Or Isaiah 40 verse 18, listen to this. The Bible says to whom will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare unto Him? I want to put this one on that little word there, compare. The word compare, it means to set together with respect to likeness or unlikeness. It means agreement or disagreement. This word is found two times in the Old Testament and two times in the New Testament. And the word comparing is found two times in the New Testament. Paul said, you know, comparing spiritual with spiritual. Now, by way of introduction, let me say this. All the time on the radio and television, somebody's always telling you to compare one thing with another. This brand here is better, it lasts longer, it looks better, it endures more, and lots of everybody have tried these products because they've told you to try them to see what they do. I've tried several things, compared them with other things. Sometime while back here there's somebody trying to sell a car. And, uh, this car, they was comparing it with Toyota. Telling how much greater, and how much endurance, and how long it would outlast the Toyota. You know, it was a comparison. Okay? Now, what I'm trying to show you this morning is very few people have ever compared anything spiritual. Now, there's three things that I wanted to show you this morning to compare. And what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to maybe get somebody's attention and get you to compare some things that you need to see the difference in. All right? And number one, I think the first thing you ought to compare is the book with all the books. When I mean the book, I mean the Bible. Okay? All the billions of books that's ever been written There is none like the book. Now look at the text I read in Isaiah 40, 18. It says, To whom then were you like in God? Or what likeness would you compare to him? That was, he's saying what would you compare with God? What would you pick to compare with God? Well, there's nothing you could compete to compare with God. There's nothing nobody you could compete to compare with God. So if that be true, then you can't compare anything that God ever said with anything anybody else ever said. And that's what I'm trying to show you. You can't compare no book with the book that God wrote. Amen? Or you can't compare anybody or anything anybody ever said or did with God. That's what the text is talking about. If you read the next verse, you read a little bit further on down there, verse 21, the Bible says, Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Had it not been told you from the beginning, had you not understood from the foundation of the world, from Genesis, you see? Now, there's always somebody trying to imitate God. I mean, the devil's got a lot of crowd trying to imitate God. The devil's got a lot of books trying to imitate the book of God. But if you compare You'll realize that there's only one book of God, and that is the Word of God. What book has ever affected the world like the Word of God? I mean, this book will give you a new birth. The Bible says in 1 Peter 1, 23, being born again. not of corruption, but of incorruption, by the word of God, which liveth and abides forever." This book, the Bible, will put you in fellowship with God. Amen? Won't no other book put you in fellowship with God. This book will tell you the way to God. This book will tell you where life comes from. You know, all this stuff today, the world believes in science. You know, they think science is the greatest god of this universe, you know? Let me tell you, anything that science ever found out is right, they just caught up with the Bible. They just line up with the Bible. They talk about, you know, back to the Bible. That's a crazy term, back to the Bible. Listen folks, it ain't back to the Bible. What it should be, let's try to get forward and catch up with the Bible. Just like the Bible back here, we've got way ahead of us, not able to get back to the Bible. No, you don't need to get back to the Bible, you need to catch up with the Bible. Amen? I mean, the Bible is way ahead of anything anybody knows today, or anything anybody has ever done. Amen? Now, let me give you an illustration. Science is trying to produce life in a test tube. Have you heard about that? You know, they're trying to produce life now in a laboratory and test tube. But let me tell you something. If they did, they'd still be 6,000 years behind the Bible. You know God's got five ways he brought life? Huh? Now you tell somebody that. Let me tell you something. Back in Genesis, in Genesis 2-7, God brought life from a mud pile. And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, bringing to his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Unless you got an NIV, that Catholic devil Bible, and it says man became a living being. Now let me ask you something, folks. Do you know there isn't a living soul and a living being? Huh? You know what that is? That's an attack on the creative image of man in God. The Bible said that God created man in his own image. Amen? Man is a trinity. Body, soul, and spirit. At least he was in the origin of creation. God is a trinity. It don't say a being. You see what I'm trying to show you? I'm trying to compare the book that God said with anything anybody else ever said. Okay? Let me tell you something. They say the new international version, we call it NIV. You know the only thing new people need? They need a new birth. Amen? It says man became a