If ever I were asked to single out
one chapter in the entire Bible that I
believe a Christian should read every day of
their lives, then without hesitation I would say
James chapter 3, where we read these words.
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing
that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
For in many things we offend all.
My brethren, be not many masters.
The margin, certain
of our Bible, says teachers of the oracles
of God.
That's something to read in the Bible.
My brethren, be not many teachers of the
oracles of God.
Can that be, knowing that we shall receive
the greater condemnation.
For in many things we offend all.
John Calvin says self-constituted preachers, self
-appointed preachers, never ordained by God to preach,
is what it means here.
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that
we shall receive the greater condemnation.
For in many things we offend all.
The amplified version says, for you know that
we teachers will be judged by a higher
standard with greater severity than other people.
Thus we assume the greater accountability.
We take on ourselves the greater accountability once
we stand in the circuit of God.
Now the next verse is one of the
most staggering verses in the Bible.
Listen carefully.
If any man, in this auditorium, if any
man, God says, offends not in word, the
same is a perfect God says, and able
also to bridle the whole body, oh what
a dream.
God says, put yourself to the test, put
each other to the test.
If any man, God says, if any man
offends not in word, the same is a
perfect man, and able also to bridle the
whole body, to control the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths
that they may obey us, and we turn
about their whole bodies.
Behold also the ships, which though they be
so great, and driven of fierce winds, yet
as they turned about with a very small
herald, we are still but a governed listless,
even so the tongue is a little member,
and boasts its great things.
Behold, how great a matter, a little fire,
a kingdom, and the tongue is a fire,
a whirl of iniquity.
So is the tongue among our members, that
it defiler the whole body, and set us
on fire, the course of nature, and it
is set on fire of hell.
But every kind of beast, and the birds,
and the serpents, and the things in the
sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of
mankind, but the tongue can no man tame.
It is an unruly evil, full of deadly
poison.
Therewith bless we God, even the Father, and
therewith curse we men, which are made after
the similar feet of God.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not so to
be.
Doth a fountain send forth of the same
place sweet water, and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive
berries, either of vine or fig?
So can no fountain, both yield salt water
and fresh.
Who is a wise man, and endued with
knowledge among you?
Who is a wise man, and endued with
knowledge among you?
Let him show out of a good conversation
his work with meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife
in your hearts, glory not, and lie not
against the truth.
This wisdom doth sendeth not from above, but
is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is
confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easily entreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in
peace of them that make peace.
The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
of them that make peace.
Of all the verses in this chapter, one
verse is the foundation.
Without it, this would just be a cry
of condemnation, without anything to point to.
But this verse is probably one of the
most vital verses God has ever held out
to Christianity.
This verse, if any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man.
If any man offend not in word, the
same is a perfect man, and they belong
to the bridal, the whole body.
The foremost proof of holiness, a vital reality
with God, the foremost proof of holiness is
a man's ability to refrain from entering into
any conversation whereby he becomes defiled in the
sight of God.
The foremost proof of holiness, a vital reality
with God, is a man's ability to refrain
from entering into any conversation whereby he becomes
defiled in the sight of God.
If any man offend not in word, the
same is a perfect man, and they will
also be bridal, the whole body.
The whole nature, you're in control, you're in
victory.
One of the greatest revelations God ever gave
me of the Christian faith, one of the
greatest revelations God ever gave me of the
Christian faith, was when I suddenly was thrown
into one of the deepest trials, one of
the deepest trials God ever allowed me to
go through in my faith.
I was sitting in a meeting like you,
in a great convention.
The man in the pulpit, suddenly knowing I
was in the meeting, began to attack me.
He began to try and destroy me.
He began to undermine, knowing I was sitting
down there, my integrity, my motive for serving
God, the reality of the fruit of my
ministry.
I sat there, listening to this man with
disbelief.
He was intent on nothing less than destroying
me publicly.
I don't know whether being filled with God
the Holy Ghost means you cannot be hurt,
but I want to be utterly honest.
I was crushed.
My heart was crushed.
I was hurt.
My heart was crushed.
Tears came down my face.
I thought, how can this man possibly believe
these things of me?
How can this man possibly believe these things
of me?
At the end of the meeting, I stood
and I wanted to flee out of that
hall.
I didn't want to speak to anyone.
I had nothing in my heart to speak
to anyone but God.
I wanted to get out of that building
and get alone with my God.
It was all in my mind, but somehow
I couldn't get out.
