Pastor S.M. Lockridge Sermon on Prayer and Praise — That’s My King
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Matthew 6:5
9:24 - “A sermon should provoke the will. To do what the Lord wants you to do.”
11:06 - “In sin, a person declares his or her independence of God. In prayer, we declare our dependence upon God.”
11:57 - “Notice, they [disciples] did not say teach us to preach. They did not say to teach us to work miracles or teach us to be wise.“
12:45 - “There’s only one teacher [about prayer], and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ.“
15:50 - “We are to put his praises before our petitions.”
17:58 - “When I found Jesus precious to my soul I moved off of complaint Avenue and I'm now living on Thanksgiving Boulevard.“
20:14 - “We must worship with a whole heart and sincerely give thanks. Public worship is a privilege and a duty or redeem souls united in faith and fellowship and the furtherance of the gospel. Don't you know it's a blessing just to be here.”
21:41 - “Don't you know it's a blessing just to be able to congregate here in the name of the Lord.“
28:09 - “if we would listen for the voice of the Lord let him have his way why revival would break out here tonight and spread throughout the length and breadth of this country [America].“
51:33 - “My king … “
55:35 - “… that’s my king …“
58:13- "... do you know him?"
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00:00 I am called upon everywhere I go to 00:08 explain what kind of name is when they 00:18 hear that my name is SM Lockridge they 00:24 want to know what yes you know what 00:28 what's that for 00:30 and I tell them s yam is for shadrach 00:33 meshach and they really don't believe me 00:41 and when I assure them that it is Cedric 00:45 mates Act then they say well what 00:48 happened to Abednego and I tell them I 00:54 had to stop using Abednego because 00:57 people misunderstood me 01:03 they thought I was saying shadrach 01:06 meshach and abednego 01:27 when I was in southwestern seminary my 01:31 house burned and the students started 01:35 calling me Cedric no Shack Locker as I 01:49 said last night that I'll always be 01:53 thankful to you for inviting me dear I 02:00 wondered I ever why you would choose me 02:05 you know I'm like the fellow who was 02:11 sent to give a death message man was 02:15 killed in an automobile accident and the 02:18 witnesses at the scene knew his wife and 02:22 knew that she was already sick in of the 02:26 nervous type 02:27 and whoever carried her this news was 02:31 gonna have to do it tactfully diplomatic 02:34 led they were gonna have to ease it over 02:36 to us so it wouldn't unduly upset 02:42 they chose this man and told of what 02:47 they wanted him to do gave him their 02:49 dress and when this man went to that 02:52 address and rang the doorbell the lady 02:56 came to the door he said all you Widow 02:59 Smith she said my name is Smith but I'm 03:18 not a widow he said that's what you 03:20 think whoever thought that I could do 03:28 justice to an occasion like this that's 03:32 what you think I'm happy to see people 03:40 all walks of life all ages 03:45 your presence here indicates that you 03:48 are interested in your own salvation and 03:52 in the salvation of others you know you 03:58 can have a pocketful of curls but you'll 04:03 not have a necklace until you get a 04:04 string each one of us is a pearl and 04:11 here's our her own right but we will not 04:15 be effective in our witness and until we 04:18 are strung together in Jesus Christ 04:22 [Music] 04:25 tonight 04:28 we turn to our Lord's Gospel according 04:33 to Matthew sixth chapter and I'll begin 04:43 reading with verse 5 Matthew 6 chapter 04:50 and verse 5 and when thou criest thou 04:59 shalt not be as the hypocrites are or 05:03 they love to pray standing in the 05:05 synagogues and in the corners of the 05:07 streets that they may be seen of men 05:12 when I send you they have their reward 05:16 but thou when thou prayest enter into 05:21 thy closet and when thou hast shut thy 05:25 door pray to thy father which is in 05:30 secret and thy father which seeth in 05:34 secret shall reward thee openly 05:38 but when ye pray use not vain 05:41 repetitions as the heathen do for they 05:47 think that they shall be heard for their 05:49 much speaking be not ye like unto them 05:54 for your father knoweth what things ye 05:58 have need of before you ask it after 06:03 this manner therefore pray our Father 06:07 which art in heaven hallowed be thy name 06:11 thy kingdom come thy will be done in 06:17 earth as it is in heaven give us this 06:22 day our daily bread and forgive us our 06:27 debts as we forgive our debtors and lead 06:33 us