Valley Gospel
A Pentecostal church experience.
Valley Gospel
High Calling of God
What happens when you realize that a passive Christian is as mythical as a unicorn? Join us as we unpack the vibrant journey of active Christianity with personal stories of struggle and renewal. I share my own experiences of drifting away from my faith and how, with the unwavering support of my family and congregation, especially my daughter, I found my way back to a renewed spiritual calling. Discover how the essence of an active Christian life is reflected in continuous growth in love and faith, and why staying still is never an option.
Imagine the gospel as a cure not just for the soul but for the core of your being. We'll explore this vivid metaphor, comparing spiritual depth to the process of curing meat, emphasizing that actions without genuine faith are hollow. Through this engaging analogy, we reflect on how our faith must penetrate deep within us, much like salt ensuring the preservation of meat. It's a call to align with God's will, ensuring Jesus remains central, as we navigate our spiritual paths with intention and purpose.
Nature offers profound lessons, and in our final segment, we draw parallels between plant growth and spiritual growth. By examining the biblical parable of the talents, we highlight how vital it is to utilize the gifts God has bestowed upon us. The episode concludes with a powerful celebration of praise and worship, uniting us in adoration of the eternal nature of the Lord. As we lay a sure foundation in Zion, we reflect on strength, faithfulness, and the unwavering call to worship the divine together. Join us for this transformative exploration of faith, action, and community.
But not because of you, but because he is good and you will not have room to receive Him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Woo, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Hello, welcome to Valley Gospel Church. We are a non-denominational Pentecostal church located in Springdale, pennsylvania. Our sole mission is to present the living truth of a risen Lord Jesus Christ to a remnant church in a lost world. So let's go into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.
Speaker 3:Somewhere alongside of Grimm's fairy tale Peter Rabbit, snow White, those seven little people, porky Pig, superman not to leave you girls out Wonder Woman, bat Girl there stands one more mythical creature, another fairy tale creation, just as unreal as all that I've named, just as much a caricature. And that creature is a passive Christian. A passive Christian. You see, there's no such thing, no such thing as a passive Christian. Those two words can't even be combined. It's an oxymoron, it's like dry water or cold heat. They don't make any sense. They can't be A windy calm, a loud silence. They can't be a windy calm, a loud silence, which would be a good message title, but it doesn't make sense. And please understand God, the Holy Ghost, changed my message yesterday. I was working on one on positive confession and even after I was all finished yesterday, daniel, I'd okay, this is good. Yeah, you're not getting it. You're not getting what I'm trying to relate to. You. Put that one back in the drawer, we'll work on something else. So this is a brand new message that I had to tell Chrissy Whoop other scriptures on something else. So this is a brand new message that I had to tell Chrissy Whoop other scriptures doing something else.
Speaker 3:You see, if you're a Christian, a born-again child of God, one of the king's kids redeemed by his blood, if we are led by his spirit. Passivity is inconsistent with the name Christian, it just doesn't fit. The name Christian, how many of you know, means what? Christ-like? Yeah, like Christ, like Jesus. And Jesus was always on the move. He was always on the move. He never okay, we'll just let that take care of itself. Always on the move, he was always on the move, he never okay, we'll just let that take care of itself. Always on the move. It's inconsistent with our mandate that says to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every living creature for a witness. So it's inconsistent with our beliefs that Jesus redeemed us, saved us with his actions, with his actions, with what he did, what he accomplished.
Speaker 3:You see, as Christians we have two gears. There is no neutral, no park. All we have is forward and reverse. There's not even a clutch, sam, not even a clutch. You, not even a clutch. You can't even stall it. You can't. You're either going forward or you're going backwards. If we're not growing and going forward, we're sliding backwards.
Speaker 3:Christianity isn't a spectator sport. It isn't something that we get off on the side, or we come and listen and okay, I'm done for this week. We got that done. It's not a sit-down system. Either love grows, either love grows or it begins to die. Either love grows or it begins to die. If we're not more in love with Jesus today than you were a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, 10 years ago, if you're not more in love with him today, then we're falling away.
