Just try to fellowship with one another. Try to share Christ with one another. You have Christ in you; I have Christ in me. Let us hear Him, because the more we hear Him, the more we know Him, and the richer we find He is among us.
Usually, at a conference, people are looking for some sermons, some messages. God willing, you will have a little of that, but that is the minor part. The major part is that we want every one of you to share Christ with one another.
So you are not here just to sit and listen. You are here to work. And that kind of work is easy, because you just share what Christ is to you.
Probably you will notice—I do not know whether I am correct—that the brothers are trying to put you in different rooms. I noticed that people from one place always sit together. That is natural, because you find a kind of security there.
But I hope that from now on, do not sit with those whom you came with. Sit with somebody else every time, so that you may know one another and then share Christ with one another.
The same thing holds true not only when we come here and sit. When we go to the dining hall and eat, or when we have free time for sharing, seek out someone you do not know.
Naturally, perhaps some are a little timid. But let us try. Let us try to get over this barrier and learn to share Christ with one another. That is the real purpose of this gathering together, because we believe that, in sharing together, you will discover how rich our Lord Jesus is.
Our heavenly Father, how we praise and thank Thee for gathering us together here. We believe that we have not come by ourselves just because we wanted to come. We believe that Thou hast an appointment with us. We are here because Thou hast drawn us together.
So, Lord, we ask Thee from the very beginning to open our eyes, that we may see why Thou dost want us to be here. We desire to know Thee in a way that perhaps we have never known Thee before.
O Lord, we desire to give ourselves to Thee. Tell us how. We pray that Thy Holy Spirit will touch every heart. May Thy Word become living and challenging.
We ask Thee that we may hear Thy calling to ourselves, and gladly give ourselves to Thee. We commit this time into Thy hands. Thou knowest the weariness of the journey.
We pray that Thou wilt quicken our mortal bodies, quicken our understanding, and strengthen our inner man, that we may be able to receive that which is far above what we are able to ask. We desire to give Thee all the praise and glory, in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
I will probably touch upon a number of Scriptures, but to start with, I will read one passage: Matthew 4:18-22.
And walking by the sea of Galilee, He saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.
And He saith unto them, Come ye after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.
And they straightway left the nets, and followed Him.
And going on from thence He saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.
And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
Our Lord Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee. He took this walk not without aim. He took this walk purposely.
As He walked by the sea, He saw two brothers, Peter and Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea because they were fishermen. The Lord said, “Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” The Bible says they immediately left their nets and followed the Lord.
He went forward a little distance and saw another two brothers, the two sons of Zebedee, James and John. They were in their father’s ship, mending the nets. The Lord called them: “Come after Me. I will make you fishers of men.” They left the nets, the ship, and their father, and immediately followed the Lord.
If you read on in Matthew, you find in Matthew 8 that a great crowd gathered around the Lord. But the Lord commanded them to depart to the other side of the sea.
Think of that. A great crowd gathered together, and you would think, certainly, the Lord will stay with them. How often we try to get a crowd! But when a great crowd gathered around the Lord, He commanded them to depart to the other side of the sea. He did not want the crowd.
A scribe came to the Lord and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You may go.” A scribe was a scholar. Among the Jewish people, there was a class called scribes, whose work was to copy the Bible. At that time there was no printing press, so everything had to be copied.
They not only copied the Bible, but studied it. They were real scholars of the Bible. So when the Lord commanded them to depart to the other side, a scribe came and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You may go.”
To have a scholar offer to follow the Lord Jesus—what an honor! The Lord Jesus had never been to a school of rabbis. He had never been trained theologically. Yet here was an expert, well trained, who came to Him and said, “I want to follow You. Wherever You go, I want to follow You. You are my Teacher.”
Yet the Lord Jesus answered him:
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head.
“You call Me Teacher. You want to follow Me wherever I go. Do you know where I am going? Do you know what kind of life I live? The foxes have holes, and the birds have roosting places, but I do not have a place even to lay My head. You want Me to teach you, but can you live the way that I live? Are you ready to go wherever I go?”