They all stood too far, and the hands
just reached out to me.
And I looked at the faces, the tears,
and I realized a cloud of grief had
fallen upon the whole convention, a cloud of
sorrow and grief.
One man looked and held me and said,
boy, his tears came down his eyes.
Don't you worry, Keith.
He's destroyed himself.
He hasn't touched you.
I walked out, though.
I still hadn't said one word.
Walked out, trying to flee as people were
trying to stop me.
I wanted to get out of that hall
into the dark, out there in the gardens.
I just wanted to get out.
I didn't want people.
Right out of the entrance, there were three
or four men, preachers, some of them very,
very well known in our country, standing there.
They wouldn't let me pass, grieved by what
this man had done.
And as they stood there, talking into the
indignation in their hearts, the cowardice of the
man, the unethicalness of what he'd done, how
grieved they were, how angered they were.
And there they wouldn't let me pass, and
a whole crowd of people came listening to
them, all behind me, crowding out from the
hall, listening.
And just as I was about to speak,
just as I was about to react to
what was going on in my heart about
what this man had done, my father-in
-law, Yanni Maru, one of the most loved
preachers of our country, he just walked, oh,
he's a tall man, just walked, pushing past
the crowd, walked in front of these men,
who were talking with such indignation.
He looked at me, tears coming down his
face.
Oh, it had not been easy for my
father-in-law to hear the things he
had been said about his son-in-law.
Tears coming down his face, he put his
hand onto my shoulder, and he said with
a loud voice, Keith, boy, I hope you
know what this is about.
I hope you know what's happening, boy.
Keith, listen now, listen carefully now.
We're all in the school of God, boy,
when you say that moment, you're in the
school of God.
Some of us, we're in class one, some
in standard one, some in standard six, some
in the chick, some in university level.
Only God knows what level we're in the
school of God.
We're all in some level, though.
And Keith, just as when you were in
secular school as a boy, you, at every
level, had to face tests.
You had to face exams, boy, before you
could get to the next level.
And if you failed, remember now back to
school, if you failed, you had to go
through that exam again.
You had to go again until you passed
to get to the next level.
Now listen, Keith, you're going through an exam
very few of us have ever had to
face.
It's an extreme exam, I know that, boy.
But God's putting you through it, Keith.
If you don't pass, in God's sight and
in men's sight, and men are watching you,
boy, men are watching you.
If you don't pass this exam in God's
sight and in men's sight, you're going to
go through it again.
It's up to you, Keith.
I passed the exam, Keith, and he turned
and walked as he went.
And everyone fled, not another word.
I was alone at last.
Oh, everything seemed so different.
Suddenly, I just looked at it through different
eyes.
I just stood there like a burden had
been taken off.
The next morning, it was arranged, announced, that
the whole convention would meet in the parking
area at a certain time.
The time was given for a reason.
We all were to take all the cars,
all the combis, all the vehicles available, and
we were going to all get everybody from
these hostels and buildings, housing all the people,
accommodating all those attending the convention.
Everyone was to go into every vehicle available,
and we were all to leave together to
go as a convoy across the great city,
so that none of us got lost.
We'd all get there in time to join
up with another convention, people of like mind,
to pray through to God.
And so I looked at my time, suddenly
realized, oh my, and I ran out realizing
everybody's out of the building.
I'm the last one.
So I ran down, saw all the cars
revving, their engines, they're all ready to go.
Streams of cars all over the parking place,
all full of people.
And I ran looking for some car that
I could get into, not one.
Car after car, no room.
Everybody packed in.
Suddenly, a hooter way back at the other
side of the parking area.
There's a place available, so I ran through,
knowing I'm keeping everybody waiting now.
Ran as I got closer and closer.
One seat of every single car.
I got closer and closer.
There was this combi.
I slowed down, and my heart began to
sink, and everybody in the combis' heart began
to sink as they saw who was coming
to the one seat available.
I saw the one seat left of this
whole stream of cars was next to this
man.
I'd gotten in the car.
There was a deathly silence.
And I sat next to him, no one
speaking, the cars was going off.
I looked in the rearview mirror, the man
driving, his eyes as big, to see what
I was going to do to this man,
what I was going to say to him.
Utter silence.
And I remember looking out the window, and
I prayed in my heart, oh God, give
me the grace I don't have to pass
this exam in God's eyes and in men's.
And men are watching me, Lord, they're watching
me.
I don't want to go through this again,
God.
I can't.
I'm not strong enough.
