Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church

Voiceover: You are now listening to an inspirational message from Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr. is the pastor. Please join the service in progress.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: Pray with me now. Let's get ready for the Word. Father, thank you. We love you. We honor you. We praise you. We thank you for this time of worship. Thank you for the time of fellowship, the great songs that have inspired us, the scriptures that have informed us, the prayers that have covered us.

Now, Lord, we need a Word to help us to live. Lift again your hymn out of self. Fill us with the Holy Spirit. Speak to us and through us in this moment. Bless the words in our mouth and the meditations on our heart that it may be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer. Bless us now in Jesus' name. Amen.

Old Testament book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk. It's a book you probably haven't looked in before. And if you're around somebody that knows where it is, you're in good company. But don't worry, it'll be on the screen, so you don't have to search. Eleven verses of the first chapter. It's a short book, only three chapters. Today and next week, we're going to look at this very interesting book that we might draw some important lessons from.

"The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. Oh Lord, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? Even cry out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save? Why dost thou show me iniquity and cause me to behold grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me, and there are they that raise up strife and contention. Therefore, the law is slacked and judgment doth never go forth, for the wicked doth compass about the righteous. Therefore, wrong judgment proceedeth."

Behold, this is God speaking now. "Behold ye among the heathen and regard and wonder marvelously, for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you. For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and nasty or hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess the dwelling that are not theirs. They are terrible and dread. Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

Their horses also are swifter than leopards and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far. They shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. They shall come all for violence. Their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them. They shall deride every stronghold, for they shall heap dust and take it. Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over and offend, imputing this, his power, unto his god."

This is the Word of God for the people of God. I want to talk about the strange acts of God. The strange acts of God. We know that life, especially the Christian life, is not a bed of roses. Every day we wake up, there are problems. There are problems that we cannot solve. There are problems we cannot figure out. There are things that happen that just defy explanation. Many times, we find ourselves just flabbergasted and lost for words.

Even people we think we know, we're sometimes just blown away by how they act. Things that come out of other people's mouths. I can't believe she said that. The reason we have these problems is because we have a perpetual enemy. The perpetual enemy is none other than Satan. His whole design and his whole desire is to destroy the works of God. He wants to undermine everything that God has done, including you.

When God blesses you, he wants to make you doubt. He wants to lead us into temptation to sin. He wants us to make us believe that somehow God just can't, God just won't, God just doesn't have the wherewithal, nor is he interested. Probably one of the most wicked things that Satan does for non-believers is to make religion seem as if it is ridiculous, to make faith in God look stupid, and to cause people to say, "I don't need that."

Consequently, in our world, we have seen a mass exodus away from God and the things that be of God. We find ourselves with a mess. Look around, my brothers and sisters. Not in here, but the world that we live in is in a mess. Violence is almost a byword. Every day we hear new accounts of mass shootings, drive-bys, bombings, planes exploding, just all kinds of things.

I mean, people were reading the other day, folk went to a young basketball star at a swimming pool party in Texas and lost his life over nothing. I mean, it's just everywhere. It's from the White House to your house, and it's even in the church house. Mess, junk, foolishness, uncrazy, unfounded, unscrupulous gossip. Just everywhere. It just kind of leaves our head on a swivel, and we're going all of these kind of crazy ways. We're saying, "What in the world, God, is going on?"

So, what we come to understand is that our problem today is not of a scientific nature. It's not the coming of AI that's supposed to solve many of our problems. But there was a time in this century when science was the problem for the Christian community because the Christians always in the early part of the 1900s, up through 1914, 1915, had to defend Christianity because the science community was saying the Bible just cannot be believed.

They would take passages like Moses crossing the Red Sea. How is it possible that the water could be jailed up on both sides and the children of Israel could walk through on dry ground? They said science says that's impossible. They say the Bible could not be believed because it says that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. They say from a scientific standpoint that that is impossible.

I remember one account of a little girl who was at school, and she was telling the teacher that at church they told her Jonah was swallowed by a whale. She said, "No, it's impossible. Whales are mammals, and whales cannot swallow people." She said, "Well, when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask Jonah." The teacher got smart with the little girl and she said, "Well, what if Jonah didn't go to heaven?" She said, "Then you ask him."

