Amazing Grace ~ Original Lyrics ~

Faith's Review and Expectation by John Newton
Based on 1 Chronicles 17.16-17
As it appears in Olney Hymns, 1779

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)

That sav’d a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found,

Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears reliev’d;

How precious did that grace appear,

The hour I first believ’d!

Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,

I have already come;

’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promis’d good to me,

His word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be,

As long as life endures.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,

And mortal life shall cease;

I shall possess, within the veil,

A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

The sun forbear to shine;

But God, who call’d me here below,

Will be forever mine.

[The following verse was added in E.O. Excell's Coronation Hymns, 1910]

When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we first begun.

Newton's text was first set to the tune NEW BRITAIN in William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835.
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Message Churches are not immune to the subtle infiltration of the wrong kind of music...

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published October 2000 in Believers International News.

The Problem With Scoops and Slides

The Problem with Scoops and Slides
[print version] [audio version ]

How do we determine whether or not a particular performance technique is good or bad? What is the ultimate standard whether or not a vocal or instrumental variation is appropriate for Christian music?I believe that we must determine the purpose behind using a particular performance technique, and compare that purpose with our definition of Christian music. Here is a short summary of what I believe Christian music is:

Christian music consists of a clear, distraction-free message that is Biblical in content and delivery, Holy Spirit-filled, that is directed to the Lord, is performed as a means of edifying, teaching and admonishing fellow believers, and is testimony to the lost.

How then does this compare with the purposes of various vocal techniques that are used by contemporary musicians, such as scoops, slides, excessive syncopation, trills, ornamentation, straight tones, riffs, portamento, etc.?

I see several reasons why a singer would utilize these techniques.

1. To draw attention to the vocal prowess of the performer
2. To manipulate the emotions of the listener
3. To imitate another singer
4. To communicate sensuality
5. To create a particular atmosphere
6. To fit into a particular style or genre of music
7. To relate to a certain group of people

I believe that these techniques tend to violate at least three clear Biblical principles:

• Do not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16)
• Do not exhibit pride (Pro. 8:13)
• Abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thess. 5:22)

Christian music should never be mistaken for negative styles of music, such as the music of immorality or rebellion.

Properly used performance techniques are like spices. When used discreetly, they may be helpful in certain rare applications. All aspects of musical performance should be analyzed to see if they meet the following criteria: they should

• Enhance
• Beautify
• Illustrate
• Support
• Clarify
• Intensify
• Strengthen
• Reinforce

the message of the text.

In other words, if a particular performance technique is a help in communicating a godly message, it is perfectly acceptable to use it. If it is a distraction from the message of the song, for whatever reason, that performance technique should be avoided.

The problem with most vocal ornamentations is that they are almost exclusively used for the wrong reasons. Scooping and sliding and riffing are mostly manipulative, sensual, and self-promotional in nature and should not be used.

Music that clearly communicates a strong, positive, Biblical message will emphasize the text by using proper emphasis, word color, effective phrasing, and appropriate dynamic and tempo changes. Our music needs to be passionate, heartfelt and excellent, not manipulative, showy, or sleazy, in order to reach the intended audience.

Keep Me In Your Will

Keep Me In Your Will

Sometimes I think I'm in control

And I act so foolishly

Facing problems on my own

I don't know what's best for me

My mistakes at times disturb

All the plans you have made

Lord, keep me in your will

So, I won't be in your way

And, put me where you want to

Not where I want to be

If I should ask, for things I want

Just give me what I need

When I complain from time to time

Forgive me Lord I pray

Lord keep me in your will

So I won't be in your way

Remind me Lord, I'm just a glove

In which you place your hand

Not my will, but your's be done

Though I don't understand

The best laid plans I've made

Somehow always go astray

Lord keep me in your will

So I won't be in your way

And put me where you want to

Not where I want to be

If I should ask for things I wantJust give me what I need

When I complain from time to time

Forgive me Lord I pray

Lord keep me in your will

So I won't be in your way

I need you dear Lord

I need you each and every day

Lord keep me in your will

So I won't be in your way

Just keep me in your will

So I won't be in your way

Music videos - don't pattern after those things! We need spontaneous worship.

