Behold the Lamb (Isaiah 53:10-12)
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Transcript
I hope you have your Bibles open to Isaiah chapter 53, as we look one last time to this amazing passage of Scripture. This chapter of the Bible has been described as the highest point of the Old Testament books of the Bible. It’s truly the mount Everest passage of the Hebrew Scriptures, as it fully explains and vividly details the gospel story of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now interestingly, as we have seen, this particular passage is not primarily about the death and resurrection of our Lord. Instead, it focuses on a time further in the future when Israel will come to accept Christ as the promised Messiah. This chapter is their humble confession during the time of tribulation that they missed it, that their expectation of Christ was completely wrong. You see they looked for a king who free them from political tyranny, while God gave them a humble servant who would free them from their sin. That is why all the verbs in chapter 53 up to verse 11 are all in the past tense, for they are looking back to the cross. Over the past month, we have slowly worked our way through this confessional song of lament. And today, we want to finish this study by focusing our attention on the last three verses of this text.
Now, I think it is important to understand that the only way we can understand the ending of this great chapter, is if we use the opening stanza of this song, Isaiah 52:13-15, as the key. Those final three verses of the previous chapter were spoken by God Himself, not Israel, those verses truly explain the last verses chapter 53. Now, with that in mind, let us remind ourselves of the opening lines to this sorrowful song. God says, “Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men. Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.”
This introduction to Isaiah 53 makes it clear that the career of the Messiah will fall into two categories. There will be an exaltation, but first there must be suffering and humiliation. Throughout the Old Testament you will find scattered statements that clearly speak of the Messiah’s future suffering and death. At the same time and in the same manner, you will find statements that proclaim His glory and exaltation. Listen, it is impossible to understand the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ apart from those two categories: the suffering and the glory. The Old Testament clearly established that reality, but the nation of Israel had no room in their theology for a suffering servant. They simply wanted the king and all His glory.
It's as if God knows that, as he begins this section of scripture with the word, Behold! My Servant!!! In other words, please don’t miss this, don’t overlook it! Don’t write Him off because He doesn’t meet your expectation…Pay attention! He is my Servant. My Slave who will carry out my purpose and mission. Today, I want to invite you once again to Behold the Servant, Behold the cross, Behold His glory, as we Behold the Lamb. I want encourage you to hit the pause to all the distractions that are running through your brain right now, and just sit at the cross and Behold the Lord Jesus Christ who was slain as we look one last time to the last three verses of this chapter this morning. This morning, I want to encourage you to behold three realties from these final three verses morning… The first one is this…
1) Behold the Faithful Servant of God who prospers (v. 10-11a).
When we come to verse 10, we must notice that it begins with a conjunction, linking it to the previous verse, which stressed the sinless of nature of God’s Servant. There, we are told “He has done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth.” Yet, in verse 10, we read “But Yahweh the covenant keeping faithful God of Israel was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief.” In spite of the Servant’s perfect holiness and perfect righteousness, in spite of His sinlessness, God was pleased to kill His Faithful Servant.
Oh, how must remember that the death of the Messiah is God’s Work. It was God who laid upon His Son the iniquity of us all, It was God who crushed Him, and cut Him off from the land of the living. The same Holy and loving God, who according to Ezekiel 18, takes no delight in the death of the wicked, somehow finds full pleasure in the death of the only righteous One to have ever lived.
The text says God crushed Him, meaning He broke Him into pieces under the heavy burden of our sin, and He also put Him to grief. That phrase caries the idea of making Him sick, now that’s not sick with an illness or disease, but literally, it implies the idea of experiencing excruciating and inconceivable pain. Some of you, we know have tasted such sickness and pain in your life, but it fails in comparison to the pain Christ experienced which cane only be described as profoundly unexplainable and unimaginable.
