Caleb - a Different Spirit — Gareth Evans

So let's turn to Philippians and chapter 2 like to read portion of that scripture because it does. Come down to earth to us with us together as well as reminding us about Jesus ministry here on earth.

I'm going to read from verse 1 and reading through to verse 11. So if there's any encouragement in Christ any comfort from love any participation in the spirit any affection and sympathy. Complete my joy by being of the same mind having the same love.

Being in full accord and of one mind do nothing from rivalry or conceit. But in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Then each of you look not only to his own interests But also to the interests of others having this mind among yourselves.

Which was also in Christ Jesus? Who though he was in the form of God did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped But made himself nothing. Taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form.

He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross. Going to the lowest for us therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.

So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess That Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And all God's people said Amen.

I'm gonna ask our brother Gareth Evans to come and give us what the Lord has laid on his heart.

From God's Word this morning. Thank you Brian for being obedient to the spirit who's reading that a Little earlier we met together and we discussed what reading we would have today. And I suggested there was no need of a reading as I would take you into the scriptures.

But this morning I got up early to just prepare my heart for this morning. And I wrote in the margin of my notes Philippians chapter 2 Have this mind in you which is also in Christ Jesus. When that kind of thing happens.

That gives me great confidence to know that I have the Word of God for you this morning. In my first church when I passed it in Kitchener, Ontario. I've been a physics teacher for many years. Became a pastor in first church and in my congregation.

I had a young man who was one of my elders. He was just 30 years of age. But every Sunday in the early part of the service he would get up to read a scripture and eight times I say eight maybe just ten maybe two six times in my first year in that church Charlie Lee and Kirkham would get up and read my text.

Not knowing what it was I was going to speak about. You can imagine the confidence I had in those mornings that I had the Word of God. And thank you Brian for being obedient. It must have seemed like a dream every morning when the children of Israel woke.

They'd been born into slavery. All they'd known was the taskmasters of Egypt and. The task was getting harder and harder as they were forced to make bricks with less and less straw. And then a number of calamities that come upon the land there have been plagues of frogs and rivers turned into blood and many other things.

And the climax of all of this was that the time when they would been warned to put blood upon the doorposts of their homes. Lament to be slain. Because the avenging angel that night would pass through.

And as they look back now and that those days it seemed very much like a dream. That they'd been delivered from that and that as a result of that final plague how the Avenging angel had passed over all of Egypt slain the firstborn in every household.

But the children of Israel escaped. There were twenty two thousand seven hundred or so of those who had been delivered from firstborn. I'm sure they would remember it is very vivid in their memories how that they come to the Red Sea.

How that they seen the dust of the pursuing Egyptians. Are they were full of fear until Moses said them fear not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will show to you today. For these taskmasters who've held you in bondage for so many years you see them again no more forever.

And then the parting of the sea. And how they crossed upon dry land. How that a pillar of fire had gone before them by night and a cloud by day. Looking back upon the Red Sea. They saw the pursuing Egyptians being drowned as the waves returned.

As it all seemed like a dream an amazing wonderful dream. And every morning when they walk up there in the beginning of their journey across the desert. They must have pinched themselves to see if it is real in his first few months.

Across the Red Sea Moses met regularly on a mountaintop with God. And the people below looked at the mountaintop. It is covered with a cloud and with flames of fire. They heard that God was meeting with Moses there on a mountaintop.

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. He gave him ceremonial laws concerning the operations of the tabernacle. He described the tabernacle and all the furnaces that would be in it. The children of Israel waiting down below do not quite know what to do with their freedom.

We have many in the church today who do not know what to do with the freedom that Christ has purchased for us. And so they made themselves a calf a golden calf. They wanted to worship God someone so they made their own God.

They began to complain that they were thirsty and so Moses had to strike a rock to bring forth water. And they're amazed at the many things that God is doing among them. It's all new to them for they've never experienced anything like this.

All they've ever known is bondage and captivity. At the end of a few months Moses comes down to them. The tabernacle has been designed and built for the journey. The Ten Commandments have been given to them.

Moses Explains in the laws that God expects them to abide by now that they've come out of the bondage of Egypt. And then God speaks to Moses as Moses. It is time now to inherit your promises. I Promise you father Abraham way back and to Isaac and Jacob, but I would bring them out and bring them into my promised land.

