2 Corinthians 8:1-15, What is Grace?

2 corinthians chapter 8 verses 1 to 15 hear the word of the Lord We want you to know brothers about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia We're in a severe test of affliction

Their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty has overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part

For they gave according to their means as I can testify and beyond their means of their own accord begging us earnestly for the favor of Taking part in the relief of the

Saints and this not as we expected But they gave themselves first to the

Lord and then by the will of God to us Accordingly, we urge

Titus that as he had started so he should complete among you this act of grace

But as you excel in everything in faith and speech and knowledge in all earnestness and in our love for you

See that you excel in this act of grace also I say that's not as a command but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sake

He became poor so that you by his poverty might become rich and in this matter

I give you my judgment this benefits you who a year ago started not only to do this work

But also to desire to do it So now finish doing it as well so that your readiness and desiring it may be matched

By your completing it out of what you have for if the readiness is there It is acceptable according to what a person has not according to what he does not have

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened but as a matter of fairness

Your abundance at the present time should supply their need so that their abundance may supply your need

That there may be fairness as it is written Whoever gathered much had nothing left over and whoever gathered little had no lack

May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word well in the fall of 2008 we meaning the church

Realized that we needed to make plans about where our long -term meeting place would be We've been looking at various options

Even we wanted to have some facility that allowed us to continue our ministries particularly with the youth with Jim jr

And Jim and so we wanted a gym I even called up we call it a builder how much of Jim would cost a gym about This kind of building to build it new would cost he said 1 million dollars and keep in mind

He was trying to sell me on it. So that was probably an underestimate We also looked at the old the gym at the old

Dillard school We made an offer to take that over good thing that didn't come through because the roof there has literally completely fallen down All gone.

There's no roof over that building anymore. Probably asbestos everywhere We all we looked at leasing out the old four building, which is also still available

There's by we looked at buying a building in downtown Yanceyville and this building was available at a special price for us available for $90 ,000

So compare that to a million so it was a pretty good deal It was a mess when we first came in but it had potential and that price $90 ,000 is pretty reasonable but as reasonable as it was that was still more than we could handle

We cannot afford the payments on $90 ,000 and plus and then all the money that would cost to try to refurbish this place

Well, we thought in an association with the Southern Baptist might help make it possible They had a program that would give $1 ,200 a month for the first 24 months to new churches like us and I went after that money later the next

January When the $1 ,200 check was late and coming in and then I called him up.

Hey, where's my where's our $1 ,200? And I was informed that they would not agree to give us the $1 ,200 a month unless we dropped our plans to move here,

I won't go into the details as why but We basically we had to make a choice between the $1 ,200 a month or Having this building now

We were nearing closing on this building and this building allowed us to do our gym ministries and it attracted kids

So it seemed ideal except it needed so much work, but we were depending on that $1 ,200 roughly about $25 ,000 over two years

To be able to afford the monthly payments on this building. It was a Friday When I was informed that basically we had to choose between the money or this building the

Providence gym now, what do we do? Which way did we go? Well on Saturday morning,

I woke up and went downstairs Turned on the computer and checked my email into my utter shock

There was a message from someone. I really didn't know when a Mary's old friends now living in Houston, Texas and he knew absolutely nothing about any of this and In the email he informed me that he was pledging some money to us money in the amount of $1 ,200 and I looked at that stunned and I went up got up shouted upstairs

Mary Did you tell this guy about this? She said no, what an unusual sum $1 ,200.

Where did he get that from? It's not like an even thousand you kind of okay that that's kind of normal You would round it up off like that $1 ,200 the exact amount to the penny that we had just been denied

But of course a skeptic could say well sure he paid for one missing month But you're supposed to get for two years for 24 months.

You would have gotten about $25 ,000 over two years. Oh, yeah speaking of that Not long after that another

Christian friend rather Christian friends in Singapore sent the church Without any suggestion from us about about a specific amount

Twenty five thousand dollars Now that is what the Bible calls in this passage grace

What is grace How people think it means I Can grace means

I can do anything and then get promise heaven It's a license to live as you want to believe as you want.

What is grace? I know a man who loves to talk about reform theology The doctrines are grace and who barely gives he averaged about giving 1 % of his income

He apparently thinks that grace is something that allows your faith To be unseen.