That frightened the scribe away. But another of His disciples came to Him and said, “Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.”
The Lord turned to one of His disciples and said, “Come.” And he said, “Lord, I am coming, but I have some duty to fulfill. I have to go home to bury my father.”
It was not because his father had died and was waiting to be buried at that moment. As a matter of fact, his father was not dead yet. But he was saying, “I have a family duty to fulfill. My father is old, so I have to take care of him until he dies and I bury him. Then I will come and follow You.”
Very reasonable. Of course, the Lord wants us to honor our father and mother. That is the first commandment with a promise. Of the Ten Commandments, only one commandment has a promise: “Honor thy father and thy mother,” and you shall live long on the earth.
Yet the Lord said, “Let the dead bury the dead. Come and follow Me.”
How can the dead bury the dead? The first “dead” refers to those who are spiritually dead; the second refers to those who are physically dead. Let the spiritually dead take care of the physically dead. You come and follow Me.
In other words, there is an urgency there. There is a priority there. The first priority is to follow the Lord.
If you read Luke 9, you find something added. Another disciple said, after hearing what the Lord said, “Lord, I am coming. I am following You, but let me go home and say goodbye to my family first.”
Well, that is reasonable. He did not know when he would return home. Surely he should say goodbye and then come. Yet the Lord told him:
No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
The first disciple said that there was a duty to be fulfilled before he could follow the Lord, and the Lord said, “Where is the first priority?” The second one did not even have a duty to fulfill. It was simply a sentimental thing, an emotional attachment. Yet the Lord says that he whose hand is on the plow and looks back cannot be His disciple.
You find Matthew again. The Lord was passing by, and He saw a man, a tax collector, sitting there collecting taxes. His name was Matthew. The Lord said, “Follow Me.” Matthew got up, left his customs office, and followed the Lord.
In Luke 14, you find again a great crowd gathering around the Lord. When the Lord saw this great crowd gathering around Him, He said something very hard to them.
If any man cometh unto Me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.
So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.
Is that not very hard?
When the Lord was on earth, He called people to be His disciples. But He did not deceive them in any way. He made it very clear to them, as He called them, what kind of a life it was and what it meant to be a disciple.
He was not just trying to get a crowd. He was after disciples.
What is the Lord doing today? The Lord is now in heaven, but by His Spirit He is still doing His work on earth. Is He any different from what He was two thousand years ago? When He walked on the earth, He called people to be His disciples.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Lord is calling people to be His disciples today.
We often talk about the Great Commission. Before the Lord ascended into heaven, His disciples gathered around Him. In Matthew 28, the Lord said:
All authority hath been given unto Me in heaven and on earth.
Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Of course, we go into the world and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ so that people may believe in Him and receive Him as their Savior. That is true. But the Great Commission goes further than that. The Great Commission says to go to the ends of the world to make disciples of the nations.
The Lord wants disciples, not just believers. Baptizing them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all that He has commanded.
The Great Commission given to His church is that we, who are His disciples, are to make disciples of the nations. The Lord wants disciples, not just believers.
What is the difference between a believer and a disciple? A believer is one who believes in the Lord Jesus, one who has accepted the Lord Jesus as his Savior.
A believer is one who has been made a child of God. As many as received Him—that is, believed on His name—He gave the right, the authority, the privilege, to become children of God.
To believe in the Lord Jesus is a great privilege. In believing in the Lord Jesus, we have our sins forgiven, receive eternal life, become children of God, and enjoy the Lord Jesus and all His blessings. It is great to be a believer.
But what is it to be a disciple? A disciple is one who is committed to the Master, to be trained for a specific purpose.
As a believer, you receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior. You enjoy all His grace and blessings. But how much does the Lord Jesus get from you?
To be a disciple is to be committed to the Lord and to let Him have you completely and absolutely. That is it.
As a matter of truth—and listen carefully—to be a believer is equal to being a disciple. There should not be any separation between a believer and a disciple.