We've got a bookshop around there. It's quite a popular bible bookshop. They sell all these videos - music videos. You know brothers and sisters, everything today is super-duper; the music is super-duper, the singing is super-duper, the praise and the worship super-duper. You know it's not like real simple. You've got those videos, and sometimes we try to pattern after that. Don't pattern after those things! We must have spontaneous worship, because of the revelation, because of what God has done in your life, because of His saving Grace. We should praise Him - spontaneous worship. Not something we have to work up. You watch these people... well sometimes they try to imitate them. There they're standing, hands raised to the heavens, tears running down their eyes, singing like you never heard. Praising the lord, praising the lord, praising Jesus. I love you Jesus ... short skirts, pants, lipstick, cut-off hair. You want to tell me they are not sincere. They are sincere. They love Him just like you love Him. Emotionally they love Him just the same. We've got emotions, we love Him. Don't you love Him? Hallelujah! Well they love Him just the same. What is the difference then? What is the difference? We love the Word! We don't serve an imaginary God. We love The living Jesus Christ. He's living in me. Hallelujah! And we say we love you Lord. We love you!

~ Rev. Ivan Reynolds from near Cape Town South Africa

taken from his sermon "The Trumpet Voice of God"

The Prosperity Drug - Margaret Manning

The following post is a slight departure from my typical postings, but only because it so clearly identifies one of the inspirations behind rock, pop, and secular christian music today. After reading this article go here http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?loc_id=639,617&act=nav_loc to read some of the lyrics to John and Charles Wesley's hymns. - Editor


The catchy beat was disarming. Driving down the highway with my hands tapping out the rhythm on my steering wheel, I thought this was just another clever pop tune with bubblegum lyrics. Then the words to the chorus caught my attention:

“I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When we think it will all become clearI’m being taken over by The Fear.”(1)

This song sung by the young British pop star, Lily Allen, was not just another slickly produced tune without substance. Allen sings of the destructive impact of materialism:

“I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I want loads of clothes and loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars and passing each other
But it doesn’t matter because I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumptionand
it’s not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
Cause I’m being taken over by fear.”

Among other things, the song laments the vacuity of mindless consumption and its pervasiveness in our society. Consumption, as Allen points out, can be like any other form of addiction, providing an initial high that hooks us, but never again delivers what it promises. Instead, it leads us down the path toward diminishing returns and never ultimately calms our fear.

Over 200 years before Ms. Allen stepped onto the pop music scene in the United Kingdom, John Wesley articulated the dangers of materialism. “I fear, wherever riches have increased,” he wrote, “the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of religion to continue long....[A]s riches increase, so will pride, anger and love of the world in all its branches."(2) Even as thousands and thousands were joining his ranks, he spoke prophetically about the inevitable decline and dissolution of this revival as a result of the increase of wealth arising from Christian diligence and frugality.

Indeed, it is well known to students of human societies that an increase in prosperity often brings with it a precipitous decline in religious involvement. After all, why would anyone need God when there is Master Card and Visa? The declining numbers in churches in the Western World seem to affirm that Wesley’s fears were warranted. Christian leaders speculate that if current trends continue in England, for example, Methodists will cease to exist in that country in thirty years.(3) Of course, long before Wesley uttered his fears, Jesus warned his disciples: “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches” (Luke 16:13). Jesus warns of the idolatry that so easily entraps us, luring us away from faithful allegiance.

We might be tempted to avoid these difficult warnings in times of economic “slow down.” How can we be tempted to serve “the master” of money, after all, when we have so much less of it? Yet even in its absence, we can find our hearts soothed more by money than by God and behold the signs of a dangerous dependence. When our hearts find salvation and security in having more and more material gain--whether we actually hold it or not--we are reminded of “the deceitfulness of riches” and the narcotic effects of material success.

