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Jesus Paid it All

This song is so overpowering!  If we listen to the music and disregard the lyrics than we miss the ENTIRE message.  This song is a praise to the Lord of Lord for allowing his son to die on the cross for my sins.  When we sing this song at Grace Midtown I come to tears every time, because I have the opportunity to sing with all my lungs to my Father for his Grace.  He washed us white as snow - that makes me just want to dance right now!!!!!

Oh praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead!


 I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Refrain
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

Refrain
And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Refrain
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

Refrain
When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

Refrain
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Refrain

Oh praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead!


All is Great in the Lord from Theta Xi
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