not into temptation but deliver us 06:37 from 06:38 for thine is the kingdom and the power 06:43 and the glory forever amen 06:50 I want to use for a subject in this 06:57 evening the last word in verse 13 amen 07:09 I mean that's what I'm talking about 07:17 amen 07:23 and now when it comes to preaching here 07:26 at this church I find it difficult to 07:34 get started you know get up to preach 07:40 here is kind of like calling a business 07:44 meeting after the rapture 07:56 but I'm gonna do my best now a sermon 08:10 should do at least four things for one a 08:20 sermon should stretch your mind a sermon 08:28 should inform and instruct you you ought 08:39 to be able to learn something from a 08:41 CERN to a sermon should Tan your hide 08:53 a sermon should correct you three a 09:09 sermon should warm your heart it should 09:15 inspire you or a sermon should provoke 09:22 the wheel it should challenge you to do 09:27 what the Lord would have you do every 09:33 one of us has a check made out on the 09:37 bank of heaven but many fail to cash it 09:42 at the window of prayer now prayer is 09:52 man's job that's the only onions an 09:57 obligation that our Lord has given to 10:00 men he did not say that may not always 10:07 work he did not say that may not always 10:12 play but may not always to pray pray for 10:24 your personal life pray when you are 10:31 successful lest you become selfish crave 10:40 when you're in sorrow lest you become 10:43 cynical 10:47 crave when you are in prosperity unless 10:50 you become proud 10:54 crave when you and material poverty 10:57 unless you become spiritually poor and 11:01 that's the worst kind of poverty in sin 11:06 a person declares his or her 11:14 independence of ball in prayer we 11:24 declare our dependence upon God 11:32 now prayer is perfection ly paradoxical 11:36 that is you have to pray in order to 11:39 pray when the disciples saw how lacking 11:48 they were in prayer they prayed Lord and 11:56 notice it didn't say Lord teach us to 11:59 preach they didn't say Lord teach us to 12:05 work miracles or teach us to be wise but 12:09 Lord teach us to pray when you recognize 12:16 how lacking you are in prayer you'll 12:20 pray you know out of all of our Bible 12:26 colleges or seminaries and the heaven of 12:30 horses that teaches a little of 12:32 everything homiletics hermeneutics 12:36 alterus 12:38 but nobody offers of course in prayer 12:44 simply because there's only one teacher 12:47 and that's the Lord Jesus Christ himself 12:52 and now some people think that prayer is 12:57 a monologue where you do all the top and 13:06 some of us talk to the Lord just like me 13:09 doesn't know what happening in this 13:10 world we talk to the Lord like we have 13:18 to inform him tell him what to do and 13:24 how to do it and winds do it and you 13:28 this right now right now Lord right now 13:37 and some people talk to the Lord like 13:43 they're picketing the throne of grace 13:51 like the Lord is reluctant to answer and 13:59 you have to bombard his throne with 14:02 prayer in order to get in there or he's 14:06 reluctant to give you what you're asking 14:08 for 14:10 we call him loud and long Lord come on 14:19 now we want you to go here and go yonder 14:30 do this and do that and on the double 14:40 but prayer is not just a monologue where 14:44 you do all the talk prayer has got to be 14:49 a dialogue not only must you talk to the 14:54 Lord but you've got to wait and let him 14:56 talk to you now it's far better for us 15:00 to hear what the Lord has to say that it 15:03 is for him to get what we have to say 15:07 but we don't know what to say we don't 15:10 know what they ask for praise ye the 15:15 Lord I will praise the Lord with my 15:21 whole heart in the Assembly of the 15:23 upright now praise for worship is due 15:29 God and that's the reason I'm so blessed 15:32 by worshiping here with you praise for 15:36 worship is due God we are here tonight 15:40 the glory in his grace to meditate on 15:45 his might and his mercy and to put his 15:51 praises before our petition 15:58 we ought to put his praises before I put 16:06 this in other words before you born they 16:10 asked the Lord for summer take him for 16:12 what he's already doing you know we are 16:20 good at pouting bruises who love me I 16:27 have one here I have one here instead of 16:33 pouting your bruises spend some time 16:38 counting your blessings both I don't do 16:42 too well with an accurate account 16:44 because I soon get on shouting ground 16:47 and lose the town instead of lamenting 16:53 over what you've lost thank God for what 16:57 you have left has to pray tonight that 17:02 this would be a Thanksgiving service and 