I just asked my wife, who has
scripture reading today? She said, I don't know, I forgot. And I don't know either. So let's
turn in our Bibles to the book of Zechariah. Zechariah chapter
four. Beginning of verse one, and the
angel talked with me The angel that talked with me
came again and waked me as a man that is waked out of a sleep. It's what we need. We are so
prone to slumber and sleep, spiritually speaking. And pray the Lord will
wake us. And he said unto him, what seest
thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick, all
of gold and a bowl on top of it, seven lamps thereof and seven
pipes to the seven lamps, which are of the top thereof. Now we
know that candlestick, that golden candlestick is Christ. And the
number seven is the number for perfection and completeness.
And so here's the light of the world shining forth out of this,
out of this glorious candle. that has bowls that have pipes
that go from the bowls into the candles. Not a wax candle, it's
an oil candle. It's an oil lamp. So the oil
now is flowing from the bowls into the candle and providing
the fuel for the fire. seven lamps thereof, seven pipes
of the seven lamps, which are the top thereof, verse three,
and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl
and one upon the left side thereof. And I answered and said unto
the angel that talked with me, saying, what are these, my Lord?
The olive trees are those trees that provided the oil. So there's
two trees providing the oil to the bowls and the bowls to the
lamp. And the angel that talked with
me and said unto me, knowest thou not what these be? And I
said, no, my Lord. Then he answered and spake unto
me saying, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying,
not by power, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith
the Lord. The two olive trees, the two
bowls of oil are the same as the two witnesses spoken of in
the book of Revelation who lie dead in the streets of Jerusalem.
It is the word of God and the spirit of God. That's it. The word of God and the spirit
of God. This is the word which by the
gospel is preached unto you. And the Lord said, where two
or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the
midst of them. You and I are completely dependent upon the
Spirit of God to bless the Word of God to the hearts of God's
people in order for the light to shine. Our Heavenly Father, we pray
that you would send your Spirit in power, bless your Word to
our hearts, enable us to see, to see thee and to see ourselves
and to see the glorious person and accomplished work of thy
dear son. For it's in his name we pray, amen. Number 168 in our hardback hymnal,
168, we sing this a cappella. Let's stand together. ? Lord, I hear of showers of blessing
? ? Thou art scattering full and free ? ? Showers the thirsty
land refreshing ? ? Let some drops now fall on me ? ? Even
me, even me ? ? Let Thy blessing fall on me ? you. ? Pass me not, O tender Savior
? ? Let me love and cling to Thee ? ? I am longing for Thy
favor ? ? Whilst Thou art calling, O call me ? ? Even me, even me
? ? Let Thy blessing fall on me ? Pass me not, O mighty Spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see. Witnesser of Jesus' merit,
Speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and boundless,
magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not, thy lost one bringing,
bind my heart, O Lord, to thee. While the streams of life are
springing, blessing others, O bless me. Even me, even me, let thy
blessing fall on me. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles together
to Judges chapter 11. Judges 11. beginning in verse 29. Then the
Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over
Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from
Mizpah of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. And
Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord and said, if thou shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand, then
it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house
to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon shall
surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. I've titled this message, The
Burnt Offering. The Burnt Offering. So Jephthah passed over, verse
32, unto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the
Lord delivered them into his hands. And he smote them from
Aor, even till thou came to Minoth, even 20 cities, and unto the
plain of the vineyards with a very great slaughter. Thus the children
of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. And Jephthah
came to Mizpah, unto his house. And behold, his daughter came
out to meet him with timbrels and with dances, and she was
his only child. Beside her, he had neither son
nor daughter. And it came to pass when he saw
her that he ran his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter, thou
hast brought me very low. Thou art one of them that trouble
me. For I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go
back.' And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened
thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath
proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance
for thee of thine enemies, even the children of Ammon. And she
said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me. Let me
alone two months that I may go up and down upon the mountains
and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. And he said, go. And he sent her away for two
months. And she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity
upon the mountains. And it came to pass at the end
of two months that she returned unto her father, who did with
her according to his vow, which he had vowed. And she knew no
man. And it was a custom in Israel
that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter
of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four days in a year. A couple of things I want to
say about Jephthah. The first one we read in verse 29, the
spirit of the Lord was upon him. Jephthah was one of the judges
of Israel. God had anointed him with a spirit
to defeat the enemies of Israel. Hebrews chapter 11, in that chapter
of what we call the Great Hall of Faith, where many Old Testament
believers are named, Jephthah is named in verse 32 between
Samson and David. So Jephthah, God considered to
be his servant. Jephthah was a believer. He was
a judge. He was anointed with the Spirit
of God. The third thing I want to read
again is found in verse 39. The middle part of that verse, who
did with her according to his vow, which he had vowed. He had made a promise to God
to offer up the first thing that came out of his house. When he
returned in peace, up to God as a burnt offering. Now much could be said about
this. We could say that that was a foolish vow that he made.
