can read it from your Bible, sing it from your Bible. Of course, have you got one of those newfangled ones? No. Don't forget. But one Timothy one, seventeen. Thank you. You? Now unto the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only one God, with honor and glory forever, and ever amen.
Amen. The honor and glory forever, and ever amen. Oh, I do enjoy you singing that one. It's the only time I get you to say amen. And you say it three times. Look at, you know, revival praying that, isn't it? Ah, so all together, once again, please. Thank you. Now, until the king is gone, before, in the middle of the war, the only one sure, we are going forever to never lie. Amen. Very good.
How about number eight? Do you think we should manage number eight? We haven't sung it yet. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, what a wonder you are. Do we know this one, sir? Don't we? Oh, oh, well, to learn it, won't we? Do you, sisters, know her on the front row? Don't you? Your education's been neglected. You know you're a lot of head nodders here, really. But are we ready then, please? Number eight, and our pianists will play it right the way through. We'll remind ourselves or learn the tune, and then we'll sing it together. Thank you, sir.
Music Thank you, Lord and Lord. You're fairer, but fairer Than the lily that's grown by the wayside, Friendless, more precious than gold. You are the rose of Sharon, the parents of the pair, You're all my heart's for their desire. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, what a wonder you are, your precious, more precious than gold.
Wait, don't something like that. Would you girls like to come out here and take one? No? Well, I don't. Oh, yeah. Isn't it awful? I say, where's my friend from Sunday at morning? He's hiding in the back somewhere, I say. Oh, well, there we are. We'll try it together. Thank you. Number eight. And if you're not certain, well, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake. You'll soon learn it. I know this. It's got something to say.
Something. Now actually, the chorus says, Jeeva, Jeeva. But I like the King Lord Jesus, don't you? Lord. Lord Jesus, what a wonder you are. You're brighter than the morning star. You're fairer, much fairer than the lily that grows by the way, by precious, more precious than those. That's what the Bible says in it. It belongs. That's what the Bible says. So come away, that's really right, thank you.
You're the one that's fairer than the living that's grown by the wayside, precious, more precious than gold. You are the one that's fairer, the fairer's of the fairer, you're my heart to live. Jesus, Lord Jesus, what a wonder you are, your precious, more precious than gold.
Do you know that was great? I tell them what we did. We'll have just the moment. Are you ready, ladies? Come on now. Let's have a look at it. I mostly say to the children, don't do anything with wife. Huh? More if you like, really wide out. Open up and say, are you ready? Good for ladies, ready to go. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, what a wonder you would, your Christ and the Lord in your love. Your parrots, my parrots, I believe I've grown by the wayside, branches, more branches, And go to the water of gold The parents of the pair, your own my heart could ever give to you.
Jesus, Lord Jesus, what a wonder you are, your precious. You know, I've got a good mind to get you all up on the platform and say, hey, hand it to ground. Why, that was not. Let me try just one other, if we may. You have a favorite. Call out the number. Well, thank you, sir. Number twelve. Number twelve. Oh, I know who asked for that one. Number twelve. Who can move the mountain? And you?
Who can prove that the father is very good today? Who can take the world like cattle till they've gone away? Who can prove his father when a Christian needs to pray with his kingdom? He's the one. He's the perfect power in his mighty hand divine. He's the one who hears the sick shone water into wine. He makes all things possible and he's a friend of mine. Just like Jesus.
We'll have those two girls on their own. Thank you for volunteering like that. Very kind of you. Are you ready? Oh, no, Mr. Turner, I am. Are you ready? Go see your girls on one side. Thank you. World can't blow the land, the wild are hindering you today. World can't bring the land like cattle, clear and calm the wind. World can't turn to power when our Christian needs to pray. Take this king home. He must hold the power and his might be high in the morning. He that wonder has the same kind of terrific one.
He's like something possible, and he's a friend of mine. He's the one. Very good. You know, sir, that was almost as good as you were singing last night, wasn't that lovely, really? Lovely. We've time for one more. Someone else has a favor. Number nine? Thirteen. I beg your pardon, sir. Number thirteen. Ah, he is Lord. And what better one for tonight. He is Lord. He has risen from the dead, and he is Lord. Number thirteen, please. Don't we have a music, Arthur?
