You remember last week that we finished down
at verse 12.
We just got through the first 11 verses
and finished there after the 12th one, and
we're starting at verse 13 this evening, and
I'm going right through to the end of
the chapter, from 13 right through to the
end.
And I want to underline for you four
very special things in the chapter this evening.
I want to underline for you, first of
all, the childishness of the critics.
You see, there were quite a lot of
critics around the Lord.
Every man that gets up to expound God's
Word always finds that there are critics in
the crowd.
When you're as old-fashioned as I am,
you won't bother too much about them.
There will always be critics.
If you're a leader of people, you must
realize that you're anybody.
You just have to take it for granted.
But I want to underline the childishness of
the critics this evening.
And then we're going on to touch the
boldness of the battle.
The man that sat and begged the blind
battle, when he got his sight, point him
out as a bold witness for the Lord
Jesus, and we're touching the boldness of the
battle.
We want to touch the fearfulness of the
Father.
Perhaps I should have put it, the fearfulness
of the family.
For Father and Mother were questioned here, and
just because they were afraid of the Pharisees,
they dodged the issue at stake.
And we look at the fearfulness of the
Father.
I think he answered for the family.
Then last, but by no means least, in
this wonderful chapter, right through, you have the
loveliness of the Lord.
Just four special things this evening.
The childishness of the critics, the boldness of
the battle, the fearfulness of the Father, and
the loveliness of the Lord.
Now, again, while I have them in order
before you in your notes, I'll take the
chapter as it comes, and I'll go from
one to two and three as we find
them, and you can follow me quite easily.
We're at verse 13 just now.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime
was blind.
They brought, who brought?
And I think the word they refers back
to verse 8.
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had
seen him that he was blind, said, is
not this he that sat and begged?
You remember last week how the neighbors, and
all those who knew him aforetime, all gathered
round because of the wonderful miracle?
And now that they have examined him and
questioned him, why they thought that they would
bring him to the Pharisees?
And they brought him who aforetime was blind
to the Pharisees.
It's just like a young believer coming to
some old, dead, religious professor.
And my, they have some things to say
to young believers.
And when they brought him, the Holy Ghost
has a little faith in here, verse 14,
and it was the Sabbath day when Jesus
made the clay and opened his eye.
You see, when Jesus made that clay and
anointed the man and brought sight back to
him, it was the Sabbath day.
Therefore, then again, the Pharisees also asked him
how he had received the sight.
I would like you to notice the word
again.
Do you see that?
You see, he had been asked this before.
Of course, the neighbors asked him in verse
8, and now the Pharisees are asking him.
But this word appears in the chapter again
and again.
You see, verse 17, they say unto the
blind man again.
See, verse 24, then again called they the
man that was blind.
See, verse 26, then said they to him
again.
You know, these darts and questions, interrogations, investigations,
my, they were coming like bullets out of
a machine gun.
The enemy was attacking the poor fellow who
had received the sight again and again and
again.
The fiery darts of the wicked, the roar
of the lion came into his ear.
But you'll find that the Lord held him
up in his hour of need.
Verse 15, then again the Pharisees also asked
him how he had received his sight.
Now, I want you to notice here the
boldness of the beggar.
You see the first heading?
Boldly explain Christ's performance.
Here's what he said to them.
He said unto them, He put clay upon
mine eyes, and I washed and do see.
I think that was a great answer.
You know, he boldly explained Christ's performance.
And when some old, dead, religious professor who
doesn't believe in this great experience that Christ
can bring to us all, begins to question
you, you just answer about what Christ did,
and about what you did, and about what
happened.
It was a wonderful answer.
He just said, Christ did that, I did
that, and this happened.
Why, that was a great answer.
A young fellow doesn't need to go beyond
that.
Just tell them what Christ did, and what
you did, and what happened.
It was a great answer.
He boldly explained Christ's performance.
And then, watch, it goes on from there.
Verse 16, Therefore said some of the Pharisees,
This man is not of God, because he
keepeth not the Son of Jai.
You see, that was a childish conclusion.
That was the conclusion that some of the
Pharisees had come to.
You see, I want you to get the
hold of this, that these religious professors who
were now interrogating the poor man that had
received the sight, why they didn't know just
what the keeping of the Sabbath meant.
That was their trouble.
You see, they had yet to learn that
the Sabbath was made for man, and not
man for the Sabbath, you know.
