 Hello everyone and welcome to the third lesson of the teens cornerstone connections This is brought to you by the teens the teens class of the Nairobi central seventh-day Adventist Church and To the title of today's lesson is roads to the soul Our panelists include Ashley Sid and salmon and our wonderful teen teachers teacher Bridget and teacher John and and we're also going to be having some wonderful music from Amy So I hope that you're all going to enjoy and that you feel at the feet of Jesus. Thank you Happy happy Sabbath We are really glad to have you back here once again with us for our cornerstone connection lesson Today we're going to study lesson three which is entitled the roads to the soul now with me here I have Four panelists and I'd like each one of them to introduce themselves starting from my immediate right My name is said and I'll be taking you through into the story My name is Salmon and I'll be taking you through. What do you think and out of the story? My name is Ashley and I'll be taking you through the patriarchs and prophets and the flashlight. I Am joining I'll be guiding through the lesson And my name is Bridget and I'll also be among those participating today So I'd like to invite Salmon to start us off with an opening prayer Let's pray Our kind and loving father. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for helping us to have a good week Help us to study the lesson well in Jesus name friend. Believe. Amen. Amen Amen So our lesson today Which as I've said earlier is entitled roads to the soul Now one thing that we usually say in this life is that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach Now today, we're going to learn. What is the way to a human's soul? And so today's lesson as we'll be studying will we're going to see how Sin is the nature of sin and how seductive it is and what are the consequences of sin Not only during the times of the Israelites But the consequences that it had it has even on us today and it's a very very touchy topic I know we're going to touch on a couple of things that affect us in this day and age And so I'd like us to get right into the lesson to charge on All right. Thanks so much. She breeze it. So we'll dive straight into the lesson. But before we get there Let us to turn of bibles the book of James James chapter 4 verse 8 to 10. I'll just read it James 4 verse 8 to 10 it says Come close to God and God will come close to you. Wash your hands you sinners Purify your hearts for your loyalty is divided between God and the world verse 9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief Let there be sadness instead of laughter and gloom instead of joy will stand Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up in honor That's a very common verse. We've been hearing ever since with children No, come close to God and he'll come close to you humble yourself before God and lift you up Now someone take us through the what do you think section will have further insight as to what those two verses talk about? What do you think? Okay, so on what on the what do you think part? We're supposed to rank some items According to what course is major destruction to our relationship with God? So first is the most destructive and five is the least so the first one For me is media movies and music of worldly nature On this day and age movies are quite common Music artists visit schools all around and It's become More of the God we are worshipping because God expects us to spend time alone with him, but most of the times you're watching a movie You're listening to music All right, and what do you think will be the list? The list cost of destruction to relationship with God, which will you rank as a five out of those listed there? The example of key leaders who fall and are exposed to as hypocrites Okay, I'd say that the media movies and music of a worldly nature in pure entertainment Apathy and boredom the absence of good input can be clustered into one Because boredom leads to me looking for something to get me active or hyper. What would I do? I've got the media watch movies or listening to music and then Impure entertainment, that's why it comes in what's genre of music music do I listen to watch movies? Do I watch so this because they engage the mind first off they shut down the mind and therefore you have Stud information that you did not process So you make a disease you make decisions without processing information So because they're dealing with their mind and we worship God with our minds Then now there's nothing to worship God with yeah Yeah, I mean I have a testimony myself When I was in high school there was this pressure of reading what pad I don't know if you guys have heard of what pad Yeah, what pad used to be the in thing those days because you'd get easy access to books and Those books to be honest the content that was in them It's not something that would glorify God So you'd find yourself going to read because your friends are talking about a story and you're just floating So you want to be part of them? And so I ended up being among the people who you know got addicted to what pad and it was so serious To the extent that you know I started realizing that even the time I spend reading the word of God is just dwindling And even when I read the word of God, it just started becoming so boring It's not as addictive because you know in what part it leaves you in one chapter And then you you just want to read the next and then next and before you know it You've been there for five hours. You finished a whole book and you're like, oh my god I finished this book and in chemistry. I can't even finish one topic in 40 minutes so I think for me it really took a lot of you know prayer and a lot of Listening to the testimonies of others because you