Amazing love, how can it be that
thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Amazing love, how can it
be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Let's turn now to the Gospel
of Matthew, chapter 9. Matthew chapter nine, as you
know, we have been studying through. The book of Exodus in the Bible
study. And the book of Matthew. Generally on. Wednesday nights,
but we've also. Looked at some stories. On the
Lord's Day Sunday. Trying to be true to God's word.
and go line upon line, verse by verse. And so now we come
to these verses, and at first glance it doesn't seem to be. Well, may the Lord make it real,
make it live for us. Matthew 9, let's read verses
14 through 17. Then came to him, the Lord Jesus, the disciples
of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy
disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can
the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom
is with them? But the days will come when the
bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fail.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for
that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment,
and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into
old bottles, else the bottles break. and the wine run about. And the bottles perish. But they
put new wine into new bottles. And both are preserved. I hope the Lord will make this
real to us. But anyway, in verse fourteen
it says the disciples of John came to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Disciples of John. Soon there would be no more disciples
of John, or at least very few. Shortly after this is when John
pointed out the Lamb of God. And they quit following him. And start following the Lamb.
That's what people are called that are in heaven right now,
followers. of the lamb, not disciples of men. It seems blasphemous
to me to be called a man's disciple. Does it to you? Lutheran. Now, I love Martin Luther. I
believe he's a brother, but I'm not his disciple. I love John Calvin, esteem him
highly, but I'm not his disciple. God's people bear a name, though,
don't they? The name of a person, Christ-ian,
Christian, Christ-ian. God's people are disciples of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, these disciples of John
and the Pharisees, and the Pharisees came. Pharisees, as you know,
were strict law-keeping, self-righteous religious man. Those were Pharisees. And they fasted often. That's
what they said. We fast often. We fast often. Turn with me to Matthew chapter
six. Go back to Matthew chapter six.
Our Lord said something about these fasting Pharisees. Matthew chapter six, he said
in verse sixteen, and every time he mentioned the Pharisee, he
said hypocrite. He said, moreover, when you fast,
be not as the hypocrites. He's talking about the Pharisees
of a sad countenance for they just figure their faces that
they may appear on to me to that that's why they have to show
everybody their past. And you know the same is true
of most religious things that go on with me to March of the
Mark chapter seven, look at what the Lord said about the traditions
of men. Now, these fellows asked the
Lord, why do we fast and your disciples don't? That's a good
question. That's a real good question.
Why do you fast? You know, God did not tell the
people to fast. He did not command fasting. You don't find it in the law.
We've been studying the law, haven't we? An accident. Every now and then, a preacher
would say, let's proclaim a fast. But God in the law did not command
fasting. Why do you fast? Why are you doing this? Why are
we doing this, they said to the Lord, and you're not. Christ never openly fasted. He went without food, but he
never did what he did and never told you, I'm fasting. Never,
ever. He's keeping the law, isn't he?
Isn't Christ keeping the law perfectly? In fact. That is. I challenge you to look it up
I did I would not have said that God did not command them. Matter of fact he upgraded them
and Isaiah for fasting said this is the fast that I've chosen.
To relieve the suffering and this and that. And look here
at Mark chapter seven they ask why do we fast and you don't.
Good question. I wish more people would ask
that about most things in religion. Why. I really do wish people
would come up to me and say why are we why do we do this down
here you don't. I wish they'd ask me that. I
say good question why are you doing that. Look at Mark chapter seven our
Lord. Again, the Pharisees and scribes
came to him, and verse two, they saw some of his disciples eat
bread with defiled, that is to say, unwashed hand, and they
found fault. The Pharisees, all the Jews,
except they washed their hands often, they won't eat, holding
the tradition of the elders. Where did God say, wash your
hands every thirty seconds? He didn't. He didn't. He commanded some washing of
pots and so forth, but he didn't command it as a law that you
can't eat. This is a tradition of the elders. All right, look on down. It says,
our Lord said this four times here, folks. Look at this with
me. Four times the Lord said. He said in verse six, Isaiah
the prophet, well hath Isaiah the prophet prophesied of you.
hypocrites. As it is written, this people
honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
He said, in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. They teach for doctrine, that
is, this is what God says. No, he didn't. It's the commandments
of men. Verse two, laying aside the commandment
of God. In other words, we don't care
what this book says, but we've got our church bylaws. You know, a man actually said
that to a preacher I know one time. He was standing before
a little Sanhedrin being examined by them, getting ready to be
fired, and they said, We don't care what you're saying is in
the Word of God is not in our church by law. This was a Baptist fundamental
independent pre-millennial. That's why I read on in verse
eight. He said they lay aside the commandment
of God to hold the tradition of man such as washing of pots
and cups and Verse nine, he said, oh, well, here's a third time.
