Let's open tonight's service
with number five in your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymnbook, number
five, Come Ye Sinners. Let's all stand together. ? Come ye sinners poor and wretched
? ? Weak and wounded, sick and sore ? ? Jesus ready stands to
save you ? ? Full of pity joined with power ? ? He is able, he
is able ? ? He is willing, doubt no more ? He is able, he is able
? He is willing, doubt no more ? Come ye needy, come and welcome
? God's free bounty glorify True belief and true repentance, every
grace that brings us nigh. Without money, without money,
come to Jesus Christ and buy. Without money, without money,
come to Jesus Christ and buy. Let not conscience make you linger,
nor of fitness fondly dream. All the fitness he requireth
is to have a need of him. ? This he gives you, this he
gives you ? ? Tis the Spirit's glimmering beam ? ? This he gives
you, this he gives you ? ? Tis the Spirit's glimmering beam
? Come ye weary, heavy laden, bruised and broken by the fall. If you tarry till you're better,
you will never come at all. Not the righteous, not the righteous,
sinners Jesus came to call. Not the righteous, not the righteous,
sinners Jesus came to call. Please be seated. Good evening. We're going to
read from Psalm 120 this evening. I'd like to open your Bibles
there with me. Psalm 120, it's a very brief
Psalm. But as we read it, I want us
to think about how it is that believers have two natures. And
in fact, the greatest enemy that we have is ourselves. our old
man, our flesh, our tongue, our unbelief. And I believe that's
what this psalm, that's how it speaks to me. I hope it'll speak
to you that way. In my distress, I cried unto
the Lord, and he heard me. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from
lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto
thee? What shall be done unto thee?
Thou false tongue, sharp arrows, and the mighty with coals of
juniper. Woe is me that I sojourn in Messick. Now Messick translated means
to draw out. I have to be drawn out of this
place where I live. And I dwell in the tents of Kedar,
and Kedar translated means dark. So left to myself, I'm in a dark
place, Lord, you're gonna have to draw me out. My soul hath long dwelt with
him that hateth peace. We live with him every day, don't
we? That contentious, unbelieving
man. I'm for peace. that when I speak, they are for
war. And though we walk in the flesh,
we don't war after the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal. They're spiritual. They're mighty
through God. And I pray the Lord will remind us
of our need to look to Christ in this constant conflict that
we live in with ourselves. I want us to pray for Don. Don
had a heart ablation yesterday and he's home. Mary had a really
bad cold Sunday and she stayed up with him all night last night
in the hospital. She's worse now. So and I heard
tonight that Christine's got a cold, Jeanette's got a cold. Grace, as far as I know, is still
waiting. I think she's past her due date,
but I try to reach out to her every few days and just hanging
in there. Good to have Jennifer back with
us tonight. And Norris, good to have you
here. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for the hope of
our salvation that is completely bound up and accomplished in
thy dear son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Lord, you've left
us here in this world and in these bodies of death that we
might find every day our need for thee. Lord, we pray tonight
that you would point us to Christ. We pray that we would find our
comfort and our hope and all our salvation in his accomplished
work and in his glorious person as our advocate, our sin bearer,
our substitute seated at thy right hand, Lord, enable us by
your Holy Spirit to set our affections on things above where Christ
is seated at the right hand, at thy right hand. Lord, I, We
pray that you would forgive us for so often setting our affections
on things of the earth and losing sight of Christ. Might we see him and love him
and trust him. Pray for Don, ask Lord for your
hand of healing to be upon him and give him recovery and Mary
and the others that are sick. Lord, we pray for grace and ask
that you give her safe delivery. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. Number 225 in the hardback teminal. Let's all stand together again,
225. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
come unto me and rest. Lay down, thou weary one, lay
down. ? Thy head upon my breast ? I
came to Jesus as I was ? Weary and worn and sad ? I found in
Him a resting place ? And He has made me glad ? I heard the
voice of Jesus say ? Behold I freely give ? The living water thirsty
one ? Stoop down and drink and live ? I came to Jesus and I
drank of that life giving stream My thirst was quenched, my soul
revived, and now I live in Him. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
I am this dark world's light. Look unto me, thy morn shall
rise, and all thy day be bright. I looked to Jesus and I found
in him my star, my sun. And in that light of life I'll
walk till traveling days are done. Please be seated. All right, let's open our Bibles
to Luke chapter 7. Luke chapter 7. The miracle that I want us to
look at tonight is when that Roman centurion came to the Lord
pleading for the Lord to come and heal his servant. The centurion
had a slave that he was very fond of. And he heard about the Lord and
came and asked him and it's the, well, we'll read it together.
