Why Am I A Christian?

If you’ve ever wondered what your life will amount to when the noise fades, this sermon lands like a mirror. In this message delivered by Rev. John Jackson, we open 2 Timothy 2:1–13 and wrestle with a question that’s both simple and personal: “This is why I am a Christian.” Not as a slogan, but as a reason to endure, to grow up in faith, and to live in a way that actually holds together when pressure hits.

We talk about what it means to build a legacy that lasts from God’s perspective. Not just what we leave behind, but who we shape, who we help, and how the gospel of Jesus Christ gets carried into the next generation. Paul’s words to Timothy push us toward discipleship and spiritual maturity: be strong in the grace of Christ, stay plugged into God’s resources, and stop trying to run on pride and self-sufficiency.

Then we get practical and honest about the price. The soldier, athlete, and farmer images show a Christianity that requires discipline, focus, and a willingness to say no. We also dig into what it means to center our lives on Jesus as the hub of the wheel, not one spoke among many, because when He’s central, we can get back up after failure and keep moving forward.

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Transcript

Welcome And Church Mission

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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 and a lost world. Let's get into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.

Scripture Reading From 2 Timothy

Prayer For Ears To Hear

Why I Am A Christian

Building A Legacy That Lasts

Be Strong In Christ’s Grace

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Alright. Okay. Now listen, I got a large reading this morning. I'll be reading from 2 Timothy, 2nd chapter, verses 1 through 13. I mean, this word really got to me. I was telling Carol, I don't know how, now listen, I got no introduction. I don't. God's gonna give me something. I know he does, he always does. But this uh these words in 2 Timothy, the second chapter, verses 1 through 13, they really spoke to me. So if you can stand for the reading of God's word, 2 Timothy verses 1 through 13 will form the basis of the message today. Here's what it says, George, how are you? And 2 Timothy 1 through 13. It's worth it recorded for us. It says, You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The things which you have heard from me in the presence of my witnesses, and trust these faithful men who will be able to teach others. Suffer hardship with me. This is for as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in acts of service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life so that he may please the one who enlists in him as a soldier. Also, anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. The hardworking former ought to be the first to receive his share of the cross. Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. Amen. Remember, Jesus Christ risen from the dead, a descendant of David according to my gospel, for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal, but the word of God is not imprisoned. For this reason I enjoy all things for the sake of those who are chosen as us, so that also may obtain the salvation within Christ Jesus, with it eternal glory. It says it's a trustworthy statement. For we died with him, he will also live with him. If we endure, we will reign with him. If we deny him, he will also die deny us. If we are faithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. God bless your reading of your word. I was reading out of the New American Standard this morning, church. Let us pray. Father, I thank you for the opportunity you give me this morning to stand in the shoes of so many women, men, and women standing behind these pulpits all over the world. Lord, I just thank you, Lord, for the opportunity to share your word with them. Now, Father, Holy Ghost, that resides in me and resides in you. We ask that we have ears to hear today. We thank you, God, for who you are and all that you do for us. We have been blessed. So again, Father, I thank you. Take my stammering tongue, hold it tight, so I may declare your word to your people. So, Father, I thank you, and I ask it all in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. My subject today will be after reading these verses, this is why I am a Christian. This is why I'm a Christian, Sandy. What I read in these verses helps me become the man of God He's called me to be. When I think about the goodness of Jesus and all He's done for me, Sam, my heart just yells, hallelujah. Praise to God that loves me more than I love myself. Clyde. This is why