When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

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We enjoy starting each Bible Question and answer session with a great hymn of the faith. “When I Survey” is a wonderful song that magnifies the wonderful sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord.

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

“When I survey the wondrous cross

On which the Prince of glory died,

My richest gain I count but loss,

And pour contempt on all my pride.

 

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

Save in the death of Christ my God!

All the vain things that charm me most,

I sacrifice them to His blood.

 

See from His head, His hands, His feet,

Sorrow and love flow mingled down!

Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,

Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

 

His dying crimson, like a robe,

Spreads o’er His body on the tree;

Then I am dead to all the globe,

And all the globe is dead to me.

 

Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were a present far too small;

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

 

To Christ, who won for sinners grace

By bitter grief and anguish sore,

Be praise from all the ransomed race

Forever and forevermore.”

 

Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs 1707.

Charles Wesley reportedly said he would give up all his other hymns to have written this one.

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross 

James W Knox

KJV BIBLE SCOPE

PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION
Thomas & Kristin Irvin

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