Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated. Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers. Take your Bibles and turn, please, to Hebrews chapter 12, and this is the last message. on champions of faith.
And we come all the way through Hebrews. Chapter 11. Of those who ran the race. And now a challenge comes to us. Let me read to you Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 and 2.
Wherefore?
Now, the wherefore refers to everything that is already given us in chapter 11. and this wonderful Hall of Heroes, champions of the faith. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, Let us lay aside every weight. and the sin which doth so easily beset us. and let us run with patience.
The race That is set before us. I want you to watch a young man run here and see what lessons we can learn. As he comes up there on the screen, he's getting set. He's full of anticipation, every muscle is tense, and he starts. A good start has a lot to do with it.
Now he's running. He running with all of his might. And notice she has a lane to run in. And so he's straining now every muscle. every sinew, every corpuscle.
He's working toward the goal. He's breathing hard. Actually, right about now, he's beginning to hurt a little bit, but he's running and he will not slow down because the goal is before him. Look at his face. See the determination and there.
He finishes the goal. It's an interesting race. Nobody else on the track but him. He has his own race to run. And so do you.
What do you say, Pastor Rogers? I wish I were young like that young man, I would do some running. You may be 90, I'm talking to you. You may be in a wheelchair, I'm talking to you. You may be on a sick bed, I'm talking to you.
You may have disease, I'm talking to you. You may have palpitations and flutters, I'm talking to you. There's not a mother's child in this building that I'm not talking to about running the race.
Now, it is true. That sometimes physical things keep us from running as we ought. Former athletes look back on the olden days. I can remember. Playing football in high school and went to college on a football scholarship.
I thought, well, That's a good game to play. I don't play any football anymore. But I can remember that as a younger preacher, When we would have holidays, Maybe it would be Thanksgiving or maybe The 4th of July, or maybe it would be New Year's Day, Labor Day, or whatever, I would ask the young men in the church to meet me out at the football field. And we play touch football.
Now remember I was A much younger man and I Love to get the deacons out and knock them around. And love to get the youngsters out. and outrun them. And they said, look at the preacher. Look at the preacher.
Um Well, that was good for my ego. And a chance for me just to kind of show off. And I can remember like it was yesterday, we were playing touch football. And Larry Freshauer had the football. And I decided I would run him down and tag him.
But you know what? The closer I got to him, the further he was away. And the last time I saw him, he was clean out of sight. I realized that these legs were not what they used to be. And my mind was making contracts that my body could not fulfill.
Now that happens. That happens in life. But friend, in your spiritual life, You're to be forever an athlete. The Bible says, though our outward man perish. Our inward man is renewed day by day, and you can run for Jesus from a sickbed.
You can run for Jesus, and no matter what your physical or emotional condition is, if you will run.
Now, Whoever wrote Hebrews, and I believe it was Paul, lived in a world that was enamored with sports, very much like our day is enamored with sports. They had three great events that were comparable to Super Bowl: they had the Olympic Games. That began in Mount Olympus. They had the Isthmian Games. These were run at Corinth, and they had the Pythian Games.
were run at Greece and they were staged throughout the year.
So those people who were sports fanatics could go from one to the other. and to the other. Very much like our day. A man said to his wife, Now, before football season begins, is there anything you'd like to say to me? We love sports.
And Paul evidently loves sports. Because he talked about running, he talked about wrestling, he talked about boxing. He was aware of sports. And he uses the analogy here, or whoever wrote Hebrews, of the Christian life, and he says it is like running a race.
So look up here, and let me tell you folks. You're the one now on the field. The heroes of the past are gone. And now the Bible speaks to us. And he tells us that the heroes of the past are in the stadium, they're watching us.
Now we are encompassed about. With a great cloud of witnesses. There they are from the heavens peering down.
Now, there's some commentators who say, no, that's not what it means. It's not that they are witnessing us running. They are witnessing to us. I think it's both. They witness to us, but the Bible says we're compassed about with a great cloud of witnesses.
And so there they are. They're watching us. People ask: do people in heaven know what's going on here on earth? Why should they not? Why should they not?
