Hello and welcome back
to Praise I'm Kelly Mowrer
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Sometimes in my personal worship
I like to open the Bible and put
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it on the piano and sit there
and play quietly while I read
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the very word of God. I thought
today together we would try that
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same thing looking at
particularly passages of
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scripture in music on the topic
of God's great love for us.
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In Isaiah 53, the prophet wrote,
All we like sheep have gone
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astray; we have turned every one
to his own way and the Lord hath
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laid on him the iniquity of
us all. Surely he hath born our
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griefs and carried our sorrows,
yet we did esteem him stricken,
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smitten of God and afflicted,
but he was wounded for our
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transgressions; he was
bruised for our iniquities.
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The chastisement of our
peace was upon him and with his
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stripes we are healed.
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Scars Rudy Mecilli
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I have dreamed to
see Christ face to face.
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I have longed to
hear his tender voice,
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Of the story of his love for me.
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I will want to ask him tenderly
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Tell me what scars are these
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In your feet and hands
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Tell me what scars are these
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In your face.
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These are wounds with
which I have been wounded
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In the house of friends of mine.
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Tell me what scars are these
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in your feet and hands?
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Tell me what scars
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are these in your face?
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He will say, These are
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the marks that tell you
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That I have loved you endlessly.
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When I think of all
my Lord went through,
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Bitter suffering
on that rugged cross
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On that day when
I get on that shore.
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I will want to
ask him more and more.
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Tell me what scars are these
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In your feet and hands?
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Tell me what scars are
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these in your face?
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These are wounds with which
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I have been wounded
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In the house of friends of mine.
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Tell me what scars are these
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in your feet and hands?
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Tell me what scars are
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these in your face?
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He will say these are the marks
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that tell you
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that I have loved you endlessly.
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I'll always love you endlessly.
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Oooo.
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Paul writes in Romans 5,
Therefore being justified by
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faith we have peace with God
through our Lord Christ Jesus.
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For when we were yet without
strength, in due time Christ
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died for the ungodly. For
scarcely for a righteous man
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will one die, yet peradventure
for a good man some would even
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dare to die. But God commended
his love toward us in that while
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we were yet
sinners Christ died for us.
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The Old Rugged Cross Daniel Hall
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On a hill far away
stood an old rugged cross,
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The emblem of suffering
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and shame.
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And I love that old cross
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Where the dearest and best
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for a world of lost
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sinners was slain.
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So I'll cherish the
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old rugged cross,
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Till my trophies
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at last I lay down.
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I will cling to
the old rugged cross
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And exchange it
someday for a crown.
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To the old rugged
cross I will ever be true
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It's shame and
reproach gladly bear.
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Then He'll call me
someday to my home far away.
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Where his glory
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forever I'll share.
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So I'll cherish
the old rugged cross,
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Till my trophies
at last I lay down.
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I will cling to the
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old rugged cross
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and exchange it someday
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for a crown.
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And exchange it
someday for a crown.
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A crown.
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In Psalm 103 we read, The Lord
is merciful and gracious, slow
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to anger and plenteous in mercy.
He hath not dealt with us after
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our sins nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.
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For as the heaven is high above
the earth, so great is his mercy
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toward them that fear him. As
far as the east is from the west
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so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us and like
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as a father pities his children
so the Lord pitieth them that
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fear him, for he knoweth our
frame, he remembers that we are
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dust. Listen to
these beautiful words
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in Micah 7 verses 18 and 19.
Who is a God like unto thee that
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pardons iniquity and passes by
the transgression of the remnant
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of his heritage. He
retaineth not his anger forever
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because he delights in mercy.
He will turn again and he will
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have compassion upon us. He will
subdue our iniquities and I will
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cast all their sins
into the depths of the sea.
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It's so easy to
say I forgive you
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But forgetting is
the hardest thing to do.
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Though my mind can't comprehend
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that he could be that
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kind of friend
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On the cross he took my place
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So my sin he could erase.
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He forgives and forgets
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I stand before him holy.
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He cancelled my
debts That day at Calvary.
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Now I'm justified,
just as if I never sinned,
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And yet, he not only forgives,
He forgives and forgets.
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The mercies of the
Lord are everlasting
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He forgives my sins
and remembers them no more.
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Though it's hard for me to guess
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How far the
east is from the west
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On the cross he took my place
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so my sins he could erase.