living being. You see? And I'll tell you something else it does. In Genesis 3 verse 4, when that Devil told Eve, he said, God knows the day you take that fruit, you'll be as gods. G-O-D-S. Those gods he was referring to was those angels that was here on this earth. And the devil said, the N-I-V says, you shall be as gods. See? Now, folk, you tell me something. How in the world can anybody with good sense believe that something like the NIV or some of these other apostate Catholic corruptions could compare with what God said? Let me tell you something. You know the only defense you have against the devil? Now, listen to me. You listen to me real close. I'm gonna say something here a lot of folks ain't gonna like. In Matthew chapter 4, when the devil came to Jesus, Jesus said, as it is written, as it is written, as it is written, and the end of the verse, you know what it says? It said the devil left, he fled. You know a lot of folks, while the devil gets the victory in your life, while the devil overpowers you and takes control of your life, you don't know enough of the Bible to take care of him. Amen? The only defense you have against the devil is the Word of God. You can't compare nothing with this book. Nothing. Amen? Now, I was telling you how God gives life. Another way God gives life is He took a man and made a woman. He made man in the dirt. He took a man and made a woman. Then He took the man and the woman and made life through them. That's three ways. And then, later on, He took a woman and made a man. Without a man. The virgin birth of Jesus Christ. That's four ways. Then there's another way God gives life. See? God gives eternal life to any sinner that'll trust Jesus Christ as their Savior. In John 1.12, the Bible says, But to them that received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, which were born not of blood, nor the will of man, but of God." So there's five ways God gives life, and science is trying to develop life in a test tube. There's 6,000 years behind the Bible right now. Amen? No book on science, no book on philosophy, nothing anybody has ever said will compare with the book of God. Amen? It's the only eternal book. Look here. Let me read you a verse. Back up there in verse 8. Isaiah 40, verse 8. The Bible said, The grass withereth, the flowers fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse 35, He said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. The Word of God, the Book of God is the only eternal book. The Book of God is the only truth. The Book of God is the only righteous book. It's the only book you can go by and be righteous and know that it's right. Amen. It's the only honest book. You'll never find this book will mislead you or misguide you or lie to you. It's the only perfect book. It has to be perfect because it came from a perfect God. Mm-hmm. And I'll tell you something else about this book. Listen to me. This book is the only book that most people hate. Huh? It's the only book that'll save you and keep you out of hell. Now what I'm trying to show you by way of comparison, I want you to compare the book of God with any other book. Any other book. And there is no comparison. There's no comparison. You can put them side by side. Like I said, you can take all the billions of books this world possesses that have been written and put them aside this book and you couldn't compare them. God said, to whom then will you liken God or what likeness will you compare unto Him? You can't compare nothing with God and you can't compare nothing with God's book. Now something else I want to get your attention about comparing. I want you to compare religion salvation. Now let me give you what religion is. I looked up religion and there's several men have several different dictionaries but I summed it all down to this. Religion is a system of faith and worship that's performed by doing something. Now first of all I want to say a few things about religion. Number one is everybody has a religion. Now a day you talk about religion, most folks they think, well you go to church. Church don't necessarily mean a religion. Communist is a religion. This karate mess is a religion. The Shriners is a religion. And by the way, no Christian belongs to the Shriners. You may be religious and belong to the masons and the shriners, but no Christian belongs to the masons or the shriners. Okay? Now, everybody is religious, but everybody don't have salvation. You see, I want you to compare. Amen? Now, let me give you a few comparisons. Number one, religion is an outward act. All religion is performed by something from the outside. Salvation is an inward creation that God performs that no religion can do. Amen? Salvation will take you to heaven. Religion will send you to hell. The purpose of religion is to turn you away from God. Salvation will turn you to God. Amen? This world this morning is deceived by the system of religion because religion is a worldly system. Amen? Salvation will turn you away from the world. Amen? Anybody's religion without salvation, listen to me, anybody's religion without salvation, they're a hypocrite. You hear what I said? Now you say, I wouldn't say that. Well, let me show you something. Take your Bible and turn to Matthew 23 just for a minute. Matthew chapter 23. You know what a hypocrite is? Huh? Let me tell you. A hypocrite is a pretender. You ever go to the movies? You know what you're seeing? You're seeing a bunch of hypocrites. See? You know, the fastest gun