know even in our church community We had in school church community We had people who had gone through similar circumstances and you know, they slowly helped us, you know detoxify from all that However, the effects of that still remain Unfortunately because the brain is a very powerful tool. Yeah All right, thanks for being it and that begs the question Do you think that all this media and all these things that take our attention from the world from God? They make us start getting numb to sin Sid, what do you think? Does media and movies and music does it make us start seeing seen as a good thing? I I'd say yes because I don't I don't know if A lot of you feel this but when you watch a movie Then you're like, oh, I wanna do this. This looks cool You know you want to be that guy Yeah, you imitate them looking for maybe the popularity or the joy that you think they have by doing what they're doing and most of the time it takes They you out of yourself and you now become another totally different person whom you're not true And still on that Sid you can probably read for us. They did you know section? You see what the Bible says about all these moral values that we get from other media and stuff sit Did you know the Bible predicts warning? Moral values just before the coming of Christ Peryllus or dangerous times the dust Disintegration of the family unit lovers of money lovers of pleasure without self-control our world What pictures describing life in the 21st century? Sure, thank you for that So the Bible actually predicted how much Before the coming of Christ morality is going to you know deteriorate people are going to start Seeing seen is a good thing. You know, we've lost all sense of consciousness All right, and in our belief number 22 of the Adventist Church belief is Christian behavior and I'll just read it as it is what it says You know, we are called to be a godly people who think Feel and act in harmony with biblical principles in all aspects of personal and social life Now as Adventists, I tend to think we're like experts in double-leaving All right, we have this personality and with other Adventists and other personality other people and they know you So it comes to a point where if your friends at school or at work Meet with your friends at church and they start talking about you They're like, are you sure we're talking about the same person? But in our beliefs it actually calls for us to leave a Christian behavior and it actually recognizes that we have different cultures Let me just read that quote This means that our amusement and entertainment should meet the highest standards of Christian taste and beauty While recognizing cultural differences our dress is to be simple modest and neat Be fitting those whose true beauty does not consist of outward adornment But in the imperishable ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit Now there's always this excuse when someone does something in the world. You're like, you just understand them They were brought up differently. They were different culture and all that But by accepting Jesus Christ you forsake your culture You have all one culture now that is a Christian faith So we need to act and walk and talk and every single thing we do should be according to the Christian way of life Amen, and even as we continue Today as we're studying about sin and its effects the lesson actually compares Sin to leprosy. Yeah, and they say that when you look at someone who has just acquired leprosy It starts out very subtly. Yeah, maybe they just have headaches. Maybe some dizziness But as the months continue and progress then now you start having some, you know Lamps on the skin which will eventually erupt and then they start having now eventually at the The the severe most symptoms were now even you you're not able to feel like you become numb You're not able to sense pain so you can easily enjoy yourself And at least the common symptom that we know is that you know, they like their fingers fall off and such things And that's it is comparable to sin because sin starts out very subtly. Just you know, just one avenue was open They see then sin just came in slowly it came in one thing then slowly by slowly we become numb to its effect It's effect. Sorry. And then eventually we wonder how we got into that beat that we dug ourselves into Speaking of which I was reading Ellen right in Patrick's and prophets Think chapter 41 and she says that you know by the time a Christian comes to the point of committing crime He did not start that day The Christians slowly degenerated in thought and habit and in mind to the point of committing that sin And I just tried to think about it Think about as a child when you eat sugar in your mother's kitchen Do you do just to wake up and then run to the kitchen and eat sugar? You start thinking about it you check if your siblings are playing you check if your mother is around You check if they were doing the dishes at the dishes clean. I'm how am I going to leave it the way I left it? And it's innocent. You're just a child but For your mother to detect maybe she'll see someone fetched it off the Bowl or she'll see one or two crumbs left on the surface But she's really need to look very carefully for how to see it how comes in you just a child How comes do you know to sin and to cover your chases? Yes, true. I mean We've covered it a lot in the previous lessons as well You know the aspect where we just let a single seed of darkness grow in you It's going to faster like leprosy. It's just explained and the symptoms are going to show up But by that time it's ready to too late in most cases And and that's why you realize that how God would deal with sin if there was anything that had been Shown or sown within that community. He would quickly wipe