Let's read these verses and I want to make a few comments before
we get into the message. Chapter seven and verse one.
And when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the
people, he entered into Capernaum and a certain centurion's servant
who was dear unto him, unto the centurion, was sick and ready
to die. And when he heard of Jesus, he
sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he
would come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus,
they besought him, instantly saying that he, the centurion,
was worthy for whom the Lord should do this. So they're vouching
on behalf of the centurion, these Jewish elders. And the reason that they give
to the Lord for coming to heal his servant is that the centurion
loves our nation and he has built us a synagogue. Unusual. Then Jesus went with them, and
when he was now far from the house, the centurion sent friends
to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself, for I am
not worthy that thou should enter into my roof. Neither thought
I myself worthy to come unto thee. But say in a word, and
my servant shall be healed. For I am a man set under authority,
having under me soldiers. And I say unto one, go, and he
goeth. And to another, come, and he
cometh. And to my servant, do this, and he doeth it. And when Jesus heard these things,
he marveled at him. and turned him about and said
unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not
found so great faith. No, not in Israel. And they that
were sent returned to the house, returning to the house, found
the servant whole that had been sick. I suppose that most of the time
this story is read, it's read from Matthew's account. Matthew
gives an account in the 8th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. And
they're quite different. Two witnesses testifying of the
same event from a different perspective. Matter of fact, if you read the
account in Matthew without reading the one from Luke, you'll be
led to believe that it was the centurion himself that came to
the Lord and pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his servant. And here Luke tells us, no, he
sent ambassadors. He sent Jewish elders. And then
as the Lord was coming closer to his house, he sent servants
and friends to intercept the Lord and say to him, I'm not
worthy that thou should come under my roof. Only say the word
and my soul shall be healed. I'm a man of authority. And in
both counts, in both counts, in Matthew's account and in Luke's
account, the scripture says that the Lord marbled at his faith. I've titled this message, When
God Marvels. When God Marvels. We know that the Bible is the
inspired Word of God. We know that every word of it
is inspired and that there are no contradictions in God's Word. So why is it that the Matthew
account is so different from the Luke account. And I have
two answers to that. The first one is that God has
written his word in such a way as to give the unbeliever enough
rope to hang himself. Somebody wants to try to find
some inconsistencies in the Bible, they will find one here. And so be it. We know that It
is all God's Word and it's all true. The second thing that I
see in the differences of these two stories is that when an ambassador
or a servant, and the servant here is a slave, speaks on behalf
of its master, it is as if the master spoke. And that's significant
because when the prophets speak, what do they say? Thus saith
the Lord. Men don't hear audibly the voice
of God. They hear audibly the voice of
a man. But if that man is speaking for
God, if he's an ambassador sent by God, or if he is a servant
of the Lord, representing the Lord from God's word, then it
is as authoritative as if God had spoken. So when Matthew says
the centurion came to the Lord, he did. He came in a representative. And that's how the Lord comes to us today. It is required of a steward that
he be found faithful. And if we're speaking, if we're
speaking, I love that when the apostle Paul went to Berea after
being run out of Thessalonica, the scripture says that the Bereans
were more noble. than those in Thessalonian, Thessalonica. They received the word of God
with gladness and they searched the scriptures daily to see if
these things be so. And so when we hear a man who
says he's an ambassador for God or he's a servant of the Lord,
we try what he says by God's word. And if it's consistent
with God's word, then God has spoken. And if we have an argument
with the messenger, we've really got an argument with God. So
those are the two things that I see. in the differences between these
two accounts. When God marvels, if the Lord
has given us a heart after him, if we have been made, as David
was, a man after God's own heart, if we have the mind of Christ,
and we do if we have the Spirit of God in the new birth. Then
that means that we love the things God loves, we hate the things
that God hates, we believe the things that God believes, and we marvel at the things that
God marvels at. What is there about the Lord
marveling here? Twice the Lord marvels, only
twice. The first one is found in Mark
chapter six. which is Mark's rendition of
what Luke tells us in Luke 4. You remember the Luke 4 passage
when our Lord went back to Nazareth, his hometown, and he stood up
in the synagogue and he read from the book of Isaiah. And
he pronounced himself amongst his friends and family members,
