Rev. Israel Sanders- “Keeping Your Song”

There's a profound spiritual principle hidden in plain sight throughout Scripture: your song of praise is far more powerful than you might realize. Through an inspiring exploration of Psalms 137, we discover why maintaining your spiritual song during life's darkest moments isn't just encouraging—it's essential for victory.

Satan understands something many believers miss: your praise is a dangerous weapon against his attacks. When you continue singing despite your circumstances, you declare that though you may be wounded, you remain undefeated. This is why stealing your song becomes one of his primary objectives. As we learn from David's writings, "a song is an open rebellion to the worst that hell can throw at a human being."

The power of praise is vividly demonstrated through biblical examples like Paul and Silas, who transformed their midnight prison cell into a sanctuary through worship. Their chains fell off not because they complained about their circumstances, but because they refused to surrender their song. Similarly, when David faced complete devastation at Ziklag with his men ready to stone him, his counterintuitive response of worship led to complete recovery of everything that was stolen.

Moving personal testimonies bring this message home—from faithful elderly believers who maintained their worship through amputations and terminal illness to contemporary examples of praise persisting through seemingly impossible situations. These stories reveal how your spiritual song functions as both prophecy and companionship through life's storms.

What battle are you facing today? What circumstances have tempted you to hang up your harp and abandon your praise? Remember that your song isn't just emotional expression—it's spiritual warfare that can transform your situation. Don't surrender your most powerful weapon. Keep singing, keep worshipping, and watch as God turns your Ziklag moment into a testimony of His faithfulness.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Foundations of Truth
• 1:52 Introduction: You Took My Place
• 6:13 Psalms 137: Singing in Strange Lands
• 11:19 A Song is a Powerful Weapon
• 17:35 Songs as Prophecy and Companionship
• 19:25 [Ad] The Balance of Gray
• 20:13 (Cont.) Songs as Prophecy and Companionship
• 22:23 Paul and Silas: Prison Praise
• 30:33 David at Ziklag: Worship in Crisis
• 35:01 Personal Stories of Faithful Singers
• 40:27 Closing: Never Stop Singing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to Foundations of Truth podcast, where we are laying strong foundations for a holy life. Here we return to timeless truth, building our lives on the solid rock of Scripture with preaching. Join us as we grow in wisdom, faith and understanding rooted in Christ, the cornerstone. Now on to the next sermon. Enjoy.

Speaker 2: 0:32

You took my place. You bore what I deserved. You poured out grace with those three words You've brought me near. You've called my past redeemed. You've brought me life. With those three words, it is done, it is finished.

Speaker 3: 1:34

Love has won confidence and respect and all the others here. Can you go with me this morning to the book of psalms? I do feel, I do feel the lord has something for us today and I want to be obedient to him and I want to get out of the way so that God can have his way. Amen, and I want him to use in a great way and if you open your minds and if you open your hearts and you open your spirit up today, I really do believe that the Holy Ghost wants to help us in a great way. And so the book of Psalms, chapter number 137, very familiar passage of Scripture. I'm sure we've read it before and we've heard it preached. It's in no way, fashion or form, a novice to us, but I really want to pull from it this morning and show you something that I have found here and what God was talking to them in this text. So Psalms, chapter 1, verse 137. Would you stand with me this morning, just out of unity of the reading of God's word? He said by the river of Babylon, there we remembered, there we sat down, yea, we wept. When we remembered Zion, we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song, and they that wasted us required of us myrrh Saying here. I want you to catch this. Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Slide up to the latter part of verse number three. Sing us one of the songs of Zion. Would you stretch your hands forward and ask the Holy Ghost to touch us in this place today? Heavenly Father, god, I love you. Lord, I thank, asking that you would touch us today in a mighty way. Lord, help me to get out of the way so the Holy Ghost can have its way in this place. Somewhere, some way in this place, god, you would come in and your Holy Ghost would give us the song of Zion that you have intended for us to sing this morning. God, I give you all the glory, I give you all the praise and I give you all the thanksgiving. Lord, I thank you for it today. In your name, we pray and the church says amen. If I was to pin a title to what I got to talk to you about today, I would simply put it my song or your song. He gave us a song, amen.

