>> I asked Ron if because
it's your centennial, they looked for someone as near a 100 as they could find. [laughter] And he didn't really give me a straight answer actually. [laughs] Let me tell you young people and perhaps I'm maybe the
oldest here, I don't know. Gift doesn't age, spiritual gift. And that's something
that's really delighted me because I think my heart has always been for young people. And I sort of as I grew older
and became a pastor's wife in this church and did all the things that pastors' wives are expected to do or some of the things, I thought, "Ooh." Because I still have this heart for kids. Stewart and I went to a big,
like a Nibbana in Europe. They have it in Holland every three years. And when we got there,
we were the grayest hair among all the speakers. In fact, the rest of the
speakers from Europe looked like junior high kids to me. And I said to Stewart,
"What are we here for?" This is their job now, and
the kids aren't gonna listen to these gray hairs. And I was pretty intimidated
actually and a little rusty because I hadn't been
among kids for a bit, and mine was the first session. And as I got up and started, it was like pushing smoke uphill. Those of you that speak
know the experience. And I was arguing with
myself, "Why did we come? "This young man should
be doing it," etc. etc. And suddenly, into my mind
came those words, three words, gift doesn't age. And I would add something
else, nor does heart. And when God gives you that heart calling, that's not going to age. It's such a joy to still
be able to be privileged to be invited to do something like this. And the other thing is, you
never know how old you are, actually it's funny, I slept, I slipped, not
slept in the parking lot of the church.
[laughter] Stewart and I were the
last out, usually you are and there was one young man. It was Wisconsin, it was below zero and I had my church shoes on and I had my hands full of stuff. And my feet went out from under me. I literally nearly went right
over 'cause I was running and I landed on the top of my head, knocked myself totally out. So Stewart was standing
looking at the body thinking, "Something ought to be done." [laughter] But being of my generation, he didn't have his cell phone
handy of course nor rest of it but the young man was younger than him, the one that was left. I came to consciousness hearing him say, "An elderly lady has just
fallen in the parking lot." And I thought, "How amazing! "Someone else." [applause and laughter] Has just fallen in the parking lot at exactly the same time as I did. Never occurred to me he
was talking about me. So let me encourage you, come
on, it's great up here, great. And trustfully when you are older than me, you will be loving Jesus
and giving him glory and turning your world upside down. That's what I pray for each of you. Now, if you turn in
your Bible to Psalm 51. And I want to just read this. This is the psalm as it says
probably in your Bible of David when the prophet Nathan
came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me O God,
according to your unfailing love, according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions
and wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions
and my sin is always before me. And that phrase is haunts
me, my sin haunts me. Against you you only have I
sinned and done what is evil in your sight so that you are proved right when you speak and
justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time
my mother conceived me and surely, surely you desire
truth in the inner parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. So cleanse me with hyssop and
I will be clean and wash me and I will be whiter than snow. And let me hear joy and
gladness and let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me, and don't cast me away from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a freeing, a
willing spirit to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will turn back to you. Save me from blood guilt O
God, the God who saves me and my tongue will sing
of your righteousness. So O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in
sacrifice or I would bring it, you do not take pleasure
in burnt offerings for the sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite spirit. O God, you won't despise. So in your good pleasure,
make Zion prosper and build up the walls of Jerusalem. Then there will be righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to delight you. Then bulls will be offered on your altar. And may the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word. Now, yesterday we talked
about David on the roof, those of you that were here will remember. I talked about the steps that get people into a position where
they are asking for it, where they are inviting
disaster to happen. And David steps was he let