Yet, how on earth is such actions pleasing to a good and loving God? Well, I think it’s important that we understand how the Hebrew word pleasing is used here. The word literally means to take pleasure or delight in, to desire, and or to be willing. To be willing, as in it was God’s good will. In fact, the ESV translation, translates this line as “Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush Him.” God’s will is what God finds most pleasing, and glorifying to Himself. You see, it wasn’t the suffering or the crushing that brought God pleasure, but rather it was the salvific purpose behind Christ’s pain and grief that brought God Himself great joy and satisfaction. For it was God’s will, His divine and unshakeable plan from the beginning of time that these appalling, yet glorious events unfold for the salvation of His chosen people.
But notice the next line for the prophecy insightfully tells us exactly why God was pleased to crush His own, and its because “He would render Himself as a guilt offering.” In the book of Leviticus, God laid out a sacrificial system to nation of Israel that included distinct five offerings. There were burnt offerings, grain offerings, peace offerings, sin offerings, but none of those specified in this passage. No, Jesus’ suffering and death are best described as a guilt offering. Now, without going into a great amount of detail, three of the five offerings described in Leviticus were animal sacrifices. Sacrifices that were intended to portray three important spiritual truths. One, being that sin naturally produces death. The apostle Paul would explain this truth as “The wages of sin is death.” And certainly, we can see that in the animal sacrifices in the Old Testament. But secondly, there was a hopeful truth portrayed in that God would graciously allow a substitute to die in the sinner’s place. Again, this is clearly revealed in the Old Testament Sacrificial system. But lastly, we also can see that none of the animals sacrificed were truly a sufficient substitute. They only pointed to a reality that there would one day be a adequate substitute. And that substitute would be none other than God’s Servant, the Messiah who in this passage is specifically described as the guilt offering.
Now out of all the various sacrifices and offerings, the guilt offering is the most comprehensive. For it was the act that added the final dimension of restitution, satisfaction, and propitiation. Unlike the sin offering, the guilt offering involved laying the entire animal on the alter, for it was a picture of completion. You see here’s the beauty of Christ’s sacrifice. It is the most complete sacrifice ever made, it alone provided full satisfaction, full restitution, and full propitiation as it settled our sin debt once and for all and set us free from both the power and penalty of sin. Jesus’ death on the cross fully satisfied the wrath and justice of our Holy God. All the countless animal sacrifices, all the burnt, sin, and guilt offerings point us to His all-sufficient and complete guilt offering. This is why the opening line to verse 10 says that God was pleased to crush the Servant. It wasn’t because God sickly delighted in pain in agony, No! it’s because He delighted in the atonement of sin. He was pleased because the Servant, who was perfectly faithful to God’s will, would make Himself the one and only satisfactory guilt offering for every believer from Adam to the end of time.
But notice, the confession of this prophecy doesn’t end there. Look at the middle of verse 10, “He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied.”
Oh what a glorious and surprising reference to the resurrection of the Messiah. In verse 9, He was clearly pronounced dead, but here in verses 10-11, He will see His offspring, He will prolong is days, He will do the work of God in His hand, and He will see and be satisfied. Notice the future tense of the verbs used in these verses. All the verbs from verse 1 to the first part of verse 10 were in the past tense: He bore our griefs, He carried our sorrows, He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, He was oppressed, He was afflicted, He was taken away and cut off from the land of the living, He was a with a rich man in His death, crushed, put to death… Yet He will see and He will prosper. That’s clearly future tense, and clearly a reference to the fact that even though He died, He will live again and be exalted!!!
In fact, the words used to describe the resurrected life of God’s Servant in this verse are typically used to describe a person who is greatly favored by God! First, notice they will see their offspring as His days are prolonged, implying that the Messiah will have a very long and joyful life. Now, for our generation, we would consider ourselves truly blessed to behold our grandchildren or maybe if we are really fortunate we might be able to one day see great grandchildren. But here the resurrected Lord will see all His offspring, that is everyone who believes and will believe in Christ in salvation, everyone throughout all generations who becomes a Child of God through faith in Him. He will see them all. John 6:37-40 reads… “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” Jesus will see His flock, His bride, as He will personally gather them into glory. They will stand around His throne, and we who believe, we will behold His glory and see Him face-to-face!
