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All right , guys , the end of another week All week . This week we've looked at five of my favorite hymns of all time and we've dug into the lyrics and the biblical truths therein . Today we're looking at the most famous hymn of all time and I really think it's a debate and that's Amazing Grace . So this is , in fact , the hymn both of my sons love the most . So thank you , veggietales . We've actually heard our youngest Eli we just call him Squish . He will sing this hymn at night when he's supposed to be sleeping . All of a sudden we'll just be sitting there and then we'll hear on the monitor him singing the lyrics to Amazing
Grace . So this hymn was actually written in 1772 by John Newton . So Newton was actually a slave ship captain who actually became a Christian after a violent storm at sea in 1748 . So after his conversion he became a minister and then one of the leading voices in the abolitionist movement there in England . So just an awesome story . And my favorite version of this hymn and it's so good , it's so good it's from Leanne Rimes back in 1997 on her album you Light Up my Life inspirational songs . So I just think it's so fantastic . But let's go to the lyrics here .
Speaker 2Amazing grace , how sweet the sound that saved
a wretch like me . I once was lost , but now am found , was blind , but now I see . T'was grace that taught my heart to fear , and grace my fears relieved . How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed . Through many dangers , toils and snares , I have already come . T'was grace hath brought me safe thus far , and grace will lead me home . The Lord has promised good to me . His word my hope secures . He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures Ye , when this flesh and heart shall fail and mortal life shall cease , I shall possess within the veil a life of joy and All right . So let's dig in .
Speaker 2Here's a lyric Amazing grace , how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me . So , first of all , we are totally depraved . You know breaking news if you didn't know that . But God right . So let's go to Romans 5 , verse 4 and 5 . But God , who is rich , in mercy for his great love , wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins , hath quickened us together with Christ . By grace , ye are saved .
Speaker 2Another lyric I once was lost , but now am found , was blind , but now I see . So , guys , we can be regenerated . Here's the words of Jesus as recorded in Luke 15 , 32 . It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this . Thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found .
Speaker 2Another lyric through many dangers , toils and snares , I have already come . So , guys , we can legitimately have perseverance in the faith . Psalm 23 , verse 4 , ye though through I walk , through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil , for thou art with me . Thy rod and thy staff , they comfort me . And then the last lyric here when we've been there 10,000 years , bright , shining as the sun , we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we'd first begun .
Speaker 2So , guys , the reality is is , amazingly , we can
have eternal life . 1 Timothy 6 , 19 , laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold of eternal life . The thing about the grace of God that is , it's just that it is truly amazing , right , and that he would love us , us black hearted , wretched sinners , enough to send his only son here to provide propitiation for our sin debt through his death . Right , I mean , it's worth everything , everything . So if you have not accepted God's free gift of grace , yet I compel you to do so today . Thank you for your attention this week . Stay sharp .
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