Follow Me - Part 1 — Loran Helm

We're on our way to Reverend Luke Martin's church. He's one of the greatest preachers. He can preach with the big men that I know and I was on my way and had my baby brother Internal Reverend a man now in Washington DC.

He was with me and he was leading the singing and we had to stop along the road just a few miles before we arrived at The church with a flat tire right rear and it was kind of a slant like this. I'm talking about following Jesus having Jesus to help you and lead you and warn you and tell you what to do.

Jesus’ Warnings in Everyday Life

And that car he had it jacked up and he was getting the lugs off and I said, oh Jesus tells me There's something terribly wrong. He said well, there's nothing wrong. I can't see a thing. Jack's fine. No, I said, but he's telling me something is badly wrong.

Well, he said it won't take but a minute. He said I can scoot this off get the spare on I said, but be careful. It's getting worse. It's getting worse. Suddenly it fell down and if he hadn't heard what Jesus told me he would have been crushed to death.

I'm talking about following Jesus. The logs were being cut in the woods for our home built by faith it was the twelfth load. Now the fathers that helped me we'd never been loggers and I had to just go and see how it was done.

You get the skids and so on so these men ministers many of them servants of God were with me and We loaded twelve loads of logs and they didn't have any trouble but the twelfth load they had all on but the last one in the top cut and When they hooked on to that Jesus spoke to me and I said, oh, there's something badly wrong.

They said there's nothing wrong. It's just like it's been all these many many times. I said, but it's different. They said but look at all over at all. I said it doesn't make it was how it looks. God's telling me something's not right.

Now the boys had always followed the logs up the skids so they wouldn't come up crooked. So they'd go into the cup just right. You see I'd be one man away over here and one over there and they would work together and they'd get that log.

The logs would come up the skids together, right? Level. I Said please don't follow at this time because Jesus tells me there's something badly wrong. They said there isn't anything wrong. We can see we've investigated and here had been the hall about Oh 12 15 18 logs to the load and Here was the last log of the twelfth load.

They said it's just fine. I said but it isn't. I said Jesus tells me That there's something wrong and one that log came up that far from going into its cup its place. She snapped on the other side and here he came down see what it crushed these men.

But following Jesus following Jesus through his mercy. He says now this is not going to go right this time. It's gone right all the time until now I'm trying to encourage you to follow Jesus in speaking to souls.

See, I had to wait for years to speak to my brother. I had to wait then you see for the Lord to teach me how he would reveal himself. From the time of conversion to let him lead me. He wants to lead everybody.

The Bible says that the sons of God are led by the Spirit. That's Romans 8 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit they are the sons of God. The Bible said that the sons of God are led by the Holy Spirit and It's God's will because Jesus said that you will be led and guided by his spirit.

He said he will guide you into all truth. And so here he saved the lives of one or two men from being hurt or crushed and all the 50 to 100 and some men that worked on our home built the faith. Not one man had his finger crashing and usually there were 1100 pounds of nails put in that house a 1100 pounds and not one man maced his finger in our house.

I know what I was roofing down for my brother. I maxed my finger. But in the home built the faith God didn't let anybody be hurt. In the woods anywhere the devil fought hard. We had terrible things to get through.

Anything that God leads you in the devil fights it furiously. Everything that God leads the devil fights the power to the air fight hinder. Now if he's not if God's not in it, it just goes along fairly smooth.

And you think this is surely grand. But what God does the powers of this world oppose it. And he wants you to follow him. Wouldn't it be marvelous if I could convince by God's grace someone to follow Jesus this morning.

I mean really follow. Have you ever known anyone to follow Jesus? Faithfully. Continually continuously. Wholeheartedly. Completely and truly. That's what Jesus wants. I've been looking for people that follow Jesus all over the world where I travel.

In all the nations where I travel He's brought me across the United States. We don't know how many times in the last 37 years I'm looking for people that will truly follow Jesus. Not follow what they want not follow what they like.

But follow what the Holy Spirit says. Now whenever you meet someone that follows what the Holy Spirit says you have the inner witness with them. Right here. You have the inner witness. The Holy Ghost gives you a fellowship in the kingdom of God with those that walk with him.

And this is what the whole world is trying to find. All of our young people all of our older people are trying to find this great joy of Jesus. I need more him because I don't have much of Jesus. I have so little of Christ.

I have so little of God. I have so little of the Holy Spirit. I am spiritually bankrupt. He's standing. Jones said they possess the kingdom. Blessed of the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God.

