The Gospel of Jesus Christ

My Testimony

What love, what grace, what mercy

Shown to a wretch like me

Grace that reaches the heavens

Oh how beautiful and lovely is He.



Innocent and declared righteous I must be

To enter your heavenly land

But what an impossibility

Guilty, vile, and unclean I stand. (1)



Perfect obedience to your law

Is what you require

My heart so cold could never

Only to sin is its desire.



But what I could not produce

You provided through Your Son,

Jesus Christ is my only hope

To His righteousness alone do I run. (2)



Jesus Christ absorbed the wrath of God

The cup of my punishment He bore (3)

He has also given me His righteousness

My heart sings of this grace and will forever more!



Jesus Christ became sin for me, (4)

The retribution I deserve He took

God the Father killed Him in my place (5)

His only begotten Son He forsook



You have covered my lawless deeds (6)

With your beauty and righteousness alone

For the best that I could offer you is filth (7)

And never for sin could I atone.



My choice or free will, never will I claim

For in your presence no flesh shall glory (8)

Salvation is of the Lord, His Work alone (9)

That shall be my never ending story.



Vile, depraved, undone

Deserving of Your fury am I

But You, O Lord, are holy and pure

So only on your mercy I rely.



In order to enter into the joy of the Lord

Like the tax collector I must be

Knowing He was unworthy shouted out

“I am a sinner, have mercy on me.” (10)





You have said one blemish to your law

Will cause me to be cursed (11)

Sentence has been passed, I am guilty as charged.

But thanks to your Son, I in love am immersed







As the leopard can not change his spots

Or the Ethiopian his skin (12)

I too have no ability to reverse what’s been done

Because of my crimes and dreadful sin.



I was spiritually dead with no life in me

Like Lazarus in the tomb

But now of His doing I am in Christ

And have escaped the coming doom. (13)



I have no righteousness to bring you

No goodness at all

Only Jesus Christ I boast of

Who obeyed perfectly your Righteous Law



Taking out my stony, God hating, sin loving heart (14)

What power you have shown

Replacing it with a thirst

To know you and make you known.



By nature a child of wrath (15)

With God’s judgment I deserve

But now because of Your Spirit

I desire to glorify and You alone serve.



Since I did rebel and sinned against You,

Your just anger did abide (16)

But thanks to the Mediator between man and God (17)

I call you Father and rest by Your loving side.



You could have left me to face my wrath

And to that I could have never complained.

Because I was brought forth in iniquity (18)

And your holiness I have profaned.



Had you left salvation up to me,

I would never have been saved

For I would have never sought you (19)

My evil heart, so depraved.



I made my choice against you

And my own way to embrace

I have faith only because You have given it

Imparted to me as a gift of grace. (20)



God who is rich in mercy chose me

Though I deserved it not

And because of Christ my sins are gone

There is not one guilty spot. (21)



In my own power and strength

I could have never chosen Your great love

This gift of salvation has only been granted

By a gracious gift from above.



This gift of love I do not deserve

As though I had any merit to claim

You are a God who justifies the ungodly (22)

Praise, Honor and glory are due to Your name.



You did not owe it to me

To forgive my wicked ways

It was only Your free sovereign grace (22)

At which I humbly stand amazed.



My entrance into heaven

Has nothing to do with me

It is only because of the righteousness of another –

Jesus Christ, how beautiful is He.



It’s not just hell that I have escaped

But from me, Your fierce anger has been turned

And that only by Jesus Christ the propitiation (24)

Great joy this brought to me once I learned.



Understanding that you could have left me in my sins

And to do so You would have been just,

But knowing You have shown mercy,

To that I shall praise You, I have to. I must.



How could I not sing praises to Your Holy name?

As long as I have breath.

Knowing You have died in my place

And raised me from spiritual death.



What is the reason you show this great love?

To demonstrate Your kindness and the riches of grace (25)

And one day because of Your mercy

I’ll behold Your loving, beautiful face.





1) Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. (Isaiah 6:5) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one (Romans 3:10)



2) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:21-23)



3) Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. (Luke 22:42)



4) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5-6)



5) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. (Isaiah 53:10)



6) Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose lawless deeds are covered; (Romans 4:7) I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. (Isaiah 61:10)

7) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)



8) That no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Corinthians 1:29)

9) But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. (Jonah 2:9)

10) And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. (Luke 18:13)

11) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Galatians 3:10)

12) Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. (Jeremiah 13:23)

13) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:10)

14) A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26) (Romans 1:30)

15) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Ephesians 2:3)

16) He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. (John 3:36)

17) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5)

18) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5

19) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (Romans 3:11)

20) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8)

21) Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)

22) But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Romans 4:5)

23) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. (Romans 9:15-16) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)

24) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (Romans 3:25) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:1o)

25) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. (Ephesians 1:6) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:7)

My Jesus, I Love Thee

My Jesus, I Love Thee



My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee, all the follies of sin I resign;
My gracious Redeemer, My Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.


I love Thee because Thou hast first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree;
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus 'tis now.


I'll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say, when the death-dew lies cold on my brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus 'tis now.


In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I'll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
And singing Thy praises, before Thee I'll bow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus 'tis now.