What is grace? It's a word thrown around a lot. It's a very popular word So popular some girls are even named after it perhaps the most popular

Christian song of all all time is amazing grace But there is a lot of confusion as to what it is and these 15 verses

There are five uses of the Greek word for grace charis five uses the word grace

Each showing us something about grace and we see here first that grace is seen second the grace serves third the grace acts fourth the grace frees and finally grace enriches

Paul begins this chapter telling the Corinthians that he wanted them to know notice that first verse. I want you to know

The grace of God and the way we read that we kind of think well Oh, he wants to give them like a theology lesson on this abstract concept of grace

How great is but that's not what he's saying there. Look what he's saying And verse 7 he says they excel in knowledge among other things, but somehow they lack like a lot of Christian today

They like knowledge as to what grace is. So Paul points them to the grace of God that has been demonstrated by the

Macedonians of the Macedonian Macedonia is the province just north of where Corinth is so like if Corinth was in North Carolina Macedonia would be

Virginia, right? We know in Macedonia at least two of two churches. We know something about the

Philippians and the Thessalonians, right? They're Macedonia the the Christians there had demonstrated the

Macedonian Christians had demonstrated grace the grace of God From the

Macedonians and Paul wants the Corinthians to know about it. So they'll know grace They'll know what grace is and follow in the

Macedonians good example The Corinthians may have a lot of knowledge about a lot of things I guess about the

Bible maybe some about some theology all they're a little shaky on the resurrection, but they have very little real understanding of of grace and So to learn that they need to look at the example of their neighboring

Christians the Macedonians They can see grace and what the Macedonians have done and that tells us that grace.

Is it just a feeling? Grace isn't just kind of a happy concept. That means that now

I'm off the hook Isn't it? Great. I said I know it now grace means I'm I don't have to worry about anything anymore

It's not just a subject of theology to have knowledge about grace results and things that can be seen

Here the Macedonian Christians were severely afflicted. They were extremely poor, but they had an overflowing joy that resulted in them giving

Some today perhaps perhaps the Corinthians then probably then they would imagine that grace

Kind of just ends with the joy. That's all what's brings grace It means I can have joy because I'm right with God that if they're severely tried and extremely poor

And they can be content and joyful despite all that then that's

That's grace and that's all there is to it But it Paul here is saying well, that's not enough the grace is seen in more than just, you know, smiling faces

That now they feel God's grace and so they now they could be happy when otherwise Otherwise, they would have been sad without the grace.

The grace is seen in their lives not just in their smiles The grace is seen in their lives, even though even though they are poor

In verse 2 they are generous That the geyser of grace is seen in gushing out through their wallets

Through what they but they give grace is seen in Money indeed here in verse 1 that first verse that first verse what he calls the grace of God I want you to know about the grace of God that that grace of God.

It's not just a theological. He's talking about an offering The grace of God the Macedonians.

He means the offering the Macedonians took up for the Church of Jerusalem He wants the Corinthians to know how much the

Macedonians gave so that they'll give generously, too Because that's grace

About 30 years ago one of Mary's friends named Chong Suhum Realized that she had a knack for business like Matt Midas everything

She touched turned to gold and being a Christian. She knew the grace of God She rarely well, so she wanted to beside she since she has this gift for business

She wanted to become rich and not just so she could indulge herself. She rarely ate out She usually spent only like two or three dollars for lunch

But so that she she wanted to be rich so that she could give to worthwhile Christian ministries her her grace can be seen

Wanna see it? Look around she's that one who gave the twenty five thousand dollars

Look at this building that grace can be seen and that twenty five thousand dollars that she and her partner gave and then about three years later another $32 ,000 so that it doesn't look so ratty like it did when we first moved in here and so we said we could improve this place

So that the grace of God can be proclaimed in it now some might say well, well, they're rich.

Yeah, they couldn't they can afford it No, that's not really what can be seen just just their excess wealth being thrown out.