his spiritual disciplines go, remember he was lax,
he was self-indulgent, he was disobedient, he
didn't play by the rules, the rules he himself had written. I don't know if he'd
written Psalm 119 by then, but he surely had laid out in his writing, in his Psalms the fact
that as the word of God does its work in our heart as believers, that we must play by
those rules that we learn. And what about Bathsheba,
she too was on the roof. And we talked about when you're lonely, when you're vulnerable, that will take you on the first
step, looking for trouble. She was careless and she was willing. And then of course, what we didn't get to was the great cover-up for David. It says in Samuel, sent
servants to get her. I hate that phrase. It's right there in its
rawness in the Bible. He got her. He sent somebody to get her, and she came. And they ended up of course in bed together and she got pregnant. So you remember the
story, in Samuel she sent, to tell David she was pregnant
and he thought, "Okay." And David began to cover up his sin or attempt to cover up his sin. Of course, I wonder if he knew the verse. Be sure your sin will find you out. But he tried anyway. And he brought Uriah,
one of his mighty men. Just go to the list of David's mighty men, and there's Uriah, his friend. In fact, it intrigued me
when I was studying this that in 1 Kings 15:5 it says, David did that which was
right in the eyes of the Lord and turned not aside from
anything that he was commanded, save only in the matter of,
now wouldn't you have thought it would then have said,
Bathsheba, but it doesn't. Save only in the matter
of Uriah, the Hittite. And actually David broke seven
or maybe eight, we don't know of the 10 Commandments
in one night of sex. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God first, broke that one. Love thy neighbor as thyself,
save in the matter of Uriah. What broke God's heart and
made him angry was Uriah. Uriah, why? Uriah was probably one
of David's best friends, and there was this huge
betrayal of this man. And of course, he committed adultery, the seventh commandment. Do not kill, the sixth commandment. Eighth commandment, do not
steal, stole his neighbor's wife. Ninth commandment, do not
lie, don't cover it up. Tenth commandment, do not covet. Coveting is wanting what
somebody else has got and not wanting them to have it either. And David looked at
Bathsheba and he coveted her. And actually coveting is
where the whole mess begins and grows and grows and grows
horns and hoofs and all. Coveting, David wanted her and he didn't want Uriah
to have her either. So what does he do? He then commits murder,
and deceiving and lying to try and cover it up. And so here's this man
after God's own heart, isn't it hard to see this? I heard somebody give testimony once, and he said, I had no idea
this reptile was within me and for 40 years grew and grew
and wound itself into my life and I never attended to it, I never kept short accounts with God, I never really put confession
into my prayer time with God, I never did any of that
until it was too late. I heard about a man who had a
circus, his name was Trumbull, true story, beginning of the century. And he took his circus around
Europe and ended up in London. And he had a little tiny snake, actually it was a Python I believe. And he got this little tiny
snake when there was a nest of little pythons and he took it home, and he began to make a pet of it. And he played with it
and he worked with it. And it grew and grew and grew
and then he taught it a trick, to start, when it was
big enough to wrap itself around his body and when he
got this trick perfected, he took it on the road in his circus and it was the last big
event in the circus. And everybody in Europe
went to see Trumbull and his snake act. And it was in London,
and I don't know the date that that snake with the roll of drums began to wrap itself around his head until only its head showed
and the man was hidden. And suddenly, there was a piercing scream as it crushed him to death,
and you know, play with it. Make a pet of it. Any time he could have
put his foot on that when it was little and
in the end it got him. And the snake does that,
the snake does that. And David and Bathsheba
listened to giant deception. Giant deception was saying to David, "You can stop when you want to." Not true. And he was saying to Bathsheba, "You'd never go too far
just go for dinner," right? That's giant deception. And David says in Psalm
51:5, will you know yourself? How many of you are
sitting out there saying, "I'd never do that. "I'd never do that," never say never. David says, surely, surely, surely, that word keeps coming out. Surely I was sinful, from the
time my mother conceived me. In sin my mother conceived
me, it says in the King James. Well, he didn't mean Mrs.