Please give me the grace to pass this
exam now, Lord, so I don't have to
go through it again.
And I turned, and I looked at this
man, oh my, by that time the Holy
Ghost had smitten him, smitten him.
He knew he had done something terrible.
He knew by now that he was wrong
in his judgment of me.
He sat there in his place, his eyes
full of fear, trembling, looking at me.
And I put my hand onto his arm,
and I said, sir, I want to tell
you, sir, I, and I want to tell
you that from this time forth, I will
pray to you that God will bless you
and honor you.
You know, I saw something in that man's
eyes that I shall treasure for all eternity.
He knew I wasn't being facetious or obnoxious
or hypocritical.
He knew as he looked at me that
I meant every word from the depth of
my soul that I was saying.
And I looked in his eyes, and I
saw something I shall always treasure.
I saw a man that was my enemy
enough to want to destroy me.
I saw that man in one moment look
at me with utter respect.
Oh, I could have given him back what
he gave me, given back what he deserved
and told him what a coward he is.
I could have given him back and gave
everything he seemed to deserve, but I, I
would have lost that thing that I now
treasure, to see an enemy in one moment
look at me with utter respect.
Why?
Because I looked to this God to give
me grace.
I knew I didn't have to pass an
exam that he placed.
That man, to this day, stands by me.
He wouldn't have if I'd given him back
and I hadn't passed the exam.
He would have been wounded but known I'm
no better than him.
Oh, this God, I say it so reverently,
is obliged to give you all the grace
you need, no matter what trial, no matter
what test, no matter how severe, no matter
how cruel man turns upon you, no matter
what happens, even if a man tries to
destroy you.
This God is obliged, obliged to give you
all the grace you need to pass any
exam and every exam, no matter how severe,
to pass the exam, if you look to
him for the grace.
I came to start thinking about what my
father said as the time went by.
It has such an effect on me.
I came to ponder those words again and
again and again and again.
Shortly afterwards, I began to think of them,
of what he said concerning how we are
like in a secular school, in the school
of God, having to face exams and standards
and if you fail the exam, you're going
to go through it again.
If you fail the exam, you go back
to the same standard.
I began to think about that and I
thought back to school when I was a
boy.
Suddenly it came back to me, something I'd
forgotten for years.
I failed.
There's one standard, I failed.
I don't know if you're willing to admit
such a thing, but I have to.
I failed because school to me, well, there
was nothing academic in me.
I was at school for one reason, in
my own eyes, and that was for sport.
I lived for sport.
Mummy and Daddy didn't quite know what to
do with me, but I didn't know that
there was any other reason to be at
school, as far as I could see.
And of course, I don't know how I
got through school with that attitude.
I just don't know how I did it.
But that was it.
I love sport.
It all caught up with me.
And there was this year, suddenly I was
given this news, I had failed.
I had failed the standard.
And suddenly as I thought back, after my
father-in-law said those words, suddenly I,
I suddenly remembered the horror that gripped me
when I was a child.
It seemed to come back with a vengeance
after all those years.
The horror that suddenly just gripped me at
the consciousness when I knew I'd failed.
And the reason for that horror came back
with a vengeance.
I was suddenly aware that I had been
left behind, that those who started with me
at school, we all started together, the same
class, we all learned the same lessons, suddenly
we all faced the same exams, we all
went to the next standard, we all learned
again, all together, the same boys, the same
girls, standard upon standard.
We just learned the same, we faced the
same exams, we were next to the next
standard, all went up together.
And now suddenly, suddenly, I was conscious, I
was left behind.
They were conscious I was left behind.
You couldn't deny it, you couldn't hide it,
it was, I'm left behind.
The horror that gripped my heart as a
boy, when I saw everyone, I started with
going ahead, and I saw them looking back
knowing I'm left behind.
All with a horrific thing, a terrible thing,
you know, in the school of God, it's
a terrible thing, the holy scriptures speak of
it.
You, in the school of God, fail, and
you're left behind, and Paul rebukes with grief
in his heart saying, I should, by this
time, you should be able to be taught
strong meat from men, but because of your
failure, as it were, you have to be
taken over the first principles of the faith
all over again.
You're stuck in an era as they take
you through the first principles, you're still left
behind.
Here you are, like babe, still having to
be fed with milk, you still have been
strong meat for men by now.
Hell!
You're left behind, look at the others, look
what God's doing to them.
You are through failure.
