# Power of the Cross, The

## 𝄞: A 🕑: 4/4 ⌛: 66 CCLI: 4490766 URL 🖉 Keith Getty, Stuart Townend © 2005 Thankyou Music

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###### D/F# E/G# A E7/B A/C# D A/C# Bm7 DM7 Esus E

Oh to see the dawn of the dark-est day Christ on a road to Cal- va- ry.

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Tried by sin-ful men torn and beat-en then nailed to a cross of wood

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###### D/F# E/G# A E7/B A/C# D A/C# Bm7 DM7 Esus E

Oh to see the pain writ-ten on Your face bearing the awesome weight of sin.

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Eve-ry bit-ter thought and ev'ry e-vil deed crowning Your blood-stained brow.

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This the pow'r of the cross Christ became sin for us

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Took the blame bore the wrath we stand forgiven at the cross.

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###### D/F# E/G# A E7/B A/C# D A/C# Bm7 DM7 Esus E

Now the day-light flees now the ground beneath quakes as its Maker bows His head

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Cur-tain torn in two dead are raised to life finished the vic- t'ry cry.

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###### D/F# E/G# A E7/B A/C# D A/C# Bm7 DM7 Esus E

Oh to see my name writ-ten in the wounds for through Your suff'ring I am free.

###### D/F# E/G# A E7/B A/C# D A/C# DM7 Esus E/D

Death is crushed to death life is mine to live won through Your self- less love.

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###### A/C# D E/G# A A/C# D E/G# A

This the pow'r of the cross Son of God slain for us

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What a love what a cost we stand forgiven at the cross.

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