298, God leads us along. In shady green pastures so rich
and so sweet, God leads His dear children along. Where the water's cool flow bathes
the weary wood's feet, God leads His dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood. Some through the fire, but all
through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us some. In the night season and all the
day long. Sometimes a mountain where the
sun shines so bright, God leads His dear children along. Sometimes in a valley in darkest
of night, God leads His dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood. Some through the fire, but all
through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all in the night season and all the day long. Though sorrows befall us and
Satan oppose, God leads his dear children along. Through grace we can conquer,
defeat all our foes, God leads his dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the
blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all in the night season and all the day long. Away from the mire and away from
the clay, God leads his dear children along. Away up in glory, eternity's
day, God leads his dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the blood. Some through the fire, but all
through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all in the night season and all the day long. If you would, turn to 77. Son
of My Soul, 77. ? Son of my soul thou say'st ? It is the night if thou be near. Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise
to hide thee from thy servant's eyes. ? When the soft dews of
kindly sleep ? ? My weary eyelids gently sleep ? ? Be my last thought,
how sweet to rest ? ? Forever on my Savior's breast ? ? Abide
with me from morn till eve ? ? For without thee I cannot live ?
? Abide with me when night is nigh ? ? For without thee I dare
not die ? ? Be near to bless me when I wake ? ? E'er through
the world my way I take ? ? Abide with me till in thy love ? ?
I lose myself in heaven above ? Thank you. I'm going to be reading in Daniel
chapter 4, starting with verse 28. Daniel
chapter 4. What's that? Louder. Daniel chapter
4, verse 28. And all this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of 12 months, he walked
in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake and
said, is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house
of the kingdom by the might of my power for the honor of my
majesty? And while the word was in the
king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar,
to thee it is spoken, the kingdom is departed from thee. And they
shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the
beasts of the field. They shall make thee to eat grass
as an oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know
that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will. In the same hour was the thing
fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and
did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of
heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers and his
nails like bird's claws. And at the end of days, I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned
unto me. And I blessed the Most High,
and I praised and honored him that liveth forever. whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
to generation, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and
among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his
hand or say unto him, what doest thou? At the same time, my reason
returned unto me. And for the glory of my kingdom,
mine honor and brightness returned unto me, and my counselors and
my lords sought unto me, and I was established in my kingdom,
and excellent majesty was added unto me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works
are truth, and his ways judgment, and those that walk in pride
he is able to abase. Let's pray. Lord, we come before you thankful
that we have a place to come and hear your Gospel preached.
We thank you for your Word in the first hour. We ask that you'd
bless it to our hearts. We pray that you'd be with us. Give us your Spirit for the second
hour in preaching and in listening. We ask that you'd grow us We
pray for all those who are sick, Lord, especially Johnny and Scott. We pray that your hand of healing
would be on them and that you'd comfort them in this trial. We
ask all this in Christ's name. Amen. I had a rechargeable rechargeable
battery in my pocket and I was touching the keys and I'm noticing
this like serious heat coming up in my pocket like getting
hotter and hotter and so I put my hand and I was like why is
this thing burning and it was the like somehow the rechargeable
batteries were really weird. Now I know. Don't carry rechargeable
batteries in your pocket with keys. Yeah I guess because it
must make a charge going around the Wow, glad it didn't explode
in my pocket match. Not bad. All right. Okay. All right, brethren. Okay, we're gonna be in Jonah
chapter three. Jonah chapter three, verse five
and 10 is our text this morning. Now, we saw last week, we began
looking at this, and we were looking last week how that the
Lord was sending a renewed man when he sent Jonah. Jonah was
now vomited out from the fish's belly there on the dry land.