They're made one with our Lord. He knows. As a matter of fact, when Dr. Sidloe Baxter was here, he said something that shocked me, but I thought about it and I think perhaps he's correct. He said, those in heaven are praying for us.
He said, We are made one with our Lord, and He's forever intercedes, and so He intercedes for us, the Heavenly Father. Why should not the saints up there in heaven, as they look down at us on the track running the race, cheer us on and move us on with their prayers?
So, you, you, you, you, you. And if I didn't point my finger at you, you. All of you are called to run a race. You are called to be a spiritual athlete, wherefore let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run.
So, let me tell you some things: how to be a champion and run like a champion, because this book of Hebrews is not written just to inform us as to what others did, but to encourage us to do what we ought to do, because he says, wherefore? Because they did what they did, now wherefore, Let's see what God wants us to do. All right, let me give you some points. You ready to jot them down? First of all, friend, there is a purpose.
Te per cell. There is a purpose to pursue. You're not just here to draw your breath, draw your salary, just endure. You are to be a spiritual athlete, and there is a race for you to run. Look in verse 1.
Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, there they are, rank upon rank in the stadium, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us Run.
Now, God has a race for you to run, and you never get over the race until you draw your last breath. There's no way for you to retire, there's no way for you to quit, there's no way for you to move aside.
Now we're not running to make it to heaven. Yeah. Salvation Is what puts you in the race. You have to get saved even to get at the starting block. You have to be born again to qualify for this race.
No man could run in the Olympic Games, that's what our writer is referring to, I believe, unless he was a citizen of that country. For which he ran. You have to be a citizen of heaven to get in this race. No one is excused. The Apostle Paul.
When he was late in life, he said this in Philippians chapter 3, verse 14: I press toward the mark. For the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. That is, I'm running for the tape and I'm pressing with every inch and every ounce of me. And then he said in Acts chapter 20, verse 20, for the that I might finish my course with joy. Paul said, I'm not going to stop running until the race is over.
Now, The young man that we watched was running against himself. trying to do his best. You know, we're not in a race with one another. We're in a pilgrimage. I'm not trying to outdo you and outrun you.
But I am in a race. I'm in a race today. Against sin. Against Satan. against self.
You know, it's kind of bad in the church where you have people trying to outdo somebody else. I'm not in competition with you. You don't need to be in competition with me. I heard about two men who were out hiking. And they looked behind them and there was a giant grizzly bear sniffing at the tracks.
One man sat down on a log, took off his hiking boots, and began to put on his running shoes. And his friend said, Well, why are you doing that? You cannot run this bear. He said, I'm not going to outrun the bear. I'm just going to outrun you.
We're not in that kind of a race. We're in this thing together.
Now, I'm not racing against you, and you're not racing against me, but God has put me in a race, and there is a purpose to my life. And God have mercy on you if you don't have a purpose for your life, just drawing your breath and drawing your salary. No, you are in the race, there is a purpose to pursue. Do you have a purpose for your life? Do you?
Number two. If there is a purpose to pursue, there is a person to prepare. And that person is you.
Now, no athlete can run a race who does not prepare to run that race. And so, how do we prepare?
Well, look again in verse 1. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, Let us lay aside every weight. and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Now he says, in order to run a race, first of all, you've got to lay aside every weight. These are the things that would slow us down.
Now you notice the young man that was running in the Film that you saw. One thing you noticed about him was that he had stripped down to be as light as he possibly could. His shoes or track shoes. His uniform Every unnecessary part. Just taken away.
Nobody runs a race. in an overcoat. At least I've never seen one hunter raised in an overcoat. Why? Because an overcoat Would weight you down?
Nobody wants to run with pockets full of lead.
Now, what he's saying is, there are certain things. That may not be wrong in themselves. But if they are weights, Get rid of them. I think that we have a lot of people in our congregation today who are living fairly good lives, but they are just dragging around a lot of excess baggage. They can't do what they ought to do for the Lord Jesus Christ because of the excess baggage.
It may be a hobby. It may be a vacation home. And if you have one, I'm happy for you. until it keeps you from running your race. It may be some friendship.