them out for most of them Although for others there was still room for repentance. So it's yeah true and actually speaking of God wiping out sin in a whole community the into the story and go into the story You can for those with the lesson the into the story section and it comes from the book of Numbers chapter 25 I was one to 18. I'll ask salmon to just summarize for us. What? Happens in this story today? Or you can just read a bit of it into the story. Let us know what what is happening here. I think it's seed So in the story It's the Israelites So the Israelites were Well, they were staying in shit him the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the more bite women So like they would the women would invite them to sacrifice their gods. They would eat meals And then like The Lord's anger had burned against them So the Lord told Moses to take all the leaders of the people of the more bites and Kill them and expose them in broad daylight The Israelite man brought into the camp a million night woman right before the eyes of Moses and The whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting When Phineas the son of Elzea the son of Aaron the priest saw this He left the assembly. He took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent Then he killed both the man. He killed the man and the Midnight woman Then the God the Lord said to Moses Phineas The Son of Elzea the son of Aaron the priest has turned his anger away from the Israelite and since he was zealous for his honor among them as As I am I did not put an end to them in my zeal. Therefore I Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him He and his descendants will have a covenant of lasting priesthood Because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelite True. Thank you for that said In this story, I have picked two different aspects here, right? The way to digital talked about the Lord can destroy a whole community because of sin That is one and then again towards the end We see the Lord making a covenant with Phineas and blessing his whole generation through one person again Right now still on that scene actually read for us James chapter 4 verse 4 James 4 4 says Adaltras and adulteresses do you know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy with God What do you guys think about that? You want to become a friend of God if you become a friend of the world the Lord just distances himself from you Yeah, so I did some which is such on entertainment So entertainment Can be grouped as what we saw from the what do you think section all impurities? really entertainment is for Something you do like for laser something So entertainment the word tain enter is Quite clear your and and tain from some old Latin Means slavery So you are entering slavery so the devil is He's really a good Conning. Yeah, he's cunning so You think by watching a movie you're learning something, but then he's just friending you Putting you in slavery so that you're away from God so I Think we should be very careful with what we watch in essence. We would say that as much as yes, it's entering a yoke of bondage but It is pushing his agenda through media because that's where we learn about dress fashion how to behave and all these things we learn from and Recently I saw The game subway surface and I noticed that There'll be two colors are all over and you'd wonder why I'd wake up one morning and I'll support them, but Through the game I was playing or whatever it is. I was doing Yes, and so now it is in my brain. It is normal or rather comedy and you see a man dressed in our Dress and you think it's funny and you laugh tomorrow. You'll see a man on the street Working with Headscarf and address and you'll find and you think it's normal because you've been seeing it all this While so basically the devil is just trying to get us to rationalize sin and if you remember What happened so that the Israelites fell into this sexual immorality in the previous chapters in numbers In lesson two we talked about Balaam Right and how he lost on the great riches it been promised by King Balak because if you he was To cast his right did not refuse. He was unable to cast the Israelites. So later on what happened is Balam went back to the king and he told him that we cannot cast the Israelites But what I have realized is as long as the Israelites obey God and they're close to God He's always going to support them But what I can suggest we do is let us try and put the Israelites away from the Lord That's how the Lord will separate himself from them and we'll be able to conquer them And so Balam gave the idea that they should introduce this Midianite morbid women into the Israelite camp and that is what happened now If the Israelite leaders had guarded the avenues of their minds, do you think they would have fallen to this temptation? No No Yeah, so that is basically the main lesson you're picking from our lesson today Like we need to guard the avenues of our minds and what are the avenues of our minds? Someone can name some of them Said our minds basically you're watching movies and stuff even what we eat what we eat also here It actually affects a lot. Basically our five senses, you know, they're made to help us live life a better life You know, we enjoy life to the fullest as God wanted it to be but the devil is using the same five senses To just bring sin into our bodies Remember to a kids that these songs used to sing. Oh be careful. They'll feed where you go Or be careful little hands what you touch eyes what you see is what you hear This are the same five senses God gave us the same senses the devil is using to just bring sin into our bodies and into our lives And one thing I'm afraid of actually is that you know, the devil has been at work for so many years