people that had known him for 30 years. He pronounced himself
to be the Messiah. And at first they wondered at
the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. But then as
he began to interpret those words from the book of Isaiah and claim
himself to be sovereign in salvation, remember that's the passage where
The Lord said in the days of Elijah, there were many, there
were many widows and God showed mercy on none except for the
widow of the Syrophoenician widow. And then, and then there were
many lepers in the days of, in Israel, there were many lepers
in the days of Elijah, but the Lord showed mercy on none of
them except for Naaman, the Syrian. And, and the Lord was saying,
that God's gonna have mercy upon whom he'll have mercy. And these
Jewish people hated that message and the scripture says they wanted
to kill him and he escaped out of their midst. In the book of Mark, when Mark
tells this story, all he says is they were offended at him. He doesn't go into great detail
like Luke does but he says they were offended at him. Now these
were people that had seen for 30 years the perfection of his
life. They had the scriptures to test
what he was saying by. They participated all their lives
in gospel types and ceremonies. He had clearly revealed himself
to them. These were his dearest, Nazareth's
a small town. And he went to the synagogue
every Sunday. I'm sure he'd worked for all
the people in that town. And they could find nothing against
him. but they were offended by what
he said. And the scripture says, he marveled
at their unbelief. He marveled at their unbelief. So two times God marvels. He
marvels at the unbelief of those who should have believed. And
he marveled at the faith of those who had none of the advantages
of a man who had none of the advantages of those Jewish friends
in Nazareth. He was a Roman. The Romans hated,
the Romans were, if you got assigned to Judea and you were a Roman
soldier, you were probably being punished for something. The Romans
hated going to Judea. These Jews are so hard to manage.
And there was always a tension and conflict between the Romans
and the Jews. And the centurion, he would have
had a hundred Roman soldiers under his authority. So here's
a man who would have had power, influence, he wouldn't have put
up with anything that others might have to. He was obviously a very wealthy
man. He had, from his own pocket, built a synagogue in Capernaum. And according to the testimony
of these Jewish elders, I'm sure from
that synagogue that he had built, they came to the Lord as his
ambassador and said, Lord this man's worthy, he loves our nation. Why would he love Israel? Where do you get that from? And
he had never seen the Lord. If we go with Luke's account,
he sent ambassadors, he sent servants, he had only heard about
it. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. They weren't like the people
in Nazareth who had taken, who had such advantage in their familiarity
with Christ and with the scriptures. Here's the message tonight. The
Lord marveled at the unbelief of those who should have believed.
And he marveled at the belief of those who should not have
believed. Let me ask you this. What do
you marvel at? We started this service by reading
Psalm 120 and talking about the fact that we have two natures. Do we not marvel at how unbelieving and how stupid and
how we are able to deny all the evidences that the Lord has given
us, do we not marvel at how cold and sinful we can be? We can
be. Talk about my old, I marvel at
that man. We ought to marvel at the same
thing God marvels at. If we have the heart of God,
if we have the heart of, the mind of Christ, then we will
love the things He loves, hate the things He loves, we'll hate
things He hates, we'll believe what He believes, won't believe
what He does and we'll marvel at what He marvels at. We've got a sinful nature that causes
us... What do we do? You remember Rebecca. and Jacob and Esau and here Isaac intercedes for her and
the Lord gives her twins in her womb and these twins are fighting
against one another in her womb and she goes to the Lord and
she prays, Lord why am I thus? Why am I the way I am? What's
going on here? And the Lord says, there's two
nations in you. And there's two manner of men
in you. Completely different from one
another. Esau, a man of the flesh, who will resist God and not believe
God at every turn. And there's Jacob, mine elect,
my chosen one. Esau was the firstborn. He was
the man's man. Jacob was a mama's boy and Jacob
was a deceiver. If you just look at the two boys'
lives, Esau had a lot more going for him. He was a lot more virtuous
in many ways than Jacob was. Esau's the one that should have
believed. But Jacob believed. The older serve the younger,
the old man serves the new man. And do you not marvel at how
unbelieving your old man can be? How forgetful he can be? How cold he can be? The Lord marveled at this Gentile because there was no logical
reason for him to believe and yet he did. You know, I can say this for
myself. I'm an enigma and a contradiction to myself. And I marvel at both
men that live in me. I marvel at how unbelieving my
flesh can be. After all the blessings and all
the experiences and all the knowledge and all the revelation that God
has given me, you would think that something about that old
man would finally come around. But he hadn't gotten any better.