He's changed. He's a renewed man. It was picturing
a regenerated man. And so that was our focus last
week, the first four verses. And now we'll look at the rest
of the chapter and we'll see the effect of God's word now
upon this people there in Nineveh. So I gave this outline of the
chapter last week, you know, seeing how Jonah is a type of
a born again believer there. And there was an emphasis how
that God sanctified Jonah for this work. He sanctified him
for his own purpose. You know, Jonah originally believed
that God was sending him because he's a prophet and God needed
his services to go to this people there and preach the word to
them. But the Lord revealed to Jonah
that I'm not sending you, Jonah. I don't need you because you're
a prophet. I'm using you to carry my word. The people need my word and I'm
going to declare to them the truth. I'm going to give them
light by my word and you're just the earthen vessel that I'm going
to use to send to them. And so that's why Jonah was was
was sent there. And that's now the understanding
he has when he comes to this people. Now, like Jonah, we all
are learning this. We're all learning continually
that we are the Lord's. We're not our own people we were
sanctified unto him he's the one who sanctified us and has
set us apart for his own use in his kingdom right and and
and so we're we're learning that just like Jonah learned that
now the second part of the chapter here what we'll see is Jonah
is a type Jonah is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ who's raised
from the dead. And like Christ, who when he
rose from the dead, he spoke to his disciples. He spoke to
a few of his disciples and that few then went under the authority
and power and proclaimed that word out to many, even out to
all the world. That word went out and it worked
repentance and salvation in them that heard it with the ear of
faith. And that's the picture that we have here in Jonah chapter
three, actually. So that's what I want to show
you this morning. Now I've titled this message,
After the Resurrection. After the Resurrection. So we
left off with verse four, let's look at that, Jonah 4.4. And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey and he cried
and said, yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. All right,
and so this now brings us to our text. He's preached this
word. And what we have now beginning
in verse five is the effect that God wrought. that God wrought
upon the people of Nineveh as a result of the preached word.
Look at verse 5. So the people of Nineveh believed
God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest
of them even to the least of them." So this is the result
here and it's a picture of the grace of God for these people
in Nineveh there. You think about it that we see
the picture here because you have this people in Nineveh and
you can imagine they had their own form of worship. They had
their own idol gods. They had their own holy men. right, that interpreted for them
how to worship God. They had all these things and
yet here comes some foreigner preaching the word, declaring
to them that God's going to overthrow their kingdom and God worked
a miracle of grace in their hearts so that they turned from everything
they knew, right, and trusting in those things and were turned
from that to believe the to believe God through this mediator that
God had sent. They believe that this man is
sent of God and he's declaring to us the truth that we need
to hear even now. And so that's a picture that
what we see there is repentance, turning from dead works that
cannot save to the true living God and his salvation in his
son Jesus Christ. And so it's an evidence of faith. They believed God. They believed
Him. They heard that word and believed
this man's of God and God sent him and we need to hear it. And
they were turned from everything they believed to trust what this
man was saying concerning God and them. And so verse six now,
verse five was an overall just blanket declaration of what happened.
