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[Silence] [Applause] I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart. I will show forth all thy marvelous works.

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[unclear] Let us pray. Lord, we have come to praise you. We've come to thank you. We've come to worship you in the spirit of truth and in the beauty of holiness.

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Have mercy upon us as we gather. Cleanse us of our sins. Renew the right spirit within us and grant that we may truly glorify your name in all that we say and do. We ask in Jesus' name, amen.

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[ Music ] [MUSIC] ♪ I'll hold thee, the glory divine ♪ ♪ Heir of salvation, purchase of God ♪

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♪ Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood ♪ ♪ This is my story, this is my song ♪ ♪ Praising my Savior all day long ♪ ♪ This is my story ♪

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♪ This is my song ♪ ♪ Praising my Savior all day long ♪ ♪ For every salvation ♪ ♪ For every delight ♪

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♪ Angels are rushing ♪ ♪ The lights of my sight ♪ ♪ Angels descending ♪ ♪ Rain from above ♪

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♪ Angels are bursting ♪ ♪ Whispers of love ♪ ♪ This is my story ♪ ♪ This is my song ♪

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♪ Praising thy Savior all the day long ♪ ♪ This is my story ♪ ♪ This is my song ♪ ♪ Praising thy Savior ♪

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♪ All the day long ♪ [ Music ] this scripture recorded in the book of the Prophet Micah the sixth chapter and the first eight verses. Listen to what the Lord is saying to his people. Stand up and state your case against me. Let the

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mountains and hills be called to witness your complaint. And now O mountains listen to the Lord's complaint for he has a case against his people Israel he will persecute them to the full. Oh my people what have I done that makes you turn away from me? Tell me why your patience is exhausted answer me for I brought you

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out of Egypt, cut your chains of slavery. I gave you Moses, Arian, and Miriam to help you. Don't you remember, oh my people, how Balak the king of Moab tried to destroy you through the curse of Balaam son of Beor, but I made him bless you instead. That is the kindness I showed you again and again. Have you no memory at all of what

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happened at Achaia and Gilgal and how I blessed you there? How can we make up to you for what we've done you ask. Shall we bow before the Lord with offerings of yearlings, calves? Oh no, for if you offered him thousands of rams and ten thousands of rivers of olive oil, would that please him? Would he be satisfied? If you

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sacrifice your oldest child would that make him glad? Then would he forgive your sins? Of course not. No, he has told you what he wants and this is all it is to be fair and just and merciful and to walk humbly with your God. The Lord's voice calls out of all Jerusalem, "Listen to the Lord if you are wise. The armies

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of destruction are coming and the Lord is sending them." Thus endeth the reading of our Scripture. We come now to our time of prayer together. Those of us who feel led to do so may join us here at the altar as together we commune with our Heavenly Father. Mother.

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(soft music) (soft music) May we bow our heads. Oh God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,

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our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home, We thank you for the privilege of calling you father. We thank you for the multitude of your mercies showered upon us each moment of our existence.

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We thank you that we are yet alive to see each other's face and to come to this holy place Well, we are privileged to sing Zion songs.

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We ask that you would be with us now as we seek to worship you and we pray that you would look with tender compassion upon us. We come here, O God, with all sorts of conditions, in the midst of perplexities, with difficult decisions, and in many instances not knowing which way to turn.

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But to you, O God, we look for a sense of direction, praying that you would guide our steps and we know that they will be guided aright, have mercy upon us. Cleanse our hearts of that which would prevent us from really worshipping you this day in a way that is pleasing in your sight.

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Oh, bless us as your people here at Ebenezer in every way and help us to be the living witness that you would have us be, we would present to you the sick, the afflicted among us. Oh, you know their condition, you understand their needs, for you are a physician that

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has never lost a case. the bereaved, those families that have been broken by the invasion of death, grant unto them that comfort to know that earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. And then Lord help us to go forth from this place with that renewed determination to witness

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and to tell others of your goodness wherever we go. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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I don't understand how in the past my hopes are weary. Sorrows and cares in this old world my love seemed to be. ♪ Because I am a Christ ♪ ♪ Who thanks the Christ ♪

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♪ Wings and all can fly ♪ ♪ And Christ is all ♪ ♪ All in all ♪ ♪ This world can be ♪

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♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ He is everything to me ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ Heroes would never see ♪

