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Ride on, King Jesus, ride on. No man cannot hinder me. No man cannot hinder me. Ride on, King Jesus.

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No man cannot hinder me. ♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ride on ♪ ♪ No man can a-hinder me ♪ ♪ No man can a-hinder me ♪

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♪ In that break in the morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that break in the morning ♪ ♪ Fannywell, Fannywell ♪

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♪ It's the breaking of morning ♪ ♪ Fannywell, Fannywell ♪ ♪ It's the breaking of morning ♪ ♪ Fannywell, Fannywell ♪

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♪ I'm gonna tell you 'bout the coming of the judgment ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ I'm gonna tell you 'bout the calling of the German man ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ In the creek, in the morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In the creek, in the morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ There's a better day a-coming ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ There's a better day a-coming ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ It's the break of the morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In thy great kingdom glory ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ O Gabriel, blow your trumpet ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ O Gabriel, blow your trumpet ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ In that great kingdom morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great kingdom morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ In that great kingdom morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great, gilded light of morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪

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♪ No man can a-hinder me ♪ ♪ No man can a-hinder me ♪ ♪ No man can a-hinder me ♪ ♪ No man ♪

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♪ Can outlive ♪ ♪ Me ♪ - Amen, amen. Hear this word.

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Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. Man was there by the name of Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was,

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but being a short man, he could not because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree to see him since Jesus was coming that way.

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When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. "I must stay at your house today." So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

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All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He's going to be the guest of a sinner." But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, here and now I give half of my possessions

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"to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount." Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a son of Abraham.

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"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." We want to focus on that 8th verse reading from the American translation. I will pay back four times the amount. The subject, pay what you owe.

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Pay what you owe. Pay what you owe. I was a teenager attending Booker Washington High School in Dallas.

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And I had a bicycle that I rode to school each day through the papers early in the morning, Dallas Morning News. And that payment on the bicycle was $1.50 per month.

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I was buying that bicycle. But times were very difficult and so they needed, in our house, my mother and father needed that money for other things, and so I didn't make a payment or two.

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But I've always had a very keen sense of owing and paying. And so I felt that I ought to go by and talk to the man, even though I didn't have any money for him, to let him know that I intended to pay.

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So I went by and I told him my story that having a difficult time and that's why I had missed a couple of months. And I thought he would be very, very sympathetic.

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But to my surprise, he was not. I had my little books, my books on the bicycle and he jerked them off and said, "What do you mean not paying this bill?

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"Don't you know that this bicycle "is helping you to make your living?" And that since he's helping you, you ought to take care of this bill and all of that.

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You don't understand how to take care of bills that you have. And my heart started beating. And he said, he took the bicycle and I stood there trembling. And after he was through ranting and raving

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about why I should pay, he said, now do you think that if I let you have this bicycle back, that you can get those payments back here next time on time? I said, "Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir."

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So he let me have the bicycle, and I never missed another payment. Even though we still had hard times, I didn't miss the payment.

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Sometimes I think we do the Lord like that. He doesn't come down and talk to us like the man talked to me. He has other ways of speaking to us,

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But he wants us to pay what we owe. Have you ever had anybody to borrow from you? You know, and they come up, and they have such a sad, touching story.

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When they're borrowing, and they know you have what they need, and then you are touched by it to the extent that you give it to them,

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And then when the time comes when they promise to pay, that they act like they don't know you, they don't even get near you, you know. And seem to forget about what they owe.

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Here is a man named Zacchaeus. The name Zacchaeus means righteous. Righteous. Well, while the name means righteous, it seems that this

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man is not living up to his name. For if there were anybody in that day that was unrighteous, Zacchaeus was that person. He was very corrupt. He believed in making as much money as he could, as fast as he could.

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So he had become a tax collector, a tax collector who was considered a stooge of the Roman government. The Jews were under the Romans,

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and so the tax collector usually paid a fee to Rome and then that gave them the right to collect as much tax as they could, as much as the traffic would bear. And Zacchaeus was unmerciful.

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He really got as much as he thought people could pay. And he accumulated a fortune. So not only is Zacchaeus here identified as far as his name is concerned,

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righteous, which he's not, but he's rich. - Yes, yes. - Righteous, rich. You know, if we had both of those things going for us,

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we'd really have it made, wouldn't we? - Well, well. - Most people who are righteous are not so rich. And most people who are rich are not so righteous.

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So, in fact, the more people get, many times, the worse they become. And the less they feel they need God. So Zacchaeus is down there at the bottom of the ladder,

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tax collector. People look upon him as we do today upon those who are pimps and prostitutes that's the way he was, bottom of the ladder. Rich, righteous.

