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[Silence] [Music] I will trust in the Lord, I will trust in the Lord, I will trust in the Lord until I die. I will not give the Lord until I die.

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I'm going to watch, fight, and pray. I'm going to watch the spiders' prey I'm going to watch the spiders' prey Until I'm done

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I'm going to watch the spiders' prey I'm going to watch the spiders' prey I'm going to watch the fire and the rain until I die I'm going to stay on the winded knee

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I'm going to stay on the winded knee I'm going to stay on the winded knee Until I die I'm going to stay on the hill with thee

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I'm going to stay on the hill with thee I'm going to stay on the hill with thee Until I die I'm going to see God for myself

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I'm going to see God for myself I'm going to see God for myself When I die I'm going to see God for myself

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I'm going to be Lord of all I've said, I'm going to be Lord of all I've said, when I'm gone. So I'm going to trust in the Lord, I'm going to trust in the Lord, I'm going to trust in the Lord until I die. I'm going to trust in the Lord, I'm going to trust in the Lord, I'm going to trust in the Lord until I die. [Music]

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[Music] [Music] I'm going to trust in the Lord. I'm going to trust in the Lord until I die.

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I'm going to trust in the Lord. I'm going to trust in the Lord. [music] [music]

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[music] First I'll say amen once again. [audience] Amen. Considering the occasion, I thought that it would be proper

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for us to go to Psalms, to one of the most loved Psalms of myself, and that is Psalms 107. We'll read the first nine verses of it. "O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

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and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distress,

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and he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men, for he satisfied the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." May we go to God in prayer at this time.

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Heavenly Father, we thank thee. We thank thee for thy goodness. We thank thee for thy mercy and thy grace. Dear Lord, we come at this time,

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in this occasion to remember. Remember, dear Lord, how you have helped us with your ever-powerful hand. How you have brought us through ways that seem impossible.

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How you have been with us, dear Lord, saying yes when everybody else was saying no. You were there all the time guiding our feet. We as a people know the struggle that you have brought us through. We know the deprivation.

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We know of the segregation. know of all the things that have turned us away. All those doors that were shutting our faces, all those times we could not go to certain places, all those times dear Lord when it seems like the burden of this world, the burden of oppression was

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upon our backs. Oh dear Lord we thank thee because in that time we knew you were there. We had no other way to turn except to thee. It was through your divine power, your knowledge. Dear Lord we know that with you all things were possible. Those times dear Lord, those times when it seemed like we had no one to turn to,

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no helping hand to hold. Dear Lord our hearts burned, burned with the fire to know that you were there and we could turn to you. We thank thee dear Lord for the gift of song and praise because you get the glory, the full glory dear Lord. The mystery of our history is this, that at the times when it seems like

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everything was going out of hand, at the times when it seemed like the families were separated and everything was just breaking down, you were there to hold us together under your ever-present power. And we come at this time thanking you, thanking you for your goodness for your protection and dear Lord let us never

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forget let us never forget what you have brought us from what you have have us in right at this moment and what you dear Lord will bring us to holding your hand all the time dear Lord we cannot go wrong seeking thy guidance dear Lord we cannot turn away. Be with us dear Lord as we serve thee in spirit and in truth as

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we live out this Creed to praise thy name forever and ever and ever. Amen. [Music] ♪ Oh my Savior ♪ ♪ Oh my Savior ♪

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♪ I love you ♪ ♪ In my heart ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ ♪ I'll call you mother ♪

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♪ I'll call you ♪ ♪ You mother ♪ ♪ You mother ♪ ♪ To the task ♪

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♪ He's ♪ ♪ Done ♪ - Most people think of the spiritual and folk poetry as simply the forerunners of later musical styles

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in the popular and classical world. But that is simply the beginning of these two important Negro contributions to the world of religion, the arts and sociology.

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They give us a clear insight into the folk mind and character. The concern for freedom, the anticipation of a better life after death,

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the conviction of a literal heaven, the despair and injustice clearly portray slave thought. The poetry of the spiritual is not to be overrated as poetry. Its value lies in the reflection of the intrinsic folk feeling.