But verse six now begins to break down the details that went into
how we got to verse five there with that overall repentance
among them all. Now verse six says, for word
came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,
and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth
and sat in ashes." And as we read that, you can enter in and
say, you know, that's a picture of grace worked in the heart
of a believer. That's actually a picture, what
we see this king doing, that's a picture for us of what the
Lord does when he converts us by the word of God, the Lord
Jesus Christ. And so, You know, we all are
running and living in our lying vanities. We all have the things
that we tell ourselves, as Jonah said, lying vanities. They that
pursue those are forsaking their own mercy. And that's where we
all are, just trusting in and hoping in our lying vanities. And yet, when the Lord turns
us, he strips us of that self-sovereignty, that self-worth, that self-righteousness
that we all have by nature. And we're stripped of those things. And that royal robe that we trust
in, that we've made for ourselves, that gets laid aside. And what's
put on us is this sackcloth, if you will. And that sackcloth
is a picture of humility there, right? It's a picture of humility
and being brought down low. And so the Lord does that for
his people. Now Jonah, as you can imagine,
Jonah has gone into the city of Nineveh and he's one single
voice, one voice. And the scriptures say that it's
a city of 60,000 people, an ancient city of 60,000 people, and takes
about three days to get around it, okay? It's a large city,
but someone heard this man crying out, and all those 60,000 people,
at least one person, like probably many people heard him, but one
person heard him. And they said, this is important. This is crucial here. Our lives
depend on what this man is saying here. And so that person brought
word to the king. And the king and his princes,
they further spread the word to all the inhabitants that were
there in that city. And so the picture being given
here is that just as Jonah is seen as a typical believer, right,
who's now born again of Christ's seed, right? So believers, hearing
that word, right, we hear and are converted and turned and
affected by the word, we then carry that same word out in this
power and spirit of Christ and we declare that gospel word to
all, right? It goes out so that that word
starts spreading throughout the whole world. Well, Joan here
now is a type of Christ. He's a type of Christ. And the
reason why I say that is because Jonah rose from the dead. He was raised from the dead. When he was vomited out of that
big fish onto the dry land, it's a picture of him being delivered,
raised from the dead. He was trapped there in that
death, in that fish there. And Jonah was the sign given,
right? He was a sign given. to the people,
and not just in the fact that he was buried for three days
and three nights, but also that he rose from the dead. That's
what that picture is, because that fish is a grave, if you
will, which he would have been stuck in and unable to deliver
himself from, but the Lord delivered him from it. He raised him from
the dead. Well, Christ our Savior also rose from the grave. It
couldn't hold him. and he rose from the dead. And
when he rose from the dead, he went to his disciples and he
preached the truth to them. And Paul gives us a good summary
in Acts 26. Acts 26, verse 23. And he says there, speaking of Christ,
he said that Christ should suffer. And Jonah suffered, right? Jonah
suffered when he was thrown into the wrath of God, into that sea
of wrath. Jonah suffered and he was troubled
and he sunk down there, down to the bottom and was surrounded
by the billows and the waves of the wrath of God and then
he was swallowed by that fish and held by that fish. And concerning
Christ, that he should be the first that should rise from the
dead. Well, Jonah did that as well.
He first rose from the dead before he ever came to these people.
He had to first be delivered from death. He had to first rise
from the dead before those people could hear this word and have
this light and this word brought to them. concern of Christ, that
he should show light unto the people, which would be the Jews,
unto the people and to the Gentiles, he said. So the people are the
Jews and then to the Gentiles as well. And that's what Jonah
did. When he went into that city and
he began to cry out to them that judgment's coming, He was giving
light to the people. He was preaching that word that
God sent him to the people. Now the people in Nineveh is
a picture of the Jews. He's declaring that word to the
Jews, and then the Gentiles are pictured in the herds, the flocks,
and the ignorant beasts there in Nineveh. So that's what they're
picturing there in the Gentiles. Yeah, it's a lovely description
of us, right? But that's what it is. So turn over to John 17,
and I'll show you that later. It gives us that language there,
but go over to John 17. this is our Lord's Prayer, this
is His High Priestly Prayer, and you'll see the relation,
I mean I'll point out the relation here to Jonah, of what Christ
says in His High Priestly Prayer. So John 17, verse 17. John 17,
17. So Christ prays and he says,
sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. All right, so this sanctification,
this is a major lesson for us in the book of Jonah. It's sanctification,
not we ourselves sanctifying ourselves, but we see how that