They had not to learn yet.
They didn't realize that God made man first,
and then made the Sabbath to serve the
man He had made.
For the Sabbath was made for the good
of man's body, and for the blessing of
man's soul.
But they didn't know that.
They didn't know that things that were merciful
and a necessity for the benefit and blessing
of mankind were allowed by God on the
Sabbath day.
Oh no, the very fellows who were jumping
to conclusions didn't know.
And it was very childish for them to
say, this man is not of God, because
he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
It was a childish conclusion.
Others said, verse 16, how can a man
that is a sinner do such miracles?
And there was a division among them.
You know, it was Bollinger, and you must
be very careful when you quote Bollinger, it
was Bollinger who first said, all divisions are
not evil.
And he referred to this one.
And he said, all unity is not good.
And he said, the majority is not always
right.
And he gives some wonderful illustration.
You remember the twelve spies that went again?
Well, ten of them stood together, and only
two fellows were out in the left wing.
But remember the ten that stood together were
wrong, and the minority on that occasion was
right.
And you must be careful, you know.
All division is not evil.
And all majority is not good.
And always unity is not right.
So you've got to be very careful.
Watch verse 17.
They say unto the blind man again, what
sayest thou of him that he has opened
thy eyes?
I think that was a childish question.
I'll put it down, childish interrogation.
The man that opened his eyes after a
lifetime of darkness, what would he say of
him?
Thy words would fail.
He would hail him as the highest.
And you know, very boldly he comes out
to you.
Do you see the answer?
He said, he is a prophet.
He boldly exclaimed, Christ is a prophet.
What is it?
You know, I think that always, when the
Lord draws you to Himself, He very gently,
very wonderfully reveals Himself to you until you're
gazing at the wonder and glory and beauty
and majesty that belongs to Him.
You know, when the Lord Jesus came first
on the scene here, you remember last week,
as He passed by, He saw a man
that was blind from birth.
You remember how the disciples looked at the
problem, not at the person.
They wondered to whom it came.
You remember how the Lord understood the case.
My, there was standing one before Him, a
friend who understood.
And then a man who made an effort,
and now a prophet.
Well, that's just exactly what happened at the
well.
You remember the woman at the well, she
said, Why askest thou a drink of me,
a woman of Samaria?
Thou didst ask a Jew.
Remember, she began with seeing a Jew.
And then she said, Sir, give me to
drink.
And then she said, I perceive thou art
a prophet.
And then she ended with her arms round
them as the Messiah and Savior of the
world.
My, you'll find that this revelation develops as
we go through.
So, he boldly exclaimed Christ as a prophet,
that a king, but the Jews did not
believe concerning Him that He had been blind
and received a sight, until they called the
parents of Him that had received a sight.
And they asked them, saying, Is this your
Son, whom ye say was born blind?
How then doth He now see?
His parents answered them and said, We know
that this is our Son, and that He
was born blind.
But by what means He now seeeth, we
know not.
Or who has opened His eyes, we know
not.
He is of us to Him.
He shall speak for Himself.
And then the blessed Spirit of God put
them this wonderful verse for our enlightenment.
These words speak, His parents, because they feared
the Jews.
For the Jews had already agreed already that
if any man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the
synagogue.
You see, when they called the parents, you
can see the fearfulness of the father coming
into the chapter now.
You know, he was afraid of the Jews.
You know what the old book says, that
the fear of man, it brings a snare.
And this is one of the occasions in
the book where the snare is a public.
My, I believe the way it's worded here,
that if any man should confess that he
was the Christ, he'd be put out of
the synagogue.
I believe that down deep in the heart,
just because of the wonder of the medical
and seeing the joy in their son, they
believed he was the Christ.
But there was a snare on their lips.
I wonder if you've ever been there, never
stand in the clouds, feel an opportunity coming
to you to witness for him, but you
were afraid.
And the fear of man made you a
spiritual dummy when you ought to have been
standing up for Christ.
Do you remember Israel long ago, and God
brought them out of Egypt and through the
Red Sea and through the wilderness, to a
place called Kadesh Barnea.
And as they stood on the height shander,
they looked into the promised land.
And God had said, every place that the
soul of your foot shall tread upon, I'll
give it to you.
But as they looked in and were about
to step in, you remember how they saw
the high walls from the mighty people of
Canaan.