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Emotionally, the spiritual are far from naive or simple. They reveal a wide range of concerns. Although the most serious and pure examples are primarily concerned with a better life after death

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in a literal heaven with the sorrows and travail of earthly existence. Such slow-moving, stately spirituals as Deep River, My Lord What Amore, reveal a depth of both piety and pithos

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which suggest again medieval ecstasy. It might be noted too that although earlier comparison of the spiritual with the Jewish psalm has been made, A difference lies in the absence of bitterness,

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of vindictiveness in the spiritual. The humility, the lack of vengefulness revealed in the text of so many of the spirituals is understood more fully when it is recalled

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that the folk Negro, the slave, had an unshaken conviction that heaven existed in a thorough and material fashion. Anticipation of rest and joy, of solace and compensation,

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of complete release from earthly burdens lessened the daily hardships. Heaven was a place of milk and honey, of harps and crowns, of marble streets.

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Everybody was to wear shoes, and robes and crowns, golden marble streets. All of this and more was to follow

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the glorious chariot ride, swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. Gonna ride the chariot in the morning, y'all.

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We read in the Bible and we understand that Samson was the strongest man. Samson went out at one time

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and killed about a hundred Philistines. Delilah fooled Samson, this we know, 'cause the Holy Bible tells us so. She saved off his head just as clean as your hand.

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His strength became same as any other man. The following poem suggests Johnson's creation, and he is as succinct and vivid an account of the creation as one can find. "Lord, he thought he'd make a man, mixed a little dirt and a little sand.

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Thought he'd make a woman, too, didn't know exactly what to do. Took a rib from Adam's side, made Miss Eve for to be his bride, put him in a garden rich and fair, told him to eat whatever was there. But of this tree, you must not eat. If you do, you'll have to skeet. Finally, as you listen to the night's performance of God's trombones, meditate, travel back

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through time, experience, cry, pray, hum, moan, clap, but most of all, think of the glory and promise of God's love. [Music] Give me that old time religion, give me that old time religion, give me that old time religion.

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It's good enough for me, just give me that old time religion, give me that old time religion, ♪ Give me that old time religion ♪ ♪ It's good enough for me ♪ - Oh Lord, oh Lord.

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(choir humming) We come this morning, knee bowed and body bent, before thy throne of grace. Oh, Lord, this morning, bow our hearts beneath our knees.

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And our knees in some lonesome valley we come this morning like empty pitchers to a full fountain with no merit of our own. Oh Lord, open up the window of heaven and lean out far over the battlements of glory

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and listen this morning. We refer to Christ's ascension as Victor's Ascension. God stepped out on space and he looked around and said, "I'm lonely. I'll make me a world." But as far as the eye of God could see, darkness covered everything.

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Blacker than a hundred midnights down in a cypress swamp. But then God smiled, and the light broke, and the darkness rolled up on one side, and the light stood shining on the other. And God said, "That's good." Then God reached out and he took the light in his hands and he rolled that light around in his hands until he made the sun.

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And he set that sun ablazing in the heavens. The light that was left from making the sun, God gathered it up in a shining ball and flung it against the darkness, Spangling the night with the moon and stars. Then down between the darkness and the light,

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he hurled the word. God said, "That's." Then God himself stepped down. The sun was on his right hand, the moon was on his left.

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The stars were clustered about his head and the earth was under his feet and God walked. And where he trod, his footsteps hollowed the valleys out and bulged the mountains up. But then he stopped and looked and saw that the earth was hollowed and battered. So he stepped over to the edge of the world and he sped out to the seven seas.

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He bent his eyes and lightning splashed. He clapped his hands and thunder roared. And the waters above the earth came down. The cooling waters came down. Then the green grass sprouted.

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And the little red flowers blossomed. The pine tree pointed its finger towards the sky, and the oak spread out its arms. The lakes cobbled down in the hollows of the ground,

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and the rivers ran down to the sea. And then God smiled again. And the rainbow appeared and wrapped itself around the shore.