It's time to enter in. You see God did not Bring them out of Egypt in order for them to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. God brought them out of Egypt in order to take them in to Canaan. And all the wilderness was meant to be was a time when God is consolidating to them his Ten Commandments his laws.

The establishment of the Levites as the priesthood. The Levites we read there were 22 ,000 of them. There were twenty two thousand two hundred and seventy of those came out as firstborn. And so the Levites were chosen to replace those the firstborn who had been redeemed by the blood upon the doorpost.

And God said I do not want to take the firstborn from every household. But I want to take the tribe of Levi to be my special people. They would be my priests and all of this was established in the first months of their time in the wilderness.

And then God said Moses, I now want you to go into the promised land. Choose out the leader from each of the twelve tribes and Instruct them to go throughout the land. To search out the land to see where the enemy lies to see what the land is like and to report back to me.

And we read this story found in the book of Numbers chapter 14. And if you will have your Bibles, please and maybe you will turn that to that with me. If you do not have your Bibles with you shame on You.

The Word of God is a sword in our hand. The Word of God is food and to our souls I'm going to paraphrase the scriptures. You know the story well I'm sure many of you if you went to Sunday school would have heard the story many times.

The twelve spies go into the promised land and the journey right through Canaan. And they come back after a few months to Moses and they're making a report of their journey. This is a summary of the report.

It's a wonderful land. It's a land filled with milk and honey. The grapes are huge. Look what we brought back. And he brought back a cluster of grapes that he took two men to carry one cluster. They're all thrilled with the land, but then they add however.

There are giants in the land. And we're afraid of them and we better not not go up because we're not prepared. We're not a we do not have an army do not have weapons. And we cannot go. And all the people we read a full of fear.

At which time two men stand up. Two of these spies stand up called Joshua and Caleb and they full of righteous anger. What do you mean? We cannot go? You saw the land as flows of milk and honey. You see all the promises that this is God's promised land.

God wants to take us in we're going to go in. Those giants have a bread for us. We gobble them up. Oh No, no said the other ten. They're too big we can't go in and the result was That God said these words.

Because they do not trust me. Surely they shall not enter the land except for my servant Caleb. Because he has another spirit with him and he has followed me fully. Him will I bring it to the land and his seed shall possess it.

That is my text for this morning. If you mark your Bibles, this is a good verse to mark numbers. Chapter 14 verse 24. Because of their lack of trust. Surely they shall not enter my promises my promised land.

Except for my servant Caleb because he has another spirit in him. He has followed me fully. Him will I bring it to the land and his seed. Shall possess it. What a terrible judgment God had delivered them from their taskmasters in Egypt.

He brought him into freedom. He had proven himself over and over and over with the plagues and the miracles and the deliverance. The part in the Red Sea the manner how he provided from heaven the water he provided from the rock.

Surely he would be the God he had led them to the pillar of cloud it led them by a pillar of fire at night. Yet now there's an indictment against them. That they were not entering to his promises. They did not trust him.

So for 40 years. Those people who had been slaves in Egypt became slaves to their own decision. And for 40 years they wandered in the wilderness. Oh God was faithful. He provided the manor Day every day.

Great is thy faithfulness. They could sing. He provided quails for they were of meat to eat every day. He led them from oasis to oasis. He was still their God who led them. But they still journeyed in the wilderness with sand in their mouths and sand in their feet and they were satisfied.

Is it possible that the Church of God in Canada in America is living in the wilderness and is satisfied? Is this the abundant life of which Christ spoke? I would suggest to you that the great majority of Christians in our churches today are living a wilderness existence.

In fact, we even sing songs. I'm feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply. Do you remember that song? I Stopped feasting the manna many years ago. When I entered into the promises of God manner is for the wilderness.

Milk and honey and grapes are for the promised land. Come with me, please to the book of Joshua chapter 14. Moses is now dead. He died in the top of Mount Nebo. Having led the children of Israel for 40 years.

He'd been 40 years in Pharaoh's palace, he'd been 40 years tending Millions of four-legged bleating sheep and then he spent 40 years tending millions of two-legged bleated sheep. His one desire for 40 years of leading in the wilderness was to bring them into the promised land.