It may be some reading material. Not bad in itself. You just don't wear an overcoat when you're running a race. Listen to me, folks. Life would be simple if it were a choice between good and bad.
is a choice between good and best, and good things become bad things when they keep you from best things. Good things become bad things when they keep you from best things. Lay aside every weight. In my life. I've had to come up, snub up against some things that I really wanted to do.
things that I loved and would enjoy doing, but I said, nope. That's not for me.
Now, there's no law in the Bible that said I can't do it. That's what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, all things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. That's a word we don't use a whole lot, isn't it? Expedia. When you think of expedient, what do you think of?
What's another word like it? Expedition. If you're on an expedition, you're going somewhere. Paul says everything may be Lawful for me. But if it doesn't help me in my expedition, if it's not expedient, if it's an anchor that keeps me out of the harbor, then I've got to lay it aside.
Now I can't tell you what it may be. But is there something? That is hobbling your influence for Christ. Is there perhaps a job in the church that you could do? Or perhaps some witnessing that you could do, or something else, but there's something competing there.
And you're not running as well as you ought to run. You lay aside every weight, and then the sin. That does so easily beset us. And the word beset is a word which literally means in the Greek to entangle.
Now There's some things that weighed us down. And we need to get rid of them. There are other things that trip us up. Sin will trip you up. You lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us.
Most of us want more faith, right? May I tell you the most deadening thing to faith? It's sin. Faith and sin are antithetical. And you say, well, why don't I have more faith than I have?
Well, it's because you've got sin in your life. You say, Pastor, you ought not to talk to me that way.
Well, you come up after the service and apologize to me and I'll forgive you. Since the in your life. keeps you from believing God. That's the reason the same write of Hebrews said, Beware lest there be in any of you. An evil heart.
of unbelief. You say, well, I have intellectual problems. No, you've got dirty rotten sin. An evil heart of unbelief. You say, well, now, wait a minute.
I know some intellectuals who don't believe.
Well, I know some intellectuals who do. Say, well, I know some very plain and uneducated people who believe. I know some plain and uneducated people who don't. What we believe is not contrary to reason, it just goes beyond reason. Unbelief never comes out of the head, it comes out of the heart.
Beware lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief. The Holy Spirit has come to convince the world of sin because they believe not. Unbelief is not an intellectual problem. It may show as an intellectual problem. But down in the heart, It is sin.
And if you're going to run the race, and the race is the race of faith, you have to get rid of those things that weigh you down and get rid of those things that trip you up.
Now, I don't know what your sin is. People have a besetting sin.
Something they come back to and fail at over and over and over again.
Now I can't look at you. You all look holy this morning. You all just look so sanctified. But look into your heart. Is there a besetting sin?
Something that you wrestle with over and over and over again. And you wonder why You don't have the faith that you ought to have. Lay aside every weight. and the sin that doth so easily beset us. What I'm trying to say is this.
If you're having difficulty with faith, Try repentance. Did you know that God puts certain things in order in the Bible? For example, the Bible says, Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. Grace always comes before peace. It never says peace and grace, always grace and peace.
Again, here's another order: believe and be baptized. The Bible never says be baptized and believe. We don't baptize little babies, they can't believe. The Bible teaches believers' baptism, if thou believest with all thine heart.
Now, if you were immersed or sprinkled or something before you were saved, that doesn't count as baptism. That's like having a funeral before you die. God's order is believe and be baptized. You say, well, Pastor, what are you driving at?
Well, just as the Bible speaks of grace and peace, belief and baptism, it speaks of repentance and faith in that order. repentance and faith. If you're having difficulty, I say with faith, try repentance. There's nothing more debilitating, more stultifying to faith in your heart. As a harbored sin, sin that doth so easily beset us.
And so, if you're going to run a race, there's got to be some conditioning. There is a person to prepare. You lay aside the weights and you do away with that sin by confession and repentance that would trip you up and cause you to fail in your race. There is a person to prepare. Now, next thing I want you to see: there is a price to pay.
