Just Keep on Coming — Jack Hyles

The Holy Spirit’s Invitation to God’s Supper

Look at verse 17 again, "...he sent his servant at supper time," by the way, the certain man that made the supper, and if you'll follow very carefully I think you'll get the line of the message earlier, the certain man who made a great supper is God the Father.

"...he sent his servant at supper time, to say, Come, for all things are now ready.". That is, as he sends the Christian in the power of the Holy Spirit. Now the servant there is the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit has no body but our bodies.

So as we go in the energy of the Holy Spirit, we say, Come. Now the supper is salvation. You see, the man who made the supper, that's God. The supper is salvation. The one's invited are the unconverted.

The servant who goes out to invite the Holy Spirit as he goes with us and through us. Now notice, he said, Come. This certain man made a great supper. "...he sent his servant at supper time, and said, Get baptized.".

No, that's not the way you get God's supper. Well, let's see. A certain man, "...sent his servant at supper time, to say unto them who are bidden, Come, or pardon me, or join the church.". No, that's not the way you get to suffer.

"...son, on the front of the altar, sit up straight now, and look at me. You bother the folks behind you, and sit up straight. Put your feet down, sit straight up now, and look at brother Hiles while he's preaching.".

All right. "...and he sent his servant at supper time, and said, Turn over a new leaf.". No, you don't get God's supper or God's salvation that way. There's one simple word. Come. That's it. When a person knows he's lost and knows that Jesus is the Savior and comes in faith.

That's it. Come. Now, why could he come? For all things are now ready. All things are now ready. You can't come till all things are ready. Did you ever stop and think? I don't know if you ever have enough, but think about this for a minute.

God never says come till all things are ready. Never does. Now, think with me for a few minutes. God didn't even make a blade of grass in creation until he had prepared the soil, the atmosphere, and the sun.

God didn't say, first, let there be grass. He said, first, let there be light. For God did not even prepare a blade of grass to come in the world until he could say, come, blade of grass, for all things are now ready.

There was no cattle or no animals on the earth. God did not say to the cattle, come to the earth, till first God had made a meadow. He made the meadow. Then he made the cattle. God did not make a bird till he made the trees.

God didn't say to the birds, come and inhabit my earth, till first he had trees in which the birds could lie. Come, for all things are now ready. Not even an insect was created by God. Not even the minutest little insect was created by God until meat for that insect was already provided.

God did not even say to a beetle, come, till he got ready for it. All things are now ready. God said to the cattle, I now have a meadow. Come, for all things are now ready. God said to a bird, I now have a tree.

Come, for all things are now ready. God said to an insect, I now have some meat for you. Come, for all things are now ready. God said to the blade of grass, I now have a sun for you, an atmosphere for you, and soil for you.

Come, for all things are now ready. But God never invites anybody to do anything or go anywhere, or come, till he can say, all things are now ready. There was no creature. God created no creature until he created food for that creature.

God never created one living creature and said, okay, you wait till the grass grows, you'll have something to eat. God let the grass grow, and then he created the creature. Come, for all things are now ready.

God didn't say to the plant life, come, wait till the sun shines. No, the sun was shining when the plant life came. And so when God made anything he made, first he prepared. And God could say, check how beautifully the creation is.

God made this for the next thing, and he made the next thing for the next thing, and he made the next thing for the next thing. And God never invited any living thing to come on this earth, so God could say to it, come, for all things are now ready.

Before Adam and Eve were created, there was a garden, streams, the fruit was ripe, the flowers were in bloom, everything was all ready. God could say to Adam and Eve, come, for all things are now ready.

Human Dignity in God’s Ordered Creation

That's one reason why we know that human life is far superior to animal life. These humanists and these people that talk about man as being just another animal, they don't understand that, because God made things for the next thing.

And when God made his last thing, he was simply saying, everything that went before is for this one. Come, for all things are now ready. And so God is that way. When God invited folks to come in the ark, the ark was completely finished, and he could say, come, for all things are now ready.

But you recall the story of Jacob and his son. God wanted Jacob and his sons to go to Egypt for some strange reason, but a long time before Jacob and his sons were ever invited to go to Egypt, God had had Joseph down there in Egypt getting ready for them and becoming second in command next to the king himself, and having food and provender for his own children before God would ever let his own children go from Jacob's sons, and Jacob and his sons go from the promised land, or Canaan, to Egypt.

