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[Background noise] We remember that Jesus said, "Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them." [CHANTING] [INAUDIBLE]

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♪ Oh, we'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ We'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ Oh, we'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ Oh, we'll never walk alone ♪

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♪ We'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ Oh, we'll never walk alone ♪ [Music] [music]

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[Music] (choir singing) [Music] We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're more than blessed.

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Oh, we are blessed, oh, we are blessed, we are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're more than blessed. We don't need nothing but yes, we are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed.

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We have shelter, clothing, food, houses, we, we are blessed. We're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed, we're blessed. We can't be happy, but yes, we are blessed. (music)

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[Music] ♪ For Jesus Christ is free, free at last ♪ ♪ He's back, he's back, he's back, he's back, he's back, yeah ♪ ♪ He's back, he's back, he's back, yeah ♪

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♪ He's back ♪ - Our Father in heaven, we are grateful unto thee that thou hast brought us safely to another week. And while we seek the blessings as we wait in thy courts,

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we have the realization that thou hast told us to come holy to a call of grace. Bless us, guide us, and gladden us for this hour, for the unfolding of the week.

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Bless our pastor and his family. Pray and be. We bless all of those who are worshiping within our faith this morning. We bless the strangers that are within our faith.

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Let thy choice, benediction, rest upon us. For we have a testimony to tell. We have a gratitude to express. We have a recommendation to make.

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In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. [Music] [Music] May we pray.

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[Music] [Music] I appreciate it. It took care of us last night, old John, while we slept and lived in this building.

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He's awakened us this morning, closing our life now. And we're glad, old John, to be out here this morning, witnessing for Jesus. Letting the Word on Him go by, and without Him we can never be. We're truly in control of that.

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We ask you for thy spirit to dwell within us this morning, to come into this sanctuary and to receive this day. And we ask, O God, to bless the priesthood all over this land and country. And heavenly Father, we re-sacrifice ourselves for thee. Heavenly Father, we have love for one another.

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Love, oh God, with care. We love our neighbors and ourselves. Heavenly Father, we ask Thee to help the nations of the world. They may know, oh God, that they can do nothing without Thee.

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Without Thee, Heavenly Father. You're all we thank. Hail, God, we ask Thee to come into our midst this morning, this day. Bless him, your father, I was taken of thy body this morning. May you extend to thy

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with self for these, and live for these, and balance in thy own favor. Bless our pastor, wherever he may be this morning. Bless his family. Bless each other, secure this morning, [inaudible] [inaudible] number 68, back to them.

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I am your voice, I'll be your chaplain after, O Lord of hosts. [Music] My heart and my flesh cries out to the living God. [Chorus]

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Even Thine all-just, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. [Chorus] Blessed is the man whose strength is envy, and whose hearts are the ways of them. [Church singing]

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Oh Lord of hosts, hear my prayer, give me air, oh God of Jacob. You know the Lord of hosts, and the Lord of angels, and the Lord of hosts. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I have seen the Lord Jesus, and I have my God, and He loves me and I love Him.

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For the Lord God is His Son and His Healer. Oh Lord of hosts, let His presence be with me. Oh Lord of hosts, and I have my God, and He loves me and I love Him. There is no other name

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Given to men That we can't be same And all that men should say [Music]

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♪ That man is Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Every hour he gives you the power to go through ♪

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♪ I'm free ♪ ♪ Just a boy in his prime ♪ ♪ And you don't know ♪ ♪ Just what to do ♪

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♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I'm afraid ♪ ♪ I'm afraid ♪ ♪ I pray to you ♪

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♪ Yes, I do, Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Every hour you give me the power to grow ♪

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♪ If you've done as far as you can ♪ ♪ And you've been a healthy man ♪ ♪ You've done as good as you can ♪ ♪ Oh, what good will it be ♪

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♪ If there is Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Every hour is a time to come to ♪

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♪ Let me out to give you the power to love too ♪ ♪ Let me out to give you the power to love too ♪ [Music] [choir singing]

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[Ambient noise] I have a very urgent announcement. Please to the reading of the script, all ushers and nurses, please meet in the fellowship hall immediately after service. Senior, junior, colleague, group, brother, Henry.

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[Pause] When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. "Zacchaeus," he said, "quick, come down, for I am going to be a guest in your home today." Zacchaeus hurriedly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy.

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But the crowds were displeased. "He's gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner," they grumbled. Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, "Sir, from now on I will give half my wealth to the poor, and if I find I have overcharged anyone on his taxes, I will penalize myself by giving him back four times as much." Jesus told him, "This shows that salvation has come to this home today."

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This man was one of the lost sons of Abraham, and I, the Messiah, have come to search for and to save such souls as he is. [Unintelligible] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] ♪ While I'm singing to the sea ♪ ♪ I see the stars in the sky ♪ ♪ Oh, I see them in the sky ♪

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[Music] ♪ One day, one life, one man ♪ ♪ One dream, one man ♪ ♪ One land, one nation ♪

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♪ He's home, home ♪ (choral music) (singing) [Music]

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♪ O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ [Music] I go to the Old Testament in search of myself. I go to the New Testament in search of my Savior.