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♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ Without him nothing could be ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ All in all ♪

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♪ His worth to me ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ He is everything to me ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪

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♪ He rules the land and sea ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪ ♪ Without Him nothing could be ♪ ♪ Christ is all ♪

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God graciously blesses us, showers upon the just and the unjust, causes his rain to fall. We come now to express our gratitude to him for his goodness and our giving. Let us give each one of us according to how God has prospered us. us while Christian giving is regular on the first day of the week let every one

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of you set the scripture that exempts no one. Lay by him in store we put God first because he is first in our lives according to how the Lord has prospered you not according to what someone else may have but according to what God has entrusted to you as his steward. So let us give, not grudgingly wishing we had it

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back, not to be stingy, but to be liberal for the scripture says, "Blessed is the cheerful giver, the liberal soul shall be made fat." Let us bow our heads now. Bless us, O Lord, in this time of giving. Grant that we shall be a channel of your blessing

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by the gift of ourselves, our energies, and our substance in a way that glorifies your name and enriches our lives. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Good morning. I have some special announcements this morning, but please consult your book because there are some very important announcements therein. Do we have any visitors this morning? There's none.

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[Silence] We are closing this day, the 99th session of the National Baptist Convention of America in San Antonio. We had a rather eventful session. Some of you were present. We,

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I think in every way according to the reports yesterday evening had a glorious session in the way of not only attendance, but in the way of finance.

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I think according to the reports the total receipts had ranged in the neighborhood of a hundred and eighty thousand dollars a hundred and seventy seven thousand to be exact raised by the parent body and the various auxiliaries. The

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next session of our convention will be held in San Francisco. Next year we will celebrate our centennial there. 100 years since we were organized in

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the city of Montgomery, Alabama. There was a recommendation that was passed by the

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convention that had to do with this future selection of cities, the sites for the convention will be determined by what the cities have to offer. I think San Antonio,

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neighbor city, had possibly the highest hotel rates we've paid since I've been going to the convention. And most of us were glad to get out 50 and 60 dollars a night that the delegates were paying and

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And in the future the cities will have to bid for the convention and the decision will be made on the basis of what the city offers and in the way of entertainment. Jesse Jackson in the Fond Mission consultation delivered a very moving address. I've heard him many, many times, but he spoke very forcefully and really preached in discussing

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foreign policy as the position of this country and PLO and our responsibilities as a people in relationship to our witness in all of these areas today. The main issue which I had mentioned before having to do with the publishing board, the National Congress, this was one of the possibly potentially explosive issues.

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Reverend Daniels had announced his candidacy on that day when the election was held. name never was presented to the convention even though the person representing him was reminded of the fact that he could do so. I really think that they probably got cold feet and decided not to do that. Your pastor was

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elected as the first president of the Congress. Our Constitution was changed on Thursday and the necessary revision was made and we will go forth however in This year coming with the Congress being held in Dallas with the publishing board giving leadership and the new order, so to speak, will be in 1981.

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are just some of the excerpts or highlights as we may call it from our convention. Our youth children's choir did a marvelous job on yesterday morning. It was truly wonderful and many comments were made about how well they did and many people appreciated the fact that that they were hearing children singing songs on their level and that's so often what we don't hear

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and they did a tremendous job. We had some I guess around 25 or 26 children there and then with their parents we had around 40 people so after they sang we took them to Luby's and they had a good meal and got to see something of San Antonio. Our church is one of the honor roll churches in the foreign mission

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board based on our gifts. We also pledged to do even more next year in helping to provide for missionaries. We had those missionaries from the field reporting. Some of them who walked some 20 miles to and from churches up in the hills and the bushes. Some who were in churches where it was still raining in them and all of the various conditions that were described,

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no person who was committed to Christ could sit there without being deeply moved, listening to those testimonies from the field. So we are to do even more and I trust that this will help in every way to move forward this work which we are doing.

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uh, foreign mission board, uh, possibly has, uh, grown faster than any board that we have in our convention. This morning at the 11 o'clock hour, we're going to have the message brought by the Reverend W.A. Johnson.

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Reverend Johnson is one of the leaders of our convention and is the president of the state convention of South Carolina. I pleaded with him to come since he's in this section and, uh, he, uh, uh, consented to do so, so he's going to be here for the 11 o'clock hour.