He should have told the Lord that he would offer up an offering
of thanksgiving if he came back with success. But that's not
the vow that he made. He said he was going to make
a burnt offering. Now a burnt offering was just
as it described. It was a whole burnt offering.
And many have tried to avoid the obvious moral problem of
this passage by suggesting that Jephthah's daughter, who is unnamed,
was just subjected to perpetual virginity and he didn't really
offer her up as a burnt offering. But that's not what the text
says. If we're going to make the Bible,
and particularly the Old Testament, a book of moralisms, we've got
a lot of other things we're gonna have to struggle with. We're
gonna have to struggle with polygamy and slavery and scorched earth
genocide. When God told the children of
Israel, you go in and you kill every man, woman, child, and
beast and leave nothing alive. Not to speak of the fact that
we're going to have to deal with what God told the children of
Israel to do with a child that was being rebellious. He said
stone them. Stone them. So that having been said, we will leave the moral dilemma
of this passage up to those who want to speculate their own opinion. The truth is that this story
is not about Jephthah. It's not about the Ammonites,
and it's not about Jephthah's daughter. As is the case with all of scripture,
this is a story of redemption. This is a story of atonement.
This is a picture pointing us to the successful work of the
Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross, who became God's burnt
offering when the fire of God's justice, according to the covenant
promise that God had made, In eternity pass, and the words
could not be taken back or fulfilled when God Almighty rained the
full fire of his fury down on his dear son, his only son. In the Old Testament, there are
many references made to offerings. There's the wave offering, there
was the grain offering, there was the drink offering, there
was the meat offering, there was the peace offering, and then
there was the burnt offering. And Jephthah said, whatever comes
out of my house, I will offer to thee as a burnt offering. Turn with me to the book of Leviticus
chapter one. Leviticus chapter one, verse two, speak unto the children
of Israel and saying to them, if any man of you bring an offering
unto the Lord, you shall bring your offering of the cattle and
even of the herd and of the flock. If this offering be a burnt sacrifice
of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer
it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord. And he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for
him to make atonement for him. That was the burnt offering.
And then the Lord goes into great detail about how this animal
was to be cut up and the entire beast was to be burned on the
altar for the atonement of sin. Child of God, this is a story
about atonement. This is a picture. of what the Lord Jesus Christ
did when he became God's burnt offering. The first time a burnt
offering is mentioned is in Exodus chapter 18, when Moses brings
the children of Israel out of Egypt and he reunites with his
father-in-law, Jethro. And Jethro, the scripture says,
was a priest of Midian. Now Midian means strife. And
the Midianites and the Ammonites were always in strife with the
children of Israel. And it's a picture of man-made
religion being at odds with God. And so Jethro hears directly
from Moses all that the Lord had done in bringing the children
of Israel out of Egypt. And Jethro, who was a priest,
a false religion says to Moses now I know that Jehovah is greater
than all gods and he took a burnt offering and made it a sacrifice
unto God to atone for his sin that was the burnt offering so
Here we have the fulfillment of that, and this is what the
scripture says Jephthah did with his daughter. The Lord Jesus
Christ is our burnt offering, and he hath, he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified by the sacrifice of himself.