Thus clearly, the abolition of wealth or production is not the answer to materialism! Rather, the answer lies in the proper use of wealth in our world: as a blessing for others and not just for our own use. Jesus instructed disciples to “sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves purses which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven....For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Luke 12:33-34).

John Wesley understood this, too, and in the spirit of Jesus reiterates the same idea: “We ought not to forbid people to be diligent and frugal: we must exhort all Christians, to gain all they can, and to save all they can... What way then (I ask again) can we take that our money may not sink us to the nethermost hell? There is one way, and there is no other under heaven. If those who gain all they can, and save all they can, will likewise give all they can, then the more they gain, the more they will grow in grace, and the more treasure they will lay up in heaven.”(4)

In difficult economic times, this is far from unnecessary counsel. It may be, in fact, the very idea that finally breaks the chains of addiction and reveals a far better treasure.

Margaret Manning is a member of the speaking and writing team at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Seattle, Washington. (1) Lily Allen, “The Fear” from It’s Not Me, It’s You, Regal Records, United Kingdom, January 26, 2009.(2) Cited in an article by Philip Yancey, "Traveling with Wesley" Christianity Today, November 2007, vol. 51, No. 11.(3)Ibid.(4) Cited from The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, vol. XV (London: Thomas Cordeux, 1786).

© 2008 Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. All Rights Reserved.

Memorial Day

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Words:
bio("Ju­lia W. Howe","h/o/w/howe_jw")
Ju­lia W. Howe, 1861, alt.
This hymn was born dur­ing the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, when Howe vis­it­ed a Un­ion Ar­my camp on the Po­to­mac Riv­er near Wash­ing­ton, D. C. She heard the sol­diers sing­ing the song “John Brown’s Body,” and was tak­en with the strong march­ing beat. She wrote the words the next day:
I awoke in the grey of the morn­ing, and as I lay wait­ing for dawn, the long lines of the de­sired po­em be­gan to en­twine them­selves in my mind, and I said to my­self, “I must get up and write these vers­es, lest I fall asleep and for­get them!” So I sprang out of bed and in the dim­ness found an old stump of a pen, which I re­mem­bered us­ing the day be­fore. I scrawled the vers­es al­most with­out look­ing at the p­aper.
The hymn ap­peared in the At­lant­ic Month­ly in 1862. It was sung at the fun­er­als of Brit­ish states­man Win­ston Church­ill, Amer­i­can sen­at­or Ro­bert Ken­ne­dy, and Am­er­i­can pre­si­dents Ron­ald Rea­gan and Ri­chard Nix­on.
Music: John Brown’s Bo­dy, poss­i­bly by John Will­iam Steffe
lmn("j/o/John%20Browns%20Body")
(MI­DI, score). John Brown was an Amer­i­can abo­li­tion­ist who led a short lived in­­sur­­rect­­ion to free the slaves.


Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;[originally …let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.


WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN
Words:
bio("Eli­za E. Hew­itt","h/e/w/hewitt_ees")
Eli­za E. Hew­itt, in Pen­te­cost­al Prais­es, by
bio("Wil­liam Kirk­pat­rick","k/i/r/kirkpatrick_wj")
Wil­liam Kirk­pat­rick and
bio("Hen­ry Gil­mour","g/i/gilmour_hl")
Hen­ry Gil­mour (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1898).
Music:
bio("Em­i­ly D. Wil­son","w/i/l/wilson_ed")
Em­i­ly D. Wil­son
lmn("h/e/Heaven")
(MI­DI, score).
fot("Em­i­ly Wil­son")



Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace.
In the mansions bright and blessèd
He’ll prepare for us a place.

Refrain
When we all get to Heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We’ll sing and shout the victory!

While we walk the pilgrim pathway,
Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when traveling days are over,
Not a shadow, not a sigh.

Refrain

Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay.

Refrain

Onward to the prize before us!
Soon His beauty we’ll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open;
We shall tread the streets of gold.

