I want to speak to you today from
Proverbs chapter 5 about the wisest man who
ever lived.
If you have your Bible or some kind
of device that can bring you to the
scriptures I'm using the New King James.
It's just because I like the translation.
No other reason.
It's Proverbs chapter 5 Now father, I thank
you Lord with all my heart God for
your presence here in the sanctuary today.
I thank you Lord for the gladness that
touches us, the truth Lord in these beautiful
songs that we've sung today which you long
to make a reality inside of each of
us.
I pray God for the grace to deliver
this message and I ask for the grace
to hear it Lord for those that you've
gathered here today both in this campus and
on North Jersey and online and in the
main sanctuary Lord I pray God with all
of my heart.
Oh Jesus Christ Son of God God Almighty
send your Holy Spirit and enable us Lord
to embrace, to long for, to love and
to live in truth.
It's only truth that will keep us, only
truth that will set us free, only truth
that will lead us on a pathway of
becoming everything that you have destined our lives
to be.
Lift us out of weakness and poverty into
the strength of your presence inside of each
of our lives.
We thank you for it.
Oh God Almighty help us to love your
word.
We ask it in Jesus name.
Amen.
The wisest man who ever lived.
Proverbs chapter 5.
I'm just going to start with verses 1
& 2 written by Solomon, King David's son.
My son pay attention to my wisdom.
Lend your ear to my understanding that you
may preserve discretion and your lips keep knowledge.
Now Solomon was a unique man on the
face of the earth.
He was uniquely gifted by God, touched by
God, empowered by God.
He had such wisdom given to him that
even the Queen of Sheba came from a
distant nation because she had heard about this
wisdom and the divine operation of God that
flowed not only from his lips, but everywhere.
Everything his hand touched had the touch of
God on it.
She came into the temple that Solomon at
that time was heading and when she saw
just the way the people moved, when she
saw the the attendance, how they moved, the
incredible divine order that was everywhere, the scripture
says she had no more spirit within her.
She had no resistance in a sense to
what she was seeing.
She was seeing the hand of God in
a phenomenal way move through the life of
a man who had been set apart for
a divine purpose.
In the book of 2nd Kings, or 1st
Kings rather, chapter 3 verses 12 to 14
tells us that when the Lord appeared to
Solomon, now Solomon prayed a prayer and God
responded to his prayer and he said in
verse 12 of 1st Kings 3 12 he
said, behold, I've done according to your words.
This is God now speaking to Solomon.
See, I've given you a wise and understanding
heart so that there's not been anyone like
you before you nor shall any like you
arise after you.
In other words, you will be the wisest
man who ever lived apart of course from
Christ Jesus who was fully God and fully
man.
But Solomon being an ordinary human being like
you and I, there would never, you are
not smarter today than Solomon.
I know there's some people here who think
you're smart, but you're not smarter than Solomon.
He said nobody before you will have such
wisdom and nobody after you and I've also
given you what you've not asked for both
riches and honor so that there will not
be anyone like you among the Kings all
of your days.
So if you walk in my ways to
keep my statutes and my commandments as your
father David walked, then I will lengthen your
days.
So what an incredible promise.
God comes to this man says I'm going
to give you wisdom like nobody before you
and nobody after you will ever have the
wisdom that I'm about to give you.
I'm also going to give you what you
didn't ask for.
I'm going to give you riches and authority
and power and there'll be a divine presence
on all that you touch and there'll be
not a king in the earth that can
make the boast of having the things that
you have.
And if you will walk with me, if
you will have a heart like your father
David, I'll also lengthen your days.
And that has an incredible connotation.
It's not just that you'll live long on
the earth, but you'll leave a posterity there
there after you're gone There'll be there be
like a savor that follows you because of
the presence of God that emanated through your
life in the book of first Chronicles chapter
28 verses 9 and 10 now David the
king in the last Stages of his life
was speaking to Solomon as a young man
that was being commissioned by God To do
a specific work on the face of the
earth as for you David says my son
Solomon know the God of your father and
serve him with a loyal heart and with
a willing mind The Lord searches all hearts
and understands all the intent of the thoughts
if you seek him He will be found
by you.
But if you forsake him, he will cast
you off forever Consider now for the Lord
has chosen you to build a house for
the sanctuary Be strong and do it consider
The calling David said to his son Solomon
consider the calling on your life You have
been called for a specific reason on the
earth And I would like you today also
to consider your calling the Apostle Peter's tells
us that as living stones We are fitted
together Building a house in a sense where
God is glorified on the face of the
earth And that's what God gave Solomon to
do David.