Oh, I'm so poor. I need more of your love. I have so little. I'm so poor. I need more of your wisdom. I'm so poor. I need more of your grace. I need more of your knowledge. I need more of your holiness.

I am poor. I am a beggar. He said it's yours. You take the person says I'm pretty good. I'm about as good as anyone else. They missed the kingdom of God. Yeah, I do this and I do that. I'm not too bad.

I'm as good as anybody else they missed the kingdom of God. We don't enter the kingdom of God by our merit. We enter the kingdom of God by obeying Jesus and following Christ and loving everyone in all the world as Jesus loves us.

Becoming like a little child. He says follow me. Can you hear when Jesus is here? They couldn't hear what he said. There might have been one in thousands that could hear what he said. There might have been one in thousands that care what Jesus said in their heart because the heart is hard.

Hearing the Holy Spirit Through Holiness and Self-Denial

Our hearts are hard. Our heart is so tuned in to earthly things that most men are so tuned in with early things that if you get a message. It is they can't hear what he says. Their heart is hard, it's taken up with pleasure and lust and Certain kinds of earthly cares.

Certain kinds of earthly possessions that the heart is so crested over. It can't hear in here what the Holy Spirit is saying. You say oh that explains a lot of things to me that would tell all of you lots.

That's worth going around the world to know that's a spiritual secret and it's hardly in books. See we mortals are so closely connected with what we like that our heart is so taken up with earthly tones.

And symphonies that we can't get tuned in the heavenly message the heavenly revelation. Jesus Word. Because we're so in the flesh so in self so in criticism. You see if I have a critical spirit, I can't hear what he says to me.

I've got to be cleansed of that critical spirit. See if I have a lustful spirit, I can't hear what he said. You see if I have a rebellious spirit, you see he can't get through to me because of this spirit rebellion.

Or pride. Or if I murmur if I'm full of murmuring, I can't get tuned in to what he wants. That's why he wants us to be a pure and a holy vessel so that he could teach us from conversion. To be inwardly slain to the self-life be inwardly sanctified and pure so his spirit can have full preeminence because as long as you have hate or the slightest bit of hate or contention or rebellion or Any of those envious spirits or covetous spirits, then we can't get the message we get the earthly message.

We don't get the word from God in Christ. Yes, this explains why. That many people have not walked with Jesus because we've walked with man with flesh. He wants he desires that we walk with him. This is not complicated.

This is simple as this if we're willing to yield to Jesus and when you go with Jesus I'll tell you have a little bit of air to go to heaven in. I tell you God gives me a little bit of Heaven right here.

Oh He says in his heart. Yeah, it's in their heart up here. They could tell we're having a little bit of heaven here. I go to a minister like him in and I said we're here for revival, but it's already in my heart Jesus been merciful and there's a revival my heart.

Yes, the peace and the joy and the love of Jesus Christ for all people in the world's in my heart. I love all the peoples of the world. Everyone says the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Everybody. I'm not seeking out or after manifestations or gifts or miracles.

But I'm seeking first the kingdom of God and then God gives all those as he wills. I don't seek after things of earth seek the things of Jesus Christ and that he adds as he can. Trust you to give him all the praise all the glory and all the honor and all the things.

For you must have all honor and all praise he said. But we cannot follow. Only as we walk with him. One way you can follow is to walk. You're gonna follow someone. You get to walk. If you're going to follow you get to walk.

Following is walking after and I spoke about the first. Requirement is that it's possible and I know that we have to read the Bible pray witness and obey. To keep the victory if we don't do any one of those four we backslide in a matter of seconds to minutes or hours or days.

Trust and Obey as the Foundation of Following Jesus

But I could see that without Being willing in the heart to obey Jesus. We're not going to follow him. The cross is an absolute he said if a man's going to come out to me. Let him take up the cross and that crosses in the life of obedience.

So we follow Jesus not by ability not on the lame. Limb of ability or on the limb of knowledge on the limb of strength. Or on the limb of know-how. That's not the limbs. We walk on following Jesus. There's just two spiritual limbs that you walk on following Jesus.

Just two spiritual limbs and they're simple. It's trust and obey. Trust and obey. It's trust. Obey, you're on the limb of trust most the time. But God gives enough muscles in the thigh of it to keep you forever.

Give enough power in the calf of it to sustain you always. But you see why you're trusting you're waiting on God you're praising the Lord you're listening for his voice and as soon as he gives You the leading in your heart.

