JEHOVAH IS SATISFIED ~ Rejoice


More marred than any man’s

The Savior’s visage see;

Was ever sorrow like to His

Endured on Calvary.

 

Oh, hear that piercing cry!

What can its meaning be?

“My God, my God, O why hast Thou

In wrath forsaken Me?”

 

Oh ‘twas because our sins,

On Him by God were laid;

He Who Himself had never sinned,

For sinners, sin was made.

 

Thus sin He put away

By His great sacrifice;

Then, Conqueror o’er death and hell,

He mounted to the skies.

 

Therefore let all men know,

That God is satisfied;

And sinners all who Jesus trust,

Through Him are justified.

 

 The cross He bore is health, 

Though shame and death for Him; 

His people’s hope, His people’s wealth, 

Their everlasting theme. 

 

 

 -Hymn, “I Love Thy Kingdom Lord” SM 

Words by W. Russell, 1861 A.D.

 

 

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JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR

 

      

    Oh, to think that such an one as Jesus should be our Savior, that heaven’s Darling should condescend to assume our nature, and become bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, that He should live such a life and die such a death, that He should present to God a work so perfect, without flaw, without excess!  Is there not reason for endless praise here?  Now we are clean before the Lord, because we have been washed in Christ’s blood, yea, we are as pure as if we had never sinned, and standing arrayed in Christ’s righteousness, we are more righteous even than Adam before the fall, for he had only a human righteousness, but we have a righteousness divine.  

 

In Christ Jesus, the second Adam, we are nearer to God than if we had been born of the first Adam while untainted by sin.  Now, there is a Man who is akin to God, even Jesus our brother, who is also very God of very God.  Man is exalted to the highest conceivable degree in the person of Jesus Christ, and we have become heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ.  As the seeking soul learns more and more of this it praises God more and more.  Is it not so?  Does not your soul bless the Savior?  Yea, and the longer we live, and the more we know about the Lord, the more we find causes for extolling Him; indeed, everything about us, without us, and above us seems to suggest a reason for blessing His name.

 

-copied

 

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