our God sanctifies us. He's going to turn us. We are
justified by him. Well, we're also sanctified by
our God. And it wasn't Jonah turning himself
around. It was the Lord working wonderfully,
doing marvelous spiritual things for Jonah to sanctify him both
physically but also to teach him I'm not my own to teach him
his sanctification well that's what we're also being taught
and that's why Christ said sanctify them through thy truth thy word
is truth and that's what the Lord does he sanctifies us through
this preaching right we go out and we get you know we we fall
into our folly and sin and the religion of this world is usually
one of the first things into our minds, like, oh, what do
I gotta do to fix this now? Well, we're reminded by the gospel
that Christ has already fixed this. Christ is my salvation,
and he turns our hearts from being set on and loving this
world, and he directs us back to him. So we're sanctified,
just as Christ, our high priest, prayed. We're set apart for the
Lord's use. Okay, now verse 18. as thou hast
sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into
the world. For their sakes I sanctify myself,
that they also might be sanctified through the truth." pictures that perfectly. He was
first sanctified by the Lord. Christ sanctified himself but
Jonah was sanctified by the Lord and we get that because Jonah
had to first be sanctified by the Lord before he ever went
to Nineveh and preached that word. God had to separate him. God had to show him you're not
your own, you're mine and you're going to do what I've sent you
to do. And so he had to be sanctified
first. And so in that sense, he's a
picture of Christ, though Christ sanctified himself. All right. So the Lord does this. Now, listen
to to this because you can say, you know, we look at Jonah and
we're like, yeah, he was sanctified. He was troubled greatly. He suffered. greatly as we saw in Jonah chapter
2 when he was thrown overboard and there bound in that fish's
belly. But listen to this word concerning
our Savior in Hebrews 5. We're going to come back to John
17, but in Hebrews 5, 7 through 9, we read, who in the days of
his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying tears unto him that was able to save him
from death and was heard in that he feared right that's a good
description of Jonah chapter 2 Jonah prayed and cried out
to the Lord and he was afraid and he cried out to the only
one that can deliver him from death though he were a son yet
learned he obedience by the things which he suffered He was sanctified
by God and Christ. I mean, I can't even, I wouldn't
even speak like this if the scriptures didn't declare that Christ himself
suffered and learned obedience as a son. And being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all of them that
obey him. And that's what we have pictured
here with Jonah. He's been sanctified of God.
He's suffered and learned that God is holy and perfect. And
he sent me now to preach this word, to bring this light to
these people here. All right, and so, and it was
a word which the people of Nineveh would obey. They would hear that
word of truth and they would obey it. They would believe God.
All right, now back in John 17, 20, He says, neither pray I for
these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word. All right, just as our Lord,
he rose from the dead, he spoke to the few who were apostles
and appointed by God, and then they went out and spread that
light and that word throughout all the world. And that's exactly
what happened with Jonah. He was raised from the dead,
sanctified by the Lord, having suffered, went to Nineveh, preached,
someone heard it, carried that word to the king, and the king
told his princes, or they told the king and his princes, and
then they believed, and then they also sent that word out
into all of Nineveh. So you can see that same pattern. They were blessed through their
word. Not every, all 60,000 in Nineveh heard Jonah, but they
heard their word, and they believed what was spoken. And then verse
21, that they also, John 17, 21, that they all may be one
as thou father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent
me. And so Nineveh believed that
word preached, right? They believed that this word
came to us from a man sent of God. whether they heard him personally
or they heard it through the king and the prince's direction
to them, that this is the word of God that's come. And they
believed that that man was sent of God. That's why they turned
from everything else they knew and believed. They were turned
from it and believe that this man sent of God. And so it's a picture there that
Just like we believe that God has sent his son, Jesus Christ,
and we've heard that word through them which heard the word and
believed and preached and so on. That's how the Lord has purposed
it, and we see his power in it. All right? So let's look back
now at Jonah 3, verse 7 and 8. And he, the king, caused it to
be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the
king and his nobles, saying, let neither man nor beast, herd
nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed nor drink water,
but let man and beast, Jew and Gentile, be covered with sackcloth
and cry mightily unto God, yea, let them turn everyone from his
evil way and from the violence that is in their hands. And that's
the repentance that our God works in us, right? When we cease eating
at the trough of this world's food and what they say, we stop