That's the time to obey and you take the next step right after it. See there you are. Now you're trusting again. You're on the limb of trust after you've taken that step of obedience and you're trusting praising him honoring him loving him and loving everybody In all the world because he's cleansing your heart he can only cleanse the heart of the trusting soul that's submissive and willing to obey him and There's you wait.

He's refining you and teaching you what you're like. And if you trust him and pray for a few hundred hours a few thousand hours He'll begin to teach you what's in your heart and you'll be surprised. And Then you're on that limb of trust until the next time Jesus tells you like he told me to go on the rooftop like he told me to go and do a Certain thing and when he does tell me what to do.

I take the next step of obedience. And there I am on that limb and I'm trusting. I'm trusting I'm waiting. I'm rejoicing. I'm not looking to circumstance because the devil fights hard. The demons of hell are raging you see if you walk with Jesus you the devil's will fight you so severely.

Don't you give up? Keep rejoicing because he that's within you is greater than he is in the world. But when you walk with Jesus the devil will oppose you and tempt you and try you harass you until you're not saying That you really don't love God that you're not really of Jesus.

He'll tell you the awful things you ever heard and if you're going with the devil, he'll tell you you're not too bad. Anyone else you don't have anything to worry about. That's where the devil works and that's what you're confronted with when you walk with Jesus.

But what God leads you to follow Christ we wait until he gives us the guidance. I do wait all those years to come to Thomas and Richard. And as soon as he gives me the guidance I take my next step. And I trust then when he gives me the exit I take my next step and I trust then when he gives me the guidance you see the last Obedience is a springboard to the next leading.

Yes, sir. That's how we follow Jesus. We follow Jesus by trusting obey reading God's Word witnessing and Praying and obeying him. This is how we keep the victory. You see we cannot follow Jesus without these essentials.

Self-denial. See self has to be denied to take the first step after Jesus. That's why many people at the altar never have had that first step because the Lord says witness for me and self says no you're a nuisance.

They'll think you're radical. Don't you say a word for Jesus? They'll think you've gone off on the end of a lamb out there. The self of the devil will tell you the awful things when you're converted and try to keep you from the will of God.

From witnessing I can see that only as you witness for Jesus. Will you experience spiritual growth as you ought and begin to learn how to detect and realize the voice of Jesus Christ. If a person doesn't witness regularly, they will not realize or detect the voice of Jesus.

They will smother it out. The voices of the earth will smother it out. The voice of self-will will smother it out. All that will smother out the voice of Jesus. He says my sheep hear my voice. This tells you why many people have never really walked with God.

They've gone in a pattern. They've gone in a certain idea. Something nice. Not committing adultery, stealing from banks or anything like that, but just walking in self. Jesus said follow me. Yeah, I'm preaching it's for eternity.

I know if I could convince two people to really follow Jesus with all their heart. It'd be a miracle. It'd be miracles. You say well, do you get discouraged? No, I don't look at that. I look to Jesus Because he's the one of them.

Miracles, Missions, and the Joy of Walking with God

I have great meetings in barnyards, cowsheds Cathedrals, I know what it is to sing in Notre Dame and outside, but I was happy down at the barn yesterday as I was in Notre Dame. Yeah, I was just as happy as I was singing to Golden Order, Toledo out of Madrid.

I was just as happy down at the barn as when I saw the Taj Mahal in full moonlight. The Indian maiden that prayed for us to come to India has been to the Taj Mahal in Agra for seven times and never could See the Taj Mahal in full moon.

He told me to leave here September the 21st and we saw The Taj Mahal in full moon. We were timed to the day there. We've been to Jaipur. We've been in we've been in Delhi for some days, hadn't we? We've been various places, but you see he had it all time.

So when we arrived at the Taj Mahal, well James you were with us, weren't you? We got to see it in full moon, didn't we? See thousands, millions of people go there to see it and never see it in full moon because there's clouds.

And here God has all time. He's had me time over the world for 46 and a half years. And I want to thank him, praise him. By God's grace I can get out of the pulpit. I can get to the room. I can get in the restroom.

I can eat. It's by God's mercies. I can make it but he wants you and me to walk with him. Somebody has pain in the head right here and in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Would you be well for the glory of the Lord, would you give him the praise?

Because I don't know, Jesus knows. But would you would you give him the thanks for taking this out, this pressure, either in the nerves or the growth? That Jesus will be having all the praise for it. All the honor.