All of this will occur because of the Servant’s faithful obedience to God’s will. That is what is emphasized in the last line of verse 10. The phrase, “the good pleasure of the LORD” can also be translated “the will of the LORD.” And God’s will, will be accomplished by His Son, the Faithful Servant. Therefore, He will prosper, meaning He will succeed. I love how the opening lie of verse 11 explains it… “Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied…” Out of all the pain, and all the suffering that He will endure, He will see His offspring, including the remnant of Israel who will one day make this very confession, He will see it and be satisfied. Implying He will see and will enjoy it to the max. You see the Servant’s full joy and satisfaction comes from providing redemption, forgiveness, righteousness, and an abundant and an eternal life for His children.
As we conclude this first point, I think it’s wise to consider an imbedded truth found in verse 10, that true prosperity for a servant of God is connected to faithful obedience to His will. In other words, blessing comes through obedience. But please don’t misunderstand prosperity and blessing like so many who are caught up in the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel movement. Prosperity in God’s kingdom, true prosperity, is not financial in nature. You see, there is no promise that God will bless you financially if you simply obey the Word of God. There is no promise of an easy life in Christ. It’s not there. John Calvin warns, “Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.” Certainly, such a worldly desire will pull our hearts away from Christ. But true prosperity as we see in this text and throughout out scripture points us to the glories of heaven. It points us to the reality that one day we will spend eternity gathered around His throne in worship. Listen, Christ is our treasure! He is our glorious inheritance. He is our eternal hope. And only He will satisfy our hearts forever, when see Him in all His glory. That is how God prospers those who joyfully obey His Word. Church family, I pray that you will faithfully follow the Servant of God, Christ Jesus, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross. Oh, what day it will be when we see Him face to face and join in with heavenly chorus and shout His praise for all of eternity. Our reward, our prosperity, is Him alone, and He alone is worth more than all the money in the world combined. Listen: God’s servants, who die to their will and their own glory, to live for His, will prosper for we are blessed with His presence, His righteousness and His inheritance.
2) Behold the astonishing gospel according to God (v. 11b-12).
As we come to the middle of verse 11, I want you to see something very important. Notice, the change in pronouns, they distinctly transition from the plural to singular. You see, from verse 1 to the middle of verse 11, the voice of this prophecy was the future voice of Israel. The voice of the remnant of the nation of Israel who will one day accept Christ as their Messiah. They will turn from their sin and their spiritual blindness will give way to sight. And they will look back at the cross of Christ and make the confession we have been studying for the last three weeks. But now, we hear another voice… (Verse 11)… “By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong.” This is once again the voice of God. The voice we heard at the very beginning in chapter 52:13-15. This is God’s viewpoint. This is God personally speaking, proclaiming that the nation of Israel will one day confess Jesus is Lord. This is the divine voice of the Father predicting the death of the Righteous One. This is God declaring that His Servant will bear the sins of many. This is Yahweh affirming the atonement of sin and the justification of His people.
And look how God confirms the deity of His Servant in verse 11, by calling Him the Righteous One. There is only one person who could ever bear that title. One man who truly proved to be sinless. The New Testament writers confirm that Jesus Christ is the one and only Righteous One. For example, Peter in Acts 3 declared, “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One.”
In Acts 22, the apostle Paul shares the testimony of his conversion. There he said, “I went to the house of Ananias, and Ananias spoke to me about the Righteous One.” The Bible is clear that there is only One who was holy, only one who was pure and who could be classified as the Righteous One. And His name is Jesus.
And so, in verse 11, God speaking of His One and only Son says, “By His knowledge He will justify the many.” The many in this verse speaks of the many who believe, the people of God. Those are whom He will justify, meaning He will provide righteousness for them, through knowledge.