He's as unbelieving as he's always been. And then I marvel at the
fact that God gave me a new nature. And he arrested me. And he took a Gentile Roman centurion who was at enmity
with God by nature and put in his heart a desire for Christ
and a belief in God. that I can't get rid of. And
I marvel that the Lord would do that for me and so many billions
of people in this world that he hasn't done it for. Lord,
why would you do that for me? Why didn't you just leave me
to myself? I wouldn't have known any different. I marvel at the fact that I've
got a new nature that my old man fights against and tries
to get him to not believe and he can't not believe. And I marvel at that. The centurion. He loved Israel. And the Lord
marveled at him. I marvel that I would love God,
love his gospel, love his word. I consider what I ought to be,
what I deserve to be, and what I was, makes me to marvel. This man was a humble man. I see the pride and self-righteousness
in my old man and I marvel at the fact that God would cause
me to willingly bow before him and to confess him and to say
with this interion, Lord, I know that all power and all authority
has been given unto you in heaven and in earth. And I bow and I
know that all you have to do, all you have to do is speak a
word and it'll be so. That's how much authority you
have. That's how much power you have. That I would be brought
to worship him and to kneel at his feet and to seek his face
and to be like Mary, to choose that one thing needful. It's
a marvelous thing and it's a marvel to my heart that I would be that
way. Is it to yours? Did we not marvel
at the same thing God marvels at? He marveled at the unbelief
of those who should have believed and he marveled at the faith
of a man who had no right in himself to believe. I marvel at the fact that God
would give us faith. It's a gift from God. A man can
receive nothing except to be given to him from heaven. By
grace are you saved and that's through faith and that faith
is not of yourself. It's a miracle. It's a miracle. It's a new birth.
And when God gives you, the gifts of God are without
repentance. Once he gives faith, he never
takes it back. He just continues to increase
that faith and grow us in grace and the knowledge of Christ.
I marvel at that. Marvel that the Lord would cause
us every day to look to him and walk by faith. And when we see the old man, what
do we cry? Oh, Lord, help thou mine unbelief. Lord, increase our faith. Lord,
how? We marvel at the fact that we
are nothing. There's the old man and that
Christ is everything, everything in salvation. That we can make
no contribution to our salvation and he made it all. We're sinful. He's holy. No sin in him. We're dead in our trespasses
and sins. Spiritually dead. He had to raise
us from the dead. Is what the Lord did for you
in the new birth any more marvelous than what happened there at the
graveyard when he called Lazarus to come forth out of the tomb? Any less marvelous? Any less
marvelous? No. We were dead. And in him was
life, and the life was the light of men. Oh, we marvel at this
light that's coming into the world. And men, including me,
loved darkness rather than light because our deeds were evil.
But they that come to the light confess that their works were
wrought by God. And we marvel at that. that God
would rot a work of faith in a dead man's heart and cause
him to believe on Christ for all of his salvation. See, we
don't need to look any further than ourselves to marvel, do
we? We've got plenty in both our
natures to marvel at. We're without strength. without
strength. And in due time, when we were
yet without strength, Christ died for the ungodly. All power and all authority and
all strength belongs to Him and we have none. Marvel at that. Oh, how we need to marvel more
at the work of grace, don't we? and that our Lord and we believe that our righteousness
is the best thing we've ever been able to do is as filthy
rags in the sight of a holy God and that the Lord Jesus Christ
is all of our righteousness before God that he is called the Lord
our righteousness and that she is called the Lord our righteousness
and God made him to be for us our wisdom and our righteousness
and our sanctification and our redemption. Oh, oh, might we
marvel at what the Lord has done. Might we not be some so familiar,
so familiar that we will be like those people in Nazareth that
were that were just contemptuous because they were so familiar.