If you believe in the Lord Jesus, you are His disciple. How can you not be His disciple? If you are His disciple, you are a believer, because if you are not a believer, you cannot be His disciple. As a matter of truth, a believer and a disciple are one and the same thing. They should happen at the same time. When you receive the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus should receive you.
But as a matter of fact, this may not be true. Many believers are not disciples. Many believers have never surrendered their lives to the Lord, never allowed the Lord Jesus to touch them, make them, mold them, and fashion them according to His pleasure.
Discipleship in the Bible is a relationship, but it is not the relationship of the modern teacher and student. In a modern teacher-and-student relationship, the connection is often very superficial.
You go to school, listen to the teacher’s lectures, and try to learn. After you have learned what he knows, you graduate. The relationship is more of an outward relationship. You are there simply to learn his skill or his knowledge. You do not necessarily have an intimate relationship with your teacher. Sometimes there may be one hundred students in a class, and the teacher does not even know who they are.
But this is not the discipleship that the Bible speaks of. In the Bible, the relationship of a disciple with the Master is the old-fashioned relationship between a master and his apprentice.
In the old days, a family would send its son away to learn a trade. Fortunately or unfortunately, in those days they did not send their daughters away. That was the old way.
When a son grew up, the father would say, “What should I do with my son? I want him to become a man. I want him to learn a trade.” The father would look around and try to find a master.
The master might be a carpenter, a mechanic, an artist, a scholar, or a philosopher. After the father found a master in whom he had confidence, he would negotiate with him, because the master might not be willing to take an apprentice.
When the master was willing to take an apprentice, they would set a date. On that day, the father would lead his son into the master’s house. He would not only give a sum of money or something to the master; he would deliver his son to the master and say, “Here is my son. I commit my son to your care.” Then he would leave.
He would leave the son in the master’s house. The apprentice was a person delivered to the master. He lived with his master and was under the complete control of his master.
Even when he became homesick and wanted to go home, he had to have the master’s permission. He was no longer a free person. Twenty-four hours a day, not just a few hours a day, he belonged to the master.
He was there to do everything that his master asked him to do. Usually, if you wanted to learn a trade, it might take three years. But during the first year, suppose you wanted to be a carpenter and were apprenticed to a carpenter, he would not even let you touch the bench.
You would stay in his home and simply be a little errand boy. He would ask you to do all kinds of things. You would sweep the floor, open the door, and, if the master had a baby, carry the baby sometimes.
You were almost like a slave. You might say, “No, I came to learn to be a carpenter.” But the master would say, “That is the way to learn it.”
Perhaps after a year, if you were still there, the master would say, “Well, you seem able to learn. All right, I will tell you a little bit.” Gradually, he would bring you into the trade.
After three years, you graduate. What happens? You have not only learned the skill of your master; when you walk, you walk like your master. When you talk, you talk like your master. Not only have you picked up his phrases, but even your manner is like your master. Is that not strange?
You have become a copy of your master, a reproduction of your master. The relationship between the master and the apprentice has become so close that they have become one. Humanly, this is impossible; but divinely, yes. With the Lord, yes.
Now, brothers and sisters, may I ask you a question? I suppose that all of us here, or at least most of you here, have already believed in the Lord Jesus. You have accepted Him as your personal Savior. You know Him.
Have you heard the call? Besides this, you have been believing in Him for perhaps a year, perhaps five years. Have you responded to His call to discipleship?
The Lord is never satisfied with your merely being His believer. It may be satisfying to you, but it never satisfies Him. He wants to make a disciple out of you.
He is calling you to be a disciple: “Come after Me.” You have come to Him.
The Bible says:
Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Literally, it means, “I will rest you.” You do not have rest, but He will rest you. You came to Him, and He gave you rest.
But you have not come far enough. The Lord says, “Come after Me,” not only, “Come unto Me.” Wherever He goes, you go. Do not merely come to Him for the sake of receiving all His blessings; really come to Him and come after Him.
Have you come in that way? You have come unto Him to receive salvation, but have you come after Him to be His disciple?
Do you know what it means to come after Him? Someone put it very clearly. He said, “To be a disciple of the Lord Jesus is a call to die.”