By His knowledge, is perhaps best interpreted as by the knowledge of the Servant of God, by knowledge of His person, of His work, of His provision in His death and resurrection. Meaning, in knowledge of His gospel. You see, God is saying here, that the Messiah will justify the many who have a saving knowledge of Him. John 17:3… in Jesus’ high priestly prayer, the Messiah himself said… “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” You see, we are saved by faith, in knowing God, and knowing His Son. And as we come to know Him, we are justified, meaning we are accredited His righteousness. This is why Paul in Philippians 3:9-10, declared that he desired to be… “found in Him, not having a righteousness of (his) own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that (he) may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.”
Oh, what wonderful news it is, that we are accredited His righteousness through faith. Listen, I know most of you here consider yourself to be good people. But the Bible reminds us repeatedly that there is no way you can make yourself righteous and acceptable to god on your own. Proverbs 20:9 reads… “Who can say, ‘I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”? The obvious answer is no one. No one! Many years ago, I served as a missionary in East Africa. And though there were many exciting and great days I will always cherish from the years I spent there, but there is one day, I’d just soon forget. It was a hot and humid day at the end of rain season, it was the type of sticky heat that made me want to move to Massachusetts. My supervisor, Jack Yates and I had an important meeting arranged that day with some local pastors in one of the slums outside of Nairobi. I can remember being dressed up in a tie and riding through the city in the heat of the day. There was no air conditioner in our vehicle so we had to let down our windows. And as we got near the slum the sewage had backed and completely flooded the streets. I can still remember the foul smells as if it was this morning. And as we were slowly making our way through the cesspool a dump truck came flying by in lane beside us, causing a title wave of the worst imaginable substance to come flying through our opened windows. We were literally covered from head to toe in sewage. To make matters worse, my supervisor Jack decided the meeting was too important for us not to show, so we went and stood before them as dirty and smell as I have ever been. I often think about that awful day, and how in many ways it parallels what it would be like to stand before God apart from having Christ’s righteousness accredited to our soul. You see, without His imputed righteousness, we all stand condemned in our sin. The Bible tells us that the righteousness that we create on our own is nothing but filthy rags before our God. But in Christ, we are made clean, forgiven, purified, made right with God, acceptable, and justified as we are gifted with His righteousness.
And His righteousness can only be imputed to us, not because we are worthy, or that because we can earn it by keeping the law, but only because of what He has done for us. That’s why God as He looks forward in the future to the cross, He adds the last line of verse 11, “as He will bear their iniquities.” In other words, He will carry their sin burden to the cross, and pay the astronomical debt we owe to God. And in verse 12 notice, God continues thinking about the work of Christ on your behalf, saying… “because He was poured out to death.” The Hebrew verb literally means to be laid bare. It implies a defenselessness posture. This is why in John 10:18, Jesus can say, “I lay down my life, no one takes it from me, for I lay it down on my accord.” He astonishingly poured out His soul to death, as He faithfully submitted to God’s plan of redemption.
But that’s not all Christ has done for us, notice also the next phrase “he was numbered with the transgressors.” This short phrase reminds us of Jesus’ humanity. It implies that Jesus lived among transgressors as fully human. And from a visual standpoint, He didn’t look any different from any other man. He didn’t have a halo over his head, nor did he appear superhuman in any form or fashion.
He was simply a man from the backwater town of Nazareth, where nothing good ever came from. You see, this phrase implying he was numbered among the transgressors has little to do with the fact he was crucified with criminals. Instead, this phrase emphasizes the fact that Jesus humbled Himself and came to earth as God’s Servant to take his place among sinners. You must understand, that in order to die for us as a suitable sacrifice, the Righteous One had to become like us in every way possible. He had to be tempted and tried in every way we are, yet without sin. And so, Jesus did just that. On our behalf, He lived the sinless and obedient life that God desires that each of us live, and then He poured out His life on the cross, bearing our sin and shame, so that we may be justified through faith.