Matter of fact, I didn't say this, but when in the Mark passage,
when he tells about going back to Nazareth, he said, we know
you. You're that carpenter. You're
that carpenter. You know, I've been thinking
about carpenter. What does a carpenter do? He
takes from a tree and he fashions something other than that tree.
Physically, that's what a carpenter does. He works with wood. And
all wood comes from a tree. And how the Lord Jesus Christ,
you see, all they saw him as was a physical carpenter. I'm
sure he'd done work for many of them, but not all of them. And, but they didn't see the
spiritual carpentry that he had done. when he took a tree, a cursed tree, and he made it
into the tree of life. Oh, there's the hand of our carpenter
at work. There's his hand. Cursed is everyone
that hangeth upon a tree. He took a tree and he put himself
on it. and he turned that cursed tree
into the tree of life. So many different examples of
the Lord taking a tree and he took through the hands of Noah,
no telling how many gopher trees, and built that huge ark, a picture
of himself, saving Noah and his family from the judgment of God,
fashioning an ark out of a tree. He took a acacia tree and made the Ark
of the Covenant in which was the commandments of God and the
rod of Aaron and the Ophir of Manna, the Lord Jesus being the
prophet, the priest and the king of his people inside that ark
with a mercy seat. That was made out of wood, overlaid
with gold. The picture of the humanity of
our Lord. Oh, these people at Nazareth,
he's the carpenter, we know him. And then they said, he's the
son of Mary. Well, we know his brothers and his sisters and
they named them. They couldn't see the Lord for
who he was and the Lord marveled at them. If we're able to see God in Christ,
We have reason to marvel. We cannot atone for our sins,
but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin forever,
sat down at the right hand of God and put all the sins of all
of his people away once and for all by the sacrifice of himself.
Oh, what a marvelous thing. What a marvelous thing to believe
on him. For a Roman soldier to love Israel. Left ourselves We'll reject Christ. He must make us willing. And we marvel at the fact that
he shined the light of the gospel down from heaven, knocked us
off our high horse, put our face in the dirt, and caused us to
cry, Lord, what would you have me to do? What a marvel that
is. And he would make someone like
me believe This centurion said, I'm a man
of authority. I know what authority is. You have all authority. You have
the authority to heal. All you have to do is say a word.
All you have to do is say, that leper, Lord, I know thou canst
if thou will. And what the Lord say, I will
be thou clean. And we know that all he has to
do is speak the word. That's all he has to do. Lord,
just give me a word. Give me a word from your word
and all will be well. Marvel at the fact that our unbelieving
friends from Nazareth will contend with God over his word. And how many times God has spoken
to us and he says, fear not, and yet that old man still is
afraid. The Lord said, it is finished,
but the old man still thinks, well, there's something I got
to do. And the new man believes. He doesn't try and negotiate
with God. He doesn't try to make an appeal or compromise with
God. He just bows and said, truth, Lord, truth, Lord, why would
I bow to God's word? Why would I believe God? I marvel
at that. God says, cast all your care
upon him for he careth for you. And yet how much of our care
we bear the burden for ourselves until the weight becomes so heavy.
