Grace! ’tis a charming sound

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Grace! ’tis a charming sound,
  Harmonious to the ear;
Heav’n with the echo shall resound,
  And all the earth shall hear.
 
All sufficient grace!
  Never powerless!
It is Christ who lives in me,
    In His exhaustlessness.
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’Twas grace that wrote my name
  In life’s eternal book;
’Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb,
  Who all my sorrows took.
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Grace taught my wandering feet
  To tread the pilgrim road;
And new supplies each hour I meet
  While pressing on to God.
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Grace taught my heart to pray,
  And made my eyes o’erflow;
’Tis grace which kept me to this day,
  And will not let me go.
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Grace all the work shall crown
  Through everlasting days;
It lays in love the topmost stone,
  And well deserves the praise.
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Oh, let that grace inspire
  My heart with strength divine;
May all my powers to Thee aspire,
  And all my days be Thine.
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Jan 29 2017
LC

Los Angeles, CA, United States

This grace is for our pressing onward towards God! We are never powerless in this journey everyday and throughout our lives. There is always grace because the beginning and the end lives in our spirit as the exhaustless supply!

Oct 3 2016
Dorcas T. Adesanya

London, England, United Kingdom

Thank You Jesus for Your Grace that taught me to pray. Thank You Jesus for taking away my sorrows. Thank you Jesus for saving my soul from the wrath to come!!! Praise the Lord oh my soul!!! Thanks for uploading this song and God bless you all. Shalom!

Sep 11 2016
Hugo Sylver

Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Refreshing and Overwhelming. The gate of hell shall not prevail against the Church of God, Halleluyah!!!

May 25 2016
Pokilo

I love my Father. God is my best Father!

Apr 10 2016
Tunde Omikunle

Lagos, Nigeria

What a refreshing and reassuring theme of GRACE.

Apr 7 2016
Edgar Hovhannisyan

Yerevan, Armenia

Grace! Charming sound!

Oct 29 2015
Grace CasselmanJohnston

Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

What a wonderful reminder of where our Salvation comes from! Thanks to my father on earth for sending me, on my birthday, this beautiful song of my Father in heaven!!

Aug 10 2015
Dorcas T. Adesanya

London, England, United Kingdom

Thank You Jesus for Your Grace that taught me to pray. Thank You Jesus for taking away my sorrows. Praise the Lord oh my soul!!! Thanks for uploading this song and God bless you all. Shalom!

Apr 21 2015
Ekeke Nnamdi

Berlin, Germany

An unforgetable song sang often by the pioneer choir of Anglican chapel of redemption EBSU. So inspiring!

Nov 1 2013
David Durodola

Lagos, Nigeria

Grace and grace only. this song made me remember my late father and friend those days when we used to have family alter singing from the Christ Apostolic Church Hymn book. may your soul rest in peace my father and friend, we shall see at the bosom of the most high where we shall part no more. I love and miss you so much Daddy. this song you always sing with us when things was going rough, your lessons still abide with me and I live in them day and night.

Revised version:

1. Grace rises, ousting sin,

To in my spirit reign,

Frees me from might and pow'r of sin,

My nature and its stain.

Chorus 1:

All-sufficient grace!

Never powerless!

It is Christ who lives in me,

In His exhaustlessness.

2. This grace empow'rs my feet

On pathways heavenly;

His grace, abundant, timely, sweet,

Has never failed me.

3. This grace, what can surpass?

'Tis God, with man to be,

God manifested in the flesh,

God living now in me.

Chorus 2:

I am what I am

By God's grace today!

Grace is manifest in me,

This God-man's share for aye.

In Colossians 3:16 Paul exhorted the believers in Colossae to sing with grace in their hearts when the word of Christ dwelt in them richly in all wisdom by their teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. We are short in our experience of Christ because we do not sing that much with grace in our hearts. We do not have much experience of teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Mostly we sing only when we come together. We need to sing in our daily life. Perhaps a wife could sing to her husband, "All sufficient grace!/Never powerless!/It is Christ who lives in me,/In His exhaustlessness" (Hymns, #312). Then the husband can sing another chorus. If a husband says to his wife, "Dear, you should not give your long face to me so many times every day" the wife may say, "Then you should not come back home so late every day!" Instead of speaking in this corrupt way, the husbands and wives should sing and minister grace to each other.

We live by grace. The grace for the believers' living is spoken of in Romans 1:7 and in the beginning of all of Paul's other Epistles except Hebrews. In our Christian living, our daily life, we need the grace. Everyone has a problem with his temper. No one can overcome his temper except by grace. Who can be humble? We are always proud. We can be humble only by grace. The Lord said, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Cor. 12:9). "All sufficient grace!/Never powerless!" (Hymns, #312).

When circumstances arise to cause us to react, we have to tell ourselves to be quiet, be slow, and wait. We should not say anything or express any kind of attitude for a short time. Then the grace of God will be applied to us, and we will spontaneously become humble. Who can control his loose speaking? Some people speak quickly all the time. It is impossible to control our tongue without grace. Proverbs speaks repeatedly about the taming of the tongue. If we can control our tongue, we can reduce ninety percent of our sinfulness. The tongue can never be controlled by us in our own strength. We need the grace of God for overcoming in all the details of our daily living.

This hymn concerning grace contains expressions that cannot be found in ordinary Christian books. What is grace? Grace is actually God Himself. Then what is God? God is the New Jerusalem. However, whether it is grace or God or the New Jerusalem, actually they are just one.

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Since we are speaking concerning God's righteousness, why do we refer to a hymn on God's grace? My intention, my burden, is to show you that the entire Bible speaks of only one thing—grace, which is God, who is the New Jerusalem. Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Regardless of what subject the Bible touches, it is concerned with the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—being manifested as grace consummating in the New Jerusalem. This is the highest and central revelation shown to us in the entire New Testament. Hence, we cannot touch the righteousness of God without touching grace. God's righteousness and God's grace are not two different things. Romans 5:17 refers to both the abundance of grace and the abundance of righteousness. Righteousness always accompanies grace and is its result.

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Assurance and Joy of Salvation
Saved by Grace
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751); Augustus Montague Toplady, vv. 2, 4, 6 (1740-1778)
Ira David Sankey (1840-1908) bio
C Major
3/4
6.6.8.6. with chorus.
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