Oh, well, you can play without music, I'm sure. That's very kind of you. Well, that's something like it. Just get in there a moment. Right. They're all there, the notes. It's just a matter of sorting them out, you know, putting them in the notes. Are we ready? Thank you. He is Lord, he is Lord. He has risen from the dead, and he is Lord. Every little child, every child of death that is of Christ is Lord.
He is my Lord. Amen. Thank you very much. word of prayer. Well, God and Father, we do rejoice that there is coming a day when every knee shall confess, though every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
But we very simply want to say tonight that there are many of us, if not all of us in this service, who would own him as Lord now. Grant, we pray thee, that we may be able together to grasp something of the wonder of the Lord Jesus. For we ask it in his name. Amen. Amen. Those of you that have been with us in the past evenings know that we are dealing with one or two rather simple, and yet I believe very important subjects. In the first evening we dealt with the Word of God and how to read it.
Of course we did not exhaust that, we never will. But I trust we may have, as it were, such a light, a thought that will give to all of us a desire to become more earnest than the reading of the Word of God. And then we dealt not only with the Word of God and how to read it, but last evening we thought a little of the Will of God and how to know it. And we found out that the will of God was not some mystical thing that we can't know, not something that appertains to one or two little problems that meet our life. But the will of God is something that is written about in the Word of God.
And it affects our motivation, and it affects our morals, and it affects our manner of life, it affects everything, the will of God. And we are not left. without a definite recording as to what the mind of God and the will of God is in most of the things that encircle our lives. Tonight I want to talk a little about the worship of God and how to present it. And you will appreciate from my last remark last evening that I believe this to be one of the most important of all subjects. For you will remember, as we were leaving last evening, I made this statement, that there are many, many, many verses that tell us that God conserved in France.
I can give you now fifty verses almost just like that. The tell us that God conserved in France. But please remember there is not one verse. that tells us that God has worshipped him now. He, you and me, is given the most important, the greatest of all privileges, that we must worship the Father in spirit and in spirit. He, you and I have given that to us, but worse than this. And where I think that we will see tomorrow night when we deal with the work of God and how to do it, where I think that the purpose of God is a most important thing, never let us forget that worship always pertains.
No, it is important that we study worship. No, I have a confession. that where worships God and where service God, I will have it very difficult for you. I know there is a strength in which we serve out of our worship, and we worship out of our service. But because the word of God speaks of the two, our separate things, separate things they must be. Although the two run together, so very soon.
David used something for that worship. Maybe from his heart when he cried out in the words of two Samuel chapter seven, he cried, Wherefore thou art great, O Lord, for there's none to this. Oh, what it says. We sang this evening, and maybe we entered a little into worship. We sang this evening. How great, O Lord. I didn't know we were going to sing that hymn. And it was a requested hymn. Whoever requested it was right in the line of what the Spirit has laid on my heart to do.
Wherefore, O Lord, wherefore, well, I pray, O Lord, for there is none. right here. Have we come to realize that? Have you and I come to realize that there's none right under our guard? Oh, there are many gods in the world that men worship. Not many gods in the world, please, please. But many gods in the world that men have made and worshipped. But never let us forget this. That as far as the word of God is concerned, we are left in no doubt whatsoever. that God is, and that God is love.
And God is a consuming fire. And God is life. And God is life. It is not what God has, it's what he is. It is not an attribute of God. It is the very character, the personification of God. and a God that alone can defend. I have come across many so-called gods in my family and in the world. I want to say this often, that I've come across gods that are corrupt gods and cruel gods and cursing gods when I think of the one and only God.
None of those things didn't matter. I remember the first time I ever had the faith in a very real way in Buddhism. I was away in Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia. And I had the faith really for the first time in my life, a vast number of people who were Buddhist. And there were many things I found very difficult extremely difficult to take. For instance, I found it extremely difficult to take their attitude to error. I told these Buddhists who had their feats of burn, mostly asses, junkies, and upon their banks they would lay one such weight that no normal junkies would be expected to carry it.