Oh, well, you reject the commandment of God to keep your own tradition. Verse thirteen, make the word
of God of no effect through your tradition. I know that is always stuck with
me when he said that four times. Has man changed? Not one whit. We we ought to. And I wish people
I wish the Lord would convict people and cause them. Stir them up or something that
caused them to go where the truth is preached, and so that they
might ask, why do we do this and you don't? Why do we have
all this paraphernalia and you don't have anything? Good question. I'm glad you asked. Why do we
fast often? And your disciples don't. And
our Lord answers, says, What have they got to fast about?
Fast is mourning and seeking the Lord. Look at verse in our
text. Verse 15, the Lord said, Can
the children of the bride chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom
is with them? The Lord is called the bridegroom. John, the friend of the bridegroom,
John, said he said he rejoiced to hear the bridegroom's voice.
And, you know, believe it, while we mourn over our sin, if the
gospel is truly preached, Christ is preached, there's no cause
for mourning. We shouldn't go away mourning.
We should go away rejoicing. We're children in here of the
chamber. We're in the bride. We're in
the chamber right now. The bride chamber. This is where
the bridegroom is. Where the bride is being adorned,
it's a bride chamber. She's being adorned. What adorns
us, Deborah? It's a gospel adornment. Being
clothed with Christ right now as we speak. And it's a happy
time. You remember, I remember when
my daughter was back in the nursery there, that was the bride chamber.
The nursery somehow is the bride chamber. Hannah, you were back
there, men all decked out, and kids in there. What's going on
in there? They're just having a big old
time. Just having a big old time. The bride can't wait to get out
there, and everybody's so happy, and everybody's just so having
a good time. This is the bride chamber. What
have we got to fast about? Eat, drink, be merry. The bridegroom's with us. This
is the marriage supper of the Lamb. That's what it's all about.
That's what it's all about. Well, he said, as long as he's
with them. But the days will come, verse
15, the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from
them. Then they shall fast. The bridegroom's taken from them. When was that? How long did that
last? Three days. And they were in the upper chamber.
Remember, Christ was taken from them, as Isaiah 53 tells you,
taken from them, made a substitute, went to Calvary
to bear their sins. And they mourned, didn't they?
Oh, they mourned. Do you reckon they were feasting?
Oh, no. They were sad. Three days later,
the Lord appeared back to them, came back to them. What did they
do? Let's eat. Old Brother Todd and I were talking
how, and I didn't mean it well right here, but this is good. Brother Todd, you know, couldn't
have food for five, almost six weeks. And. Somebody made a remark, you know,
how that everything we do is centered around food and it really
is. But that's just the way it is
that you can't live without food. Food is what sustains his body.
You could actually say that our human beings depend on food to
live. Man lives by bread. Right, not
by bread alone. The spiritual man doesn't live
By the. Word. Feast on, but at any rate,
the reason I brought that up was because. Heaven is called
a marriage, what? Marriage, what supper? Of the land, yes, it's marriage,
but it says that. Same thing, feast, supper. You might eat supper and might
not get too much, but if it's the Lord's Supper, it's a feast
like old Solomon's table. What are you laughing at, Tammy?
Why did you look at Ron? Aren't you getting enough to
eat, Ron? Private joke. At any rate, when the Solomon's
table, you remember Solomon's table? How the Sheba went and
saw Solomon's table? I forget how many bullocks, a
hundred bullocks? A hundred fallow deer? A hundred
head of sheep? Oh, it'll spread. You're not
going to come there and go away empty. Go away hungry. And you
won't come here. Go away empty if you come hungry.