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Those, uh, some things that I trust that you will remember as possible highlights of our meeting this past week. Our congregational hymn is hymn 490. Let's all join in singing this song.

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One of our spirituals, hymn number 490, "Lord, I Want to be a Christian." The first three stanzas. "Lord, I want to be a Christian." Let us all stand as we sing.

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(soft piano music) ♪ Lord, I long to be a Christian ♪ ♪ In my home, in my home ♪ ♪ Lord, I long to be a Christian ♪

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♪ To be a Christian in my own ♪ ♪ In my own ♪ ♪ In my own ♪ ♪ Lord, I want to be a Christian in my own ♪

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♪ In my heart ♪ ♪ Lord, I want to be full of Him ♪ ♪ In my heart ♪ ♪ In my heart ♪

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♪ Lord, I want to be full of Him ♪ In my heart, in my heart, in my heart, in my heart, in my heart. Lord, I want to be your loving, in my heart. Lord, I want to be home, home, home again.

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Into my home, into my home. Lord, I want to be home, home, home again. Into my home, into my home, into my home. Into my home, into my home.

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Lord, I want to be home, home, home again. in my home. The subject of the message, "Doing What Satisfies the Master."

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"Doing What Satisfies the Master." The text is in the book of the prophet Micah, the sixth chapter, verses six through eight. With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the high God?

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Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil,

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shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shown thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee,

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but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God, doing what satisfies the master. The eighth century is known as

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the golden age in Hebrew prophecy. It is a time of prosperity, in Judah. It is a time when we see such prophets as Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea who who are contemporaries of Micah.

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Micah comes from a small town known as Moshe in Gath, located in the foothills of Judah.

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He is a peasant farmer. who takes a look at the human situation and is used by God to speak for him. As a prophet he is not so much concerned with predicting what will come to pass as he is with telling the people what the Lord says. So as a prophet he deals not so much with foretelling

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as he does with forth telling. He speaks in the name of God. And there are at least four things which I should like to point out today in connection with this message. And the first has to do with perversion. When we think about religion we think about what one should do in order to satisfy the eternal. What ought we do in order to please God? How can we relate ourselves

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ourselves to him in a way that is acceptable in his sight. How can we best serve the Lord? This is the primary concern of religion. It is this that Micah addresses as he looks at his people,

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sees the rich becoming proud and haughty. And not only do they become satisfied with themselves, lifted up in selfishness, but they seek to oppress the poor. They seek to exploit those who are small as they are placed on the social scale. They have their feet on their necks and yet somehow they have come to believe that because they are religious after a fashion that God is satisfied,

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because they are members of the temple worship so to speak because they belong to the temple cult, because somehow they are regular in attendance of religious services, because they read the scriptures, they are good students of what God says we ought to do. And then because they they pay well, they make

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their contributions regularly. And because from their flocks they gather the best cattle and offer it up as a sacrifice to God, they have come to believe that this is all God expects of them. And Micah here points out that what they are guilty of is perversion. They have perverted the faith, they have

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somehow sought to distort what real religion is. And it is so easy for us to think that religious worship is just ceremony and so we arrange our worship service and we become caught up with the kind of ritual that we go through and we we want to be sure that as we march in our processional that everyone is in

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step and we want to be sure that everyone is properly groomed and the minister and the choir with their robes and the ushers and what we call their uniforms and and how we ought to do certain things at certain times and it's very easy to get caught up in ritual. And Micah points up the fact that God is concerned with far more than ceremony. God is concerned with far more

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than just what's on the outside of the cup. God is concerned with what is on the inside. And so we have this word from a plain, rustic prophet, and if we look at his language it's rough and tough as he talks about the perversion. As he talks about form and fashion that religion is more real religion is more than form and

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fashion because if we just have form and we have not the spirit that the force of of the Spirit of God in our lives that we are perverting real worship. It's so easy to say that which we do not mean. It's so easy not to have the right correlation between our lip and our life.

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It's so easy to become concerned about outward display without the true manifestation of the inner spirit. It's so easy to be in step with the music and yet be out of step with the spirit of God.

