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  • @covenant157
    @covenant157 Год назад +4

    I asked the lord that I might grow.
    What a beautiful song 😍

  • @jerryshriver7495
    @jerryshriver7495 11 лет назад +26

    What a beautiful hymn. I wish that this kind of hymn was still being written today. Praise God for His doctrines of Grace.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Год назад +1

      Search for the gettys

    • @lee-lee2418
      @lee-lee2418 4 месяца назад

      We have thousands from years gone by, and time doesn't change the words. I am ever grateful for knowing so many of them by ❤️😊.

  • @davidguerra9138
    @davidguerra9138 2 года назад +4

    So so pretty HYMN, Praise the LORD.
    SOLI DEO GLORIA

  • @StephenandAnnaCox
    @StephenandAnnaCox Год назад

    A Truly GLORIOUS Hymn that never fails to stir my mind and heart to Praise our GOD and King! And to Love His Church. ;)

  • @jbaughutah
    @jbaughutah 11 лет назад +29

    Upon discovering this hymn it has become my favorite hymn. Beautiful melody. But more important to me is the beauty of the truth it expresses. Some versions of this hymn have changed the words to soften the impact intended by its author. "Aweful"(full of awe) is much more appropriate than the overused "awesome" that most versions have substituted. In our culture virtual everything is awesome. But only God is truly aweful. Most revisions of this hymn have substituted the word, "drew" for the author's original word, "dragged" in the second line of the 4th verse. Too strong for our sensitivities I suppose. "Dragged" is more consistent with the question asked in the previous verse - "Why was I MADE to hear thy voice".
    Watts clearly understood that salvation is by God's sovereign decree and not by the choice or will of man. We were dragged, albeit "sweetly" into the kingdom.

    • @Bigfurry1975
      @Bigfurry1975 4 года назад +3

      Liberty Christian Church Utah I completely agree. Salvation into God's kingdom is 100% His (God's) doing. Man has no part in it whatsoever. (Romans ch.9 Eph. 2:8-10)

    • @aaron_aplin
      @aaron_aplin 4 года назад +3

      He understood that the original greek word Christ used when He said "no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me DRAWS him," is actually the word "Drag"

    • @최성욱-x2g
      @최성욱-x2g 2 года назад +1

      I love your opinion and many thanks

  • @davmatheophilus159
    @davmatheophilus159 Год назад

    This is a wonderful, tonic hymn.

  • @gloriablair1978
    @gloriablair1978 7 лет назад +4

    Thank you precious heavenly Father for choosing me to be one of your children nothing of myself so with grateful heart thank you for your marvellous grace.

  • @aaron_aplin
    @aaron_aplin 3 года назад +1

    My favorite hymn of all time.

  • @SherryLC09
    @SherryLC09 3 года назад +7

    Love the hymn! I do wish that no one's voice would speak out during it. Its distracting and, to me, it draws attention to the speaker more than God.

  • @constructoracherry9002
    @constructoracherry9002 8 лет назад +2

    Wonderful! I have sung this for 35 years and never tire of it. Even when I think that "For all the saints who from their labors rest" or "Jerusalem the golden" might match or best it, as my favorite hymn, all I have to do is listen again and I realize just how special it is.

    • @hortondlfn1994
      @hortondlfn1994 4 года назад

      Oh! You named two more of my favorites, as well. I REALLY wish more people used Jerusalem, the Golden more often. Then again, I have so many favorites and so many I wish we used more often...

  • @DanielBartsch
    @DanielBartsch 12 лет назад +3

    This has become one of my favorite hymns.

  • @meilenes
    @meilenes 11 лет назад +3

    Thank you for this beautiful rendition! Praise to God!

  • @scottsmith3236
    @scottsmith3236 2 года назад

    Very encouraged by this, thank you

  • @lauralinneman9533
    @lauralinneman9533 7 лет назад +1

    Beautiful, hearing the saints sing!

  • @EwertonBTokashiki
    @EwertonBTokashiki 11 лет назад +3

    This a beautiful hymn.

  • @PolarBear1192
    @PolarBear1192 11 лет назад +24

    It's a shame this isn't a more widely known hymn

    • @최성욱-x2g
      @최성욱-x2g 2 года назад

      Contemporary Christian Music is Too Powerful. Even most of Christian pastors cannot dare to criticize. I like Humble Old Hymn as Issac watts Fanny Crosby's Charles Wesley's as Our Humble servant Savior. What is Godly or Worldly that is question.