Not if Christ is served. Not if God's Word is served up
in great portions. It's a feast, and Brother Gabe
pointed out to me this morning how that Christ said he would
drink with us anew in the kingdom of God. Actually eat and drink. It's fun, isn't it? It's joyful,
isn't it? Some of you look like you're
really having fun. To sit around a table. The older you get, there's
nothing you enjoy more. Nothing you look forward to more.
There's nothing this life affords more or better than sitting around
a table with those you love eating good food. Nothing. You look
forward to it. And the older, the more you grow
in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, there's
nothing in this life, nothing this life affords that's better.
It doesn't get any better than sitting around the table feasting
on the Lord Jesus Christ with those you love. It's good food. Christ said,
eat my flesh and drink my blood. Well, now, he said this, and
this seems strange, doesn't it, in light of what he just said.
Verse sixteen. Do you wonder why he said this
right after that? He said, No man putteth a piece of new cloth
unto an old garment, but that which is put in to fill it up
taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither
do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break,
and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. They put
new wine in a new bottle, and both are preserved. He said,
no man puts a piece of new cloth into an old garment. What's he
talking about? Why did he bring this up? Would
you go back to Isaiah 64 with me? Isaiah chapter 64. Now, the Lord is addressing these
disciples of John, right? And his disciples, though, are
the ones that are listening. They're the ones that are getting
this. Later on, they're going to deal with everybody. And he's addressing these disciples
of John and the Pharisee, their self-righteousness. How that they do what they do
to appear before men. They fast, he said, remember,
to appear to fast. OK, he said, no man puts new
cloth on an old garment. You don't do that, in other words,
when Christ came, he made all things new. You take it the way
of the old, they may establish the second. New covenant, though
it's not really new. New Testament in his blood, though
it's not really know that this old is for the foundation of
the world. But it's newly revealed. And he doesn't mix the old with
the new, or the new with the old. He cast away the old to
bring in the new. And we're not going to go back
to the law, is what Christ is saying. and add this to the old. No, no, no, no. I've come to fulfill that, to
take it away and bring in the new. That's what he's saying.
Look at Isaiah 6. What is this old dharma? Isaiah
64. Look at verse, and you know this
verse by heart. Verse 6. We are all, as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Right? Some of you came up in
religion, didn't you? You were very zealous, sincere. Paul said that about his Roman
brethren, didn't he? He said, I, about his Israeli
brethren, he said, I bear them record, they have a zeal for
God. It's not according to knowledge. They're going about to establish
their own righteousness. Was that you, Robin? You were
a good girl, weren't you? You did, you thought you were
a good girl. Going to church? Why? Because that's what good
girls do. What do sinners go to church
for? And they're the salt of the earth. God's people are the
salt of the earth. Yes, they are. The light of the world.
They're the best that man has to offer. Yes, they are. That's
what Christ said. Why do they go to church? Not
to be seen of men. Not to appear to be going to
church. Not because that's what is commanded of you. To worship
Christ, that's why. To rejoice in him. And they don't
come because they think they're good people. They come as sinners
do, as ill people come to a hospital. They come because they need a
position, a great position. Sinners to hear the good news
of forgiveness and Christ. And they know that all that they
do is like filthy rags. All that old stuff. Filthy rags. It's a garment, what that's talking
about, a garment, and we need a new garment. That's what we
do. You know, when we were in religion
and we worked up this religion that we were in,
made this profession and do all this works and so forth and so
on, it's something we wear like a garment. Let me give you two
things about a garment. A garment covers your nakedness,
doesn't it? A garment covers your nakedness
and your shame, because you'd be ashamed if you didn't have
a covering on, wouldn't you? Adam and Eve, when they first
found out they were sinners, what were they? They were ashamed
because they were naked. Would you turn there with me?
We need to turn there. Genesis chapter 3. This is just
old cornbread and taters preaching right here. Genesis chapter 3.
You know these things, but maybe somebody doesn't. Genesis chapter
3. The first man and woman, when
they sinned against God, what did they do? Well, look at verse
7, Genesis 3. The eyes of them both were open,
and they knew that they were naked. And on down there, Adam
said, I was naked, and I hid myself. What did they do to cover their
nakedness? He says, they sewed fig leaves together and made
themselves things to gird themselves about, aprons. They made them
a little fig leaf garment. They turned over a new leaf. Or in other words, if it got
old on one side, they just turned it over. Where did that come
from? Where did that old say? Dan,
look it up, would you please? Why did we say turn over a new
leaf? If they made themselves these
little fig leaves, well, that's a good covering. We would be more than. They did. The cover that of all people
who was there to see them. God. You mean that's going to cover?