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He forgives and forgets.
I stand before him holy.
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He cancelled my debts
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that day at Calvary.
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Now I'm justified
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just as if I never sinned
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and yet he not only forgets,
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he forgives and forgets.
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When you look at me,
you may see me just as I am.
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But when he looks at me
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he only sees
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the blood of the lamb,
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of the lamb.
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He forgives and forgets.
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I stand before him holy.
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He cancelled my debts
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that day at Calvary.
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Now I'm justified,
just as if I never sinned.
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And yet,
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he not only forgives
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he forgives and forgets.
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When you look at me
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you may see me just as I am.
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He not only forgives,
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he not only forgives,
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all my sins he forgave.
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In John chapter 10 we read
another description of the way
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Jesus shows us his love.
Then said Jesus unto them again
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Verily, verily I say unto
you I am the door of the sheep.
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All that ever came before me
are thieves and robbers, but the
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sheep did not hear them. I am
the door. By me if any man enter
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in he shall be saved and go
in and out and find pasture.
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A thief cometh not but for to
steal and to kill and to destroy
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I am come that they might have
life and that they might have it
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more abundantly. I am the
good shepherd. The good shepherd
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giveth his life for the sheep.
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Shepherd of My
Heart Denise Barclay
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Maker of this heart of
mine. You know me very well.
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You understand my deepest parts
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More than I know myself.
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So when I face the darkness,
When I need to find my way,
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I'll trust in you,
Shepherd of my heart.
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Keeper of this heart of mine,
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Your patience has no end.
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You loved me back into your arms
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Time and time again.
So if I start to wander
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Like a lamb that's gone
astray, I'll trust in you
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Shepherd of my heart.
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You're the beacon of my nights
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You're the sunlight of my days.
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I can rest within your arms
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I can know your loving ways.
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So let the cold winds blow
Let the storms rage all about.
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I'll trust in you
Shepherd of my heart.
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Oh giver of
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This heart of mine.
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Your what I'm looking for.
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For all my deepest gratitude
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you love me even more
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So as I walk through valleys
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Listening for my Master's call
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I'll trust in you.
Shepherd of my heart
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You're the beacon of my nights
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You're the sunlight of my days.
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I can rest within your arms,
I can know you're loving ways
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So when I walk through
valleys Listening for your call
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I'll trust in you.
Shepherd of my heart.
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I'll trust in you
Shepherd of my heart.
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The most well-known Bible
passage about the love of God
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was spoken in a private night
time conversation between Jesus
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and the Pharisee Nicodemus and
it's recorded in John 3:16 & 17.
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For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son
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that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish but have
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everlasting life. For God sent
not his Son into the world to
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condemn the world, but that
the world through him might be
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saved. My Lord has
garments so wondrous fine
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And myrrh their texture fills.
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It's fragrance
reached to this heart of mine
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With joy my being thrills.
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Out of the ivory
palaces into a world of woe
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Only his great eternal
love made my Savior go.
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His life had
also it's sorrow sore
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For aloes set apart.
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And when I think
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of the cross he bore
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My eyes with teardrops start.
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Out of the ivory palaces
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Into a world of woe.
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Only his great eternal love
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Made my Savior go.
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In garments
glorious he will come.
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to open wide the door.
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And I shall
enter my heavenly home
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to dwell forevermore.
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Out of the ivory
palaces into a world of woe.
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Only his great eternal love
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made my Savior...
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made my Savior go.
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As we close listen to these
verses from Romans chapter 8:
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What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us who can
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be against us? He that spared
not his own Son but delivered
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his up for us all. How shall
he not with him also give us all
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things. Who shall lay anything
to the charge of God's elect?
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It's God that justifieth. Who is
he that condemneth? It is Christ
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that died, yea, rather that is
risen again, who is even at the
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right hand of God who also
maketh intercession for us.
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Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
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Shall tribulation or distress
or persecution or famine or
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nakedness or peril or sword?
As it is written, for thy sake
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we are killed all the day long.
We are accounted as sheep for
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the slaughter. Nay, in all
these things we are more than
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conquerors through him that
loved us. For I am persuaded
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that neither death nor life nor
angels nor principalities nor
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powers nor things present nor
things to come nor height nor
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depth nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us
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from the love of God which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord
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