Speaker 3:And look, I speak from experience. I allowed personal, perceived personal, it doesn't matter whether they're real, whether they were real or not personal offenses to interfere with my walk. I was treated personal offenses to interfere with my walk. I was treated this and that and I allowed that to interfere with my walk and I began to fall away, not reading the scripture, not praying, not even attending church services for not just a couple of weeks, for a long period of time. You know, when I was at one with the Holy Spirit prior to that, I remember driving to my job at CMU and before I got to the Highland Park Bridge I would start to worship in the spirit. I would cross the Allegheny River, allegheny River Boulevard, washington Boulevard, fifth Avenue, all the way to my workplace in Oakland and when I would pull into my parking spot, I would stagger to my office drunk on new wine every day. And that all went away, not instantly, slowly, day by day, year by year. That all went away, that relationship, and I lost it for years. And yeah, jesus never left me that wasn't the point, I wasn't and I fell away from him. It was me who left the room. And don't misunderstand, I wasn't evil, I didn't start cheating on Arabelle and going out and getting drunk. But the comfort and the power that I once possessed that comes from communion with Christ, was gone. Come on, chrissy, let's go to work.
Speaker 3:You see, I knew, not just thought or hoped back prior to my backsliding. I knew that as I crossed the Highland Park Bridge, the mountains that are on the other side, I knew, if there were reason I could say to the mountain be thou removed and cast into the Allegheny and it would obey. I knew that, absolutely knew it. You know, I'm thankful to my family, thankful to this congregation. I'm especially thankful to my daughter, stephanie, who kept me connected, even if it was just driving her to a church, because she never disconnected, even though we did, she didn't and she would go and play her accordion somewhere.
Speaker 3:Dad, can you drive me to the? Okay, I'm thankful for all of your obedience and prayer, thankful for the support and I'm thankful to God that he didn't remove my calling prayer. Thankful for the support and I'm thankful to God that he didn't remove my calling, that he didn't remove my calling and that this day today, 2025, I stand before you as a fully armored soldier of Almighty God. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah. So if you have your Bibles, turn with Chrissy, please to Philippians, the book of Philippians 3., 3 and 13,.
Speaker 4:Whenever you getthren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3:I use for subject this morning those words the high calling, the high calling. Let's pray, heavenly Father, I believe that I am in your. No, I know that I am in your will this morning, that all I really need and all I desire is to be in your will. I'm persuaded that whatever is said and heard this morning is what you have ordained and you have anointed, even though I was a little miffed that you changed it on Friday. I ask you to anoint me to rightly divide this word of truth and fill every member here today to overflowing good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. We praise you, father, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Please be seated.
Speaker 3:Throughout the New Testament we are directed to grow in the Lord. In that passage that we just read, that Philippian passage, paul says it's insignificant what I have accomplished, what I have achieved personally, however many people I've reached, however many churches I've opened. I have to reach forward to the things ahead. Let's just look at those two words, high calling, and we get that confused, I think, at times, because does it mean that we are better than lowly Christians who don't really get it. Does it mean we're a cut above? Does it mean or imply that we'll ascend to lofty heights? Now, before you let that roll around too much in your mind, let me remind you of what Isaiah recorded regarding Lucifer. In Isaiah 14, he said I will ascend above the hills of God. He said I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High, my like the Most High. My Paul's words exhorted the Philippians, and you and I, that we put everything we have, all that we are, into the will and the work of God. That this doesn't. Our work doesn't come first. Our work doesn't come first. Our education doesn't come first. Pardon me, but even your family doesn't come first. We're to put everything into the will and work of God. So the will of God, what is? It Gets confusing sometimes.
Speaker 3:The will of God, what is the will of God? The Bible says that it's God's will that none should perish. All right. So we know that everybody dies and we also know that not all are saved. So is that the will of God? It's God's will that we prosper abundantly? Yeah, that's a false teaching, and we know that everybody doesn't abundantly prosper financially, or any other way for that matter. So what's his will?
Speaker 3:Let me ask you a question to begin that how many of you know that God has a perfect plan for your life, a blueprint that shouldn't be deviated from A written plan that's prepared just for you, only for you? He desires, he wills, a certain course of action, a plan, a map, an instruction booklet, a means and a way of attaining the finished work, and he has that for everybody in here. He has that plan that he's willed for our life. Now we all have the choice. The entirety of believers has the choice or maybe you could insert that word there. We have the will of either attaining that finish or we can ignore the map that God created.