I had an uncle, and my mother's side
of the family, she had a very large
family, eight children, nine actually, one died, but
my uncle, his name was Moon, terrible name
to give a man, he had no hair.
A very big man, enormous man, everybody called
him Moon.
He was what we call the black sheep
of the family.
He was the first one to say it,
by the way, in case you think it's
a bit of a derogatory term.
The rest of the family all excelled in
everything, academically, in the line of work, they
excelled, went to a couple of their professions,
they were South African champions, a number of
them, his brothers and sisters in sport, they
just excelled the family in the most remarkable
way.
But here was Uncle Moon, all he lived
for, that I can remember, was to make
people laugh, and he certainly knew how to
do that.
Uncle Moon didn't even have to open his
mouth before he was just crying with laughter
when he walked in.
I used to marvel at it.
He was a very funny, funny man.
When he got saved, when he was very
elderly, still gulking and still in, Uncle Moon
lived to make people laugh.
I'll never forget his children, his granny and
grandpa died, everybody rallied around my mummy, and
the same with my father.
All the brothers, all the sisters and their
wives, husbands came on Sunday night.
We weren't a religious family.
Sunday night was the night of the family,
and they came and there was a house
crowded out with all my family, all my
mothers, brothers and sisters, and their families and
children, all the cousins we used to run
around.
No children were allowed in the lounge, by
the way, there was only grown-ups.
Something in South Africa that was, I don't
know about America, but we had, we loved
them, we were children, we had a lot
of grown-ups, grown-ups.
We didn't argue about it.
All they wanted to speak in South Africa
those days was two things, politics and sport.
That's all South Africans were interested in, politics
and sport.
Seldom heard anything else being discussed, ever.
But anyway, that was what was going on
in my house, Sunday after Sunday, just politics
and sport.
And the children running around, every Sunday night
we used to do something.
We used to come to the lounge door,
peeping in, we weren't allowed in.
We used to look for Uncle Moon until
we got his eyes.
Uncle Moon, come, come.
He didn't take much wooing to come out
of all the grown-ups company and get
with the kids, you know.
He was up, just came out, we got
him in the bed.
We all sat around him, arms around him,
all around the floor.
We were quite a tribe, by the way.
And we'd say, Uncle Moon, tell us jokes,
tell us stories.
But when you were in the war, all
his stories, when he was a prisoner of
war, the poor Germans.
I believe some of those stories were absolutely
true.
I think they must have loved him, though.
Everyone loved Uncle Moon.
He was remarkable.
He walked down the streets of one of
the biggest cities in the, in the country,
and everyone knew Moon.
Everyone.
We marveled.
There wasn't anyone along.
Oh, he was loved, dear Uncle Moon.
There we were, as he told us the
jokes, and we sat just drawing everything out
of him.
I'll never forget one thing he told us,
is when he heard about one of us
failing at school.
He said, oh, you failed?
Well, don't let that worry you.
Uncle Moon failed many times at school.
He says, I was always a big boy
when I started.
I was a bit bigger than everybody else,
all these other little fellows and girls.
And I failed.
And then the next crowd came, and I
was all the bigger, you know.
And I failed again.
And you know what they did?
They pushed me up.
I didn't pass.
They pushed me out of embarrassment to the
next standard.
And then I failed again.
And again.
All I did was fail through school, but
they pushed me up, you see.
And to the end, he says, I became
a problem to the education department and the
government.
They didn't know quite how to work out
a pension scheme for someone who failed at
school.
I don't think he was truthful there.
I think it was a bit joking there.
He was, that was just a joke that
he was telling us, I hope.
The terrible thing, though, when you see it
in the school of God, you see it
in all you see it.
Someone who just fails.
Every, every trial God allows him to go
into, every test.
The moment things aren't just perfect, he fails.
To his wife, he fails.
To his children, he just fails.
Things aren't perfect.
At work, in the home, in the church,
he just, every time things aren't just what
he wants, just as it should be.
The moment there's any form of exam that
he has to face, any form of trial
to face, he fails.
He just fails and fails and fails.
It's a terrible thing to see someone who
is in the school of God, and that's
all you see, as he faces the exams
God sets for him.
And nothing, by the way, is not an
exam.
In case you think it's just the old
devil having his way, no.
God allows it.
The most tragic and saddest, the saddest moment
of it all in the school of God
is when I suddenly realize, and everyone else
realizes, I've just failed.
I've just failed.
In the exam God allows me to fail.
The saddest and most tragic moment of it
all in the school of God is when
I suddenly realize, and everyone realizes, I've failed.