God can't see your nakedness? How foolish can he get? That's
how foolish man gets when he falls into sin. He can actually
cover himself before the face of God Almighty. Brother David
Pledger pointed this out to me. Brother Todd and I, the first
time we ever heard this was down there at his place. Brother David
pointed this out. He said, It was only one thing
on this planet that Jesus Christ cursed. You know what it was? It was
only one thing. When Christ walked this planet
as a man, one object he cursed. What was it? A fig tree. You get the significance of that? It won't cover. It won't cover. A garment covers nakedness and
shame. Now, isn't it interesting that
when we became sinners, Tammy, when we became sinners, we were
naked before that. We didn't need clothing. We did
not need clothing. But then when we sinned, we needed
clothing. What is the thing that people pride themselves in most? We're all guilty. Clothing. Why isn't that interesting? That's
all significant. Well, garments, clothes, nakedness,
and shame. Garments are for protection from
the elements. Keep you from dying from the
elements. Garments are for warmth. Warm you up. If you live in our
house, you better wear them 24 hours a day. Garments are for adornment. Adornment. Dress you up. Dress you up. Garments are for honor. Certain
garments are worn for honor. Well, nothing we do. No religion,
no anything like that can cover us. God looks on the heart. No, nothing we do, no religion
or whatever can protect us from the overflowing scourge of God's
wrath when it comes. God's not going to look and say,
well, you've been a good boy. No, sir, I won't do it. I see
your works. I know that you're going to since
you've been good. No, sir. Nothing will warm the
heart. Listen to me now. Nothing, no,
even a doctrine won't warm your heart. When the day, when the
day you get ready to die, you're not going to be rejoicing in
a doctrine. It's not going to warm your heart.
It's not going to warm your soul. You can't hug up to a doctrine. Our religion is not a doctrine. It's a person. You go through the Psalms, and
although he preached doctrine, it was a doctrine of a person.
It's called the doctrine of Christ. It's not the doctrines of Christ,
the teachings of Christ that we do follow. It's the doctrine
that is Christ. Let me give you an example. May
God enable me to do that. When Adam and Eve, when Adam
and Eve stand against God, they didn't know what had happened,
they didn't know, they didn't know what had happened, they
really didn't know. But Jesus Christ, the Word made
flesh, came and walked among them and began to talk to them
and began to reveal to them himself. He said, what have you done?
Oh, we see it's her it's her start blaming stuff and so forth.
Have you even talked to him? Have you eaten the fruit that
I told you not to eat? And they had these little, you
know, they were, you know, trying to cover, present themselves. And then God began to talk to
him and said, And they began to hear God Christ. They began
to hear Christ talk to them and say, talk to the serpent. Talk to Adam first and told him
some things. Adam didn't know what he was
talking about. He had no idea. He had no idea what his sin had
done to him and was going to do to him. They weren't kicked
out of the garden yet. Told Eve, you're going to greatly,
you're going to sorrow, you're going to have children, and oh,
it's sorrow, pain, suffering. You just don't know. She didn't
know. Then they heard him talking to
the serpent and began to tell him, the woman sings. And then he illustrated it. Take those big leaves off. What's
it going to do to cover your nakedness? What can we do to cover your
nakedness? What are we going to do to cover
you from your sin, your rebellion against me? What did he do? He went over
and got a lamb. Now, Adam and Eve had never seen
blood. They didn't know what death was.
They didn't know what they had done. They did not know what
he was talking about they were about to. And he went over and
got this lamb, this cute little lamb. And Eve said, that's my
baby lamb. That's the first born lamb. Without spotting, without blemish,
he's the best lamb. And God, old Jesus Christ, the
Word made flesh, the Word, the voice of God, walked in the garden,
took that lamb and slit its throat. And something they'd never seen
before came flowing out of it. Blood. All of it. And it quit moving. It writhed
and kicked. And God laid it down. It was
dead. They'd never seen that before. And then God and Christ took
that knife, whatever it was, and slit that and skinned it.