Speaker 3:Now I got a better one. I know what you want when I think about this morning's message. That was it Good. You want to finish it on your own. Go ahead. That's not what I want. Here's what I want. What are you going to do, pastor? I told you, whenever he calls me pastor, I know there's another shoe coming down, coming down.
Speaker 3:We can be in God's perfect will continually, or we can be in and out of his will on pretty good Sunday through Tuesday and Wednesday. I get a little wonky, I start working on my own. Or we can be out of his will completely and we know. We can know that we're in his will when we're doing his work. That's how we know when we press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, of God in Christ Jesus, in the person of Jesus Christ alone, the person of Jesus Christ. Call that at the cross, where we met him, we find the will of God. That isn't religious mumbo jumbo. Stay with me. We find not only the will of God, we find the work of God. You see, jesus is our all in all, he's everything. He is. As Judy's mother, emily, used to tell me, jesus Christi, tutto in tutto, it's all in all, he's everything. He's not just the curer, he's all in all, he's everything. He's not just the curer, he's the cure. He's not just the means, he's the way, he's everything. He's not just the work, he's the will. He's the wheel in the middle of the will. If that makes sense to you. As Ezekiel said, he's the wheel in the middle of the wheel. If that makes sense to you. As Ezekiel said, he's the wheel in the middle of the wheel. He's everything, because there is no wheel without a middle of the wheel.
Speaker 3:When we think of our work as Christians, sometimes we think about, well, taking care of someone, or feeding someone, or caring for the sick, or meeting the needs of the less fortunate, however that may be food banks, outreaches, whatever we do. But here's the thing a lot of people do those things that never call jesus lord. They do great things, do wonderful things. It's my reference to the kiwanis with a cross. Kiwanis do wonderful things but but they're not a Christian organization. Amen, christ isn't their Lord.
Speaker 3:See, christians don't have a lock on good work. We know the work is important, but Jesus said faith without works is dead. But he also said that our works are as filthy rags and pardon my language, but the interpretation is toilet paper. There's filthy rags if your heart is far from me. In other words, keep your good works. I don't care how many people you stop with hot dogs if you're not bringing them to me Now.
Speaker 3:I know I've stirred some thoughts and questions with this opening Not my opening, by the way. How do we put this together? How do we put it together? God's will and God's work? How does that fit? What ties the two together that we might attain the mark of the high calling? And what is the mark of the high calling? We'll get there as love binds the family together, as perseverance pulls a business together. Not giving up, you can't do this, not going to work, don't care. Moving forward as a sunny day makes a garden grow weenie.
Speaker 3:As Christians, church goers, we can do the things we're expected to do. We can say all the right things. We can use the proper terminology, the amens to hallelujahs. We can do all that. But if the word of God isn't in our heart, if it isn't in our heart, raise our hands. If you're raising your hands for exercise and not in reverence and obedience and praise to our God, keep them down. If Jesus has not penetrated our thoughts, our soul, our minds, our emotion and abides there 24-7, we cannot and will not attain our high calling.
Speaker 3:Let me give you a quick explanation. Maybe you'll get this, maybe you won't. This is from the Jimmy Bierneser School of Understanding Things. Jimmy always said I don't understand things. I need something that helps make sense of the word. I need something physical. I need something that I can understand. I'm going to give you that. I need something physical. I need something that I can understand. I'm going to give you that Right now, in my fruit cellar there are hanging capicolas coppa dry, cured pork, shoulder All right, ugly looking things.
Speaker 3:There's also some soppressata and just so you know I'm not being racist and making this all about Italian food there's also wadnosi Polish meat stick. All of it is being cured. All right, stay with me now, I won't lose you here. These capicolas are encrusted with salt, all right, they're completely white. They look like pods off of a horror movie. And spices and cures. And if that cure doesn't penetrate to the center of the capicola, that's about yo big. If it doesn't penetrate to the center in the allotted time, it spoils. It's no good. The meat again, forgive my language, the meat rots. So what are you trying to make? The point? You and I, living in America, we're encrusted with the gospel Podcasts, music, outreaches, gather, we're encrusted with the gospel. But if that cure doesn't penetrate to the center, if it doesn't penetrate to our innermost being, if he isn't our all in all, if he's not within us, if he doesn't reside in you, you will rot. Now I expect to cut the Capicola sometime in March and it'd be bright pink all the way through. That's what's supposed to happen. That's what the cure does and the way that I'll, that's how I'll know that the cure worked the first cut and you see pink the whole way through. You know the cure worked, hallelujah.