17:05 every time we go to God in prayer water 17:10 first packing instead of number and your 17:16 enemies thank God that you have some 17:20 friends and I had I think them that I 17:23 have a friend above all others in Jesus 17:25 Christ you know I used to whine and 17:30 murmur and complain whenever I call 17:36 myself pray and I'd go to the Lord tell 17:38 him what a land man what people are 17:42 holding me down and the people of 17:45 mistreatment is so hard 17:49 [Applause] 17:55 I'd go to him with a long list of 17:58 negatives but when I found Jesus 18:05 precious to my soul I moved off of 18:09 complaint Avenue and I'm now living on 18:12 Thanksgiving Boulevard praise the Lord 18:18 Fresno worship is dugong we have access 18:26 to the throne of grace and we can come 18:33 on the dog you know I'm so glad I'm so 18:36 glad that I don't have to write back to 18:41 Los Angeles 18:42 and tell somebody what I want them to 18:50 tell the Lord 18:55 [Applause] 18:57 you know mayor of the slow and sometimes 19:03 male get lost and that fella to whom I'm 19:12 riding is waiting for me to send him a 19:14 fee 19:19 and I've got to wait for his answer he's 19:23 gonna talk to the Lord and then write me 19:27 back and tell me what the answer is wha 19:29 Oh scuse me but let me tell you I'm so 19:35 glad that he's arranged it so that I can 19:40 talk to him for myself now I appreciate 19:44 you praying for me but when it comes to 19:49 pray I don't trust you 19:56 there's nobody can beat me talking to 20:01 the Lord about me we must worship with a 20:17 whole heart and sincerely give thanks 20:25 public worship is a privilege and a duty 20:30 or redeem souls United in faith and 20:37 fellowship and the furtherance of the 20:39 gospel don't you know it's a blessing 20:43 just to be here the Lord has given you 20:49 the oath in this point to make it yeah 20:54 and then to sit there an hour ahead 20:59 while I preach that's a blessing 21:06 you know sometimes sometimes we've got 21:10 some members you have to keep them 21:12 remind me we have to call them don't 21:16 forget the prayer meeting tonight 21:20 [Applause] 21:23 when the citizen went swimmin when you 21:27 asked you when they you tell them I 21:30 invite them to come to the house of the 21:33 Lord the first thing you know what's 21:36 going on like something extra stretch 21:39 I'll have to go on before he puts in his 21:41 appearance don't you know it's a 21:44 blessing just to be able to congregate 21:47 here in the name of the law 21:50 I have a good 21:55 [Applause] 21:58 let the Assembly of the upright join 22:03 together in praise and in pray let the 22:08 congregation of all who love and serve 22:11 God join together at the mercy seat 22:14 where they may obtain mercy and find 22:17 grace to help in the time of me prayer 22:21 is a great privilege I tell you that's 22:26 the reason David said let the redeemed 22:29 of the Lord say so you know if the Lord 22:34 has redeemed you if the Lord is failure 22:37 the least you can do is say so 22:42 [Music] 22:45 everything I have above nothing God gave 22:49 it to me and the least I can do is say 22:55 some prayer is a great privilege I tell 23:02 you prayer is a weapon in the hour of 23:06 conflict it's a defense in the moment of 23:12 peril it's a retreat in the season saw 23:17 of exhaustion oh I said I was going to 23:20 talk about amen 23:21 all right amen Sibley means that which 23:27 is certain that which is credible that 23:31 which is true 23:35 amen 23:36 citta means so being as it he is in by 23:44 purpose as it he is in thy promises so 23:54 be it in our praises so be it in 23:57 operators in the Old Testament they are 24:04 at least thirty references say Amen and 24:09 in the New Testament there at least 24:11 fifty references to image and in every 24:15 one of these references you will find 24:17 that Edmond is a word of affirmation it 24:23 has a force of a superlative and it has 24:27 a note of finality when you said it you 24:31 have said it and that just nothing to 24:34 top it the best you can do is repeat 24:41 and though not repetition you know every 24:48 once in a while maybe once or twice a 24:52 year preach a sermon there and celebrate 24:58 that I've preached before and invariably 25:04 somebody comes charging up them a pastor 25:06 I've I've heard that one before 25:10 and I said yes that if it didn't bear 25:13 repeating 25:14 I shouldn't have preached it in the 25:15 first place though not repetition you 25:26 see there are no degrees of holiness you 25:31 know God is just hoping he's not less 25:35 holy one day and more holy another day 25:38 he's just only in the year that King 25:42 Uzziah died I saw the Lord