The Happy Man 06 Gratitude of Redeemed — James K. Boswell

Psalm number 116, the psalm our brother read from last night, Psalm 116. Two colored brothers met, and one said to the other, be you in the Lord's army? He says, yes, I'd be in the Lord's army, instead I'd be a Baptist.

You'd not be in the Lord's army at all, you'd be in the Lord's Navy. Another fellow met the other day, and he said to his friend, he says, he says, can you tell me what is an apostle? An apostle, said the other one.

No, I don't know what an apostle is. I said an apostle is an Episcopal's wife. And of course, only, well, we understand. Psalm 116, verse number one, I love the Lord. The three, four letters at the end of the psalm.

Praise ye the Lord. Got it? I love the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. When it says praise ye the Lord, that means in particular. You know what I saw just now? You know what I saw just now? Well, somebody just yawned.

And you know something? They didn't even cover their mouth up. Hadn't they been sitting so far back, I might have seen their tonsils. Now, I won't look at them just now at least, and not for a little while.

And don't you come up and say, I'm sorry, Mr. Boswell, I yawned because it may not have been you at all. So there you've got the four little words, I love the Lord, and it closes with four little words.

Praise ye the Lord. When it says praise ye the Lord, that means in particular. When it says praise the Lord, that means in general. Psalm number one starts off as a solo. Then we find the psalm beginning to develop into a duet, a trio, a quartet, quintet, and it comes right on to Psalm 150.

And you've got the whole choir, and all the heaven's orchestra there, and it says when everything has got bread, praise the Lord. And have we great cause to praise him? I'm sure we have. Now tonight, I want to talk to you for a little while with this psalm open as a man before conversion and after conversion.

The Four Stages of the Redeemed Life

A man before conversion and a man after conversion. Dr. James Neustadt, who is a chest specialist working in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was ministering with me at a conference some time ago in another part of Ontario, and he opened this psalm like this.

If you remember him, some of you do. He's a tall fellow, much taller than I am. That was an earlier conference. The next week we were together Edmonton conference away out in Alberta, and they took a picture of us, and they called us Muffin Jack.

He was away up here someplace, and I am where I am. You see, there it is, such a contrast in the height, but a ministry dovetails very much one into the other. I just finished on the theme, the great need among us today for each and every believer to fall in love with Jesus Christ.

He got up following me, and he read these four words, I love the Lord, and the meeting's divided, the schedule's divided into three sections. He looked at this section and said, I love the Lord. Do you?

Do you? I do you. Now, what did you answer? If you don't love the Lord, you're going to praise the Lord. No doubt about that. You just can't love him without knowing him. That to know him is to love him, and to love him is just to praise him, your heart simply overflows.

Now, I want to give you this theme tonight under four little peas. We've been looking at quite a number of peas, and I want to give you a few more tomorrow morning in the study class. So good to see such a nice number coming out at 10 o 'clock in the morning, and recognizing you're such a busy crowd of people.

It means, you see, you're taking time off for that brief hour, and tomorrow we shall continue our studies in the joint love letter. But now here we have four peas. One, we're going to look at this man, firstly, under conviction.

We're going to look at him under conversion. Then we're going to look at him under consecration, and then we're going to look at his consummation. Did you get them, four little peas? Conviction, conversion, consecration, and consummation.

A friend of mine was preaching at the higher field meetings in Glasgow, Scotland, and he spoke in seven different ages, like salvation, sanctification, justification, and so on. Then he had to leave that conference and go and talk at another conference.

So the man who followed him got up and said, our brother has been speaking on seven different ages. He went over them all. Now he says he's left and gone to the station. I do hope he reaches his destination.

Here's him when I've only got four. Here they are then, as a convicted man. Now look please, and I want you to get this, God's greatest dealings with mankind have been essentially the same in all ages.

We're saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should bow. There is no real conversion to God apart from conviction of sin. A person must recognize his or her need of the Lord Jesus before they come to him and yield their lives entirely to him.

Conviction of Sin and the Need for Christ

So, as a convicted sinner, in verse number three, the very last phrase that Sam has said, I found trouble and sorrow. He's talking here now as a convicted sinner. Notice the context of that same verse.