He had Joseph there. He had food there. He had somebody waiting for them. And now God could say to Jacob and his sons, come, for all things are now ready. When the Israelites went to the promised land, they came back and they said, what do you see?

And the spies said we saw a land flowing with milk and honey. God did not invite his own people to go to the promised land. God had the promised land ready. Listen, if a person could get this thing, it would settle works for salvation once and for all.

If you could understand the very nature of God, you'd never again think you had to do anything to get saved. God, when God says come, he always says everything's ready. Come for all things are now ready.

And if God would not invite a beetle to come on earth, by the way, I wish you'd never invited the beetles in London to come on earth, but if God had never invited a bird to come on earth to fly in the sky, so he had a tree prepared for that bird.

And if God never invited a blade of grass to grow out of the soil, so God had the atmosphere and the sun to shine. And if God never allowed a man to come, so God had a garden and a river and everything necessary for man.

And if God would not let even a head of cattle come on earth, so God had the matter for that cattle. God never did say to anything, come and help me get it ready. It's always come. For all things are now ready.

The very nature of God is to finish and then invite you to come. And that'll take care of your baptismal regeneration. That'll take care of your working your way to heaven. God has prepared the supper.

You don't, it's not a covered dish luncheon. You don't have to bring your own dish. God prepared the supper. It's all finished. It's all ready. All you can do is take it. You don't have anything you can do to help God prepare the supper.

All you can do is come. And so when God says come, by the way, that's why our Lord said on the cross, it is finished. It is finished. Why? All things are now ready. It is finished. Those words were the words of the priest.

As a priest would examine a lamb after it had been kept up for four days. Each family had a lamb and that lamb was kept up for the pastor for four days. And the priest would come and examine the lamb of each family.

And he would be sure that lamb was without blemish. And then after he found the lamb was without blemish, he would cry, it is finished. A picture of Jesus, the lamb of God. It is finished is the term used by an artist in the Middle East.

The artist would paint carefully a picture. And then when he finished the picture, the painting, he would say it is finished. He would examine it carefully and see that everything was exactly as he wanted.

He would cry, it is finished. It was the word that the high priest would use as he came out of the Holy of Holies on the day of atonement after he had taken the blood of that innocent substitute and taken it through the veil of the temple and sprinkled that blood on the mercy seat on the seventh day of the month and the 10th day of that month.

Once a year, he would come out and as the people of Israel would listen for his voice, they would hear the bells ringing at the bottom of his garment as he walked out. The high priest, if the sacrifice had been accepted by God, he would raise his hand and.

Cry, it is finished.

That meant there's nothing that you can add to it. God's accepted it. That meant there's nothing you can do. The lamb is all God wants. When our Lord gave his wife on the cross, salvation's plan had been made.

Salvation's price had been paid. Salvation's way had been made possible. How? Not by what we do, but by what he did. You know, there's only two letters that differentiate works and grace. Two letters, N-E, N-E, the gospel of Christ or the works crowd.

Grace Versus Works in Salvation

False religion says, do and be saved, and Jesus says, done. That's the only difference. The works crowd says, do, and the grace crowd says, done. That's the only difference. You're not saved because you do.

You're saved because you come to the supper which is done. You're not saved because you work. You're saved because he worked. You're not saved because of what you do. You're saved because of what he has done for you on the cross.

He's done the great transactions, done. I am my Lord's and he is mine. Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Come, for all things are now ready.

Now then, let's illustrate. You get saved for coming. That's the only way you get saved. You get saved for coming. Charlotte Elliott, who wrote that song, just as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, O Lamb of God, I come.

She was under conviction. A preacher was talking to her about her soul. Now, where I do not know. Maybe at the altar of a church. Maybe at her home. I do not know. But a preacher was talking to her. And finally, he told her how to be saved.

And she said, well, how can I do it? And he said, you come to Christ. And she said, well, what does it mean to come to Christ? And he said, well, you know, you're a sinner. You know, you're lost. You know, Jesus paid the penalty and you come and trust him.

She said, I can't understand it.

How do you come? And he said, well, you know that you're lost. You know, he died for you.

You come to him. And Charlotte Elliott couldn't understand it. And finally, in desperation, she said, how can I come? And the preacher shouted, come just as you are. She picked up her pen and she wrote just as I am without one plea.