alive, that's a hypocrite. He's the fastest gun alive. He's just acting like he is. The greatest man in town can whoop anybody. That's a lie. Pardon anybody. He's a hypocrite. He's pretending something he's not. That's why I like football. They ain't pretending. Boy, they ain't pretending. They mean business. They ain't pretending. It's got to be like I can't stand to watch a movie because I say I'm looking at a bunch of hypocrites. I got to, I can't enjoy a good movie because I'm saying I'm watching a bunch of hypocrites that ain't what they profess to be. That's bad, you know, in one way. See? Now, look at Matthew 23. In Matthew 23, seven times, Jesus called this bunch of religious folks hypocrites. I'll show you. In Matthew 23, verse 13, He said, But what unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites? Look at verse 15. You Pharisees, hypocrites. Amen? Then you read over here in verse 23. Warren, to you scribes are Pharisees hypocrites. Verse 25. Warren, to you scribes are Pharisees hypocrites. Verse 27. Warren, to you scribes are Pharisees hypocrites. Verse 29. Warren, to you scribes are Pharisees hypocrites. See? Jesus called them hypocrites, and a hypocrite is a pretender. They're pretending to be something they're not. You see? Now look here. You just read some things they pretend. Look at verse 14. See, they're not saved. That's religion. See? Religion don't get you saved. This crowd was against Jesus. They weren't for him. And I'll tell you something else about religion. Religions have false doctrines. There's three here. There's three false doctrines in this crowd here. I'll show them to you. Look at Matthew 23. Look at verse 9. Verse 9. And call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your father which is in heaven. The first false doctrine. Don't call nobody your father. Amen? You know, they have a move and they say, uh, Father Brown. That makes me want to puke. You know, some guy get him acting like he's father. They had one down here in town that's Catholic. Everybody called him Father Bill. Father Bill. Pig puke. He ain't my father. I wouldn't call him father. I call him holy roly, call him a hypocrite, call him a pope, call him anything, but don't call him father, amen? The second false doctrine is this, long prayer for your money, verse 14, and by the way, Matthew 23, 14 is took out of most of these Bibles, you know why? Because they're Catholic Bibles, and the Catholic can't stand it, because that's one of the doctrines of their church. And then look at the next one in verse 15, Matthew 23 verse 15. See? Religion is to proselyte people to go to hell. Salvation is to win people to Jesus Christ so they can go to heaven. Amen? Let me tell you something, folks. Listen to me. Religion is the most worst, uh, uh, destructible, damnable, ungodly system this world has. You see? And all religions are lies. All religions lie. Now, let's compare religion. What is salvation? What is salvation? First of all, I want to say this. God wants to save everybody. Amen? So God calls all men to come to Calvary and accept Jesus Christ His Son and be saved. And let me tell you something, if you come to Calvary and trust Jesus Christ as your Savior, you're going to have to deny your religion. Amen? Paul said after he was saved, he said his religion was nothing but dung. Amen? Now, what is salvation? Salvation is a new creature in Christ Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 5, 17, the Bible says, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Amen? He's a new creature. I mean, do you know this morning when God made you a new creature? Your religion didn't make you a new creature in Christ. And let me tell you something else. Salvation It is a work of the Holy Ghost. It's not a work of a religion. Now listen to me. Have you ever compared religion with salvation? Amen? Let me tell you something. Salvation is far superior to any religion. I'm going to say one more thing about this. Religion will do nothing about your sin. Salvation will justify you from your sin. Have you ever compared religion and salvation? A lot of folks need to compare that. Amen? And then the next thing I want to show you to compare this morning is compare a church member with a Christian. Amen? Now, A lot of church members, I say a lot, some, not the majority, but some church people, church members, they're saved. I didn't say compare a church member with a saver, I said compare a church member with a Christian. See? You can be saved and not be a Christian. See? You can be saved by trusting Jesus Christ as your Savior, but you have to... Let me explain it this way. Salvation is when God gives you life, because you're dead and trespassing, and God imparts to you life. Being a Christian is when you give that life back to God. Amen? Now, you become a church member, by submitting to the church. Amen? And let me tell you something, folks. You can't be a Bible rebel and be a Christian. Apart from the Bible, there are no Christians. Amen? You got saved when God gave you life. You become a Christian when you learn how to live that life in the light of God's Bible. No Christian, no Christian has any Bible but a King James Bible. You may be a church member, you may be a good church member, you may be likable, you may be a fine man or woman. I wouldn't deny that would you at all, but if you throw away your King James Bible, let me tell you something, you are not a Christian. You may be a church member, but you're not a