A lot of rich people are stingy Like that's often how they get rich They're stingy and they hold on to every dollar they have and and invested make more of it

She did she didn't give that bus because she just had the pocket change She gave because of grace grace can be seen and if you want to know what it looks like, well here it is

It's all around you. It's in this building. Well something well, then the conclusion is and what we need we need people like Chong Tzu We need a sugar daddy

I guess in her case a sugar mama there such a thing a big donor with deep pockets But Paul's point here is that what you need when you see that grace in other people's life is to be inspired by that Grace to be changed by that grace so that you show grace to be inspired by her

Generosity Chong Tzu who's generosity so that you become generous, too

And so you don't need her anymore because you're generous But Paul wants the Corinthians to know about the

Macedonians gift because in it they see grace and they finally learn what it's about Grace doesn't look like everyone doing what they want to do

Kind of just throwing off old traditions and laws and so we can do what we want and then call ourselves

Christians Don't have to worry about any kind of judgment. We have a lot of Christians today who when it comes to the subject of giving their first question a major question the question that haunts them is

Do I have to tithe or am I under grace? Grace, they assume is a ticket out of tithing

Here Paul says You want to know what grace looks like? Look at the poor oppressed

Macedonians, there's poor people giving so a lot of people today think I'm poor. I can't give much the

Macedonians were poor They gave a lot Look at them Paul the same. They're so happy to give

That's the grace at work and verse 3. They not only gave according to their means that is not only what they could reasonably

Give what part with but beyond their means he says they were sacrificing

They were cutting off their cable TV subscription because they wanted to give that money instead of you know

Watching what they want on TV They are seriously cutting back on spending on themselves so that they could give grace can be seen

Grace can be seen not in Christian just saying well I'm free not to tithe and so using that extra money that they're not giving

To go eat out more often buy a luxury car great vacations those things aren't wrong.

They're not wrong but when Christians use grace as an excuse to skimple the giving so they can splurge on themselves

Well, that's wrong That's a problem the major problem is

What they think grace is They think it's an excuse slip for self -indulgence

But that's not grace Grace can be seen in someone so Joyful in their relationship with God so content with the

Lord So eager to please him and so then help others that they give more They don't ask.

Well, I'm under grace. So Can I just not give not serve any

I don't really have to do I? That they look at what they have the real person

Impacted by grace looks at what he or she has and thinks how can I give more? beyond my means

Of my own accord not in words of my own accord as he says here the Macedonians gave of their own accord I was not because Paul commanded them.

I need a quota. I need so much money. I need a percentage from you No, they gave they give willingly because of their grace

They wanted to give grace impact you say I want to give and so they write out a check

Put it in the offering basket and in that check You can see the grace of God Grace can be seen.

It's not just a doctrine. We used to ensure ourselves of our salvation despite our sins It's a dynamic power that if we received it then shows itself in Visible ways ways that others can see it can be seen particularly in our checkbooks

Grace Grace serves. It's the second thing second time the word grace occurs in this passage is in verse 4

The word Keras in Greek grace There Paul says that the Macedonians had been quote begging us earnestly.

Look at this They've been they've been begging up, please and begging us earnestly for the favor

That word of their favor So you won't see it in English, but it's the word Keras grace the favor the privilege or the grace same word in Greek of taking part and the relief of the

Saints Please let us give They were begging Paul was taking up an offering from his churches and they were made mostly of of Gentile Christians here you also see a ethnic or racial

Attempt at healing here particularly in the church Because the the churches Paul is appealing to here the

Corinth the Macedonians They're mostly Gentiles and he wants to take up an offering from them to take it back to Jerusalem Church where there were

Jewish Christians, so they wouldn't be divided so they could see the Grace and the love for each other in that in a tangible gift

He wanted to relieve the poor some of the them widows of the man who had been killed for the faith They were been martyrs and he wanted to show them that the

Gentile and Jewish believers Were connected that they cared for each other that you would know that there are

Christians by their love That the new Gentile Christians would serve their needy

Jewish brothers and sisters the Macedonians showed grace by begging earnestly for the gift for the grace

Please give us this grace Of participating in the offering to the to the poor

Jewish Christians now notice two things about this first They're their question and second their participation.

Their question was not. Oh, do we have to tithe? We're poor and oppressed don't you blow that Paul you're trying to squeeze money out of us

Take back to these Jewish people. We don't care about that's not what they know is the opposite of that They they weren't saying well, you know things aren't going so well here with the government of Macedonia We need to take care of our own needs first.

Don't you know Paul so could we just skip on the giving? Instead their question was please

Let us give we desperately want to be part of this offering.

We want to take part in this Please don't leave us out Notice in verse 4 the

Macedonians were they were begging us earnestly To give you ever begged earnestly to give

You probably had people beg earnestly to get you to give how about yourself? Have you ever begged to give please?