And I would see them as they beat them and beat them and take them. I wonder how anyone can do that. Still, here's a writer. He served God for so many years, forty-seven years in Malaysia. He said to me, Brother Stein, don't say a word. Don't forget it. What they're doing is because of their God. It is part of their relationship. They believe that when a man dies as he has lived, so he will come back into this scene. If he has lived a poor, evil life, he will come back with a creature, he'll come back with an animal.
If he's lived a decent life, there's a chance he'll come back with a man. Maybe someone higher in society than he is today. When you see him sitting there, please go there too. He's saying, okay, I am doing what my God desires of me that I shall punish the man that now is in that deep forest. So don't tell me it's unimportant who you worship. It affects your whole life. That's why you need to be right to know who is right. And my Bible tells me that that God is God, be God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who is love, who is light, who is light, who is the consuming fire, that that God is God that desires from us, not just God knows, but our worship.
The Lord Jesus, then the Father seeks us out to worship, to worship I am indebted to a very dear friend, away in the town of Laar, on the west coast of Scotland, and to the Mayor's Island. I have a very dear friend who's somewhat aged today, Willie Whitewell. I know not a man. I don't think I have met a man. unless it was Frederick Henry who the Lord had just called how he really was.
But I don't know if I'd ever met a man who could meet God's people in worship more. And I'm indebted to him for what now I'm going to pray. One Lord say morning as we were gathering large around the enemy, the castle was full, very, very much larger crowd than we had the other people. And suddenly, dear Willie Whitelaw rose to his feet, a little feeble in body now. But he said, Reverend, I've been thrilled this week as I've been reading again the last book of the Bible. I noticed that it started off with a solar, a John thing.
Unto him who loved the... and loose us from our sins in his own blood. But isn't it wonderful that our God is too big for us alone? And so next we find there's a quartet. There are four living creatures who are singing, and they're singing unto him, and they're singing worthy of the last. But our God's too big for a quartet. And so he tells us of four and twenty elders.
Oh, sir, that would be a junior choir, wouldn't it? He tells us of four and twenty elders who join their voices and they sing the same. Marbeautiful act. But our God's too big for that. You need more than a solo, and you need more than a quartet, and you need more than a junior choir, so he tells us of ten thousand times ten thousand. I say that was a real command beginning. Why, hear a ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousand singing with a loud voice, whatever you command that will say, and I didn't see him now.
He looked at us and in his quaint Scottish voice he said, Ah, the brethren, ah, the brethren, our God who speaks for that. He needs more than a solo and more than a quartet and more than a junior choir and more than a command for granny. Oh, no, he didn't use that for that well. As the venue goes on, the heritage of all creation came the same song, worthy of the land of the Christ. All brethren, history, whatever else we remember.
Remember this, that our God is worthy of our worship. He's big enough for the praise of everyone. Worthy is the land that was laid. I was stirred, and I'm sure you were, as I was disturbed. Sang the lovely words of the fifth chapter of Revelation. Worthy is the land that was slain to receive power. And Richard, you've noticed this, of course you have. You've noticed this and thrilled with it, haven't you? that everything that Jesus is worthy to receive is what he gives.
May I please remind you of this, that we only see what we give away. Isn't that right? If you think of that in any sphere, we only see what we give away. Do young folk want to have friends? Well, I'll tell you how to get them. He that would have friends must show himself friends. You know, it's a bit of a job to be friendly with someone who's a, you know, all the time in it. The Bible says he that would have friends must show himself friends. You give away friendship and you'll get it.
You know, when I went, well, I went, well, we're all in this school. Well, I left school when I was thirty and a half, but there it was. But I went to an old school where there were fifty boys in a class. You know, isn't there? I hear some of these school teachers today, but that's that. They're there. They have about twenty in a class, and they grumble about two bigger class. You imagine fifty boys in a class like me. Who is it? I don't read a lot like that. I don't read a lot like that. But there were. And you know, we used to find out this, but the way you learned was by giving things away.
We had to learn our tables, you know. Twice two is four. Twice three is six. One very good at Manhattan. And we learned it by repetition, by giving it away, by telling the master it, by keep repeating it. When it came to all power, you know, before he'd learned power, did you think of any interest here? Because you know I can still stand up and say great fortune, don't I? Because I've been in a class before he stayed alive. Have you ever met that brother, who can always remember a book?
