GOD's GREATEST GLORY

MY ONLY HOPE AND PLEA


No work of mine could save my soul,

Or make my sinful spirit whole;

To Thee O Christ, I lift my cry,

Lord save this sinner or I die.

 

Chorus:  Who but the Lord could meet my need,

And for the guilty intercede?

This is my only hope and plea,

Christ took my place on Calvary.

 

O Spirit quicken now my heart,

And life divine to me impart;

‘Tis by Thy call, to Christ I look,

Who all my sins and sorrows took.   Chorus

 

The Spirit has to me made known,

That none can save, but Christ alone;

His blood can make the foulest clean,

On Christ the Savior I will lean.     Chorus

 

Unto the Savior I will flee,

To save me for eternity;

Now with my soul I know ‘tis well,

And soon I shall with Jesus dwell.   Chorus

 

The glory, Lord, belongs to Thee,

For by Thy death on Calvary,

My soul is saved and justified,

And soon I shall be glorified.   Chorus

 

 

 TUNE:  “Complete in Thee” LM w/chorus Words by Jim Byrd

 


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GOD’S GREATEST GLORY

 

 

     God is infinitely holy in His being and righteous in all His ways.  Man is full of depravity; he is sinful within and without.  Well might Bildad ask in Job 25:4, “How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?”  Behold the God of infinite wisdom.  He took the sins of His people and laid them upon the only acceptable and suitable Substitute of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ Who died in the stead of the guilty.  

 

It was only in that way that the justice of God could be satisfied and sinners who deserved eternal death could be declared “the righteousness of God in Him” (II Corinthians 5:21).  “O the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33).  

                                                                                    

 

-preacher Jim Byrd

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