The sorrows of death contempt me, the pains of hell behold upon me, I found trouble and sorrow. Now here is a man who is unprepared to meet God. He's not ready to go into eternity, and the sad reality of eternity is now gripping his heart.

And while this is telling him in the face, he says, I found trouble and sorrow. So it says that every man and woman and boy and girl that is never coming to a personal relationship with God will face in the Lord Jesus Christ, for Christ said, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

Unless we come to God through Jesus Christ, there is no salvation, there is no peace, there is no joy, there is no forgiveness. We must come to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, look at this man.

He finds trouble and sorrow. He finds the sorrows of death compassing him, the pains of hell laying hold upon him. Now, look down please to verse number six. Right in the middle of the verse, it says, I found trouble and sorrow, but then he goes on here to say, I was brought low.

I was brought low. Now, this may be a very humiliating experience, but beloved, it's a surest way of blessing. It's a principle running right through scripture, that if we humble ourselves we shall be exalted, but if we exalt ourselves we shall be humbled.

The Bible says, every eye shall see Christ, every knee shall bow to Christ, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, the glory of God the Father. Again, the Bible says in Psalm number 72, they shall come from the north and the south, the east and the west, the high and the low, the educated and the literate, the bond and the free, the rich and the poor, they shall come and bow down before him, and his enemies shall lit the dust.

We must either bow the knee in this day of grace, acknowledge him as our Lord and Savior, or we must do it in the hour of judgment. But every knee is going to bow to him, every eye is going to see him, every tongue is going to confess that he is Lord, the glory of God the Father.

Friend of ours, coming across from Britain in one of those great transatlantic liners, a young man coming to us for the very first time from England. He was accosted by a trio on the boat asking him to play a game of cards.

They wanted Paul to play the card, and he, gentlemanly, well-mannered, well-groomed, well-educated, good-looking, with a steel arm or better outfit as John Williams. And so here it is, he's coming across for the very first time, and here this young man was asked by these friends to play this game of cards.

In his own sweet, polite way, he declined, saying, I've never played cards in my life. My mother always taught me cards of the devil's Bible, and never to touch them. He said, I always had a great regard for my mother's judgment.

But he said, if you don't mind, I'll read your fortune from the cards. They couldn't quite understand why he wouldn't play cards, yet he would read their fortunes. He asked for the five of spades, and he held up the five of spades and looked, there are two here, one in the center and two at the bottom.

The two at the top here, every eye shall see him. The two at the bottom, every knee shall bow to him. The one in the center, every tongue will confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. This will stay up here one day, if the Lord be not come will dig my grave, for me it will be very much better.

This will stay down here one day, will dig your grave, for you, what then? Needless to say, he never saw in playing cards the rest of the voice. Every eye shall see him, every knee will bow to him, every tongue will confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

I fear you, who have bowed the knee in this day of grave, and all in and out your Lord and as your Savior, what joy is your joy? Going round Edinburgh castle, there was a lady and she was being guided around by the guy there at the castle, going into one place, the other historical places there, and seeing many interesting things.

When they came to the jewel room, where all the wonderful gems and precious stones are, you got to stoop, you got to bend to get in to see those wonderful gems. When the lady came to this particular main door, she said to the guy, is this the only way into the jewel room?

Said, yes madam, it's the only way. She frowned her head and said, well I won't bother seeing them, and she passed by. She was too proud to stoop. Beloved, many are going to miss the splendors of yonder glory, because of being too proud to bend the knee to the Son of God, and acknowledge him as a Lord and Savior.

The Bessama said, I was brought low, and he helped me. Verse 10, the very last sentence says, I was greatly afflicted, I was greatly afflicted. Now notice please what it says in verse number three, I found trouble and sorrow, I was brought low, and then he said, I was greatly afflicted.

The sermon said, before I was afflicted, I went astray. The hymn writer's saying, affliction though me seem severe, in mercy of the saint, they stopped the prodigal's mad career, and called him to repent.

My little mother used to say, sometimes God's got to break somebody's back, before he can reach another path. I just finished conducting a wedding, I just had conducted a wedding in Brantford, Ontario.

The following Wednesday, I got a long distance phone call, would I go back to Brantford on a Saturday to conduct a funeral service. A man had been at that wedding on a salary from Flint, Michigan. I was leaving on my Wednesday morning for his office.

