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[BLANK_AUDIO] ♪ Jesus, I surrender all ♪ ♪ Be at his feet, I'll bow ♪ ♪ Many precious ♪

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♪ All ♪ ♪ The sick ♪ ♪ And wounded ♪ ♪ Be Jesus ♪

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♪ Did make ♪ ♪ All to Jesus ♪ ♪ I surrender ♪ ♪ Make me Savior ♪

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♪ Holy Thine ♪ ♪ And let me feel the Holy Spirit ♪ ♪ Truly know that thou art mine ♪ ♪ I surrender all ♪

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♪ I surrender all ♪ ♪ All to Thee, my ♪ ♪ Blessed Savior ♪ ♪ All to Thee, my ♪

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♪ Blessed Savior ♪ ♪ All to Thee, my blessed Savior ♪ ♪ Lord, surrender all ♪ ♪

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♪ I surrender all ♪ ♪ I surrender all ♪ ♪ All to thee my God ♪ ♪ To Thee my blessed Savior ♪

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♪ All to Thee my blessed Savior ♪ ♪ All to Thee my blessed Savior ♪ ♪ And grant me instinct to ♪ ♪ Surrender all ♪

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♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Surrender all ♪ ♪ Oh, my heart ♪ ♪ Surrender all ♪

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♪ Oh, my heart ♪ ♪ Surrender all ♪ ♪ My heart ♪ ♪ Lord in the Lord ♪

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- Amen, amen, amen. Amen. All the people said amen. - Amen.

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- Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said unto them, rulers of the people and elders of Israel, be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,

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whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. before you hold. The subject of the message, "In Jesus' Name." In Jesus' Name. What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as

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as sweet. Thus wrote Shakespeare, what's in a name? Peter and John are in court along with a man who has been miraculously healed. They are before the Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of the Jewish nation,

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surrounded by 71 judges. They are called to account for disturbing the temple worship services. A lame man has been miraculously healed and entered the temple with Peter and John, walking,

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leaping, and praising God. And this created quite a commotion. The dull, stale, and static order of temple worship is infused with excitement. People come from inside the sanctuary out to Solomon's porch inquiring about what has

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happened and how did it happen that this man is walking. they witness a miracle. They know that something wonderful has occurred in their midst. Instead of rejoicing and standing in awe over such a marvelous manifestation of the power

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of God. The temple leaders, the chief priests, the Sadducees, arranged to have Peter and John arrested. The next day they are cross-examined after having spend a night in jail, they stand before the judges. There they are, 71 of them in their judicial robes with austere faces.

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They questioned these two preachers. They asked, "By what name have you done this? In whose name has this mighty work been performed?" You see, the name is related to the authority that was used, the power that was employed.

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The judges want to know what kind of religious formula did you use? What name did you invoke? Because you see the name reveals the source of the power. Well, the name is a badge of identification.

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The name tells something about us, something about our reputation. The name indicates the family to which we belong. The name sets one apart. The name has meaning.

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This question, however, is somewhat loaded. If the name is Beelzebub, if you have done this in the name of Beelzebub, then the miracle, course, is discredited because it is the work of the devil. If they answer that it is in the name of God, then they could be accused of blasphemy.

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So in a very definite way, it is a pointed question that places Peter and John on the the horns of a dilemma. That's the intention of the judges. In whose name was this lame man healed?

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Now, it may seem that since this is such a loaded question that the answer would be evasive, It may be that they would be expected to be silent, but Peter is quick to answer. He says to them, "This man is healed in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you

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crucified, but God raised him from the dead. mighty work which you have witnessed is performed in the name of Jesus, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. You know, a great deal of the time we say this and we use it somewhat erroneously because we say in Jesus's name, you hear that over and over

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again, in Jesus's name, in Jesus's name. Some people feel that because that's in the possessive case that they've got to put J-E-S-U-S-E-S on it and say in Jesus's name. But that is improper, because that suggests that there are several Jesuses, so to speak. When you say "in Jesuses," that means you're talking about several.