High and 25:45 lifted up and his train filled the 25:47 temple and above him stood the surf and 25:51 then each one had six wings with twain 25:54 he covered his feet and with twain he 25:56 covered his feet and with twain he did 25:58 fly and one cried unto another and said 26:02 holy and i get the idea that the one in 26:06 the north fried holy and the one in the 26:09 south tried to find something to top and 26:11 he couldn't come up with any cried over 26:14 and the one in the east tried to find 26:17 something better to say and he couldn't 26:19 find it and he cried holy the one in the 26:22 West tried to find some to talk but he 26:24 couldn't come up with it and he cried 26:26 holy holy is the Lord of Hosts I'm 26:30 trying to tell you don't like repetition 26:34 we have no spiritual that just says Amen 26:38 hey and that's all just about the third 26:45 time around things start happening 26:49 don't knock repetition that's the reason 26:54 we have a to Foley amen and a full full 26:58 three phones Tina has a Sevenfold amen 27:04 and that's a mean five six seven but it 27:08 means without numbered without Amen 27:20 simply means yes law and everybody here 27:28 ought to say yes to the law that means 27:35 let the Lord have his way in your life 27:40 just think what would happen here 27:45 tonight if every one of us just let the 27:49 Lord and his way you know we went our 27:57 way we want to do what somebody else 28:02 told us to do saying what somebody else 28:05 told us to say you sound like somebody 28:09 if we would listen for the voice of the 28:14 Lord let him have his way 28:21 why revival would break out here tonight 28:24 and spread throughout the length and 28:26 breadth of the 28:32 if you'll allow the Lord to let use you 28:36 on his own terms and let the Lord have 28:39 his way you'll not only see what the 28:42 Lord can do for you but what he can do 28:47 with you and through you now nothing is 28:55 going to happen through you until 28:58 something happens to you 29:06 until you let the Lord have his way you 29:11 know we go to the Lord yet every one of 29:16 us Lord we will revive a Lord we want to 29:19 revive a Lord send us Reviver but we 29:22 will revive us the Lord is saying if my 29:31 people which are called by my name shall 29:33 humble themselves and pray and seek my 29:37 face and turn from their wicked ways you 29:39 won't have to worry about revival I'll 29:43 hear from heaven I'll forgive their sins 29:45 and I'll heal elet if I move now God has 29:50 already done everything that it takes 29:52 for us to have revival all we have to do 29:56 is plug in 29:59 but that's it we are reluctant to plug 30:03 in the moment we feel something coming 30:09 on of a worshipful and appraised nature 30:16 we grab our singles I got to remember 30:21 who I am now let the Lord have his way 30:27 amen is an indication of solemn assent 30:30 to the words of another on the part of 30:33 an individual of congregation amen was 30:38 used in the synagogue and it is passed 30:43 on to Christian congregations it was 30:48 customary to say Amen at the given of 30:53 things our Lord used Amen when he wished 30:59 to Vestas statement with special 31:04 authority he would often say verily 31:08 verily I say unto you I truly truly I 31:12 say unto you or amen amen 31:15 I say unto you the title Amen was given 31:19 to our Lord in the pistol to the church 31:23 at laodicea Paul preached about price 31:27 the AMA the seal of God's promises in 31:33 all of these references every time we 31:37 hear one praising the Lord we can't help 31:44 but say Amen if he's saying we don't 31:48 want to take the song but you just 31:52 wanted to let you know that's my song 31:55 you don't take the sermon but you just 32:00 let you know if I was up there I'd say 32:02 the same thing 32:07 amen 32:08 makes a doxology of what it is even when 32:17 the scriptures are read all of the 32:20 people were saying amen as far back as 32:26 deathless time when the Scriptures will 32:30 read all the people said amen 32:33 I don't mean some of them all of you 32:39 know some of us think that Amen is just 32:41 for some people who don't know any 32:44 better 32:47 but I've come to tell you is for people 32:50 who do go better you know the first five 32:54 years of my preaching ministry I used to 32:57 ask the congregation to say Amen when I 32:59 walk in I said say Amen church then I 33:03 said say it again but you know I soon 33:07 learned better than that I don't want to 33:11 encourage anybody to be a hypocrite if 33:16 you don't know what's going on keep 33:19 watch 33:21 [Applause] 33:23 if the Lord is not your shepherd don't 33:27 play like E and another thing