Jesse had played around. He didn't mean Mrs. Jesse's
mother conceived her in sin too, what's he talking about? He's talking about the sin principle. In England, old people like me play a funny game called bowls. It's not your sort of bowls,
it's a little tiny white jack they call it and the old men,
with sort of English hats on get on this beautiful piece of green grass and they roll the jack as far as they can. Then they take the bowls,
the big black bowls and they have two teams, and the idea is to see who
can get the big black bowl as near to the little white
jack without touching it. And you say, well that
sounds like a nice game for old people, but there's a problem. Inside the big black bowl there is a bias. It's a weight and it's off-center. So no matter how straight
you aim that thing, something pulls it off-center. Perfect picture, good
example of sin principle. In sin, my mother conceived
me and it doesn't matter how straight Mrs. Jesse, and maybe that was a commandment actually that he also broke. He did not honor his
parents in what he did and maybe he did it on a Sabbath, so maybe broke all 10, I don't know. [laughter] But it didn't matter how
straight his parents aimed him, it doesn't matter how
straight your parents aim you or your youth pastor or your pastor, or the people in your life. Something inside you, Paul
talked about it, didn't he? The good that I would I don't do and the things I shouldn't do
and I don't want to do, I do. Sin principle, bias. And David after the event, after the crushing fall at this
mighty man of God, he said, surely, surely this sin in me I was born with it. And you've got to know yourself, you've got to know
theologically what the thing is that we live with till we die. We will never be free of that
flesh, that sin principle until we see Jesus face-to-face and we're standing under
the praise of angels, folks. We'll never be free of it. Know yourself, you have a sinful heart. I have a sinful heart. Be honest with yourself,
have a truthful heart. Surely, you desire truth
in the inner parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. The message renders that what you're after is truth from the inside out. Yeah, God is after truth
from the inside out. And look at David's
deception, how could this man, this man of truth and
what he felt about truth begin to be so incredibly
deceptive, amazing. I was talking to a student
in another university, and actually we were in a prayer meeting. And it was the strangest thing, we were praying about
missions and whether, it was a missions conference
and I was quite impressed with this group of students
that actually were the ones that had planned the event. The young man next to me was
praying very, very fervently. "Lord, I'm willing to go." And you know something? I have no idea but it
didn't ring true to me. And I just prayed,
"Lord, do I say something "to this young man or not? "Am I right, am I wrong,
where is this coming from?" And I decided to take the
risk and so I said to him when everyone had gone. "Did you really mean that,
Lord I'm willing to go?" And he looked a bit startled and said, "Why do you ask?" I said, "Because as I heard you pray, "I thought he's praying
Lord I'm willing to go "but I think he's secretly
planning to stay." And he said, "You're right, you're right." And you can pray these wonderful prayers that you're secretly
planning something else, and that's what David
is talking about here. David stopped looking
after the inward part, the interior life. Let him teach you wisdom
in there, what's wisdom? I just wrote a book on Ecclesiastes, so I've been buried in
that for quite a while. I think wisdom is spiritual intelligence, that's what I think it is. I think it's spiritual street smarts, that's what I think wisdom is. Spiritual intelligence and
the book of Ecclesiastes is all about that sort of thing. It's the know-how to know what to say. It's Isaiah 50, those marvelous verses talking about the servant of the Lord and the servants of the servant so we can apply them to
ourself where it says, get up and listen to me so you
can go out and listen to them and match the word in the morning
to the need along the way, to the weary one along the
way, it's a fabulous passage. And it's a picture of a
rabbi shaking the pupil awake and saying, "Get up and listen to me." So then, as my pupil,
as my rabbinical pupil, you can go out and listen
to a hurting world. And what you've learned from
me with that ear of a disciple you can share along the way
with the person you meet who's weary etc. etc. And that is wisdom. Not knowledge, wisdom. It's spiritual intelligence. You can learn a whole
lot in your Bible classes but what you need is wisdom to know how, to know what to say along the way. And that only comes on your face, that only comes on your face before God. That's where it comes from. That's where it comes from. Read the end of Ecclesiastes, that passage, that fabulous
passage about words, words of wisdom. Solomon had that gift but he said they come from one shepherd. You need to know what to say to someone. Well, that's where you'll find it. Get in your knees before the one shepherd and he will give you the word of wisdom that you're gonna need to
answer the impossible questions you're going to hear as
you go out into your day. So you're honest with yourself
and you're honest with God. I'm writing a little series
of books at the moment, they're just really my
conversations with God and my poetry and stuff, and
