JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS TUNE "IT IS WELL" WORDS BY JIM BYRD
1) O how shall a soul that is sinful and vile, O how shall that soul be made pure; When works of the flesh are but unrighteous deeds, And the heart is corrupt and impure?
CHORUS: Jesus died for our sins, Jesus died, Jesus died for our sins.
2) ‘Twas in this great way, God His law satisfied, The blood of the Savior was shed; Our ransom was paid and redemption was done, Christ laid down His own life in our stead. CHORUS
3) Come hear this glad sound of the word of free grace, For sinners the Savior was slain; No work but His own could the law satisfy, Or remove all of sin’s guilty stain. CHORUS
4) When facing the Lord in His stern holiness, When standing before His great throne; What words shall we say in that most solemn day, Since no work we have done can atone? CHORUS *****
SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: MORNING: 2 John EVENING: Romans 1:1-15 *****
Though they (God’s saints) have sinned in Adam, and were so wretchedly guilty and filthy in their nature-state, so prone to backsliding, and guilty of so many after conversion, and though a body of sin and death is carried by them to the grave; yet they will at last be presented by Christ in perfect holiness, to complete righteousness, and in the shining robes of immortality and glory. --John Gill *****
A GOLDEN HYMN TAKEN FROM THE PREFACE OF HART’S HYMNS J. C. Philpot called the preface to the hymns of Joseph Hart (1712-1768) the most weighty piece of writing ever penned by man after the Scriptures. The following is the first part of this excerpt, the balance of it will be supplied in the next couple of bulletins. Joseph Hart wrote “Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”, which we sing, among a long list of hymns. Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, is now the only thing I desire to know. In that incarnate mystery are contained all the rich treasures of divine wisdom. This is the mark towards which I am still pressing forward. This is the cup of salvation, of which I wish to drink deeper and deeper. This is the knowledge in which I long to grow; and desire at the same time a daily increase in all true grace and godliness. All duties, means, ordinances, etc. are to me then only rich, when they are enriched with the blood of the Lamb, in comparison of which all things else are but chaff and husks. Pharisaic zeal, and Antinomian security, are the two engines of Satan, with which he grinds the Church in all ages, as betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. The space between them is much narrower and harder to find than most men imagine. It is a path which the vulture’s eye hath not seen; and none can show it us but the Holy Ghost. Here let no one trust the directions of his own heart, or of any other man; lest by being warned to shun the one, he be dashed against the other. The distinction is too fine for man to discern, therefore let the Christian ask direction of his God. These two hideous monsters continually worry and perplex my soul; nor is the former, though appearing in a holier shape, one whit less, but (if possible) more odious to me than the latter. Therefore, from the wonderful dealings of God towards me, I endeavor to draw the following observations. On the one hand I would observe, that it is “not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God which sheweth mercy.” That none can make a Christian but He that made the world. That is the glory of God to bring good out of evil. That whom He loveth, He loveth unto the end. That though all men seek, more or less, to recommend themselves to God’s favor by their works, yet “to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” That the blood of the Redeemer, applied to the soul by His Spirit, is the one thing needful. That prayer is the task and labor of a Pharisee, but the privilege and delight of a Christian. That God grants not the requests of His people because they pray; but they pray because He designs to answer their petitions. That self-righteousness and legal holiness rather kept the soul from, than draw it to, Christ. That they who seek salvation by them, pursue shadows, mistake the great end of the law, and err from the Way, the Truth, and the Life. That God’s design is to glorify His Son alone, and to debase the excellency of every creature. That no righteousness besides the righteousness of Jesus (that is, the righteousness of God) is of any avail towards acceptance. That to be a moral man, a zealous man, a devout man, is very short of being a Christian. That the eye of faith looks more to the blood of Jesus than to the soul’s victory over corruptions. That the dealings of God with His people, though similar in the general, are nevertheless so various, that there is no chalking out the paths of one child of God to those of another; no laying down regular plans of Christian conversion, Christian experience, Christian usefulness, or Christian conversation. That the will of God is the only standard of right and good. That the sprinkling of the blood of a crucified Savior on the conscience by the Holy Ghost, sanctifies a man, without which the most abstemious life and rigorous discipline is unholy. Lastly, that faith and holiness, with every other blessing, are the purchase of the Redeemer’s blood, and that He has a right to bestow them on whom He will, in such a manner and in such a measure as He thinks best; though the spirit in all men lusteth to envy. End of part 1 of 3 The full text can be found at: http://hymnbook.igracemusic.com/resources/joseph-harts-preface *****
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