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Then God raised his arms and waved his hands over the seas and over the land and said, "Bring forth, bring forth!" and further than God could drop his hand,

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fishes and fowls and beasts and birds swam the rivers and the seas, roamed the forests and the woods and split the air with their weeds. And God said,

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that's good. Then God walked around and God looked around on all that he had made. He looked at his son.

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He looked at his moon. He looked on all of his little stars. He looked on his earth with all its living things. But God said, I'm lonely.

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So God set down on the side of a hill where he could think. By a deep, wide river, he set him down. With his head in his hands, God fought and fought, 'til he thought, "I'll make me a man."

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Up from the bed of the river, God spooked the clay, and by the banks of the river, he knelt him down. And there, the great God Almighty, who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky,

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who rounded the earth in the palms of his hands, this great God, like a mammoth, bending down over her baby, got down in the dust, tiling over a lump of clay until he shaped it

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in his own image. Then into it, he blew the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

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Amen. [applause] [applause] [Music]

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[ Music ] O, I know the Lord, I know the Lord, I know the Lord and lay His hands on me. Rise, Morna, Rise, Morna, O may you rise and bear what the Lord hath done for you. [music]

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♪ There come to my house ♪ ♪ And he didn't stay long ♪ ♪ I look on the big ♪ ♪ And on the bow of the heart ♪

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When will I see my mother again? I'll miss you. [Choral singing] [Singing]

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[Music] Weep not. Weep not. She is not dead. She's resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heartbroken husband, weep no more. Grief-stricken son, weep no more.

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Left lonesome daughter, weep no more. She's only just gone home. Day before yesterday morning, God was looking down from his great high heaven, looking down on all of his children, and his

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eye fell on Sister Caroline, tossing on her bed in pain. And God's big heart was touched of pity, with everlasting pity. And God sat back on his throne, and he commanded that tall, bright angel standing at his right hand.

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Call me death. And that tall, bright angel cried in a voice that broke like a clap of thunder. Call death!

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"Call death!" And the echo sounded down the streets of heaven till it reached a way back to that shadowy place

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where death waits with his pale white horse And death heard the summons And he leaped on his fastest horse

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pale as a sheet in the moonlight. Up the golden street Death galloped, and the hoofs of his horse struck fire from the gold. But they didn't make no sound.

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Up Death rode to the great white throne and waited for God's command. - And God said, "Go down, Death. "Go down, down to Savannah, Georgia.

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down in Yamacro, and find me Sister Caroline. She's borne the burden and the heat of the day, and she's tired. Go down there and bring her to me."

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And death didn't say a word, but he loosed the reins of his pale white horse, And he clamped the spurs to his bluntly sides and out and down he rode through heaven's pearly gates

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past suns and moons and stars on Death Road. And the foam from his horse was like a comet in the sky on Death Road, leaving the lightning's flash behind straight on down.

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While we were watching her on her bed, she turned her eyes and looked away. She saw what we couldn't see. She saw old death.

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She saw death coming like a falling star, but death didn't frighten Sister Caroline. He looked to her like a welcome friend, and she whispered to us, "I'm going home."

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And she smiled and closed her eyes. And death took her up like a baby, and she lay in his icy arms, but she didn't feel no thrill.

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And death began to ride again, up beyond the evening star, out behind the morning star into the glittering light of glory on the great white throne. And there he laid sister Caroline on the loving bosom of Jesus. And Jesus took his own hand and wiped away her tears, and he smoothed the furrows from her face.

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And the angel sang a little song, and Jesus rocked her in his arms and kept saying, Take your rest, take your rest, take your rest. Weep not, weep not. She is not dead, she's just resting in the bosom of Jesus. [Music]

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♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah, oh my Lord ♪ ♪ I'm glad to be a part of your love again ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪

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♪ Where shall I be ♪ ♪ When the first drop clears down ♪ ♪ Where shall I be ♪ Early one of these mornings, God's going to call for Gabriel, the tall great angel Gabriel.