The king was given the pattern of this
incredible temple There would be the envy of
the world where the tangible presence of God
was going to dwell where there would be
Answered prayer even for the stranger coming in
he would have his prayers answered and Solomon
was given the responsibility of Building this house
and maintaining this house Dedicating this house and
keeping this out.
That was the work of God given to
him on the earth That was the primary
work as well as being king over a
nation it all emanated Everything you do Doesn't
matter your family your career your future all
Gathers its strength and its highest purpose in
how you view the calling of God on
your life To honor him to be a
dwelling place of God We are the temple
now of the Holy Spirit and how we
choose to honor that call Everything flows from
the honoring of that calling in our lives
now rabbinic tradition Tells us or holds that
Solomon wrote Proverbs chapter 5 when he was
middle-aged.
He wrote they say he wrote the Song
of Solomon when he in his youth He
wrote Proverbs chapter 5 when he was around
40 years of age and he wrote Ecclesiastes
Which essentially is a lament of a wasted
life in his older years At this point
when he wrote Proverbs chapter 5 he was
His wealth was the envy of the kings
of his day and he had success which
was unparalleled anywhere in his time now there
are various commentators on Proverbs chapter 5 and
Let me read to you a couple of
them one says given Solomon's demise later in
life It's absolutely shocking and serves as a
fitting warning to us What all of this
means is that Solomon much like many of
us thought he was an exception to the
rules He knew full well that he was
holding fire to his chest, but he thought
that he wouldn't have gotten burned It's it's
a particular frailty of the human heart that
We have this propensity inside of each one
of us as was sown in humanity in
the Garden of Eden to become God to
ourselves and Declare something to be good, which
God says is not good and to somehow
convince ourselves That we can partake of things
and there will be no consequence to it.
This is exactly what Solomon did Another commentator
says if one should ask if Solomon is
the wise author, how could he have died
such a fool?
Let it be noted that he constructed his
own gibbet on which he impaled himself That
is he ceased listening to his own instruction
Spiritual success today does not guarantee spiritual success
tomorrow and Matthew Henry the incredibly respected commentator
said it this way.
It's easier to see a mischief and to
show it to others than to shun it
ourselves Now for those today who don't know
Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived
but he finished his life a disillusioned old
fool Having built the house of God he
finished his days by building heathen temples Temples
that were an abomination to God where children
were offered in sacrifice Temples were some of
the most vile and immoral practices happened inconceivable
Inconceivable that a man to whom God had
appeared twice and spoken to him directly a
man who knew the glory of God so
powerfully in the temple That everyone was on
the floor and nobody could even stand nobody
couldn't minister in the presence of God a
man who was given a promise of life
and wealth and wisdom a Man who had
knew the divine operation of God.
How is it possible?
How is it possible that he ends up
building heathen temples at the end of his
life?
How is it possible that he writes words
at the end of his life that all
is vanity and vexation of spirit?
And I looked in all the works of
my hands and there was no prophet under
the Sun How does a man like this
not put up his feet in his bed
at the end of his days and shout
glory to God?
be talking to his son about who God
is and what God has Done in the
past and what God is willing to do
in the future and the promises that God
has given him How does it happen that
the wisest man who ever will live?
Ends up this way Instead of leaving the
glory of God in the nation of Israel
and a strong and mighty people he leaves
behind a very weak son He leaves behind
a soon to be divided and weakened nation
He leaves behind a pathway for the enemies
of God to eventually plunder Everything that God
had given him and everything he had ever
worked for Let me read to you from
first Kings chapter 11 about the end of
his days verses 1 to 8 first Kings
chapter 11 But King Solomon loved many foreign
women as well as the daughters of Pharaoh
women of the Moabites Ammonites Edomites Sidonians and
Hittites in other words, he loved women of
those who were the avowed enemies of God
and the kingdom of God From the nations
of whom the Lord had said to the
children of Israel you shall not intermarry with
them nor they with you Surely, they will
turn away your hearts after their gods Solomon
clung to these in love He knew what
the scripture said to be a king in
Israel You had to hand copy the letter
the Old Testament.