When you first come to the Lord Jesus, it is a calling to live. God does not want the wicked to die. The Bible says, “Why will ye die?” Turn from your wickedness and live. God wants people to live.
So when you first come to the Lord Jesus, you are called to live, that you may not die. But, brothers and sisters, the call of discipleship is a call to die. You have come to Him, and now you live. You should learn to die.
Have you been baptized? I suppose most of you have. Do you know the meaning of baptism?
Why must one who believes in the Lord Jesus be baptized? People have asked me, “I believe in the Lord Jesus, but must I be baptized?” I say, “Yes.” Why?
The Lord says, “Go into the world, make disciples of the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” Make disciples of the nations—that is the object.
How do you make disciples of the nations? By baptizing them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them all things that the Lord has commanded.
Have you ever seen baptism in that light? You may say, “Do I need to be baptized in order to be saved?” Water cannot save you. It is the blood, the blood of our Lord Jesus, for the remission of your sins.
Then why baptism? Do you want to be a disciple of the Lord? Baptism, if I may say so, is the initiation into discipleship.
Why? What is baptism? If you read Romans 6, it tells you that we are baptized into Christ. We are baptized into His death.
We are identified with Christ—His burial and His resurrection. Baptism is an identification.
We are identified with the Lord. We are committed to the Lord. We have entered into the Master’s house. We are delivered into the Master’s hands, and we become one with the Master.
His death is our death. His burial is our burial. His resurrection is our resurrection. That is baptism.
Before you are baptized, you are yourself. You can go anywhere you like and do anything you like. You have your own plans, desires, wishes, ways, and manner of life. You can love the world, because you are your own.
But, brothers and sisters, when you believe in the Lord Jesus, the love of Christ constrains you. You know that you have no right to live for yourself.
You have to deliver yourself to the Lord. You have to be one with the Lord. You have to be identified with Him. The first thing in being identified with Him is to identify with Him in death.
Why? He died. You die. His death is all-inclusive. He died toward sin, to the world as a system, to the flesh, to the old creation, and to everything that is not God.
By being baptized, you are baptized unto His death. His death is your death. You die to yourself, die to the world, die to your old life, die to your own habits, and die to your own will and everything.
Then you are buried and raised with Him in resurrection. It is no longer you, but Christ who lives in you. Brothers and sisters, that is baptism.
That is why you find in Matthew 28, “Make disciples of the nations, baptizing them.” The call of discipleship is the call to die.
The Bible makes it very clear. This scribe came to the Lord and said, “Teacher, I want to follow You. I want to be Your disciple. I will go wherever You go.” The Lord said, “You do not know what you are asking.”
You think that you come merely for more knowledge, just as though you had graduated from the school of rabbis. The Lord says that our relationship is different.
Some read the verse in Luke 14 and say, “Hallelujah! Now I can hate my father.” You misread your Bible.
Even when the Lord was crucified on the cross, in great agony, suffering, and pain, He forgot Himself. He saw His mother, and He asked His disciple to take care of her. He did not hate His mother.
Where is the contradiction? The Lord is simply saying this: if you do not die to everything in the past, to the things most dear to you—even your father, mother, brother, sister, and your own life—you cannot be fully committed to the Lord.
What can be closer and dearer to you than your father, mother, brother, sister, and your own life? But if you do not die to these things, you must hate them in the sense that they hold you back from fully committing yourself to the Lord.
You cannot abandon yourself to the Lord because these things pull you back. There is a holy hatred within you: “I am willing to die to these things, that I may be set free and follow the Lord.” Then you can be His disciple.
And you will discover that you love your father and mother, brother and sister, even more.
To be a disciple is to deny oneself. Peter denied the Lord, but he denied the wrong person.
Brothers and sisters, the Lord is not after a crowd. When the crowd gathered around Him, He pushed them away. He has no use for crowds. The Lord is calling for disciples—people who are fully committed to Him.
He wants people who yield themselves to the Lord, who surrender. You may use any verb you like. You may call it dedication, consecration, presenting your body, abandonment, or forsaking all. But the fact remains.