One thing you noticed about that young man. Was he restraining? He was breathing. I've done enough running, and so have some of you to know in a sprint like that, when you get to the finish line. Your lungs are like their own fire.
You say, if I can just reach that finish line, but you're taking that one more step. You pay a price to be an athlete.
Now look at it again here in Hebrews 12, 1. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us.
Now here's the price, and let us run with patience. The race that is set before us.
Now, the word patience here doesn't mean the ability to thread a needle. The word patience is a much heavier word than that. It means endurance. Endurance is a chief factor in running a race.
Now listen. I don't care how far ahead you may be in any race, if you quit running, you're going to lose. You're gonna lose. I don't care how far ahead you are. You're gonna lose if you quit running.
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Are you looking for a cheap way, an easy way, a lazy way to serve God? Forget it, you're not going to find it. We're called on to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. We're called on to run with patience, endurance, the race that is set before us.
If you possess it, it must possess you. You must weep over it, pray over it, work over it, concentrate on it. Nobody just ambles over the finish line. You set your heart, your mind, and you finish your course. 2 Timothy 4 verse 7, Paul said, I fought a good fight.
I have finished my course. I finished my course. He did not quit running. until the course was finished. John 19 verse 30, when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished.
And he bowed his head. and gave up the ghost. They endured.
So must you endure. One of these days we're going to Cross the finish line. You will have come to the end of the line. We don't know when that's going to be. It may be, you may be a team.
But you might be at the very end of your course. One of these days, however, I'm going to breathe my last breath. And I'm not going to stop running, God helping me, until I do. I don't want to stroll over the finish line. I want to hit the finish line with a blaze of Energy and power going for the Lord Jesus Christ.
You say, well, you'll be an old coot, it makes no difference. Makes no difference. though our outward man perish. Our inward man is renewed day by day. That's the reason you are to be an athlete, no matter what your physical condition is, no matter what your economic condition, you are in a race, and that race is not over until you bow your head like the Lord Jesus and say, it is finished.
It is done. There is a price. to pay. And next, There's a promise to plead. Because it may sound difficult to you today, and many of you are saying, Well, I don't think I'm able to do what the pastor is preaching about today.
Well, the Lord God who calls you is the Lord God who enables you. Notice verse 2. We're to be looking unto Jesus. the author and finisher of our faith. who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross.
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Now this This passage of scripture says that we are to be looking unto Jesus. Why? Because he is the author. and the finisher of our faith. He is the originator of our faith.
And he is the goal of our faith. You see, Our Lord has not just told us to go out and do our best. If the Lord Jesus Christ wants me to have faith, He is the author. That word means file leader, example, originator. He is the author of the faith.
Faith is not something that I can conjure up. I can't make myself believe. Jesus gives me faith. Jesus gives me faith. He is the author of my faith.
And he is the finisher of my faith. That is, he's the one to whom I am running. He is the goal. as well as the coach. as well as the one who fires the gun at the starting block.
From A to Z, he is the author, the finisher of our faith. Faith comes by looking to Jesus, looking unto Jesus.
Now it doesn't say looking at Jesus. There's a subtle thing here, but I want you to to notice a difference. Jesus is not merely our example, He is our example, but this is looking unto Jesus. It doesn't mean look at him. But look unto him.
Depend upon him. That's what this verse means when it says, looking unto Jesus. Jesus, I look to you. You're the one who's going to put faith in my heart. You're the one who's going to encourage me along the way.
You are the author and the finisher of our faith. That's the reason I frequently say that it's really not a big. compliment to call somebody a great man of faith.
Now I hope that you're a great man of faith and I hope you're a man of great faith or a woman of great faith. But if you are, that's wonderful, but you can't boast about it because... Jesus is the author and the finisher of your faith, isn't he? He's the one that you gain faith from by looking onto him. I often use this example.
People say, Pastor, Do you travel? Yes.
Some?
Well, does Joyce always go with you? Not always.
Well, when you are away from home, who keeps an eye on joys? Who watches her for you?
So, what do you mean?
Well, how do you know she doesn't have a boyfriend? How do you know that she's not going down to the casinos? or whatever while you're gone. I'm not worried about it. Not word?