Let me give grace Serves by seeking to give which is not it. It's not a duty the giving not a duty laid on us

So it's not like a tax Levied that you have to pay just like any other bill that comes due

You know if you stop paying your electric bill the power will be shut off stop paying your grace bill Is that what you think the offering is is a grace bill?

That if you stop paying it the grace will be shut off Now that whole way of thinking reveals a lack of grace grace is not asking the question.

How much do I owe? How little by how little can I get by with? It's passionately pleading

Please let me give Grace is not asking the question. How much do I owe? It's seeking for the opportunity to give

God's grace doesn't ask about the minimum it begs to give the maximum This is why not only do we have an offering basket, but we ask that every member is physically able

Anyway, it has the free time to want to serve in some in some way Jim jr.

Which hope to start back up again the school start and Jim You know those guys need some supervision need someone to open the building for them

Sunday school Sending up the sound. Thank you for that. You really miss it when it's not around work days

Etc. Whatever some need that needs to be done. Sometimes we we give you these opportunities as a service

Provided to you so that you have a way to serve Now while we we want to be appreciative of your willingness to serve and we might occasionally

Recognize and thank you for it We also expect you to understand that we're providing you as part of what a church does we provide you with the opportunity?

to serve with the privilege in verse 4 or the favor or the grace of a way to serve

Because that's what you want, isn't it? I hope That if grace has made an impact on your life, your question is not well

How little by how little can you get by with it? It's what can I do to serve? And so we make ways to serve for you

Because that's what you're begging for Please Give me a way to serve

Okay Since you ask since you're so eager since you want you're begging for it.

Here's a van route We need somebody pick up kids for Jim jr. Whatever his food needs preparing

Security again for Jim jr. Or there's a lesson needs. We need somebody to give there's games to organize

Kidney the kids want people to play with them. You know that we need a sound system to work on again Thank you for that.

There's music to perform Maybe there's budget needs to give to maybe an opportunity to tell the gospel you're begging for a way to serve so we are doing you the favor of Giving that to you and yes

You're welcome In verse 5 Paul holds up the Macedonians as examples to the

Corinthians examples to us to I guess of grace giving more

They gave so much he says not as we expected Notice that at verse 5 they gave not it.

We kind of expected. Yeah, we kind of expected a lot of those Macedonians We had high expectations from them, but they gave as people impacted by grace always do not just money

But he says themselves first To the Lord and then he says to us

God first others second Second grace begs for participation

That's the word there in verse 4 participation or fellowship and Greek the word corn Aenea. Remember an axe the the fellowship

The corn Aenea was the sharing with the needy in the body You have corn

Aenea by it's not just like you have nice small talk over a meal after after a service

But it's sometimes shows in practically meeting the needs of other members The Macedonians are begging earnestly for the grace of participating and giving to others here.

Paul is holding up before the Corinthians the example of these Macedonians holding up before us that example grace had shown itself in their lives by making them want to take part in the fellowship of the larger church

Not content just to be by themselves meeting their own needs

Feeling just joy by themselves. It's me and Jesus that we're hanging out together and we're so happy. No, they pleaded for participation in the body

Now here in our time in culture. We have professed Christians and churches that proudly Declare themselves quote independent.

It's sort of the culture of what I sometimes called the old -time religion is

You like to say I'm independent our church is independent I'm and of course then what happens often is individuals in those churches end up absorbing it after themselves

So they say I'm independent and so they stay home from they don't go to church anymore They were taught that their own church taught them to be independent

But think about the idea both the idea and the attitude of being quote independent

That is not needing or attached to anyone else Is that really a Christian virtue?

Is that you think that's what Paul is recommending here and verse 14 Paul tells the Corinthians that their present abundance should go to help

Others who were needy Corinthians things are going well there They were a prosperous port city and the

Corinthian church were fairly well off least compared to the Macedonians And he's saying your abundance you

Corinthians you have extra cash You're fairly well off that abundance should go to help others who are needy.

They need you. They're not Independent they're dependent we are to be dependent not independent further the attitude that attitude of in I'm independent is really ungracious

It's the opposite of what the Macedonians were begging for to participate in the life of other

Christians of the churches To help them out It's the opposite of what

Paul was trying to cultivate in his Believers his churches that they would be mutually dependent that they would be helping each other in neat in their needs

Of course some could say well to us I guess look you're independent.