The call for discipleship is a total call. The Lord will not allow you to retain anything if you answer Him.
Remember what the Lord Jesus said to the young rich ruler. He came to the Lord full of longing. He ran to the Lord and knelt before Him among the crowd. Who would do that? He said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
The Lord looked at that young man and loved him. Then He said, “Sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and come, follow Me.” That young man went away sorrowful.
The call of discipleship is a total call. Are you ready for that? Are you ready to leave everything and follow the Lord? If you are not ready to leave everything and follow the Lord, you cannot be His disciple.
That is why, in Luke 14, the Lord says to sit down and count the cost. It costs you nothing to be a believer. It cost Him everything, but it costs you nothing. Yet it costs you everything if you respond to His call of discipleship.
Are you ready for that? Have you done that? Remember, this is what the Lord is calling for today: to make disciples of the nations.
Is it possible for us to forsake everything and follow the Lord? Humanly, it cannot be done. The Lord is calling us to do something impossible.
Do not think that you can do it. You read the Scriptures and see the Lord walking by as though casually. He saw Peter and Andrew casting their nets, called them, and they left everything and followed Him. Then He saw James and John, called them, and they left everything and followed Him. He saw Matthew, and Matthew left everything and followed Him.
You think you can do that? Try. No one can do it. Who is willing for that? Who is able to deny himself, forsake everything, and simply follow the Lord?
If you think it is possible, you will not make it. If you know it is impossible, you will make it. Why? Because the Lord Jesus says, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
That young rich ruler was such a nice young man. He was moral, rich, and in a high position. He was a ruler. The Lord loved that young man.
But when the call came—“Follow Me, but forsake everything and come after Me”—the things he possessed were holding him. It was not that the Lord wanted his wealth. The Lord wanted to free him.
He was not free to follow the Lord. He was not free to offer himself to the Lord. He was not free to put himself in the hands of the Lord.
But the young man tried by himself. He did not look up and say, “Lord, I cannot do it. If You really want me to do it, You do it. I am willing.” Instead, he reasoned, “Can I do it? That is too much. I cannot do it,” and he walked away.
He missed the opportunity. Yet, immediately after that, in the Gospel of Luke, you find another rich man—perhaps richer than this young man. He was a chief tax collector, and he had a good customs office: Zacchaeus.
He was an older man, more deeply involved with the world, a sinner—a great sinner—not a moral person. Yet he knew. He climbed up into a tree because he was short. He wanted to see Jesus, just to see Him.
When the Lord Jesus passed by that tree, He looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down. I am going to your home today.”
Everybody knew Zacchaeus. He sat at the customs office and had cheated and extorted everyone. Everybody began to murmur and say, “Does the Master know who Zacchaeus is?”
The Lord did not say a word. Zacchaeus seemed so awkward. “You are coming to my house? I have to clear my house, then. If I have cheated people, I will give them back fourfold. I will give half of my property to the poor, and give back fourfold to the people I have extorted.”
Why? Because he wanted the Lord to come to his house. So the Lord said, “Today is salvation come to this house.” What was impossible became possible.
Brothers and sisters, the Lord is calling us all to be His disciples. He is calling us to die and to live. He is calling us to abandon ourselves completely to Him, with no reservation.
We are to put ourselves in His hands—His pierced hands—and let Him do anything He likes with us. How can you do that? Nobody can. But remember, He can.
Therefore, discipleship cannot be separated from the grace of God. Do not think that you can volunteer yourself to be His disciple and make it. You will not. No man has ever made it by himself.
But if you look to His grace and say, “Lord, who am I that You want me? I am Yours. If You want me, make me willing to be willing. Thy grace must enable me to do it. I depend on You. I do not depend on myself,” then nothing is impossible.
Remember, Paul said, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
Dear brothers and sisters, if we see the Lord Jesus, if we see Him in our spirit, He will give us grace, faith, and love to enable us to commit ourselves and hand ourselves over to Him. He will do it.
Have you seen the Lord? All we need is to ask the Lord to give us a revelation of Himself—what a Master He is.