if the 33:38 Lord is your Shepherd I won't have to 33:40 ask you to say Amen 33:45 [Applause] 33:48 yeah we think that a man is for people 33:52 who don't know any better but I say it's 33:53 for people who do know better and Paul 33:57 writing to the Caribbeans talking about 34:01 spiritual gifts he says now the Lord is 34:06 able to give each individual what he 34:12 wants that individuals and he'll give 34:18 you something that he does not give me 34:20 and he'll give me something that he does 34:23 not give you now just because you don't 34:29 have what I have don't knock it 34:38 Paul zeroed in on those people who call 34:42 themselves speaking in tongues 34:46 he said now I'm well aware that the Lord 34:50 can give a person the power to speak 34:55 another language on the spot I'm not 35:00 talking about some babbling 35:02 [Applause] 35:04 you don't know what you're talking about 35:05 and nobody else and if you ask you what 35:08 you talk about you get angry and talk 35:11 battered you the devil I'm talking about 35:15 another language something that somebody 35:17 else can understand why have the Lord 35:22 open the mouth of a donkey and called 35:30 him to speak surely he can take a high 35:33 school graduate it's all his the fall 35:41 all went on the same but you people who 35:45 call itself speaking in tongues if 35:47 you're gonna insist in speaking in 35:50 tongues 35:50 get you an interpreter so how can these 35:55 people say Amen when they don't know 35:56 what you're talking about 35:59 [Applause] 36:01 and then it's for people who know say if 36:09 you don't know no I heard of know a man 36:23 say some time ago has no brother in our 36:27 church to just stay as amen so loud and 36:30 so frequently it just turns me off and I 36:38 said to him just because somebody else 36:41 puts too much seasoning on his food that 36:48 isn't gonna keep me from seeds in minds 36:50 of my teeth 36:56 look our sophistication itself in the 37:00 life out of our religion you know we 37:05 work hard especially when we come to 37:08 church we work hard and being dignified 37:14 dignity comes down on the hard heavy 37:23 don't you know don't you know when you 37:27 quench the spirit you grieve the spirit 37:37 amen our work anyway if you'll allow it 37:42 in 1970 March 15 I was one of the 10 37:50 preachers from across this nation to be 37:53 given an invitation by the President of 37:56 the United States to be his guest in the 38:00 White House 38:01 and I used to love to tell this before 38:03 Watergate 38:09 but in the rate that's under Mormon we 38:18 were among 360 dignitaries from around 38:23 the world I'm talking about heads of 38:25 state to be invited to the worship 38:30 service in the East Room of the White 38:31 House that was mode Dignan to that force 38:35 planes and you could have found any way 38:39 [Applause] 38:43 dr. Billy Graham got to preach in that 38:46 mall and on the 23rd psalm and it just 38:49 kept hammering away home how good god is 38:51 and how great he is and how gracious he 38:54 is and there were two three of us who 38:56 stood it just about as long as we could 38:58 and we let loose with air man and you 39:03 know we had a shouting good time in the 39:05 East Room of the White House the next 39:08 morning The Washington Post had his hit 39:10 lines amen sounded in the White House 39:13 didn't work anyway but you know some 39:17 people tried to justify themselves for 39:20 not using it by saying well I don't know 39:23 whether to said at the beginning or in 39:29 the middle or at the end you know I just 39:32 like to sit and listen I don't like to 39:34 interrupt 39:35 don't you know you can't interrupt the 39:38 bar called preacher by saying Amen 39:41 if you think you can you try and then 39:50 some were saying I will use it but sir I 39:56 don't know whether to how whether to 40:01 pronounce it a men are men you know we 40:06 can get so technical when it comes to 40:09 things spiritual but you're not 40:14 misleading me you know when to pronounce 40:19 th easy and when it pronounces the you 40:24 know the said the East and the West 40:27 well what does it matter the Lord is 40:29 listening to how you pronounce your 40:31 words he's concerned about the condition 40:36 of your home and then some were saying 40:41 and I'm going on some will say well 40:48 that's for people who don't know any 40:53 better that's for people who just picked 40:56 up something and it's just become a 40:58 habit and and then it would be better if 41:01 they leave it off well I have let's 41:05 let's look at the word of the Lord and 41:08 see if it's alright to leave it off the 41:15 Lord says when you pray I'm not talking 41:22 about