Thursday, October 09, 2014

Savior and Sacrifice


“Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast Thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required.  Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart” (Psalm 40:6-8).  “But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come… neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us… who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God” (Hebrews 9:11-14). 

The sacrifices had their place
When offerings were sacrificed, 
For they were patterns of the grace
And of the truth to come by Christ. 

Come, see the volume of the book
With prophecies which God inspired!
The Lord declared where He will look
To find the Sacrifice required. 

The rivers of the blood that ran
From goats and calves and other beasts
Were shadows of God’s wondrous plan
Portrayed by sacrificial feasts. 

Yet in those sacrifices brought,
There was never was a Savior found.
The grace and truth which God had sought
In Christ alone would yet abound.

In Jesus Christ, the great I AM,
Who gave Himself to grant us favor,
We have beheld God’s spotless Lamb,
And we have found our wondrous Savior!

Lord, in the Psalms we’ve heard Your voice
Recorded long before You came! 
How greatly now our hearts rejoice
That You have purged our sin and shame! 

Our Savior and our Sacrifice,
How great was our redemption’s cost! 
You gave Yourself to pay that price,  
And we proclaim it to the lost.  


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