Thank you. My poem is entitled, I Bear You on Eagle's Wings. He bore me up on eagle's wings, above earth, mist, and storm. I felt his magic touch of power and underneath his arms. He lifted me from sails below into the mount of God, where vulture's eyes had never seen, nor lion's wealth had trod. He carried me on eagle's wings across the desert sand, and guided me o'er waist and wild by his all-skillful hand. And when my feet had weary grown, mine eyes be dimmed with tears. He whispered words of cheer and hope, and banished all my fears. He bore me up on eagle's wings, when body wracked with pain, when bruised and sore, I trembling lay, sainting beneath the strain. T'was then he came in matchless love, and touched my fevered brow, and said, Hereafter thou shalt know, though veiled the meaning now. This path I planned that thou mightest learn To magnify my grace, My wisdom trumps to lead the way, Even when thou canst not trace. I'll bear thee up on eagle's wings, My strength shall be thy stay. I'll undergird and hold thee fast until the close of day. And as I journey on a wild His wings beneath me spread, His mighty arm encircling me, I have not to fear nor dread. The lights of home gleam bright across the narrow sea of time, and soon on Eagle's wings I'll pour to young celestial life. Others may sing of treasures of earth, sing of its glitter and gold, for ever greater words, a hopelessness, never grow low. He is the lonely scene of my song. He is my light from the sky. Glory and gracious to him we love. Here is my bright morning song. In the night weep, yes, he does imply, Here is the joy of my lonely mind. This is the theme of my song. This is the theme of my song. ever ain't so quick to me He is the lovely theme of my song. He is my light from the fire. Glory and praise shall go him below. He is my bright morning blue. From my weakness, he does his heart. He is the triumph of the morning heart. Pharaoh, the Pharaoh, is there just to meet. He is the speed. My scripture reading is found in Isaiah chapter fifty-five. O everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, eat, ye come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Harken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness, Incline your ear, and come unto me, here, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Verse six. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his spot. And let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Our dear heavens rose, and the world came high, But the men made thy face with thy eyes, And the people from thy and help me, help me, help me, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom of the kingdom Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Our gracious Father, we praise thee again for the privilege we have of telling forth the glories of our blessed Savior. And we pray that those who have never put their trust in him may have a desire to do so. We commit thy word to thee, and these gospel songs in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Shall I crucify my Savior, when for me for such long? Shall I crucify my Savior? And I kneel him to the cross. Shall I crucify my Savior? Crucify my Lord again. Once, for once I crucify him, shall I crucify again? Oh, a kindly hand of Jesus, boring blessings on all men bleeding nails for hands of Jesus can I nail them once again shall I crucify my Savior my Lord again. Once, so much I crucify Him. Shall I crucify Him? Shall I crucify Him? In the first two chapters of the Book of Jonah we have the record of a disobedient prophet who passes through a very embarrassing experience. However, it turned into a very profitable experience, for Jonah is changed and becomes an obedient servant. Jonah lived some eight hundred and sixty years before Christ, and was sent by God with a message of warning and forgiveness to the sinful Gentile city of Nineveh. His willpower was overcome by his won't power, and he deliberately refused to go and fulfill the mission. As is always the case, he got into the middle of a wail of trouble. Whenever a person disobeyed God, he is liable to do some fishy things. God's call must always be treated with respect. In the case of the unsaved person, God's first call is the gospel call, calling men to repentance and to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Very sad are the consequences of the person who will ignore the loving gospel call. It spells separation from God for all eternity. The great city of Nineveh was quite content to live in wickedness and cared nothing for God, but God loved and cared for the sinners in that city. In grace he provided deliverance and salvation. and that is equally true of the world today in which your lot and mine is cast. The gospel call puts the hearer in the place of responsibility. He must either heed or turn a deaf ear to the message of salvation. Disobedience to the gospel call will lead to death and judgment. I trust that you, my listener, have already obeyed the gospel call, that you have already accepted the Lord Jesus Christ who loved you and died for you. as your own personal Savior. But there's still another call that follows the gospel call, and it's the service call. After we are saved by God's grace, we have the glorious privilege of working for Him. We dare not offer our service to God before we are saved, for that would be an insult to God's offer of salvation. It's only after we are saved that we are eligible to work for Him. I hope you are clear on this subject, for It's impossible to earn salvation by your good deeds or good behavior. We must be born into God's family. And a new birth takes place when one acknowledges his lost and guilty condition and receives by faith the substitutionary work of Christ as a basis of salvation. When the sin question and the son question are definitely settled, God will call us to serve him by one means or another. In Jonah's case, the service call was to preach judgment to a sinful city. Jonah said no. God said yes. And at the close of chapter two of the book of Jonah, we observe a repentant man who has learned through bitter experience that it's impossible to get away from God. God acknowledges his repentance and gives to him another chance to obey the service call. I read from chapter three in verse one. And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Verse two, listen to the