Speaker 3: 4:55

You see, if we, if we go into the text of where we are at, I love to study about the life of david. I love to preach about the life of david. Don't ever forget. I know he had ever forget. I know he had his faults and I know he had his failures and I know there are things in his life, just like we all have, that we regret and I'm sure he regrets as well. However, we find in our text, or we can read in the word of God, that he was a man after God's own heart and one of the greatest revelations of David's life was the power of David's song. No one understood praise any better than David did and no one understood the power of a song like David did.

Speaker 3: 5:39

A song is more than words strung together to make a tune. A song is a helper, a song is a companion and, may I say this morning, a song can also be a weapon for us in this day. Slide with me to our text. In our text, David is speaking of the children of Israel as they are captive in the land of Babylon, and David tells the saddest tale that I don't know that he ever told the children of Israel had lost their song. It says we hanged our harps on the willows and we wept and they said how can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? This is what I would call a critical condition, because they were in captive in a strange land. They hung up their harps, which means they gave up their song, and they refused to sing the song that God had given them. For a people of God who are known by their song and by their joyous celebration, this is a critical condition that they found their self in. They had lost their song, they had lost their praise, they had lost their joy and they had lost their faith, and this is absolutely life threatening situation. One of the greatest weapons in david's arsenal was something most people never even consider. And yet when you study out david's life, you will have to come to the conclusion that one of david's greatest and most effective weapons that he ever had Was when he grabbed a hold of the voice that God gave him and he began to sing with all the power and all the grace and all the mercy. He didn't deserve it, but he still sang praise to God, his Savior.

Speaker 3: 7:43

A song is such a powerful weapon that one of Satan's main objective Listen to me Is to steal your song. If there is a way, if there is any way, fashion or form that he can steal the joy of the Lord, if he can steal your song, if he can steal your praise, may I say it this way he's on his way to taking your victory away from you. That's why I feel this morning I don't know who I come to preach to. I don't know who I come to talk to. I don't know who the Holy Ghost wants to speak to. But may I say it this way keep my singing, keep your song, don't ever hesitate, lift it up, worship and lift it up your praise to god.

Speaker 3: 8:34

It's a powerful weapon that the devil wants to steal. Why does the devil want your song? Because your song is a testimony that you're not beat. You may have been bit, but you're not beat. That's what a song tells the devil. You may have been wounded, but you're still in the fight. You may have been knocked down, but I'm getting back up and I'm jumping right back into the ring and I'm going to fight the fight of faith until it's done.

Speaker 3: 9:06

A song is an open rebellion to the worst that hell can throw at a human being and when the devil has thrown everything he can't at you and you still have your song, that means you are still standing and you are still praising and you are still in the fight for God. As long as you have a song, you're still in the fight. As long as you have breath, you still have a song. I said as long as you have breath, you still have a song. That's why Psalms 150 and verse number 6 says Let everything that hath breath praise the lord. But he didn't just stop right there, he circles back around and he says praise ye the lord. I said let everything that hath breath praise the lord. Praise ye the lord.

Speaker 3: 10:00

In one sense of the word, a song is a prophecy. The song looks beyond the present testing and the present trials and the present problems and the present sorrow and it prophetically decrees something better is on its way to my life. Something better is on its way to my life. Something's coming. I may not see it right now, I may not see it today. Life, something's coming. I may not see it right now, I may not see it today, but tomorrow morning's coming and I've got to keep my song.

Speaker 3: 10:34

I'm not talking about. I'm not talking about the nobody knows the trouble song. Oh, brother Lloyd, it's easy, the Trouble song. Oh Brother Lloyd, it's easy to sing that song. Nobody understands what I'm going through, nobody understands the pressure, nobody understands the difficulty. If you had went through what I went through this week, if you had gone through what I'm having to go through, that's not the song I'm preaching about this morning. That's not the song that I'm talking about. Can I say it this way? That's the loser song.