He just kissed his wife goodbye, went up, shut the door, and he dropped, and he went to heaven. For him, it was absent from the body present for the Lord, which is very far better, and he'd been a native of Brantford that brought the body back to Brantford.

God give liberty and willpower in that particular funeral service. The following Wednesday, I got another letter, this time from the widow, saying the letter was going to be filled with a mixture of joy and sorrow.

She says, I do miss my husband, and I sorrow not as others which have no hurt, because we're going to be reunited one day. She said, I want to share a joy with you. Our eldest son would say that the funeral service on Saturday afternoon, full of joy fills our heart, but full of sorrow, to think that God had to take the father before he could reach the son's heart.

God had to take the father before he could reach the son's heart. Affliction so may seem severe in mercy, Oxford said. Now, get the picture, because I must hurry. I found trouble and sorrow. I was brought low.

I was greatly afflicted. Now, please notice, the troubled, sorrowful, humiliated, and afflicted soul cries out in verse number four,. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver myself.

Here's a cry ringing from the convicted sinner now. He recognizes the trouble and sorrow. He recognizes humiliation. He recognizes the affliction, and from it all he cries, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

You see, he goes to the right source. He calls upon the right person. He calls the right name, for the Bible says, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If thou should confess to thy love Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

O beloved, listen now. This troubled, sorrowful, humiliated, and afflicted soul, having called upon the name of the Lord, he's led into rest. He's led into joy. He's led into exultation, and he's led into glorious comfort.

Yes, beloved, the Lord heard, and he responded immediately. You'll hear the cry ring from your heart tonight. If there should be one in this very fine, intelligent congregation who recognizes your need of the Lord Jesus, from the corner of your own heart you can cry, Lord, save me.

Lord, have mercy upon me. Whatever the cry may be, his ear is open. His hearty journey is coming towards you. Oh, just cry tonight. Lord, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

This can be your great joy tonight. Then call thy upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Now go to verse number eight, and let your heart exult. Now it is said, that thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

Conversion: Salvation, Joy, and New Life

O friend, there's a language now of a converted man, the language of a sinner claimed by grace. My friend, the pangs of conviction have gone and gone forever. And he says, thou hast delivered my soul from death, there is salvation.

Mine eyes from tears, there is a song. My feet from falling, there's the strength. Isn't it wonderful? Did you get those little essays? My soul from death is salvation. Isn't that just wonderful? He removes the tears now of contrition, the tears of repentance, the tears of sorrow, the tears of grief.

And he removes the tears, and in that place he brings a song. It's a song of a soul set free. We were singing a moment ago, he lifted me up, yes, up onto the mighty clave. He put a new song into my mouth, even praise unto my God.

When the children of Israel were down in the land of Egypt, there was no singing or praising there, plenty of grumbling and grousing and complaining, but no song. Once they left the land of bondage, crossed the Red Sea, standing on resurrection ground, they looked back at the old seer, they looked back at all the enemies dead upon the seashore.

Then sang the children of Israel, The Lord has triumphed gloriously. The Lord is all the glory. The Lord is all the triumph in praise. The Lord has triumphed gloriously. The horse and the rider is cast in the depths of the sea.

Little Pharaoh remember, little puny Pharaoh, so boastful in his own estimation, very egotistical. And he said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will destroy. And the Lord just blew a little pop of wind.

He went down into the ocean, all these mighty men with him. Ah, you see what I'm getting at, my friend? You see, you're dealing with the almighty God, the almighty God. And my friend, when you call upon him, Lord save me, Lord remember me.

He hears that cry immediately. He responds straight away. Then your heart's going to cry, Lord, you've delivered my soul from death. John 5, 24 comes in here. Verily, verily, I say unto you, give us my word and believe it on him that let me have everlasting life and shall not come into judgment but is passed from death unto life.

You've come from a condition of spiritual death. You have gotten into a state of spiritual life. My friend, I want you to get that tonight. Not only did you become the possessor of eternal life, which is absolutely wonderful, but salvation brings you right out of a state of death into a state of life.

It brings you out of a state of darkness into a state of light. It brings you out of a state of hatred into a state of love. It brings you from bondage into liberty. That's what salvation means, you know.

It says in Religion, chapter 1, verse number 4, Who gave themselves to bear away our sins and to deliver us from this present evil age. The very same night the children of Israel applied the blood, that same night they left Egypt.