So he's quite experienced and because he's worked with so many human beings on this earth He knows each one's weak point. So he knows maybe like for Ashley for how it food So for John and eat something else So it's very scary to know that but at the same time we know that we have hope in Christ Jesus Because he's the one who can help us overcome and it reminds me of an incident that one of us was sharing just recently When we were discussing the lesson and they said that you know these days the devil even has avenues You're just looking through your phone and then pop an advertisement comes that you know, you're like, oh my God It's very embarrassing you in church and oh my God. What's happening? So the devil has his very subtle ways of you know getting to us But as we've said, we need to be very careful We need to have very high walls and guard all the avenues to our soul true. Thank you for that Now moving on said you can read for us the key text Our key text that is from first John chapter 2 bus. Oh question. Sorry numbers 25 us 10 to 12 It says the Lord said to Moses He knows the Son of Elzea the son of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites since he was a zealots from my honor among them as I am I did not put an end to them in my zeal Therefore tell him I am making my covenant Of peace with him Thank for that. Now still on that we can read fast John 2 verse 15 17 This is something I want to tie us to fast John 2 verse 15 17 It says do not love the world or anything in the world if anyone loves the world Love for the father is not in them for everything in the world The last of the flesh the last of the ice and the pride of life comes not from the father But from the world the world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever Amen. Amen. Now this brings the point Phineas really loved God to the point that him seeing someone singing outrightly In front of the people of God of the come I mean people are crying and these guys basically just singing directly in front of them Phineas was so zealous of God And then he just had to kill them both. Okay, I'm not advocating for killing people doing wrong But the aspect of zealousness, right? there There've been so many characters in the Bible who have shown zeal for God Despite what other people around them are saying Right. What are some of the characters you guys remember who have shown so much zeal for the Lord despite any Consequences or despite what other people around them are doing job job is one of them, right? I mean his family his wife himself try to tempt him to cast God and die But he was like, no, I have to do the right thing. Thank for that another person Joshua remember when the Israelites had turned to other gods. He said as for me and my house Yeah, we will continue to serve the Lord. True. Uh-huh. One last person someone who was actually your age There's a name of Daniel. Yes Daniel was in a foreign land where everyone is doing the wrong thing including his fellow Israelites Yeah, who would told they are going to eat the king's food and the eight by him and his three of the friends are like No, we are not doing this. That is a kind of zeal that John is calling for, you know We should not love the world all the things of the world And that's why we're told again in James if we love the world We're drifting father and father away from God because the world does not do what God wants Okay, let us move on Ashley the flashlight The flashlight and I will read yet We have our work to do to resist temptation those who would not fall approach to certain devices must gal wed God well the avenues of the soul They must avoid reading seeing or hearing that will with that which will suggest in pure thoughts The mind should not be left to one that random upon every subject of the adversary of souls may suggest and you know She doesn't say that which will cause in pure thoughts. She says that which will suggest it is a suggestion and The things we think about us crosses our mind is a choice You can say well, it just popped into my mind and said I talked about it. You decided that's a thing so We should control That train of thoughts and choose what we want to think Philippians chapter 4 verse 8 Philippines for 8 It's right in the punch lines and have salmon reader trust Finally brothers and sisters Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely whatever is admirable If anything is excellent or please worthy think about such things Philippians 4 8 So I think from that Is a person who said you don't Drown by falling into a river you drown by being submerged in the river Temptations are temptations do come. Yeah, but we got we need to guard our minds If if you're watching movies, what do you expect you expect a temptation? So when you're being tempted you fall you get submerged into the temptation and you see because invited Exactly, you know something that just crosses my mind now is that we are not tempted for things that are totally out of our way We are tempted after our own loss And you know I'll be sitting here and I'll not be tempted to start smoking It's it's unknown. No, it can never happen If you've not exposed yourself to yes, but I can be sitting here and I'll be tempted. It's on Sabbath and There's a movie. I was watching a series and this it's coming out at 2 and I'm in church Yeah, where's my mind? It's already gone to the movies. It's coming out at 2 I want to go home, but where am I supposed to be in church tempted after the things that I like So our stars our idols the people we follow the poor you want to be around the poor we wish to meet in real life Those are our last and that is what we attempted after Thank you for that Now it brings me a question. Let me just ask we have talked mostly about how Media and entertainment