living on those things and we begin to feed upon Christ, his
word. We feed on the word of God. We
believe what God has said so that in Christ we eat of his
flesh and we drink his blood. We're feasting upon him and we're
we're forsaking the things of this world. And I say this because
it's spiritual. It's a spiritual word. And even now we feed spiritually
upon Christ. We're not feeding on what this
world values and says is true. We're feeding on Him who alone
is valuable and true. He's our safety and our salvation
and our hope, Christ himself. He said, it's the spirit that
quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit and they are life. So now being covered
with humility, that sackcloth pictures that humility and what
it pictures is Christ's righteous robe. We laid aside our robes
of glory. The king said, let everyone be
clothed in sackcloth, just like he was there, right? Well, we
too We put aside our own earthly glory, our own earthly robes
of honor and glory and self-righteousness, and we bear now that sackcloth,
that humility, which is the robe of righteousness, which our Savior
wove for us and wrought for us in his weakness. Sackcloth is
not something that we would want to put on our bodies, because
the flesh, it's uncomfortable to the flesh, but it's that righteousness
of Christ that is our very acceptance with God. He's the one in whom
we come and are presented before our God and he accepts us. And
so being covered in Christ's blood and righteousness, that's
the one in whom we now cry out mightily. and hope, God have
mercy on me, a sinner. Deliver me, Lord. And that's
how we're turned from our dead works to the living God, and
we're delivered in Christ himself, and God receives us for Christ's
sake. So this was so of the Jews, the
men, right, described as men, and of the Gentiles, which are
those beasts and flocks and herds, all right? And I say that, you
know, think of Acts 10 where Peter is seeing a vision and
he sees a sheet let down and in it are many animals, right? We're in, we're all manner of
four footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping
things and fowls of the air, right? Now to us, we think, well,
that's common, that's unclean. I don't want to be compared.
to a beast, and yet the scriptures talk of us Gentiles as that,
right? And the Lord says, but what God
hath cleansed, that call thou not common. Don't call it common,
it's not. The Lord, that's what we're pictured
of here in the scriptures, all right? Now, the king and the
people of Nineveh, they bore fruits of repentance, born in
them by the spirit of God. And it says, verse nine, who
can tell If God will turn and repent and turn away from his
fierce anger that we perish not. And there again is another picture
of our salvation, our spiritual deliverance from dead works. If you notice, what is it that
they're hoping? Are they hoping in their repentance? Are they hoping in what they're
doing? Or are they hoping in the mercy of God? Alright, we'll
read it again. Who can tell if God will turn
and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish
not? They weren't hoping in. in God
having mercy because of their works, but they were hoping in
the mercy and the grace of God. And so they believed the word,
right? They heard what Jonah said and
they hoped that God sent this man and they heard this mediator
speak and they believed him and were hoping that now God would
be merciful to them. And that's our hope, right? It's
not in what we do that our hope is found, but our hope is in
the grace and mercy of God in Christ, just as he's spoken to
us in his word. All right, and so Paul speaks
of this, he says in 1 Thessalonians 2.13, for this cause also thank
we God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of
God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of
men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually
worketh also in you that believe." And that's what they were doing.
They heard the word of Jonah, not as the word of a man, all
right, to compare with their own men, but as is in truth,
the word of God. And they were wrought upon by
the spirit and delivered from their death. All right, now let's
look at the repentance here in verse 10. So Jonah 3.10, and
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and
God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do
unto them, and he did it not. Now, God's eternal will and purpose
for them never changed and never altered. That wasn't changed
at all. God worked repentance in them. His purpose toward them remained
the same, but what the Lord is showing us there is that God's
revealed will, his providence, if you will, was change them. He changed them that he might
be merciful to them. He worked repentance in them
that he would not have to destroy them, all right? And so God provided that propitiatory sacrifice
for them, pictured in Jonah, right? Jonah was dealt with. Jonah was sacrificed and died
and rose again, because if that didn't happen, those people would
have perished anyway and never knew. They would never have heard
the truth. They would never have heard the
light. and been turned from it. And so Jonah there pictures our
Savior who was sacrificed for us, even when we were in darkness
and didn't know about it. And we, by Him, by His sacrifice,
His offering, were delivered. That's why we have the light
now. That's why God is gracious and merciful to us now, because
of Christ, what He did. And that's what Jonah's picturing.