And the good faith, they were afraid.
And the fear of man brought a snare
on their step.
My, they didn't go forward.
Now, when you don't go forward in this
life, you go backward.
Did the fear of man ever keep you
from going forward for God?
Do you remember the day when Israel faced
the Philistines, and they were about to take
the possessions that really belonged to them?
My, their hands were about to lay hold
on those possessions that were really theirs.
They were in the land now, and coming
strolling down the mountainside as one called Goliath.
And the fear of man put a snare
on their hands.
The fear of man can put a snare
on your lips.
The fear of man can put a snare
on your feet.
And the fear of man can put a
snare on your hands.
And you neither speak for God, nor walk
for God, nor possess that God has given
you.
Always be careful about this.
And here do we touch for every young
believer.
If you think, my dear young believer, that
you'll get help always at home, you may
learn your lesson now.
Because father and mother let him down, when
the light had stood up for him, just
because of a little faith, they let him
down.
And don't, for any sakes, believe in your
men, whether they are parents or pastors, because
they'll fail you in your hour of need.
You'll need to learn to lean upon the
Lord, and only the Lord.
Can't you see the fear, fullness of the
Father?
But let's go on.
Verse 23.
Therefore said his parents, he is of age
after him.
See, they were dodging the issue.
They were afraid of what would take place.
They might be cast out of the synagogue.
So they threw the whole thing onto the
lab again.
Then again called they the man that was
blind and said unto him, give God the
praise.
We know that this man is a sinner.
You know, I think that this is childish
persuasion here.
You see, they seem to get this idea.
This is what one of the great scholars
sees here.
You see, they took the father and mother
into the council, and they questioned them.
Then when they let them go, they called
the man again.
And they said, you know, we know.
We know now.
You know, they're sort of thinking that we've
got news about this fellow, and you'd better
give the glory to God.
They're putting him on his own now.
We know you just give God the glory
about this thing.
But my dear friends, they didn't realize the
boldness that was in this young believer.
What's this?
Here's the answer.
Verse 25, He answered and said, whether he
be a sinner or no, I know not.
One thing I know, whereas I was blind,
now I see.
And he boldly expressed Christ's power.
You see, he wasn't going to stand on
the other side just because the Pharisees were
dictating and saying they knew.
He was going to let them know what
he knew.
They're trying to tell him that they know
something.
Well, I'll tell them what I know.
And one thing I know, that whereas I
was blind, now I can see.
No, any young believer here could answer like
that, couldn't you?
My inner believers are people who really know.
I know whom I have believed.
I hear the text being quoted wrong at
times.
Some of the young believers in prayer quote
it so let me correct you.
They quote it like this, I know in
whom I have believed.
There is no in there.
The book says, I know whom I have
believed and I know whom I have believed.
I know he was the son of God
who left the heights of glory.
I know he became the Lamb of God.
I know he's my Savior.
I know he's my shepherd.
I know he's my shelter.
I know he's my supplier.
I know he's my sufficiency.
I know he's the satisfier of my soul.
I know.
And I know that my redeemer lives.
I know that too.
And I know that when he comes again
and I see him, I will like him.
Oh, I tell you young believers, my we
ought to know.
We ought to be able to give to
the world a reason for the hope within
us.
We ought to be able to say, I
know, never mind what you fellows know, I
know.
No man can little you out of your
age.
Twenty-seven years ago I was a tramp
with no shoes in my feet and I
was drunk every night.
Twenty-seven years ago I lifted my heart
to this blessed Christ who came and died
and rose again and tremblingly made him my
own and personal Savior.
I've never been drunk again.
My chains fell off.
I've got new life, new teeth, new power.
I've become a new creature.
I'm on my way to the new Jerusalem.
I know.
It's been twenty-seven years now.
So I asked him, I know, that was
bold, wasn't it?
Now watch again.
Verse twenty-six, Then said they to him
again, What did he to thee?
How opened thee thine eyes?
And I put down this childish repetition.
You see, they're just going over the question
they began with now.
You know, they're wanting him to make a
slip, just to make a mistake in what
he's answering so that they'll get a catch
of him.
But watch now.
He answered them, I have told you already.
And ye did not hear.
Wherefore would ye hear it again?
Will ye also be his disciples?
That's boldly examining Christ's persecutors.
Do you see the boldness of this young
man?
