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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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All right, guys, the end of another week All week. This week we've looked at five of my favorite hymns of all time and we've dug into the lyrics and the biblical truths therein. Today we're looking at the most famous hymn of all time and I really think it's a debate and that's Amazing Grace. So this is, in fact, the hymn both of my sons love the most. So thank you, veggietales. We've actually heard our youngest Eli we just call him Squish. He will sing this hymn at night when he's supposed to be sleeping. All of a sudden we'll just be sitting there and then we'll hear on the monitor him singing the lyrics to Amazing Grace. So this hymn was actually written in 1772 by John Newton. So Newton was actually a slave ship captain who actually became a Christian after a violent storm at sea in 1748. So after his conversion he became a minister and then one of the leading voices in the abolitionist movement there in England. So just an awesome story. And my favorite version of this hymn and it's so good, it's so good it's from Leanne Rimes back in 1997 on her album you Light Up my Life inspirational songs. So I just think it's so fantastic. But let's go to the lyrics here.

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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. T'was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. T'was grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me. His word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures Ye, when this flesh and heart shall fail and mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within the veil a life of joy and All right. So let's dig in.

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Here's a lyric Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. So, first of all, we are totally depraved. You know breaking news if you didn't know that. But God right. So let's go to Romans 5, verse 4 and 5. But God, who is rich, in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace, ye are saved.

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Another lyric I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. So, guys, we can be regenerated. Here's the words of Jesus as recorded in Luke 15, 32. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this. Thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found.

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Another lyric through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. So, guys, we can legitimately have perseverance in the faith. Psalm 23, verse 4, ye though through I walk, through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. And then the last lyric here when we've been there 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we'd first begun.

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So, guys, the reality is is, amazingly, we can have eternal life. 1 Timothy 6, 19, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold of eternal life. The thing about the grace of God that is, it's just that it is truly amazing, right, and that he would love us, us black hearted, wretched sinners, enough to send his only son here to provide propitiation for our sin debt through his death. Right, I mean, it's worth everything, everything. So if you have not accepted God's free gift of grace, yet I compel you to do so today. Thank you for your attention this week. Stay sharp.

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