Since the Garden there had not been one to arise from any generation, or in any nation, but even if one were to come forth, how could their merits be credited on your behalf? Salvation belongs to the Lord. You would not need merely a righteous man you would need a perfect man – a sinless man. Supposing you could find a righteous man among the forlorn sons of Adam, could he speak efficaciously to God on your behalf? Even the virtue of Noah, Job, and Daniel are said to be only sufficient to save themselves when judgment is in the land (Ezekiel 14:14). What deliverance could you ever find from yourself? How could your very being be undone, as it were, and you become something that you are not now? Depravity produces in you an odious proclivity such that even though your guilt will swell all the more, you desire iniquity. Your whole being is corrupt through and through. It is not merely that you have done bad things, you are bad. Even now, why are you not swept away in the wrath of the Just One? How much longer will your punishment tarry? Should it not fall upon you like a snare this night? Yet even supposing you might find some means of acceptable sacrifice great enough to expunge these offenses, there remains another problem. Innumerable willed transgressions against your Maker since you left the womb and began to forge your way in the world will soon be due for fierce judgment. Wonder at how sad your condition, how grim your prospects, and how utterly impossible the problem of your sinful estate truly was.įirst, there is the problem of your guilt. Consider just how helpless and hopeless your sorry lot would have been. In other words, dare to ponder what life would have been like before the coming of the Christ our Lord. Imagine, for a moment, if instead of living in the present hour of history in which we find ourselves, you had been born around 100 B.C. Sign in to see all lyricsĪll Products Piano/Vocal (SATB/Choir) Chords & Lyrics (Editable) Stage Chart (Editable) Piano/Vocal Pack Choir Sheet (SATB) Piano/Vocal & Lead Sheet Orchestration (with Vocals) Lead Sheet (SAT) Piano Sheet (No Vocals) Lead Sheet (Melody) Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar String Pack (Vn, Viol, Cel, Str) Brass Pack (Tpt, Tbn, Tba, Hn) Wind Pack (Fl/Ob, Cl, A.Sax, T.Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope.(1 Tim. When fears are stilled, when strivings cease What heights of love, what depths of peace Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
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