I'm trying to show people how easy it is to sit on
the steps of your soul and go to the deep place
where nobody goes and talk. And the third one, I've
tried to show people by using my prayer diary and
my conversations with God, how the Bible is absolutely
essential if your prayer life is ever going to go anywhere. One little thing that might
help you, I don't know. The first time I noticed
things were radically different and I'm talking about the
difference between reading your passage of Scripture and getting up and you might as well never have been down on your knees reading it, right? That's what I'm talking about. The first time I noticed
things were radically different from me, now listen,
was when I invited him to read the book to me instead of me reading the book to him. Now, that's just a way
that maybe helps you, it helped me to think about it, because you get there in the
deep place where nobody goes and you sit on the steps
of your soul and he comes. And you begin to talk, and the Bible is all
part of that, isn't it? He talks to you and you respond to him. But I found I was reading
my passage of Scripture sort of to God or to myself, and I stopped doing that and I was quiet and my eyes went down the things again, I said, "Now, you read it to me Lord." And I imagined if you wish
or I heard those verses again and you know something? Things started to jump off this page. And no longer was it black
stuff on white paper, he was reading it to me and
that's what happened to David. And as he was confronted with truth through Nathan the Prophet,
he opened his heart, and he allowed God to
read the word to him. That was a whole lot different. I bet you that David
had done his devotions in that year or so when he was covering up and he hadn't confessed. Because it's horribly possible
to just go on doing it. And never allow the Word
of God, like a sword to pierce us and convict us. And so, here we have Nathan
telling his little story about this rich man with a lot of sheep and this poor man in a
village and a visitor comes and guess what? The rich man takes the one
little ewe lamb from the poor man and makes a nice meal for the visitor even though he's got a fold full of sheep, and David is incensed and
he said, "He must die." And the man says, "Thou art the man. "Yeah, thou art the man." And all of us have to
have that sort of moment pretty well regularly every
time we get down on our ears, on our knees. Nathan in a sense could be a picture of the Holy Spirit, couldn't he? Thou art the man. And that happens when
you expose your heart and let God do his work with this word, read it to you, read it to you. That's what happened to David
and he said, "I've sinned." And Nathan said, "You're forgiven." Now, that sounds pretty easy. So I can sin, say, "I'm sorry,"
and God forgives my sin, is that how it works? Sin has consequences, let
me run down very quickly. His relationships with both
God, his family, his society, his army were absolutely decimated through this one thing that he did. The baby dies, Amnon his son rapes Absalom's
sister, half-sister Tamar, all his kids. Two years later, after biding his time, Absalom murders Amnon
for raping the sister. Absalom flees. Joab, who got that note if
you remember that David wrote, put Uriah in the front of the battle, put him under the walls, never, never, never did you
put a soldier under the walls in those days, you've got
something on your head. And I can see Joab saying,
"Uh, this master of mine "is no better than the rest of us," and he did it and he bode his time. And when Absalom run away from David and turned on his father for the kingdom, Joab joined him. Brought him back to
Jerusalem where he stole the hearts of the people away from David. Rebelled, David fled, what a mess? Joab joined Absalom and
Bathsheba's grandfather, the councilor in the
High Court in the palace, David's closest councilor
was Bathsheba's grandfather. He joined Joab and Absalom against David. And that man must have
been pretty mighty mad. And he said I'll tell you what to do, get the wives he's left and the concubines and get up on the roof and
we'll put a tent up there and you rape them in front
of Israel, that'd be good. So he's out for revenge,
and that's what they did, from the same roof, note that David had seen Bathsheba. All this happened after
David was forgiven. Think about that. All this happened after
David was forgiven. You have freedom to choose to sin or not but you're not free to
choose the consequences. Friend of mine has a husband who travels, like many many thousands across the USA. I'm traveling all the time, I
see these young businessmen. I stay in hotels, I see
these young businessmen. I stay in hotels, I see these
young businessmen and I watch. And I watch them like
lambs to the slaughter with the women that now travel with them or with women that have brought up. Her husband was a Christian,
they were Christian. Anyway, he was on a
business trip and the firm that he was going to on this business trip provided women escorts. And he ended up drunk and
in bed with one of them. He woke up in the morning
absolutely horrified, absolutely, he couldn't get out of bed. He was absolutely panic-stricken, he was absolutely horrified
but not as horrified as when he got out of bed
and looked at the mirror where the woman he had
slept with had written, welcome to the world of AIDS. That happened, that happened