You had to write it out It was
one of the qualifications of sitting on the
throne at that time and he knew This
scripture he knew what it said, but he
chose as we said earlier He somehow believed
that the rules didn't apply to him and
he had 700 wives princesses and 300 concubines
you imagine trying to keep track of birthdays
even in all of this and His wives
turned away his heart For it was so
when Solomon was old that his wives turned
his heart after other Gods and his heart
was not loyal to the Lord his God
as was the heart of his father David
for Solomon went after Astereth the goddess of
the Sidonians that sensuality after Milcom the abomination
of the Ammonites Solomon did evil in the
sight of the Lord and did not fully
follow the Lord as did his father David
Solomon built a high place for Chimash the
abomination of Moab on the hill that is
east of Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination
of the people of Ammon and he did
likewise for all his foreign wives who burned
incense and sacrificed to their God so this
this is the end result of The wisest
men who ever lived and if it doesn't
put the fear of God in your heart
today, nothing will I Pray a prayer every
day.
I prayed it this morning on this platform.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh Jesus let me finish.
Well for your namesake.
Oh God, let me finish Well, let me
not assume that everything is right and everything's
gonna be okay.
Keep me diligent Keep me in love with
your word.
Keep me in love with your truth.
Oh God Because if the wisest man who
ever lived his wisdom could not keep him
I'm not as smart as Solomon God help
me.
That's my prayer every day now Now if
only when God had appeared to him He
had asked for not only wisdom but for
a heart to obey what he would be
taught You the Lord appeared to him and
he said ask Ask whatever you will and
I'll give it to you ask and so
he says well God.
I'm just young and tender I don't know
how to govern such a people so give
me wisdom that I might be able to
come in and go out among the people
now if only he had stretched his Prayer
just a little bit more and said don't
just give me wisdom, but give me a
heart to obey What you teach me or
God give me intelligence in the study of
the scriptures But God give me the heart
of my father David My father David it
wasn't perfect but he is a man you
even described today as a man after your
own heart because he could be reasoned with
he could be Spoken to he could be
turned from evil and turned back to good.
Oh God Give me a heart to follow
you.
That's my prayer that ought to be your
prayer today Give me a heart to follow
you all of my days.
Give me a heart to obey what I
know Give me a heart to follow what
you will teach me So now we go
back to Proverbs chapter 5 Where we began?
Now, I believe he's 40.
God knows his future God knows your future
and when you open the Word of God,
he will speak to you about certain things
in your life He will bring it back
to your understanding time and again if you're
involved in something if you're pursuing something if
you're going Somewhere that's going to cost you.
It's gonna perhaps cost you everything.
It's gonna weaken your family.
It's gonna divide your home It's going to
destroy the testimony of God God knows Remember
spiritual success today does not guarantee success tomorrow
God has to be able to speak to
us even when we're living in a time
of victory so Solomon is 40 years of
age or so at this time when God
gives him this word and He's going to
the temple no doubt every day and he's
he's become familiar with the operation of God
He's become familiar with the presence of God.
He's seen prayer answered There's never a lack
of resource It's pours in from all over
the place Kings are still coming in foreign
emissaries are still coming in the scripture says
they they brought apes and peacocks and silver
and gold and things that were precious in
their land they brought to him and In
the days of Solomon it says silver was
accounted as nothing Yeah, everything was gold.
Even the inside of the temple was all
overlaid with gold There was God had so
touched this man's life and everything he had
touched now at the age of 40 He
is writing The inspired text of the Word
of God you understand this is inspired by
the Holy Spirit The pen is in his
hand, but the scripture tells us that all
Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable
for doctrine for instruction and righteousness, etc, etc
And so God is speaking to him.
That's why in Proverbs chapter 5 I don't
believe that he's writing to Rehoboam his son.
I believe that God is speaking to him
and he's writing it down That's my personal
opinion on this Because it starts my son
Pay attention to my wisdom In other words,
I'm teaching you things.
I'm speaking to you.
You're learning but pay attention to it Don't
just write it.
It's not just something I'm giving you for
other people It's not just something so you
can increase in knowledge and put another certificate
on your wall Or stand and and boast
about how much you know about my kingdom
But pay attention to it lend your ear
to my understanding That you may preserve discretion
and your lips may keep Knowledge you won't
end up at the end of your days
Solomon lamenting the loss of what could have
been for the lips of an immoral woman
drip honey and Her mouth is smoother than
oil But in the end she's as bitter
as wormwood Sharp as a two-edged sword
Her feet go down to death and her
steps lay hold of hell Unless you ponder
her path of life her ways are unstable.
