Words By Isaac Watts Arrangement by L. Mason/G.F.Handel

1. Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King.

Let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing,

and heaven and nature sing,

and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

2. Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ,

while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains

repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy,

repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

3. No more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow

far as the curse is found,

far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.

4. He rules the world with truth and grace,

and makes the nations prove

the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love,

and wonders of His love, and wonders, wonders of his love.

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"The LORD reigneth, He is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith He hath girded Himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved." Psalm 93:1

"The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble:..!" Psalm 99:1

Jesus Christ is–

Lord,

Master,

Governor,

Ruler,

Shepherd,

Prince,

Prince and Savior,

the great Prince,

the Prince of Life,

the Prince of Peace,

the Prince of princes,

the Prince of the kings of the earth,

a King,

the King,

the King of kings and Lord of lords!

He is God over all, blessed forever!

Christ's kingdom is universal. It includes all worlds, all creatures, all causes. Nothing in heaven, nothing in earth--is outside of it. His saints praise Him. The angels adore Him. The devils are subject to Him. The king's heart is in His hands, and He turns it wherever He will. His kingdom rules over all. His kingdom is supreme. Nothing can shake it. Worms cannot spit their venom so as to reach the stars in their course. Nor can puny mortals reach the person or the power of our glorious Immanuel.

Christ's kingdom is omnipotent. By His own divine efficiency He carries on His government. He upholds all things by His powerful word. He does His will in heaven and in earth. Not an empire rises or sinks, but by His will. Not a sparrow falls to the ground, without His notice. Every change on earth is by His providence. He gives no account of any of His matters.

His work on His people is mighty.

He subdues them to Himself.

He reigns as their Lord and Master.

He chains their great adversary.

He subdues their iniquities.

He strips the world of its fatal fascinations.

He makes them willing in the day of His power.

He leads them into all necessary truth.

"Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" Revelation 19:6 --William S. Plumer

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God's providences are but the manifestations of His decrees.

What God does in time is only what He purposed in eternity.

--Arthur Pink

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“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”

Here we may behold Deity incarnate: God manifested in human nature! Turn aside, and see this great sight: contemplate this object with fixed attention, until your heart is suitably affected by the contemplation: gaze with the eye of faith on this brighter "Morning Star," gaze on this nobler "Sun of Righteousness," until every sublunary object is eclipsed by its superior splendor.

--Robert Hall

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