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1 Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise: In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways. 2 O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came. 3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood Which did in Adam fail, Should strive afresh against their foe, Should strive and should prevail; 4 And that a higher gift tha...

1 Lord Jesus, when we stand afar, And gaze upon Thy holy cross, In love of Thee and scorn of self, O may we count the world as loss. 2 When we behold Thy bleeding wounds, And the rough way that Thou hast trod, Make us to hate the load of sin That lay so heavy on our God. 3 O holy Lord, uplifted high, With outstretched arms, in mortal woe, Embracing in Thy wondrous love The sinful world that lies b...

1 Jesus, who for my transgression Didst the shameful cross endure, And didst there the blest possession Of Thy joys for me secure: May my praise be ever telling Of Thy love, all love excelling. 2 Wondrous woes that brought salvation! Wondrous grace to sinners shown! Heaven is wrapt in contemplation Of His love, whom men disown. O my soul, wilt thou disown Him? Wilt not thou, my heart, enthrone Him...

1 One thing more than all my heart is craving As my food by night and day; Blest with this, all ills and trials braving, Through this wilderness I stray: Ever on the Man to gaze adoring, Who, with blood-sweat and with tears imploring, On His face submissive sank, And the Father’s chalice drank. 2 Ever shall mine eyes, His form retaining, View the Lamb once slain for me, As He yonder, pale and unco...

Gathered here, O gracious Lord and Saviour, We would pledge our love to Thee; Trusting in Thy death, we will endeavour True and faithful e’er to be. As united here we sing Thy praises, Lord, accept the hymn Thy Church now raises, And affirm Thy love so true, Saying, “Peace I give to you.”

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on James 5:7-11

1 We sing the praise of Him who died, Of Him who died upon the cross; The sinner’s hope let men deride, For this we count the world but loss. 2 Inscribed upon the cross we see, In shining letters, “God is love”; He bears our sins upon the tree; He brings us mercy from above. 3 The cross! it takes our guilt away; It holds the fainting spirit up; It cheers with hope the gloomy day, And sweetens ever...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Hebrews 7:23-27

1 Enslaved by sin, and bound in chains, Beneath its dreadful tyrant sway, And doomed to everlasting pains, We wretched, guilty captives lay. 2 Nor gold nor gems could buy our peace, Nor could the world’s collected store Suffice to purchase our release; A thousand worlds were all too poor. 3 Jesus, the Lord, the mighty God, An all-sufficient ransom paid; O matchless price! His precious blood For vi...

1 Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter’s power; Your Redeemer’s conflict see, Watch with Him one bitter hour: Turn not from His griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. 2 Follow to the judgement-hall, View the Lord of life arraigned; O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained! Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; Learn of Him to bear the cross. 3 Calvary’s mournful mo...

1 Saviour, when in dust to Thee Low we bow the-adoring knee; When, repentant, to the skies Scarce we lift our weeping eyes: O by all Thy pains and woe Suffered once for man below, Bending from Thy throne on high, Hear our solemn litany. 2 By Thy helpless infant years, By Thy life of want and tears, By Thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness, By the dread mysterious hour Of the-insulting...

1 Come to Calvary’s holy mountain, Sinners, ruined by the fall; Here a pure and healing fountain Flows to you, to me, to all, In a full perpetual tide, Opened when our Saviour died. 2 Come in poverty and meanness, Come defiled, without, within; From infection and uncleanness, From the leprosy of sin, Wash your robes and make them white; Ye shall walk with God in light. 3 Come in sorrow and contrit...

1 Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree; ’Tis the Christ, by man rejected, Yes, my soul, ‘tis He, ‘tis He. ’Tis the long expected prophet, David’s Son, yet David’s Lord; Proofs I see sufficient of it: ’Tis the true and faithful Word. 2 Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning, Was there ever grief like His? Friends through fear His cause disowning, Foes insulting His distress; Many...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Isaiah 11:1-10

1 Glory be to Jesus Who in bitter pains Poured for me the lifeblood From His sacred veins. 2 Grace and life eternal In that blood I find; Blest be His compassion, Infinitely kind! 3 Blest through endless ages Be the precious stream Which from endless torments Did the world redeem! 4 Abel’s blood for vengeance Pleaded to the skies; But the blood of Jesus For our pardon cries. 5 Oft as earth exultin...

1 There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. 2 The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; And there have I, as vile as he, Washed all my sins away. 3 Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more. 4 E’er since by...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on John 18:33-37

1 And can it be, that I should gain An interest in the Saviour’s blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain – For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? 2 ’Tis mystery all! The-Immortal dies: Who can explore His strange design? In vain the first-born seraph tries To sound the depths of love divine. ’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore, Let ange...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Matthew 25:31-46

1 Go, my soul, to Calvary, Stand before the cross in wonder; See how Jesus died for thee, Mark it well, and humbly ponder; Should thy sins not grieve thee now Cold and hard as stone art thou. 2 O that man of sorrows see, Hanging there twixt earth and heaven, Nailed to that accurs6d tree, Heart and soul by torments riven. Bleeding, tortured, crucified, See thy Lord: for thee He died. 3 Holy, spotle...

1 Lord Jesus, we give thanks to Thee That Thou didst die to set us free; Made righteous through Thy precious blood, We now are reconciled to God. 2 By virtue of Thy wounds, we pray, True God and man, be Thou our stay, Our comfort when we yield our breath, Our rescue from eternal death. 3 Defend us, Lord, from sin and shame; Help us by Thine almighty name To bear our crosses patiently, Consoled by...

Here at Thy cross I hail Thee now, O Lamb of God, to Thee my vow And reverent homage paying. Here all would seem but pain and loss, As Thou must die on Thy dread cross, Thy Father’s will obeying. Yet in Thy tortured form I see God’s glory and His majesty, And my redemption’s story; Thee I acclaim as King and Lord, As worthy here to be adored As on Thy throne of glory. 2 To Thee, O Lord, I yield my...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Matthew 25:14-30

1 O darkest woe! Ye tears, forth flow! Hath earth so sad a wonder? God the Father’s only Son Lieth buried yonder. 2 O sorrow dread; God’s Son is dead! But by His expiation Of our guilt upon the cross Gained for us salvation. 3 O sinful man It was the ban Of death on thee that brought Him Down to suffer for thy sins, And such woe hath wrought Him. 4 Behold thy Lord, The Lamb of God, Blood-sprinkled...