You do not know them I believe that
God's trying to speak to Solomon and saying
you're falling into a trap and you think
you're smart enough to get through It but
you don't understand what you're dealing with You
might be smart, but you're not smart enough
Solomon to get through this one You've fallen
into a trap You've fallen into a seduction
and you believe that this is acceptable in
the sight of God and you believe that
there will be no consequence to this therefore
hear me now my children and Do not
depart from the words of my mouth Remove
your way far from her and do not
go near the door of her house Lest
you give your honor to others and your
years to the cruel one Lest aliens be
filled with your wealth.
I want you to think about the armies
that subsequently came into Israel after Solomon and
Plundered the temple and took away the shields
and took away the gold and eventually took
everything even the vessels of the temple Lest
aliens be filled with your wealth and your
labors go to the house of a foreigner
think about Solomon building temples to Astereth goddess
of seduction really and Milcom where they would
heat this metal beast and offer their children
alive into the fire And your labors go
to the house of a foreigner and you
mourn at last when your flesh and your
body are consumed and say How I have
hated instruction and my heart despised Correction.
I've not obeyed the voice of my teachers
nor inclined my ear to those who instructed
me.
I was on the verge of Total ruin
in the midst of the assembly and the
congregation Now this is if you read Ecclesiastes
when you get home, you will see this
is where Solomon finished This was the end
of his day on the verge of total
ruin coming into the assembly not seeing what's
happening in his life not understanding how evil
is encroaching more and more into his thinking
because he's he's toying with something that he's
been completely and Thoroughly warned by the Word
of God just to walk away from he
thinks he won't get burned He thinks it
won't affect his testimony or his life, but
he does not know Drink water from your
own cistern and running water from your own.
Well In other words, listen Solomon It's me.
The Lord says who's been speaking to you.
It's me who's given you wisdom It's it's
me who speaks to you in the morning
and tells you at night It's me who's
been the source of the intelligence that is
supernatural that's been given to you and is
being imparted from you so don't go to
another source to get your information Drink water
from your own cistern and running water from
your own.
Well, should your fountains be dispersed abroad streams
of water in the streets?
Let them only be your own and not
strangers with you.
Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice with
the wife of Your youth in other words
Solomon you're leaving your first love Just as
Christ spoke to the church of Laodicea In
the book of Revelation, which many believe is
the church of the last days You're leaving
your first love You you you're rich you're
increased with goods You don't see your need
and you don't know you don't understand that
you're walking away and you're embracing other loves
in your heart and you think you will
not be hurt by this as A loving
deer in a graceful doe let her breast
satisfy you at all times and always be
enraptured with her love For why should you
my son be enraptured by an immoral woman
and embraced in the arms of a seductress?
For the ways of men are before the
eyes of the Lord that he ponders all
his paths His own iniquities trapped the wicked
man and he's caught in the cords of
his sin He shall die for lack of
instruction and in the greatness of his folly
He shall go astray.
So the Lord starts by saying to Solomon
my son pay attention to my wisdom and
lend your ear to my understanding and He
concludes his thought by saying his own iniquities
will trap the wicked man.
He'll be caught with the cords of his
sin He will die for lack of instruction
and in the greatness of his folly He
shall go astray if only He had asked
for a heart to obey God If only
he hadn't assumed That wisdom was enough to
keep him.
There's a lot of people who Have degrees
there's a lot of people who spend their
time studying the Word of God now, that's
admirable I thank God for that.
But if you're gonna do that, you better
pray for a heart to obey what you're
studying You see because your service to God
even being here today does not substitute for
obedience Don't think you can substitute one thing
for another and somehow get to the same
Result Samuel member came to King Saul when
Saul was in danger now He'd come to
the point where he was going to lose
every promise that God had ever made to
him He was about to lose the kingdom
that God the work that God had entrusted
to his hand He was on a pathway
just like Solomon of forfeiting everything God had
promised him and Samuel came to Saul Saul
is sacrificing you understand he's sacrificing he feels
that what he's doing is right, even though
the instruction of God has told him not
to do this and Samuel comes to him
and says learn what this means.