to a friend of mine. Christian friend, Christian husband. Just one night. It had not as many repercussions as David and is that man forgiven? Yes, I believe he is. He repented in a hurry. But after David was
forgiven, this happened. So the consequences, the
ripples and God would save us. That's why God hates
sin because He loves us and he knows the repercussions of it. Giant deception says
you'll get away with it, I'll help you cover your tracks, God won't even know. He doesn't count the apples on the tree. Tell you, God knows exactly who's eaten the apple off the tree. All sins are big sins, next point. All sins are big sins. We are talking about,
we would say big sins, but all sin is big. Pride is the biggest of all. Not adultery, not sex outside of marriage. God says, pride do I hate, pride of course is the root of all the rest. Pride do I hate. All sin is big sin. Sin is a very very serious serious thing. And I want to tell you,
and this is not a point I would need to labor I would
hope in a place like this, but there is no sin too
big for God to forgive. Do I really believe that? Yes. Do I believe it when I'm in
Gatesville Prison on death row talking to women there
for killing their husbands who were abusing their children, that's why they killed them? Do I believe I can say to those women, "I don't care what you've done. "No sin is too big for God to forgive." And as David is saying how
big is this, how impossible, cleanse me with hyssop and
I shall be clean, wash me. He felt filthy, have you ever felt filthy? You ever felt, how could
I ever feel clean again? Ever felt like a leper? Because the priest would
take the little hyssop plant, little sponge, dip it
into the blood of the lamb and cleanse a leper who was
cleansed or healed by God. Priest's job was to figure out if there'd been a dramatic healing, God alone could heal a leper in those days and if there had, he would come and the priest would sprinkle
the blood of the Lamb. I've been trying to find a
song and I left it too late, otherwise I would want
our musicians to play it. It's a song from the 80s, do you know what the
blood has done for me, do you know what the
blood has done for me, it has cleansed me, it has set me free. Do you know what the
blood has done for me? And there is no sin too
big for God to forgive. I think of Anne Lotz Graham,
Billy Graham's daughter, I work with her. And in a prison situation,
she told a condemned woman she had led to Christ who
was going to be executed, years ago now. She told her a story
because this woman said, "My sin is too big for God to forgive." And Anne said, "No, no, no." And she said, "When I go
down to South Carolina "with my family and we
walk along the beach "in South Carolina, I come
across a little tiny hole "that a little tiny crab has made." "And I go a little further and there's "a little bigger hole
because there's a child "digging a little castle." "And then I go along a little bit more "and I find a great big
excavation with a machine there "that's just getting a pipe in the sand. "And I look at all these
holes, the little holes, "and the big holes and
then the tide comes in "and they're all covered." Do you know what the
blood has done for us? Do you know, do you know,
do you know, do I know? Doesn't matter how big
the hole, how big the sin, it's all sin. We're all lepers. We all need the cleansing blood of Christ. Surely you desire truth in the inner part, you teach me spiritual sense. To know what to do with what
I don't know what to do with, how to deal with the stupidity, how to deal with what I've done, how to deal with my secret
pornography that I'm into, how to deal with this, that and the other, how to deal with all
the dirt and the filth. Surely, you desire
truth in the inner part. Well, David goes on, take
not your Holy Spirit from me. Do we believe as evangelicals
that if we did something like David or even something lesser, we could lose our salvation? Do we believe that the
Holy Spirit could leave us? No, we don't, this is Old Testament. We believe, at least I believe that the Lord though
I'm sure he would love to exit our lives when we're
behaving in certain ways has promised I will never
leave you, nor forsake you. No man will pluck you out of my hand. It's a bit like this
coin I have in my hand. And if I make sure that
it stands up in my hand, you can see it. I believe this coin can fall down, I do not believe it can fall out. No man or woman can pluck you out of my hand. No sin is too big for God to forgive. I heard a black preacher at
a big convention years ago. He was the music worship leader actually and just in introducing one of his songs, he told a story about having
to look after his grandchildren and he said it was really hard work and I can testify to that,
we have 13 grandchildren. He said it was really hard
work and the little guy, it was just in the end, I
just had this one little kid, how could this be so hard? And I was running around after
him and in the end I thought, "I gotta get a cup of coffee." And I went into the
kitchen and I was lulled into this sense of security because I couldn't hear anything. Oh, danger, danger. But he couldn't hear anything, Oh, everything must be all
right, everything went quiet and suddenly there was a great big crash as things fell on the floor. And he rushed back and
a very precious vase that his wife had treasured
from some grandmother or other was lying smashed on the wooden floor. And his face told his
dismay and the little guy looked at his granddaddy's