So, science is not the church's problem anymore. The problem now is history. Human activity on the earth. It goes like this, and this is the problem of the book of Habakkuk. This is why we want to look at this because it unlocks for us and explores the depth of the problem of history. History says that if the God of the Bible is the loving, powerful God that Christians say that he is, why is the world in the mess that it's in? Why is the church in the turmoil that it is?

So, this is what Habakkuk wrestles with. He's perplexed. He unravels his thoughts. I want to invite you to join as we look at him and look at his perplexity. As we identify with his perplexity, we'll see our own, and yet we'll learn about the strangeness of the ways of God. So, what is Habakkuk's problem? He's a prophet. He lives in the Southern Kingdom. He lives about the time of Jeremiah.

He's a contemporary near the end of the time that the Jewish people lived in Israel and were about to be deported to Babylon. Other prophets had promised that God was going to destroy the nation and that they were going to go into captivity, but people were denying it. They didn't believe it. They didn't want to hear it. Consequently, they did not hear the Word of God.

So, God reveals to this man. But listen at how he sees it before he receives the revelation. He says, "God," verse two of chapter one, "how long am I going to have to cry unto you, and you say nothing? How long are we going to have to look at all of this mess that's going on?" Israel was in a backslidden condition. That was nothing new for Israel; they stayed in a backslidden condition.

But the politics were corrupt. The violence was everywhere. Money laundering was being taken. The temple was corrupt. The church was going in the wrong direction. Habakkuk sees all of this as a godly man, and he is crying out to God to do something about it. There is no response. Now, my brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that Habakkuk's perplexity is our perplexity. It's certainly mine.

When I look around the world that I see, when I look at the political landscape, when I look at all of the violence that dogs the streets, and there seems to be nothing or not enough done about it. When I see the corruption that's in our current administration, which happened to be the most corrupt of any presidency in recent memory or even in the history of this nation. Don't fool yourself about some of those pardons, especially those that may be brown.

That's just to open the floodgates for the rest of the boys that he's getting ready to let go. Don't lose it because they're going to change things right before your eyes, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's already we're already walking around saying, "What? How can this be?" How many people have looked and said, "Who's going to do something?" Don't the Congress of the United States have some power to make some of these laws and change some of these things?

Our only hope seems to be in the Supreme Court. Maybe they'll put a stop to some of that. But then you hear the foolishness and the corruptness that's there. We, like Habakkuk, are saying, "Lord, how long are we going to cry and we don't hear anything?" So, Habakkuk addresses the problem of history, not from an academic standpoint, not from a theoretical standpoint, but from a personal standpoint of human frustration.

What he discovers and what we'll discover is that there are some strange ways that God has. The first of these strange ways that God has is that God's ways are mysterious. Can you touch somebody and say mysterious? The Prophet Isaiah spoke it like this: "My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord. As the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways above your ways."

Now, what makes God's ways mysterious? First is his silence, sometimes in difficult situations. It is a mystery how God, if I'm offended, you've got to know God is offended. How we wonder, our perplexity, he can be silent when so much corruption is going on. We wonder why God allowed the Jews, the children of Israel, to get into the trouble that they did.

Why didn't he just stop them when they first started worshipping idol gods? Why didn't he just smash the idols to powder, and it would have saved the nation from all that they went through? But God was silent. Why? Sometimes we ask the question, God, how? Why are you silent when so much foolishness is everywhere? I mean, you know, you may not say much about it because you're in church, but when it shows up at your house, then you want to know, "God, why are you silent? You're going to let him get by with this?

You're going to let her get away with that? You're going to let them get by when you see it, when you see the crookedness, the craziness?" When you work on a job and you know what's supposed to be and how it's supposed to be, and you see people getting promoted that don't deserve it, have not the credentials, have not the time, the experience, the exposure, and yet they seem to get all the breaks, and you get none of the breaks.