He said follow me. It's hard for me to stop preaching. I don't want to have to anyhow. Because most people are used to getting out of church, but 12, I just look and I see it is 12. But I really don't go by the timepiece on your wrist.

No sir. I just go by the Holy Spirit. Yes, I know how. I don't know very much about it really, but I'm having a wonderful time endeavoring. Attempting. See I'm only just a little one, the least one he had.

And it is wonderful. I'll tell you this. And I would that you knew of this glorious dream. Oh this wonderful dream is a secret of grace. And I would that this secret you knew. For I dreamed at last I shall look on his face.

And I know that my dream will come true. Oh that you would follow Jesus. Follow Jesus. I have to press every moment to follow him. I've got to die out to myself on the earth to follow him. I've got to die out.

I have to. I just have to say Jesus help me, devil you're a liar, Satan himself. You can't. I'm going with God. I'm following Jesus. It's a battle. It's a person in the kingdom of God. That's why few people have ever entered and walked with him.

The kingdom of heaven shall provide us. And the violent take it by force. Yes sir. On the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is preached.

And every man presseth, presseth, presseth.

With all he has into the kingdom. Yes sir It's worth everything. That's why we're born in the world. And billions of people have been born on this earth And never known the secret of what you're here for.

You are here this morning hearing the secret Of what you're here for God has told us how to follow him Only in the edge of the alpha. And if you will follow him You'll begin the romance and the thrill and the adventure Of the greatest thing of the ages.

And I know we need God. And I know that unless we're under the anointing of Jesus Christ We do more damage Than we do good. That's why I cry out for all those on radio and television If they're not under the anointing of Jesus Christ.

The Anointing of the Holy Spirit in Ministry

On television and radio We do more damage than good. We've got to have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Yes sir I've had people want me on television and radio. And I said, oh Jesus hasn't told me. He just wants me down to this little corner place Down on the low tracks.

He may send me up there one of these days. I don't know. But when he does, he'll be with me. I'll lead him off, off, off, off the back. But when I get there and he's there Glory to God, we'll have a wonderful time Just walking with him.

But it's a serious thing to have meetings And not have the Holy Spirit leading. Dr. Campbell was told by a Puritan That he was going down the streets in London. And the devil was preaching the gospel.

He was so shocked he couldn't believe it. He could not believe it. He went up and he said, you're the devil. And you're preaching the gospel. Why would you do it? He said, if I could preach the gospel without the anointing I'd do more damage than anything else.

Exactly. He said exactly. So you see, all the people on television And radio, they've got to have a lot of help Just like we do. So that the Holy Ghost is in it. Because if the Holy Ghost isn't It turns people off by the thousands and millions.

He tells me by the millions. He tells me now that if the gospel Of the gospel of Jesus Christ is not in the anointing It turns the people's hearts off by the millions. Isn't that tragic? That's what he tells me.

That's why we've got to be sure We're in the anointing of Jesus Christ In the pulpit In the home In the storeroom, in the drugstore On the corner, in the barn In the cathedral In the plane In the bus In the storm or in the rain In the trial or the beauty of the victory.

We must let him have full reign and preeminence. Follow me. Follow Jesus. Thank you for helping us again. Amen. Thank you for the high privilege you've given me To walk with you. Amen. Oh, it's in my heart to talk with you.

Thank you, Heavenly Father, Almighty God Of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That you'd be so merciful to condescend To take nothing servant like we are. That doesn't merit anything. It's nothing that you would condescend To live in our heart.

Thank you for these precious words to listen. I pray that they would surrender this morning And say yes to thee. And truly, truly, truly, rightly, really For sure to thyself to follow And not get into fanaticism.

Not go too far and go overboard. But maintain spiritual balance And live in sweetness rather than harshness. Because we people on the pulpit And we people in the pews Have got to be awful careful. So that we're not harsh or crusty But that we're tender and gentle Only when the Spirit of the Lord comes on In judgment.

And be sure that it's Jesus doing it Instead of the earthly person. Oh we praise you Father for the Holy Spirit Jesus that you sent to us. And Jesus I pray to be faithful to thee And to all my friends And bless my enemies today.

Because I know that my prayer goes instantly through When I pray for my enemies. Because that's what you told all Christians to do. That's one prayer that goes through the throne instantly. It's when we bless our enemies.

And all your people have enemies But they never know who they are. At least I don't Just love everybody. Can't tell the difference between our friends or enemies If we have any. Because when we walk with thee We love everybody the same.