Have you wondered how he goes? I'll tell you how he goes. He'll read a verse. And maybe the verse not fits the fact. Worry is the land that was claimed to receive power and riches. And he reads it again. And he reads it again. And then down the road he goes, and he votes across from him, and he says, Did you know I would be the end of this chapter of Revelation today? Worry is the land that was claimed to receive. And he gives it away. He makes it his own. He never makes his own before. He goes down the street a little further and he bumps across someone else. He says, you know I was really in reverence in Christ today.
Where am I? And by the time of the end of the day, he's given that verse away about twenty times. He's made it his own, so never ever did that. Do you want to remember the word of God? You give it away. You give it away. Keep giving it away. And you'll never forget. And this is remarkable. That in the verse after it's just now. Every thing that Jesus received. Worthy as the lamb that was slain to receive. That is what he gave away. Worthy as the lamb that was slain to receive power.
Just your Bible says. To as many as received it. He then gave thee out. We can't remember what he was done. Richest, worthy of the land that was claimed to receive riches. Certainly all the Bible says, though he were rich, for our sake he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. Worthy is the land that was claimed to... What was the third one, sister? Worth.
And I was wondering where he used the land. Oh, I said, Worthy is the land that was... Of course, I'd never embarrass anyone in the life if you know. Worthy is the land that was claimed to receive wisdom. Just your Bible says, Christ is made unto us. And won't James put his end, and he writes, If ye lack wisdom, ask of God, who give up? Oh, please, you go through the sevenfold worthiness of the Lord that our sister sang. And as we think she sang about, is what Jesus gave to those that we trusted.
And because he gave them, he's going to receive them. Here I suggest we have the secret of worship. Here I suggest we have the secret of birth and appreciation of what Christ has given us. And we return to him. You remember when he met the woman at the well? He looked at her and said, Give me to drink. Is it remarkable how quickly he turned away from earthly water and began to speak of water that was not earthly water at all.
So would I not be right in suggesting to you that behind his first request for earthly water, there was a further request for heavenly water. Give me to drink. Isn't it remarkable how we spend so much time in telling people what God will give to them? I said to someone over the past week, now please, I don't know where it was or who it was, because I may all talk to things, do all talk to people. But I said to someone just over the course of a week, as we were looking at the twenty-third psalm, or talking a little about it, I said this, tell me, Is it the shepherd's work to look after the sheep, or the sheep's work to look after the shepherd?
You know this good person immediately said, well it's the shepherd's work to look after the sheep. Well I want to tell you that. You see I come from a tangy where we grow sheep. Will! That's something you don't grow away, is it? You know, all the times I've been here, I've never had a leg of lamb when I've been out to the woods to them. But, oh, if you take my life, you'd have a leg of lamb every week. And you would. I say, let me tell you something about you. I've never left him. We come from a county where we grow to him. I... No need to take him out, Mom. No need to take him out. He'll be all right. If you can't manage, you can't come up to me, I'll preach with you.
Oh, amen. Now let me make something very clear. If you bring the children who may cry, I don't bother. He doesn't bother me at all. Now I mean that. I'm not getting funny. I mean that. Marriott, I preach many a time with children here. Only the first time I've done that. So, children don't bother me. I've just made it myself. They're saying amen. No one else. That's it. You know. It's the best way. There's no better place in the world to bring your children than the chapel. You bring them. The Lord wants to see it. So let's go back and adore this. I said we come from the county where we grow sheep. Well, I tell you something about sheep. I've never yet...
met a shepherd who keeps sheep as a whole. I'll tell you why they keep sheep, because they like a nice wool suit on their back. I'll tell you why they keep sheep, because when Sunday comes down they like a leg of land. Please, the sheep keeps the shepherd. As well as the shepherd keeps Very sincerely, I want to say this. I have a shepherd. Blessed be his name and he gave his life to the sheep.
Keep my faith. I want to be able to say, Lord, I want to give my worship to you that you will see at the prevail of your thoughts and be satisfied. That you'll get something out of the sheep. send our days telling what the shepherd will do for us. We think night will spend just a few moments to think of what we believe in. We are here that we might offer our sanctify of praise to God continues. You know, the first mention of worship in the Bible, you know it, don't you?