when you recite some words but 41:26 when you prayer I'm not talking about 41:32 going visiting them hear somebody say 41:37 something in a prayer and it impressed 41:40 the congregation that they responded 41:42 affirmatively to it and you made a motor 41:46 of it and when you got back here 41:51 then you said that in your ear he's not 41:54 talking about that he said when you pray 41:56 I talk about when you recite what you 42:02 heard somebody else say it sounds good 42:04 when you pray you know pray after this 42:09 man and somebody gets tripped up right 42:13 there then we start arguing 42:16 somebody over here will say the Lord 42:19 just meant for us to recite these words 42:22 verbatim and that's it somebody over 42:26 here will say no he didn't mean that 42:28 he means for you to recite these words 42:31 and then close out with something of yo 42:34 and then somebody over here will say no 42:38 he didn't mean that he meant for you to 42:40 start out with something of your own and 42:42 then close out with these words the Lord 42:47 just saying after this manner therefore 42:52 pray ye after this manner you know when 43:00 I was in elementary school I was taught 43:01 to add subtract multiply and divide and 43:04 then they gave me some problems and with 43:09 every set of problems they give me some 43:12 examples to show me how to work the 43:14 problems that didn't mean that all the 43:17 numbers that I was gonna encounter would 43:18 be the same number that would be in that 43:21 example 43:28 whatever number that in tennis this is 43:31 the way you would after this manner 43:35 along about that same time we were 43:38 taught letter-writing and we were taught 43:40 that any good letter had to have at 43:43 least six pops we were taught that you 43:50 had to have the name of the person to 43:52 whom you're writing in this prayer 43:55 letter the name is our fault say when 44:02 you pray you're gonna have to pray ah 44:05 father I'm gonna have to pray for you 44:13 and you're gonna have to pray for me oh 44:22 no if God is your father and he is my 44:28 father that makes us brothers 44:38 oh man not gonna accept another man and 44:41 brother unfriendly recognizes as the 44:43 both have the same fall jesus said you 44:58 pray oh and then we'll talk 45:04 that you had to have the address of the 45:07 one for whom you're writing which are in 45:10 heaven and somebody somebody gets the 45:14 idea that ball is sitting high we're 45:18 somewhere got his feet possible earth 45:21 for footstool you have to call him and 45:23 tell him to come here and go yonder 45:26 from here Lord and go out in California 45:29 and see Bob massage go by the hospital 45:32 and don't forget that wheel over there 45:35 that just had to accidentally that's 45:41 that other fella who have to go to land 45:43 road 45:49 Bart is already here you know we asked 45:54 him to come on and be in the meeting 45:56 he's already here don't you know don't 46:03 you know don't you know that distance 46:07 what was one of them he's everywhere 46:11 here 46:17 Satan isn't in this meeting the poor 46:23 fellow he had to catch him arrive you 46:29 had to bring it you had to breathe 46:35 if he hear you boy the thought is all 46:44 right yeah he's brought in heavens he's 46:49 far enough he's taught everywhere which 46:54 are in him 46:54 Elian we were taught that a letter there 46:58 was agreeing or salutation and the 47:04 greeting of Sanitation you use depends 47:07 upon what you think about the person to 47:10 whom you're writing with your writing 47:15 Miller and Mayer is just a casual friend 47:18 you're satisfied to just say dear memory 47:21 but brother if you love me 47:26 you will spin the bottle now overhead 47:29 trying to find another name sweeter than 47:33 just name it 47:35 somebody had no bottom Pumbaa you know 47:41 what her name is why don't you go and 47:43 put it down there but what you wanna 47:44 name sweeter than that name the greeting 47:49 of salutation in this prayer letter is 47:52 followed by me this name is hoping this 47:59 main mister be respect this name of the 48:04 beat hello 48:05 oh I did the students when I hear people 48:09 and some of them call themselves 48:11 Christians then when they get ready to 48:13 you will Garrett in for planet Inge 48:16 where where we can hit that holy name 48:18 and drag it down with that name is 48:23 already 48:25 this is absolutely but you know that's 48:28 the only moon that can save us booty no 48:33 not the only name you can pray that's 48:37 not only name that we can meet in the 48:41 name Jesus there is a name I love to 48:45 hear I love the finish would it sound 48:49 rock music in my ear the sweetest name 