We have respect to persons we commit sin. I thank thee for the Holy Spirit And I joy in peace. And we pray for souls to be saved this morning This afternoon And for hearts to say yes to Christ. Amen. Let us stand.

The Cost of Disobedience

Obedience is better than sacrifice Hearkening than the fat of ram. I'm thankful for His people That is sensitive to His voice And to the work of the Holy Spirit That we may walk with Him in light That He is able to work in you and my heart That through you and through your faithfulness to Him Many souls could be saved As we trust Him.

Each one of us Trust and believe and obey Him. It's urgent to obey. Do exactly what the Holy Spirit lays on your heart. The cost of disobedience is very tremendous. And the cost is high. The cost is great And the cost is endless.

Certain things you can pay for And have it over. But every disobedience Has a cost that never ceases to be. See when Israel disobeyed And cried out for a king When it wasn't God's will for them to have a king.

He wanted to be their king He wanted to lead them. Look at the disobedience of King Saul And his being out of order. And look at the cost What it cost Israel. Look at King David's life And study it And see if you can.

I know we can The measure of the cost Of his order to send Uriah in the heat of the battle And the consequence Of that terrible thing And married his wife. And look at the offspring And what came out of it.

The cost of disobedience is immense. It's vast It's immeasurable. So you see I'm speaking to discourage every heart To disobey. I'm speaking to encourage every heart To mind God and take up the cross to follow Jesus.

Because disobedience Is leading to death and chaos. And if we're only able to convince Peoples of the church to obey Then the church will blossom and bloom and bear almonds And bring forth. And God will bring in and change and transform And change lives.

Because only in the light of obedience Can Jesus Christ be lifted up. He is lifted in a body of believers that obey him That is they have heard his voice They have answered They're following him and obeying him.

That's when the kingdom of God comes. But to disobey you see there is darkness And there is barrenness And conflict and murmurings and criticisms. But in the life of obedience There is joy and victory Rejoicing and thanksgiving And in gatherings The witch is marvelous.

The cost of disobedience Is so much That it cannot be calculated. It's a costly thing to disobey The Lord, to disobey the Holy Spirit. They tell us of a man That God told him not to go to a certain place But he went on anyhow.

And when he went down there He was in kind of a little accident And hit himself And there where he was bruised Began to grow a cancer. And the cost of it was immense. He wasn't supposed to go Wasn't supposed to be there.

When God spoke to Jonah And told him to go to Nineveh He chose to disobey. He made the choice to go to Tarshish. It was a costly thing. It was a hard experience. And so many persons Since the days of Jonah Have decided to go To their Tarshish Rather than to God's assignment Nineveh.

And every person That have decided To go where they want to go Has placed everyone That was with them in a storm. Jonah's disobedience Placed all about him In a terrible storm In a frightful experience.

Most disobedience Brings a lot of repercussion. People say I don't understand Why this all happened. But if you go back to the root of it A lot of it is in disobeying What they were to do long ago Or some time ago.

And so it's urgent for us To be sure we do As the Holy Spirit leads us Be obedient Not disobedient. So Jonah went down to Tarshish. But he was supposed to go to Nineveh. And here this terrible storm arose And the place, the ship This voyage was one of danger And it caused such upheaval.

I don't know how many heart attacks Was a result of it. I don't know how many nervous attacks Was a result of it. I don't know how many people were hurt Because of it In days to come. Just because one man Said he was going to Tarshish He was supposed to go to Nineveh.

Now I don't know how to tell you What would have happened If he had gone to Nineveh right away. I just don't know. Only the Holy Spirit knows. Only God knows What would have taken place If he would have been willing To go immediately to God's will.

But he didn't. His disobedience was costly Fierce and furious. He brought a lot of suffering on people. All disobedience brings untold suffering On people. Just think of everyone in the church of God.

Everyone in every church That's been disobedient. They have brought upon many Suffering that people said Would have averted it If he had only obeyed. And they are suffering. Because someone disobeyed Five years ago, two days ago Ten years ago, twenty years ago.

If they had obeyed They would have been lifted up Got into the kingdom And missed all this trouble And missed death And missed heartaches And missed conflicts And got the right companions To the wrong one.

If a person would have obeyed Twenty years ago Ten years ago. And the others were. They didn't know what to do. But their life depended upon This man's obedience. And it just went on and on and on And it never ends.

Generational Consequences and the Power of Obedience

Isn't that tremendous? Isn't this tremendous? You say I never thought of that before. Well the Lord has brought it to my attention. You see back twenty years ago. Thirty years ago God laid it on a man's heart A woman's heart to do a certain thing.