The horror of that. Can you imagine the horror in
their eyes as they were watching that? And God took that. And again, to make something. You reckon he's answering? You
reckon he's telling them what he's doing? You see, everything
is not written in the scriptures that he did or said, or the world
couldn't contain the book. You reckon he's telling them?
Would you be telling your children? Huh? Why are you chasing them? He's about to kick them out of
the garden. Would you be telling them why he's doing what he's
doing? Of course you did! The woman saying, this is my son.
This is the Christ that's going to come. This is me. I'm going
to come and be made sin for you just like this lamb. Me, sinless,
spotless, holy, spotless lamb of God before the foundation
of the world. Purposed by God to come into this world. And
God's going to take me and do to me what I'm doing to this
lamb. It's just one thing. That's going
to atone for your rebellion, your sin. Death, the soldier. Remember, God said, the day you
eat, you'll die, you'll die, you'll die. This is death, Adam. This is death, Eve. And either
you've got to die or somebody die for you. I'm doing that. And then when he got through,
he had this sheepskin coat. And he said, come here, Adam. And by that time, a cold wind's
blowing. And they're chillin' and naked. They're both trying
to huddle together. They can't get any warmth. Their
conscience is, what's he gonna do to it? I'm about to kick you
out of here. And you're going to suffer like
you never suffered before. What? Come here, Adam. And he put this coat around it.
Adam, put it on. It fit just perfectly. The hands
of God made this coat. Put one on Eve. It just fit her
perfectly. Warmed her up and didn't feel
quite so cold. And God said, now I've got to
kick you out. Got to kick you out. But I'm coming back. Coming back to her. To be the Lamb of God. To be
made sin for you. Who knew no sin. And my righteousness. Is your. Don't ever try to. Sew it together. Don't ever try to concoct something.
Don't ever try to come up with something to think that it's
going to hide you from God. Don't you want to do it? You
just want to do it. And this go back to the text,
I've got to finish. OK. This. This new garment. This new cloth,
this new garment, is what Christ did. See, he made all things
new. And as I said a while ago, and
I can't labor this point enough, and that's when the preaching
gets bad is when I'm preaching about Christ and not preaching
Christ. We create doctrinal Pharisees
this way, too. People who believe the truth
but aren't looking to arresting them. But Christ is our hope. When we get
to heaven, God's not going to look at a book and see what he's
done for us. There's a person standing there
that's going to receive us. You understand? And we're going
to be so glad to see him. So glad. So glad. A person. And as I said, when
my preaching gets bad, I'm just telling you about him. When I'm
preaching his work and not preaching him. That's when preaching will get
bad and you'll get cold and stale. But the person the person well
our Lord said just as he said in the children of the bridegroom
mourns long as the bridegroom with them know this new cloth
this new garment. It's a person. It's Christ. He's my righteous
did you notice that as we read and saw as if fifty one he said
her can and may you know right just he said I bring near my
right. What is his right. The person. Jehovah said can the Lord. He is. Accepted in the blood. Not just what he did for me because
he's there. I'm accepted because he's there. Well, go back here now, he said, and
I look at this and doctrinally speaking, you could say this
is what Christ did for us in verse sixteen, verse seventeen,
what Christ does in us. He said, neither do men put new
wine in old bottles. Else the bottles break and the
wine run out and the bottles perish. They put new wine in
new bottles and both are preserved. New wine. What's this? What's
that? I told you before, when I ask
you a question, just give me one answer, okay? What is that?
What's the garment and what's the wine? Christ. It's all Christ. And I want you to turn with me
in closing Psalm 104. Psalm 104. This is good. New wine and new bottles. Christ
in you is the hope of glory. Christ in you. Any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature. He is himself a new creature,
brand new, created in the image of Christ Jesus, which God hath
foreordained that he should be just like him. Psalm 104, he
is a new creature. And look at Psalm 104, this new
wine in these new bottles, it says in Psalm 104, verse He causes
the grass to grow for the cattle, herb for the service of man,
that he may bring forth food out of the earth, and wine that
maketh glad the heart of man." Wine that makes glad the heart?