It's all he longed for. He's a hundred and twenty years of age. And at the end of his days his people beg him again to bring water and he sees a rock and God tells him to go To speak to the rock instead of speaking to the rock.

He smites it with his rod and God said because you've dishonored me. You shall not enter the promised land and Moses dies in Nebo. His young servant Joshua who was one of the twelve spies. He is called to enter into the promised land and lead the children of Israel in.

He leads him across the Jordan. There in the promised land they begin the battles To defeat the enemies and then they split the land up among the twelve tribes. What a sad reflection on two and a half of the tribes that they wanted to save this side of Jordan though.

They conquered into the promised land. They wanted to live this side of the Jordan in the wilderness. They wanted to remain there because they said this is a good land for cattle. There are people of cattle now.

I don't know about you but I was grew up in the country and people of cattle usually get mud on their boots and There are Christians sadly who want to stay in this world. And call themselves Christians instead of entering into the promises of God.

But the other twelve take away two and a half the other nine and a half tribes Want to enter into the promised land so they do and the land is divided between them and then Joshua's friend Caleb Comes to him.

Chapter 14. And Caleb said these words starting verse 6. Then the children of Judah came into Joshua in Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him Thou knowest the thing of the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee when we were back there forty years ago in Kadesh Baniya.

I was 40 years old then when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Baniya to expire the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

And Moses swore in that day saying surely the land whereon thy feet hath trodden shall be thine inheritance and thy children's forever because thou has wholly followed the Lord my God. And now behold the Lord has kept me alive as he said these forty and five years.

Even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. I've been kept alive for 45 years and behold now. I am 85 years old and Yet, I am as strong this day as I was in that day.

The day that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go in and to come out now therefore Joshua Give me this mountain Whereof the Lord spoke in that day for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there the Giants were there the cities are great and fenced.

If it so be that the Lord will be with me, then I'll be able to drive them out as the Lord said and Joshua blessed him and Gave him to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite unto this day because he wholly followed the Lord his God.

What a remarkable man. Last time I stood in his pulpit. I spoke to you let no man despise your youth. I spoke to the young people. I allowed the seniors to listen in. Today I'm talking to anybody who's 85.

I'm speaking to all of you today. Here is a man who we can set our eyes upon is a good example. A man who at the age of 85 still had a passion for God. A Man who said my youth is renewed every day. Because I wholly followed the Lord.

I am NOT. I'm not old enough to retire. I refuse to tire. How do you put a pastor out to a pasture? I do not know. I refuse to retire. I'm more passionate about God today than I was when I was 25. I'm getting nearer to my kingdom.

I'm getting nearer to see my king and I'm getting more excited about him every day. And like Caleb my prayer is Oh God. Give me this mountain where the Giants dwell. There's no time for sitting back and relaxing.

I said my journey is well spent. You know what my personal prayer is. My personal prayer is that the day I die. The last thing I will do upon this earth is to speak a word of encouragement to a young believer.

I Refuse to get old. Like Caleb. I want to be a man who claims the promises of God until the day I die. Give me this mountain as Moses promised me. I am NOT old enough to retire says Caleb. My arm is strong.

I want to come to conquer Giants. Though the others may want to stay back that side of Jordan in the land fit for cattle in the mud in the mire. I do not want to stay there. I do not even want to come in here with the grapes and the milk and honey flow.

I want the mountaintop. Where Giants dwell. Let me take you back to my text. Found there back in numbers 14. I'll repeat it again to you. Surely they shall not enter my land. But my servant Caleb because he has another spirit in him and has followed me fully.

Him will I bring into the land and his seed. Shall possess it. God has his best things for the few. Who dare to stand the test? God has a second choice for those Who will not have the best. I believe the church in North America and in Canada today is living in a wilderness.

And we're satisfied. This is God's second best. God is still faithful. He still gives us manna. He still gives us quail. But there is something much deeper than this something much more richer than this and that is entering into the promises of God.

That promise is only given to Caleb and his seed. And I ask myself when I ask you this morning this question because every message must have a challenge. Are you the seed of Caleb? Are you the seed of Caleb?