I mean, everyone knows it. You were taught it in Sunday school. The first mention of worship in the Bible is Genesis twenty-two. When Abraham said to his servants, Pray here, while I and the lad go yonder to worship. And it's Mariah's manner. It's the darkness that this man Abraham had never entered before. When God says, Abraham, I want you to lay your son Isaac upon an altar. There there was an altar. And there there was to be a sacrifice.
And there Abraham was to learn that God would supply himself a land for a sacrifice. Never let us forget, brother and sister, that that's the first mention of worship in the whole of the Bible. If you and I will know anything about worship, we will come to appreciate an altar, we will come to appreciate a God who's given us the land for a sacrament. Oh, I have said this so many times, and every gospel preacher said this, and you young folk never need to forget that when Abraham stood and answered his son Isaac's question, where is the land?
He said, God shall supply himself a lamb, but never forget he didn't do it. Never forget. If you forget that, you will never understand the Old Testament for you. You were taught in your science school class. You were taught in your Bible class. But that is the fundamental truth of twenty second chapter of Genesis. But God didn't do it. no need for me to tell you people here, although you don't know she here. There's no need for me to tell you the difference between a lamb and a ram. It was a ram that was caught by a corned in the picket and died in the stead of Isaac.
Not a ram, but the promise was God to survive, not a lamb. The Old Testament in every sacrifice, whether it was the morning sacrifice it's the land of God before me. And every one of them the lands of man's before him. One day, looking upon Jesus of the Lord, would you mind me stopping and saying, Hallelujah? One day, looking upon Jesus of the Lord, John the Father said, Oh, the land of God, God said the word, It's true.
A thousand years is a day, and a day is a thousand years. Behold the Lamb of God, who bears away the sin of the world. And when the first mention of worship is associated with that great sin, God shall defiance of the Lamb. And you will never be able to worship God until you know the Lamb of God is your faith. That's the foundation of your life. You will remember, as you turn with me in your talk, to the first chapter of Revelation again. That great sixth verse is it. He hath made us kings and priests unto God. And, oh, blessed be his name, he hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father.
And to him the glory of dominion forever again. for us to remember that it springs from an appreciation of Christ. There is a little verse that is often used, and I want to use these verses that we're all familiar with. There is a little verse that is often used of a Lord J. Moore. You must have heard it here a thousand times like that. Now, maybe that's not exactly. But nevertheless, I want to use it. It comes from the Old Testament. There is a sense in which it is not associated with worship. And yet I want you to see. There is a little verse that's tucked away in the Old Testament.
And this is what it simply says. The thirteen verse of the forty-sixth chapter of Genesis. When Joseph looked at his brethren, having revealed himself to them, he said, Go. Tell my father of all my glory that is in Egypt. How many times have you heard brethren use that verse again? God. I was told as a slave into Egypt. My father told him I was dead.
Go tell my father of all my glory, sir, man. That's worship. Telling the father of all the glory of God. In the verses that we have read in the epistle of Peter, you will remember we were told that we were hurriedly crazy. And we were told we were royal priests. And is not that remarkable as well? Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices except the more than God might be repressed.
Are we doing that? A holy priesthood. I like those words, don't you? He did not say, please, please, no, he did not say, but say, Paul and Peter and a poet and Bartholomew. And he did not say, we are a holy preacher. He's writing to all the believers, and he says, ye are. And is it remarkable? that there are holy priesthood, not an educated priesthood, not a trained priesthood, a holy priesthood.
You see, just previously in the previous verses, he speaks of them as newborn babes. But although they're newborn babes, desiring the sincere work of the milk of the word, he says, but ye are a holy priesthood. Listen, you young people, never you forget that. before God your Holy Spirit. Priesthood is not something that is shut up. The curse of Christendom today, please. The curse of Christendom today is what they term laity and curses. Very nothing in the Word of God to support.