Calvary's cross. Where the scripture is silent,
we must be silent. How to explain this story in
its historical context, I don't know. I suspect that I will get
some comments from some individuals after this morning, rebuking
and correcting me about what Jethro, about what Jephthah did
with his daughter. I'll answer your questions right
now. I don't know, except for what is simply recorded here
in scripture. He fulfilled the covenant that
he made. The vow that he made, he fulfilled
it. The Lord Jesus Christ went in
to the pit of hell to deliver us from the bondage of our sin. He is our mighty man. Turn back
with me, you're judges, back in judges. Go back with me to
the beginning of chapter 11. Judges chapter 11. Now Jephthah the Gileadite was
a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot. And
Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bare him sons,
and his wife's sons grew up. And they thrust out Jephthah
and said unto him, thou shalt not inherit in our father's house,
Thou art the son of a strange woman. Then Jephthah fled from
his brethren and dwelt in the land of Tob. And there were gathered
vain men unto Jephthah and went out with him. And it came to
pass in the process of time that the children of Ammon made war
against Israel. As I said, this is not a story
about the nation Ammon. Ammon here is a picture of our
enemy, our sin, Satan, all that needs to be defeated. When the
scripture refers to Jephthah as being a mighty man, this word
mighty is a actually in the original language it's a strengthened
form of the word strong or mighty in other words if it was fully
translated it would be very exceedingly mighty and strong that's what
Jephthah was I mean he was a man's man he was a warrior and when
When his half-brothers realized that he was going to take part
in the inheritance at the death of Gilead, they thrust him out. But when Amnon came on the scene
against them, they saw their need for him and they begged
him to come back. and be their commander. What
a picture of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ, the mighty
warrior of God, who, as I said, went into the very pits of hell
and defeated Satan. He left, he led captivity captive. He put away the sins of his people. No warrior like that. All the wars engaged by men put
together do not compare to the conflict that the Lord Jesus
Christ experienced when the sword of God's wrath pierced his very
soul. when he drank the bitter dregs
of the sins of his people on Calvary's cross. There's no way
that all the agony that's ever been experienced in this world
can compare to that. He is the mighty man. And when
his half brethren saw that he was going to get the inheritance,
he was the firstborn, Ah, they thrust him out. We're not going
to share our inheritance with you. And Christ, the scripture
says, there was no beauty in him that we should desire him.
We had enmity with God. We didn't want to share the inheritance
of our salvation with him. Until sin came. The law came
and sin revived and Ammon's there now. And we realize we need this
mighty warrior to come. And we come and we beg him to
be our commander and our chief. Here's the picture. These are
all gospel stories. These are not just historical
events to be debated by men over what really did Jephthah do with
his daughter. And how could he have done it
and why didn't God stop him? This is here, like all of scripture,
to tell us about the work of atonement. The mighty man of
God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who bore on his strong back all the
sins of all of God's people. What an exceedingly mighty, strong
man he is. And what great work he accomplished
in destroying the works of the devil and delivering his people. Here's what this is a story about.