Speaker 3:What cures a Christian? What cures a Christian is Jesus, the word of God, penetrating to our innermost being, and it's the means. Jesus and him crucified the cross. That's what cures a Christian. You know, I've heard teachers say that we have to metabolize the word of God, and that always creeped me out. I didn't like the word. It sounded clinical metabolize the word of God. But it is correct. We need to metabolize the word of God, take it in, let it do its job, let it do what it was intended to do God's word, jesus. The word enters through our ears. Right Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, and then it's taken into our mind and given to our spirit. Hallelujah, metabolized. I told you I didn't like the word, but metabolized into pure raw energy.
Speaker 3:I always tell someone if you're struggling with something, if you're working against something, if there's issues in your family, your household, your business, just read the Word. Well, what should I read? Pastor, doesn't matter To start if you're not acquainted with the Bible. It's pure power. It's pure power. Get it in. Get some Word in. You can start reading for content and understanding at some other point. Just get some Word in. Get some word in. You can start reading for content and understanding at some other point. Just get some word in, some energy.
Speaker 3:We can only do what God wills by his word, by the Bible. It's the only way, because we don't know what to do or how to do it without his word. Then it's all on our own, then it's all on. Oh, that sounds nice. I told you the story about when we started our CD podcast. I had this great idea, wonderful idea, took it all down to Harmerville and all the equipment, set it up and got everything ready and got the CDs in and I said, well, I better pray. So I knelt down in front of the altar and here's what the Lord spoke to me. He said, pastor, don't ever do that again. Eww, what, I'm just trying to get your word out. He said I'll anoint it and allow you to keep it, but don't ever do what I haven't commanded you to do again. Wake up, wake up, call Danny, wake up, danny.
Speaker 3:God's word is more than written on the pages. God's word is a lamp unto our feet. It's a light to our path. It's food for our hunger. It's drink for our thirst. It's answers to every problem that you might face. I don't care what you brought in here today. God's word contains the answer. God's word is the answer. It's strength from our weakness, it's rest for our labor. It's power for the oppressed, it's courage for the coward. That's what God's word does. It's the only truth for a lost and wicked generation. Thy word is truth, and the truth will set you free. The truth will set you free. Let me give you just one more analogy. I'm not an analogy guy too much, but I want to give you a brief lesson in horticulture.
Speaker 5:Very brief.
Speaker 3:How many of you know that God gives us so many important messages through gardening, through the growing of plants, so many important biblical messages? He does some with carpentry, jeff, but not a lot More gardening. Some of you might know how a plant or a flower or a tree works. Two sets of cells right, xylem and phloem. One carries nutrients up to the leaves to sustain the leaves, and the other set of cells carry nourishment food back down to the roots in a deciduous plant to store and into an evergreen. It has to be used. How many of you know that an evergreen doesn't store any food? It has to manufacture food all winter long. It has to do its thing, no matter Deciduous plants store a bunch of food and go to sleep like a maple tree. But and, by the way, the blue stuff that you buy and we call it plant food, it's really not plant food. Plant makes its own food. Photosynthesis doesn't need blue stuff. It's okay. It creates nutrients and helps the plant do what it does photosynthesize nourishment from the sun. God's got it all set up. Sun provides everything they need. The blue stuff just helps that along, especially when we plant in bad soil. Anyway, we're not a lot different as Christians we know God's word is our food, our nutrient. We take it in and it becomes God's work, it becomes God's desire, his will. If we continue to grow, if we continue to feed that and we continue to grow, then we become a mighty oak. Mighty oak, we become a Christian oak tree or a cedar of Lebanon, pressing toward the high calling of God.