Oh, no, we're not We may not be formally part of a denomination, but we got this got this building because other

Christians most halfway around the world Wanted to participate with us in the work we're doing they wanted the grace of serving

With us and we should let them We should let them help us because we are dependent and now

If we're a little more prosperous, we should help Others out there grace wants to participate in the life of others

That's partly what church membership means for you that you are dependent on the body and so too

I hope that the church corporately and the long run will be able to participate in the lives of other churches and Ministries like the hoop don't shoot around here, which we hope we bring kids near most

Sunday evenings or Church in Ethiopia all the way around the world And which won't be able to return us anything practically probably not we need a little now the church itself may need a little saving

Some cushion, but we should never have a vast Investment portfolio I was told

I don't know if it's true But the one church in Yanceyville has that savings of over a million dollars Okay that I think that's a shameful thing

More of that money should have gone out instead of just sitting on it We should never be like that just hoarding money year after year

We need to look like those who gave to us others gave to us We then should give to others they served

So should we? Grace acts In verse 6, there's the third occurrence of the word grace in this passage.

Now the Macedonians were giving more than expected Think of that He expected a lot out of them and they gave they went beyond that Beyond expectations first their entire selves to God and then to Paul and his friends begging for the grace

To give more so accordingly that is in the same way you

Corinthians You people here you too should complete this grace

And by this grace, he's referring to that offering that he had begun to take up Grace is an act.

It's something that is seen and it's seen it acts of service here in an offering a practical offering to meet the needs of needy people grace wants to participate in the lives of others and we

See that here in the only direct imperative. That is the only command in this passage in verse 11.

The command is finish complete complete

The act of grace finish that offering The Macedonians started it even though they're poor.

They're oppressed They gave beyond their means now you Corinthians you're better off you top it up True love and true grace never leaves us content just to talk

We want to see acts Maybe flowers maybe dinner kind deeds

Service Something practical just talk with no action makes the talk meaningless we want acts of love and grace to expresses itself in Action in particular in this passage it gives it seeks to create what

Paul describes in verses 12 to 15 Equality or fairness

If you have the eagerness the desire to be gracious in verse 12, then you should give according to what you have the more income that you have the more you should give for the goal of Equality or fairness the equality is not a quality of amount.

The equality is a quality of burden The privilege of meeting the needs of the church and other churches should be met fairly by all according to their ability

This is why a shared percentage that everyone give at least gives anyway, at least as a baseline like 10 %

I think is a good idea If some people are wealthier and don't need to give so much then grace should create in them an eagerness to give more

Remember grace doesn't ask about the minimum it wants to give the maximum now

Sometimes Christians need to be challenged to give To hear that they've been kind of they want to be lost in theology

They think it's just about abstract ideas. I mean you'd be challenged to hey, you need to show your faith your grace your love

Practical ways and part of that is money But you'd be challenged to give to be fair To equally share the burden of the needs of the church and not let it rest on the shoulders of those who are making less but Mary more

I don't like preaching often about giving about money figure about giving to the church

Partly because there are some people Members who when they hear that we need to get you need you need to give will be the first ones to give they'll sacrifice

And others who need to give more Sometimes they won't Hopefully we don't have that any problem anymore.

But sometimes we have to be Gratefully tell some people like these

Macedonians who had already given beyond their means and they're begging for the grace of giving You might sometimes you may be to tell you know, thank you, but you know

You need to save for yourself some to look after yourself some to you can spend a little load on yourself

While we try to get those others Who may not be giving as much as they should to fairly share the load for there to be

Equality there should be equality of giving in a church not everyone giving the same amount, but everyone usually giving

Maybe I was share equal percentage, but something like that sharing an equal load fairness a burden

That's what that last verse is about where everyone regardless of income is sharing an equal load if we have fairness of giving

No member will be sacrificing deeply While others are giving only a kind of a tip off the top in Verse 15 when there is fairness those who had more will be giving more and those who have little

Won't have too little just because they had to give to make up for those who wouldn't sacrifice

That make sense you understand say it again if there's fairness Those who have more will be giving more and those who those who have little

Won't have too little Won't be impoverished just because they they felt they had to give to the church to make up for others who weren't giving enough

That's where the act of grace is supposed to take us to a quality of burden

Now if your first thought is well because of grace I don't have to give or serve that much

Then I don't think you fully know What grace is? grace acts and Grace frees and verse 7 is the fourth

Use fourth instance of the word grace in this passage again.