He boldly explained Christ's performance.
He boldly explained Christ as a prophet.
He boldly expressed Christ's power.
He boldly examined Christ's persecutors.
Will ye be his followers?
Well, that's the way to put them in
the corner.
My dear friends, I wish that all the
young believers would be inspired by this man
who had just received his sight.
That no matter where we are, we may
be able to tell men and women the
hope that is within us, and that the
world will know whose we are.
They had to stand up for Jesus.
Why, it's a privilege to stand up for
such a wonderful Lord.
But look again, verse 28, Then they reviled
him, and the words had a meaning, that
they came near and took him.
You see, they were losing their temper now,
and said, Thou art his disciple, but we
are Moses.
It's very easy to put somebody's name, you
know, and say that you're a follower.
There are a whole lot of boys, and
they're modernists, mind you, tearing pages out of
this book.
They don't believe the book of Genesis.
They don't believe Daniel.
They don't believe Jonah.
And they call themselves Calvinists.
Take a fellow's name, you know.
And if Calvin could reappear, he would strip
them.
And you know, there are a whole crowd
who call themselves Wesleyans.
And if godly, saintly John Wesley appeared, he
would haunt them to take their name, you
know.
And there's a whole crowd who call themselves
Baptists.
And if the Baptist, who was a poor,
forthright preacher appeared, he wouldn't associate himself with
them.
It's very easy to take a name.
They said, We be Moses' disciples.
Verse 29, We know that God speak unto
Moses, as for this fellow, we know not
from whence he is.
The man answered and said unto them, Why,
herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know
not from whence he is, and yet he
hath opened mine eye.
Now we know that God here is not
sinners, but if any man be a worshipper
of God, and doeth his will, then he
hears.
Since the world began, was it not heard
that any man opened the eyes of one
that was born blind?
If this man were not of God, he
could do nothing.
He's boldly exalting Christ's position.
Why, I tell you, this is great for
this young man.
You know, he's just been brought out of
darkness, and this is his first day of
life, and he's been brought into the presence
of the old Pharisees, and they're trying to
tie him up in the notch.
But can't you see him boldly explaining, and
expressing, and exclaiming, and examining?
Can't you see him boldly exalting Christ?
Oh, brethren and sisters, a standing up for
the Son, this is what we need, you
know, in this country.
Young men and women, to stand in the
factory, to stand in the street for the
Lord, to stand before these half-dead, half
-damned old Pharisees.
I know where there's a minister tonight, and
he told a young fellow who got saved
not so long ago, there's no such thing
as salvation.
I wonder what he preaches on Sunday.
Does he ever read this book?
So many times is the word salvation and
saved in the Bible.
Maybe he doesn't know it.
Well, it's up to the young fellow to
open his mouth, and just tell him exactly
what happened, and exalt Christ, and it may
come your turn and mine.
I hope in that day that we'll be
found standing up for Jesus.
So, where do you see what happened now?
Verse 34, He's
out of the synagogue now.
Cast him out.
You see, that child is excommunicated.
You know, if you don't always say amen
to what they say, they'd put you out.
Why, they would.
And you know, there are quite a lot
of so-called eloquent orators, and if you
didn't just say amen to what they say,
they'd say, you know, you're only a lamer.
You never were at college or anything like
that.
Don't you dare talk to us.
They don't even have enough gumption to know
that God can pick a beggar and
make him a servant to glorify Christ.
They don't know that, of course.
They live in God.
So, they cast him out.
Why, that was the best day of his
life, when he got out from a crowd
like that.
He should have found blessings, freedom, this happy
condition, free from the law.
That's what I was thinking about, my dear
friends.
Now, watch what happens now.
Here's the lovely bit of the gospel.
I want you to see me out.
I think I should take time to say
this, that there was no fear in a
Jewish heart more horrible than being cast out
of the synagogue than death itself.
It was second to death.
Because when they put you out, you were
finished with the commonwealth of Israel.
You were scorned.
You were an outcast.
No one would associate with you.
There he was, he's out, all alone, scorned
and scoffed.
Cast out.
I can almost see him, you know, wandering
alone.
Pitched down by the pharmacy.
Here's what it says now.
I think this is beautiful.
Verse 35, Jesus heard that they had cast
him out.
I wonder who saw that.
You see, I think that's put in, in
a very wonderful way.