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But it's only one, and so we should say "in Jesus' name," even though it's in the possessive case, we should just say, "In Jesus' name." Put apostrophe after the S, but you pronounce it just the same as you say, "Jesus." "In Jesus' name." Because there is no other name, no other one that has such power.

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He's the only one. Is there anyone can help us? One who understands our hearts. When the thorns of life have pierced them

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till they bleed, one who sympathizes with us, who in wondrous love imparts just the very, very blessing that we need.

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And the answer comes, yes, there's one. Only one, the blessed, blessed Jesus. Jesus, He's the one. There's something peculiar about that name.

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Something special about it. Parents often select names for their children before they're born. So God the Father Almighty speaks to Joseph in a dream

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tells him that this child that will be born of Mary is given the name Jesus. He's already been given the name. The Father has already selected in heaven

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the name for his son before he appears on earth. His name shall be called Jesus. You see, Jesus is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua. That name in Hebrew, Joshua, means Jehovah is salvation or Yahweh is salvation, God is

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salvation. Or the name "Jeshua" which is mentioned in the book of Ezra, which refers to a high priest. So we may think of Jesus as he fulfills the meaning of his name as salvation, for he shall save his people from their sins.

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We may think of him also as our great high priest, to whom we can go and carry all of our troubles that he really understands. And he mediates with the Father in our behalf. He comes to rescue the perishing.

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And you see this man, this lame man who is healed now, was numbered among the lame. He was unable to stand, he was unable to walk, he was unable to leap, he was impotent.

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He had no power of his own. He was unable to help himself. But he receives help in Jesus' name. Note that.

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Help in Jesus' name. And they ask him, by what name has this happened? And the question is answered in Jesus' name. No magic is employed.

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It's not magic. Even though you don't understand it, it's not magic. You ask, is it real or is it myth? Is it fact or is it fancy?

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Well, the man stands before you home. What the man, you see, received is help, not help provided by human resources. That's not the kind of help that is given here.

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The man already had that. Oh, he had food. He had clothing. He had a place to stay.

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He had friends to bring him to the gate of the temple and to place him there every time that he was brought, that he might receive some help as a beggar. He had people to bring him.

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He had all those things. A lot of people have those things today. And they don't have the real thing that they need, the real thing.

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Help that is another source, not human resources. And I say quite often that many times we help people. Somebody comes along and they said, I need help, Reverend, and they come in

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and we'll give them an offering. And that's the last you ever hear or see of. And we'll give this and we'll give that. And someone will come and they'll go up to the clothing bank

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and they'll get some clothes and they'll go out and that's the last we ever hear or see. And we'll take some food, some baskets out and many times we'll just take the baskets

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and we'll leave 'em there and that's all. But they need more than that. The thing that is needed most of all is does that person have Christ?

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And that's what we're all about. And sometimes that's the thing we don't want to talk about. It's much easier to take that basket there and leave it than it is to deal with whether that person has Christ

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in his life or her life. And that's exactly what these men dealt with. They gave this man what he really needed, the kind of help that would put him on his feet,

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that would lift him up. And this help is in Jesus' name. Often help is provided, but it's human help, or it's done with the wrong purpose.

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There are many praiseworthy deeds performed, but they are performed for the praise of men. And Jesus said, when you do it like that, you already got your reward.

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Don't look for any reward from heaven. you have already got it. Sometimes we do things for personal reasons. I go to see so and so just because,

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well, maybe we worked on the same job, but I'm not going to go see anybody else that's not working with me. But to do it in Jesus' name,

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sometimes we do it for selfish reasons. Oh, I'd like to appear on the program, I'd like to do this because I want to receive some attention and some acclaim for me. But for Jesus' name.

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And many times a good deed is robbed of its glory because it is not performed in Jesus' name. So though I give my body to be burned, and I don't do it in Jesus' name, it profiteth me nothing.