48:53 on earth 48:55 hallowed be thy name and then we were 48:57 taught that when you start off the part 49:01 of the letter always expressed some 49:03 interest and the one for whom you're 49:05 writing most not all talking about 49:07 yourself express some interest in him 49:10 those the Russell been away from home 49:13 possibly in school 49:15 we need something it didn't take us long 49:17 to learn how to ask about the other 49:19 sisters and brothers and aunts and 49:21 uncles and being born and tell them to 49:23 send you a hundred dollars 49:26 always always express some interest in 49:30 the run through your writing 49:32 let's start this prayer little off by 49:35 saying thy kingdom come thy will be done 49:40 in earth as it is in heaven 49:44 and then when you express some interest 49:47 in him being born and asking for what 49:50 you want give us this day our daily 49:52 bread and forgive us our debts as we 49:56 forgive our debtors and lead us not into 49:59 temptation then we were taught that 50:04 there is a complementary close and the 50:07 complimentary close differs from the 50:09 breathing of salutation in that now you 50:12 can't figure out who you are when we get 50:17 down for that complimentary clue you say 50:19 I am your honey and you're spinning huh 50:22 now we're trying to figure out who you 50:24 are 50:24 I am your I am your and then finally 50:29 when you arrive at it you put something 50:32 like always and forever and ever and 50:36 you're underscore two or three times and 50:39 put some exclamation for that now 50:42 you may change your mind tomorrow but 50:44 for now is forever 50:46 and there wasn't the problem in trolls 50:53 and I got the clothes in here the 50:56 complimentary close is thine is the 51:00 kingdom and the power and the glory 51:05 forever 9 is the kingdom who ever heard 51:11 of a kingdom without a king who ever 51:16 thought has got a king who was ok if I 51:23 ask you who is looking you ask me who 51:28 was mine you got a minute 51:33 my king is only one qualified 51:40 Nachi always been key you know these for 51:48 the King they were born a prince and had 51:53 to wait till the father died or the 51:56 mother if she were the ruler mom wait 51:58 until she died and then become king my 52:03 king was born G in fact the Bible says 52:08 he's a seven rayji he's the King of the 52:12 Jews 52:14 he's the king of Israel 52:16 oh my king will let you know who's who 52:22 and what's what 52:24 I told here a few minutes ago about 52:30 invited by the President of the United 52:34 States in the White House to you this 52:42 might be you know about two months after 53:22 that visit everybody on hopefully I've 53:26 made the conversation around with them 53:29 to let them know I've been to the White 53:32 House I tell them how good I felt being 53:36 guarded by the same security officers as 53:39 the President of the United States I 53:41 fooled them how good I felt sitting 53:45 there talking to the president 53:47 face-to-face for three hours and 15 53:50 minutes I told him how good of them well 53:55 now that was in there was a notch 54:01 in September September that same year I 54:05 was enrolled and I was scheduled to 54:10 leave the two days before the president 54:13 would arrive and I rearranged my 54:18 itinerary 54:19 I said I'm going to stay right here 54:23 until my chin comes I'm gonna stay right 54:27 here I'm telling the president yes yeah 54:29 I didn't think I'd get a chance to swim 54:32 but I just want to have it said that I 54:34 was in Rome at the same time the 54:36 president was if I was going around 54:39 sightseeing 54:40 I saw Leonard on the road Nixon one will 54:44 be a brief us at all I've got out of in 54:48 widows Mountain Africa 54:49 I whittled down to Africa I found out I 54:54 found out that my ethnic King couldn't 54:57 do me any good 54:58 I found out somebody else had to protect 55:02 him I found out that the under certain 55:05 conditions are somebody had to rescue 55:08 him then that makes me draw close to my 55:11 so lucky well March is always has been 55:17 King and always will be 55:19 Oh marking where they would said the 55:24 heavens declare the glory of God and the 55:27 firmament showeth his and works that's 55:30 watching no means of measure can define 55:35 his limitless love and that's marking no 55:39 Farsi and telescope can bring in the 55:42 visibility the coastline of a solar 55:45 surprise that's my king no barrier can 55:49 hinder him from pulling out his 55:51 blessings nobody can keep him from 55:54 saving me nobody can keep him I'll tell 55:58 what you tell him about me 55:59 we know who can hear him from pouring 56:05 out his blessings 56:07 