The mighty man of God, Jephthah had a different set
of parents than his brethren. And so the Lord Jesus Christ,
as our Mighty man of valor had a different set of parents. We're
born after our father, Adam, by our fleshly father. The Lord Jesus Christ was born
into this world after the seed of David, according to the flesh,
but after the seed of God, according to the spirit. It was the spirit
of God that came upon Mary. Our Lord did not inherit the
seed of sin like we did. He was born without sin. We have a high priest who's able
to sympathize with our troubles and with our afflictions, for
he was in all ways tried and tempted as we are yet without
sin, without sin. We esteemed him not until the
Ammonites came, until God sent his law and exposed us for what
we are, dead, graceless, hell-deserving sinners. And we went to Tob,
and we found our brother, and we cried out to him, come help
us. we've got to have you. And Jethro
says in this chapter, he says, if I come, you're going to make
me the commander. And they said, yes, you're going
to be in charge. Whatever you say is what's going
to happen. And they did. Subsequently, Jephthah made the
vow and this The sacrifice is a picture of
the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. God requires not just any sacrifice. He requires a right sacrifice. It has to be a burnt offering,
but the burnt offering has to be the right burnt offering. of an offering that our God is
pleased with, a sacrifice that will atone for our sins in the
sight of God. Now, many people are trying to
atone for their sins, but an atonement that God's pleased
with, that atonement, first of all, has to be very, very costly. It has to be very costly. What
do we see in our story? Jephthah's daughter was his only
daughter. There was no more costly sacrifice
that Jephthah could have made to fulfill the vow of atonement. And so it is with the Lord Jesus
Christ, God's only begotten son, You know, we speak of men and
women who give their lives in battle as having made the ultimate
sacrifice. And I'm very thankful for the
freedoms that we enjoy in this country and for the lives that
have been laid down on the line for us to enjoy those freedoms. But I would suggest to you that
Dying in battle is not the ultimate sacrifice. The ultimate sacrifice
is the experience that that mother has in losing her child in battle. She gave the greater price. Mrs. Bixby of Boston, Massachusetts
in 1864 received a letter from President Abraham Lincoln trying
to console her for the loss of five sons that she lost in the
Union Army. She made the ultimate sacrifice. To sacrifice your child is a
much greater sacrifice than to sacrifice. What parent would
not gladly lay down their life to save the life of their child?
Gladly do it. This is This is the ultimate
sacrifice. And I would also suggest that
those pagan people of ancient times who offered up their children
to false gods were not cold and callous and heartless in what
they did. They actually had a better understanding
of a God than do modern day men. Modern day men think that they
can atone for their sins before God by a prayer that they pray,
or by some things that they quit doing, or by some things that
they start doing, or, you know, they think, you know, I can offer
God something to atone for my sins. These ancient pagans that we
look at sacrificing their children as horrible as that was, we think
those people had a better understanding about the holiness of God and
the sacrifice that had to, what were they doing? They were making
the ultimate sacrifice. No greater sacrifice could be
made than to offer up your child to a God. The Lord said to Abram, Abram,
take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, and get thou
up to Moriah, and offer him to me as a burnt sacrifice. What greater sacrifice could
be made? What am I trying to say? We should
offer up our children? Oh no. that God Almighty has made the
ultimate sacrifice. A sacrifice that is acceptable
to God is a costly sacrifice, and it's only in the sacrifice
that the Lord Jesus Christ made on behalf of his people. God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son. That's what this is a story about.
The ultimate sacrifice, the costly sacrifice, the precious sacrifice,
the only sacrifice that God's pleased with. Make all the sacrifices
you can. You're not gonna satisfy God's
demand for atonement. That is only done in Jephthah's
daughter, his only daughter, offered up as a burnt offering.
The Lord Jesus Christ. 1 John 4 9, in this was manifested
the love of God toward us because God sent his only begotten son
into the world that we might live through him. Turn to me to 1 Peter. chapter
one, first Peter chapter one. This is such, if we can just
divorce ourselves from the cloud of the moral dilemma here and
see the gospel in this, it will set our souls free to rest our
hope in Christ. First Peter, Chapter one, look
with me at verse 18. For as much as you know that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from
your vain conversation received by tradition from your father.
Now you just fill in silver and gold with whatever you want.
You're not going to be redeemed. with the most precious sacrifice
that you can make, the most costly sacrifice that you can make.