Speaker 3: 11:25

That kind of song Is from the devil's hymn book. That kind of song Is for the person who has just about given up. Those are the songs of the defeated. They are the songs of the hopeless and the helpless. But as a child of God, we are neither helpless nor are we hopeless, because our hope is in god and god are. Well, what does psalm, what? Let's go back to david, psalms 121 and 1 and 2 says I will lift up my eyes under the heels. From whence cometh my help, my help, coming from the lord which made heaven. And what was he saying? He said I may be down, I may be disgusted, I may be busted, I may have failed God, but give me my song back. I cannot keep from singing my praise, david said I have help and I have hope. I have help and I have hope, and they are in God, who made the heavens and who made the earth. David's words convey the thought if God was big enough and powerful enough to create the heaven and create the earth, he can surely, he can, surely he can surely Handle my problem. I know this morning it may seem huge and it may seem big and it may seem powerful and it may seem like there's no way out or there's no way in, but that's up to God.

Speaker 3: 13:07

A song is a company for our life journey. A song can go with you anywhere. Oh, I said a song can go with you anywhere. A song can comfort you in the darkest hours of your life. There is one of the greatest revelations for navigating through the life storms that we go through.

Speaker 3: 13:30

And listen to what David said about the song Psalms 32 in verse number seven. Thou are my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt come past me about with songs of deliverance. What did he say in 119 and 54? Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage. Then look at the wonderful verse in Psalms, chapter number 40 and verse number 3. And he hath put a new song in. How many have ever been to a place where you thought you lost your old song? But there was something that came back to you and you just had to say and he put a new song in my mouth Every praise unto God. God, many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord. What did he say in A1, 18 and 14? The Lord is my strength and and the Lord is my song and my salvation. May I say to you, he put both of those together to say he's my song, he's my salvation. That to me this morning says he's everything. I said he's everything. I'll say it again he is everything. I'll say it again he is everything, he is everything. One of the most dangerous things in our life that we could ever come up against is for us to lose our song, for us to live our song. There'll be times when your song will be your closest companion. There'll be times when your song will be your lifeline through the storm that life brings you. Travel with me this morning.

Speaker 3: 15:25

Let's go back to the text. Let's go back to the text. Let's go back into the word. Do you remember the guy by the name of Paul and the guy by the name of Silas. They were publicly humiliated. They were beaten black and blue, then cast into what the Bible says the inner prison. This was the deepest, darkest, most filthy compartment of the prison. And what does the Bible say? They did, first of all, hold on. May I tell you what they did, didn't do.

Speaker 3: 16:05

Brother Dean, I don't know you that well. We have worked together a little bit. I don't know if you're a singer or not. Thank you, I was hoping that was his answer Because if not, I was probably fixing to make him feel bad. But he's not a singer, and neither am I, and I just have a sneaky suspicion that possibly Paul and Silas were in the same boat. Me and him are in. That's possible because God honored him and favored him.

Speaker 3: 16:39

Wasn't no pride going to get in the way to say look what I can sing? But let me say what they didn't do. This is which do you prefer? I'd prefer not to sing. No, which would you prefer, paul or silas? Okay, he's gonna pick silas, I'm gonna be paul.

Speaker 3: 16:59

We were beaten. You look rough, I told you. I'm gonna tell you what they didn't do. You look horrible, I know I do too. How did we find ourselves here, man? When that stone hit me, it hurt. It was terrible, silas. You got to remember that, silas.

Speaker 3: 17:22

I can't believe we have preached the gospel. We have traveled across the United States of America. I don't know if they did that, but we've traveled, we've done our best and we have sacrificed ourselves for our Savior. I'm telling you what they didn't do. It's been a rough go around. Let's just lean and cry on each other's shoulders, thank you. That's not lean and cry on each other's shoulder, thank you. That's not what I find Paul doing. I said that's not what I find Paul doing. I told you what they did not do, but I'll tell you what they did do. He said long about midnight, paul and Silas. I'm sorry, I'm not going to put you on the spot, but I don't know that this song was even out in those days. I think you'll know it with me. I'm not sure that that song was even out in those days, brother Gentry, but I'm going to tell you what my spirit just has to say this morning. They were there. They may have been beaten, they may have been busted. They may have been in the nastiest part of the prison in the lowest state that they had ever faced in their life, and I told you what they didn't do. But may I tell you what they did? Do I have a feeling?

Speaker 3: 18:35

Along about midnight they began to sing a song that said I think everything's going to be all right. I think everything's going to be all right. I have a feeling. I said I have a feeling. Hey, I said I have a feeling Everything. I've got a feeling Everything is going to be alright. I've got a feeling it's going to be okay, right where we're at. Why?