I will have obedience and not sacrifice Learn
what this means learn what this means you
can sacrifice you can do works You can
give to the work of God you can
do all kinds of things but if you're
not obeying the truth of the Word of
God, there's a blindness that comes into your
life and Trust me folks I've lived this
I've seen this I've seen people finish in
an absolute train wreck that had a lot
more knowledge than I had of the scriptures
But there was something in the heart just
like in with Solomon They felt that they
could embrace something and not suffer for it
that yes consequences came to everybody else But
this same consequence can't possibly come to my
life after all God has favored me and
cleansed me and calls me his own and
wakes me up and walks with me in
the morning has given me wisdom and provision
Surely God will not hold this little thing
against me This little lust this little love
this little walking outside the boundaries this little
Little foray into fields that I've been warned.
I ought not to go in Surely God
will not hold this against me in John
chapter 16 verses 23 and 24 Jesus spoke
words, which I'm taking to my own heart
now in a new way and Here's what
he said to his disciples Most assuredly John
16 23 24 most assuredly I say to
you Whatsoever you ask the Father in my
name.
He will give it to you.
I See that word to me and to
you from Jesus identical as To the time
when God appeared to Solomon and said ask
me what you want for and I'll give
it to you Ask me and so realistically
we are probably 1600 Solomons and Solomets in
this assembly today Add to that the people
in the annex add to that the people
in our 810 home fellowships and those in
North Jersey and others who are online with
us today We are the people that God
has appeared to in the face of his
son.
Jesus Christ has given us his word and
If you can hear it as Powerfully as
he did with Solomon Although we will never
be as wise as Solomon because the promise
to him was no one will ever be
as smart as you are or as wise
But he says I say to you assuredly
Whatever you ask the Father in my name.
He will give it to you.
Do you believe that?
I believe that with all my heart I
believe according to the Apostle James that if
I ask of God for something And it's
not to consume it on my own lust
if I ask for the right reason According
to the will of God it will be
mine I can even ask for wisdom and
the scripture says it will be given to
me and God will not withhold He will
give it to me if I want wisdom
for the right reason And he says until
now you've asked nothing in my name ask
and you will receive That your joy might
be full Ask of me and I will
give you a joy I Will answer your
prayer and a full joy to me means
that I make it to the end That
I make it all the way through.
It's not just a joy.
That's temporary Not just a joy at 10
o'clock Sunday morning in September at Times
Square Church.
It lasts till Monday at 2 in the
afternoon Ask of me.
I will give it to you and Your
joy will be full your joy Your joy
that means when you get to your deathbed
and you put your feet up if God
should give you that moment Your joy is
full God I've been involved in the work.
You gave me to do I've built your
house By the power of your Holy Spirit
and by the direction of your word.
I have no regrets Lord I've done it
the best.
I know how I've obeyed your word As
much as I know and when I've been
in error, you've corrected me and my heart's
been open And so I'm not leaving a
weak family.
I'm not leaving behind me weak children in
a weak house and weak grandchildren I'm leaving
behind me the promise that my joy will
be full that when I get to heaven
I stand at the gate and I'm gonna
wait for my sons and my Daughter and
my wife and my children my grandchildren and
they're coming home and they're gonna live for
you, too Not in a weak and divided
kingdom But in a place where you have
promised blessing.
Oh How beautiful to finish your life and
get to that place where you say God,
I trust you God, thank you for not
letting me go God Thank you for giving
me a heart giving me a heart because
every human being doesn't have it on their
own But giving me a heart to obey
you Thank you Lord for helping me to
turn in the direction you were calling me
when it was the hardest thing to do
in my life Thank you for leading me
to forgive when everything in me wanted to
hate.
Thank you God For giving me this strength
to forgive even my enemies.
Thank you Lord for helping me to make
Restitution when everything inside of me wanted to
keep that little bit for myself Thank you
Lord for giving me the courage to walk
humbly when others had a word of correction
to bring into my life Thank you God
for changing my heart from image to image
and glory to glory Even as by the
Spirit of the Lord, thank you that even
in my deathbed.
You're giving me a vision of the future
Thank you, Lord That was your promise in
the book of Acts and through the prophet
Joel that your old man will dream dreams
Thank you God that I see something in
the future for my posterity something that will
not end after my death a weakness that
will not follow me because I Thought I
could live in duplicity and somehow still have
the blessing of God in my home Thank
you Lord for giving me a heart to
follow you that's the cry of my heart
I'm 65 years old next week I will
most likely be in heaven in the next
decade or 15 years at the most for
real I'm not afraid of that thought doesn't
bother me at all I'm ready to go
as the Apostle Paul said I just I
stay for your sake.
