LYRICS & COMMENTARY
LYRICS
Amazing Grace, God’s Righteousness
At Christ’s Expense for me.
You paid the ransom I could not
To buy my liberty.
You bore God’s wrath and every curse
While dying on a Tree.
With You, I died and rose again,
Brand New, alive and free.
My outer man has yet to know
Full freedom from all sin.
Yet You forgave me totally
And now reside within.
There’s nothing I can say or do
To earn Your lavish Grace.
Instead, I trust Your finished work
That nothing can erase.
I thank You, Lord, for all You‘ve done
Far more than my eyes can see.
By faith in You I now receive
Your life abundantly.
© 2020 ~ Leonard J. Ransil ~ CCLI # 7089190
COMMENTARY
Everyone is of the Adamic race until being spiritually reborn of God by Grace through faith in what Jesus DID for mankind on Calvary. Rebirth makes you a permanent child of God Himself, entitled to receive all the benefits of God’s abundant GRACE: God’s Righteousness At Christ’s Expense. You have the same undeserved and unmerited favor as Jesus enjoys, just for being Father-God’s child. Why? Because you are now in Christ.
When reborn of God, you are a new creation spirit being, as revealed in 2 Corinthians 5:17, no longer in Adam. But your “outer self” – your soul and body – are not as yet fully sanctified and sinless – like your spirit-self in Christ is. But all your past, present and future sins were forgiven at Calvary, thanks to Jesus’ perfect sacrifice. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19. Ask the Holy Spirit who lives in you, to reveal who you now are in Christ and what He has DONE for you.
life, that is, Jesus himself.