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Jesus' name. What we do, it would be a good thing if we ask ourselves the question, am I doing this in my name or in Jesus' name? What I'm involved in here in the church, what I'm doing, am I doing it because I'm expecting

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my name to be called and if I don't get a special mention I'm not going to do it? Or am I doing it in Jesus' name? Jesus' name. Am I doing it in the name of pleasure, the name of health and wealth, or am I doing it

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in Jesus' name? This man has helped, but let us take note of the fact that it wasn't silver and gold. Oh, I hear people say, "You know, I don't have any problems that money won't cure." Well, most of us have a lot of problems money won't cure.

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just may not be aware. Silver and gold! It was said of one outstanding official in the Catholic Church as he was counting or considering the treasury and he was talking about how wealthy the church was during the middle ages and he said no longer does the church say silver and gold have I

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none and the answer given to him said neither can it say rise up and walk important thing is what kind of help is provided in whose name the help we need is in Jesus. Help in Jesus' name. Help rendered in his spirit. Service given in the beatitudes of the Master. Service given by one who has the mind of Christ.

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That's the kind of service that counts with God. Spirit of humility, spirit of forgiveness in Jesus name. You know somebody does something to you, you've been doing some nice things for them, you say, "I ain't gonna do that no more." Not being willing to forgive. One fellow did something that was rather nasty, you

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know, to me and in fact he didn't even know me that well. I wouldn't have known him but he was out doing something real nasty and a few weeks later I happened to be on a board where he was trying to get his money and couldn't get it and they called me to get it you know and the devil said don't you help him let

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him stew in his own juice that's what the devil said you show him that you've You've got a little power too. But Jesus said, go ahead and help him. You know, leave it up to me.

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And it's all together different when we live in the Jesus way. As to what you do in a given situation, it means that you're going to deal with people

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with an attitude of forgiveness. A whole lot of people are gonna do a whole lot of things wrong with you. And if you start trying to measure out to them

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according to what they do, you're not gonna have anybody. Most of them gonna do something they ought not do. So you, we have to start our, if we're gonna live a good life, we have to do it.

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In Jesus' name, that mean we're gonna have a spirit of humility, have a spirit of forgiveness, and remember that the Lord said, "Vengeance is mine." Leave that up to me, I'll handle it.

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You don't know how to handle it. You'll get it all messed up. But I understand, I know just where and how to pull up the weeds without bothering the weeds.

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Leave it to me. So in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, sometimes people you help don't even return to say thank you. And I say all the time that you shouldn't do it because you expect them to appreciate

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because many times they don't. Sometimes you'll go out and you'll do, Jesus did that. And they never returned to say thank you. Nine of them ran on their way.

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And there are many people, most of the people that we deal with are in that nine. That's the overwhelming majority. And life hasn't changed since Jesus' day.

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but we are to do it. And so we may be falsely accused, we may be maliciously condemned, but whatever you do, do it in Jesus' name.

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That's the kind of help that we are to provide. And that's our hope. There's always hope in Jesus' name. There are times when we are down and out,

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There are times when we may be bogged down in despair, but do it in Jesus' name. Go on anyhow. So you see, Peter and John are proclaimers of the Jesus way.

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They do what they do in Jesus' name. Their hope is anchored in Jesus. They don't know what's going to happen to them. I want you to really see this this morning.

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They don't really know what's going to happen. They've already been put in jail, and they've been beaten. And that's enough to shake up most of us we're doing right, for somebody to come up on you.

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And remember, they didn't get them out of some dive, some den, some honky-tonk. They got them out of church and took them and put them in and beat them. And they said, "Now, look, we don't want you fellows going around anymore talking in this name and this propaganda that you're spreading.

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We want you to stop it. don't want you to teach, preach, nor heal in Jesus' name. Just leave that name alone. And what had happened to them was enough, but they said, "Now look, brethren, we want you to understand. We're not gonna be slow to answer you in this matter. We

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want you to understand. We want you to have this perfectly clear that we cannot help but proclaim the things that we have seen and heard. We don't know what's going to happen to us. And they said, now, we don't understand these fellas.