Put your children on the altar, burn them. You're not gonna satisfy
God's demand. But with the precious blood of
Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, there's the
costly sacrifice. And we can sort of identify, some can identify very well with
losing a child, but we cannot identify with what the father
experienced in giving his son. The union that they had and the
value that the Lord Jesus Christ was Precious blood of Christ is the
redemptive price for sin. What a Savior. What a hope. Here's what Jephthah's daughter
is about. Secondly, this sacrifice has
to be holy. It has to be pure. It has to
be spotless, which is symbolized by the fact that Jephthah's daughter
was a virgin. Virginity in the Bible is this
picture of purity and holiness. And so here we have the Lord
Jesus Christ, who himself was a virgin to sin. God made him
who knew no sin to be made sin for us, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. The Lord Jesus Christ wasn't
anesthetized by sin. He wasn't blind. He wasn't dulled
by it like you and I are. No, when he went to the cross
and the wrath of God was poured out and the sins of his people
were on his, in his body. Oh my God, my God, why stop? Lord, if there be any way this
cup can pass. The holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
the sacrifice. You see, a sinner can't atone
for sins. We're not undefiled. We're not sinless. We don't have
what God requires as a perfect sacrifice to be made. Only the
Lord Jesus Christ could do that. I lay in Zion a cornerstone,
a chief cornerstone, precious and elect. Priceless, holy, sinless, spotless, perfect sacrifice
is what God requires. That's why the Lord told the
children of Israel, when you build an altar to make a burnt
offering, don't put your hands to the stone. Don't try to beautify
that altar, because as soon as you touch it, just pile up some
rocks and put the sacrifice on the rocks. As soon as you put
your hand to it, you defiled it. And don't put steps on that altar,
like those altars and those temples down in Mexico that have steps
on them going all the way up. He said, if you put, and that's
what man-made religion is. If you go through this step and
that step, you pray this prayer, you make this decision, you join
this church, you do this, you get baptized, all these steps,
you gotta be sorry. You put steps on your altar and
all you're going to do is expose your nakedness. That's what the
Lord said. So when you build an altar, don't put steps on
it. Don't put your hand to it. I require a perfect burn offering. And Jephthah's daughter is a
picture of that. Costly, pure, holy. And notice also that she was
willing. She was willing. Notice in our
text, go with me to verse 36. And she said unto him, my father,
if thou hath opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according
to that which thou hath proceeded out of thy mouth. You can't take
your words back from God, father. God Almighty spoke words. Before the world ever was created,
before the angels came into being, God the Father spoke a word to
his son promising to give him a bride. A people, an elect people chosen
by God the Father in this covenant of grace before time ever began. God the son spoke words to his
father. And he said to his father, he
said, father, I'll do what's necessary to redeem them. I'll lay my life down for them.
No man will take it from me. I will willingly go. I will set
my face like Flint towards Jerusalem. I will lie down on that cross.
I'll be pierced through with nails. I'll do it. God, the Holy Spirit entered
into that covenant promise. And he said, I will go. And it
won't be my bybite or by their power. It won't be by their might
or by their power. It'll be by my spirit, saith
the Lord. I'll make them willing in the day of my power. I'll
cause them to believe. Those words cannot be taken back.
That's God's Word. Our immutable, sovereign, omnipotent
God cannot say, well, you know, we made a mistake here. Let's
go back and rethink this. We've got to have another plan.
No, that was it. And the Lord Jesus Christ came
And he willingly, listen to what he said in John chapter 12, verse
27. Now is my soul troubled. He didn't do this gleefully.
He didn't do it without feeling, but he did it willingly. He said,
now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father
saved me from this hour, but for this cause came I into the
world. I can't ask the Father to save
me. This is why I came. This is to fulfill those covenant
promises. John chapter 17, Father, the
hour is come. The hour has come. Glorify thy
son that thy son may also glorify thee. Oh, what a willing sacrifice
he was. Here's what Jephthah's daughter tells us about Christ. She was a costly, precious, burnt
offering. She was holy, pure, spotless
Lamb of God. Not like the things we touch. She was willing. And notice that Jephthah trusted
her. Notice in verse 37 of our text. And she said unto her father,
let this thing be done for me. Let me alone two months that
I may go up and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity,
I and my fellows. Jephthah trusted her. You know that her friends tried
to talk her out of it. Your father made a foolish vow. You know, we've got some friends
over in Samaria or up in Gad, and we can hide you there from
your father. Come with us. Come with us. She was not persuaded. Did the
disciples that our Lord walked among the mountains with and
bewailed his virginity, his holiness? You and I are sometimes grieved
when we see real horrible acts of violence or sin, and we think
this world is just so corrupt, and we're offended. We're offended
by things, aren't we? but not too much, we get over
it pretty quick. And we're not, you know, the
Lord Jesus Christ was offended by everything. I mean, he was
walking on the mountains with his friends, bewailing his virginity. Here's holiness, walking among
sinful men, experiencing the contradiction of these sinful
men every day, offended by everything he heard and everything he saw
to a degree that you and I can't even begin to imagine. He could have called 12 angels
from heaven, 12 legions of angels. to deliver him. But he said,
father, allow me to walk among the mountains with my friends
for two months and bewail my virginity and I'll come back.