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And God's going to say to him, "Gabriel, blow your silver trumpet and wake the living nations." And Gabriel's going to say to him, "Lord, how loud must I blow it?" And God's going to tell him, "Gabriel, blow it calm and easy." Then putting one foot on the mountaintop and the other in the middle of the sea, Gabriel's

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going to stand and blow his horn to wake the living nations. But then God's going to say to him, "Gabriel once more blow your silver trumpet and wake the nations underground." And Gabriel's going to ask him, "Lord how loud must I blow it?" and God's are going to tell him, "Gabriel, like seven peals of thunder." Then that tall, bright

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angel Gabriel will put one foot on the battlements of heaven and the other on the steps of hell, and blow that silver trumpet until he shakes old hell's foundations. My Lord, what a morning when the dark begins to fall. My Lord, what a morning. My Lord, what a morning.

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My Lord, what a morning when the stars begin to fall. And God that will divide the sheep from the goats, the one on the right and the other on the left. And to them on the right, God's going to say, "Enter into my kingdom." And those who come through great tribulations and wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb,

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they will enter in clothed in spotless white with starry crowns upon their heads and silver slippers on their feet and harps in their hands. And two by two, they'll walk up and down the Golden Street, feasting on American honey, singing new songs of Zion,

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shattering with the angels all around the great white cross. The coming of the younger. Alleluia. Oh, but to them on the left, to them on the left side, God's are going to say, "Depart from me into everlasting darkness. Down into the bottomless pit, and the wicked, like lumps of lead, will start to fall.

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Headlong for seven days and nights they'll fall, plumb into the big black red hot mouth of hell, belching out fire and brimstone. And their cries, like yelling, howling, yapping dogs, will go up with the fire and smoke from hell. But God, God will stop his ears. Too late sinner, too late.

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Goodbye sinner, goodbye. And I hear a voice crying, "Time shall be no more. Time shall be no more. Time shall be no more."

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And the sun will go out like a candle in the wind. The moon will turn to dripping blood. The stars will fall like cinders and the sea will burn like tar. The earth shall melt away and be dissolved.

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The sky, the sky will roll up like a scroll. With a wave of his hands, God will blot out time and start the wheel of eternity. Sinner, oh sinner, where will you be on that great day when gods are going to rain down fire? My Lord, my Lord, my Lord said he's gonna rain down fire

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[Music] ♪ The children of the world ♪ ♪ When we think of our old home ♪ ♪ God hear Jesus ♪

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♪ God hear please ♪ ♪ Sing we Jesus ♪ ♪ On my knees ♪ - And now, oh Lord,

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when I've done drunk my last cup of sorrow, when I've been called everything but a child of God, When I'm done traveling up the rough side of the mountain, oh, Mary's baby, when I start down the steep

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and slippery steps of death, when this whole world begins to rot beneath my feet, lower me to my dusty grave in peace to wait for that great getting up morning.

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Amen. Isn't that great, getting up in the morning? Very well, very well. There's a better day a-coming. Very well, very well. Oh preach the gospel of the Bible. Very well, very well.

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Isn't that great, getting up in the morning? Very well, very well. In the quick, in the morning, fare you well, fare you well. In the quick, in the morning, fare you well, fare you well. [BLANK_AUDIO] Who comes to be with us, to share with us in our sufferings.

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He calls us to walk with him in discipleship. So this is an invitation, an invitation to accept Jesus Christ as Lord. invitation to walk in his steps. It is extended to everyone, whosoever will let him come. We invite you to come now in response to God's invitation.

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In the morning when I rise.ive] In the morning when I rise. In the morning when I rise. In the morning when I rise. Give me Jesus. give me Jesus give me Jesus give me Jesus you may have all this world give me Jesus. me

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just about the break of day just about the break of day Just about the break of day Give me Jesus

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Give me Jesus Give me Jesus ♪ That you may have all this world ♪ ♪ But give me Jesus ♪

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♪ Dark midnight was my cry ♪ ♪ Dark midnight was my cry ♪ ♪ Dark midnight was my cry ♪ ♪ Just give me Jesus ♪

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♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ You may have all this world ♪ ♪ Just give me Jesus ♪

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♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ Give me Jesus ♪ ♪ You may have all of this world ♪ ♪ But give me Jesus ♪

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- Amen. - Amen. [applause] [ Music ] [BLANK_AUDIO]