Not one person of Christ. We all are holy priests. All of us. And we are all that prevent our worship. We are. I've sometimes put it this way. I've done it here before I said. But let me do it now. As holy priests and see the difference between royal priesthood and holy priesthood is obvious. Holy priesthood always is associated with our worship. Address to God. World preachers, we go out into the world to represent him, who has called upon his nation's government and his glory.
And praise God, holy preachers, as associated with the throne of God. World preachers are associated with our daily work and our daily work. But as holy preach, there are three things we are ordered to present with our sacrifices. First, we are ordered to present our persons. Romans twelve and one, present your body the living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is said to revive virtue in your intelligent worship. We present our hearts. As holy priests, we present not only our hearts, but as holy priests, we present our hearts.
He who serves it, to sacrifice the praise to God, continue it. Isn't that important? That you and I, the often children, praise the Lord. And as Holy Christians, we not only present our persons and present our praise, but as Holy Christians, please, we present our persons. To communicate and do good, forget not, for we've got to sacrifice God, rather. Brethren, sisters, if we were to lift our giving onto the plane of our places, there never would be a lack in the service of God.
Or how important it is for us to present our person, and to present our praise, and present our faith. As holy priests, as royal priests, we go forth, are you to speak to us? Royal priests that will go forth in this scene, in this world, to represent him, who has called us out of nature's darkness, into his glory. Our worship, our how to present it? First of all, it must be presented in absolute sincerity.
out of a deep appreciation of the Lamb that was slain. It has not only to be presented with sincerity, it has to be presented with consistency. The sacrifice of praise continually is the fruit of our life. And it's the fruit of our life. In other words, brethren, and I want to emphasize this, I believe that it takes as much time to prepare for our worship as it does to prepare for our brethren.
There's not a brother here this evening who, if he were asked to stand here on the Lord's Day evening or Lord's Day morning and preach the gospel, there's not a brother here who would spend time in preparation and time in prayer. you stand here having spent maybe a whole week in preparing what you're going to do. I want to ask you about that. How much time do you spend in preparing for the Lord? When you come to the Lord again, my Father and the Father used to say there are three things that were in prayer meeting, long prayers and long pauses.
There are two things that ruin our worship. Long worship. Long worship. Let's come a tender to worship. You know where a brother seems. During the course of the week of the Lord's Day worship. And you young men, please, you young men, don't you think that when these brethren stand up and lead you? so willingly, so many of them did last that Lord say morning. What a thrill it was to be with you last morning. Really proud that the Lord was getting something out of my life.
But those brethren that took part last Lord say morning, don't you think that it just came spontaneous then? Because they've been walking with the Lord in the week. that they were able to take part in the Lord's way more. You young men, remember, you are Holy Ghost. I wonder if I could ask you, when was the last time some of you young folks thought to me that that was what he wanted? You see, when the Lord instituted this wonderful thing, the communion thing, This breaking of bread, the scripture says, am I saying a hymn.
So we are quite scriptural in having our hymn book. And Godly men have written hymns that will lead us in our thoughts and our workings. And it's important that we are familiar with our hymn book, not more familiar with our hymn book than with our Bible. But for me, And as many a young man, he is. God is looking to offer something for his own heart. Maybe it's the presentation of the head. Maybe it's your family, the one who speaks to him, saying, Lord, please, thank you for being such a wonderful man.
You never know. Oh, how I would love to say, oh, that the fellowship of charity and peace is of worship in heaven. That the Lord looks at you and pray. Right, get and say, good. May it reach us. Pray with me. Amen. The Lord again we bless thee for the wonder that you ever in your love came into this world to speak and to say the Lord.
In the words of the old hymn we want to say, none of the ransom never knew how deep were the waters from, or how dark was the night that the Lord passed through where he found the sheep and was lost. But Lord Jesus, we're so glad that you found this evening. We're those who are. We want nights to say thank you. Please accept our day. And give up as the days come and go, such an appreciation of yourself, that from our heart there may flow to thee the acknowledgement of thy word.
that we ask it in the Savior's name. Amen. Amen. We wish you good night. Wish you well. Please, if there's something I said you haven't fully grasped or understood, I'd love to talk to you. If I can be a help in any way, either pointing you to Christ or helping you in your... Christian life, if I can help at all, I'm your servant for Christ the Lord.