The "It's All About Jesus" Thread

[Descyple]

Greetings everyone. I thought it would be good for there to be a thread here on CC designed for the sole-purpose of praising and exulting Jesus Christ (forgive me if there are threads like this already, but I have not seen them yet). I believe a thread that is created simply to uplift His name would be honoring to Him who did (and does) so much for us.

Please post Scripture verses, hymns, poems, stories, quotes, youtube song and sermon links, or your own personal thoughts, that do not simply "mention" Jesus, but that center on Him and His worthiness as Lord and Savior.

I would kindly ask there be no debates in this thread. I enjoy debates just as much as the next person, and I think they are valuable and useful even among Christians in which to further our knowledge of God. But there are times when I just want to shut off the world, take a break from arguing and disagreements, and simply sing out to Jesus and exult Him in adoration and praise and worship. And this thread would give us the opportunity to do it together. Therefore this thread is not to "debate Jesus" but to "glorify Jesus."

If anyone else thinks this thread is a good idea, and that it can be used to exhibit the beauty and majesty of Jesus, then please join in with me and let us exult and glorify the "Name above all other names." - Philippians 2.9.


"Jesus was and is the most attractive personality that the world has ever known."
- G. Campbell Morgan, The Westminster Pulpit, Volume 1, pg 33

"Jesus took our flesh upon him. He made his soul an offering for us. How precious our salvation was to Christ! Shall we not prize and adore him who has put such a value upon us?"
- Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture, pg 54


Behold The Glories of the Lamb

Behold the glories of the Lamb
Who sits upon the throne
Prepare new honors for His name
And songs before unknown.

Let elders worship at His feet
The Church adore around
With vials full of odors sweet,
And harps of sweeter sound.

Those are the prayers of the saints
And these the hymns they raise
Jesus is kind to our complaints
He loves to hear our praise.

Eternal Father, who shall look
Into Thy secret will?
Who but the Son should take that Book
And open every seal?

He shall fulfill Thy great decrees
The Son deserves it well
Lo, in His hand the sovereign keys
Of heaven, and death, and hell.

Now to the Lamb that once was slain
Be endless blessings paid
Salvation, glory, joy remain
Forever on Thy head.

Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood
Hast set the prisoner free
Hast made us kings and priests to God
And we shall reign with Thee

The worlds of nature and of grace
Are put beneath Thy power
Then shorten these delaying days
And bring the promised hour.

Isaac Watts


YouTube - Hillsong None but Jesus - music video

 

[Crazy4GODword]

PRAISE BE JESUS THE SON OF THE GOD MOST HIGH!!!!!!!!!

 

[DanuckInUSA]

Jesus is my homeboy

 

[luv]

My Jesus, I Love Thee
William R. Featherston

My Jesus, I love Thee, I know thou art mine;
For thee all the follies of sin I resign;
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

I love thee because Thou hast first loved me,
And purchased my pardon, on Calvary's tree;
I love thee for wearing the thorn upon Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

I love thee in life, I will love thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I love Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I'll ever adore thee heaven so bright;
I'll sing with with the glittering crown on my brow
If ever I love Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

YouTube - "My Jesus, I Love Thee" By Avalon

 

[DanuckInUSA]

I loves da Avalon

 

[Crazy4GODword]

Praise Jesus Christ, May glory shine in Him and let His kingdom stand for eternity forever and ever more!!!

 

[Descyple]

"What glory does Jesus deserve? What is good enough for Him? If we could take all the precious things from all the treasuries of monarchs, they would not be worthy to be pebbles beneath His feet. If we could bring Him all the scepters, miters, tiaras, diadems, and all other pomp of earth, they would be altogether unworthy to be thrown in the dust before Him. Wherewith shall we crown Him? Come, let us weave our praises together and set our tears for pearls, our love for gold. They will sparkle like so many diamonds in His esteem, for He loves repentance, and He loves faith. Let us make a chaplet this morning with our praises, and crown Him as the laureate of grace."
- Charles Spurgeon, from the sermon "The Crown of Thorns"

 

[Crazy4GODword]

Thank God it is Saturday!!!!

 

[dmdave17]

"...but the Lamb will triumph over them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings -" (Revelation 17:14)

Praise be to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Amen!

 

[luv]

"What glory does Jesus deserve? What is good enough for Him? If we could take all the precious things from all the treasuries of monarchs, they would not be worthy to be pebbles beneath His feet. If we could bring Him all the scepters, miters, tiaras, diadems, and all other pomp of earth, they would be altogether unworthy to be thrown in the dust before Him. Wherewith shall we crown Him? Come, let us weave our praises together and set our tears for pearls, our love for gold. They will sparkle like so many diamonds in His esteem, for He loves repentance, and He loves faith. Let us make a chaplet this morning with our praises, and crown Him as the laureate of grace."
- Charles Spurgeon, from the sermon "The Crown of Thorns"

I love this analogy! My prayers, my singing and my sincere praise of my Heavenly Father's love is similiar to crowning him with priceless jewels.