But that thy blood was shed for me. O Lamb of God, I come just as I am. And waiting not to rid my soul from one dark blot. To thee whose blood can cleanse each spot. O Lamb of God, I come. I come. And that's the way you get saved.

You come to God. You don't get saved because what you do. Oh, this little house. I'm a pretty good person. I think I'm going to go to heaven. You will die and go to hell if you're trusting your own goodness.

Oh, yes, I belong to a Baptist church since I was a kid. You will die and go to hell if you're trusting that Baptist church to take you to heaven. Well, I was baptized right up here in this baptistry.

You will die and go to hell if you're trusting that baptistry. It's done. There's nothing you can do. Great man, man, met a great sufferer. And bad many in the city of serfdom at supper time to say, come.

For all things are now ready. Listen to me. When Jesus Christ lived on earth, he fulfilled every demand of the law. He fulfilled every demand of the Old Testament ritual. He filled it full and he fulfilled it.

And when Jesus Christ died on the cross, he presented to us a garment that he had made, that he had finished. And not a single thing we can do but reach up and say, I surrender all. I come. I come. But here's the strange thing about the Christian life.

Continuing to Come to Christ

It isn't only coming to get saved. A lot of folks understand that. Everybody here tonight, perhaps most of you have come to get saved. You realize you are a sinner. You realize you are lost. You realize you needed Christ.

And you came to Christ. But that isn't all there is to it. Did you know everything God has, you get it by coming. Now think for a minute. He said to the unsaved, come and see. He said to the saved, come and dine.

He said to the unsaved, come and see. He said to the saved, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. He said to the unsaved, come and see. He said to the saved, him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.

He said to the unsaved, come and see. He said to the saved, come, come, come. Now what do you mean? I've come to Jesus. Have I got to keep on coming? Not to get saved. But everything God has, you get by coming to him.

Let me illustrate. I used to be a little baby eight years ago. I was a little baby. My mother's here tonight. And my mother said, son, you come to mother now. And I'd come to mother. But I just didn't come to mother because she was my mother.

I came to mother when I was hurt. Maybe I'd fallen and skinned my knee. My mother's pretty sharp. She used to say, I'd say, I'd fall down and mama be over here. And she'd say, tell me, son, if you'll come over here, I'll pick you up.

And I didn't think about it all of a sudden. And I'd be crying. I'd get up, I'd walk over and lay down beside her. And she'd pick me up. Oh, what a help my mother's always been to me. Come over here and I'll pick you up.

I'd go over there and she'd pick me up. And I'd come when my knee was skinned. Or if I was hungry, I'd come to mama. Or if I was tired, I'd come to mama. Or if I needed some strength, I'd come to mama.

Or if I needed some security, I'd come to mama. Or if I needed some help, I'd come to mama. Or if I needed some advice, I'd come to mama. You know, that's what the Lord wants us to do. Oh yeah, you got saved.

You came to the Lord. Okay, but that's not enough. You know, I'm 45 years of age now. Be 46 September 25th. That's the 25th of September. That's 25th, two, five, S-E-P-T-E-M-B-E-R, two, five. But anyway, I'll be 46 the 25th of September.

And that's September 25th. And I wear a size 11 sock. But anyway, you know, there's still times in my life when I have to come to mama. Or I don't come to her now that I started to ask her for something to eat.

I don't come to her now and I started to ask her to wipe my skin, the shin. I wipe my own skin, the shin now. And I don't fall as much as I used to. I ride a bicycle better than I could. And I don't come to mother anymore for security, because maybe I have to offer her more security than she offers me now.

I'm not sure about that. But I still come to mother. Thirteen years ago when I was... Thirteen years ago this month. In fact, thirteen years ago last Sunday. What is today, the twenty-what, third? Third.

Thirteen years ago, maybe it was the 19th of July. That's when it was. Thirteen years ago, the 19th of July, I came to visit this church. She didn't have a pastor. She still don't have much. But I came to visit this church as a guest.

And I knew, I knew, I knew God was going to lead me here. I knew that. That day I felt I didn't want to come. I was happy in Texas. I had everything just like I wanted. I didn't want to come. I was there for a lifetime.

But somehow I knew that this was it. And I went back home. And I drove around the city of Garland. And I cried. And I cried. And I said, dear God, what can I do? And suddenly it dawned on me. Go to mama.