Speaker 3:Let's get some scripture Matthew, matthew 25. I like this account in the Bible. I'll try to make it plain. Account in the Bible. I'll try to make it plain Matthew 25 and 14. No-transcript. For the kingdom of heaven is the man traveling unto a far country who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods, and unto one he gave five talents, to another two talents and to another one, and every man according to their several ability, and straightway took his journey. Alright, so you see what's happening. He divided money amongst these servants and he left let's just jump up to 25.
Speaker 3:And I was afraid and went and hid the talent in the earth. You see, one of the servants went and hid. All the other ones brought a return. One servant didn't. He was afraid. He went and hid it in the earth and there has died that in thine. His Lord answered and said unto him Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed. Thou oughtest, therefore, to have put my money to the exchangers and, at my coming, I should have received mine own, with usury, with interest. Therefore, take, therefore, the talents from him and give it unto him which hath ten talents, from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
Speaker 3:Now, everything that we're taught in this give and take world doesn't seem to apply here. The man who had the least and was cautious and safe with the money, the Lord says take it away from him, give it to that guy who has money Wow, he gets us doesn't come up with this. God has given us everything we need, is my point. Everything we need is Christians. Everything we need is children of God. To grow, to prosper, to do well. All we need to do is take the initiative to grow. That's our job. If we reject what he's given us, if we reject any part praise, prayer, study, gathering together, assembling ourselves, christian work we slow our growth. We slow our growth as Christians, and if our growth slows too much, we begin to die as Christians.
Speaker 3:The proper use of the money that their master gave them is key here, in that you can read from 14 to 28. It's really powerful, but the proper use of the money is the key, not the amount they were given. That really is inconsequential. The fact that they worked to make it grow opened the gates to the places of joy. The fact that they put to use what God had given them. The man who did nothing with the money is called wicked, sinful and given to evil. He was just trying to give them back what he got and he's called sinful and wicked.
Speaker 3:If I have learned anything in my short ministry is that God would rather you get out of the boat and try to do something, even if you fail, even if you do it wrong, and this applies across the board to work, to exercising gifts of the Spirit, to laying hands on the sick. God would rather you try than sit back and do nothing. Rather you try than say well, what if it doesn't work? What if it doesn't sound right? We might mess it up? Yeah, we might, but God's there to take your hand, god's there to dust you off, set you back on the road, say come on, let's go forward, let's move.
Speaker 3:Matthew still in 25, 29 and 30. For unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath, and cast ye, the unprofitable servant, into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Gets a little heavier Now. Not only are you wicked and slothful, now you're cast out into the outer darkness, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth. That's a shocking verse and it's often either skipped or it's misinterpreted or misapplied. It's not mean, it's not unfair. As we understand our high calling and we'll realize it's the only way that it can be. It's called the Matthew Principle. Why I'm a story guy today? I always liken this to another story, kurt.
Speaker 3:We for years hunted up on Lock 9, right and from the river whew, steep, steep. Billy and I, my brother, would go there every day for the first week of buck season. And as I climbed that Lock 9 hill the first week of buck season and as I climbed that Loch Nine hill the first day, I had to stop 10, 12 times. It was steep and there was a tram road that wound back and forth through this to get to where we would hunt Day one, day two, not looking forward to it now, day three, ah. But by the end of the week I'd get to the top and I'd look back down and go, huh, I didn't stop at all, I didn't wheeze, I didn't have to take my jacket off. It's pretty easy. I made it. In fact, I could have climbed higher and steeper. I could see the Matthew principle To those that have worked to achieve, have worked to gain, I'll give them more and it will be less strenuous.
Speaker 3:I'm going to give you more and you'll find it easier. I'm going to take care of this Now. We could choose to do the opposite. We can choose to refuse to use our strength and if we carry it to the extreme, we could say, yeah, I'm staying on the couch where it's warm and cozy and sip hot chocolate. But if we do that, we'll grow weak. Our muscles begin to deteriorate and are pressed toward the mark. Our spiritual lives stay the same or fall away If we pray and this is another term.
Speaker 3:I'm not crazy about pray continually, it's like we need to. There was a certain sect of Israelites that would walk around and they wouldn't lift their heads and just pray, and they called them headbangers because they'd bump into walls because they never lifted their eyes to see where they were going. So they'd bump into trees, bump into. They were always all bandaged up. So I don't like to use the word pray continually.