Do you have Caleb's nature in you like father like son? I'm the seed of my father. I have my father's character in me. I'm also the seed of my heavenly father. I have the nature of Christ within me as each one of us does.

For my question to you this morning. Are you the seed of Caleb who will inherit the promises of God? Let me describe Caleb seed to you. First of all, we find that they are of the tribe of Judah. The word Judah means praise.

The seed of Caleb will be a praising people a worshipping people. That's the first characteristic. I did not say a singer Christian. I did not say a musical player. I said a worshipping Christian. Worship is far more than singing songs.

We can sing songs and be nothing more than Christian karaoke. I believe a lot of worship songs and a lot of churches. There is nothing more than Christian karaoke. If our hearts are not taken into the presence of God, this is what I enjoy about Shannon.

The others they bring us into the presence of God our hearts should be into his presence where we lost in wonder love and praise. In worship, that's what the purpose of singing this song says. It's not to make us feel good or to warm us up or to give us an occasion to stand.

Praise and worship brings us into the presence of God where our hearts worship them. For he alone is worthy of our praise. That's the spirit of the seed of Caleb. They are a worshipping people. They're of the tribe of Judah in the scriptures.

I read that God is looking for two things. Two people in the Old Testament. He was looking for men and women will stand in the gap between men. The New Testament Jesus said to the woman at the well. God is still seeking those who will worship him in spirit and in truth.

Caleb seed is worshippers. Paul's letter to the Ephesians he exhorts his little readers to be filled with the spirit not to be drunk with her. But we filled with the spirit. And then he goes on gives three Evidences of a spirit filled life and the number one evidence is this singing and make a melody in your heart to the Lord.

It is a worshipping attitude. Don't tell me a spirit filled Christian if you're not a worshipper a Spirit filled Christian will be of the seed of Caleb. The next evidence is that you're thankful in all things.

Don't tell me you're a spiritual Christian. You're not thankful. You're a grumbler. The third evidence is the next verse is being submitted to one another in the love of Christ. Don't tell me you're spirit filled if you're not submitted to one another honoring one another.

The first evidence is that of a worshipping spirit and the first evidence of a seed of Caleb is that there of the tribe of Judah which means worship in praise. The second characteristic of the seed of Caleb is that they're people who wholly follow after God.

How many times did I read in that scripture and I emphasize it for I am a man. He is a man who wholly follows after me says God. Moses give testimony of it. Caleb is a man who follows wholly after God.

And Caleb you're speaking to Joshua says for I have fully followed after God. My vision has been focused on him. That is my target. That is my goal. He is the center of my life. I will fully follow after him.

My heart is not going to be divided between the things of this world and the things of God. Blessed are the pure in heart that means unalloyed with the love for this world, but loving focus only upon him.

Blessed as a pure in heart for they shall see God. And the seed of Caleb are men women whose heart is fully after him. There's no compromise with the things of the world there's no compromise in a divided heart.

But men and women will follow after in their studies in school and Whatever their career is in their job in their work in their home. There's people who live after him and what he says is guidance for him.

And the textbook is the Bible. Not the secular humanism of so much of society. Secular humanism is when man puts himself on the throne. Do you know there is such a thing as Christian humanism? The man still puts himself from the throne, but they call him God.

They worship a God who is to bless them. They become the center of their universe still even though they're Christians. But there's a man who follows after God is focused upon God and his glory. These are the seed of Caleb.

Third thing they have they have said God look at my servant Caleb for he has another spirit within him Philippines to let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. People of a different spirit a people who walk counterculture Christianity.

They do not have the spirit of this world in them. But they have the spirit of Christ and he is living through them. It is a different spirit to the surroundings when all around them a grumbling. They are people who bring peace and thankfulness.

But all around them is secular interest. They the people who live for Christ. They have a different spirit. And all around them is politic in and scheming. They are people of integrity. They do not have forked tongue in talking to one another.

You want to look around you and look at the spirit of the world and the counterculture Christianity is a person with a different spirit a counter spirit to that where you when you're in a group of people and you hear them all talking about their goals for this life and all their Plans for this life.