response. So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh. That's altogether different from the response in the first chapter. There we read, Jonah rose up to flee from the presence of the Lord. The lesson has been learned. When God speaks, you can't win by disobeying. I'm sure that Jonah could wish that those first two chapters had never been written, but they had to be written. God is busy writing our life's history, and we furnish the material. I suppose that in your case and mine, God has written a few unnecessary chapters, dark chapters, simply because we furnish dark material. I can almost hear Jonah saying, I wish my book contained began with chapter three, giving an account of my obedience to God's command. I'm ashamed of those first two chapters. If we are ashamed of certain chapters in our life's history, it's up to us to furnish better material. And Jonah provided better material for the writing of chapter three. As he enters the great sinful city, he proclaims God's message. The message is, repent and believe, or be overthrown. Verse five, So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them. The deep-died sinners of Nineveh were evidently getting weary in wickedness, and they were no doubt keenly conscious of the necessary judgment that they so richly deserved. Sinners do not do get weary in their sins and long for deliverance. and to such disgusted sinners God offers a full and a free salvation. The judgment that hung over the city of Nineveh was suspended by a condition. If Nineveh repents and turns to God, the judgment will be stayed. If Nineveh rejects the offer, forty days remain. Then the city will be visited with God's wrath. The citizens of that city were put in the place of responsibility. They had to make a choice. They could cling to their sins, reject God's offer, and expect the promised judgment. Or they could turn to God for salvation. In like manner God puts you in the place of responsibility. You must choose, and God will act accordingly. If you love your sins and cling to them, you must face the consequences. If you are sick of your sinful life, you have the privilege of turning to God, as did the inhabitants of Nineveh. A new life, a far better life, a happy life, will be the result of all who will make this sensible choice. The clouds of judgment are hanging right over your head. If you must reject the Savior, you are asking for that judgment to fall. God will never allow one undeserving one to taste of his wrath. All who ask for it by rejecting the Savior deserve eternal judgment. As the sinners in Nineveh snatch the opportunity of salvation, you too must lay hold of eternal life which is offered to you through Christ and His adoning sacrifice. Some who are awakened to see the need of being saved make the dreadful mistake of turning to the wrong remedy. Instead of heeding God's message and turning to Christ for salvation, they turn over a new leaf. and begin to live better. This brings a good feeling. And alas, many depend on a good reformation to fit them for God's presence. The Bible states very clearly that heaven cannot be obtained by living a Christian life. It's possible to turn from a sinful life to a much better and more respectable way of living without changing your status on God's records. In fact, it's possible to turn from your sins and join a church and become very religious without being born into God's family. Reformation is a subtle thing. It appeases the conscience and leaves the victim under the impression that all is well with the soul. I ask you this searching question. Have you reformed? Or are you born again? Those who have merely reformed usually depend on their good living to make them eligible for heaven. it seems as though they don't know that God will never admit one on that ticket. Those who have come to Christ and are resting in His substitutionary death and resurrection alone for salvation have the assurance that they have passed from death unto life. If heaven could be obtained on the basis of good conduct, then the city of Nineveh was not eligible. It was God's matchless and infinite grace that caused him to offer salvation to an otherwise hopeless city. His grace provides an occasion to save the bad sinners, as well as the self-righteous religious sinners. I don't know how bad you are. I don't care to know. I don't know how good you are. But I do know that God offers to save, keep, and satisfy all, good and bad, who will trust His Son as Lord and Savior. When God saves bad people, they lose their badness and begin to live for the Savior. When God saves good people, they lose their pride in their goodness and confess, as did the Apostle Paul, I am what I am by the grace of God. They thank God they have learned in time not to trust in their goodness for salvation, but rather in the shed blood of God's only begotten Son. The people of Nineveh were booked for judgment. and they were only forty days from the experience. But it didn't happen because they made the right choice. If you are unsaved, you are booked for judgment. God only knows how many days lie between you and that dreadful experience. But you have the opportunity of turning to Christ, for he bore your judgment on Calvary. If you will trust him as your Lord and Savior, he will save you right where you are. Perhaps God has left on record the wise choice of the Ninevites in order to encourage you to stand in the same, who stand in the same place of danger, to follow their example. I ask you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Have you wandered away from your father's care? Heavy hearted and sad, do you go home? There's a sweet gentle voice calling now to you, Wondering child, Wondering child, all come home. Child come home, child come home, wandering child, far longer home, tis thy tears are far far in rage, wandering child, oh come home. Is your frail bark a drift on my raging sea? Are you tossed on it, billows and foams? There's a safe harbor home waiting now for you, Wandering child, wandering child, oh, come home. Child come home, child come home, wandering child while I'm alone, tis thy father and me, wandering child, wandering, come home. He is pleading today, He is gentle voice, As he bid you no longer to roam. To the dear Father's house, days without delay. Wandering child, wandering child, oh come home. Child come home, child come home, wandering child by life. thy father remains, wandering child of God.