That’s the gospel according to God. Prophetically spoken 700 years before Christ’s birth. This is how God answers the greatest questions you can even consider: How can holy God make sinners right with God? How can He accept them into His divine presence without being righteous? The only answer to those questions is through knowing Christ, God’s humble and faithful Servant. Every one of us deserve an eternity in hell, but God in His love and grace provided a substitute. He provided a Passover lamb, to live a righteous life for us and to die in our place. You see, the innocent one experienced the hell that we deserve. So that through His guilt offering of pouring His life out for us, we can be justified and made righteous in Christ. Yet, to receive this priceless gift, His amazing forgiveness and righteousness, we must turn from our sinful lifestyle, put our faith in Christ, and follow His example of being a Servant of God. We must take up our own cross and live a life that is marked by self-denial and obedience to His Word. Have you done that? If you are here today, and you have never placed your faith in Christ, and that’s the desire of you heart, I just want to ask you to seek me out after the service today. I would love to tell you more about the gospel according to God that runs throughout the Bible, I’d be honored to answer your questions, pray with you, and I would love to tell you about the peace, hope, satisfaction, and joy that can be yours in Christ. Lastly,
3) Behold the utmost exaltation of Christ our King and Mediator (v. 12).
This song of lament began back in Isaiah 52:13, where we were informed that the Servant of God would not only prosper, but that he also would be lifted high and greatly exalted. That exaltation is what we saw begin to unfold in verse 9 when he was with the rich man in His death, and now we see it gloriously occur in this last verse. Where God says in verse 12, “Therefore, I’ll allot Him a portion with the great and He’ll divide the booty with the strong.” Obviously, the word “therefore,” links this exaltation with the previous suffering and humiliation that will take place on the cross. Now of course the resurrection is implied here too because He is now rewarded for His faithfulness to God’s plan. It’s clearly after His death that He is highly exalted.
Notice that Isaiah 53 ends at the Messiah’s second coming. It ends with a true victory parade, as God Himself sets His Servant on the throne and rewards Him with all the spoils of His conquering victory. This moment in time, this grand parade and coronation, will far surpass the triumphant entry of Christ as He entered the city of Jerusalem prior to his arrest and crucifixion, when the masses shouted “Hosanna, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” That was just a preview to this awesome future event that is described here with majestic royal imagery. This is the image of a conquering hero returning in all power and glory. This is why the kings in 52:15 will shut their mouths and stand in complete awe and shame.
Now here in verse 12, God declares two specific things about this time… “I’ll a lot Him a portion with the great.” And “I’ll divide the spoils with the strong.” Notice the clear emphasis here on sharing, which should be shocking, right! Because we naturally expect God to give everything to His Son for His faithfulness and great sacrifice. But God says, Ill give Him a portion with the great, and I’ll divide the spoil with the strong. Well, this clearly begs the questions who are the great and who are the strong? Church family, those are both references to all of us who have placed their hope and faith in Christ. It’s us, the church!
In fact the Hebrew word great in verse 12 is the exact same Hebrew word for many in verse 11, the many whom God justifies. And it’s also the exact same word used later in verse 12 where we are told the Messiah bore the sins of the many. So, why do the English translators use the word great in this line? Well, its simply because at the second coming we will be made great, and though we are weak now, we will be made strong. For we too will be exalted, that’s what Romans 8:16-17 proclaims… “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.” You see, we will be joint heirs with Christ. Amazingly and graciously everything the Selfless Savior possesses will be ours to possess. He selflessly shares it with us! That’s the glorious extent of God’s amazing grace!
Think about that, all the glory that Christ secured at the cross, all the honor that He won as He poured out His life as a guilt offering, all the unfathomable rewards that He acquired through His sinless life and suffering will enrich our lives throughout eternity. That’s God’s promise to all who believe. This is the glory that awaits those who have repented of their sin, who know Christ, and who embrace Him faith as the substitute who took your place. This is the future for those who confess their sin and proclaim Him as Lord.