Speaker 1: 19:00

Because he gets the glory.

Speaker 3: 19:01

I may be busted, I may be broke. I may be disgusted, but it's going to be broke. I may be disgusted, but it's going to be alright. There was something powerful that happened. God heard them praying, woo, and God heard them singing, and your Bible tells you and my Bible tells me he kicked his footstool and the earth started shaking and it shook the prison off of its foundations and it opened every prison door and every prison's bands or chains or bonds fell. If they would have sat in that prison like some of us sit in our bedrooms and closets, like we drive down the road in the 25th century there were generations that we're living in. I've never been through so much in my life. How can I go through a? How can God be in this? That's not what Paul and Silas said. I'll tell you what they said. We may be going through the fire and things may not be working out and we may not have no money and we may not have anything else.

Speaker 3: 20:58

But God still gave us a song. We can still sing tremendous power. Listen to me this morning, still sing Tremendous power. Listen to me this morning. Tremendous power is released through your song. You just need to sing it. I said we just need to sing it. Oh, I got to hurry Now.

Speaker 3: 21:33

We started in Psalms, if you remember the text I took. They hung up their harps. We don't see harps much in our churches. We grew up I grew up Sister Barbara Shoecraft. She played that old harp I shouldn't say old, I don't know. I remember us kids getting it and we'd push them buttons, we'd strum it. She could make it sing. But I don't think that was the harp, I don't think it had buttons on it. But they hung them up on a tree Because they had lost their song. Remember that, remember my text.

Speaker 3: 22:13

But could we fast forward just a little bit in David's life? Could we reference 1 Samuel, chapter number 30 today? The story falls in verses 1 through verses number 19. And if you remember your Bible, david and his men had been on a military campaign. David and his men were living in enemy territory but David and his men and their families felt very safe because David had convinced Achish, the king of Gath, that he was a friend to him. Oh, stay with me, I'm coming back to your song in just a minute. But then, from this safe place, david would launch his military campaign against the Philistines, then retreat to his safe place where all their families were safely waiting for the men of battle to return back home to Ziglag.

Speaker 3: 23:12

But on this day, when David and his men return from plundering the Philistines, things were just a little different. That day, no kids came running out to meet their daddies. Little different that day, no kids came running out to meet their daddies. No smell of supper was on the stove, no sound of contented cattle and sheep in the distance as they began to approach. Instead, there was the eerie sound of silence and the remains of their houses that had been plundered and burned.

Speaker 3: 23:46

Sadly, it hit them like a ton of bricks. Not only are the animals gone, but all the wives and all the children are gone as well. The first emotion that hit them is grief, sorrow, regret and they wept Is grief, sorrow, regret and they wept. The Bible says they wept until they could not cry anymore. Then the sorrow and the grief and the regret Transition to anger. It happens to all of us. The same pattern happens to us. We're hurt, we're angry, we're disappointed and all of a sudden, the natural tendency of the nature of man I'll get them. That's what happens. And they turned on David. They are angry at themselves, but they universally decide to make David responsible and take their anger out on David. And take their anger out on David and the Bible tells us they even spoke of stoning David.

Speaker 3: 25:12

So David, in the midst of most likely the darkest season of his life, and David does something that does not make any sense. He calls for his ephod and he begins to worship. I have a feeling at that moment the Bible doesn't tell me this. Put it into that can get us in trouble a lot of times, but I have a feeling at that moment he may have just remembered that line that grabbed that baby sheep. They just remembered at that time how God, as he began to go after him, gave him the power of worship and the power of his song, and David began to sing. I believe his mind went back to those times and there was a song that began to bubble up inside of him. And it doesn't say it verbatimly for words, but may I put it into text today and just say possibly I don't know that this song was written either, but I feel like it's very fitting of the words here.

Speaker 3: 26:31

When you're up against a struggle that shatters all your dreams and your hopes have been cruelly crushed by Satan's manifested schemes and you feel the urge within you to submit to earthly fears, don't let the faith you're standing in seem to disappear. Because the songwriter said praise the Lord. He can work through those who praise him. Praise the lord, for our god inhabits. Praise, praise the lord. I don't know really what it was, but what I do know is this when david went into song and praise dav, david went into a recovery mode and there was something that stirred up inside of his spirit and something that stirred up inside of his soul. And he said if I can get my song back, if I can get my praise back, if I can start worshiping right in the middle of Ziglag, god will come through, just like he's done it before. And may I say to you the same at Westside Don't fail him, don't turn in the towel, don't turn in the keys. He's never failed you yet and he's not going to now. Oh, you know the story. I don't need to take the time to move on through it, but I just feel God saying Someone is one Ziglag, praise and song. Away from a victory step, away from a victory step, oh, hallelujah, hallelujah this morning, lord.