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And here is this man talking about having a bill that he owes that he owes pay, it seems rather strange and inconsistent. If this man is rich, he doesn't need to be worrying about paying off any debts. He's rich. But this is a rather strange turn in

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the Scripture. Something has happened to him. Something has happened. In other words, he has repented. Something has And we call it today repentance. He's changed.

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He's no longer concerned about being rich. How much he can put in the bank, how much he can swindle people out of, that's not his concern.

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His concern is how much he can pay back what he owes. You know, wouldn't that be a wonderful thing if all people thought about how they can pay back all that they owe.

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That would be wonderful. You know, some of the problems that some people have is that their freedom is robbed because of the debts that they have.

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I remember a lady who owed so much that she would never in this life have ever been free of debt. Never. She was making a good salary. She was a teacher. But she, during the summer months, you know, teachers back in the old days worked nine

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months and they got paid nine months and some people weren't able to manage those other three months. So she would borrow money using the credit card and you know those credit cards I got a call the other day say you know you can get a hundred thousand dollars Reverend. I said I don't need a hundred thousand dollars. I said but you can get it.

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And the percentage rate is just 2.9. I said, is that so? I said, well, what would happen after that period that you just talked about?

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Said, oh, wait a minute, it will become this and that. Well, you know, it can go up 20%, you know, some 30% people, you know, she was not just getting using credit cards,

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she was using those lenders, those loan sharks. sharks. That's what we called them, loan sharks. Back in those days, I don't know how it is now, but it would be 30, 40, and 50%. So you borrow $100 and you pay back 150, and then before you pay that back, you borrow another 100. You just keep on and on and on and on.

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Your salary is just 200 and something, you see what I mean? And so when you start looking at it, when you figure it up and what you're getting and what you're paying and what the interest is,

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you'll never, never, never be free of debt. And that was her situation. And here is a man who's almost in the position of what we may call today a loan shark.

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And here he is, and he's making a radical change in his life, such a radical change that he is saying that I've been robbing people. I've been charging them more than they should be charged.

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I've been taking advantage of them. But now I have changed. And if I have taken anything, and first of all, he said,

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"Lord, look, now I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times."

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Listen to that. This man's gonna pay back four times what he has taken. Four times he'll have.

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Something really must have happened to this man. For a man who's been overcharging people and putting it in his bank account and getting richer and richer year after year,

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who's saying now I'm willing to give, if I, first of all, give half of my possessions to the poor. And then, if I've cheated anybody, those I've cheated are going to get a bonus. Oh, if we got a bonus for all we've been

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cheated out of, we'd be in good shape. And in other words, this It's called reparations. That's a word we don't use much. So let's just say it once, everybody, reparations.

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Once more time, reparations. That is a word that we'll be talking about more and more as a people. That means that, well, I'll put it this way. There's a man in Congress who's a man of color.

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He's one of us. His name is John Conyers. And he's been presenting a bill to his committee every year for I don't know how many years on reparations.

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And that is for all these years we spent in slavery that the country should give us something back. - Yes, Lord. - That's really what's happening here, isn't it?

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- Amen. And that is what's in the scripture. Do y'all understand that? - Amen.

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- Yeah, that's what's happening right here. But since we have been wrong for 250 or more years, that we ought to do something. This country should do something special

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to righten the wrong. You see, now they call this affirmative action. And we're trying to reverse it. And there's a dear brother out there in California who was appointed by Brother Reagan to one

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of the committees. And he's been one of the great champions against it. Few of us who, by the grace of God, have been able to get ahead in this society have forgotten about all these people who are behind.

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this particular program of reparations, it has a little history already in this country. You remember the Japanese in World War II, that we went about and uprooted those Japanese. They were out there on the Pacific Coast. We uprooted them,

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Put them in camps, mistreating them. And here, many years later, Congress took action and I think they gave each one of them something like $25,000, something like that.

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They gave them something. You see, for all that they'd gone through. So, here in Dallas, not too many weeks ago, the city council passed a resolution

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endorsing reparations in Dallas. So at least we get, our eyes are getting open. Because some people have been said, oh no, we don't need that.

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Honey, we need everything we can get. (audience laughing) Everything we can get. We need it.

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Do you think those people that heard that Zacchaeus, that who had been cheating them all those years was now ready to pay them back more time Do you think they say, "Oh no."

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(audience laughing) I suspect they were standing in line to get what this dear brother had to offer. Well, this is the heart of religion.

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The heart of religion, real religion, authentic religion. The heart of religion is feeling an obligation, feeling that you owe the deity. If you don't feel that you owe the Lord something,

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you won't be bothered by doing anything. But the heart and soul of your, the quality of your religion is really determined by the depth of your debt.