And the moment you were born again by the Spirit of God, God brought you out of a dead sphere into a sphere of light. He brought you from darkness into light. He brought you, my friend, from bondage into liberty.

It's a wonderful thing to be a child of God, isn't it now? Amen? I want you to get this, my friend, deep down in your own heart tonight. Let it really reach you. I love this when I come to verse number 8.

It says, Thou hast delivered my soul from death. He is my Redeemer. He's given me salvation. And it says, He's given me a song. He's my comforter. My feet from falling. My friend, He is my keeper. He's given me strength.

Now, did you get the picture? He is your Redeemer. He is your comforter. And hallelujah, He is your keeper. Some people say, I would be saved, but I don't think I could keep it. No, you could not keep it, neither can I.

Thank God, He's the one who does the keeping. And in fact, it says, You are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. Oh, the wondrous glory of joy. Now, come with me, please. Verse number 10.

It says here in verse number 10, I believe, therefore have I spoken. Isn't this lovely? You see, you believe with your heart and you confess with your mouth, Jesus as Lord. Oh, am I going to fast for you tonight?

Am I hurrying through too much for you tonight? Friends, I would love to dwell on verse number 8. I love to spend all night on verse number 8. And I want to get this, are you in the good of verse number 8?

Do you know the salvation? Do you know the song? Do you know the strength? Do you know Him as your Redeemer? Do you know Him as your comforter? Do you know Him as your keeper? Oh, my friend, if not, why not tonight?

Why not tonight? No better opportunity than right now for you to open your heart to the Son of God's love, and know Him as your Lord and as your Savior. Verse number 10. I believe, therefore have I spoken.

You believe with your heart and you confess with your mouth, Jesus as Lord. Maybe tonight someone's not in the good, not in the joy of their salvation, or truly have believed on the Lord Jesus. Truth is said, come into my heart, Lord Jesus, but you've never told anyone about it.

And you wonder why there's no joy. You hear others talking about joy or talking about peace, talking about an appetite for the Word of God, and you wonder why. It may be just here. You've never opened your mouth or confessed, Jesus Christ as Lord.

And I want to tell you something. Confession with the mouth is bundled up with God's plan of salvation. And the Lord Jesus said, if you confess me before men, I will confess you before my Father, which is in heaven.

Psalm 107, verse number 2 says, Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. There's the whole thing. And if you have the lead in your heart, then say so. Illustration. Happened in Calgary, Alberta. We're having a gospel crusade there.

We'd been there the year before for eight weeks. And I took a young man back with me who's now in Africa. I hope to see him at the beginning of next year, called Colin Anderson. We were there for seven weeks this particular time.

And this particular night, while others were wending away into the inquiry room, a married sister and her younger sister, a college girl, left auditorium in tears. The married girl was crying because of the conviction regarding her young sister.

She longed to see her faith. So they said to her, Grace, why don't you go back tonight? Why don't you get the matter settled? She said, no, let us go home. That was one Wednesday night. The following Wednesday, we're speaking in the highest rules of the auditorium there.

We'd just finished speaking when the board rang in the principal's office, when we go to this particular house. So Mr. Anderson and I went along to this home. When we got there, from some part of the house, we don't know where, but this girl came running.

She just jumped right at us and said, Uncle Jim, Uncle Jim, I've got something to tell you. I said, you don't need to tell me, Grace. I can see it. I can see it. I said, I want to tell you. Well, go on.

I'm saved. Wonderful. When were you saved? She said, last Wednesday night. I said, I've been as miserable as anything for a whole week. I've been the most miserable girl in the world for a whole week.

You were saved last Wednesday? Yes. I said, why were you saved? She said, well, why was I so miserable? Because I didn't tell anybody until today. I said, I told my colleagues at school I was saved and something happened inside me.

A joy filled my soul. Then I told my sister. Then I told my brother-in-law. Now you want to tell Mr. Anderson and you. And my friend, I turned back and said, well, you jolly well deserve to be miserable for a week.

You have to believe and your heart never told anybody about it. I can understand that, can you? Oh, I'd love this to come down to your heart tonight. I really would. The joy of the Lord will flood your soul.