Christian. There's a difference. Amen? Now as a church member, you can be dedicated to your church. I told you last week here, most folks, they measure a Christian by the time he spends in his church, in his local building. Amen. Well, you know that he's always at church. You know, he's at church Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night and visitation and he cuts the grass and he does the janitor work. He is a fine Christian. You can do all that and not even be close to a Christian. I'm trying to show you a comparison. See? You know, Jesus spoke a lot of time of comparing. He said, you see, that was like this. Jesus said that a lost woman's like a pig. He said a lost man's like a dog. Now, if you want to compare what a lost woman's like, watch a hog. You got a comparison. See? Now see, people will compare everything they're told, but it comes to the Bible and spiritual things, they won't compare nothing. Let me give you a little history. Some years ago, long, a lot of years ago, I got saved in a Southern Baptist Church. And, uh, I was a good member. I was a good Southern Baptist Church member. I was. A real, a real good one. I mean, I shined out more than a lot of them. But I've done some comparison with the Independent Baptists and compared what they knew that I didn't know and what they had that I didn't have. Let me tell you something, I changed sides. See? Now this morning, if people would sit down and compare the book with other books and compare religion with salvation and compare just being a church member with a babbling Christian, I'm sure a lot of folks, if they're real, would make some adjustments. Most folks won't stop and come back, they won't do it. They won't do it. I was asked some years ago, I was pretty young at one time, and right when the boys started growing mop heads, I was asked more than one time, why don't you let your hair grow out? One time, one boy, we seemed to get along pretty good. He was a likable boy. He asked me, I said, you know, Jerry, there's only one thing. You need to let your hair grow out. I said, not on your life. He said, why? I said, I don't believe in that mophead stuff. I said, I'm going to say he bleeds the Bible. It's against the Bible. Oh, well, I didn't know that. I said, yeah. See? Now, listen. You may be dedicated to your church, but a Christian is dedicated to God, to serve God, and to stand for God. You can't stand for God, and you can't serve God while you reject the Bible. You know what I'm saying? And I'll tell you something else. When God saves you, God wants you to be a Christian. You know what God wants you to do? God wants you to have fellowship with Jesus Christ. You know that? Let me show it to you. It's in the Bible. 1 Corinthians. Read over that to me. 1 Corinthians. Chapter 1. I think I'll quote the verse, but I'm going to turn to it because I might not. But it's in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 9. Uh, what did I say in verse 8? 1 Corinthians 1, verse 8. Listen to this. Now listen. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 8, "...who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful by whom you are called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." See? Which means that if you're in fellowship with Jesus Christ, and I'm going to say, if you're not in fellowship with Jesus Christ, You may be a good church member, but you're not a Christian. Amen? The word Christian comes from Christ. And the word Christian, the first time it's found in the New Testament is in Acts 11, 26. And it was called, they were called Christians first in Antioch because two years, Paul and Barnabas stayed down there and taught them the Word of God. And because of their belief and their response to the Word of God, people said, you acting like little Christies. That's what they said. That's where the word come from. They were acting like Christ. You know? They weren't like other people. Christians don't fit in the world. Amen? Now let me say this. As I said, if you're in fellowship with Jesus Christ, Amen? You stand against sin. You know what sin is, and you don't agree with it, and you don't accept it, and you don't enjoy it, and you don't tolerate it. Be careful these people that go to church can get along anywhere, under any conditions, with anybody. Amen? I mean, if you instead, with that kind of a crowd, I said, you may be an outstanding church member, but you no Christians. See? Now, we come to a place where a lot of church members, and I say a lot, probably most of them, they call themselves Christians, and don't know what a Christian is. You just go to probably any church in this town this morning, and ask anybody sitting on the pews, what is a Christian, they couldn't tell you. And yet, they call themselves one. And some of you call yourself some kind of professional name, and I say, what is that? Before you told me you was a lawyer, I said, what is a lawyer? You said, well, I don't know, but I'm one. That's what they do. They say, I'm a Christian, but I don't know what one is, but I'm one. Huh? Now listen, folks, you can be a good church member, and a lot of folks are. You might live clean, moral, be likable, enjoyable, but if you fit in this world and you agree with the world, and you've got comfort in this world, you're not a Christian. No Christian in the light of the Bible, in fellowship with Jesus Christ, will fit in or accept this world. I mean this world system. Now I know we're in the world, we have a certain