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In other words, God has done so much for me. That when I begin to think about it, it makes me so humble to know that I don't deserve it and so many more people that seem to deserve it

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more than I do and God has done it. And it makes you realize that you can never, never, never do enough for God. That's the way this man felt.

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He'd been up there hiding. He didn't even wanna be seen 'cause he knows that he doesn't rate and he's up there. He just wants to get a glimpse of Jesus,

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and he looks down upon him, and Jesus comes and stands right under that spot where Zacchaeus is. He says, "Zacchaeus, come down, fella!"

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(audience laughing) I'm going to your house today. - All right, all right. - You're out here in this parade to see what's happening,

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but I'm going to your house! Yeah, the Lord God himself invites himself. He hadn't gotten an invitation, but he invites himself to Zacchaeus' house.

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So Zacchaeus has changed. This is a radical change. That's what repentance is, a radical change. He was going in this direction,

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and he turns and he starts a mystery. A radical change. - Yes, yes. What a change, what a wonderful change.

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And my life has been wrought. - Yes, yes. - Since Jesus. - Yes Lord.

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- Came into my heart. I have joy, joy in my soul, which long I had sought. Since Jesus came into my heart. That's, we sang, we sang a little earlier today

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Talking about the cross? Drops of grief can never repay The debt of love I owe Here Lord, I give myself away

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It's all that I can do That's what he... so not only does Jesus go home with Zacchaeus, but Zacchaeus calls all of his friends together and

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They have a party. His life has changed because he's met Jesus. He's met him. Life is, his order in a new direction.

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He wants to pay every name that he owes. And it's a debt he knows he can never repay. Wonderful feeling if you really see that. When, when Socrates

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was condemned and his sentence was that he was to drink the hemlock, poison, the hemlock. While he was dying, he had drunk the hemlock and his life was ebbing away. While he is dying, he remembers a death. He says, "I am the one who died." He says, "I am the one He says, "I owe a cock."

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That, to Eusebius, see that it's paid. In other words, he wanted to pay, it's his dying wish, to see that his debt was paid. Well, we can never pay God the debt we owe him. we can just dedicate ourselves to him

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and we know quite well what it is that he leads us through trials, he leads us through tribulations and our hands are scarred because we have nail-pierced hands when we follow

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in his steps And He goes with us even to the grave. And when we find ourselves buried, for the good that we have done,

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not only the cross, but we go to the tomb, we have the satisfaction of knowing that He raises us up. He raises us up in newness of life, so that we can say, "Lord, I give myself to Thee."

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Here, take me all that I am. Let me give myself and all that I hope to be to you, knowing that Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe sin that left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow.

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As the choir sings, we extend the invitation to come. (piano music) (piano music) - The door of the church is open.

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He paid it all. We owe our life to him. Our destiny is his. That's his people.

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The door of the church is open. We invite you to come. [ Music ] [ Music ]

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I hear my Savior say, "Thy strength indeed is small; Child of weakness, watch and pray. I give thee thine all in all. ♪ Jesus paid it all ♪

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♪ All to him I owe ♪ ♪ Sin had left the prince of Spain ♪ ♪ He was in my heart's glow ♪ ♪ For now indeed I find ♪

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♪ That thou and I alone ♪ ♪ And changed the limber's mind ♪ ♪ And built the heart of stone ♪ ♪ Jesus paid it all ♪

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♪ All to him I owe ♪ ♪ Said and left the prince unscathed ♪ ♪ He washed it fine as snow ♪ ♪ For Jesus, Jesus, praise be to God ♪

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♪ All to Him I owe ♪ ♪ Sinless, sinless, have the praise of God ♪ ♪ He washed it white as snow ♪ - Lord God, we're all debtors.

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We owe you more than we can ever repay. Bless us as we offer ourselves to you. in service and sacrifice as well as suffering. Grace, mercy, peace be with you.

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From God our Father, Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. (orchestral music) ♪ We shall overcome ♪ ♪ We shall overcome ♪

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♪ We shall overcome someday ♪ ♪ Oh deep in my heart ♪ ♪ I do believe ♪ ♪ We shall overcome ♪

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♪ Someday ♪ - The Lord will lead us through. ♪ The Lord will lead us through ♪ ♪ The Lord will lead us through ♪

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♪ The Lord will see us through someday ♪ ♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪ ♪ I do believe ♪ ♪ The Lord will see us through someday ♪

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We'll walk hand in hand. ♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪ ♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪ ♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪

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♪ Someday ♪ ♪ Oh, deep in our ♪ [Music stops] [BLANK_AUDIO]