The Lord in his mercy and afflictions causes us to come before our
Lord, I can't bear this anymore. Can't bear this anymore. We ought
to marvel at the fact that we even try to bear it and then
we ought to marvel at the fact that he brings us to the place
of where we yield it to him. The Lord told us to be kind and
tender-hearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you and yet how How sharp and resentful we
can be toward those who don't treat us the way we think they
should. Oh, we marvel at ourselves. Set your affections on things
above. not on the things of the earth. And we marvel that God
would bring us to that place where we're actually able in
faith to set our affections on Christ and rest in him and believe
on him and love him and trust him. And then at the same time,
how much time later? A few minutes later, hours later,
the next day, we find ourselves setting our affections on the
things of the earth. You see, we've got two reasons
to marvel, don't we? Why is it that so often I need
for God to afflict me before I pray as I ought? When I know
that prayer is a great privilege and prayer is a great joy when
the Lord enables me to do it. Why don't I not do it more often? Why don't I pray without ceasing? Why don't I meditate on God's
word? I marvel at the fact that I'm
so cold hearted and so unbelieving. And then I marvel that God would
cause me to pray and believe and rest in love. Why do I murmur and complain when I know that he's working
all things together for good for them that love him and those
that are called according to his purpose? Why am I thus? Because there's two manner of
men in thee. And they're both to be marveled
at. Marvel at the unbelief of that old man, the stupid, cold-hearted
unbelief and marvel at the faith that God gives to that new man. You have all authority. Lord,
your Word has authority. Whatsoever God's Word says, we
believe it in the new man. And we quickly are willing to
say, particularly those who stand and try to speak for God as an
ambassador, a servant of Christ, Lord, if I'm wrong, show me. And I say to you, if I need to
be corrected by God's word, Lord, correct me. I want to comply
with what God says. And I wanna believe what I believe
because God has revealed it in his word. Word of God is our soul and final
source of all authority. Only speak the word Lord, my
servant will be healed. That slave man, that's what a
servant slave. He'll be healed. He'll be given
life. You just speak. Lord, speak by
your word. Every time we come together and
every time we go to God's word and every time the Lord leads
us to meditate on God's word, that's where I cry, isn't it?
I cried unto the Lord and he heard me. And he spoke unto me
out of his word. His work is authoritative. Not
only is his word authoritative, his work is authoritative. When
the Lord Jesus said, it is finished, it's finished. What he accomplished
at Calvary's cross was the successful salvation of all of God's elect. He put away their sins and he
got the victory and he did it with authority. and his will is authoritative.
Don't you love what Nebuchadnezzar said when he said, he doeth whatsoever
he wills. With the armies of heaven and
all the inhabitants of the earth, and no man can stay his hand
or say unto him, what doest thou? I will have compassion on whom
I will have compassion and I will have mercy upon whom I will have
mercy." His will is authoritative, it's powerful, it's sovereign. And He makes us willing to believe
on Him. And He causes us, He causes us
in this struggle with that old man, He causes us to say, Lord,
not my will, but Thy will be done. We argue for our will and
we defend our will until the Lord breaks our will and then
we say, oh Lord, not my will. Thy will be done. Thy will be
done. What a marvel that is. On both
sides, what a marvel it is. People of Nazareth, should have
believed. That old man should have believed.
God commands all men everywhere to repent and to believe. Are
they able? No, but they should. We've lived in this world enough
to see God's hand at work. We look at creation, we see His
mighty power We consider our conscience and we see, we know
that there is a God with whom we must do. Yeah, we won't believe until
he does a marvelous work of grace. They were offended at him and
he marveled of their unbelief. This Gentile centurion. No, no reason why he should have
been a believer. And in the Matthew passage, the
Lord says, I've not seen such faith. No, not in all Israel. This Gentile centurion believes
what you Jews are not believing. And he marveled at his faith. We are an enigma and a conflict to ourselves. Marvel at both men, don't we? Don't we? All right. Our heavenly
father, thank you for your word. Bless it to our hearts. Forgive
us for our unbelief. and grow us in thy grace. Thank
you for the marvelous, miraculous gift of faith. We ask it in Christ's
name, amen. 452, let's stand together. I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner
condemned unclean. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my soul shall How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's
love for me. ? For me it was in the garden
? ? He prayed not my will but thine ? ? He had no tears for
his own griefs ? ? But sweat drops of blood for mine ? ? How
marvelous, how wonderful, and my song shall end ? How marvelous,
how wonderful is my Savior's love for me. In pity angels beheld
him and came from the world of light to comfort him in the sorrows
he bore for my soul that night. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me. He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary,
And suffered and died alone. How marvelous, how wonderful,
and my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me. When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see, T'will be my joy through the
ages To sing of His love for me. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me.