I'm a Christian. It's amazing, church, that when I got saved, you get saved and you walk with God and you learn, you study to show yourself approved unto God. Then he does a work in you if you let him. He did a work in me, church. Years ago. I remember my wife came home, she said, we're done partying, we're done with all that stuff. I said, okay, we threw the beard on the sink, we got together, and we started serving God together. And I thank God right now that we have joined hands together to serve our God together. But when I became a Christian, I realized some things that I never thought about before. I started to think beyond things in my lifetime. I start thinking about things like life insurance, college funds. You start to wonder what kind of legacy you will leave. So I got first got saved. I didn't think about no legacy call that. But the more I walk in God, they said, nah, John John, John Jackson, you got to live a life that people will see. Maybe they want to emulate it. Maybe they want to see what God has done for you because He's done wonders for me. If you're a Christian, you also wonder what kind of role your life will have played in fulfilling God's purposes on earth. You all got a purpose. God got a plan for everybody's life. But it's up to you to let Him work it in and through you. You see, for a Christian, a legacy is more than a nice inheritance for your children. Or go watch for 20 years of employment. It's more than buying an RV and joining your grandkids. A legacy from God's perspective is participating in the purposes of God in our world. I said, man, I didn't get an amen. Weenie, I thought I'd get an amen after that. Because you think about it. A legacy from God's perspective is participating in the purposes of God in our world. That's what they sang about this morning. What's your purpose? Because God has a purpose for you. Legacies. When I think of names of Christians made over the past years, people like John Wesley or John Watcliffe or Patrick Henry or Dale Moody, these men, their life counted for something. Because today we think about what they've done and how they they serve God and love God and they love people and they help people. And that's our job, what we must be doing. My two favorite words are love and help. But here's my question for you this morning. What kind of legacy will you leave? Are you living a kind of life that's built to last? Because if your life for Christ will last, you'll see it in their lives, you'll see it in their kids, you'll see it in their friends, you'll see it around. Because when Christ does something for you, listen, when Christ does something for you, it will last. So today we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about how to live a life that lasts. A life that's built to last is more than being successful in life. It's more than being happier or a life that's upwardly mobile. It's more than sinning, standing married and having kids to turn out okay. The life that's built to last is the life that makes a mark. If you want to live a kind of life, you're excited to know what I'm going to talk about today. If you're excited what kind of life you'll have, you'll listen to this message today. As Paul reflects back on his own life's legacy, he's leaving, he gives young Timothy some important advice about how to live a life that lasts. Church, be strong in the grace of God. One way to study the Bible is to pay close attention to this commandments. God commands us to do some things, church. He don't say you can do if you want to, maybe if you want. He says, do these things. So let's look at verse one. The command here is to be strong. See, you gotta let your light to be strengthened. Because God will do it. Or be empowered, God can do it. In other words, you don't get strong by trying harder or drawing, drawing from your own strength. But being strong in this sense is no matter how gritting your teeth or flexing your biceps might be. The kind of strength that comes from the outside of ourselves, from the grace found in Christ Jesus. That's where you get your strength from Jesus, church. Grace is a kind of a catchphrase. We say, the grace of God. What's that mean? You gotta have a mirror to favor, babe. Your God's blessing is on your lives. So where do we find church? If we want to live a life that's built to last, we need to find our strength and God's resources. Every person in life is like a power tool. Plug it in, it'll do something. I had a power saw. I got it out. I got ready to cut. I didn't plug it in. Yeah, if it didn't do anything. You gotta be plugged in to God's resources, church.

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Hallelujah.