Although I'm not worthy, God chooses to love me. As, I read and re-read this quote a song came to my mind, He Still Loves Me, Various Artisits - YouTube - He Still Love's Me-Beyonce(The Fighting Temptations Movie) .

In Luke 19:40, we start to understand that Jesus is worthy of praise. He explains that if his disciples were silenced then "even the stones will cry out" to praise him. I have a voice, hands, eyes, feet - It is my honour to praise God with all that I have. This song captures this sentiment better than I could try to explain - I Can Only Imagine, Wynonna Judd - YouTube - I can only imagine. Wynonna shares her testimony before she sings and beautifully praises God.

 

[Crazy4GODword]

Praise Jesus Christ!!!

 

[Descyple]

"Hosanna In The Highest"

Hosanna in the highest
To our exalted Savior
Who left behind for all mankind
These tokens of His favor.

His bleeding love and mercy
His all redeeming Passion
Who here displays, and gives the grace
Which brings us our salvation.

Louder than gathered waters
Or bursting peals of thunder
We lift our voice and speak our joys
And shout our loving wonder.

Shout, all our elder brethren
While we record the story
Of Him that came and suffered shame
To carry us to glory.

Angels in fixed amazement
Around our altars hover
With eager gaze adore the grace
Or our eternal Lover.

Himself and all His fullness
He gives to the believer
And by this bread whoever are fed
Shall live with God forever.

By Charles Wesley

 

[Descyple]

"The Spirit comforts by taking us to the blood of Christ. As when a man is weary and ready to faint, we take him to the water, and he is refreshed, so when we are fainting under the burden of sin, the Spirit takes us to the fountain of Christ's blood... The Spirit enables us to drink the waters of justification which run out of Christ's side."
- Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture, pg 72


"Drink and Live"

Not to Sinai's dreadful blaze,
But to Zion's throne of grace,
By a way marked out with blood,
Sinners now approach to God.

Not to hear the fiery law,
But with humble joy to draw
Water, by that well supplied,
Jesus opened when He died.

Lord, there are no streams but Thine,
Can assuage a thirst like mine;
Tis a thirst Thyself didst give,
Let me, therefore, drink and live.

John Newton


"Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." - Matthew 26:27-28

 

[Crazy4GODword]

Praise אל שדי or El Shaddai the Christ!!!

 

[Descyple]

This evening I began reading a book published in 1952 entitled "The Incomparable Christ" by J. Oswald Sanders. In this book, Sanders' purpose is to demonstrate that no other person in history can "compare" to Jesus' exquisite character and perfect dispositions. I have only read the first chapter thus far, but have already been wonderfully blessed by Sanders' meditations on the integrity of Jesus' life and personality. I would therefore like to periodically post quotes from Sanders in this thread as I read through his book, which no doubt has been used (and will continue to be used) to lift Jesus' name above all other names ever uttered from the lips of men.


"The Incomparable Christ"

"It is my prayer that the Holy Spirit, who delights to reveal the things of Christ to us, will unveil His glory to those who read this book."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Introduction, pg 13-14

""The character of our Lord was wonderfully balanced, with neither excess nor deficiency... It stands out faultlessly perfect, so symmetrical in all its proportions that its strength and greatness are not immediately obvious to the casual observer. It has been said that in Jesus' character no strong points were obvious because there were no weak ones."
- J. Oswald Sanders,The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 1, pg 19

"Virtue readily degenerates into vice. Courage may degenerate into cowardice on the one hand or rashness on the other. Purity may slip into either prudery or impurity. The pathway to virtue is narrow and slippery, but in our Lord there was no deflection. Throughout His earthly life He maintained every virtue unsullied."
- J. Oswald Chambers, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 1, pg 19

"In speech as in silence, Jesus' perfect balance of character was displayed. He never spoke when it would have been wiser to remain silent, never kept silent when He should have spoken. Mercy and judgment blended in all His actions and judgments, yet neither prevailed at the expense of the other. Exact truth and infinite love adorned each other in His winsome personality, for He always spoke the truth in love. His severe denunciations of apostate Jerusalem were tremulous with His sobs (Matthew 23:37). True to His own counsel, He manifested the prudence of the serpent and the simplicity of the dove (Matthew 10:16). His tremendous inner strength never degenerated into mere obstinacy. He mastered the difficult art of displaying sympathy without surrendering principle."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 1, pg 19-20

 

[Crazy4GODword]

May God glorify Jesus as bright as Him, for it is Him and the sound is do beautiful. Wherefore thence is great

 

[Descyple]

Here are some more quotes from the book I am currently reading "The Incomparable Christ" by J. Oswald Sanders. These specific quotes (concerning Jesus' incarnation) help to further illustrate His utter uniqueness among men throughout all history.