Speaker 3:But if we're in constant communication with our God, if we study his word, if we practice in our gifting, if we exercise the strength that God has given us, we will grow. The strength that God has given us, we will grow. There's no other alternative. There is no alternative. We will grow. That has to happen. I don't care how much you're retaining, how much you're getting, you will grow. And as we grow, as we press toward the mark of the high calling, don't be discouraged. Don't be discouraged by high calling. Don't be discouraged. Don't be discouraged by small beginnings. Don't be discouraged. Well, I can only get through a chapter and I did. That's okay. Don't be discouraged by small beginnings. I think about.
Speaker 3:Paul would have thought what he would think today I don't know if he can see it or not, but what he would think about the worldwide church, what he would think about this gathering of Christians happening at the end of the month. I wonder how he would see that. What Abraham would say about his promised seed? You know he heard that they're going to cover the world like the sands of the sea. Yeah, I'm not quite getting that. I wonder what he'd think now. I wonder what the 120 in the upper room think about the moving of the Holy Ghost today. And that has kind of a flip side, doesn't it? That it probably has two understandings there.
Speaker 3:2 Timothy 1 and 6 says Fan into flame the gifts of God. Fan into flame the gifts of God. Hebrews 6 and 1 says flame the gifts of God. Hebrews 6 and 1 says let us go on from the elementary teaching and grow into maturity. Grow. Second Peter says grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior. And it goes on and on and on. Life in Christ, life as a Christian, is action Grow, praise, love, learn, reach, put on, put off, take on, take off, hold, run, stand, fight. All verbs, all action, do things, growing what God has given. And I'll close with this because it fits really well. Another story Little boy walking along the country lane past a farm pond I think I preached this as a message once and he could see in the pond a plastic jug and, just being a good steward, he decided to fish it out.
Speaker 3:He gets a stick, he fishes out the plastic milk jug. He's cleaning that up for the farmer. When he gets the jug out he realizes that inside is catfish. A catfish that had grown too big to get back out of the jug Must have swum in there as a minnow Couldn't get back out.
Speaker 3:It provided protection but not really good nourishment. He didn't get all the good things. He didn't get to eat the frogs and the chubs and none of that. And the fish was skinny. The fish was pale and enough food had floated in that jug to keep him alive and he didn't have to venture out at all. But as he grew he couldn't get out and the place that once held him safe had now become a detriment. He grew weaker and weaker and the little boy cut open the jug, let the catfish out into the pond to face the storms, the danger. Bigger catfish, but to be nourished and to grow as God had intended, he needed to get out. You and I need to grow strong, nourished by what God has supplied, what he's already given you. Amen, amen. Pressing toward the mark, oh, perfect spot. Pressing toward the mark of the high calling.
Speaker 5:Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. We pray it was an encouragement and a blessing to you. You can contact us at Valley Gospel Church, 1069 Butler Logan Road, Springdale, Pennsylvania, 15144. We invite you to listen to this week's worship service that follows and tune in for next week's podcast. Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1:Yes, baruch Adonai Elohei, israel. Adonai, blessed is the Lord, adonai Elohei, israel. Adonai, blessed is the Lord, min Ha'olam, vad Ha'olam. Praise His name Forever and again. Min Ha'olam, vad Ha'olam, blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel. So let the nations sing and praise Him and Israel will say Amen. Sing all you nations, hallelujah, and Israel will say Amen, hallelujah and Israel will say amen. Amen. Baruch Adonai, elohei, israel. Adonai. Blessed is the Lord. Adonai Elohei, israel. Adonai, blessed is the Lord. Blessed are you, lord, our God, king of the universe.
Speaker 1:Baruch Adonai Elohei, yisrael Adonai. Blessed is the Lord. Adonai Elohei, israel. Adonai. Blessed is the Lord Min Ha'olam, pad Ha'olam. Praise His name forever and again. Bar HaOlam, bar HaOlam. Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel. So let the nations sing and praise him and Israel will say amen. Sing all you, nations, hallelujah, and Israel will say amen. So let the nations sing and praise him and Israel will say amen. Sing all you, nations, hallelujah, and Israel will say amen. I lay in Zion A sure foundation, a stone. I lay in Zion A sure foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious part of stone.