Refrain

Politically Correct Hymns

Politically Correct Hymns

Mainline Protestant denominations are engaging in a publishing frenzy to see who can produce the most politically correct hymnal for today's church-goer. The traditional language of worship is being revised in order to be more gender-neutral, and to avoid the possibility of minorities and people with disabilities being offended by what has been deemed "antiquated" language. For example:

= The phrase "right hand of God" has been changed to "mighty" or "strong" hand of God, so that no left-handed people won't feel insulted.

= The words "darkness" or "blind" can no longer be used to symbolize spiritual ignorance.

= No longer appropriate are such terms as "Lord;" "Ruler," "King," and "Master," when referring to the Almighty. A truly democratic God is now addressed as the "All-inclusive One," "Great Spirit," "Architect Divine," or "Source of Being." On a more personal level, God is ferquently referred to as "Mother" and "Partner."

= Rarely are personal pronouns applied to Christ, and hymns such as "Crown Him With Many Crowns" now appears as "Crown With Your Richest Crowns."

= Jesus is referred to as "God's only Child" rather than "God's Only Son."

< Other changes made to old favorites include "Faith of Our Fathers," which is now "Faith of the Martyrs." "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind," now appears as "Dear God, embrace Humankind."

< In Isaac Watts' beautiful hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," the phrase "On which the Prince of glory died" has been replaced by "On which the Christ of glory died."

< And in "Just As I Am," all reference to being "poor, wretched, and blind" has been eliminated.

The fastest-selling of these new hymnals is The New Century Hymnal, published by the United Church of Christ. The use of the hymnal is not mandatory among the 6,200 congregation of the UCC, but already more than 250,000 of this edition have been sold, some to other denominations. This hymnal is praised because it "balances the masculine and feminine images of God, and sometimes refers to God as "Her."
Thomas Smith, executive director of the Fort Worth, Texas-based Hymn Society of the United States and Canada (http://www.thehymnsociety.org/), has estimated that 90 percent of denominations have already adopted a new hymnal, or are now preparing one.
Of course, not all new hymnals will embrace such a dramatic shift in biblical theology. But the fact that such lunacy is considered acceptable by a significant number of Protestant congregations signifies just how far denominations have turned from the Word of God.

--Editors note: This article was taken from the August 1996 edition of Believers News - A publication of Believers International - obviously from a few years back, but definitely food for thought. Pass it on by clicking the envelope below.

The Purpose of Church Music

Have you ever stopped to consider what the point of your church music program ought to be? What should a "mission statement" for the music department look like?

Biblically, the aim of our music is to:

• Praise the Lord (Psalm 69:30)
• Worship the Lord (Psalm 66:4)
• Remind believers of the goodness of God (Psalm 145:7)
• Reflect our personal thankfulness for what He has done (Psalm 28:7)
• Teach sound doctrine (Deuteronomy 31:19-22, Colossians 3:16)
• Be a convicting testimony to the lost (Psalm 40:1-3)

Everything that is done musically in your church ought to revolve around these concepts. If you have never done so, you need to read and study all of the references to music in the Bible. God is very clear about what is acceptable music.

Please note some of the concepts that are conspicuously absent from the previous list. Church music is NOT about:

• Entertaining
• Drawing a crowd for a special occasion
• Appealing to a worldly audience
• Hosting concert tours
• Raising money
• Selling recordings
• Increasing weekly church attendance
• Keeping the interest of young people
• Impressing visitors
• Creating newsworthy events
• Manipulating the emotions of the congregation
• Creating interludes or "bumper music" between events
• Promoting "Christian" celebrities
• Giving favors or positions of prominence to certain church members

Every so often, it is good for us to reflect on how we use music in our church services. Let's not trivialize or cheapen this powerful tool of communication by imitating the world's philosophy of music. Keep your music clean, purposeful, God-honoring and Biblical.

copyright © 2009 by Asaph Music Co. 