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So here Micah evaluates our worship and he looks and he says God is concerned about our relationships. God is concerned about our relationships with one another so he protests he makes a protest not only does he point out the perversion of the people, of people coming to the temple and being robed with all of their

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prosperity being manifested in their outward display and so on and yet somehow praising God with their lips and their hearts are far from him. So he says now what does the Lord require? How can we please God? Oh it's all right, you say in order to select the best rams or the best sheep that you may have and place them on the altar and offer them up to God. He said but God demands far more than that. He said will the Lord be

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pleased? Will he be pleased with thousands of rams? Oh will he be pleased as you burn incense and as you have your holy oil? He said will he be pleased if you have thousands of rivers of oil? Will the Lord be pleased? He said oh if you have ten thousands of rivers of oil will the Lord be pleased with that? And he

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goes a step farther he said even though I should offer my firstborn up as a burnt offering to God, even though I should offer the first fruit up to God, my first son, the dearest possession, my offspring, even though I should offer that to God, will he be pleased? Will he be pleased? No, God demands far more than that. God

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demands far more than just ritual. God wants the real thing. God wants sincerity. God wants us to have the right motivation so that what really prompts our action, the root of our action would be right. What does the Lord require? What does the Lord require? And here Micah makes a proclamation as he answers that question. What does the Lord

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require of thee, but to do justly. To do justly, that's the first thing he points out, to do justly. To do justly. To treat one another fairly. That's what God requires. Some people can charge extortionist sums for houses and exploit the poor and give large contributions to the church and somehow feel that they

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are soothing their conscience. Well what does the Lord require? That's the question. What does the Lord require? And sometimes we promote people somehow who do these outward things and somehow these manifestations of righteousness that we somehow catalog as certain things that we think are important but

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that's not really it. What does the Lord require? Do justly, to treat one another fairly. God looks at how fair we are. God is concerned with right actions first that we might act rightly. But we ought to be fair. We ought to be fair with ourselves, fair with one another, that we won't cheat on God. What doth he require? That's what God requires, that we would do justly, that we

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We would be just in our dealings with each other. That we not only treat a person the way that that person should be treated, thinking of how we would like to be treated, but that we would do this according to what God has shown us.

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That's what the prophet said. Lord has already shown you how to do it, but what he wants. Go back, go back, go back to Mount Sinai right there where God gave his law to the people and God says there in those ten laws how we ought to act toward him and how we ought to act toward one another. He's

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shown us. The people gathered around the mountain and God spoke and God had his prophet to give to the people the law and here it is written in the book. Do justly, that's what God requires. Do justly, he has shown us not only in the law but he has shown us in the prophets. Time and time again God sent his prophets

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among the people to tell him what they ought to do and in many instances the prophets were persecuted and killed in some cases. He has shown you do justly do justly. He's shown you not only in the law and the prophets but those of us who come many years later can also say that he has shown us through Jesus Christ

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what it means to do justly. To be fair and just in our dealings, to be honest with ourselves, be honest with ourselves, to be honest with God, to be honest with one another. He has shown us do justly. And then as we think of justice being the foundation of the throne of God, right action. We can't come to God when we fail to do justly. We

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can't mistreat people and think we can have right relations with God. The foundation of The throne of God is justice, justice. Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness, like a mighty stream, do justly.

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Oh, but the wonderful thing is, the second point, he says, love mercy. You see, our justice needs to be tempered with mercy. You know the story of Shylock.

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Shakespeare tells how he wanted his pound of flesh, that he was entitled to it according to the bargain, according to the agreement they had made. But then there was a plea that was made for mercy.

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And Shakespeare goes on to say that the quality of mercy is not strain, but it is like the gentle rain. That somehow in doing justly, that it ought to be tempered with mercy and with gentleness. That somehow our actions ought to be tempered with loving kindness.

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Not only just good to do right, but we ought to do right with tenderness and kindness. Loving kindness toward one another. That ought to motivate our actions. Or there are those who say, "I don't care what people think.

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I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. But we ought to have our right actions tempered with loving kindness. Do justly. Love mercy.

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Mercy. Unmerited favor. Not because a person necessarily deserves it, but because of your loving kindness. That's the way God is toward us.

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His loving kindness. His mercy. mercy. And then thirdly, he says, "Walk humbly with God." With a humble spirit to walk humbly with God. Now, if justice is the foundation of the throne of God, it is only through humility

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that we can face him, that we can look into the face of God, that we stand before his face in humility. There is a picture that was in a cathedral in France. It was a picture of Jesus.