His grace will support us. His love will constrain us. He will give us faith to abandon ourselves completely to Him and say, “Lord, I want to be Your disciple. There is nothing better than that. I do not want to make a mess of my life. I want You to take my life and make it as You please.”
Grace will do it.
This evening, I have only one burden in my heart. Since our time together is so short, we have to start right away. We cannot wait.
I desire to put this before you, dear brothers and sisters: the Lord is calling for disciples. He wants you to be His disciple, but know what it means.
It is not something to play with. It is very serious. He wants you to put yourself in His hands. He calls you to die to everything that is not His. He wants to make you and mold you according to His pleasure.
Are you constrained by His love? Say, “Lord, take me. If that is what You want, even if I may not be willing, make me willing to do it. I want to be Your disciple. There is nothing better than that.”
When I was a younger man, many years ago, one day I was on my bicycle. I was cycling on the street, and in my heart I was praying.
I was faced with a very difficult situation. I did not know what to do. On the one hand, I wanted to follow the Lord. On the other hand, there were many things I could not let go.
I tried to negotiate. I tried to balance myself. But I knew I could not. I would fall. I knew that.
I wanted Him to take me. I wanted to be His disciple and follow Him. But on the other hand, I drew back. It was too difficult. I did not know whether I could make it. If possible, I wanted to compromise.
So I was cycling, praying in my heart, “Lord, what about it?” I had no answer. I did not receive a solution that day.
But as I was cycling, I cried out from my heart, “Lord, do not forsake me. I want to be Your disciple. No matter what, I want to be Your disciple. Do not let me go.” That was the only prayer I prayed.
And, you know, He did it.
Not many days later, I was listening to a message. The message was on the Lord’s words: “Sit down and count the cost. See if you can make it.”
I was deeply touched by that. After the message was over, we had lunch together. After lunch, I sat by myself and prayed. I said, “Well, perhaps I have not counted my cost. I want You, but I have not counted the cost. That is why it is so difficult.”
So I started to count. The more I counted, the heavier it became. It became impossible. It was like a mountain rising before me. I could not get over it.
“Lord, it is too much. I cannot. I cannot do it. I want it, but I cannot.”
I do not say that I saw the Lord physically, but I did see Him very clearly. I saw the Lord coming to me, holding out His hands, and saying, “I shed My blood for you. I died. What will you do for Me?”
Brothers and sisters, as I sat there, my eyes were closed, but I saw it. He touched my heart. I said, “Lord, everything—my life, my life, everything is Yours.”
And He took it. That is why I say it is grace. No one can do it. If you try to do it yourself, you will not be able to. But if you know you cannot and you want it, He can do it.
I do not say that when He took me, all the problems of a lifetime were solved. No. But I can say that after I responded, constrained by His love, He started to work with me.
I passed through—may I say it?—the most grievous, the hardest days of my life. I did not know what I was eating. I was literally walking as in a maze. The Lord was dealing with me.
But He cleared it up. He did it.
Brothers and sisters, what I want you to hear is simply this: only grace can make disciples of us. Only grace can maintain us as disciples. It is all of grace, from the beginning to the very end.
So, brothers and sisters, do not be afraid. Look to His grace. He will do it.
Shall we pray?
Maybe we can use a few minutes. Let everyone be before the Lord, asking Him to open your eyes to see what He wants of you.
Ask the Lord whether you have committed your life to Him, whether you are a disciple indeed. If not, ask the Lord to give you grace, to constrain you by His love, that you may be able to tell Him, “Lord, I want to be a disciple of You. Make me Your disciple.”
Just tell the Lord about it. He will do it. You do not need to figure out how; the afterward is in His hands.
Unless we respond to Him and become His disciples, He is not able to do what He wants with us in our lives. This is the initiation, as it were, into Him.
So let us be quiet for a little while.
Lord, for Thine own sake, do apprehend every one in this room here. Make disciples of all of us, that Thou mayest be glorified.
Lord, we cannot. Thou canst. We are ready. Make us disciples, that the glory of the Lord may be manifested. Today we give Thee praise and glory.