Not word. Not at all? Not at all. Not even a little bit? None, not a none.
Don't worry about it. Oh, you say What great faith. I said, no. What a great wife. Amen.
What a great wife. So, if I have faith in God, I really shouldn't take a lot of credit for it, although I want faith. I don't say what a great believer I am, I say, what a great Savior I have, you see? looking on to Jesus. Who is the author and the finisher of our faith?
The God who calls us to run this race is the God who empowers us, and Jesus is the one if you will keep your eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ. And this word, looking unto, Is a Greek word, a technical word, that means looking away from everything else. Under Jesus. Don't let the devil sidetrack you. You remember the young man running?
His eye is on the goal. Anything that takes your eyes from Jesus is wrong for you and foolish if you're running a race.
Now, there is, therefore, friend, a promise to plead, but also. There is a prize. to possess. When you run a race, you run for the prize. Jesus was running a race.
And you see, Jesus is not only our example, but He is our empowerment. And notice here in chapter 12, verse 2: looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Who? Watch it. Who for the joy that was set before him?
endured the cross. Remember we're supposed to run with endurance? Jesus was Was running a race from that cross. And he bowed his head when he hit the finish line and said, It is finished. Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross.
despising the shame. And is set down at the right hand. of the throne of God. You know that Jesus was running the race because He saw you and He saw me today? This is the joy that was set before him.
To have those like us who believe in Him, who worship Him, who praise Him. And Jesus endured the cross and paid that price on bloody Calvary that we might be here today and enjoy what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, there's a crown For everyone who wins the race. And remember, we're not in competition with one another. It's a different kind of a race. Back in Bible times in the natural realm, when a man would win the race, his name was proclaimed, his family was honored, his country was called out. Friends would scatter his path with flowers.
He was presented with costly gifts. Hymns were written about him. His hometown was honored. Famous sculptors would do sculpturing of him. And his way was paved through life.
If he were to win the Olympic Games, you can see. why they strive so hard to win that kind of a game. But oh, how much more are we? When we see the Lord Jesus Christ. and receive The crown.
I was looking at these scriptures. The Apostle Paul said to those in Thessalonica, 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 19. For what is our hope? Or joy. our crown of rejoicing.
Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? You know what he's saying? Look. Paul says, one of these days I'm going to see Jesus face to face when He comes. At his coming, I'll see him.
Now, Paul didn't know he was going to die and go to heaven even before Jesus came, so he's anticipating Jesus coming. And he said, I want a crowd. And he said, what is my crown? You saints at Thessalonica. That I won to Christ.
You are my crown. You are my joy. May I ask you a personal question? Thank you. Have you ever led anybody to Jesus Christ?
When you meet Jesus face to face, Well, there be some people you say Lord Jesus, this is my crown. This is my joy. Will anybody take you by the hand and lead you to the throne and say, Lord Jesus, This is John, this is Susie, this is Mary. They're the one that introduced me. To you.
Must I go in empty-handed? Must I meet my Saviour so? Without one soul with which to greet him? Must I empty-handed go? You say, Pastor Rogers, I'm not trained.
We'll get trained. You say, well, I can't win an adult, then win a child. You say, well, I can't win somebody in my family than win somebody in somebody else's family. Folks, there is a crown. There is a prize to possess.
Now you say, well, what do you want with a crown, Adrian? I'll tell you what I want. I want a crime to lay at Jesus' feet. That's what I want. I want a crown to lay.
At Jesus' feet. I don't want to go prancing around heaven with a crown on my head. That's not it. I want a crown to lay. At Jesus' feet.
You know, the Apostle Paul said, I finished my course. He's writing from prison. A musty, dusty old prison. The Mamrotine Prison. In just a little while, they're going to cut off his head.
Perhaps outside. that prison, he can hear the executioner. sharpening. his lethal acts. And so Paul is right into young Timothy.
He says, the time of my departure is at hand. I'm ready to be offered. I fought a good fight. I've kept the faith. I have finished my course.
He sees the tape now. He knows he's coming to the end. They rattled the cell door. A Roman god said, Paul. Come, it's your time.
