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For Jesus came to save the lost,
To satisfy the debt and cost,
To blot from record, every trace,
Of sin and satan and disgrace.
For when his blood has been applied,
The blood he shed when crucified,
To our own souls, we then can see,
How great is Christ and this victory.
The end was drawing near to hand,
The great salvation of which was planned,
Would be made perfect by the love,
Of Christ, the Son of God above.
For it is finished, Jesus said,
And then the son of man is dead,
His spirit he did then commend,
To God, on whom he could depend.
His head that moment may have dropped,
The beating of his heart was stopped,
The blood no longer coursed his veins,
And the Christ was freed from all his pains.
Then loving hands, amid the gloom,
laid Jesus down within the tomb,
A stone was rolled against the door,
And thus it seemed that it was over.
But hark! I heard the angel say,
After rolling the stone away,
From the door of that dark prision,
He is not here, for He is risen.
Oh glorious fact, to man forlorn,
It was the resurrection morn,
Go, preach these words in every clime,
Said Christ until the end of time.
He then arose to heaven above,
to rule in harmony and love,
To make complete the mighty plan,
Of God's salvation unto all men.
And He at God's right hand now pleads,
For fallen man, He intercedes,
With arms extended, does receive,
All who in truth on Him believe.
Thus, heaven's gate we see afar,
For you and me who now stand ajar,
The narrow road that leads to heaven above,
Is guarded by our Savior's love
Thus, in the line direct from Shem,
A King was born in Bethlehem,
Great drops of blood for us. He sweat,
And by his death, He paid our debt.