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JOY TO THE WORLD:
1. Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heav'n and nature sing.
2. Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy.
2. Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy.
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No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found.
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No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found.
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He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love.
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He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love.
…The Hymn Story: If the father of medicine was Hippocrates and the father of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell, then the father of English hymns was none other than Isaac Watts.
Having penned a massive collection of over 750 hymns, Watts’ work is still being printed in books, projected onto screens and sung by Christians worldwide.
Isaac Watts was born in 1674, in South Hampton England.
Raised in a deeply religious family, Watts’ earliest memories were of his father’s concrete convictions about religious liberty.
Watts Sr. even spent time in prison on two separate occasions for his outspoken Nonconformist views.
(Rather than conforming to the Church of England, Nonconformists were typically Presbyterians or Baptists who wanted to worship in a government-free church.)
Isaac Watt’ parents saw to it that their love for Christ and His word were passed on to their son.
Believe it or not Watts’ work, in his day, was not always well received.
You see, Watts was boldly introducing (what was for his time, contemporary) “praise and worship” songs into the life of the church.
(Think of Isaac Watts as the Chris Tomlin or Matt Papa of his day.)
Up until that point, the song selection in most Protestant churches was limited almost exclusively to the Psalms.
John Calvin, during the Reformation, had translated the Psalms into the common language of his people (French) so that they could be sung corporately.
Many English-speaking churches followed in his pattern.
When Watts came along, though, he began introducing extra-biblical poetry into his songs.
To some, this was anathema.
To others, it was a breath of fresh air.
Watts’ lyrical goal, as one author put it, was to wed “emotional subjectivity” and “doctrinal objectivity.”
Songs such as When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Alas!
And Did My Savior Bleed, I Sing the Mighty Power of God and O God, Our Help in Ages Past were a blend of personal reflection and emotional reaction couched in rich theological convictions.
His songs put the old wine of faith into the new wineskins of English rhyme and poetry.
Isaac Watts was giving new life to church worship.
Like Calvin did for the people of his day, Watts also published a work in 1719 that was a translation or rewriting of the Psalms for congregational singing.
The hymnbook was entitled (it’s long, so prepare yourself), The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament and Applied to the Christian State and Worship.
In other words, Watts read the Old Testament in light of the New Testament and wrote his Psalm-book to explicitly point to the person and work of Christ.
In that collection, you will find Watts’ rewriting of .
Watts interpreted this psalm as a celebration of Jesus’s role as King of both his church and the whole world.
More than a century later, the second half of this poem was slightly adapted and set to music to give us what has become one of the most famous of all Christmas carols.
(AVB/Acappella v. 4!)
While Watts’ original focus was on Jesus’ return, I believe we can celebrate today—at Christmas—Jesus’ birth…sinless life…death…resurrection…return…essentially = HIS ETERNAL REIGN!
JOY TO THE WORLD...
JOY…AT JESUS’ ARRIVAL! [JttW v. 1]
Elizabeth & Baby John the Baptizer […the baby leaped for joy…]
Luke 1.
Mary […My soul praises, and my spirit rejoices…]
Luke 1.46-49
Luke 1.
Simeon
Simeon […praised God…]
Simeon
Luke 2.28-30
Anna […began to thank God…]
Luke 2.36-38
Time and again, the Timeless One’s birth was met with big-time expressions of JOY!
JOY…JESUS REIGNS! [JttW v. 2]
“Let men their songs employ!”
Psa
Psa
“While fields and floods; rocks, hills, and plains…!”
Psalm 19.1-6
Our Savior reigns!
Let’s repeat, repeat, repeat the JOYFUL good news!
JOY…JESUS DESTROYS SIN! [JttW v. 3]
Sin and sorrows…thorns infest the ground
Gen 3.6,
He makes His blessings flow…as far as the curse is found!
Rom 3.
Rom 8.
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