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What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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For my cleansing this I see—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
For my pardon this my plea—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
For my pardon this my plea—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
3
Nothing can my sin erase
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Naught of works, 'tis all of grace—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Naught of works, 'tis all of grace—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
4
This is all my hope and peace—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
This is all my righteousness—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
This is all my righteousness—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
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Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1826. His fondness for music was exhibited from his earliest years. As a child, he entertained himself with different musical instruments that came into his hands.
At the age of 17 he joined the first Baptist Church of Philadelphia, and soon became an active worker in Sunday-school as teacher and chorister. At 22 he gave himself to the work of the ministry, and studied at the University of Leesburg, Pennsylvania. Then at 28 he graduated with the highest honors of his class.
In the same year of his graduation, he entered the work of the ministry. He served as pastor at different cities in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in New York City, in Brooklyn, and in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, as well as becoming a professor at the University with an honorary degree of D. D. It was a very productive time for him— a total of 21 years serving in this capacity.
Then in 1875 he became Pastor Park Avenue Church in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Dr. Lowry was a man gifted with administrative abilities, an excellent preacher, and an avid Bible student, and whether he was on the pulpit or upon a platform, he was a brilliant and gifted speaker. Some of his most striking characteristics was that he was of a pleasing disposition, as well as possessed with a great sense of humor. He was able to engage his audiences by the use vivid descriptions and picturesque imagery.
Many of his hymns have been translated into other languages and while preaching the gospel was his greatest joy and his life’s work, music and hymnology became his most enjoyable recreation.
Dr. Lowry was selected to be editor of a Sunday school book, “Bright Jewels” which was a great success. There were other Sunday school books that he edited as well and all of them becoming extremely popular. When he saw that the obligations of musical editorship were laid up upon him he began to study music more deeply, and sought the best musical textbooks and works of the highest forms in musical composition. He possessed one of the finest musical libraries in the country. It abounded in works on the philosophy and science of musical sound. He also had some musical works in his possession that were over 150 years old!
A reporter once asked him what was his method of composition— “do you write the words to fit the music or the music to fit the words? ” His reply was :
“I have no method. Sometimes the music comes, and the words follow fitted insensibly to the melody. I watch my moods, and when anything good strikes me, whether the words or music, and no matter where I am, at home on the street, I jot it down. Often the margin of a newspaper or the back of an envelope serves as a notebook. My brain is a sort of spinning machine, I think, for there is music running through it all the time. I do not pick out my music or the keys of an instrument. The tunes of nearly all the hymns I have written have been completed on paper before I tried them on the organ. Frequently the words of the hymn and the music have been written at the same time. “
Another time Lowry said of preaching the gospel and writing hymns, “I would rather preach a gospel sermon to an appreciative, receptive congregation than to write a hymn. ” Yet in spite of his preferences, Dr. Lowry’s hymns have gone on and on, translated into many languages, preaching and comforting, thousands of souls, furnishing them expression for their deepest feelings of praise and gratitude to God for his goodness to the children of men. What he had thought of his inmost soul has become a part of the emotions of the whole Christian world.
Reverend Robert Lowry, D. D. died at his residence in Plainfield, New Jersey, November 25, 1899. However he still lives in his sermons and gospel songs which are heard all over the world. Dr. Lowry is considered to be one of the world’s greatest gospel song and hymn writers.
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Edison, NJ, United States
Something about the blood of Jesus
Nothing but blood of Jesus this song touched my heart
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Verse 4 really touched me. I know the blood cleanses my sin but I forget why. It is by His blood we are made righteous and become the righteousness of God. Nothing we do or say or think, especially nothing of our own good behavior, can ever make us righteous and acceptable to God. When we take Christ as our righteousness, which is truly grace, we can come to God our Father. We need His blood desperately. Without the blood, we are totally hopeless and dead in our sins.
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This is all my hope and peace—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
This is all my righteousness—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
McArthur, CA, United States
O thank the Lord my soul. I am cleansed by the blood of Jesus! I am redeemed and restored by His sacrifice. I pray the Light of Jesus shine in my life to help light The Way for others. May I be Your instrument, O God, until my last breath.
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Oh precious is the flow! That makes me white as snow!
Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria
Highly appreciated
Lagos, Nigeria
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
United States
CLEANSED BY
THE BLOOD OF JESUS
In 1:7 the apostle John says, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. ” In this verse we see that we walk in the light, but God is in the light, because He is light. When we walk in the light, which is God Himself, we have the co-enjoyment of the Triune God and the co-participation in His purpose.
When we live in the divine life, we are under its enlightenment, and it exposes, according to God’s divine nature and through His nature in us, all our sin, trespasses, failures, and defects, which contradict His pure light, perfect love, absolute holiness, and excelling righteousness. At such a time we sense in our enlightened conscience the need of the cleansing of the redeeming blood of the Lord Jesus, and it cleanses us in our conscience from all sins so that our fellowship with God and with one another may be maintained. Our relationship with God is unbreakable, yet our fellowship with Him may be broken. The former is of life, whereas the latter is based upon our living, though it is also of life. One is unconditional; the other is conditional. This conditional one, our fellowship with God, needs to be maintained by the constant cleansing of the Lord’s blood.
In verse 7 John says that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The tense of the verb “cleanses” in Greek is present and continuous. This indicates that the blood of Jesus the Son of God cleanses us all the time, continuously and constantly. Cleansing here refers to the instant cleansing of the Lord’s blood in our conscience. Before God, the redeeming blood of the Lord has cleansed us once for all eternally (Heb. 9:12, 14), and the efficacy of that cleansing lasts forever before God, needing no repetition. However, in our conscience we need the instant application of the constant cleansing of the Lord’s blood again and again whenever our conscience is enlightened by the divine light in our fellowship with God. This instant cleansing is typified by the purification of the ashes of the heifer for a water of separation (Num. 19:2-10).
Life Study of first John
Message 8 (LSM)
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Absolutely, 💯 the blood of Jesus Christ that is powerful, wonderful, merciful, victorious & spiritual continue to speaks better than the blood of Abel. Thank you Invisible, Immortal & the only Wise GOD.