If they had It would have changed this brother's life This sister's life. And then they Their obedience Would have changed this community. And this one Would change that community. This would have touched That state over there.

This would have changed That condition way over here. That would have changed this church Cause it would be on fire. And after a while I'll tell you The kingdom would have come Yes Say twenty, thirty, forty years ago Like tonight.

Today If everyone would have obeyed The Holy Spirit On their very own It's untold wonder That it would have taken place Out of it. Because we couldn't see here today What the effect would be. It would touch this life.

This life would touch That one over there In the city. That one would touch another one. Maybe the next one Touched ten Maybe the next one Touched a hundred And then a thousand And then a million And more.

If only we would obey And be faithful And consistent In the life of obedience. But likewise It's a reverse Of disobedience. The cost is just As great in reverse. That's why Our prisons are full. That's why Our hearts Are broken.

That's why Many homes Are all upset. It's because Persons disobey Jesus Disobey the Holy Spirit. That's why A lot of people are sick. That's why A lot of people Are in trouble physically. It's because Of disobedience Long ago Boy that hurts my heart.

The cost of disobedience Many children suffer. They grew up suffering Because of disobedience. Backed by a father A grandfather A great grandfather A great great grandfather A grandmother Yes The children have to suffer.

And they say I don't understand Why just God would cause it. It wasn't God's fault anyhow. They disobeyed Way back. Disobeyed way back And brought the aftermath Upon little ones. Yes. That's why They're having brain trouble Right.

Different kinds of trouble. It's because Of situations way back. When we disobeyed God And we didn't know Didn't realize The cost of it Was going to be so immense Because it goes on And on and on. If you get a glimpse of this It'll stir your heart.

It'll stir your heart. Because if a person Would obey the Lord In a certain place Then that obedience You see Would have its effect Upon two or ten Or twenty or thirty. And then they Would have the effect As they obeyed And walked with God.

And then Where does it end? It never ends. Anything that God begins Never ends. He told me that In a prayer room Back twenty-five years ago. What God begins Never ends. Everything that God starts Begins never ends.

Anything that you And I began It's dead at its beginning. We have to push it And prompt it And prime it And try to get it to go Not with God. What He started Keeps on going. It may look like It's dormant for ten years.

Look out. It's going to sprout out Maybe day after tomorrow. See everything That God leads Is alive. It can never end. And He's striving To teach men And women Boys and girls To walk with Him And to obey Him And to follow Him.

It's a wonder story. Jesus wants us To follow in His footsteps. Oh if we could Only get a few people To follow Jesus And do His will It'd be a wonder story. God would come down In His healing power And just clear out The hospitals In the insane asylums.

Amen. Jesus would do it By the Spirit. Souls would be saved Hearts would be changed. They'd be saved in prisons By the thousands All over the country. If everyone were willing To obey the Holy Spirit.

The cost of disobedience Is immense. But the returns Of obedience Is forever And shall be In the Holy Ghost. Be faithful to obey God To what Jesus says. Did you get a glimpse of it? Were you able to get a glimpse of it?

Just a glimmer of it? Could you see just a little bit Of the sight of truth there? It's wonderful. The cost of disobedience Some costs. You could only speak of some costs Not the entire cost. Just a little of it.

And on the other side The returns of doing God's will Faithfully Is forever And ever In beauty and wonder. And the return of bringing in the lambs And the precious ones That need to be rescued And helped And healed And lifted Through Jesus Christ to life.

Closing Prayer: Rest, the Church, and the Precious Blood

Father we thank you tonight for Jesus Who said Come unto me all ye that labor heavily And I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you And earn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart And ye shall find rest unto your souls.

My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Thank you Jesus for telling us this. It's true And we're in Very very much in debt And owe thee all for it. How that he has rescued us Assisted us Lifted us And placed us On the rock.

For you have said I have built my church in the gates of hell Shall not be able to prevail against it. Which is the revelation That Jesus Christ Is the son of God Who gave his life for the church And for all of us That we could be through his precious blood Saved and transformed changed persons Into new creatures New creations.

We thank you tonight Lord For your saving grace Your holy blood to save us The power of the Holy Spirit to guide us. We ask for our nation That our nation could be spared from tragedy And from a terrible aftermath.

I trust oh God that our people will hear And start obeying you. Because I know that if a few people really obey you You'll change the scene In many lives And homes. I know it really works I know it really is precious.