And the father trusted him. He was given, the Lord Jesus
Christ was given by men. No reason why he should save
them. The Lord Jesus Christ is given
by you and me. No reason why he should save
us. The only reason he saves is not
because of something that we offer to God. But because of
this covenant promise and his faithfulness to fulfill that
promise with his father in the covenant of grace, his love for
his people, every reason for his salvation
is found in his heart, in his heart. Only because of his love, And
of his commitment to his father and to his people does he say. He walked among the hills. For
33 years. Represented by these two months.
And he was faithful. Faithful to his father, faithful
to his people, faithful to save his name is called faithful and
true. What a faithful Savior. Notice at the end of the story, after
the scripture says that Jephthah did with her in verse 39, according
to his vow, which he had vowed, that the daughters of Israel
went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four
days a year. Not only was the burnt offering
that was acceptable to God as an atonement for sin to be costly
and to be holy and to be faithful, but it's to be remembered. is to be remembered. And that's
what we're doing right now. We're remembering the work that
the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished. We're remembering who he is and
what he did. What is the significance of four
in the number four? Numbers are very significant
in the Bible. Well, think with me for just a moment about the
fourth day of creation. The fourth day of creation is
when the sun and the moon and the stars were made. What causes
us to think more about our God than when we look up into the
sky? and the light of these luminaries to give us light to live by.
And we see the handiwork of God in the stars and in the creation.
And the sun is spoken of as a strong man that comes up every morning
and circles the earth. And that's Christ is the son
of God. So we remember him as the one
who rises with healing in his wings. The fourth commandment
was to keep holy the Sabbath, which the scripture says was
a sign. It was a type. It was a picture. of the Lord Jesus Christ, who
fulfilled all the law of God. That fourth commandment is placed
after the first three and before the next six, and all the law
of God is fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ, who finished his
work and rested from his labors. And so we remember the Lord Jesus
as the light of the world, remember him as the the Sabbath, the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth. And there are four seasons in the year. And so though the
children and the daughters of Israel only spent four days a
year going up into the mountains and lamenting, the death and
the burnt offering of Jephthah's daughter, we in every season,
in every appointed, you know the word season in the Bible
is translated appointed time also, and this is our appointed
time to remember the costly, faithful, holy sacrifice, the
willing sacrifice that the Lord Jesus Christ made as the only
sacrifice that can atone for the sins of his people. Our heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. Lord, we pray that you would
speak infinitely more to our hearts than we're able to audibly
say. And Lord, cause us to look in
affection and in love and in grace and in hope and in faith
to thy dear son. For it's in his name we pray,
amen. 232, let's stand together, number
232. This hymn's not in our music box either, so we'll sing it
a cappella. Christ our Redeemer died on the
cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due. Sprinkle your soul
with the blood of the Lamb, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the blood When I see
the blood When I see the blood I will pass, I will pass over
you ? Chiefest of sinners, Jesus will save ? ? All he has promised,
that he will do ? ? Wash in the fountain, open for sin ? ? And
I will pass, will pass over you ? ? When I see the blood of Christ
? When I see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass,
I will pass over you. ? Judgment is coming, all will
be there ? ? Each one receiving justly his due ? ? Hide in the
saving, sin-cleansing blood ? ? And I will pass, will pass over you
? When I see the blood When I see the blood When I see the blood
I will pass, I will pass over you ? O great compassion, O boundless
love ? ? O loving kindness, faithful and true ? ? Find peace and shelter
under the blood ? ? And I will pass, will pass over you ? ?
When I see the blood of Jesus ? When I see the blood, when
I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass over you.