Bible guidelines for Christian Music:

Here's a summary of Bible guidelines for Christian Music:

BIBLE GUIDELINES FOR CHRISTIAN MUSIC

CHRISTIAN MUSIC SHOULD PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST — NOT MAN The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my SONG will I PRAISE him.Psalm 28:7  CHRISTIAN MUSIC IS FOR THE LORD — NOT FOR THE WORLD Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts TO THE LORD. Colossians 3:16  CHRISTIAN MUSIC IS A NEW SONG — NOT AN OLD SONG I will sing a NEW SONG unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. Psalm 144:9  CHRISTIAN MUSIC'S MESSAGE SHOULD BE CLEAR — NOT VAGUE OR DECEPTIVE I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the UNDERSTANDING also. 1 Cor. 14:15  CHRISTIAN MUSIC SHOULD EMPHASIS THE MESSAGE — NOT THE MUSIC — NOR THE MUSICIAN Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. Psalm 66:2  CHRISTIAN MUSIC IS IN THE LOCAL CHURCH — NOT CONCERT HALLS, NIGHT CLUBS. Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the CHURCH will I sing praise unto thee. Hebrew 2:12  CHRISTIAN MUSIC SHOULD FEED THE SPIRIT — NOT THE FLESH Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and SPIRITUAL songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16  CHRISTIAN MUSICIANS SHOULD BE DEDICATED TO THE LORD — NOT WORLDLY 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-21

Copyright © 1995 Dial-the-Truth Ministries

Easter Morning - Up From The Grave He Arose

Up from the Grave He Arose (Low in the Grave He Lay)

Text: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 
Music: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 
Tune: CHRIST AROSE, Meter: 65.64 with Refrain

Click the song title for the music

1. Low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Savior,   Waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!  

Refrain:  Up from the grave he arose;   With a mighty triumph o'er his foes;   He arose a victor from the dark domain,   And he lives forever, with his saints to reign.   He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

2. Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus my Savior,   Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!   (Refrain)   3. Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior;   He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!   (Refrain) 

_____________________________________________________________________________

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Charles Wesley

Click the song title for the music

Christ, the Lord, is risen today, Alleluia!
All creation joins to say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, O heavens, and earth, reply, Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now your sting? Alleluia!
Dying once, He all doth save, Alleluia!
Where your victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids Him rise, Alleluia!
Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

Things That Are To Be

--Editor's note: This fine example of worship and worship leadership was taken from a sermon preached by Rev. William Branham in Rialto, California 05DEC 1965. 

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE_  RIALTO.CA  V-4 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-1205
¹⁵⁴      Satan, you are defeated. You are a defeated being. Jesus Christ conquered you at Calvary. You have no power. You're a bluff. We're calling your hand, tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of this people here, you sickness and diseases. And may they go, free, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
¹⁵⁵    Hallelujah! Feel the glory of God! Feel your prayer answered. You believe God answered the person setting by you? How many believe it? Raise up your hands. [Congregation rejoices--Ed.] There you are. Oh, wonderful!

		I love Him, I...

With your hands up now, sing it to Him, with all your heart.

		Because He first loved...

Do you mean it, with all your heart now?
 
¹⁵⁶      How many of you feel that God has forgiven your iniquities, the things that you've done? "And from this night on, O Lamb of God, I promise to walk upright. I'll walk in honor of the Name that I'm called, a Christian, Christ-like life. I'll raise my hands, God. I dedicate myself anew to You, tonight. I'll walking in the Light." Amen.

		We'll walk in the Light, beautiful Light,

		Come where the dewdrops of mercy are bright;

		Shine all around us, by day and by night,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

		We'll walk in the Light, It's such a beautiful Light,

		It comes where the dewdrops...

Where He's gone to prepare a place for us.

		Shine all around us, by day and by night,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

		Come, all ye saints of Light proclaim,

		Jesus, the Light of the world;

		Truth and mercy in His Name,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

What will we do then?

		We'll walk in the Light, such a beautiful Light,

		Comes where the dewdrops of mercy are bright;

		Shine all around us, by day and by night,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

Oh, don't you feel all scoured out, feel good? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]Oh, my! Let's shake hands, as we sing again.

		We'll walk in the Light, such a beautiful Light,

		Comes where... (God bless you, brother.)... of mercy are bright;

		Shine all around us, by day and by night,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

Let's just close our eyes and hum it. [Brother Branham and congregation begin to hum Jesus, The Light Of The World--Ed.] We'll act like children. We are children.