Entrust The Gospel To Others

Pay The Price To Endure

Make Jesus The Center Hub

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See, the love we need to care about people, the patience we need when we're frustrated, the courage we need and we face fears. All these things from being plugged in to God's grace. Lives that don't get plugged into God's grace won't have the resources to leave a very significant mark. Because that's the key. What kind of mark are you gonna leave? Maybe you don't have kids, but you've got friends. Maybe a mom and dad. When you plug into God's resources, you get strength. I'm not talking about going to the gym, lifting weights. I'm talking about the resources God gives you. Love, peace, joy. The things God gives us, the compassion. Those are the things God gives us. If you want them. A lot of people got some self-egos, they got some pride, they got these things, and they think that's gonna do a class, but don't won't get it. It's humility to admit that we've sinned against God and to trust in Christ for our salvation. But until we do that, we can't plug into God's grace. We find ourselves being like a power to unblood. Only lies that on power was God's resource or leave on mark the last. To your parents out here, the word tells us to train up a child and a way he should go. When he is old, he won't depart. When they get teenager, just they might leave. But when you give them God's grace, you share them the things of God, they'll come back. See, just only the lies empowered with God's resources. We'll leave a mark to last. The one reason why we meet together each week is to be empowered by God's grace. Did you wake up this morning with the alarm clock or did God wake you up? God woke me up. That's God's grace. That's one reason why we meet together as we church. That's why we come here. To get encouraged. To admit that we can do it alone is the problem. The thing you can do it alone, we need God's grace operating in our lives to be the kind of people God wants us to be. Our worship. When we come together to worship, it breaks a spell of self-sufficiency so we can embrace a sense of God's sufficiency. Y'all get that? Listen. To break the self, to break the spell of self, depending on yourself, to be sufficient. It don't work. So we can embrace in the sense of God's sufficiency. God will supply all your needs. Now just review what's happening behind this letter. Remember that our Arthur Paul was in the Roman cell. He knows his time of execution and nearing his life. He knows he's gonna die, he's gonna be executed. Because making a mark to last and went to Timothy. Timothy is in Ephesus because they had some trouble there. Paul tells Timothy, go to Ephesus. Got some work to do. But then he writes Timothy another letter. He says, Timothy, come to Rome before I get executed. So in verse 2, Paul gives Timothy a plan how to help the church in Ephesus before he leaves for Rome. What he teaches Timothy is to entrust. Notice the generations of Paul and Timothy. Luke. The men that Paul sold his life into are gonna be the men and the women gonna help in God's work. See, a reliable person is someone who will keep the message intact. Someone who won't add or take away from anything. It's someone who will hold on to the message, preserving integrity. Yet the reliable people must also teach others. And ultimately, they too will pass a message to another generation. So they must be equipped to find reliable people in the next generation. So they can pass a message to. Listen, what you're learning in here, it ain't for you only. It's for others. So when you share what you learn through Jesus Christ, you can entrust it to other people. And it's reliable people, people that you know, they're gonna carry this message of Jesus Christ without giving up. This message of Jesus Christ has to be passed on, church. We were in a Bible study on Friday. I mean some guys here talking about Islam is a fast-growing religion, you know. But the growing religion in our country. It's called the nurse, the church of the nuns. You ever hear that? The church of the nuns? It's people that don't believe in God. It's growing so fast in our country. Don't take the kids to church like some of you do. Leave the husband and wife. It breaks a family apart. If you don't build a life to last, be the father God has called you to be. Be the mother God has called you to be. Be the person God has called you to be. This is what it's all about. To be Christ like. Oh my goodness It's amazing I think by the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me. See, I want my life to last after I'm gone. I want my son to carry on, my grandkids to carry on. This life we have in Christ has to be shared is beautiful. If we don't teach others, how are they gonna learn? It's our job, church. It's our job. See, that's