Speaker 3: 28:22

I went to brother Gentry last night and I asked him a question. I said, brother Gentry, this is not a derogatory thing on anybody, but as a pastor, we all have what we feel is a pillar in the church. They are prayers when it comes to worship time. They're worshipers when it comes to praise in time. But not only do they do it in church, but there is a foundation in their house. They have a closet of prayer where they connect with God. And I didn't even know it would relate to the same conversation, but I had a conversation about West Side Holiness Church recently with God, and I didn't even know it would relate to the same conversation. But I had a conversation about West side holiness church recently with somebody it's probably been a few months ago and they began to talk about their grandmother and they began to talk about what a godly woman she was and they'd shared with me a story that she had had with them recently. And here's what they said Her words were.

Speaker 3: 29:17

It seems like, all I do From the time I get up To the time I go to bed Is just pray and worship, pray and sing, pray and give God the glory. And may I just walk right over to this side, if you, let me ask you to do this. Why don't you reach in your songbook rack and why don't you grab the red back hymnal? And would you just allow me for a moment to share with you what I asked her just before service. That was her favorite song. And she said, oh, she didn't have to guess, she didn't have to vary from. Well, I've got a lot of songs in there. Here's what she said. She said 223.

Speaker 3: 30:00

And me and her husband were talking and I said no song. She said, oh, yeah, 223. He said baby song and I'm like Psalms 223? I don't. She said no, the red hymnal, song 223. And may I just move over here and say would you mind me saying your song? She said it was the number 223. I had to grab a hymnal. I don't know it that well, but I know the song that is her favorite when the home gates swing open for me. Oh, would you let me sing it to you for a minute. Oh, that'll be such a happy day when the clouds have passed away from my trouble, from my sorrow, when those home gates swing open for me. Man, sister, karen, brother, bobby, keep singing your song. There's grandchildren that are still in the house of God. There are children that are still worshiping because you never left your song down. There are people sitting under the sound of my voice that God delivered out of a horrible lifestyle. Why? Because every single morning I have a feeling. She went back to page 223 and she said One of these days I may be out of here, but I'm not gone yet. So I got to keep singing my song and giving God the praise.

Speaker 3: 31:44

Where's brother Sammy? Is he in here today? Is he not here today? He skipped out on me. He knew. I pinned him down last night, asking him some questions. I said how old are you? How long ago did you get saved? You know what he said A long time man of many words, wasn't he? As I sat there at the table, the gentry, they began to tell me I guess some of the blocks on the church was laid by. I'm talking about a foundation that had a by. I'm talking about a foundation that had a song. I'm talking about a foundation. Oh, I'm bringing back some west side people. You know, some of you heard them sing. I can remember brother, brother Lloyd and sister Sherry. I can remember sister Grace Lawrence, my that pillar in my life.

Speaker 3: 32:37

Sister Grace Lawrence had been in the church all my life and when I turned 16 years old she lived by herself. When I turned 16 years old about then, they had to amputate one of her legs so she couldn't drive About, killed her and my responsibility and I mean this with all my heart, with joy and pride was to drive to Lola, kentucky, turn on Dittney Road and pick up Sister Grace Lawrence for church. I remember they had to take off the second leg and she just had a hard time with it. But may I say it this way, she never laid out of the house of God. She was there every service way. She never laid out of the house of god, she was there every service. Matter of fact, she got out from amputation on tuesday evening or wednesday morning. When picked her up from the hospital guess where she was wednesday night she said I hope this bandage don't bleed through, but if it does, god, god's still going to get the glory.

