Adoration Anthem

O holy night what sacred hope Love’s sympathy allowed

Come to redeem with His own blood a lost, unholy crowd

Where sacrifice of bulls and rams would never satisfy

And none amongst the Shepherd’s lambs could ever justify

O Lamb of God who knew no sin left heaven to become

The pure and perfect offering for He was God’s own Son

And though the Father knew the awful price that He would pay

He saw, after death’s sacrifice glad Resurrection Day

...there His wrath was appeased; love looked beyond the suffering

He beheld the accomplishment of life that death would bring

Of many sons and daughters to glory, victorious

Because the blood of Jesus cleanses from unrighteousness

O holy dread, where Bethlehem welcomed Calvary’s Lamb

O manger-bed thy diadem was Yaweh’s Son, I AM

O come then, one and all, where once for all Life dashed death’s sting

Salvation’s pioneer perfected through His suffering

Then let hearts leap for joy and love be bowed with tenderness

Let we who this true hope employ be filled with happiness 

And let us reason together of grace whereby we go

For though our sins were scarlet now we are washed white as snow

O holy night, what sacred joy love’s sympathy allowed

On earth Peace and goodwill to man, prone to be vile and proud

And when this life is over, death has no dominion then

If we believe we will receive eternal life. Amen

© Janet Martin

 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, 

now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, 

so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.  

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, 

for whom and through whom all things exist, 

to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.  

For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. 

So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. 

Heb.2:9-11