Go to mama. I went over on Westchester Street to mama's house. And I said, mama, I've got it. She said, son, you're not going to go, are you? You're not going to go, are you? And I said, mother, I've got to go.

I know God's leading me. And she said, why don't you just set it by me and put your head in my lap? And I cried. And I cried. And I cried till I couldn't cry anymore. And, but I had to come to mama. That's what the Lord is saying.

The Lord is saying, OK, are you lost? Come. Or are you hungry? Come and dine. Are you, are you sad? Come and get comfort. Are you weak? Come and get strength. Are you, are you unhappy? Come and get joy.

Are you, are you perplexed? Come and get wisdom. Are you eager of God's will? Come and get knowledge. Are you lost? Come and get leadership. Keep on coming. You need power. Come. You need help. Come. You need strength.

Come. Just keep on coming to God. And that's what the Lord is saying here. Now, there are several things. You come first, you come to get salvation. Tonight, I'm talking to someone, some poor sinner, not saved.

Coming to Jesus for Salvation

You know, you're not. And you wish you were. You want to be saved. I am. I just say the way you get saved. Do you know you're a sinner? OK. Do you know that sinners are lost? OK. Do you know that Jesus Christ went to Calvary and paid the penalty for your sin as your substitute?

OK. Now, if you know that you're a sinner, and you know that you're lost, and if you know that Jesus paid the penalty for your sin, then all you've got to do is come to Jesus. That's it. Just come to Jesus.

You say, how do you do it? OK, like you go to a doctor. Here's a fellow, puts up a shingle, and he says, OK, open for business. And maybe it'll announce it in the newspaper. And the word gets around. The doctor has the medicine.

He has the way to heal. And you are sick. And so what do you do? You say, I'm going to the doctor. Don't you say? I'm going to the doctor. Dr. Streeter over here. I got a little sore throat. A little sore throat.

Nothing. I almost died, I thought. And they took me to the doctor one night. And boy, I was groaning and grunting all the way. And Dr. Streeter looked up my nose, looked through my ears, looked through this ear, and he said, not a thing in there.

I could see all the way through. And he didn't say that, but that's true. And then he said, you've got a sinus drainage. And he said, what we got to do is pack your nose. Don't ever go to Dr. Streeter.

Never. He tells you bad things. And he got a stick about that long. Well, actually, about three or four feet. But I'm just about that long. And I said, Doc, what's that? He said, I'm going to pack your nose.

I said, what do you mean? He said, this stick. He said, I'm going to put something on the end of it. I said, is that going up my nose? And he said, that's what's going to happen. Well, my nose is not that long.

And I didn't. I know it's not that. I've measured it. But that stick went that far up in my nose. He got another stick. I said, what's that for? He said, you got two holes in the nose, you know. And so he stuck the other one up my nose.

And then he said, now just relax. Yeah, sure, sure. And then he did all the talking then. And he had some things he won't tell me for a long time. And so he got it all set. But you know, the strange thing about it?

He also, he does, he gives you adjustments, too. He has a degree in, what do you call that? Osteopathy. And that's a Greek word that means they break the back when they go to. And so he put his knee in my back.

And he said, now take a deep breath in. And I thought I'd never breathe again. And he stuck his knee on the back. And so I got in the car, it was all over with. David said, how do you feel? I didn't feel at all.

And but you know what? I felt better. I felt better. I really did. David said, I was a new man. I mean, just just 30 minutes. What did I do? I went to the doctor. That's all I did. I didn't make the medicine.

I didn't make those long sticks. And I never would. I wouldn't do that to anybody. Not, not, I wouldn't do that to my enemy. But that's my pastor. Maybe he wanted the same. I'm not sure. But, but, but what was it?

He, I didn't do a thing. All I did was just come and say, I feel terrible. Now, bear in mind, I've tried everything. I got some of these Cori bandees. And I took them. And all in the world that did make me sleep while I drove.

That's all, that's all it did. And then I got some aspirins. And they counteracted the Cori bandees. And then I got some other kind of stuff. And then I, then I got, somebody said, if you'll get some salt and put it in warm water and up your nose, it'll, no, it won't either.

I didn't have a stick up my nose and that. And so I, I, I tried that. And I, I, I snorted like a bull. I always do. I snorted like a bull and, and tried that. Didn't work. Cori bandee, didn't work. Aspirins, didn't work.