You can't help but say, like Habakkuk, "Lord, how long are you going to be silent and let this go on while I go through what I'm going through?" That is a mystery, isn't it? Why is God silent in difficult times? That is a mystery. But that's one of the strange ways of God. Not only is it strange that he is silent during difficult times, but sometimes we ask God, "God, what is going to be your answer?"

He says nothing for a long time, and then he comes with the whammy. He says to Habakkuk, "Okay, you think you've got a problem with the conditions and the circumstances you're looking at? You wait until you hear my answer." In other words, God said, "You think that's bad? You watch what's getting ready to happen." You can't tell me that's not a strange behavior.

For a long period of time, God says nothing. Then, in verse five, he answers Habakkuk's prayer. But he doesn't give Habakkuk the answer that Habakkuk expects to get. He says to him, "Man, listen, I'm getting ready to do something and I'm going to tell you about it, and you're not even going to believe it when I tell you because it's going to be so horrific. It's going to blow your mind."

Can I tell you what I've learned? I've learned not to question God about everything because there are some things I just don't really need to know. There are some things I'd really rather him keep to himself. Because if he told me about what was getting ready to happen in every situation, it would blow my mind. It would blow your mind, too. So, I let God be God.

But it's a mystery as to why he does and how he does answer, and his answer is not always in the predicted manner. God doesn't say, "Oh Habakkuk, you're such a wonderful spiritual guy. Let me give you the answer to your prayer request in the way that you want." No, God said, "I'll tell you what I'm getting ready to do. You want to know the answer?

I'm fixing to raise up the Chaldeans, and they're going to come into your country and they're going to invade the country, and they're going to be on horses and their horses are going to be so fast, and they're going to be as mean as evening wolves. They're going to take away your people and they're going to kill people and they're going to carry people away captive as the sands of the seashore. That's what's getting ready to happen."

Now, how would you feel if God said to America, "I'm getting ready to bring the Russians, I'm bringing the Chinese in here, and I'm fixing to whoop on some head"? Man, you talk about packing the church. We'd be under the pew. "Lord, help." Whatever God's doing, we better let that alone and let God be who he is. There are some mysterious ways and there are some mysterious answers.

Have you ever prayed and asked God why? For a long time, God says nothing. Then, when he does answer, it's not what you thought or it doesn't come the way you thought it should have come, and it has a surprise on the end of it. Man, let me tell you something, what you've got to know is that before the glory, there is the period of the suffering. What we don't like is the suffering that proceeds.

We want the glory, but we don't want the suffering. When I was playing ball in the days, it would be suffering to go through it during the week during the practice. The glory comes on Friday, on Saturday when it's game time, when everybody's out and you're in your uniform and everything going and people going "yay, yay, yay" or when the band time comes, it's halftime and everybody's looking at the band. "Hey, hey." But they don't see the suffering.

Those midnight things that we used to say, it don't rain on the band, it rains around the band. We'd be out there drenched. Nobody enjoys the suffering. I'm not saying it's pleasant, but it's part of God's mysterious ways. Sometimes his answer is you've got to go through it before I bless you. But we don't pray, "Lord, bring on the suffering."

That's not my prayer. Is it your prayer? No, my prayer is, "Lord, help, protect me, guide me, direct me, guide my family, cover them, cover me. I go through enough." So, God's answers to prayers are sometimes mysterious because we don't understand. What our problem is, we want to be people who try to tell God what to do and how to do, and God's not listening to that. God knows what he's doing.

So, not only is it a mystery that God is silent during difficult times, and not only is it mysterious that when God does answer, his answer is not what we think it is, sometimes it has to do with suffering, going through before the glory comes. But there's a third mystery why God's ways are strange and mysterious. It's because of God's instruments, the instruments that God will use to bring about his deliverance.

See, that was hard for Habakkuk to hear that the Chaldeans, the Chaldeans, God, the Babylonians, our enemies, you're going to use them to whip on the people? You're going to use them to punish the folk? But how many know God is sovereign? He can do what he want to do, when he want to do it, like he want to do it, and use whoever he want to use in doing it.

