They Know Not What They'Ve Done
LOOKING DOWN ON THE WORLD HE'D CREATED BEING OVERRUN BY SIN
KNOWING THE PRICE WE'D PAY WAS OUR SURE DEATH HE WOULD NOT LET SATAN WIN.
OVER AND OVER HE WARNED US, HOW HARD WERE RULES TO KEEP?
DIDN'T WE KNOW THE SEEDS WE'D SOWN COULD ONLY DAMNATION REAP?
ALL THE CHANCES THAT HE GAVE
YET WE CHOSE THE SINNLY GRAVE.
HOW IT MUST HAVE PAINED HIM
TO SEE US LIVING LIVES OH SO GRIM.
DID THE FATHER CRY?
DID HE QUESTION US? WONDER WHY?
HOW COULD WE FORSAKE HIM? TURN AWAY FROM HIS LOVE?
FOCUS ONLY ON THE WORDLY, NOT THE GRACIOUS GOD ABOVE?
HE GAVE US LIFE, FREE WILL AND CHOICE!
RATHER THAN SHOWING THANKS AND PRAISE WE RAN AND HID AT THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE.
STILL HE LOVED US! EACH AND EVERY ONE
SO MUCH IN FACT, HE SENT HIS PRECIOUS ONLY SON.
BY WAY OF VIRGIN BIRTH~
DEAR JESUS WAS DELIVERED DOWN TO EARTH.
TO DWELL AMONG THE LOST SINNERS OF THE LAND
TO LIVE AND TEACH AND DIE WITH LOVE WAS HIS FATHER'S ONLY COMMAND.
ONLY INSTRUCTION? TO DIE WITH LOVE? FOR WHO?
FOR THANKLESS, LAWLESS SINNERS? WHY, IT WAS FOR THE SOULS OF ME AND YOU!!!
NO HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT! IT'S NO WONDER THAT WE CRIED!
TO KNOW ~TWAS FOR OUR SINS DEAR JESUS THAT DAY DIED!
PERSUCUTED AND CONDEMNED HE LOVINGLY WENT.
MOCKED, BEATEN EVEN SPAT UPON, WAS ONLY FOR US THAT HE WAS SENT!!!!
A CROWN OF THORNS UPON HIS HEAD; NAILS DRIVEN IN HIS HANDS AND FEET.
DYING THERE UPON THAT CROSS, TO SAVE US FROM THE FATE WE HAD CHOSEN OURSELVES TO MEET.
INNOCENT IN THE EYES OF GOD, BLAMELSS BEFORE MAN!
JESUS GAVE UP HIS SPIRIT! HE'D FULFILLED HIS FATHER'S PLAN!!
OH, THE SHAME THE GUILT THE SORROW, TO KNOW WHAT WE'D BEGUN
TO HEAR HIM CRY OUT BEFORE HE DIED “FORGIVE THEM FATHER FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY'VE DONE.”
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