Somebody said, if you'll, if you'll put mentholatum up your nose, that'll help. I got mentholatum, stuck this little finger in it. And that didn't help. You know, I didn't, I'd have died if I'd trusted myself.

And so were you. And so were you. The great physician now is near the sympathizing Jesus. He speaks the drooping heart to cheer. Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. Sweetest note instead of song. Sweetest name on mortal tongues.

Sweetest carol ever sung. Jesus blessed Jesus. He's the great physician. And that's where you get, you get saved. Exactly the way I got healed. How you go to the physician. That's all. I couldn't make myself well.

I tried all of it. I tried all the homemade remedies. I snorted and sniffled and sucked up the stuff in my nose and took the Cori band-aid. And nothing worked. What'd I do? I went to the doctor. And that's all you can do to get saved.

Quit trying to save yourself because you join a church or get baptized or get confirmed. You can go to every little booth in this county and you can go up there and whatever you put through that little booth and you can talk to that fellow there who ought to be confessing his sins back to you.

And you can tell him all you've done that's wrong. Confess all your sins, all of it. And then you can go to the Pope in Rome and confess your sins to him and get baptized here. Let the Pope baptize you and take the sacrament, all of it.

But unless you come to the place to where you say, I cannot save myself. There's nothing I can do. I come to Jesus. Then you'll die and go to hell. Have you ever come to Jesus? Yes. How do you come? You come like you go to a doctor.

How do you come? You come like you go to a feast. Somebody makes a meal. And it makes a meal. Did you ever, any of you men ever try to cook for yourself? One morning I tried to cook breakfast. I decided to make some rice.

And so I filled a pan full of rice and decided to cook some. And the pan filled the kitchen full of rice. You know, you make just as big a mess of trying to save yourself. The biggest enemy you've got in this town is that fellow that says you've got to get baptized to go to heaven.

Biggest enemy you have in this town is that fellow that says you've got to join a certain church to go to heaven. Biggest enemy you have in this town is that fellow that says you've got to come and take the sacrament to go to heaven.

That fellow who comes to a dead body and does some voodoo and hocus pocus and all that kind of stuff over the dead body. He's the biggest enemy you have in this town. Why? Because it's not what you do.

It's what Jesus did. That's all that will save you.

The Finished Work of Christ and Coming to God

Oh, I think so often and I say it so often because it's so precious to me. When that dear deacon tutor was dying up there at St. Margaret's Hospital, the nurse came and said, you better call a priest, Mr. Toor.

Your family called it your priest because you're a very sick man. Mr. Toor looked up and said, I am a priest. And she said, I didn't know you're a holy father. He said, I'm not a holy father. I'm a priest of God.

Now, if you want to call my pastor and let him rejoice with me while I go to heaven, that's okay. But I am a priest and I don't need a priest and nobody else needs a priest either. The truth is a priest will go to hell if he doesn't get born again by complete faith in Jesus Christ.

How do you get saved? You come. How do you get saved? You realize that he made the feast. He finished the supper. What do you do? You come. Like the little girl that went to church and she got saved and she came home and said, mommy, I got saved today.

And the mommy said, did you get saved? What did you do? She said, I didn't do nothing. I just did the letting and he did the saving. That's all you do. You do the letting. You do the letting. You just present the sinner.

You come tonight to this altar and realize that you're a sinner and realize that Jesus Christ took upon himself the penalty for your sin. And you look and see that he paid the price, all of it for you.

And you say, dear God, I've tried to save myself. Oh, I've tried to save myself. And now I realize, I realize that you did it all. You paid it all. And I just come and trust you. And the dear great physician makes you well and forgives every sin.

Write your name in heaven. How? You come to, you come to Christ. But once you come to Christ, then there's a, after you come to Christ, okay, you say I'm saved. Just keep on coming. Keep on coming for what?

To get things. Don't you recall Hebrews 4 .12? Hebrews 4 .12 says we can come boldly to the throne of grace. But before to obtain mercy and find help, you get your help. How do you, how does a person get saved?

Come to Jesus. How does a person get things from God? He comes to Jesus. I like that. Come boldly to the throne of grace. You'd have to tiptoe up. Dr. John Rice was praying one night out in Colorado. And he said, dear old father, bless this humble servant.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Bless. Oh, come Holy Spirit. And after it's over, some guy walked up and said, you made some mistakes. Can you pray in the night, Dr. Rice? Dr. Rice said, how? He said, he said, you prayed to the father and you prayed to Jesus and you prayed to the Holy Spirit.

