From Heaven Above to Earth I Come 2013
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From Heaven Above to Earth I Come, Martin Luther, Christmas Carol, Covenant Reformed Baptist Church
- 00:57
- From heaven above to earth I come, to bear good news to every home.
- 01:09
- Glad tidings of great joy I bring, whereof
- 01:15
- I now will say and sing. This night is born a child of Mary, chosen virgin mild.
- 01:32
- This little child of lowly birth shall be the joy of all the earth.
- 01:43
- This is the Christ, our God most high, who hears your sad and bitter cry.
- 01:53
- He will himself your Savior be, from all your sins to set you free.
- 02:04
- He will undo the gifts we sow, prepared by God for all below, that in his kingdom bright and fair you may with us his glory share.
- 02:24
- These are the signs that you shall mark, the swaddling clothes and manger dark.
- 02:34
- There you will find the infant laid, by whom the heavens and earth were made.
- 02:46
- It will be to find it so, then with the shepherds let us go, to see what
- 03:28
- God for us has done in sending us his own dear
- 03:36
- Son. Come and lift up your eyes, and see what in the manger, who is this child so young and fair, the blessed
- 03:55
- Christ -child layeth there. Welcome to earth,
- 04:04
- O noble guest, through whom the sinful world is blest.
- 04:11
- You came to share my misery, that you might share your joy with me.
- 04:23
- O Lord, thou who created all, how weak art thou, how poor and small, that you should choose to lay your head where humble cattle lately fair.
- 04:48
- A thousand times as fair be set with gold and jewels rare, it would be far too poor and small a cradle for the
- 05:03
- Lord of all. Instead of soft and silk and staff, you have bought hay and straw so rough, on which is king so rich and great to be enthroned in royal state.
- 06:01
- And so it pleases you to see this simple truth revealed to me, that worldly honor, wealth, and might are weak and worthless in your sight.
- 06:22
- O dearest Jesus, holy Child, prepare a bed soft and defile, a quiet chamber set apart for you to dwell within my heart.
- 06:45
- My heart, for merry joy doth beat, my lips, though mourn'd and silenced be,
- 06:59
- I too must sing with joyful tongue the sweetest ancient cradle song.
- 07:13
- Glory to God in highest heav 'n, who unto us this song has giv 'n, our angels sing with high hosp 'rn a glad new year to all the earth.