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There are signs of hope in an age of despair. Friday of last week. I read an article in the Basement concerning three businessmen Corporation executives

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One was in the $40,000 year bracket, I believe was 5 p.m. another white for Say long say

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area These men were seeking a better way These three businessmen in corporate finance Have this this life

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isn't Voices that's the man in the $40,000 bracket of you this line is working Number two is this life all there is Number three I do not love money and profit for their own

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These three were perfect. The pieces fell into place. They became realistic about the world in which religion exists. And entered Yale Divinity School to study as seminarians. I have a Bible-based text on my beacon-light voyage, Luke 19, chapter verse 10. I have come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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The living Bible has paid. Zacchaeus's life underwent a radical reversal after his confrontation with Jesus. Jesus's visit to the house of Zacchaeus is full of irony. No wonder the old African epagonist, preaching on 19 and 5, Luke 19 and 5,

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The place which says, "That's his, come down quickly, for I must abide at thy house today." The African-Africanist commenting on this said, "Number one, he knows my name. Number two, he's calling me. Number three, he needs me.

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He knows my name. He's calling me. He needs me. I like that very much. I can't stop that. Jesus knows your name. Jesus is calling you.

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Jesus needs you. He needs me. When Jesus went to the house of Zacchaeus, the crowds criticized. The crowds criticized. Criticism is inescapable. I'm nearly in my past century of preaching, and I not only accept criticism, but I welcome it.

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Jesus said that criticism was inescapable. He said, "I came neither eating nor drinking," and you said, "Behold, a prince of devils and a friend of publicans and sinners." John the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking, and he said, "There's a bad eye there." He's not eating nor drinking, but he has a devil. But Jesus said wisdom is justified of what you do. The crowd criticized Jesus.

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Dr. Wendell T. Liggins, a design master's student in Denver, Colorado, has this to say. He said, "Brother Quaker, you are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don't." Zacharias is unusually eager to see Jesus paid off in huge dividends. There was restitution in this deed.

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There were those who looked upon him as an outcast. They didn't see any spark in his heart. But Jesus turned directly on his heart and saw a spark in Zacchaeus' heart, and he turned into a flame. And Zackeel stood and said, "Lord, if I have taken anything from any man, I restore over."

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The law says, "Give it back three times as much." I'll go one step further and give back four times as much. Something happened in his life. Jesus responded to this that happened in the life of Zackeel.

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restoration, we will restore. I hear Jesus saying to him, "There are those who rule out salvation theology, Zacchaeus, but this day salvation has come to your house." Salvation. There are those today who would rule out the theology of salvation. But to rule out salvation is equivalent to taking the keystone from the orb. It's equal to taking a tree, ringing it with a teenage act. How many of you have ever tried that?

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Take a teenage act and ring a tree. You're going to have a big tree. Take salvation out of theology and all else will avail nothing. The trumpet resounded through the corridors of the soul of a despised outcast, Jack Deegan.

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Jesus said, "I have come to seek for and sow and say so as he is." Christ came into the world with a specific purpose and specific program. His style of life was subtle. And I like that.

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The Son of Man is come not to be ministered unto, but to minister. I love to tell the story. Will be my friend and glory.

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The old, old, old story of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story for those who know it best, seem hungry and thirsty to hear it as the rest. We are on the trail of real hot nothing. What the world needs is service. What the world needs is love. I'd like to refer you to the bed chart in a hospital.

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A little girl, a small girl is there on her bed in this hospital. The doctor came to see her with his bedside visit. Then he wrote the chart and attached it to the foot of the bed for the nurse. When the nurse came in and looked at the doctor's card at the foot of the bed,

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She was stunned at the instruction coming from the doctor. The card said, "Give this girl three hours of love every day." She said, "I've never seen a death chart like that. I thought he would have prescribed for this type of medicine or that type.

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Three hours of love." The doctor being a clinical psychologist knew that what this girl had was not organic as such, but functional. She needed love. She needed to be shown love. This world needs more love. The wounds of the world cannot be dried up except by service.

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Jesus died for us. Jesus died for me. Jesus bought me. Jesus saved me.

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Jesus raised me. Christ is our solid rock. On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is stinking sand. I dare not trust the sweetest flame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

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I do not preach to crucify Christ purely as a pantomime, for the power of the cross is within me. And I thank God for this power and for this cross. We must lay to heart the theme of salvation. We must hear forever ringing in our heart and our soul,

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"Jesus saves, Jesus saves." Christ came to show the way to salvation. That's what the lost sheep is all about. That's what the Lord's poem is all about.