"The Incomparable Christ"

"Man has always craved a god who is tangible and visible. As he bows to stones and trees, the idolater is mutely expressing the desire of the human heart for a god who can be seen... God's answer to this universal longing, the incarnation of His Son, was implied in Jesus' answer to Philip, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9). The clear implication is that in the acts and attitudes of the Son we have a revelation of the activities and attitudes of the Father."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 3, pg 37

"If, as science demands, every event must have an adequate cause, then the presence of a sinless Man in the midst of universally sinful men implies a miracle of origin. Such a person as Jesus was, demands such a birth as the gospels record."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 3, pg 38

"If we accept that Jesus was the incarnate Son of God, does not belief in the virgin birth become logically inevitable? Who could be the Father of the Son of God but God Himself?"
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 3, pg 39

 

[Descyple]

Here are some additional quotes from "The Incomparable Christ" by J. Oswald Sanders.


"The Incomparable Christ"

"If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good... The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of Scripture. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a confused jumble of words devoid of a unifying theme. Accept it, and the Bible becomes an intelligible and ordered revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Christ is the center of Christianity, and the conception we form of Christianity is therefore the conception we have of Him."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 9, pg 95

"The four evangelists are obviously depicting a real and not an imaginary character. It has been suggested that they created the story out of their own inner consciousness, but that assumption is incredible. How could those "unlearned and ignorant men" (Acts 4:13) with such consummate skill invent such an incomparable figure? As well expect four artisans to take up palette and brush and combine to produce a masterpiece in art eclipsing a Raphael! Again, the moral and religious atmosphere in which those men lived was entirely hostile to the message they recorded. How could provincial, exclusive Jews, with their scorn of the Gentiles, paint such a glowing portrait of a Messiah whose love embraced both Jew and Gentile?"
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 9, pg 101

"To contend that the Christ of the Bible is the offspring of mere human imagination and had no historical reality, would make the gospels as great a miracle in the realm of literature as the living Christ in the realm of history."
- J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, Chapter 9, pg 101-102

 

[Descyple]

Here are two good poems that J. Oswald Sanders quotes in chapters 10 and 12 of his book "The Incomparable Christ."


I know no other Jesus
Than He who died for me
The Savior of lost sinners
The Christ of Calvary

I know no "ideal" Jesus
That human minds invent
The only Jesus Christ I know
Is whom the Father sent

That human Christs could save me
Is inadmissible
My Jesus is the image
Of God invisible

My Christ is God incarnate
And of the Virgin born
He left a crown of glory
To wear a plaited thorn

The Infant of the manger
The village Carpenter
The Teacher sent from heaven
To men to minister

The true historic Jesus
Who died and rose again
He only is the Jesus
That I proclaim to men.

By James M. Gray


The night was long, and the shadows spread
As far as the eye could see
I stretched my hands to a human Christ
And He walked through the dark with me

Out of the dimness at last we came
Our feet on the dawn-warmed sod
And I saw by the light of His wondrous eyes
I walked with the Son of God.

By H.W. Beecher

 

[standingontheWord]

THE PATH WE TRAVEL​

　
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WITH OLDER EYES I LOOK UPON A PATH AT WHICH I CHOSE
WHEN FIRST BEGAN I SAW AROUND ME THE BEAUTY THAT AROSE​

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AS TIME WENT BY THE PATH BEGAN TO WIND THROUGH HILLS AND TREES
I SOON FOUND MYSELF LONGING FOR A COOL AND GENTLE BREEZE​

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AT TIMES THE SUN WOULD SHINE, THE PATH WAS NICE TO ME
OTHER TIMES THE RAIN WOULD POUR, IT MADE IT HARD TO SEE​

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IN MY MIND I WONDERED IF THE PATH I CHOSE WAS MINE
THERE SEEMED TO BE A BARRIER, AN UNFORSEEABLE LINE​

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ONE TIME IN DISCOURAGMENT MY FEET RAN OFF THE SIDE
IN DESPERATION I WENT LOOKING FOR A FASTER PAINLESS RIDE​

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A QUICK AND EASIER PATH I THOUGHT FOR THIS ONE HAS ME BOUND
I RAN AND RAN HERE AND THERE NO OTHER ONE I FOUND​

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I TURNED TO HEAD BACK TO THE PATH THAT FIRST I CHOSE
IT WAS INSTANTLY BENEATH MY FEET BESIDE IT WAS A ROSE​

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CONFUSED & EXAUSTED I LOOKED INSIDE MY HEART
MY FATHER WAS SHOWING A PLACE WHERE I HAD START​

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HE SAID IT'S NOT THE SPEED AT WHICH TO TRAVEL BY
NOT THE RICHES OR THE GOODIES, THEN HE DREW A SIGH​

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I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND I'VE NEVER LEFT YOUR SIDE
RELAX AND ENJOY YOU’RE HERE ONLY FOR THE RIDE​

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THE BEAUTY I'VE CREATED THE PEOPLE COME AND GO
LEARN FROM THEM ALL A WISDOM AND SOON YOU WILL KNOW​

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I AM HERE WITH YOU NO MATTER WHAT THE SEASON
TO LOVE TO LEARN TO STRENGTHEN YOU IS THE PATH OF REASON​

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