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...WHOSE GOINGS FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, EVEN FROM EVERLASTING...Micah 5:2

"...And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come...." Mal 3:1
"I go to prepare a place for you."..John 14:2
"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also" John 14:3
"Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things... Acts 3:21
".....this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Acts 1:11

The Lord Came To Earth

8,6 (C.M.)

The Dear Son of God came to earth As was ordained by God; And in a stable made His berth Right down in earth's old sod.
He came to save that which was lost But not from sight of God; And though, for Him, His soul the cost, He stemmed this earthly flood.
For known to Him, were His dear Own, Before the world began: And they were bone of His own Bone Before the planets ran.
They were chosen in Christ Divine Before the daystar shone; Even before the sun did shine, He knew them as His own.
For these, His own, to this earth came Whom earth had now dissolved; And their souls He did now reclaim -For this He was resolved.
Gabriel announced His low birth To Her whom God had chose; That God Himself was formed in Earth- Earth shall His presence know.
"SHALL save His people from their sins" The Angel thus declared; Where long and fast they have lain in, Though long for them He cared.
(2) Then God, Who cannot ever lie, Brought forth in Mary's womb; God, the Holy Ghost did apply, Though dead as any tomb
Where Emmanuel there appeared As God before designed; When the heavenly host then cheered To see Him so resigned.
For thirty years He walked this earth Before He raised His voice; And in this land He knew no mirth From hence He might rejoice.
The smoking flax He did not quench, Or brusied reed did break; Nor failures' way again retrench, But our own sins did take.
And no repute of self did make, Though He was truly God; Or of the holy law re-make (The power of God's own rod)
Nor build an earthly house down here, (No temple was required) For He would put in them His fear With Heaven's hearts inspired.
In them, Himself would move and walk And thus, with them commune; And in Him, they would walk and talk, As He'd their hearts' attune.
Still, the flesh of man He condemned Which cannot reach to God; Of man's goodness too, He contemmed As only of earth's clod.
More than earth can give, they needed, A Righteousness Divine; For God's Law had gone unheeded, When Christ did them align.
There His Wisdom was rejected; To God they could not bow: Their own gods they had erected His Word to disavow.
(3) His own sheep He came to succor, For them, He came to die; For them, sin's penalty incur, And in this earth to lie.
Jews did tempt Him at the Temple Of that which they would know; To them, God's Will was not simple, As Christ to them did show;
For mankind is yet proclaiming His right to life divine; But God's own Word is yet standing With line upon the line;
And the next lines He returns them Is piercing on their part; For they should already know Him, If His Word's in their heart;
If they, the sheep of God's pasture, (As by blood, they acclaimed;) They'd known the voice of the Shepherd (As Christ to them proclaimed)
And His works performed before them, Which man cannot perform; Would confessed the Father in Him. Thus to Christ's Law conform.
Jesus Christs' Word is then given To strengthen all His Sheep; Though man's nat'ural heart seems driven To count His words so cheap;
His own sheep will know His voice When He to them shall speak; And follow in His Word with joy- No others will they seek.
Now, the sheep of His own pasture Were chosen thus in Him; And they have the sheep's own nature, Yea, oft their eyes are dim;
But they will listen to His voice When to them He shall call; They will make Him their only choice, And find in Him their All.
(4) Though the Jews did oft reject Him As man's flesh always does; With their own wisdom His works skim, And cleave to that flesh loves;
Yet He, the Blessed Savior God Has finished all His work; The Shepherd was smote by God's rod From which He did not shirk.
Then, man's wisdom cannot fathom The glory that's shining In the sons that were given Him; As Christ was assigning;
It became Him who was holy To bleed, suffer and die; In earth He appeared so lowly, And in earth He did lie;
But the power of His Father Released Him from the grave; That with Him, He mignt then gather Those that He should thus save;
He appeared to those He'd chosen To honor His own Pow'r, For their Hope is interwovewn As grass is with the Flower.
In His own Immortality Who never, ever dies; In Him, they find vitality, To Him their spirit flies.
He cried with His expiring breath The weight of sin He bore; That He had indeed conquered death, And opened Heavens' door.
For He had come to give them Life, And more abundantly; O'er the domain of sin and death He reigns resplendently!
And perhaps behind these dark clouds Our view of Him is hid; We cannot see Him through the crowds, Till of these thoughts we're rid.
(5) His coming now is with these clouds, Which does compass about; The many saints with grace endowed And we still sometimes doubt.
We see Him now as He appears With nailprints in His hands; Which now does save us from our fears Til we in glory land.
Even now, mortality ends And death is swallowed up; When through His Word, our souls He mends And of His cup we sup.
By His Power we daily rise To view Him on the cross; And now He daily hears our cries When He our heart thus draws.
The sting of death is then our Sin, And Sin's strength is the Law; Then, all would perish without Him For He is without flaw.
"'Tis for you, I go to prepare A place where you may rest; For Heavens' land needs no repair; Those realms were always blest."
But to the grusome Roman cross The Savior rather went; That we might gain where He has lost His life, thus consequent.
"For in My Fathers' glorious house Mansions are now prepared; More than your thoughts can now allow, Or in your mind compare.."
"Eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, Or in the heart of man Is known the things that God prepared," Which are so greater than--
The glory which the earth provides And lights the nat'ural man; This glory which doth now divide And in God's Mind began;
(6) Jesus' Spirit then has revealed All things we need to know; For It searches what God has Willed, To saints His counsels show;
Our old house of clay shall dissolve That Building yet shall stand; A House Eternal, can't evolve, Like those within this land.
"O God, I come to do Thy Will, A Body, now prepare; When on the herbs my speech distill, I'll teach the heav'nly heir."
Before you speak, I then will hear For thee I love to bless; My soul to thee was brought e'n near In love and tenderness;
When from the earth I call thee too, To spend eternity; With my Father, and Spirit True In God's full Deity:
There you will bask in His full Love Nor bid a thought of care; For all is Love and Peace above Where God and Jesus are.
Copyright 1998

O. Allen Bailey