And that moment is realized more than anything
else in Christianity, when out of these mysteries
come words that said, never have come to
the side of God.
More than anything else in the school of
God, that moment that I have failed God,
is when out of these lips come words
that said, never have come to the side
of God.
Oh, it's tragic.
It's tragic.
A tragic moment when I suddenly realize, and
I'm conscious everybody else realizes, whether it's my
children and my wife, whether it's my enemy,
that I should be winning.
Oh, it's tragic when I realize, and everyone
else realizes, and I'm conscious of it.
It's a tragic, tragic moment.
I failed.
And if it isn't tragic to you, then
that's, that's an even greater tragedy within the
course of your life.
If it isn't tragic to you, that you're
failing with your lips, to your children, to
your wife, to your enemy, in your search,
if it isn't tragic to you when you
fail, and you know you failed, then that's
probably the greatest tragedy God could write upon.
Oh, it is intragic.
That's a tragedy.
I was once in a convention, a great
convention in my country, and in the hall,
the dining hall, hundreds and hundreds of people,
all fellowshipping around the tables.
I was sitting at one table, right in
the middle of the hall.
At the table were other preachers, some of
them, some of the most well-known preachers
of our country, sitting at the table.
And opposite me sat a lady, a woman
of God that has staggered my nation, a
woman of God that is holy, a missionary.
This lady, I'd never ever seen, not once
in all the years I'd known her, to
reveal anything but an utterly Christ-like spirit,
no matter what men, women, were doing to
her, no matter what came against her, no
matter what circumstances or pressures came upon this
woman.
I saw her stand and reveal Christ.
I'd never ever seen anything else of Christ
-likeness given back to even those who turned
against her.
I'd never ever heard her say one unkind
word in my life, in all the years
I knew her.
I'd never heard her say a derogatory word
about a single human being.
She said to me when I was saved,
please, what you cannot say to a person's
face, and for the glory of God, not
say at all.
What you cannot say to a person's face,
in love, and for the glory of God,
you cannot say at all, because if you
do, you are a scandal-monger, a coward,
and a grief to God.
I grabbed those words with both hands for
my life, and strove to attain that through
the years, to what that woman had said
to me, because she lived it.
She was at the opposite side of the
table, facing me, with all these priests around,
and there was a conversation that suddenly developed
between two or three of the priests, about
some other priest there, who wasn't there to
defend himself.
Suddenly they were attacking his testimony and honour,
and he wasn't there to defend himself, because
he had no right to be doing it,
and they were wrong what they were saying,
because I knew this man better than they
I knew him.
They were so wrong.
You know, I could hardly follow.
I began to almost talk.
I sat there so agonizing.
I thought, what are they doing?
Every one at this table will never be
able to look at that person with trust
again.
They're destroying him.
He isn't here to defend him.
God, what can I do?
I sat there, trying not to choke in
my grief, in my faith that I was
getting what they were doing.
God, what can I say to stop them
from destroying this man?
They're wrong.
I don't want to offend them.
What am I going to do, God?
Before I could say a word, this woman,
not realizing that she was facing being with
them, this woman, caught up in this atmosphere,
suddenly began to add derogatory words about this
person who wasn't there to defend himself.
I was so grieved with these people, but
when this woman failed, I put my knife
and fork down, and I sat back in
shock, and there was silence at the table
as they were looking, and she looked.
I didn't mean to condemn her, but the
tears just swelled up in her eyes.
She realized.
She began to cry so loud, it is
like agony came out of her own heart.
Everyone jumped up from the table because of
who it was.
What is it?
What's wrong?
The whole hall came to silence, and I
knew who it was.
It was one of the most revered, loved
women of God in my name.
I knew.
I knew why she
got up, and she just walked, crying aloud,
in her grief, but one statement, but
one step, the whole
hall remained in silence.
Oh, it's a tragic, tragic thing, a tragic,
tragic moment, when I realize, and everyone else
realizes, I betrayed God with my life, and
if it isn't tragic to you, sir, then
written across your life in God's heart is
a greater tragedy.
In the school of God, I've had many
great teachers, many great teachers.
I've learned many lessons from many great teachers,
men and women who themselves were in the
school of God, but who so excelled, no
matter what test, no matter what exam they
were to face, no matter how severe, no
matter how difficult it was, they so excelled
in passing the exams, that they became teachers.
They became examples of the believers in word.
What are you?
Are you an example of the believers?
If any man offends not, no
more light is to come.