What's wine have to do with the heart? It goes in the belly and
out the dress. Well, that kind of wine does,
yes. He's not talking about that kind
of wine. There's some people that don't
drink wine. But yet they do. This wine is
the blood of Jesus Christ, the person of Jesus Christ, the gospel
concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what makes glad the heart
of man, or rather, who? This new garment is something
Christ puts on us, this new wine is something he puts in us. He said, I'll give you a new
heart, God said. With the heart man believeth
in. And he loves God. He loves Christ. He loves the
truth. He loves the gospel. He loves his brethren. And Christ
said he doesn't put this new wine in old bottles. He doesn't put it in old bottles. Believer knows himself. That's what Paul said. Know ye
not your own selves, that Christ is in you? Believers knows there's
two men in him, an old man and a new man. And God tells us,
put off the old, put on the new. He says the old man, outward
man, is perishing. The new man is renewed every
day. Every day, the new man. What renews him? Why? The gospel. What is it that replenishes and
restores and renews and rejuvenates this new man that God has created?
The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It makes glad his heart. And God doesn't put that in old
bottles. I had an old, well, I had an
old man who doesn't care for the things of God, doesn't care
a thing. This old man would just as soon
be somewhere else living it up. That's not a good term, living
it up. He's dead. But the new man, he loves it. It makes glad his heart. You
see, if you didn't love this gospel, you wouldn't be renewed.
Because that old man couldn't take it. I remember being an
unbeliever and the gospel kept being preached and go sit in
the service at the service, you know, and I thought I was going
to bust. It's like an old bottle. I thought I was going to bust. This preaching is going to be
over. Can't hold it. Can't take it.
Don't like it. But now, I think I'm going to
bust sometime, but in a good way. You know, in a good way. Got a new vessel. Created under
honor. Who loves this gospel and can't
take enough in. Keep putting it in. This new
vessel. New vessel. Loves the gospel. All right, let me close with
an illustration. I just gave one about the new
wine. The old garment I used to back in the early 70s. I had a jean jacket. Stan did
you have a jean jacket? Put anything on it? Oh man. I got this old jean jacket. And
you know it had American flags and all that stuff on it. But
that thing and I wore it and I wore it and I wore it much
to my mother's Shame, you know, she wouldn't she'd keep washing
it and want to finally it got and it was off. Look, they look
like these brand new stuff that our children buy now to make
their made to look like they're dirty. I can't understand. I don't ever wore something like
that. But I did. Mine didn't look like
it was bad. old and ragged it became my mother
kept patching that thing and patching that thing and patching
that thing and patching that thing till finally it just disintegrated. It just fell apart. What was
what we going to do with it? Throw it away. Just throw it
away. And our religion by the grace
and mercy of God he brings us to the point where we fall apart.
Well, he shows us that this won't do you any good. Just fall apart.
What are you going to do with it? What are we going to do with
all that old religion? What Bartimaeus do? When he came to Christ, what
did he do? When he saw Christ, and that's
in Hosea, John. It's in Hosea. And what about to do any more
with idols? I've heard him. He had this old
rag, you know, that he was getting comfort from. It says he threw
away his garment. He threw it away. He had it all
his life. It was his warmth, his comfort. He came to Christ.
What did Christ do to him? He leave him blind? Oh, no, sir. He went away seeing.
He was a brand new man. Nobody hardly recognized him.
He was so nice. He reckoned Christ left him naked. What's he going to do for a garment?
I guarantee you, Christ said, before you go, I've got something
here for you. Covered him in the best robe. The best robe. So you don't put new on the old. You don't put new in old. You make all things brand new.
Throw away the old and create the new. And that's what Christ
has done for us. All right, Brother Gabe, come
and lead us in a closing hymn. Number 222, and let's stand. We'll sing the first, third,
and fifth verses. Number 222. There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunged beneath that
blood lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. And sinners plunge beneath that
flood. Lose all their guilty stains. Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. Till all the ransomed Church
of God be saved to sin no more, be saved to sin no more, be saved
to sin no more. Till all the ransomed Church
of God be saved to sin no more. When this poor lisping, stammering
tongue Lies silent in the grave Then in another sweeter song
I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing
thy power to save And in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing thy power
to save. I can't believe I'm living in
a world without you