and you know our leisure time can mostly be spent doing the wrong things that the devil wants But what are some of the right ways we can spend our leisure time? What do you think are the ways you can replace some of these things with should bridge it and then you can come to someone? Yeah Even what we are doing now in and of itself is a good way of Spending time with God. Yeah So making friends who will encourage you to spend time with God that you can speak about godly things That is definitely a plus for a young person There are two men you'll enjoy books There is no way you can say I Have nothing to do. Let me watch a movie This book sell to build our minds. My dad recently has been on my back I The books in the house. You have no trade There are some books. I was gifted after my baptism some had no trade since I was baptized in 2021 some were in the house sitting in the shelf had no trade so my dad is very Concerned is concerned was most of the time if he's not at work if he's sitting in the house and Not working He's reading the Bible Hey, he's sitting there. He's reading and is he listens to worldwide preachers Samoans, so it's like all you do is sit on your phone. You play now By the end of the week, he gave me pastrex and prophets And some books about health So I am sure there is no way I think opposed to entertainment. We should focus more on recreation We can go swimming we can go playing basketball rugby and These things will use the energy that we would cause us to do things that are not right We could create hobbies. You could build a bad house. You could paint you could garden you could Landscape you could arrange flowers There's so many things that God created that we can actually do other than just sit before a cinema and There's a lot going on the media industry that is not good, but I think we need to understand that God is The creator and making us in his image. He makes man to love to create we can flood the Movie industry with godly things We don't always have to depend on holy wood and the other industries and block poster and all these things we can create sources of Recreation for Adventists who want something to watch and do not have anything to watch and that way we would spread the message of God Thank you for that Ashley and so the parts the part of the problem of Why we get tempted or why you fall into temptation is because we do not put our mind to work All right Common problem an idle mind the devil's workshop now the devil when he finds your mind is idle He's going to try to fill it Nature aboes vacuum nature hates a vacuum any empty space in nature has to be filled Now if your mind is empty and you're not feeling it with godly stuff Or you've not been feeling it with godly stuff and the devil comes to its first. What is it going to do? Fill it with his own things and that's exactly why most people are sure for temptation It's because you have not engaged your mind in godly things to be specific You can engage yourself in other things. Yes, but the devil can find you there But when you're engaged in godly stuff Draw close to God and it'll draw nearer to you like that. That is what we get now May make a comment yes to bring it Just as you've said It seems from even the start of this chapter of numbers 25 That the Israelites had just gained victory over the people of Bashan and so they were in such a good mood They were just relaxed in a fertile land and no they were like, okay You know, then the mob by two men just started creeping in slowly And now the point I want to make here is the fact that they thought the women Should be their objects of them falling into this idolatry And you know, it's even something that happens in this day and age You're advertising a car. There has to be a woman. You're advertising. I don't know books There has to be a woman in the newspapers It's a woman and even if you look at the Bible look at people like David Look at King Solomon, you know Women have been the downfall of a couple of people in the in times past and even in this day and age And in fact, we are told that it's the leaders who actually engaged in this immorality with these women And if you read Proverbs chapter five Let's just get Proverbs chapter five verse three and four King Solomon himself who was who also fell prey to women says this For the lips of a strange woman Drop as an honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than oil Vos forces but her end is bitter as one would sharp as a two-edged sword And so it is calling us out. We need to be careful and especially even to the men, right Women can come and they can be the source of your downfall But we need as we have said we need to guard the avenues of our heart And and trust that God will help us overcome Amen, amen and same the same Solomon again tells us in Proverbs 4 23 You know above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it Now in the olden times they thought they knew that the heart is what makes your decisions, but you know, it's the brain, right So when they refer to the heart they refer mostly to the emotional part of you right Guard your emotions guard what goes into your mind your mind controls your whole body what you see what you smell Whatever single thing you do now once your mind is guarded Everything every part of you is God and that is what we are called to do all right, um We can just move on John 3 16 this is a very common verse John 3 16 and 17 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who so ever believed in him should not perish But however lasting life It's lost Verse 17 says For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world But that the world through him might be saved true true amen for that and that is Actually, I think one of the most important verses in the bible