The counterculture Christian is the person whose spirit is that his goals are centered in Christ. I Had the joy eight weeks ago of leading a young Chinese businessman to Christ. Came to my home. Let's tell you the story actually.

Keep it as brief as I can. We had a Japanese girl living with us for a few years. Just a wonderful delightful girl. She knew the Lord very shallow in her faith. So I attended a Japanese church here in town.

And then she started working for a man who owned sushi bars. You're going to thrifty stores. You see the sushi bars guy owns those as a Christian. A young Chinese, man Vince Victor and he used to come to our home often.

Could he fell in love with this Japanese girl who was an employee? I mean, so he brought the home from work the first day, which is very nice of her manager. He brought home from work a second day, which is always rather odd brought home from work the third day.

We thought hey what's happening here? And by the fourth day we got the picture. But she went back to Japan and then she moved back here and they moved in together. Of course, we were not very thrilled about that, but we could not speak into the light, but they came often to our home and then.

When we're in Australia last year. They emailed us and asked us when we coming back because we want to get married. We want you to be here when we get married. So we give them the date and we came back and then came to see us two weeks before the scheduled day of the wedding at the Laura point in.

And they said our pastor would marry us the Japanese pastor. Why not they said well because Victor's not a Christian. I Said well, I wouldn't marry you for the same reason. I Said I was coming back to your wedding thinking it was already set, but I wouldn't have married you.

I Must say about Victor. He was not angry at the past that he understood. But he said I couldn't give my heart to Jesus. I couldn't become a Christian just to marry you. I echo and I said good that's integrity.

But he said listen Pat Garrett, he said I don't know anything about Christianity. Would you teach me the Bible now? I should have said well, let me pray about this, but I must admit there's moments like that.

I'm rather carnal. And it took me one second or half. So the following week I met with me. He knew absolutely nothing about the Bible. Didn't know what the difference the Old Testament in New Testament was.

He didn't know Christians were called Christians after Christ nothing. So he came to my home in a Friday night and his wife had bought him a brand new Bible really study Bible. So I planned out and I written out notes of a whole synopsis of the Old Testament garden of Eden fall of sin.

Adam and Eve been driven out of God calls him back. He chooses Abram the true people out takes him into the wilderness and all the story with the prophets calling him back and how they rejected all of this.

But I came to the story of the blood upon the doorposts. And I said a Victor I want to remember that. Then I told him about how the lamb was slain once a year in the day of atonement. To cover the sins for a year.

And I came all the way to Malachi the last prophet and after him there's 400 years of silence. God seems to have wiped his hand. Took me 50 minutes to do that much and I said Victor If God wanted to cover our sins for all eternity, what would he have to do?

This young Chinese businessman not known a thing about Christianity looked me straight in the face and he said these words. Well, I guess he'd have to find a perfect lamb. I guess he'd have to find a perfect lamb.

So I said, let me go into the next prophet John the Baptist. As one came after me and not worthy to undo the buckles of his shoes and then he sees Jesus come in. He said behold the Lamb of God and Victor leapt up on his head.

He said the perfect lamb. I said, oh I said I got goosebumps. I Gotta give my life to him. I said hold on. Hold on. Hold on. He said I'm not exaggerating it. I Said if he died for me, I'm gonna give my life for him.

He covered my sins for all eternity. I said, yes, yes. Yeah, but no, hold on. Hold on. See, I do not believe in easy believism. I could have easy. Oh, let's say this prayer. I Want your Victor to really grasp what's happening?

So after a while, I finally said, okay, let's pray. He gave his life to Christ. I Turned to write in his Bible. He hadn't even written his name in his Bible. But the first thing he wrote in his Bible was today June the whatever it was 10th.

I give my life to Jesus Christ. I Said when you go to church on Sunday with a Japanese pastor, I want to go and tell him what you've done. Yeah. Then he stayed for supper. And three hours later, they leave in my home and Victor.

I said to Victor. What did I ask you to do? He's I'm gonna tell my pastor I give my heart to Jesus my life to Jesus good and then I'm gonna ask him if I can tell everybody else in the church. And he did that the following Sunday two days later.

I Meet him every week the two of them for Bible study last week. I met him. He just opened a new franchise in Duncan. This is why I'm telling you this long story. Just open a new franchise in Duncan. It's very successful.