place we have to be and eat, and I know all that, but I'm talking about your practical lifestyle. If you fit in the world and you just can go along with anybody on anything, you may be a church member, And you may be a good one, but you're not a Christian. Amen? Now, I'm going to tell you the first step in becoming a Christian. The first step. The first thing you've got to believe, and know, and be sure of, and be confident, and stand on it. The first thing to become a Christian is this. You've got to know and believe this world is not my home. This ain't my home. Now, when you're away from home, you act different, don't you? We just come back off two weeks vacation. We visited several folks up in Tennessee and North Florida and up in that area. And we went to a lot of folks' house, but we didn't get comfortable nowhere. We never went to nobody's house and got really comfortable, because we weren't home. See? Now you realize that this world is not your home. You ain't gonna get too comfortable here. Amen? A lot of church folks have got comfortable, but not a Christian. I'm trying to show you a comparison here this morning. Amen? If you're a Christian in this world, you're a misfit. You're out of place. Amen? They don't like you. I guarantee you a Christian in this world don't care much for you. You're in their way. Listen. Listen, folks. You can't set your affections on things above and not on things of the earth and get comfortable in this world. Amen? And Colossians 3.1, you know what it says? It says, set your affections on things above and not on things of the earth. You know why you ought to set your affections on things above? That's where you're going. That's where everything you got is. That's where you're going. That's what you're looking for. That's what you're waiting for. That's what you're hoping for. Amen? A lot of church members can fit in this world, get along in this world, enjoy the things of the world. But a Christian has better things in mind. A lot of times I compare what the Bible says about heaven and what I see in this world. I find no comparison. I see where one man went to heaven one time, Paul the Apostle went there. When he come back, you know what he said? He said, I want to go back. He's seen the difference. You know, a lot of folks don't see the difference in nothing anymore. They think, well, you know, we're all good folks and God loves us all. We just have different religions, we're different church, you know. We're all the same. Let me tell you something, folks. We ain't the same. There's no comparison in a church member and a real Christian. There's no comparison. Amen. When trouble comes, you know what a Christian does? A Christian prays and trusts God. You know what a church member does? He turns to the world to try to find the answer. Amen? Let me tell you something, folks. Being a Christian is learning to trust God. Let God have it. Remember there, I think it's Peter said when Christ was that persecuted Christ the Bible said he committed himself to God now if things get rough in your life and you can't see no way out don't try to figure it out and don't try to work it out just say God I belong to you and you'll have to take care of it and trust God that's what a Christian does and if you ever do that you realize the only hope you got Because there's problems in this world, there's things in this world that happen and are going to happen that you can't figure out and work out and you can't get out of without God. That's why I said to him, I don't see how people live without God. I don't see how people face the trouble of this world and the problems of this world without God and not blow their brains out. No wonder these teenagers are killing themselves. I was up in Jacksonville just the other day, and a man I used to go to church with some years ago, probably 25 or 30 years ago, he was a likable fellow, real likable, and just the other day I heard he blew his brains out. He blew his brains out. Another fellow I used to go to church with, he was a deacon. He used to fight us everything we tried to do. He's a drunk now, he's an alcoholic. See? But he was a good church member, I remember that. See what I'm trying to show you? Listen folks, the only hope that you've got for anything if you're a Bible-believing Christian is turn to God. Just trust God with everything. I mean with your life, your home, your wife, your husband, your children, everything. I mean did you ever compare a church member, and there's millions of them, there's millions of them, they're all over. with a real Christian that lives day-to-day just believing God, trusting God, waiting on God, looking for God, and longing for God. There ain't no comparison. There ain't no comparison. Amen? Now let me tell you something. Church members, and I'm talking about just people that go to attend church, have destroyed the reality of a Bible-believing Christian. And most folks today You know, they think, well, you know, you go to church, so you must be a Christian. And they go to church, so they must be a Christian. One of the things that agitates me a lot in this town here is, or I say it shouldn't, but it does, and they'll say, well, here's two preachers. Now, I don't classify myself in the class of no preacher in this town. I don't say I'm better. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying this. I'm not on their level. I didn't say I was better. Don't you misunderstand me. I didn't say I was better. I'm not in their class. I believe the Bible, and I try to walk with God. And a lot of folks may not like me, but I'm not in their class. Most of the people in this town can fit in this world. They fit in all the activity going on here. I don't. I'm not a part of none of it. I don't fit in. If I do more than speak, most of the time I get somebody upset. I do. The judge, he's a good friend of mine, but a lot of the time I get him upset. If we ever get in discussion of the Bible, he's going to get upset with me. I'm going to get upset with him because me and him don't sit in the same ranks. No church member will ever see the Bible in the light of a Christian. Amen? I want you to think about comparing three things. Number one, compare the book. I'm talking about the book. When I say God's book, I mean the authorized version of 1611 King James Bible. Compare that with any of the other Bibles. Compare with any book anybody's ever wrote. Compare with any scholar. Compare with anything else, and there is no comparison. Compare religion. Somebody that's just religious. That's dedicated to their religion. Compare with somebody that has salvation. Somebody that's saved. Let me tell you something, folks, that's why I believe most church members are not saved. If they were saved, they'd get out of that religion. Everybody I ever knew or heard of, when they got saved, dumped the old religion. I mean, before I got saved, I went to church. Before I got saved, I was religious. Amen? The greatest Christian ever lived. Before he got saved, was one of the most religious men in the Bible. But when he got saved, he said, my religion, I can't help but do to know Christ. And compare a church member. Somebody has come down and joined the church, signed the card, got baptized, took the right hand of fellowship and is a full-pledged, tithed and voting member compared with a Bible-believing Christian that walks in the light of God's Bible in fellowship with Jesus Christ on a daily basis compared. There's no comparison. There's no comparison. God says who? To whom will you liken God? Well, if you can't liking God to nothing or nobody. If you can't say this is like God, or that's like God, or this person's like God, if you can't do that, then you can't compare what God said, or the work of God in anybody's life, and a Christian not a thing in the world, but God working in somebody's life. That's all it is. Listen folks, I look at you and you look at me and we're no different. We're a flesh, that the worms gonna have Sunday dinner off of one day. There sure ain't nothing great about us, that's for sure. But it is if God takes us and uses us and does something with us. And God can't do that until you accept His Bible and walk in the light of His Bible. You can be a churchman but not do that. But the Bible says, to whom will you liken God? Is there anything that you'd put beside God and compare and say, this is like God? I don't think so. And the Bible says, or what likeness will you compare to Him? Is there anything that you can take and put it beside and say, this is like God? Is there any book that some man wrote, some scholar wrote, put it beside what God said and say, this is like God's book? I don't think so. I know so. I got in a debate just the other week with a man who tried to tell me he liked the NIV. the man's deceived. I'll preach you a message the other way about people being deceived about the Bible. A lot of folks are deceived this morning. And they're deceived a lot of times because they won't do a little simple comparison of something I tried to show you this morning. I mean, if some new item comes out, everybody wants to try it out. Compare it with this, compare it with that. But when it comes to spiritual things, nobody wants to compare the book of God with any book. Or religion with salvation. or a church member with a Bible-believing Christian. And in a sense, there's no comparison. There's no comparison between the two. I see the light of that city so bright My home, sweet home. We're nearing joy. We're nearing the shore, trouble soon will be over, we'll suffer no more. That we're nearing the shore No more to cry Up in the sky No more heartaches No more goodbyes Joy everlasting For you and for me To be nearing the shore We'll see the lighthouse, Jesus divine Who will say welcome, dear children of mine Come in and rest, this land will pay Yes, it's joy to know that we're nearing the shore. Yes, we're nearing the shore. We're nearing the shore. We are nearing the shore. We're nearing the shore. Yes, we're nearing the shore. Trouble soon will be over. We will suffer no more. That we're nearing the shore T'was alone in the garden, garden, Jesus went to pray Talking with the dear Father, Father, meek and lowly that day Let thy will be done, Father, Father, this they heard Him say Alone, out in the garden Jesus went to pray alone. And for our sins He did atone. He prayed. He prayed, O Father, Thy will be done. Terry, he would watch with me, were the words he said. Though I'm burdened with sorrow, so he bowed his head, in with Peter and others, in his agony, he prayed, Father, O let me. Come now, pass from me alone. And for our sins He did atone. He prayed, He prayed, O Father, I will be done. Soon they crucified Jesus on the rugged cross Claiming all he had done was yet one absolutely unlawful But an angel from heaven came down from the lofty throne He has paid the cost alone. And for our sins He did atone. He prayed, O God, will He turn Thy will?