Because it's not his own sovereignty that should
work here.
As God, he knew everything that was happening,
you know.
But actually, it's worded so that you and
I can see, somebody came and told him
what was happening.
My dear friends, I think this is wonderful.
I wonder, do you go and tell him
when some of the believers are in trouble?
Wonder how many of us have been lifting
our brother Hamilton and his wife to the
Lord.
They're in the storm.
They're in the darkness.
Did you tell the Lord about it?
Or did he just go tickle-tattling and
told the Lord?
Oh, that somebody was really wonderful.
He was a friend of the outcast.
Lord, they've cast him out.
He's all alone.
And you know, there was a sympathetic ear.
The Lord listened.
He said, Jesus heard.
Yes.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out.
And look at this, when he had found
him.
Oh, I think that's brilliant.
My dear friend, if you just stand up
for him, he'll just stand up for you.
My, he wasn't long out on the pathway
alone, was he?
Until some saintly soul went to Jesus with
a story.
And the sympathetic ear was bent.
And now the Master's was round the feet.
And he will be.
My, you'll never be alone when you stand
up for Christ.
Oh, the Pharisees, my thoughts are out.
He was in the best company I know.
He's never been in.
My, you couldn't see him in the church.
Come round and found him.
Put his arm round him.
Said, it is who you are.
Well, let's walk together.
Can't you see them walking together?
My, there was the sympathetic ear.
There was the seeking and the finding.
And now the Lord puts the question to
him.
Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He answered and said, Who is he, Lord,
that I might believe in him?
And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both
seen him, and it is he that talketh
with thee.
You know, he was coming very near.
He didn't always do this, you know.
He did it with a woman at the
well.
He said, He that speaketh I, that speaketh
unto thee, am he.
And he's saying the very same to the
man who's saying, You know, I'm the Son
of God.
Why, I tell you, friend, if you just
take your stand for him, although the whole
world may disown you and cast you out,
and for a moment you may be tested
as you walk seemingly in the dark, but
out of this tunnel, will come a friend
that's thicker, closer, and a brother, and you'll
see him like you never saw him before.
Remember John on the Isle of Atmos?
My, they put him away yonder in prison,
yet on a barren island, and as the
poor aged disciple stood in the shadows, he
heard a voice, and turned to see the
voice, and saw one like unto the Son
of Man, then with their robes down to
the foot, the great high priest, the hair
white as snow, the ancient of days, the
eyes as a flame of fire, what a
wonderful revelation of the Lord he got.
He saw him like he never did before,
and it's not always like that.
You just take your stand for Christ, and
if the devil, and flesh, and the world,
through everything they can at you, and you
go into the shadows, in the shadows you'll
see Christ, like you never did before.
You needn't be afraid, I have been there
a whole lot of times.
Many a time I was cast out.
My dear friend, don't be afraid.
He hath said, I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee, so that we may boldly
say, the Lord is my helper, and I
will not fear what man shall do.
You know, I think there's a wonderful revelation
here.
Do you notice the next verse?
And he said, Lord, I believe, and he
worshipped him.
That's a beautiful word.
He's falling down now, and he's worshipping him.
I think there came to this man a
wonderful revelation.
When he sat in the darkness, without any
hope, without any help, a poor beggar in
the dark, perishing, he heard someone speaking who
understood him.
Someone who understood.
He said to the crowd, neither hath this
man sinned, nor his parents forgot the works
of God.
It should be made manifest in him.
And then he found someone who stood down
to make praise, and lifted up before his
eyes to bring him light.
You know, I was just thinking today, it
was a foolish thing to step in the
sand and make an end to a praise,
and then stick it on the fellow's eyes.
It looked a foolish thing, didn't it?
That's a silly way to get anybody's sight.
And I'll tell you this, that when our
Lord came down and took upon him the
form of a serpent, and remember we're only
clay, and was lifted up in Calvary, by
the preaching of the church, he surrendered faith
to him there.
He understood, he met a Savior who undertook.
And then, I want you to notice this,
that he not only saw one who understood,
and one who undertook, but one who was
indeed the very messenger of God to us
all, a prophet, a friend, the stick of
torture, and a brother, a friend who broke
into the darkness.
He's saying something more now.
The one who understood, the one who undertook,
the one who was the prophet, the one
who was the friend, the one who was
the messenger of God, is God himself.
