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All right , guys , good to have you back . This week on the Daily Blade , we're looking at five of my favorite hymns of all time and we're digging into the lyrics and the biblical truths therein . Also , I'm giving you , guys , my picks for the best versions of each of those songs . So yesterday we did my favorite hymn , how Great Thou Art . And today we're actually looking at my wife's favorite hymn , come Thou Fount
. So this hymn was written in 1758 by a young English preacher and theologian named Robert Robinson . So Robinson became a Christian at the age of 20 after hearing the preaching of the great George Whitefield , and he wrote Come Thou Fount just two years later , at the age of 22 , as an expression of his gratitude for God's grace . So the best version that I've ever heard of this hymn is actually from Shane and Shane on their Hymns live album from 2019 . So they do Come Thou Fount , and as it ends
they literally transition right into above all else . I mean it is just chillingly amazing .
Speaker 2So here are the full lyrics here Come thou fount of every blessing . Tune my heart to sing thy grace . Streams of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise . Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above . Teach me some melodious sonnet , sung by flaming tongues . Above . Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it , mount of thy redeeming love . Here I raise my Ebenezer hither , by thy help I come , and I hope , by thy good measure , safely to arrive at home . Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God , he , to rescue me from danger , interpose his precious blood . Oh to grace , how great a debtor , daily , I'm constrained to be . Let thy goodness , like a fetter , bind my wandering heart to thee . Prone to wander , lord , I feel it Prone to leave the God I love . Here's my heart . Oh , take and seal it , seal it for thy courts above . I mean , there's just
so much good stuff here . So let's actually start with praise for the grace of God . So the lyric is . So I'm going to keep reading in the King James Version . It just seems appropriate for these next couple of Psalms .
Speaker 2So , ephesians 2 , verse 8 , so , guys , we don't work our way of yourselves . It is the gift of God . So , guys , we don't work our way to salvation . We can never be good enough . We can never be baptized enough . Our good deeds are not weighed against our bad deeds . Our salvation comes from God and we are given grace through faith . So now let's actually talk about the Ebenezer reference here . Here I raise my Ebenezer , hither , by thy help , I'm come of the lyric here I raise my Ebenezer hither , by thy help I'm come .
Speaker 2So in 1 Samuel 7 , we see Israel has repented of their idolatrous actions and they turned back to God because of the leadership of the prophet Samuel . And while they were worshiping at Mizpeth they were attacked by the Philistines . So Samuel prayed , offered a burnt offering , and God intervened in the battle and caused victory for Israel . So if in 1 Samuel 7 , starting in verse 12 , or I'll actually just read verse 12 . Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeth and Shin and called the name of it Ebenezer , saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us . So Ebenezer , or Ebenezer , or Eben-Ezer , it means stone of help . So this became a memorial stone or a memorial site to commemorate God delivering Israel from the Philistines in this battle .
Speaker 2So then the hymn goes into our human inability to keep ourselves on the straight and narrow right . So the lyric , I mean guys , all of you can understand this . Prone to wander , lord , I feel it , prone to leave the God I love . So Isaiah 53 , 6 , I mean guys , this isn't just you . So if you're thinking I'm talking about you , no , this isn't just you , this is me , this is all of us . But there is good news . Here's another lyric . So Ephesians 1 , verse 13 says this If we give God our heart , it is sealed with God , and so are we . See you back here tomorrow , guys , so we can wrap up the week .
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