I stay for my children's sake I stay
for my grandchildren's sake.
I have no other reason to stay ask
Ask and your joy will be full ask
and here's what you asked for God Give
me a heart to obey what I know
Don't let me think that I can embrace
something Like Solomon did and think that I'll
not get burned Give me the courage To
not push away the hard things in your
word and just gravitate to the easy things
Give me the courage Lord the courage that
I need Because your promises that my joy
will be full full full Not half empty
Not full regret, but full God my joy
Will be full I'm not smarter than Solomon
But then again, maybe I am If I
asked for a heart to obey what I
know Now father I thank you Lord With
all of my heart With all of my
heart.
I thank you for your people You are
drawing us in this last hour of time
to you You are drawing us to a
place where we love truth enough to obey
it You are drawing us to a place
Lord where we are willing to turn away
from falsehood And embrace that which is right
Help us Lord to learn from the example
of those who have gone before us Help
us Lord Jesus Christ to Be like the
Apostle Paul when he finished and said I've
fought a good fight I've run the race
that was set before me now.
There is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness But not me only all those
who have loved the Lord and loved his
appearing And so father I thank you Lord,
thank you God with all of my heart
I Pray Lord Jesus Christ for my own
house My own children my own grandchildren.
I ask Oh God That my house would
be known for missions for years to come.
I Asked Lord Jesus Christ That you would
remove every obstacle every hindrance Every contrary argument
I Asked father that you would protect my
grandchildren from every encroachment of hell that will
try to get into their minds And you
build a hedge of fire round about them
and keep them.
I Asked Oh Lord Jesus Christ that through
my life a Heritage of godliness will be
born into my house.
I Pray for your people today Lord for
every young person that's here every man every
woman that's here.
Oh Jesus Christ, would you give us a
heart to obey your truth?
Do you give us a heart to turn
away from sin and turn to what is
right?
Give us a heart to love you and
to let our bodies become the true temple
of your Holy Spirit Help us Lord God
not to live in duplicity and compromise Help
us to put away that which will make
us blind ineffectual and weak Help us God
to understand That all the devil needs is
a toehold in our lives and soon he
will come in Give us great grace Lord
that we not end up like Solomon Help
us Lord to finish even in the midst
of our mistakes as King David did a
man after your heart Lord I bless you
and I praise you God for the simplicity
of this moment But yet it's not that
simple And I thank you in Jesus name
I'm going to give an altar call I'm
going to give an altar call and I'm
going to give it with a story if
you'll just hold still for one moment It
was 19 Roughly 1904 to 1906 the whole
nation of Wales was aflame with the presence
of God a Spiritual awakening had begun that
was going to touch most of the known
Western world of its time It was because
of the Welsh revival that Azusa Street happened
here in America That brought the renewed understanding
of the power of God to the church
of our time Evan Roberts a young preacher
in training was the vessel that God chose
to use for that spiritual awakening and there
was a service Probably similar to this if
I remember correctly there was well over a
thousand people in attendance in the service and
Everybody was waiting for this man of God
to speak and they waited and they waited
he sat in his seat and they waited
and Waited and waited there was a stillness
and the silence to the point where it
became very uncomfortable Finally he left his seat
Strolled into the pulpit bowed his head in
silent prayer then lifted his head up and
said two words obey God You see the
the point is the people already knew what
to do There was no more knowledge needed.
No more instruction had to be given There
was not going to be a revelation of
some new little bit of truth That was
suddenly going to ring the bell and everybody
was going to be a spiritual millionaire They
already knew what to do And he went
back and sat in his seat and the
writer of this particular book said people began
to stand they began to confess Theft that
they had to make right they began to
make restitution.
They asked for forgiveness In other words, everybody
already knew what to do And so that's
my altar call today is God.
Would you give me a heart?
to obey you This is what I asked
for and if you ask you will receive
it you will A heart to obey you
in what I know and in what your
word reveals to me.
Would you give me the heart?
to obey you Pray this with me Lord
Jesus Christ Give me a heart To obey
what I know The things you've already spoken
to me From your word Help me Not
to push it away from my conscience and
from my practice Give me the strength To
live an obedient life To your word Thank
you Lord Jesus For your promise to me
That you will answer this prayer And my
joy will be full.
I Believe that I Receive that by the
Spirit of God within my life my joy
Will be full and I thank you for
it God Help me to not turn away
from what I've heard today and I ask
all of this in Jesus name Amen