Speaker 3: 33:36

Oh, I feel like telling you her song today Sister Grace Lawrence. Dad would throw her a microphone. She'd say I don't even know if you can follow me on the piano, but she would take off singing the song. It says thank you, lord, for your blessings on me. Thank you, lord, for your blessings on me. Thank you, lord, woo. Then she go into the song. Now, this is old. Some of y'all are going to get on here with me. She said there's food on the table and shoes on my feet, and shoes on my feet. You gave me your love, lord, and a fine family. Thank you, lord, for your blessings on me. To the day she died, dad could hand her a microphone, any given dead service. You got it, and man, the spirit of God would come in that place. She never lost her song. I'm almost done right here, but I felt like talking to you.

Speaker 3: 34:57

His name he got saved in August, the 3rd of 1975. His name was Lyle Berg Sr. March, the 8th of 2017. He passed away. I'm reminded because so vividly. He's my father-in-law and I remember Brother Lloyd. I didn't understand it, I didn't comprehend it. He was a missionary to the Philippines for 13 years, pioneered a pastor to church in West Virginia for 25. And from the first time he went to that doctor's appointment, eight months and about three days later, he went and sung his final song. But I'm reminded so many times my mind comes back, and especially in preparation for today, my mind comes back to that day.

Speaker 3: 35:46

On March, the 8th of 2017, we walked into that house. My mother-in-law called that morning Brother Smith and she said I don't know that today may be the day Every day for eight months. We went to that house 1921, I believe it was US Highway 60 East and we'd walk through the door and as soon as he heard us come through the door, he'd say say, thank god, my pastor's here. He'd be laying in that hospital bed in that bedroom, first room to the left. And as we'd walk in, sometimes we'd hear god, you've been good to me all my life. My children are serving you. Lord, we walked in that day. Brother, gentry is a little Lord. We walked in that day, brother Gentry. It's a little different, but we walked in that day.

Speaker 3: 36:39

As we walked around that corner, I can remember it. There wasn't a lot of life left in that body and I walked up to that bed. We gathered around his bed, sister Sherry, and I said Dad, we're going to sing to you, I just want to sing a song. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I do remember that hand went up and he began, in his feeble way of movement in his mouth, to sing his last song and I felt like I come to Westside today to tell you. On this Saturday morning you may feel life is about over, and I'm not talking physically now, I'm talking spiritually. You may think the life is zapped out of you. You may think that you're on the rock bottom of your life. Don't stop singing. I come in.

Speaker 3: 37:40

On Thursday night we sat right here beside Brother Will's mom and as the choir began to sing Thursday night Brother Lloyd already mentioned I felt the anointing of God. But I leaned over and I said Sister Jordan, who's that lady singing right there in the choir? She said that's my sister. I seen such passion. If you come here, maybe it was just Thursday night, I don't know, but I'm telling you I seen such a passion in her song and such a desire to care less what it sounded like. Care less who was watching, care less who was around her. And here's what I want to say. She said you don't know what she's been through to why she sings that way. I don't know what you've been through and I don't know what you're going through and I don't know what battle you have been up against, but can I tell you that woman right over there still had a song. I don't, I just told her to sing what her favorite song was.

Speaker 2: 39:00

I never lost my faith.

Speaker 3: 39:04

I don't know what her story is.

Speaker 2: 39:06

I never lost my joy. I don't know what she's been through.

Speaker 3: 39:12

I don't know what her trials have been.

Speaker 2: 39:14

I never lost my praise.

Speaker 3: 39:17

But she said I haven't know what her trials have been. But she said I haven't lost my praise. I didn't research her favorite song. I didn't even ask her what it was.

Speaker 4: 39:28

But you know what I've seen all over her.

Speaker 3: 39:29

Standing right here on Thursday night she was saying I still got a praise, I still got a song, I still got worship. Life may have dealt me a bad blow, but I still got a song. Why don't you lift your hands? And in your place of worship, I don't care if you just begin to sing your song. Your song may be praised, your song may have words, but in this place, on a Saturday morning, let your song ring to him, amen.

Speaker 4: 40:06

Thank you for joining us today on Foundations of Truth. We hope today's message has strengthened your faith and helped you grow in understanding. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode, and share this podcast with others who seek the truth. Until next time, stay grounded in God's word and walk in his light. God bless you.

Speaker 2: 40:32

You took my place. You bore what I deserved. You poured out grace with those three words. You've brought me near. You've called my past redeemed. You've brought me life, with those three words.