You believe with your heart, not believe with your mind, not believe historical facts concerning Jesus Christ, but you believe and you receive him into your heart. And once you receive him, you receive life and life eternal.

Isn't that beautiful? Look at verse 13. It says here, I will take the cup of salvation. See, that's why there's going to be more Scots people in heaven than any other nationality, because salvation is free.

And you take, you take, you see. I will take the cup of salvation. Salvation is receiving. Sometimes I will be saved, but I couldn't give this up. I couldn't give the next thing up. I want to tell you frankly, you're not asked to give anything up to receive Christ.

You can't give those things up on your own strength. A little girl, her mother had stowed a few old rags together and made a doll, a little rag doll, an old-fashioned rag doll. All the comfort, all the joy, all the satisfaction, that little treasure got out of that doll.

Every place she went, the doll had to go with her. All that doll was gone. She couldn't give that doll up for anything, not for anyone. That doll was her constant pride and joy. One day the father was kissing her goodbye to go away to the busy city.

He started holding on to her doll. He went into one of the big departmental stores. He bought a big, I know, walkie-talkie doll with real hair, you know, one of those little mammy dolls. And he brought it home.

There she is holding on to the little cross doll, you see. What a joy she got out of that doll all day. But now he unties the string. He undoes the parcel. And then he holds up the doll. Look, daddy, look.

And whenever the little girl saw the doll, she rushed across. Oh, thank you very much, daddy. And receiving a new doll, she dropped the old doll. True, what she could not give up. And what brought joy and satisfaction to her for so many months and years, now when she received a new doll, it simply dropped.

And I tell you, friend, tonight, that very thing you think you could never give up, that thing you just feel, I could never leave that aside. You haven't got the strength and the ability. Once you receive Christ, He gives you the strength.

Once you receive Christ, He gives you the power. And if there's a willingness within your heart tonight to receive Him, He'll give you the strength to let go. And the thing you thought you could never give up, your fun will automatically drop.

Because Christ has come into your heart. I will take that cup of salvation. Oh, isn't this just wonderful? Now, now switch back to verse number one, will you? I love the Lord. Do you? Do you? Now, let's be honest about this.

Consecration and the Lordship of Christ

Now, this is for the Christians. I've been talking now regarding a convicted man under deep conviction. I've been talking now about a converted man. He's come through conviction right into conversion.

And I repeat with all my heart, there's no real conversion to God apart from conviction of sin. I've no time for a mere believerism. I've no time for a mere cheap evangelism. There must be a death or resection of Jesus Christ as Lord.

You're not asked to receive Christ as Savior. Not in one verse of scripture. You're asked to receive Him as Lord. And there's no real salvation apart from submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And He's not Lord of all.

He's not Lord at all. This man be pampy, wishy-washy evangelism is going around today. My friend, listen. There's a cheap, a cheap evangelism regarding sin and the condoning sin. We must say sin, but in the life of the believer, but in the life of the unbeliever, their cheap thoughts about sin is their light thoughts about God.

That's called catastrophe. He is Lord. He is Lord. When you're born again, you're no longer your own. You belong to Him. You're His and you're His forever. What a wonderful joy that is. And now that as a believer, you look up and say, I love the Lord.

And I would suggest something to you, that this is my friend, the first evidence of new life. You'll love Him because you know Him. You can't know Him without loving Him. I love the Lord. You know something?

I very seldom talk of my love for the Lord Jesus. It's far too spasmodic. It's far too erratic and cold in contrast to His knackless love. It's always so warm and loyal, sincere and true. But I can say humbly, and I trust it all sincerely to deny, I love the Lord.

I love the Lord. It's a principal element in consecration, because you recognize all that He's done for you. That in the heart of gratitude, in the heart of love, my friend, you'll surrender your whole life to His authority.

You're coming from your heart, you're crying, take my love, O Lord, I pour, as I see this treasure store. Take my self and I will be ever only all for Thee. Or as many would only see this at the initial step in salvation, that I'm no longer alone, I belong to Him.

Ever saving from many a pitfall, from many a danger, and from many a snare, from many a doubt, is to recognize the fact that no longer at all, just like in the marriage service, you belong to one another.

You've said, I will, and I will, of committal. You belong one to the other. You don't go flirting around with some other man, or flirting around with some other woman. If you do, you ought not to. You belong to.