There was in the Old Testament book of Numbers, there was a prophet who was a shyster. His name was Balaam. Balaam worked for money. He wanted to get paid. The King of Moab and all had tried to hire him to curse the children of Israel as they were coming out of Egypt. There were two million of them and they were eating up the land, and the King of Moab did not want the children of Israel to pass through his land.

So, he called Balaam. He said, "Come on, let me show you these folk." He took him up on a mount. He said, "Look at all them folk out there." He said, "Cuss 'em." Now, he didn't say curse them, he said cuss 'em. He wanted God to get them. Balaam said, "Well, let me spend the night up here and see what the Lord says." The Lord had already told him, "Don't bother them folk."

But Balaam kept going. Three times he tried. Then, the third time, he's riding on his donkey. God has put a soldier, an angel in the way with a sword about to take his life. Balaam kicked the animal and Balaam hit the animal. God opened the jackass's mouth and made him preach to Balaam. I don't believe that was the only time God has opened the mouth of a donkey. I think he uses quite a few of us. It's just strange who God will use.

Who would have ever thought it that God would use me? Do you understand? Who would have ever believed that God would choose you? But God is mysterious. He uses the strangest people in the strangest times to deliver what he wants done. Isaiah, many years before this ever occurred, predicted and promised that God would raise up a leader. His name would be Cyrus.

Cyrus would be the leader that would deliver the Jewish people from their captivity in Babylon. History records, as a matter of fact, Isaiah, when he was talking about Cyrus, he said about Cyrus that the Lord said that Cyrus would be his shepherd. God called an enemy king his shepherd. So, God uses here an enemy people to correct the sins of the Southern Kingdom.

Can I tell you, that's a mystery. That God will use sickness, God will use trouble, God will use hardship, God will use heartbreak. Sometimes, I've said it many times, God sometimes will break your heart to save your life. Sometimes we have been stuck on stupid. Some of y'all know who stupid is because you saw him the other day and you said, "Thank you, Jesus," because he led you away from stupid.

God has strange ways. The first strange way is that his ways are mysterious. But secondly, God's ways are mysterious because his ways are often misunderstood. The people who misunderstand the ways of God are usually divided into two categories. The first group of people who usually and easily misunderstand God's ways are religious people.

Religious people can be hard-hearted because religious people think they know God and think they know what God's going to do. They often want to tell God, "If you just listen to me, then I'll tell you who you need to get and how you need to get them." How many know it's the truth? "God, if you just ask me, I will fix Mr. President. If you ask me." Sometimes you feel like that, don't you?

Sometimes you feel like that when the Lord takes people out of the earth. "Wait a minute, God, you got the wrong one. Let me point you to who." We go through things because we are religious people. But let me tell you what Jesus said about religious people. He said, "Not everybody who says unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter." Because in that day, there're going to be religious people stepping up to the door and they're going to be saying, "Lord, don't you know I was a member of Greater Shiloh?

I was a member of this church and I did this, I prophesied in your name, and I did this and I healed in your name." Jesus is going to say, "Depart from me, for I never knew you." His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. So, we have to watch that standing in judgment and looking down our noses at people that we think should or should not be and need to understand that God knows what he's doing.

Even though we may not understand, he's still in charge. He has not given up his seat. He has not put his seat up for auction, and he has not given up his power or authority. Still in charge. Still in charge. See, there's another parable in Matthew's Gospel later down in Matthew chapter about 21, 22, chapter 22. He talks about, "I'll send my servants."

It was a parable about the man who wanted to send his servants to his overseers and let them work with him. But when the servants came, they killed them. He said, "I'm going to send another servant and see what they do." They killed him too. Then the man decided, he said, "I know what I'll do." He said, "I'm going to send my son because surely they will understand it's my son, and they will obey and be reverence him."

They sent the son, and they killed him. Don't you understand what God is saying here to these Jewish people? He said, "Listen, I can do what I want to do. I can use who I want to use. You may not understand it because you're too religious, thinking you can decide for me who I can and who I cannot use." God will use your ugly stuff to make you better.

