Victory in Jesus

          Sometimes I like to see if the words to the hymns we sing are biblical, or
     just songs with a good message, but not necessarily based on Scripture.

          One song that IS certainly biblical is Victory in Jesus.

                     Verse one

                    "I heard an old, old story, how a Savior came from glory.
                     How He gave His life on Calvary to save a wretch like me:
                     I heard about His groaning, of His precious blood's atoning,
                    Then I repented of my sins and won the victory."

  
                     Chorus

                    "O victory in Jesus, my Savior, forever, He sought me and
                     bought me with His redeeming blood; He loved me ere I
                     knew Him, and all my love is due Him, He plunged me to
                     victory beneath the cleansing flood."



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           VERSE ONE

          "I heard an old, old story, how a Savior came from glory."

                    "For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but
                     to do the will of Him who sent me."
                                                                              John 6:38


         "How He gave His life on Calvary"

                      "When He had received the drink, Jesus said,
                       'It is finished.'  With that, He bowed His head
                       and gave up His spirit."
                                                                             John 19:30


         "to save a wretch like me"

                      "What a wretched man I am!  Who will rescue me
                       from this body of death."
                                                                           Romans 7:24


         "I heard about His groaning,"

                      "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
                       'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' -- which means,'My
                       'God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' "
                                                                           Mark 15:34


                      "With a loud cry, Jesus breathed His last."
                                                                           Mark 15:37


          "of His precious blood's atoning,"


                      "In Him we have redemption through His blood,
                       the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the
                       riches of God's grace ..."
                                                                           Ephesians 1:7


          "Then I repented of my sins"


                     "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins
                      may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may
                      come from the Lord ..."
                                                                           Acts 3:19


          "and won the victory"  (over sin and death)

                     "When the perishable has been clothed with the
                      imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,
                      then the saying that is written will come true:
                     'Death has been swallowed up in victory. 
                     Where. O death, is your victory?
                     Where, O death, is your sting?'

                    "The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin
                      is the law.  But thanks be to God!  He gives us
                     the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
                                                                 1 Corinthians 15:54-57


          CHORUS

          "O victory in Jesus"  (over the world, through obedience to God)


                    " ... for everyone born of God overcomes the world.
                     This is the victory that has overcome the world, even
                     our faith.  Who is it that overcomes the world?  Only
                     he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."
                                                             1 John 5:4-5


          "my Savior, forever,"

                    "For God loved the world in this way:  He gave His
                     One and only Son, so that everyone who believes
                     in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
                                                            John 3:16


          "He sought me"

                    "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save
                     what was lost."
                                                           Luke 19:10


           "and bought me with His redeeming blood,"

                     " ... and with your blood you purchased men
                       for God from every tribe and language and
                      people and nation."
                                                          Revelation 5:9b


          "He loved me ere I knew Him"  (In fact, God knew His people
                                                               before the creation of the world).

                     "For those God foreknew He also predestined
                      to be conformed to the likeness of His Son,
                     that He might be the firstborn among many
                     brothers."
                                                                   Romans 8:29


          "and all my love is due Him"

                    "Jesus replied, 'Love the Lord your God with all
                     your heart and with all your soul and with all
                     your mind."
                                                                 Matthew 22:37


          "He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood."

                   "He saved us through the washing of rebirth and
                    renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out
                    on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior ..."
                                                                Titus 3:5b-6


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          The Christian has victory in Jesus over sin and death, and the world.