Before the Throne of God Above

🕑: 4/4 CCLI: 4116703,2306412 url 🖉 Charitie Lees Bancroft (vss 1,2,3); Vikki Cook (vss 4) © 1863, 1997 vss 1-3 Public Domain


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Before the throne of God above, I have a strong, a perfect plea


A great High Priest whose name is Love, Who ever lives and pleads for me


My name is graven on His hands; my name is written on His heart


I know that while in heaven He stands, no tongue can bid me thence depart


No tongue can bid me thence depart



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When Satan tempts me to despair, and tells me of the guilt within


Upward I look and see Him there, Who made an end to all my sin


Because the sinless Saviour died, my sinful soul is counted free


For God the Just is satisfied, to look on Him and pardon me


To look on Him and pardon me



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Behold Him there! The risen Lamb, my perfect, spotless Righteousness


The great unchangeable I Am, the King of glory and of grace!


One with Himself I cannot die; my soul is purchased with His blood


My life is hid with Christ on high, with Christ my Saviour and my God


With Christ my Saviour and my God



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I bow before the cross of Christ, and marvel at this love divine


God's perfect Son was sacrificed, to make me righteous in God's eyes


This river's depths I cannot know, but I can glory in its flood


The Lord Most High has bowed down low, and poured on me His glorious love


And poured on me His glorious love