He's made the sacrifice and He died and rose again that that
light would come to these people. All right, now concerning repentance
being worked in the people, the scriptures describe it elsewhere
in Jeremiah. If you wanna turn there, Jeremiah
18. Verse seven through 10. The Lord
says, at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and
concerning a kingdom to pluck it up and to pull down and to
destroy it, if that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
unto them. And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant,
to plant it, if it do evil in my sight that it obey not my
voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would
benefit them." So this voice is the preached word to the people,
right? We're declaring the word of God
in the preaching. And they that believe are said
to be turned from their evil way because they're obeying the
voice of God, right? That's what's being pictured
here for us. That's what happened here with
Nineveh. They heard that word and believed God. And the picture there, again,
God himself hasn't been turned from his eternal purpose to do
them good. It's in the revelation, right?
The Lord speaks this word to us. He's declaring the gospel
to us and says, they that believe on my son, you that believe him,
and have faith in Him and trust Him, you shall be saved. Now, before that word comes,
For all we know, we're dead sinners, dead in trespasses and sins,
and there's no hope for us. But they that hear the word and
believe do testify of the work of God, that God has determined
to be gracious. God's eternal purpose didn't
change toward them, but in Providence we see now that he's turned them
that he may be gracious. And that's really what's gone
on in Nineveh. God always intended to be gracious to them, but they
had to hear the word and they had to believe. and God worked
that in them that he might repent providentially, you know, externally,
if you will, to do them good. And that's really what's occurring.
God doesn't change his mind. It's only in the revelation that
we see that his purpose toward us is altered. And so that's
why we preach the gospel and we declare the gospel, knowing
full well that it's the remnant, according to the election of
grace, that hears it and believes and is turned and faith is revealed
in their hearts. And so you that hear, you know,
it's not about, am I the elect? Am I the one for whom Christ
died? I mean, we wonder that, but the
question is, do you hear the voice of God? Do you believe
him whom he sent? The one that I'm declaring to
you, do you believe Christ? Do you trust him? And that's
the revelation of faith and the will of God in you, because you
that hear it and have no hope, he gives you that hope and faith
in Christ. And you do believe. And that's
the repentance that, if you will, outwardly, it looks like God's
determined to be gracious to you, but he always did determine
to be gracious to you. So even concerning repentance
in Matthew 12, 41, He said, Christ said, the men of Nineveh shall
rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because
they repented at the preaching of Jonas. And behold, the greater
than Jonas is here. And so I pray that you hear there's
nothing we can do. When the Lord determines this
world is gonna be destroyed and it'll be brought into judgment,
but he's provided the Savior. He's provided salvation and all
who look to Him shall be saved. And you that look to Him will
give God the glory and the praise because the reason why you believe
on Him is by the grace and kindness and mercy of God toward you whereby
you believe so. I pray the Lord take my fumbling
words and bless it to your heart and comfort you in His salvation,
Jesus Christ. All right, let's close in prayer.
Our gracious Lord, we thank you, Father, for your mercy. We thank
you for the salvation you've provided so richly and freely
in your Son, Jesus Christ. Lord, help us to hear your voice.
Help us to believe on Christ. Turn us from our deadness and
our sleepiness in the faith. Lord, cause us to walk by faith
daily in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's in his name
we pray and give thanks. Amen. All right, brother, if you'll
close this with him. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn, My Savior's Love, 452. My Savior's Love, 452. 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 song shall ever be! 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 ever be! 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, will be my joy through the ages
to sing of his love for me. How marvelous, how wonderful
in my song shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful
is my Savior's love for me. Thank you.