and it portrays the whole plan of salvation Into that one phrase Now ellen white says in projects and prophets page 460 The heart must be renewed by divine grace or it will be in vain to seek for creative life He who attempts to build up a noble virtuous character independent of the grace of christ He's building his house upon the shifting sand Nothing can strengthen our relationship with god Than understanding his plan for our divine his divine love and mercy For us and that was shown through jesus christ giving himself up to die for our sins in calvary The moment we understand The pain that god felt in giving up his son the pain christ felt when he was dying on that cross The effort it took to just offer himself up to take up every single burden that we are going to face right now The moment we just understand The toll of sin on our lives It's going to be very hard for us to fall into it again And it's god's grace that saves us you learned in the previous verse in the previous lessons again We're not saved by works It's grace the grace of god covers all our sins Now if we try to do all these good things independent of christ It becomes harder for us. That's that's what illinois says. It's like building a house on sand But by relying on god all these temptations that face us every single day in our lives They're going to be easy to conquer Those of us in james that says that god will keep us from falling And first peter one five says that we are kept by the power of god through faith You know We think that because we are in the church will not fall Or that we are holy or that we work according to the statutes here in First corinthians 10 11 to 12 says let him that thinketh He stands take heed lest he falls It's also impossible that the slave of passion will be able to realize the sacred obligation each of us has to the love of god If we are slaves to our passion and we do that which we incline to alone We will never realize the obligation we have to the love of god Yeah, so We choose our passions and if we become a slave to it look at it this way If you watched our Netflix show the entire sabbath night and you come to church Are you able to listen? You're sleepy. Yeah, even if you're not sleepy your mind is still your mind is still there You're thinking about you know that part you're still replaying it and all that stuff It happens to me happens to so many people And we are slaves to our passion because well, I wanted to watch that season and it's friday And I didn't have time during the week So I just have to do it tonight because tomorrow I'll be in church and then I'll come back home and sleep early, you know because and and Because now I'm a slave to my passion I forget that it is sabbath You disregard the laws of god. Yeah, so All right Is we almost coming to close? Father inside it like said We haven't had you for a bit It was the father inside I'll get the closing comments So now it is by leading the followers of christ to associate with the ungodly and unite In the amusements that satan is most successful in allowing them into sin We cannot be too decided in shunning the company of those who exert an influence to draw us away from god Hmm that is basically bad company corrupts good morals Yeah, the devil when he says he cannot tempt you by your own self He's going to lead you to people who do not do godly things All right Closing comments now as we finish So as we close I'd like to remind you that god has created us in ahiraki It's the mind then the hearts then the appetites And similarly we ought to use them in that order So you you think first with your mind and then everything else follows. So in closing some 119 verse 9 to 11 It's a common verse that um We usually read and I'll just read it in your hearing sums 119 Verse 9 to 11 And it says where with all shall a young man cleanse his way And the answer given is by taking heed there too According to thy word verse 10 with my whole heart have I sought thee all let me not wonder from their commandments And finally verse 11 Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin Against thee and so we're given one of the strongest Fortitudes for us to guard our hearts And even as someone told us you need to have read from the start of the bible to the end And there's so many lng white books read all that rather than spending your time in things that will not help you And with that I think I would like to invite Ashley to give us a closing prayer Just before we pray I'd like to Say two things one if gods people faithfully follow His word there will always be a clear distinction from the world It cannot be otherwise And the other one for those who feel like they've wandered away from god Let this be our prayer creating mere clean heart o god engineer right spirit within me That sums 51 10 Let's pray Father in heaven we come before your throne of mercy your grace is our sufficient and we bow and we seek it At this time of need you know every youth every teenager out there Somewhere those who hear this voice In you know each one of us with our struggles each of us have our flaws and our struggles and the things That beset us the things that cloud our minds the things that Hold us back from following you and giving our lives fully Lord this journey you said is narrow and the people are few Many a times we are drawn to the majority yet. We forget that you have called us To your mother last light we ask lord that you give us strength to walk And you give us strength to keep walking straight because we may walk and fall That you hold us you keep us from backsliding keep us from falling And that we will love you and that the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of your glory and grace be with us now and forever more for these are humble strangers name Amen