But please don’t miss the last line to this song… for His exhalation its not just because Jesus bore our sin on the cross, but He also “interceded for the transgressors.” Interceded literally means mediated. It means to go between, or stand between. And this final statement of God in this awesome prophecy, is that His Servant, the Messiah is the One who stands between God and man. He is our intercessor, the One who pleads our case. He is our only bridge to heaven, our bridge to God. In John 17, Jesus began this intercession ministry with His High Priestly Prayer, where He prayed that God would sanctify us in the truth of His Word, unify our lives together, and keep us in the faith.
Now, when we look at this phrase in the Hebrew language something stands out, that we miss in the English. All the previous verbs in this text are in the perfect tense meaning they are completed and are perfected actions. But the verb interceded is in the imperfect tense implying that its not completed, for He continues to pray. Hebrews 7:2 tells us that He lives to make intercession for us. Right now, in glory, our Savior, God’s Servant is praying for His bride, He’s interceding for the Church, for all who currently and all who will believe in the future.
Listen, my dear friend, I don’t know the personal hardships you are facing right now. But Christ knows it perfectly and He is praying for you. I don’t know the private troubles of your heart. But I do know, that in Christ and in the light of eternity those troubles are light and momentary, as you will be exalted with Him. Church, this week has been exceptionally hard and heartbreaking for me. To watch the news of the Christian school shooting in Nashville is painful. To consider the lives that were devastated by tornados and storms in Mississippi , Arkansas, and several other states is heartbreaking. On top of that, there is drama of politics, that is greatly dividing our country. Our world is broken to the core. We have good reason as a nation to be troubled, upset, and anxious. But may I remind you, that one day, a trumpet will sound. One day, everything that is broken will be made right. After the darkness there is light. After the suffering and humiliation of sin there is glory! Oh, what a marvelous and wonderful hope we have because the slave of God, Jesus the Nazarene, would loving bear our great, burden of sin and shame, He would endure the wrath of God on our behalf, and in one glorious day, we will see His face, and all the suffering and pain, all the sin that we have endured in this world will be no more.
Over the past month, as I’ve been preparing these messages, I’ve had an old hymn stuck in my head. It was hymn written by Charles Gabriel who grew up as a child in Iowa during the American Civil War. As a teenager, his mother recognized his musical talents and often told him that, she would rather him write a song that would help somebody than be the president of the United States. He took that message to heart and began writing song after song. It’s believed that he wrote over 7000 songs during his lifetime, but it’s really hard to know how many songs he wrote for he often wrote under a host of pseudonyms. You see the desire of his heart was not to make a name for himself, but rather He simply longed to make Christ’s name great. Charles’s goal was to magnify Christ and exalt Him through music. He truly wanted the church to behold Christ in all His glory. And many years ago, he penned a song that certainly made his moma proud and I believe captures the heart of Isaiah 53. Its entitled, I stand amazed… and that song calls us to behold God’s marvelous and wonderful love. It calls us to behold the humiliation and exaltation of Christ, the lamb of God. It reminds us that Jesus was a Nazarene. He was humble and had no resemblance of majesty, yet He would lovingly bear our sin and sorrow, so that one day, we may see His face in glory.
Church family, as we close our service, I want to invite you to stand and sing this old hymn with me. We are going to sing it in acapella, so that we can focus on the words of the wonderful hymn, and as we do I simply want you to sing it out in a worshipful response to all that we have learned from this passage of Scripture, as we behold God’s Servant together. Now, since we are singing acapella, it will be important that you follow my lead, and Ill warn you, I do sing this hymn a little slower than the original version, but I think you will be able to easily follow along as we worship together. Lets prayerfully sing this great hymn to God and over one another! Sing with me...
Verse 1
I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner, condemned, unclean.
Chorus
How marvelous! How wonderful!
And my song shall ever be;
Oh, how marvelous! Oh, how wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!
Verse
He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden on Calv’ry,
And suffered and died alone.
Chorus
How marvelous! how wonderful!
And my song shall ever be;
Oh, how marvelous! Oh, how wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!
Verse
When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
‘Twill be my joy thro’ the ages
To sing of His love for me.
Chorus
How marvelous! How wonderful!
And my song shall ever be;
Oh, how marvelous! Oh, how wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!