face and turned around and ran. But the door was shut and
he couldn't reach the knob. And so he had to turn round
and look at his father, and his grandfather
told the story, he said, "I just opened my arms to this
little guy and smiled at him, "and he rushed into my arms
saying, I'm sorry daddy, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry granddad,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Don't we do that? What stops us? What stopped David for a
year, for a year doing that? Well, could be pride. Who is this God we're
running into his arms? He's a God of, Psalm says pity, which is mercy, love in action. When the object is in a pitiful
state, the word is like, a dove moaning over its young. We're birders and we just love birds and I remember seeing a
nest with doves on it, and with young in the nest. And I watched that for a while and they make this beautiful cooing noise. That's the word and that's
what God wants to say. [groans] Unfailing love, covenant love. He's a God of covenant
love, of loving kindness. 26 times his loving-kindness
is spoken about, it's forever. From generation to
generation, its durability. Read Lamentations three, read it all, not just the bit you
want, like new morning and greatest thy faithfulness. Read the first 26 verses. You wouldn't know it was
the same man writing it. God is using me for target practice. God is like a bear, he's
ripping me to shreds. And then you come to the turning point. When I thought about what God
had allowed to happen to me, then that's how I thought of God. But this I call to mind, strong word, this I insisted. He put in another tape in other words. He started to think not about
the sin and the bad things that had happened to him
and who'd done it to him and all of that, he began to think of God. God's love, God's compassion,
God's faithfulness, and when he did that he
said, "My soul smiled. "My soul smiled." Is your soul smiling? That's what forgiveness does, that's what God's unfailing
love can do for you, his compassion which
is new, his generosity. God's is so generous with his love. We can run into his arms
for God, of course his love. So hey, no such thing as secret sin. David was sitting there
thinking no one knows. He knew, he said it's haunting me. Ever been haunted by
something you've done, something you've seen,
something you didn't do, sins of omission as much
as sins of commission. Are you carrying all that
pain around with you? Is there any such thing? David knew. Joab knew, I think Uriah knew. I think Uriah knew. Bathsheba knew. Hey, there's so many people that know, there is no way this
isn't going to come out. God could have brought
it out any way he wished. How he did was he told on
David by telling Nathan what he didn't know. Doesn't seem fair, does it? When I was writing on Jeremiah
and his one companion, Baruch God told Jeremiah on Baruch. He said he wants your job, he thinks you're doing
a lousy job, Jeremiah. And his heart is lifted
up in pride because he was the preacher and the word man
of Israel before he joined you and he doesn't think very
much of what you're doing. So you go and tell Baruch,
I'm seeing all that pride in his heart and I won't have it. And poor Jeremiah had to go
to his only fellow worker and say, "Do you want my job? "Is your heart full of pride?" "How do you know?" says Baruch. And Jeremiah says, "He told on you." God always tells on you,
you can't get away with it. Is there any such thing as secret sin? No. God comes calling, because he loved David, God sent Nathan, God sees all sin. Sees it all, the big
holes and the little holes and he covers it up. I have a feeling I
should ask you a question on God's behalf. Where are you in this story? It's not our sins that keep us from God, it's our refusal to have them forgiven. It's not your sin that has
put distance between yourself and God and maybe other people, it's your refusal to have them forgiven. Why, why stand at the
door like the little boy looking at your father's
face fearing condemnation, why don't you run into his arms? Do you know what the
blood has done for me? Do you know what the
blood has done for me? It's cleansed me, set me free. Willing spirit, freeing the word is, free. Free from the shame, shame
and guilt are different you know that. Guilt is what we are, it's forensic. Shame is what we feel. Do you want to be free from shame? And there's only one
person that can deliver you from the guilt, from the forensic
truth that you have sinned and that's Jesus. Do you know what the
blood has done for me? As I revisit my own conversion, I think it was this one
incredible thing that reduced me as the Bible says in Psalm 51, shattered me, broke me, broke my heart and it was this incredible
thing of I knew, I knew my sin. And I was absolutely drowning in shame, absolutely drowning in shame and when I came to Christ, I was free, it was gone, it was gone. It was gone, it was gone. Pray with me. [sighs] Now, I'll just leave you alone in the deep place where nobody goes, sitting on the steps of
yourself for a moment or two. Why don't you respond to God. Cleanse me with hyssop
and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Oh, may the bonds that
you have broken rejoice. Restore the joy of my salvation. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will be converted unto thee. What God art thou that could do this. We bow in awe, praise, for your mercy, your grace and your love. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Amen.