he's enduring this fall he's entirely 56:11 sincere he's eternally steadfast he's a 56:16 monolith graceful he's in purely 56:19 powerful he's impossible 56:21 merciful he's the greatest phenomenon 56:24 that has ever passed the horizon of this 56:27 world 56:28 not firm he's a sinner Savior he's the 56:33 centerpiece of civilization 56:35 that's my genius and what I like about 56:37 it he doesn't need me and he doesn't 56:41 need you of himself he's office and he's 56:48 unparallel he's unprecedented 56:51 he is supreme and preeminent he is the 56:55 losses idea in literature he is the 56:58 highest personality in philosophy 57:01 he is the supreme problem in higher 57:03 criticism he's the fundamental doctrine 57:06 of true theology 57:08 he's the Cardinal necessity of spiritual 57:11 religion he's a miracle of the age he's 57:15 the superlative of everything who would 57:17 let you choose to call him he's in every 57:20 way able to satisfy ever need me and 57:26 mine and everybody needs simultaneously 57:31 at the same time he survived strength 57:35 for the weak 57:36 he's available for the pitted and tried 57:39 he sympathizes any phase he springs and 57:44 sustains he God and he guides the sick 57:49 he claims the lepers he forgives death 57:54 he didn't list the chapters he defends 57:58 the people he dresses the young he 58:01 serves the unfortunate he regards the 58:05 age he rewards the diligence and he 58:08 beautified the meat that's mocking 58:22 you know he's the chief foreknowledge 58:28 he's the wellspring of wisdom he's the 58:33 third wave of deliverance 58:35 he's a pathway of peace 58:37 he's the roadway of righteousness 58:40 he's the highway of holiness he's the 58:44 gateway of blu-ray he the master of the 58:48 mighty he's the captain of the 58:51 conference he's the head of the heroes 58:54 he's a lead of the legislators 58:57 he's always be of the overcomer he's a 59:00 government government he's a prince of 59:03 princes he's a king of King his office 59:16 is manifold his promise is sure his life 59:21 is matchless His goodness is limitless 59:24 his verses ever lasted his love never 59:29 changes his word is enough His grace is 59:34 sufficient his reign in righteous he 59:38 woke Aviva and his burden is light 59:41 I was not describing to him 60:14 you couldn't stop him 60:37 [Music] 61:05 I've been spinning this is my song 61:11 praising my Savior all the day long 61:15 thine is the kingdom and the power is 61:21 that all power and the blue way we're 61:25 trying to get blue and honor for 61:27 yourself but it sees that have in the 61:30 glory forever and ever and ever and ever 61:37 and ever 61:40 how long is that and ever and when you 61:45 get to the Hall of the forever 61:47 then amen we were told we were taught 61:58 that the left is not mine that it's not 62:00 more until you have fixed your signature 62:06 anybody can type it out for you 62:09 well until you sign it is not yours 62:15 here men is the signature to this prayer 62:19 letter now you can say all of that 62:22 southern what if it takes a their name 62:27 informative you case let him have his 62:30 way in your life it doesn't mean a thing 62:37 women now we just have no rehearsal down 62:42 here 62:42 [Music] 62:49 we are just practicing we just get a 62:56 night practicing what we gonna do when 62:59 we get on the other side now look if you 63:04 cannot ride in the rehearsal you're not 63:06 gonna be in the performance some people 63:18 think you do they don't get to heaven 63:21 and sit - deal 63:22 look what you will get run over moving 63:29 let's start you know in southwestern 63:36 seminary they taught me how to stand in 63:38 the singing front 63:43 they taught me how to hold my Bible they 63:52 taught me how to justice 63:58 please leave the thousand reports if I 64:01 had it and then they taught me how to 64:07 regulate and modulate lavoris so it 64:12 wouldn't be so loud and obnoxious and do 64:17 you know I passed the course when I get 64:22 thinking about Jesus I can't help but 64:26 get excited when I think about Jesus 64:30 save me if you don't have anything to 64:41 shout about 64:42 but I have if you just well done now we 65:12 have a time now here trying to find a 65:16 song that suits everybody 65:19 [Music] 65:23 if you repeat the same song within a 65:26 month you will hear drumming all over 65:29 the country why don't you sing something 65:32 else I don't like it 65:35 you've got a song and I've got a song 65:39 and all of God's children got a song Wow 65:41 but when we're getting that we're gonna 65:43 sing one song 65:46 amen amen 65:49 the name they give you they let the Lord 65:55 have his way in your life now 66:08 you