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That's what the Lord's song is all about. Salvation for the Lord. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, PhD, Doctor of Theology, M.D., Doctor of Music,

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the world's greatest interpreter of Bach, said, "I have come in contact with Jesus, And I'd like to get all of these degrees together and go to Equatorial Africa and serve the Blacks as a medical missionary to try to heal the hurt that was done by my forefathers. Here's a man who was on park.

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E. Stanley Jones went to India as a missionary. He worked among the poor folk of India for several years. And Stanley Jones says, "I heard the voice of the Lord speaking to me one day, and he said to me, 'Move on up a little higher. Serve not only the poor, but serve the poor.

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You have a debt to the poor. You also, Dr. Jones, have a debt to the power. Some of us recognize our debt to the poor, but we neglect our debt to the power. There's a great deal of loneliness among the power.

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Alvin Schweitzer and Dr. Stanley Jones met this need in the price of any enrollment and the price of every enrollment. But I tell you, one has to pay the price for this deal. Jesus paid the price in love and suffering. I heard Sister DeVittie urging us this morning to sing and sing with the Spirit.

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But I'll tell you the song speaks about that. It says, "Come Holy Spirit, quicken this dove with all thy quickening power." Heavenly dove, with all thy quickening power. Come tell the flame of sacred love and heal his cold heart of iron. Well, in vain I sing my former songs, and in vain I strive to rise, but old-fashioned language is on my tongue, and my devotion's out. [shouting]

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What's the trouble? I hate the sin. I hate the sin. And then he says, when he thought about it,

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how he hated the sin, he said, "Return, O heavenly dove, return, sweet messenger of rest." I hate the sin that made demons

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and ghosts become our friends. Sin will drive it from your breast this morning. The word sin is a short word, and you go out and preach and teach that there's no such thing as sin. That just comes along the glance.

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Well, I have pretty good functioning glance, but when I get off and happen to get into sin, it drives me from my breath. And then I have to come with a song. I hate the sin that made thee mourn and drove thee from my breath. It takes that type of resolution to get things over for the Lord.

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I want to move on into Annette Terry here now. The cross, the cross, the prayer of the free. And it was a monument of quenchless love. The sinning, needed people needed to be saved,

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and Jesus' blood was adequate to meet the needs of a sinning and needed people. And I hear Jesus saying, "My blood is sufficient. I want a wicked recipient of his love." Mary Magdalene was a recipient of Jesus' love. Her life was stained. Her life was not what she would like for it to have been.

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But I heard Jesus saying to her, "Dear woman, your sins are forgiven." And Jesus lifted Mary of Magdalene out of her life of sin and made her life as white as snow. Somebody said the other day that a sunbeam came down from the sky and came down to the earth and got a drop of water from a mud pond,

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and took the drop of water back into the ponds, and distilled the water, and purified the water, and sent it back down on the earth in the form of a snowflake. I don't know about you, but Isaiah has secretly said,

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"Come down and let us breathe again." And though your sins be as scarlet, I'll make them all right in the end. Jesus is blood irradicant. He makes it. Her life was changed like it. George Muller of England was a burglar. But Jesus touched his life and made him a spiritual jewel.

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I want to tell you what Jesus has done for these persons. He'll do for you. There is no secret what God can do, what he's done for others, he'll do for you. But you have to come to him, one has to come to him and faith and trust. Criticism cannot shake my confidence in Christ.

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It is my job, it is my passion, it is my life to go from coast to coast, from sea to sea, I'm still here, calling men and women and girls and boys to Christ. I said I wouldn't tell it for a million souls. I've got salvation, and it made me whole.

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I'll tell it everywhere I go. I'll spend eternity telling it. I need a song that helps me out. When this poor mission spammering tongue

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Lies silent in the grave Then in a nobler sweetest song I'll sing Thou power to save

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Will you share with him this morning? Would you accept Christ this morning as your personal Savior? The rain and the resolve of God's way of old There is power in all the revolution and this revolution of God has come to us today. This revolution has for me and my heart, we will serve another.

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Do you have that fixed regard in your heart this morning if you have a son to be with you now? He will save you at this moment if you will have a fixed regard to let him take the throne over your heart. Whether or not you accept him as your first and savior, he is your savior. If I require complaint, come to Jesus now.

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Make a resolution to come to him. He will save you just like that. It's a shame to see and to say that souls just like these in Houston's battle cemeteries

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is in order. If you hear the call of Father Francis, the invitation is extended. [Music]

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[Chorus singing] [Chorus singing] ♪ Oh, Jesus Christ, surrender ♪ ♪ I surrender ♪

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♪ Oh, Jesus Christ, surrender ♪ ♪ Let me take your holy life ♪ ♪ When he hears the calling spirit ♪ ♪ To the ocean's rising tide ♪

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♪ I shall be his guide ♪ ♪ I shall be his guide ♪ ♪ Always be my friend ♪ [Music]

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