Sometimes it's my ugly ways that make me better. Things that I don't like about me, things that you might not like about you, might be the very things that turn you around and cause there to be a change because God knows what to do. That's what I love about him. His ways are strange. His ways are mysterious. The second group of people who misunderstand the ways of God are those who are prone to believe a lie.

Wake up, America. People who are prone to believe a lie. Do you know what they say about a lie? The bigger the lie, the easier it is for folk to believe. Every day all over this nation, we are being inundated with lies. The folk who are buying it hook, line, and sinker, I mean getting on TV selling their souls. I don't want to say it like that, but I've got to tell you.

That's what causes people to misunderstand God's ways because they can't see God's ways. They're not looking for God's ways. They have accepted and locked into the lie. Consequently, they cannot see the truth when the truth is being presented. The Jewish religious leaders were like that. God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into the earth.

But they said, "He's not our Messiah," because they had their own preconceived ideas about what the Messiah should do. Because he did not fit their pattern, they rejected him. I submit unto us today that so many of us miss the blessing of God is because we believe Satan's big lie and we refuse to hear the truth of the Word of God. God says, "I am the Lord your God, and thou shalt have no other God before me.

There's none like me." God says, "I have all of the power in heaven and in earth, and I can do what I want to do." But we don't want to hear it, and consequently we live below. It just broke Habakkuk's heart. But look at what Habakkuk does. He does something that is smart out of his dismay and mind-boggled situation of looking at the mystery of God being silent.

"How long, God?" Then, when God tells him that he's going to raise up the Chaldeans and they're going to come and they're going to be on these horses and they're going to take your land and take your people and they're going to kill folk and do all of those things, Habakkuk is blown away. But this is what he does that is smart. He learns how to step back from the situation and look at what he knows about God and begins to repeat what he knows about God, and that brings him full scale.

Listen at what he says. He says, "God, I know that you are the eternal one." He says, "I know that you are from everlasting to everlasting." He repeats almost what Moses said: "God, thou art God, from everlasting to everlasting." God has not changed. He has not given up his seat. He has not given up his power. He has not turned loose.

So, sometimes you and I have to step back from things that blow our mind, from our whys and our why-nots and our understanding, and focus again on what we know about God. Do we know that he's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore? Then Habakkuk looks at the fact he says that we are God's children. We won't die. We shall not die.

I don't care who God brings in to judge us. They are not going to be able to take us all out because we belong to him. Sometimes you just have to look at your problem and say, "God is bigger than my problem." You have to know the nature of God. You have to know that he's a holy God. You have to understand that he is a mighty God.

If he chooses to use something over here, he's doing it because he knows what he's doing. So, I guess I need to at least give you some hope out of this, huh? So, if we learn the strangeness of God's ways, that his ways are mysterious, and they're mysterious because God is silent in important crisis. His ways are mysterious because of the way God answers.

His ways are mysterious because of the instruments that God uses to deliver. Not only are his ways mysterious, his ways are misunderstood because we choose to be religious and not really believers or we choose to believe lies and not believe the truth. But the third thing I want to say to you today is that in spite of his ways being mysterious and misunderstood, his ways are always moral. Always moral.

What do you mean? They always have the right outcome. Because God is going to always do what's right. God is not going to do things to hurt you or to punish you. He may use some things to discipline you, to correct you, to prop you up, to get your attention. But God is going to always do the right thing. See, we may think that this Bible is only about salvation.

If it was only about salvation, then God would not have talked about the fall in the garden. God would not talk about hell. God would not talk about all of the other kinds of things. This book is about the ultimate destiny of mankind and human history. God was as sovereign in the beginning of the book as he is in the end of the book.

When you read the end of the book, you know that it all works out for our good. We may not see it, we may not understand it, we may not like it. How many know that many times an ugly situation has to pass you by before you can look back at it and see it correctly and see the blessing that was in it all along? Nobody wants to go through when they're going through.

But it's when you get on the other side of through. Old song used to say, "I can see so much what the Lord my God has done for me." How many people can see now what you couldn't see when you were going through it? The end of human history. Yes, there seem to be right is on the scaffold and wrong is always seeming like it's on the throne.

