Lamplighters

Hark! The herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King:
peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
join the triumph of the skies;
with the angelic hosts proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”

Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold him come,
offspring of the Virgin’s womb:
veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
hail the incarnate Deity,
pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus, our Immanuel.

Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
born that we no more may die,
born to raise us from the earth,
born to give us second birth.

Refrain:
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King”

Author:  Charles Wesley (1739)

She will give birth to a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus (The Lord is salvation), for He will save His people from their sins.”

Jesus said, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.

From all that dwell below the skies,

Let the Creator’s praise arise;

Let the Redeemer’s name be sung

Through ev’ry land by ev’ry tongue.

Eternal are thy mercies Lord;

Eternal truth attends thy word;

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore

Till suns shall rise and set no more.

Author: Isaac Watts

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind.  This is the first and great commandment.