why I'm a Christian today because it's my job God gave me to share the gospel, live the gospel, to help people, to love people. That's what it's all about. I'm just amazed. Now we need to multiply our influence through our children and friends. Although we must resist the urge to project our own dreams on our kids, we multiply our influence by instructing our kids in biblical values and equipping them to live Christ in their lives. In fact, part of the legacy we leave our world is to our children and grandchildren. But you gotta be the example. You can't talk one thing and walk the different things. If you walk it, you gotta talk it. You can't be a what word do I want to use? Don't be a BS. Be true to who you are in Christ Jesus. There's another thing I want to talk about today. Are you willing to pay the price? Are you willing to pay the price? We come here sometimes, it's cold outside, snow outside, raining outside, all kinds of things, but you're here. You're paying the price. Paul tells him in that third verse, he says, This suffer hardship with me as a good soldier for Christ Jesus. Paul endured a lot of hardship, beaten, stay bitten. Paul went through a lot, but he was willing to pay the price. Now, Paul. You know, Paul glorified in his suffering. Or just something else at work here. Does Paul like to suffer? I don't think so. But he's willing to pay the price to his suffering. Note the word preacher. So I use word preachers sometimes. When I use word preachers, it lets you almost see what I'm talking about. Willing to pay a price. What'd he say? Be a soldier. Now you know about how many vets we got in here? I'm the only one. One can taste a thousand, two can taste ten thousand. A soldier endures hardship because being a soldier is an demanding way of life. I have a cousin named Lu Long and he was in Vietnam. And some of those battles they showed in arm were he was right in the middle of it. Matter of fact, his brother had to join the service and go get him out of Vietnam. He paid the ultimate price, and I'm telling you what, he's still messed up today. He's not sociable, no friends, like isolated, like your your sister's husband, Aaron, because they paid the price. Her sister's husband was a helicopter pilot. He's talking about just the killing and the things he went through had an effect on him. But he is willing to pay the price. Soldiers endure hardship. Soldiers are exposed to the elements, the danger, to times, our food, the shelter. It's a dangerous and demanding way to live. I think about a U.S. soldier, a U.S. pilot named Scott Brady, who was shot down out of an F-16, shut down a Bosnia, and Captain Brady, he invaded a Bosnian service for six days until he's rescued by the Marine Corps and this rescue team. But during that time he lived eating bugs, leaking the dew off the leaves from plants. Because being a soldier was demanding a soldier who's willing to pay the price. See, a Roman soldier wasn't even allowed to marry until he was enlistment time was over. This is years ago. Instead of soldier wanted to please his commanding officer. You see, back then generals would recruit their own soldiers to serve in their units. So the commanding officer is often the person who recruited the soldier. So that soldier was dedicated to that officer. So that's what I'm talking about, church. Are you a soldier in God's army? Some days, I don't know about you. I don't wake up every Sunday. I can't wait to get to church. I can't wait to get to church. Sometimes I don't want to come. Bible said sometimes, Donald, I just don't want to come. But I'm willing to pay the price. Because I know if I come, I'm gonna get blessed, you're gonna get blessed, and we all get blessed. Because we're willing to pay the price. This army of God's lesson. We're the soldiers in this army. We got work to do. We got lives to help get saved. We got people that are sick and down and they need help and they need love. That's our job. And you willing to pay the price, Sam. Sometimes we don't want to go, but we go because we're willing to sit. We're willing. We're willing to, we're willing to pay the price. The focus here is so much not on fighting as a soldier, as it is the single-mindedness and the self-discipline. It takes to stay distangled from things that please Jesus. The kind of listening, single-mindedness, is kind of suffering because it means saying no to certain things. There's a lot of things I had to say no to when I became a Christian. Because I was messed up, Jack. But God. I know he's gonna finish it. Today of Christ. So we got an athlete. Not an athlete. We got a we got an athlete and we got a soldier. And also talks about a farmer here. No, I'll tell you, a farmer. I'll call that you know me for a while. A farmer as a hard-working man. I'm like a city boy. You know? Upset like a city boy. And