But when we get to the end, then we see that God takes back this world. The kingdom of our Lord becomes the kingdom of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever. God's sovereign rule is that this world belongs to him. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein, all belong to him. Even if God sometimes has to make us cry, he has the power to dry the tears.

If God lets an enemy rise up, God knows how much to let him do. My daddy used to say something that used to make me mad sometimes. He said, "I'd rather whip you than to let the police whip you." He said, "Because see, I know how much to whip you. But they ain't going to have no mercy. Son, they will crack your skull. They will kill you."

This was during the day of segregation, so you've got to understand. I did not like what he was saying then, but I've come to know that he knew exactly what he was talking about. Do you understand? God knows exactly what he is doing. God knows what trouble you need. He knows just how much or how little of it to make you. He knows how much rain you need.

In every life, some rain must fall. If it was all sunshine, you could never really appreciate the rain. You cannot appreciate the value of deliverance without having the backdrop of sin and pain. Once you see the dark side, then you can appreciate the bright side. There is a bright side somewhere. What we've got to understand is we can't stop until you find it.

You can't stop when you're on the dark side. You've got to keep going until the light appears. How many ever been driving on the road and you're riding in a place where the storm is coming and it just looked almost impossible? Sometimes you just have to slow down. But if you slow down and keep going, my word is that you'll run out of the storm and you'll find yourself on dry ground once again.

I've been talking about what Isaiah said: "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint." All you've got to do is just wait on the Lord. When you wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he will strengthen thy heart. Wait, I say therefore, on the Lord.

Sometimes I'm waiting in the morning, and I'm waiting all day long. Sometimes I'm waiting at night, sometimes I'm waiting all night long. But I just keep on waiting because I know God knows where I am. God knows who I am. God knows what he has brought up against me. But you know what? I'm happy to know that no weapon formed against me can prosper, and every tongue that rises against me is already defeated in judgment.

This is the heritage of them that love the Lord. I'm glad to be on the Lord's side. I'd rather be on God's side than to be anywhere. Because when the dust settle and the smoke clear, we're going to be all right. We're on the winning team. We're on the winning side. If Alabama could have a Nick Saban and the Los Angeles Lakers could have a LeBron James, we can have a Jesus.

If Jesus is on our side, we can know that everything is going to be all right. God's ways may be strange, but they are always right. They are always moral. They're always designed for our good. You can go home today and be encouraged. That's why we've got to tell somebody. We've got to tell people about the goodness of God.

You've got to tell somebody who's going through a dark moment, "Baby, you might be in the dark, but there's a bright side. All you've got to do is hold on. Tell of the goodness of God." Tell how you've been down, but I didn't stay down. I'm standing up. I was lost, but now I'm found. Was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more, but the Master of the sea heard my despairing cry, and from the waters lifted me, now safe am I.

Tell somebody God's love. Tell somebody he'll do it. Tell somebody he'll wipe those tears. Tell somebody he'll mend that broken heart. Tell somebody he'll make your enemy your footstool. Tell somebody he'll open another door. He'll wait on you. He'll do it. He'll bless you. He'll bring you out. He'll turn you around. He'll brush you off. He'll make you brand new.

Yes, he will. He will do it. He will do it. Jesus is the rock. Tell somebody. Got to tell it. Of the goodness of the Lord. Doors of the church are open. Somebody might be here. Somebody might want to give their life to Christ today. That's why we're talking about it. This is your moment. Give your heart to Jesus. By letter or Christian experience, candidate for baptism. Doors open. God is still good. Listen, listen, listen.

He stepped into my life. Removed all misery. He gave me a new determination. He's the joy of my salvation. I've got to tell of his goodness. I've got to sing of his mercy. I've got to give him the glory. Oh yeah, 'cause he alone is worthy. Come on, tell him. I must tell of the goodness of the Lord. He gave me strength when I was weak.

He told me to be humble in me. 'Cause Christ was humble all the way to the cross. Oh my soul, what an inheritance. I was a sinner, destined to hell. He saved my soul. Then he gave me a light to shine even in the midst of a storm. I've got to give him the glory. For he alone is worthy. He's worthy. You alone deserve him.

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