Dear Friends,
This Sunday, we will be singing an obscure hymn written to a great new tune. The words are awesome. The song was written by Frederick Faber, in 1849, as a Good Friday song and was recently recorded by the Newsboys, but the arrangement we will be doing is by Indelible Grace, a PCA-based music group known for re-writing hymns (many times lesser known hymns) to new music. I hope this song encourages you to look to the Cross and remember the great price Christ paid for us.
mms://media.grpc.org/ocomemourn
O Come and Mourn with Me a While
O Come and mourn with me a while,
O Come ye to the Savior’s side;
O Come together let us mourn;
Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
Seven times He spoke, seven words of love; and all three hours His silence cried
for mercy on the souls of men; Jesus our Lord, is crucified.
O love of God! O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried;
And victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
O break, O break, hard heart of mine!
My selfish love and guilty pride,
As Pilate and His Judas were; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
A broken heart, a fount of tears; ask and they will not be denied; a broken heart love’s cradle is; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
O love of God! O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried; and victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
And victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
Come, and mourn, come and mourn, Jesus is crucified.
This Sunday, we will be singing an obscure hymn written to a great new tune. The words are awesome. The song was written by Frederick Faber, in 1849, as a Good Friday song and was recently recorded by the Newsboys, but the arrangement we will be doing is by Indelible Grace, a PCA-based music group known for re-writing hymns (many times lesser known hymns) to new music. I hope this song encourages you to look to the Cross and remember the great price Christ paid for us.
mms://media.grpc.org/ocomemourn
O Come and Mourn with Me a While
O Come and mourn with me a while,
O Come ye to the Savior’s side;
O Come together let us mourn;
Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
Seven times He spoke, seven words of love; and all three hours His silence cried
for mercy on the souls of men; Jesus our Lord, is crucified.
O love of God! O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried;
And victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
O break, O break, hard heart of mine!
My selfish love and guilty pride,
As Pilate and His Judas were; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
A broken heart, a fount of tears; ask and they will not be denied; a broken heart love’s cradle is; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
O love of God! O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried; and victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
And victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified.
Come, and mourn, come and mourn, Jesus is crucified.
3 comments:
Awesome hymn. That was pretty crazy time for the Church. I googled the year and found this little tidbit of info...missionary John Geddie wrote in his journal: "In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor islanders will unite in the triumphant song of ransomed souls, 'Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.'" Piggybacking your very elegant statement, that every single day Christians need to "look to the Cross and remember the great price Christ paid for us." Amen
Wow Chuck, what a dichotomy:
"And victory remains with love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified."
Victory through death.
We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. - Romans 6:2(b)-10
Great work.
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