Paul says, All right, be right there just a moment. Thank you, Lord Jesus. They open the door and Out he goes. We don't have any photographs of Paul, but I just kind of imagine him as a. Kind of little stoop-shouldered, hollow-chested, ball-painted man with poor eyesight.
I mean, you consider what his body has been through. He's been stoned and left for dead. Has been beaten with rods. He's been whipped with a cat of nine tails. His body's been pickled in the Mediterranean.
He spent Many, many days in prison. He's been abused and scorned. He's fasted. He couldn't be a great physical specimen at this time. those knobby knees.
and the guard behind him. He's making his way down to the executioner's block. And The God says, are you? Is that you that I hear singing? Oh, he said, I didn't know you could hear me.
That's just a little song I learned that Jim Whitmire taught me. It will be worth it all. when we see Jesus. one glimpse of his dear face. All sorrow will erase So gladly run the race.
Till we see Jesus. Run the race, my precious friend, Ron. I don't know what happened. Exactly, but I think it happened this way. They said, Paul Neal, put your head on that block.
Now, Paul, do you have anything else to say before the axe falls? Yes, I'd like to say that Jesus Christ is Lord. The axe falls, the head topples in the basket. His blood runs down to the Tiber River. The next scene is heaven.
Paul is face to face with Jesus Christ. What did Paul say? I don't know what he said. I'll tell you what I think he could have said. Lord, I wasn't much, I wasn't big, I wasn't strong.
But Lord, I fought a good fight. I kept the faith. I have finished my course. And what did Jesus say?
Well, I don't know for certain because I wasn't there. I'll tell you what, I think he said something like this.
Well done, good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many. And there in the glory, Paul is singing eternal praises to God and glad that he ran the race and that he did not quit and that he finished his. course.
And that's what we all need to do. We need to finish our course with joy. Run the race that is set before us. We're not in competition with one another. I can't do what you can do.
You can't do what I can do, but there's one thing we can all do is look to Jesus. and be faithful. He is the author and the finisher of our faith. What a tragedy it would be. What folly it would be for us to study these champions of faith and then to go on living the same way that we live.
There is a race to run. There is a price to pay. There is a prize to possess.
And he said, well, Pastor Rogers. I don't like that kind of preaching because I just kind of want to coast on into heaven. on flowery beds of ease, I just want it to be all honey and no bees. I just want to have it easy. A friend.
One of these days You wish that you'd been faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not saved by works. But we're rewarded. according to our works. Don't you want to hear the Master say, well done?
Don't you want to hear Jesus say, God bless you, son. Here's a crown. The soul winner's crown. You bow your heads in prayer. Pastor Rogers, I'm not saved.
Or at least I'm not certain that I'm saved like some of these folks. I would like to be certain. I would like to know that I'm saved. If there's any way to have that assurance, I want it.
Well, friend, there is a way to have it. That is to trust Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. And the Bible says. An absolute promise. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
And then the Bible says. That whosoever We'll do that. will be saved. Whoever believes on him, whosoever.
Now it doesn't mean intellectual belief. It means trust. And you trust Jesus. Every sin is forgiven. Christ comes into your heart.
To give you joy, peace, power, purpose. and guidance. And then when you die, when Jesus comes again. He takes you home to heaven. Let me guide you in a prayer.
And help you to receive Christ. If you're not certain, let's get certain right now. Lord Jesus. I am a sinner and I am lost. And I need to be saved.
Jesus You died to save me. and shed your blood to pay for my sin. God raised you from the dead. And I believe That you are. The only Savior of the world.
And I trust you only. Right now. to save me. I don't ask Lord for some emotional feeling. I don't ask for some sign.
I just trust you right now. I stand on your word. Come into my heart. Forgive my sin. Save me, Jesus.
Friend, pray that from your heart. Save me. Save me, Lord Jesus. Did you ask him? Then pray this way.
Thank you for doing it. I believe you have. And I thank you for it.
Now give me the courage. to make it public. Help me never ever to be ashamed of you. Give me the courage now to make it public. In your name I pray.
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