It is this grace Literally referring to the offering The Corinthians like many modern -day

Christians thought that they excelled in a lot of things and apparently they really did since Paul kind of affirms them Yeah, I know that you really do excel in these things

They excel in faith and speech and knowledge diligence or it could be earnestness even in their love for Paul and Titus But they need to learn to excel in Grace and by that he means

Showing your grace in your giving they probably thought they already did they probably thought they already did excelling grace

They probably like a lot of modern Christians Corinthians probably seem to our Corinthian Church is a lot like the modern

American Church, right? They probably thought they knew grace down pat They probably loved to sing amazing grace if they had it then which they didn't but they probably thought their tolerance of the man living

In adultery was their grace at work. That's why they put up with his ongoing sin Oh, we're so we have so much grace

The way they put up with their unruliness in the worship service, you know one person standing up and another at the same time Talking over each other.

They thought well, we're not gonna say anything because we have so much grace We just let it go the way they tolerated false doctrines about the resurrection.

That's because of grace But none of that was really grace No, that was just laxity.

I was just sloppiness Their grace was to be shown here Paul here says in their giving and so it is today and there are two things that we

Need to know that grace is not First is in verse 8 grace is not Commanded or compelled

Grace is not something that's required by the law. You shall have grace

Okay, I'll obey Now here Paul is telling the Corinthians to excel in the grace of giving but not in verse 8 because I command you and this answers

That bad question we mentioned earlier is that bad question people are asking do I have to tithe

Well, it's a bad question But this answers that bad question if you want to answer to it If if that were of tithing were a command we had to obey today

You'd expect Paul to repeat it right here Because now like for three chapters and second

Corinthians to talk about giving expect him to repeat it here instead He doesn't do that does he doesn't say you

Corinthians you're not giving your 10 % what's wrong with you people Instead he says they're giving is not supposed to be based on commands and laws

It's supposed to be based on grace law and compulsion can't create Givers only grace can grace frees us from the law, but that doesn't mean and this is the second thing

Grace frees us from the law, but that doesn't mean That grace means nothing

Means nothing seen nothing served Nothing acted nothing given but so many people who ask that otherwise bad question often have in mind grace

They think means I can get away with giving Basically anything or maybe even nothing

I can splurge on myself I can drop a couple of bucks in the offering basket and I'm free because of grace

No, you're in bondage to self -indulgence because you don't know grace yet disgrace frees us from the law and from self -indulgence but it frees us to Give like Jesus who gave everything

Because of grace What's because he was compelled to it was a commanded to he gave everything because of grace because of his grace he gave and We are enriched

Finally grace fifth thing grace Enriches the last instance of the use of grace in this passage.

It's a verse 9 Do you want to know grace? Look at our

Lord Jesus he had all the treasures of heaven every planet and star and galaxy it and Glory itself.

It was all his he didn't give up just 10 % and think well, that's a burden But I had to do it it's the law he gave up everything for the joy

Set before him he gave up heaven and then he gave up his life and as he hung there on the cross

He was as poor as one could possibly be Even his clothes had been taken from him not one piece of property

Not even one cent to his name and his life was ebbing away

You cannot get any poorer than that and he gave up even the richness of his relationship with the father at least for that short time as God placed on him the poverty of our sins

He paid the debt that our sins owed with his perfect life

And so he knew in that moment on the cross that he was totally utterly bereft

He gave everything for our sins so we could have that rich relationship grace gives to enrich so Do you finally see?

what a What a monumentally Inappropriate question it is to ask

Do I have to give or serve To look at Jesus on the cross giving everything for you and you ask

Jesus Do I have to give my little bit? Do I have to serve? We can only ask that question if we don't see grace

Because when we realize how poor we are That there is nothing.

There's nothing that we could do nothing that we could pay nothing that we could give to lessen the infinite debt that we owed when we see our

Poverty when we see then how enriched we've become when we see

Jesus on the cross Giving himself for us Then we beg to give ourselves

Were the whole realm of nature mine that were a present far too small

Love so amazing so divine Demands my life my soul my all grace is