8: Jesus, The Mediator of the New Covenant – Singing with Inspiration
The titles of the thirteen Sabbaths of study this quarter give us two hymns to use as the themes:
Hymn 593 – In Times Like These and
Hymn 177 – Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness.
The better promises given to us in the Memory Text will have us
Standing on the Promises – Hymn 518.
God is making a covenant with us in
Hymn 347 – Built On the Rock (verse 4) and God’s covenant supports us in
Hymn 522 – My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (verse 3). Sunday continues on with Romans 10:4 encouraging us to believe –
Hymn 511 – I Know Whom I Have Believed and
Hymn 486 – I Do Believe
Renewed on Monday, we can ask God to help with this –
Hymn 297 – God Be Merciful to Me all because God sent His Son in
Hymn 526 – Because He Lives.
Jesus perfect sacrifice for us is shown in:
Hymn 157 – Go to Dark Gethsemane,
Hymn 179 – The Wonders of Redeeming Love, and
Hymn 635 – Lord of All Good.
The better promises of Wednesday are sung in
Hymn 518 – Standing on the Promises due to our “faith in Jesus” as
My Faith Looks Up to Thee – Hymn 517. “God gives us His Holy Spirit to empower us to fulfill His law”:
Hymn 268 – Holy Spirit, Light Divine.
We see the great faithfulness God has toward us and He would have loved to have had from Israel:
Hymn 100 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Their obedience is what God desired as “an expression of gratitude,” just as we can give:
Hymn 285 – Jesus Calls Us (verse 4) and
Hymn 320 – Lord of Creation (verse 2).
It is with gratefulness that we may sing
Hymn 79 – O Love of God, How Strong and True!
We are bound for The Promised Land! Hallelujah!! –
Hymn 620 – On Jordan’s Stormy Banks. Come, Lord Jesus, come – very soon.
To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/
Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing, but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type in a special word that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
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