Not ultimate perfection, God's not speaking about that.
In the light you've been given, if any
man offends not in word, the same is
able also to live in victory over his
entire nation, he's got control.
Tell me, are you an example to the
believers, or are you a failure?
Are you a failure?
Do you fail, and fail, and fail, and
fail?
Is written across your life by God and
man through what comes out of these lips,
this tongue?
Is it an unruly evil full of deadly
poison?
I do not know of any sin in
the 29 years I've been saved that has
done more harm to the work of God
and caused more hurt among the people of
God than the sin of unclean.
Woe is me.
I'm a man of uncleanness.
I dwell in the midst of the people
of uncleanness.
You're going to have to go out there
and commit adultery, sir, before you need to
cry, woe is me.
You just have to say it once, and
you need to cry out from your soul
because of what you've done to God's heart
and the deadly poison it destroys.
You don't have to take a knife to
murder a man.
No, you might lose your testimony.
You might today.
All you need to say to murder someone
shows one sentence.
One sentence can murder a man more ruthlessly.
Murder is testimony.
Murder is honor.
Murder is truth.
God says it's deadly poison that comes out
of this unruly.
If you're not in control, if this is
not in control, tell me, are you an
example to the believer in words?
Every one of you, I don't care who
you are, if you fail, you failed
again.
We went to those who tried to destroy
you.
If you fail, it is evil.
If you fail, you fail with evil.
And you know that that is the highest,
highest, highest truth God gives us now that
you live or that you are saved.
It's not adultery.
Don't fail with his lips.
He won't fail with his adultery.
He'll fail with his lips to set us
on fire the course of nature.
Every one of you, you fail with his
lips and you know you've got to let
God deal with it.
This one proof, the foremost proof of holiness,
of vital reality with God.
If you know you fail, God with his
lips and you know God brought you here
and God is desperate to stop you.
Because it sets the course of all the
other failures within your life.
If you don't get to control his lips,
you're never going to go victory.
You need to come to God for the
blood, the blood for this terrible sin.
You need to come tonight to God for
the blood, ministers, priests, well-known throughout the
country.
You need to come to God for the
blood to forgive you, to cleanse you, to
cleanse you from all the failures, the failures.
You need to come to God for the
blood to go deeper, for out of the
heart to come all these failures.
Come God, I'm not going to fail anymore
from tonight.
God deal with these lips, deal with this
heart, create in me a clean heart.
Oh God, oh God, I will
not fail thee ever again, Lord by thy
grace.
I will look to thee for the grace
no matter how severe the trial, no matter
what a man does to me, though he's
about to destroy me.
I want to lord from this night in
front of my children, in front of my
wife.
I want to pass the exams, Lord, to
my enemies from this night, and I know
I can.
I want to, Lord, and I come to
thee for cleansing in the blood of Christ,
and for heart cleansing in the blood of
Christ.
Give me the victory I need to pass,
to examine the foremost truth that we know
at last, and I wonder who he is.
Those of you that fail with the lips,
that know I don't care who you are,
I want to ask you to stand, and
those that stand I'm going to pray for,
I only ask once.
Come, let's bow in prayer.
Father, Father, forgive me.
Oh my God, forgive me.
That led me to the other side, not
controlling, not holding back, and looking to thee
for grace.
My God, watch me in the blood of
Christ.
Please, God, I want a new start.
And I have only hope in the blood.
I want to go to higher standards, until
all may see in me Christ, and I
become an example of the believers in words.
I have sinned not in words.
Watch me in the blood, so true and
true, Lord.
Nothing of all that I've forgotten, or I
even didn't confess, because it wasn't tragic to
me.
My God, please, even things I've forgotten, please,
don't hold me accountable.
Let the blood wash everything, everything, everything, not
only the lips, but what the lips led
my whole nature to do, because it wasn't
in control.
Wash me in the blood, God, that nothing,
nothing, nothing is not clean, and wash them
forgiven and forgotten.
Please, God, do that for me.
And let the blood go deeper now.
Come, Lord, wash me through and through and
through and through and through and through and
through with the blood of Christ, creating me
now a clean heart.
Oh, God, renew a right spirit within me.
Give me the grace from the next step
I take to the day I die to
pass through this end with my lips, no
matter what happens.
Oh, I have faith in Jesus
Christ.
Amen.
Can we all remain standing?
Be careful now.
Your exams aren't going to stop when you
leave this holy place.
You'll be amazed when God will have put
the exams right with you.