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There were 71 judges. He said, we don't understand them. They haven't been to the seminary. They haven't been to the colleges.

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They don't have any degrees. They don't belong on our level. We are the elite of society. We don't understand these fellas because they

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ignorant and unlearned, but they took note of them, they have been with Jesus. And the thing that distinguishes them is the Jesus way, what they did, they did in Jesus name, in Jesus name. So our hope is in his name and Jesus says, "So whatever you want," that's what he had told his disciples earlier, "so you can ask

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whatever you will of the Father in my name and the Father will give it to you. If you just ask in my name. You know you have a check and you can sign your name on that check. And you can give it.

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When our daughter, Marva, was away in school, there were times when I sent her a blank check with my name on it, and she was to fill in the amount as she needed it. God has sort of given us a blank check. Jesus has already signed it.

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And we can put in what we need. But it has to be in his name. You have to be asking for the right things. You have to be asking in the right way.

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You have to be rightly related to God. You have to be rightly related to Christ. And somehow when we ask in Jesus' name, the Father will give it to you.

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Whatever you need. And that's the way we are. To heal. There are a whole lot of broken relationships.

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There are broken relationships in the home. Lot of people living in the same house don't get along well. Broken relationships.

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Many aren't working on the same job, don't get along well with those they work on, and there are broken relationships in our society. In our nation, we are polarized.

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This recent election shows that we are polarized. We have the religious right, we have the religious moderates, we have the religious left, we have all this polarized. This group, that group, the liberals, the conservatives,

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the moderates, politically or otherwise, polarized, polarized by racism, polarized by religion, polarized by region, polarized. This whole nation is polarized and we need healing.

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But the healing that we need must be in Jesus' name. Jesus' name. Jesus says, "Whatever you do, when it's done in my name, "you receive a reward."

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And when it's all said and done, they come up to the judgment. They are judged by what they have done. What have you done?

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all I did Lord was to visit the sick, say yes but you did it in my name. So all I did was to was to give some clothes to the naked, yes but you did it in my name. All I did was just to go to the jail and visit a prisoner, yes but you did it in my name and in as much as you have done it to the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. In Jesus' name.

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In Jesus' name. That's, no matter how difficult it may be, but when it's done in Jesus' name, you have your reward not only here,

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you feel, you not only feel good about yourself, there's a reward in heaven in Jesus' name. (piano music) - The invitation is given today to those who are here.

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(piano music) (indistinct chatter) [ Music ] The name of Jesus is so sweet.

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I love its music to repeat. It makes my joys full and complete, the precious name of Jesus. ♪ Jesus ♪

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♪ Oh, how sweet the name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Every day the same ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪

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♪ Let all saints proclaim ♪ ♪ Its worthy praise forever ♪ ♪ I love the name of him whose heart ♪ ♪ Who knows all my griefs and bares apart ♪

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♪ Who bids all anxious fears depart ♪ ♪ I love the name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, how sweet the name ♪

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♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Every day the same ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Let all saints proclaim ♪

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♪ His worthy praise forever ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, how sweet the name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪

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♪ Every day the same ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Let all saints proclaim ♪ ♪ It's worthy praise forever ♪

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♪ Forever ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, I'll speak His name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪

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♪ Every day the same ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪

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♪ Let all things proclaim ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ His worthy praise ♪ ♪ His worthy praise forever ♪

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♪ Forever ♪ ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ The name of Jesus

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♪ Oh how sweet the name ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ Jesus ♪ Every day the same

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♪ The name of Jesus ♪ Jesus, Jesus ♪ ♪ Let all saints proclaim ♪ ♪ His worthy praise ♪

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♪ His worthy praise forever ♪ ♪ Jesus, Jesus ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Holy sweet name ♪

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♪ Jesus, Jesus ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, the name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Every day the same ♪

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♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ The name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Let all saints proclaim ♪

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♪ His worthy praise ♪ ♪ His worthy praise forever ♪ ♪ Forever, forever, forever ♪ ♪ Forever, forever, forever ♪

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Amen. [BLANK_AUDIO]