You're in possession of another. And when you're born again, you're married to Jesus Christ. Death may sever the marriage bonds down here, but you're bound to Him eternally with love's strong cord. A bond that can never be broken, neither death nor life can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isn't this just wonderful, my friends? Oh, aren't you glad you're in Christ? Aren't you glad you're a child of God? Have you not to say, I love the Lord? I love the Lord. The principal element in consecration, and the first evidence of new life.

I love the Lord. Do you love Him tonight? It's because you're born again. Because you're a child of God. You love Him because you know Him. Now look, please, at verse number 12, I think it is. Verse number 12.

Gratitude Expressed in Giving and Worship

The other direction is, My soul, dear Saint Peter, what shall I render? What shall I render? You know, this does not do something in your heart. He's just so happy now. He's just simply bubbling over now.

The child of the Lord is so real to him now. Why? He's come through conviction into conversion. He's a consecrated man. He says, I love the Lord. And now his whole heart goes up and says, What shall I render?

What can I give to the Lord? Some people have got the gimme's. You know what I mean by the gimme's? Gimme this, and gimme the next, and gimme, gimme, gimme. But the heart is in touch with Jesus Christ.

What can I give the Lord? What shall I render unto the Lord for His benefits toward me? Some people often ask me, Why is it in your public gathering you never have a collection? Or a free will offering, passing the basket and so on.

I look and say, My job's to catch the fish. Then I find the coin in the fish's mouth. Did you get that one? Did you get it? That's it, my friend. That's it. Now I want you to think of this through tonight.

Once you're born again by the Holy Spirit and brought into a family of God, your heart's only open, your purse opens, everything opens up, and you see your His spirit and soul and body, your time, your talent, all your treasure belongs to Him.

And now from my heart I tell you, What shall I render? What shall I render unto the Lord? I know what would happen if you knew that those boxes back would have to be overflowing. That's true. That's a love for the Lord.

What shall I render? What can I give to the Lord? You're not giving it to the evangelist, or giving it to the Bible teacher, or to the conference center. You're giving to the Lord. Oh, how wonderful. Isn't this just true now?

Isn't it real? Isn't it vital in your heart? Of course it is. What shall I render unto the Lord? Please go down to verse number 17, I think it is. I will offer this sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

Isn't this precious? You see, He's just bubbling over now, and now He's a worshipper. He's worshipping. I said the other night, now I repeat it, a thankful heart from a heaven-chosen gift. Wherever you've got a thankful heart with it, there's a praiseful disposition.

The two go together. What shall I render unto the Lord? I will offer the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving. I will call upon the name of the Lord. And now here's this worshipping heart. The one who knows how to adore, how to worship, as a result of that wonderful contemplation in Psalm 45, the part of the night.

He's contemplating his Lord. He said, My heart inducing a good matter. My heart bubbling up. My heart is overflowing with good matter. I speak of things I made touching the King. My tongue is a pen of a ready writer.

Dark hair in the shoulders of men. Grace is all inside it. He's the all who get to love me. He's the fairest of the fair. And, O beloved, because of this, tonight you say, what shall I render? I will offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Are you a thankful Christian tonight? Really? You thank the Lord with all your heart for all he's done for you, for all he's doing for you, and all he'll yet do for you. The wonder of it all. Now look at verse 16.

He really says here, Lord, I am thy servant. I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bond. Isn't this wonderful? See what I'm getting at, children of God? Now you look up and say, Lord, I am thy servant.

We're saying this in these morning gatherings. Lord, I am thy bond slave. I am thy servant. Lord, I am thine. I'm thine. O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to thee. For thou and thine atonement give thyself for me.

I own no other master. My heart shall be thy throne. My life I give henceforth to thee. O Christ, I fall thee alone. And tonight may I ask you very lovingly, whose servant are you? Remember Jehovah said, let my people go that they may serve me.

The slave to sin cannot be the servant of the Lord. Oh no, let my people go. For because we've been emancipated, we've been liberated, we've been set free. Now we'll look up and say, Lord, we are thy glad vessel.

Make me a captive, Lord, and I shall be free. Force me to render up the strong and I shall conquer thee. Reign over me, Lord Jesus. Reign over all within. Make me a loyal subject to thee in everything.