    • @JeanmarieRod
      @JeanmarieRod 2 года назад

      Itching ears prefer the false gospel message of the contemporary bands

    • @wheatandchaff-z6s
      @wheatandchaff-z6s Год назад +1

      It is like a pearl of great price. We have the opportunity to give it to others as an apple in a frame of gold.

  • @benn4555
    @benn4555 8 лет назад +1

    So encouraging love this hymn, thanking God

  • @ChrisLottaStrajnic
    @ChrisLottaStrajnic 11 лет назад +2

    Great hymn.

  • @sbach4
    @sbach4  11 лет назад +19

    When the song was written, aweful meant full of awe, which Christ is, or as we say today "awesome". Yet the way "awesome" is used today (my ice cream cone is awesome), I'm not sure awesome is appropriate .

  • @Mathabasipha
    @Mathabasipha Год назад +1

    We sing it at church

  • @papermason
    @papermason 7 лет назад

    For you Jesus.

  • @pamdawson8598
    @pamdawson8598 Год назад +2

    Why was I a guest?...only your grace.

  • @joshuanelson2769
    @joshuanelson2769 9 лет назад +9

    "dragged" sounds like "against one's will"; the Bible says "drew/ draw" not "drag"; the correct Calvinist and Biblical position is that God changed our wills so that we came willingly. thus, the Westminster Confession speaks of us coming "most freely, and gladly" even though it was by God's sovereign decree ultimately that we came...

    • @globescape4771
      @globescape4771 7 лет назад +8

      John 6:44 - No one is able to come unless the Father draws (helkuse) them. In the NT, helkuse has been translated draw, drag, haul, etc. One such instance how the word is used, Acts 16:19 - They seized Paul and Silas and (dragged) them ... Another instance, Acts 21:30 - Seizing Paul, they (dragged) him from the temple.

  • @hortondlfn1994
    @hortondlfn1994 Год назад +1

    I love this hymn and find it sad that they left out the third verse - perhaps to keep from offending contemporary sensibilities - which goes:
    "Why was I made to hear thy voice and enter while there's room,
    when thousands make a wretched choice and rather starve than come?"

    • @rrickarr
      @rrickarr Год назад +1

      They did include it!

    • @hortondlfn1994
      @hortondlfn1994 Год назад +1

      @@rrickarr Well, I'll be a suck-egg mule! I TOTALLY missed it when I listened the first time. My mind must have gone off grazing somewhere, as it is so apt to do.
      Thanks!

  • @constructoracherry9002
    @constructoracherry9002 8 лет назад +5

    I wish there were a Spanish version.

    • @cap5364
      @cap5364 5 лет назад +1

      Google: Cual solemne y dulce

  • @Kathy-cg1pd
    @Kathy-cg1pd 2 месяца назад

    This melody is used for more than this one hymn, isn't it?

  • @JulijaKostina
    @JulijaKostina 4 года назад

    Love this hymn! Does anyone know, maybe there is translation to russian language?

    • @emmagrace8394
      @emmagrace8394 4 года назад

      I have no idea, but I would be very interested in hearing that. 😍😍😍

  • @chrissydiener143
    @chrissydiener143 4 года назад

    Is there sheet music for the piano arrangement? It's beautiful.

  • @onapilgrim2418
    @onapilgrim2418 2 года назад

    "Lord why was I guest?"

  • @joshuanelson2769
    @joshuanelson2769 9 лет назад +1

    I prefer "awe-filled"; it avoids the confusion of the modern uses "aweful" = horrible and of "awesome" = great, cool, sort of almost "trite" or something....

    • @WasLostButNowAmFound
      @WasLostButNowAmFound 9 лет назад +2

      aweful = awesome. awful = horrible..be mindful of the spelling.

  • @Mat_The_W99
    @Mat_The_W99 5 месяцев назад

    🔗🪚👨

  • @Inapeartree
    @Inapeartree Год назад +1

    Maybe would be better as "awesome" instead of
    "aweful" , since it could be misunderstood as "awful" in today's lexicon ..

  • @mikeracka4111
    @mikeracka4111 Год назад +1

    Was so tastefully done ... until the guy had to wax hipster and start adding distracting commentary. Has it really come to this? Grace churches?

  • @tobyherro9892
    @tobyherro9892 Год назад +2

    It would have been even better without all that talking

  • @abbeytouchette
    @abbeytouchette 11 лет назад

    Um, the song is how sweet and awesome...not awefull....Christ is awesome....not aweful

    • @andrewvonderluft9793
      @andrewvonderluft9793 6 лет назад +5

      actually no. hymnary.org/text/how_sweet_and_aweful_is_the_place The common connotation of words changes over time. Isaac Watts wrote "awful" meaning "full of awe" as someone already observed above.