		Oh, it's such a beautiful Light,

		And It comes where the dewdrop of mercy are bright;

		Oh, shine all around us, by day and by night,

		Jesus, the Light of the world.

Don't you love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

		My faith looks up to Thee,

		Thou Lamb of Calva-...

Just close your eyes and sing it. Worship in the Spirit.

		Saviour Divine;

		Now hear me while I pray,

		Take all my sins away,

		O let me from this day

		Be wholly Thine!

		While life's dark maze I tread,

		And grief around me spread,

		Oh, be Thou my Guide;

		Bid darkness turn to day,

		Wipe sorrow's fears away,

		Nor let me ever stray

		From Thee aside.

¹⁵⁷    Oh, my! I know I'm just an old-fashion guy. I like... I think that's got all the new, chopped-up, fandangoed, rock-and-roll impersonations beat, a million miles. Them old poets that wrote them songs, the Holy Spirit touched that pen, begin to write. Oh, my! Think of Eddie Pruitt and all them; great! Fanny Crosby:

		Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,

		Hear my humble cry.

 
¹⁵⁸      One time they was trying to get her. She didn't--she didn't do like the Pentecostal Elvis Presley, sell her birthrights for a mess of Cadillacs. She... Come to her and wanted her to write--write worldly songs. She said, "I would not do it, for nothing."
Said, "Why, you're blind. When you get to Heaven, how you know?"
She turned around, inspiration, so she said:

		I shall know Him, I shall know Him,

		And redeemed by His side I shall stand;

		I shall know Him, I shall know (How?)

		By the prints of the nails in His...

Otherwise, "If I don't see Him, I'll feel His hand."

		I shall know Him, I shall know Him,

		And redeemed by His side I shall stand;

		I shall know Him, I shall know Him

		By the print of the nails in His hand.

¹⁵⁹    Don't it make you love Him? Gone to prepare a place for us! "And if I go and prepare a place, I will return again, to receive you unto Myself."
 
¹⁶⁰      Little children in travail now, re-obey the commandments of God. And pastor, here, if none of you has been baptized, the water will be ready. And--and membership for the church, or whatever you want to do, or whatever, you do it. You haven't got the baptism, the Holy Ghost, this is the night to receive It. Don't you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
¹⁶¹    "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, it's late. You done preached too long."
Paul preached all night, one night, this same kind of Message. And a little... A young man fell off of the wall and killed himself. And Paul, so anointed with that same kind of Message, laid his body upon him, and the life come back into him again. He is still "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever."
Don't you love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Let's just, once more, with our hands up, "I love Him. I love Him."
Where's the pianist? There, if you will, sister, ever who it is. Give us the little chord, if you will.
How many love Him? Just raise your hand. Say, "I really love Him. I just love Him, with--with all my heart. I love Him."
 
¹⁶²      Now let's just sing it, to the glory of God. Now, with our eyes closed, our hands up to Heaven, "I love Him. I love Him." We'll worship Him. When you preach, and cut, and tear, and pull like that, this is the balm that God pours in, just heals. "There's a Balm in Gilead, for the soul." Let's sing it now. Give us the chord.

		I love Him, I love Him

		Because He first loved me

		And purchased my salvation

		On Calvary's tree.

¹⁶³    "And in this will all men know that you're My disciples, when you have love, one for the other." That's right. If we can't love one another who we do see, how we going to love God Who we can't see?

		I love Him.

¹⁶⁴    [Brother Branham speaks to a brother on the platform--Ed.] God bless you. [The brother says, "Being here tonight is a real honor from Heaven."] Thank you, brother. ["It's really nice."] Now, I think the church, every one, was strengthened. Don't you?["Yes. Really."] God bless you, Brother Boone. I'll turn the congregation to you. God bless you.   

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--Editor's note: This fine example of worship and worship leadership was taken from a sermon preached by Rev. William Branham in Rialto, California 05DEC 1965.