And I said, well, I said God is blessing you. You'll see an empire growing of these franchises. Oh, no. No, he said I'm a Christian now. I've got different goals. That's a man who knows what it is of a different spirit in him because his goals now are focused on Jesus.

It's been a Christian two months. I'm different man. Seed of Caleb have a different spirit in them. They are contrary to the spirit of the world. They do not let the world mold them into his pattern. They do not let the world pressure them to be like the world.

They determine to be different because they have a different spirit in them. The fourth thing about the seed of Caleb is this that their youth is renewed. Caleb said I'm 85 years old, but I'm as young as I was 40 years ago.

I He has renewed my youth. The psalmist says he renews our youth like the Eagles. In my house, if you ever come to my study, you'll see lots of pictures of Eagles there. Because one of my favorite texts is found in the book of Isaiah.

What it says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount upon wings as Eagles. The word wait upon the Lord's got nothing to do with a time issue. It's not waiting as you wait patiently for a bus.

It literally means those who bind their lives together. The word waiting in the Old Testament King the. In book of Isaiah, if you look in Strong's Concord, it talks about three strings being twisted together from a rope.

That's what waiting means and Jesus said the same thing those if you abide in me and I abide in you that is waiting and. The promise is you will renew your youth like the Eagles. And my promise and my text of my life is he renews my youth like Eagles.

That's why I can go up the summit Bible study every week. That is why my heart is still young because I am passionate about God. He renews my youth like the Eagles. My body sometimes has aches and pains, but my spirit is 35 years old still.

Sons of Caleb seed of Caleb their youth is renewed like the Eagle. Why. Because they wait upon the Lord. They are bound together with him. Then this characteristic about the seed of Caleb. Caleb said I want this mountain.

I'm not satisfied with the plains. I want this mountain and the mountains name is Hebron and the word Hebron means Fellowship, this is a man who hungers at the fellowship with God. It's a man who's not satisfied within planes.

Enjoying the blessings of God even the milk and honey. He's not satisfied with these things. He wants the fellowship of God. That's why he spends time in the presence of God. That's why his morning devotions are important to him that he might fellowship with God on Hebron Heights.

Does this describe you. Do these words describe you? Are you of the seed of Caleb? But it's only the seed of Caleb are going to inherit the promises of God. And the last thing about this characteristic of the seed of Caleb is this they conquer giants.

He didn't ask for Hebron because the view from the top was wonderful. He asked for Hebron because the Giants dwelled there. That's what he wanted. Give me the Giants bring them on man. Bring them on 85 years of old.

I don't care how big and strong they are. Give me the Giants why. Because my God is able to conquer them. My God who put down the walls of Jericho is able to Defeat the Giants. Are you a giant slayer this morning?

Because the most famous giant slayer in the Bible was David you remember the story of David and Goliath. Did you know that David almost died just a few months few years later with Goliath's cousin? Remember the name of Ishbi Benalp Giant Ishbi Benalp came and he was about to conquer David because David had been weakened by sin.

Sin always conquers sin always weakens. And in his weakened state the giant was about to slay him until his own nephew came and delivered him from the giant. But the children of Caleb the seed of Caleb are people who conquer Giants.

I have a poem here Written by AB Simpson Albert Benjamin Simpson who was a leader a godly man great leader in the 19th century. Forbidden forgive me to read this poem to you. There is a foe whose hidden power the Christian well may fear.

More subtle father than inbred sin and to the soul more dear. It is the power of selfishness. It is the willful. I. And air my lord can live in me my very self must die. There is like an ex sons of all the race of Giants still self-glory in self-confidence self-seeking and self-will.

Still must these haughty anakin by Caleb sword be slain air hebron's heights of heavenly love our conquering feet can gain. Or save me from self will dear Lord which claims thy sacred throne. Or let my will be lost in thine and let thy will be done or keep me from self-confidence and self-sufficiency.

Let me exchange my strength for thine and lean alone on thee. Or save me from Self-seeking Lord, let me not be my own a living sacrifice. I come Lord. Keep me thine alone. From pain glory save me Lord from pride of praise and fame to Christ be all the honor given the glory to his name or Jesus.