Do you remember when he calmed the storm
and made the waves lie down?
It says that all they in the boat
worshipped him.
John McNeill says, there wasn't a blessed Unitarian
in the boat.
They don't believe he's God, and you can
only worship God.
Jehovah's witnesses can't worship him.
You can only worship God.
But this man, the one who understood, the
one who undertook, the messenger of God, the
prophet of the Lord, the one who's the
stick of torture, and the brother, is God
himself who came.
And then, watch this, verse 39, on
Jesus' head, says, for judgment, I am come
into this world.
Now, I thought that the book taught that
he didn't come to judge.
I think that's exactly what John 3 and
17 said.
God sent his Son into the world not
to judge the world, not to condemn the
world, but that the world's rule might be
said, I came not to judge, he said
in one occasion.
But now he's saying, Jesus said, for judgment,
am I come into the world.
We must get this balanced out.
And I think it's perfectly simple.
Let's get the hold of this.
The mission that Christ taught as he came
into the world was this mission.
Christ, Jesus, came into the world to save
sinners.
That was the mission.
That's what he came for.
He came to save sinners.
But let's get the hold of this.
As he stepped out of the glory, and
took upon him the form of a servant,
and began to walk before men, even by
his preaching, by the display of his power,
by everything that he performed and spoke before
men, the attitude of men left themselves judged.
His father Caesar had said things about him
just in this very chapter, under this very
man.
And by opening their mouth about the one
who was in their midst, they were condemning
themselves.
And your attitude to the Christ will condemn
you.
Don't forget that.
He didn't come to do it.
But the very fact that he's passing by,
and your attitude to him, will condemn you.
My, these fellows said they could see, didn't
they?
Here's the whole statement.
Jesus said, For judgment am I come into
this world that they which see not might
see, and that they which see might be
made blind.
Some of the Pharisees which were with him
had these words and said unto him, Are
we blind also?
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind,
ye should have no sight.
But now you say, We see.
Therefore your sin remains.
I would like to just say this to
every unsaved friend in this building.
Friend, what thinketh thou of Christ?
I'd like every unsaved man just to take
a moment and answer this question.
What do you think about Christ?
Do you believe that he's the Son of
God who left the ivory palaces and came
into this world of war?
Do you believe that he was the spotless,
sinless, faultless, harmless, crimeless Son of God who
lived down here?
Do you believe that he went to Calvary
to make that great sacrifice for sin?
My, I know that every unsaved soul in
the building believes all this.
And the very fact that you nobodies find
it easily.
You say you see all this?
My dear friend, you go into outer darkness
or into the depths of outer darkness for
all eternity because of your attitude to Christ.
Oh, to think that you'd rise from your
seat and turn your back on Him and
go into the world again without Him, a
Christ-rejecter as you go through the door.
God forbid, you're condemned already.
And may every footfall that hits the street
tonight as you go home, may it echo,
condemned already.
But you know, if you'd only come and
stand before Him or fall before Him, and
put the arms of your faith round Him,
and take your stand for Him, no matter
what the world or the Fathers may say,
friend, you'd have light, and peace, and joy,
and fellowship, and life.
God bless you, saints.
May you be found standing for Christ the
Lord.
God bless you, sinners.
May you come out from condemnation into salvation.
And may that one who understands, the one
who sticks closer than a brother, the one
who stood to save us, the one who
lives to walk with us, the one who
is our Savior God, be more precious.
I don't think we'll sing any more this
evening, just let us take a moment or
two.
Wonder, have you been standing up for us
in all the crowds that you mixed with?
Are you snared?
Are you a spiritual dummy in the ultimate
speaking up?
Are you going forward into blessings?
Or backward into the wilderness?
What way are you going?
Are your hands of faith snared?
Are you laying hold on the possessions that
really belong to you?
Are you bold in your witness for Christ?
Let God examine you that the unshaved soul
in the building, because you say, we see,
mister, we see.
Are you condemned already?
Lord Jesus, thou wonderful Son of God, thou
Savior of the world, thou who art the
light of this dark creation, Lord, draw near
to us.
We only crave for one thing.
Let us walk, O Lord.
We care not, Lord, who scorns, or spits,
or curses, or crushes, only let us walk
with thee gently down the stream of thy
Savior.
Let me walk, part of, in thy field,
and with thy blessing, through Jesus Christ, O
Lord.