GLORYING IN THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST


GRANT THY MERCY SOVEREIGN SAVIOR


 

God of mercy, grace and glory,

Hear this poor and needy soul;

Grant to me Thy sovereign favor,

Come and make this sinner whole.

Manifest Thy lovingkindness,

Unto Thee alone I cry;

Meet my need and heal my spirit,

Or this sinful soul will die.

 

In Thy holy Word ‘tis written,

Christ for sinners bled and died;

By His sacrifice on Calv’ry,

All Thy justice satisfied.

Since the Savior paid their ransom,

All Thy people shall be free;

Look upon the precious Savior,

And show mercy Lord to me.

 

By Thy gracious, loving Spirit,

Unto Jesus I will flee;

Low I humbly bow before Him,

And confess iniquity.

Christ alone can cleanse and save me,

I shall live at Thy command;

Sovereign Savior, grant Thy mercy,

Save me by Thy mighty hand.

 

 

 Tune: “Love Divine” 8.7.8.7. double 

Words by Jim Byrd

 

 

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 GLORYING IN THE CROSS

 

 

     “But 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 [KJV] 

 

 

For his own part, the apostle was determined to glory in nothing except the cross of Christ.  He had gone out to Him without the camp, bearing His reproach, and like Moses, he counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.  The "cross" is here put for the atoning sacrifice of the Son of God upon the cross.  This is the foundation which God hath laid in Sion for the hope of the guilty.  His own self bare the sins of His people in His own body on the tree; they are justified by His blood, redeemed from the curse; and upon this, and this alone, believers rest their hope.  

 

They do not glory in any real or fancied superiority over others.  They behold the glory of the Lord shining in the face of Jesus Christ.  Through the rent vail of the Redeemer’s flesh, they draw near to their covenant God, seated on a throne of grace; and, beholding the perfection of the sacrifice offered on Calvary and arrayed in their Redeemer’s everlasting righteousness, they challenge the universe to lay anything to their charge.                                                

 

-preacher James Haldane (1768-1851 A.D.)

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