Redemption by Price and Power Words By: Isaac Watts Tune to: Amazing Grace
1. Jesus, with all thy saints above My tongue would bear her part, Would sound aloud Thy saving love,. And sing Thy bleeding heart.
2. Blest be the Lamb, my dearest Lord, Who bought me with His blood, And quenched His Father's flaming sword In His own vital flood:
3. The Lamb that freed my captive soul From Satan's heavy chains, And sent the lion down to howl Where hell and horror reigns.
4. All glory to the dying Lamb, And never-ceasing praise, While angels live to know His name, Or saints to feel His grace. *****
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” Jude 1:24-25
***** Like Coins from the Same Mint! My dear sir, I could write a long note indeed, upon your very great mistake in considering me as a great man. If we could have a personal interview--I think you would be quickly undeceived! Ah! how different I am--from what perhaps I appear to be to others when in the pulpit. Your mistake, however, has done me good. A whole quire of invective from an enemy could hardly have given me so keen a sense of shame. The Scriptures assure us that our hearts by nature, like coins from the same mint--are all alike. I hear my fellow-Christians complain of evils similar to what I feel. Otherwise I would have reason to conclude that there could not be one believer upon earth--so inconsistent, so evil, so vile beyond expression--as myself! Ah, dear sir! what would you have thought of me--had you seen me when I lived among the slaves? The sight of me would have been offensive to your eyes, and my vile speech would have struck you with horror! I was miserable and despicable in every view--the common mark of scorn and insult! My whole wretched amusement and pleasure seemed to lie in blaspheming the name and person of Jesus, and in feeding my imagination with schemes of wickedness! Some of my unhappy companions have perished in their sins--who have just cause to charge the ruin of their souls to my account! For Satan himself, had he been upon earth in a bodily shape--could hardly have been more industrious in tempting to infidelity and profligacy than I was! There is seldom a day of my life, in which my thoughts are not led back to my former state of estrangement from Him, and that pre-eminence of wretchedness into which my sins plunged me! Yet, it is of grace that my poor story is not much worse. The Lord is my keeper--therefore, I am still preserved. "By the grace of God--I am what I am!" 1 Corinthians 15:10 I am, dear sir, your affectionate friend and servant, John Newton, 1778 (Writer of Amazing Grace) (From the Letters of John Newton) Every heart that has been renewed by sovereign grace takes Jesus Christ to be the chief object of its love. –C. H. Spurgeon Soul Satisfaction... The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here on earth. Earthly fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, children and friends are all ‘shadows’ But God is the ‘substance’ All earthly delights are but ‘scattered beams’ But God is the ‘sun’ All earthly delights are but ‘streams’ But God is the ‘ocean’ -- Jonathan Edwards *****
The Lord God of Elijah When the Lord God took Elijah up into heaven, Elisha took up the mantle of Elijah, smote the waters, and cried, "Where is the LORD God of Elijah?" (2 Kings 2:14). Where is He? He is in the heavens; He is in Christ Jesus; He is in His Word; He is on the throne of grace; He is in the midst of those who believe and worship Him; He is in every act of providence; He is in every breeze, every cloud, every moment, every heartache, every tear, every joy; He is in all who believe, for "Lo, I am with you always." --Henry Mahan *****
Christ has done more to honor God than all the sins of men hath done to dishonor Him. Yea, so infinitely precious, so incalculably great, hath been, and is, the vast merits, and the blood-shedding of Christ, in doing away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself; that over and above the honor restored to God by the Lord Jesus, there is a redundance of merit, that millions of ages can never so full recompense, so as to say, the WHOLE IS PAID, and NOTHING MORE IS DUE! --Robert Hawker ***** Daily Readings - March 13-19 Sunday - Joshua 7-8 Monday - Joshua 9-10 Tuesday - Joshua 11-13 Wednesday- Joshua 14-16 Thursday - Joshua 17-19 Friday - Joshua 20-21 Saturday - Joshua 22-24
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