8749 | The Cyber Hymnal#8750 | 8751 |
Text: | One Awful Word Which Jesus Spoke |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | EATON |
Composer: | George Whitefield Chadwick |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 One awful word which Jesus spoke,
Against the tree which bore no fruit;
More piercing than the lightning’s stroke,
Blasted and dried it to the root.
2 But could a tree the Lord offend,
To make Him show His anger thus?
He surely had a farther end,
To be a warning word to us.
3 The fig tree by its leaves was known,
But having not a fig to show;
It brought a heavy sentence down,
Let none hereafter on thee grow.
4 Too many, who the Gospel hear,
Whom Satan blinds and sin deceives;
We to this fig tree may compare,
They yield no fruit, but only leaves.
5 Knowledge, and zeal, and gifts, and talk,
Unless combined with faith and love,
And witnessed by a Gospel walk,
Will not a true profession prove.
6 Without the fruit the Lord expects
Knowledge will make our state the worse;
The barren trees He still rejects,
And soon will blast them with His curse.
7 O Lord, unite our hearts in prayer!
On each of us Thy Spirit send;
That we the fruits of grace may bear,
And find acceptance in the end.
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First Line: | One awful word which Jesus spoke |
Title: | One Awful Word Which Jesus Spoke |
Author: | John Newton |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EATON |
Composer: | George Whitefield Chadwick (1888) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | A Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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