To the world and self and sin;
To the death-born life of Jesus
I am sweetly ent’ring in:
In His fellowship of suff’ring,
To His death conformed to be,
I am going with my Savior
All the way to Calvary.
Where my Savior went for me,
Help me, Lord, to go with Thee,
All the way to Calvary.
When His risen life we know;
’Tis not hard to share His suff’rings
When our hearts with joy o’erflow.
In His resurrection power
He has come to dwell in me,
And my heart is gladly going
All the way to Calvary.
If we suffer we shall reign;
Only thus the prize of glory
Can the conqueror attain.
Oh, how sweet, on that glad morning
Should the Master say to thee,
“Yes, my child, thou didst go with me
All the way to Calvary.”
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Mansfield, Ohio, Turks And Caicos Islands
It is not hard to die with Jesus when His risen life we know. This is a real key to our Christian life. The Lord said pick up your cross and follow me. That means our whole life, even to our physical death is under the cross. This is a healthy Christian life. First we must know the joy of His risen life. By this we know Him and enjoy Him. Because of this, His grace, we can be willing to take the cross. Like the Lord we can see the joy set before us.
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
This is a hymn that really takes us to a deeper experience of Christ. You will not find this in the popular contemporary music of this age. As I ponder on this hymn, I did not get past verse one. I think of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians. “I’m crucified with Christ, never the less I live, ” This was Paul’s experience and it must be ours. To the death born Life of Jesus I am entering into this new Life. Wow! So that really touched me. Through the death of Jesus our life was born and our continuing gaining of Him is in the same way. We must stand with the Truth that we are crucified. Now we can enter in to His Life by experiencing Him in His sufferings. The Lord leads us to situations where we must lay down our soul life. This is a suffering yet, we suffer with Him. This is experiential as we let the cross works in us. It can be little things our major life changing events. This is the way to be separated from the world and sin. It is this subjective experience of the cross. He is leading us all the way to Calvary. But He is with us all the way. We have the assurance we will pass through into this resurrection Life. Christ was forsaken at the cross. We may be waste to the world but Christ is with us in our darkest spiritual death experience. He has been there and He is with us in these hard times. Lord by thy mercy you can lead us all the way. This is our course to continually gain Him unto maturity. Thank you Lord you cut the path. Now by your Spirit we follow you!
Newton, MA, United States
This song is written by brother A. B. Simpson and his hymns are always so full of the experience of Christ! I didn’t really know what going to Calvary meant until now. “At Calgary there is a wonderful death, a death that brings resurrection. ”When we put the self, which means what we want, our pride, our aspirations, all those things, to death on the cross, what is left is just the Spirit. And that is when we can experience the power of Christ’s resurrection! Lord, grant all the believers this experience of enjoying dieing to the self through resurrection power!
Irvine, CA, United States
We cannot participate in Christ's suffering for redemption, but we must take part in the suffering of Christ for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ.
"So then death operates in us, but life in you." (2 Corinthians 4:12)
"Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the chosen ones, that they themselves also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." (2 Timothy 2:10)
Gainesville, FL, United States
All the way to Calvary
Where my Savior went with me
Thank you Lord I went with Thee
All the way to Calvary!
Galatians 2:20
Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
Powerful Song!
San Francisco, California, United States
There is only one proper way for Christian life: The Way to Calvary. If we die with Christ, we will live with Christ and we will know and taste His resurrection power.
Bayamon, P.R., United States
Not only was the Lord put into death when He was baptized, but the four Gospels reveal that His living on the earth was also continually under death. In one sense, after being immersed in baptism, the Lord rose up from the death water. Yet in another sense, He remained under death in His living and walk. Jesus was dying to live. For the entire three and a half years of His earthly ministry, He was dying. In other words, He was always being crucified. Eventually, at the end of the three and a half years of His ministry, He walked to the cross to die physically. Jesus was going all the way to Calvary during the entire three and a half years of His ministry on the earth. His way to the cross on Calvary began from His baptism. His baptism was His first step on the way to the cross. He always lived by dying. The Lord was powerful, victorious, and full of life because He was dying all the time.
Source: The Recovery of Christ as Everything in the Church, chapter 4
Greater Accra, Ghana
Amen. 'When we know His resurrection, it is not hard to deny the self and bear the cross."
Lord I want to know You in Your resurrection and deny myself and bear the cross. Lord Jesus help me to go with You all the way to Calvary Lord. Amen.