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And the worshippers who attended the cathedral who looked at that picture, they thought that that the artist had somehow painted it in such a way that his head was somewhat crooked, but as one would look at it, one couldn't look directly into the eyes of Jesus because standing up you couldn't do it, but as one would move from that picture and kneel and

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on one's knees one could look up and look directly into the eyes of Jesus. And that's the way it is with humility. It is only when we are humble before God that we can walk with God, and that's to be able to walk in holiness.

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That's the way it is to put our hand in God's hand and walk with Him. It's to walk with Him, it's to be in agreement with Him, it's to be in harmony with His will, to walk with God. Oh, what it means to walk with Him.

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That's what we see as the scripture opens, Adam is in the garden walking with God in the cool of the day. Oh, what a blessed privilege it is to be humble in holiness, to be humble in righteous living and to have one's hand in the hand of God and to walk with him.

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what was said of Enoch that he walked with God and was no more for God took him. That's what the prophet Isaiah lifts up for us is a holy walk when he says 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. What a privilege it is not only to heed his

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warning of perversion, what a privilege it is to listen to the protests that he makes, what a privilege it is to heed his proclamation to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with him. What a privilege it is to make our religion practical, to practice what one preaches when we walk with the Lord in the light of his word. When we just walk

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with him. What a glory he sheds on the way. When we do his good will, he abides with us and with all who will trust and obey. As we come now to extend the privilege of the church we invite you to accept Jesus Christ as Lord of your life while we sing him satisfied with Jesus. I am satisfied with Jesus.

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He has done so much for me. That's hymn number 438 and as we sing this hymn if you would be in step with God, if you would put your hand in the hand of God, hear the word of the Prophet. Doing what really pleases God to do right, be fair, to be kind to one another and to walk with him.

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We ask you to come and unite with the family of God here at Ebenezer as we sing Satisfied with Jesus. ♪ (soft music) ♪ I am satisfied, lady ♪ ♪ He has some work for me ♪

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He has the right to live. He has the right to set me free. I am satisfied. I am satisfied.

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I am satisfied with Jesus. But the question comes to me. ♪ As a creature from the holy ♪ ♪ His time has come ♪

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♪ To live life with me ♪ [Music] ♪ I need you, need you, need you ♪ ♪ Melt the prison of your beauty ♪

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♪ I can hardly breathe without you ♪ ♪ Carry your weight now on me ♪ ♪ I am satisfied ♪ ♪ I am satisfied ♪

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♪ I am satisfied ♪ ♪ Dear Jesus ♪ ♪ When the question comes to me ♪ ♪ And I leave the path open ♪

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♪ Is my passion still there ♪ ♪ I am satisfied ♪ ♪ With His peace ♪ ♪ I am satisfied ♪

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♪ I am satisfied ♪ ♪ I will tell you why ♪ ♪ We will be here tonight ♪ ♪ The rock where you come to be ♪

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♪ Has been made of memory ♪ [Music] the life of our church for State missions the theme is make me a volunteer

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Make me a volunteer If we face this To be pointed up for us the leadership of the Brotherhood and the men's choir here at the church tomorrow night and

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On Tuesday night mission to the chancel choir Bowl giving Bowl challenges Monday night Bowl giving is Tuesday night on Wednesday night

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Bowl going the Baptist young women in the band on Thursday night Bowl service mission one the Ebenezer choir the gospel choir

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on Friday Bold praise, the act teams, the mission friends, the GAs, and the youth choir. This is a church-wide observance and we want that everyone will be present at some time and as many times as you can during this week and

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to not only be present in your worship, but to make it known in your giving, in your witness, yes, above all, in your living. Our state mission work

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For there are many places that we may never go but we can be there by our prayers, in our concern, and in our giving. Let's make this a great week in the life of our church as we take seriously the theme "Make Me a Volunteer."

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May we bow our heads now. God, as Micah raised the question, "What should we do to satisfy you? How may we please you?" Grant that each one of us may answer that question in our hearts, that we will seek to please you by doing what's right, by being fair, by being honest with ourselves, with one another, and

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above all with you, then that we would be kind, that kindness would be the basis of our actions, and that we would be humble in our walk with you. Help us all, O God, to recognize that this is the basis of real religion, that we may translate it into our daily lives.

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The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace, now and forevermore. Amen.

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