So you're supposed to come to the father through the son. Now that's for salvation. You're supposed to come to the father through the son. Dr. Rice said, if you knew the family as well as I do, you could just talk to anybody in the family.

He said, we just sat around and talked. I said, Holy Spirit, help me. And Jesus helped me. And father helped me. So I just talked to anybody I want to talk to. How do you get help? You come to Jesus. Are you weak tonight?

How do you get strength? You come to Jesus. Are you lonely? How do you get companionship? You come to Jesus. Are you in need of food? How do you get it? You come to Jesus. Come and see, they said to the unsaved.

But come and dine, they said to the saved. Here's the same thing about it, too. The mercy seat's all finished. The Lord didn't say, come and help me build the mercy seat. The Lord said, the mercy seat's all finished.

This come boldly, the throne of grace. What throne? The mercy seat. And notice, the mercy seat's all finished. The gold is all laid. And the cherubim are all beaten on either side of it. And the shekinah glory is already above it.

And the veil in the temple is already rent from top to bottom. And the blood's already sprinkled on the mercy seat. And all you got to do to get your prayers answered, just come. Just come. Come for strength.

Come for help. Come for God's blessings. Um, an old custom years ago, was that on Christmas day, there was a rich man who would fill any basin that a person brought. Any basin, no matter what it was. If you just bring a container on Christmas day, he'd fill it with good things.

And all the folks in town heard about it. The folks up where they bring old washpots. You know what washpots are, do you? Anybody here ever wash an old black washpot? Huh? You're dating yourself now. My mother used to wash, and Aunt Optie used to wash an old black washpot.

It just, uh, pour hot water in it. And you'd pour, you'd also get some hog soap. Anybody ever make any hog soap? You know, it's amazing. Most of you folks don't know a thing about the modern things of life.

You don't. You're so dumb. And as Dr. Rice says, I can't preach to you because you're all, you're born too late to know anything. And, uh, but, uh, um, your mom would get the, and she'd get the, get a knife and she'd, she'd, uh, she'd start peeling the soap into the old, uh, black washpot.

Black as midnight. And washing was a day long chore. A day long chore. And she'd stir and stir, and she'd build a fire. Remember? You know, it's so hard to preach to folks who are so uneducated, but you should build a fire under the pot.

And the fire, made out of wood and so forth, would, would, would make the pot hot. And, uh, and it, it'd make the pot, the water boil. And you'd stir the washing. And she had an old fashioned, remember the old, the old, uh, bonnet?

Huh? You don't know? Let's talk about washeterias for a while. But, uh, she'd, uh, had no bonnet on, and she'd stir, and she'd stir, and she'd stir, and she'd stir. It was an all-day process. And, uh, so some folks would bring an old tub, or some would bring an old washpot.

And, and as, as big as the container could get, everything that, uh, every, every, uh, body that brought a container would have its container filled. And that's what the Lord says. You know, God has so many things for you.

We just don't trust Him. If, if God answered your prayer and gave you something miraculously, it'd take, it'd take smelling salts to wake you up. Did you know it? You'd be so surprised and so shocked.

God has so many things He wants to give us. Oh, He has blessings, and blessings, and blessings, and blessings. How do you get them? You come! Well, you get salvation. You come! Come and see to the unsaved.

Come and dine to the saved. But that isn't all. The Lord gives, we get rest by coming. Matthew 11, 28. Just come unto me, all you that labor and heavy laden, and I'll give you what? Rest. How do you get rest?

You come. How do you get prayers answered? You come. How do you get saved? You come. Are you weary? How do you get rest? You come. You come to Jesus. That's what Isaiah meant when he said, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. How do you get rest? Anybody here ever come to mama when you were tired, and you put your head on her lap, and mama rocked you?

My mother used to rock me. We had all sizes of rocks. She had big rocks and little rocks, and she'd stone me. But she used to rock me. And my mother couldn't sing. If mother's life depended on it, and she had to sing three words on key, she'd just have to die and go to heaven.

That's all there is to it. She sings so bad, I could teach her some things about singing. That's how bad she is. But mother used to rock me and sing. And she'd sing, right in the corner where you are.

Right in the corner where you are. Someone far from harbor, you may guide across the bar. If you're right in the corner where you are. Now listen, when I heard right in the corner sung right, I thought they had the wrong tune.