I remember I had a cousin named Ronstringer. He worked on a farm. He couldn't wait to get to the great metabolis of Vandegra to get away from that farm. He'd be so happy when he would come. But I went out to one night and I stayed with him. Four o'clock in the morning, we're up. I'm feeding the chickens, the city boy. Milking cows. And then tend to the clocks. But I got to go home and get my bed and stay in the bed the next morning. He didn't. He had to get up at 4 o'clock the next day. He had to go and do the work he was called because he knows if he didn't plant, there was no harvest. That's why with us, we needed to plant too, church. So we have a harvest of people that know God. They see God in life, God working, God doing things. Because we're supposed to examples, church, to the world out there. A soldier. An athlete. Think about an athlete. We see them on TV, always think about, boy, they make a lot of money. But we don't see what they have to go through. Some of these professional ball players, Clyde knows, they start out 10 years, 12 years old. For the next nine years or so, they're working every day. They're doing things to build themselves up. Because they saw, they know to get what they need to get, they got to put time in. They got to pay the price. And that's what I love about these three examples of the soldier and the actor and the farmer. They're good examples for us to see what happens when you do it the right way. Church, if you want to live a life that's built to last, you better be willing to pay the price. Everything worth doing in life comes with a price. Keeping my marriage together, I'm pointing at you guys. Through years comes with a price. Graduating with a college degree comes with a price. Starting your own business and then growing and flourishing, it comes with a price. The same is true, living a life that is built to last. It means saying no to certain things like a soldier, like an ass, like a farmer. It means single-minded devotion to the task, just like the soldier's devotion to his or her commanding offerings, just like the athlete's devotion to winning. Just like the farmer's devotion to harvesting a cup. There are no shortcuts, church. Even us, there's no shortcuts in this. You gotta put your foot to the middle and you gotta go on and go on. And when you fall down, get back up. And then also think about this. Remember Jesus Christ from the dead, descendants of David according to my gospel, for which I have suffered hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal, but the word of God is not imprisoned. For this reason I endure things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. I don't think people realize you know what you're chosen, and I want why don't people get this? What's so hard about getting up Sunday and taking your kids to Sundays going to church? What's so hard about loving people, Jeff? What's so hard about helping somebody in need? It's not hard. We just gotta do it. I'm not saying everything's gonna be easy, but God makes a way for us to be faithful. So sending our lives. Our lives gotta be centered around Jesus. See, that's why I'm a Christian, because my life is centered around Jesus. Do I make mistakes? Yes. Do I fall down? Yes. Do I get my mouth in trouble? Yes. There's so many things I can get better at. But my life is centered around Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. See, the focus on sending your lives in Christ is on Jesus' resurrection. He was a descendant from ancient Hebrews from King David. Both of these factors qualify Jesus to be the Messiah, the Christ. In fact, both the resurrection and the descent from King David are also mentioned in Romans 1, 2, and first chapter of Romans, verses 2 and 3. When you legally qualify Jesus to be viewed as the Messiah. This message for which Paul is sitting in prison still waiting for his execution. Yet despite his suffering, he committed to enduring it to the very end. He will not falter or waver. Even it means his own death. He knows that other Christians are watching. And how he endures the suffering will help obtain surveillance salvation in the midst of his suffering. Because somebody's gonna watch on you. Somebody's watching you. Somebody got your eye on you. Make a mistake and watch him. I told you. I told you. I told you. That's a Christian. That's why I'm not a Christian. I told you. People are watching us all the time. And you don't, I'm telling you, and they're waiting for you to make a mistake. You aren't waiting for you to do good. That's the world we're living. Because they don't know Christ like we know Christ. When you think about your life and you think about how you were and where you are right now. When she sang that song, I've been blessed. Hessed you've been. You know, God's been so good. She's just so very good to me and you.

