Need and pain
Fight to gain
Complete control
Of all you know

Jesus comes
Healing pain
Meeting needs
Enabling your gain

Now you see
You were lost
You claimed life
In Jesus Christ

His life rebuilds
Giving worth
Guiding you
You are new

New in Christ
New in life
Daily growth
Strong advice

The way you walk
Brings you near
The Father hears
You have His ear

Alive and strong
No more alone
Joy comes
Soon you’ll go home

Sin is everywhere we look
It rages in the world
Sin was so bad
Christ had to come
To offer God’s love
To you and me

Jesus cared enough
He paid my price
Giving me life
When death was deserved
Willing to sacrifice
To give me a new life

Jesus is God’s everything
In Christ I can be free
He controls the future
The Lord of all
Called all
He seeks to save you and me

Christ comes uniting
Giving man a chance
In Christ we find each other
Uniting where we split
So that we will not suffer
Or be left alone to face death

In Jesus I have life
In Jesus I belong to God
In Jesus I have what I need
To live and serve
And be what I can be
Living life abundantly

It wants to be god
To declare the way
People should live
How they should pay

In its wake is poverty
Hate and evil rule the day
Only a few have their way
The rest of us will starve

The world condemns Jesus
Because He is King
The Holy One who came
And died for me

Christ is Lord
And Lord of all
Eternal love
He will not fall

The world is dying
Every day
Overrun by ignorance
From foolish man

The world divides everyone
The rich and poor
The hungry ones
And breaks each man’s heart

The helpless are killed
The wealthy won’t live
The world builds a place
That no one leaves alive

Death and destruction
Both hold sway
Without Jesus
There will be no new day.

I cannot deny my sin
It holds me near
Confusing me
As I seek to be free

I do the things
I say I won’t
And walk the lanes
I swear I don’t

The sickness comes and goes
I waver on broken toes
Never able to run the race
I always fall on my face

Then the Lord came looking
His love had my name
He said He had a vaccine
That would free me from this pain

Whosoever will can come
He said my freedom was done
In Christ I am complete
By grace He destroys defeat

Victory is mine
I am free from my bind
Each move I make is a choice
And Christ will keep me free

Evil is worse than we think
It stands in line to destroy
Lining up our weakness
Seeking to control

Satan knows our pathways
He is a deceiver from old
Always ready to lead us
Down roads we shouldn’t go

Everyone is a victim
Of sin’s evil swath
Overcome by blindness
We never see its stain

I need a cure
A new heart
And to be pure
And Jesus makes us new

Jesus destroys sin
He paid the price for us to go in
Into the room where the Father sits
I can have fellowship with Him

Christ enables wisdom
That I might grow
Becoming equipped to serve Him
To be used of the Lord to show

Show the world a solution
To its trouble and strife
A new life will be a blessing
It relates us to Christ

Now each day I serve Him
Peace begins my walk
The Lord of all is in me
He gives me His all

The world belongs to God
He has spoken in Christ
And Christ is looking for me
He is seeking to set me free

His love is for me
He cares that I see
The way that I can be
And seek each day to live free

Free from the sin
That so easily pulls man in
Free from the voice
That calls me to destruction

He wants me to know Him
To grow and be like Him
Confident in Christ
Able to live and walk free

My freedom is a call
To tell one and all
So that they may be
A child of God and free

This is His world
It is a place of joy
But joy only comes
Because He has won

The victory is in me
It helps me to be
Courageous and true
Equipped to live for you

You are my charge
I am here to help
You are not alone
Christ will come

Everyday choices
This way or that
Will we win?
Will we lose?

We see the other side
Greener and plush
We want that
What we have is not enough

Then the cheating comes
Lying to get ahead
Covered up with evil
We quickly lose our way

More is what we choose
Bigger, better, to amuse
Then we sense the pain
Life is not our gain

What can we do?
To find our way back
Bend the knee to Christ
He brings light and life

Start with Him each day
Give Him all you have
He will give you back
Then you will not lose

Change is the key
Good choices build me
I want to be the way I saw
Before sin deceived me

Everyday we choose
The way to win is clear
Give your life to Jesus
He will keep you near

Near to success
Near to good choices
His wisdom will provide
The strength you need for life

Now I daily walk
Along His lighted path
Holding on to Him
His love will make me win

I. ALL OF US SIN
a. Bondage (1:23-25)
b. Sickness (2:5)
c. Religion(2:17)
d. Works (2:27-28)
II. ALL OF US NEED JESUS
a. To conquer Satan
b. Cure sick souls
c. Bring value to life
III. CHRIST WILL COME
a. About the Father’s business
b. Calls each of us to tell
c. This is His world
IV. YOU MUST CHOOSE
a. Stay where you are
b. Change
c. Grow

Oh dark night come
I want to grow
Come and change me
Make me whole

And yet I fear
That which is dear
May lose its hold
And leave me here

Do not o night
Let me drift
Away from things I know
Clasp my soul

I seek to control
And in control
Discover the truth
I am not in charge

But in the mist
I cannot remove
I find the change
So dearly sought

Pain and heartache
Evil I refrain
Cleanses me from habits
Presenting me new and changed

Again I am whole
A new me unfolds
Until the bell is tolled
O dark night of my soul