JESUS DIED FOR ME Tune to “THERE IS A FOUNTAIN” CM/DOUBLE Words by JIM BYRD
1. The death of Christ on Calvary, His wondrous love and grace, His blood that sets the prisoner free, Compel my heart to praise. For who can be compared with Him, The sinner’s perfect plea? This is my song and joyful theme, That Jesus died for me.
2. My sins were on the Savior laid, And Jesus bled and died; His soul a sacrifice was made And God was satisfied. Was ever love so great as this? Was ever grace so free? This is my glory, joy and bliss, That Jesus died for me.
3. Angels in radiant splendor meet, Around the Savior’s throne; And bow with reverence at His feet, His glories to make known. Those happy creatures praise His Name, With endless unity; But I can sing, He took my blame, For Jesus died for me.
4. Soon I shall see Him face to face, My Savior, God and King; And I will praise Him for His grace, And of His mercy sing. I’ll join the white-robed choir above, And through eternity; My voice will sing of sovereign love, For Jesus died for me.
SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: MORNING: PSALM 135:1-6 EVENING: JOHN 5:32-47
“Thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt Thou compass him as with a shield.” (Psalm 5:12)
ALPHA AND OMEGA Jesus crucified should be the Alpha and Omega of all our preaching and teaching. Woe to the man who makes anything else the subject of his ministry. “God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14). Do not tell me you preach sound doctrine, you preach rotten doctrine if you do not preach Christ. Preach nothing up but Christ, and nothing down but sin. Preach Christ; lift Him up high on the pole of the gospel, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, and you will accomplish your life’s end, but preach orthodoxy, or any form of doxy, if you have left out Christ, there is no manna from heaven, no water from the rock, no refuge from the storm, no healing for the sick, no life for the dead. If you leave out Christ, you have left the sun out of the day, and the moon out of the night; you have left the waters out of the sea, and the floods out of the river; you have left the harvest out of the year, the soul out of the body; you have left joy out of heaven, yea, you have robbed all of its all. There is no gospel worth thinking of, much less worth proclaiming in Jehovah’s name, if Jesus be forgotten. We must have Jesus, then, as Alpha and Omega in all our ministrations among the sons of men. –C. H. Spurgeon
THE GLORY OF GOD Such as do not truly know God can never sincerely aim at the glory of God in what they do. For what I do not know I cannot love; what I do not love, I cannot desire; what I do not desire, I can never intend. And, therefore, if I do not know God, I can never intend His glory in my actions; and if I do not intend His glory in my actions, I sin upon that very account, because I do not intend His glory. –copied
IMPUTATION “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). “He” - God the Father who designed the salvation of a multitude of sinners before the world began. “Hath made Him” - God the Son who was appointed by the Father in the covenant of peace to be Surety for all those entrusted to Him by sovereign, electing grace. “Made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin” - the only way the holy, impeccable, eternal Son of God could be made sin was by imputation - the sins of all His chosen people were reckoned to, charged to, transferred to the account of the appointed Savior of sinners. “Hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin” - this is that body of people, chosen unto salvation, set apart from the rest of the perishing world according to God’s eternal purpose of grace. “Might be made” - these words do not imply that maybe these will be made the righteousness of God, and maybe they will not. They mean - in order that - and declare a certain result. “The righteousness of God in Him.” - as Christ could only be made sin by imputation, so the only way sinners could be made righteous was for the righteousness of Christ to be imputed unto them. This is that everlasting righteousness referenced in Daniel 9:24 which Christ Jesus brought in by His substitutionary death and resurrection. The transgressions of the world of God’s elect are not charged to them (verse 19) but to Christ and His righteousness is imputed to them. They are, therefore, declared by God to be legally acquitted of all guilt. “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth” (Romans 8:33). –Pastor Jim Byrd
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