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Very good.

Commitment And Never Giving Up

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So how we find the insight. If we want to live a life that's built to last, we need to center our lives around Jesus Christ. That's what Paul did. That's what encouraged Timothy to do. And that's what the Bible encourages us to do. Put your life as a wagon wheel. Okay. A wagon wheel with a hub. Now, the wagon wheel, where's the hub at? It's in the center, right? Jesus needs to be the center of our lives. We got spokes coming to the hub. It's just amazing when I think about this. I was writing this now thinking about how it works. If you got a couple of bad spokes in there, the world won't ride right. So it's important that we put Jesus in the center of our lives. He's here, your marriage is here, your kids are here, your job is here, your church is here. Things are here and there. But it's important, church. It's so important that we center life around Christ. People will try to make good news of Jesus is just another spoke on the wheel. Don't live lives that are built to last. Some people, Jesus is not the center of the lives. So if he's not the sinner, where's he at? Their entire lives is a battle for control. As they try to domesticate Jesus and keep him regulated to the religious part of their lives. It's a constant battle for control. As Jesus keeps reminding that person that he is Lord, yet they refuse to let him be the center of the hub. How many of us have biked as kids? How many of you wrote a bug and you broke a spoke? And broke two spokes. The world just wouldn't go right. When you have that sin, all the spokes are connected. Boy, you can ride all day long and all night. And that's what I love about Jesus being center of my life. When I fall, he helps to get back up. When I say wrong words or something, his grace is sufficient for me. People trying to make the good news of Jesus just another spoken of will don't work. Jesus has to be the center of the hub. I go and get up everybody runs. We help you gone. We help you gonna go. I love that. I told them I'm okay, I can make it. I don't give up. I keep moving forward. I keep trusting God. I let Jesus is a center of my life. You can't give up. It's a certain project, the first shape, very far. But the goal of my God is love. And I've got time. We need to give something. The big away. He said, You want to contribute. He said, Well, I gotta make a commitment. God's a big dude. He just couldn't give one thing. He had to give himself. And that's what being committed to God is, church. Being committed to him. No matter what you go through, no matter what your problem is, no matter what it is, you gotta remember, church. You can't give up. The thing was Jesus that gave up on the cross. This name really gave up and got down. I'm tired. I'm tired of getting beat. He didn't. He didn't give up. We can't give up. We gotta keep our hands in the hands of the one who killed the waters, as they said. He was a young boy, nine years old. And he was gonna make some money. He decided. And I said, Oh you won't wait for it. He was swimming. He thought I was getting tired. He kept saying, I'm almost here. I'm almost here. He said the beginning was a hard. He said I was I was cold and I was just getting tired. But he kept saying, I can't give up. I gotta keep going. To the choppy waters. He kept going. His classmates was waiting on the shore and cheering as he made into aquac park. He said, Go, Johnny, go, go, Johnny, go. The great janit, Johnny, and Johnny's finished. And a mile of mile and a quarter mile after the race. He finished the race. There were two kayaks falling. And a coast card and a helicopter. They were married, but he didn't give up. That's a commitment for God. And to God, we are not committed, are we? For the cause of Christ. Are we committed? Well, I don't know about you. I'm committed to Jesus. This is why I'm a committed. Never done. Christ did. Nobody else could redeem me. Come on, wickedness. But Jesus did. Nobody can pay the price for my salvation. But Jesus did. Nobody can prove my shame. But Jesus did. Jesus gave it to me. You need my spill your knees. Jesus did it. Jesus did it. It can die my dear. Jesus did it. He can be bad, my home. Jesus did. Jesus can live my heavy bird. My heavy bird. Nobody's gonna bless me. None of these things go out for myself. And nobody else for me. But Jesus. That's why I'm a Christian today. I'm a Christian today. I'm a man of God today. Because what Jesus did for me. He He didn't give up on me. When I was flocked, when I make mistakes. I wouldn't say the right thing. Pastor, he never gave up on me. And that's why I'm a Christian today. Because Jesus never gave up on me. My question to you. Are you gonna give up? You're gonna keep going. He's a burden carrier. He'll take everything and do everything you can't do for yourself. That's what Jesus is to me. That's why I'm a Christian today, Church. I don't know about you. I'm just so thankful. My life is centered around him. I'm glad that he gives you strength to endure to the end. The race is not given to the sword, church. I just want to endure to the end. And you cannot endure without Jesus Christ. Thank you, Church. For listening to me. I got this message last night around about five o'clock. And I thank God for it, because it meant a lot to me. I just say this is why I'm a Christian. I'm a Christ follower. He is my life.

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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 at 1069 Butler Logan Road, Springdale, Pennsylvania. We invite you to listen to this week's worship service that follows and tune in for next week's podcast.

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John 1 16. Out of his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Worship Song I Have Been Blessed

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Church, we live in the goodness of God, in his love, in his mercy, in his forgiveness, and in his blessings, on my back and shoes on my spot of you and me. I have been good. I have been back for a second. I have been blessed, I'm not a big spot of you and me. Oh my god, that's not enough time. Oh I just think for me, so I have been good. I have been wet Arms that can break, and a voice that can talk, hands that can touch, and legs that can walk, ears that can be that can see. I've got two great and as long as I break I have a turn to break Mr. Our has turned to Lina Pistol Stripes that can heal up to me of you and me know where I can come for me so I have been good Oh every good I have been when I'm not where he's when I oh well and the place where he hides me under the squig He's not just a talk It's a print I have I have you and baby Oh I can't play all time I have been good Oh every good I have been black I have been blessed I still put me now where I can come enough So I just take him for being so caught Oh God has been good so very good I have been I am I am I am I I am for all Jesus my state is a lot