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2008-02-11 - she's ugly?

Only God is lovely
Only God is true
He made the stars above me
And he made me and you

Every man's a sinner
Potentially a saint
All other lights are dimmer
Comparatively faint

To this one Light
This holy rite
This glorious sight
This God inside

Of everyone receiving
This good news we're believing
This God incarnate in
The Son of God within

I see His love in you
Though sometimes hid from view
By sinful human plight
Mixed in with lust and pride

But at the cross of Calvary
Sin's venom meets immunity
Where all who suffer pain and loss
Find hope and grace upon the cross

Immeasurable love's found there
A treasure beyond compare
To anything of earthly form
Far beyond heroic norm

For there what's holy met what's vile
There the Lamb became defiled
There the Father poured out wrath
Upon this sacrificed empath

Good and evil's in each one
Every daughter, every son,
Born into this motherhood
No one's righteous, no one's good

But there upon that rough hewn tree
There hung pure divinity
Fixed between the earth and sky
Crushed by God, for us, to die

Serpent in the wilderness
Raised upon a staff no less
All who look on him are blessed
Healed of their mortal distress

Close the curtain on this sight
How could such a death be right?
Where the holy suffered, bled
and died for all, for all were dead

Delivered up for our transgression
He gave himself in intercession
Took upon himself our sin
Act 1: Scene 2: New Life [Begin]

Into the belly of the earth
Went the Prince of matchless worth
Suffered shame and became cursed
For the joy of our new birth

Raised by God from hell's dark chains
Raised from death and all its pains
Raised for justification's gains
Raised for us and there remains

Raised in spirit, flesh and bone,
Raised by God's great power alone
Raised and seated on the throne
Raised for us - His very own

Overcoming satan's spell
Carried us with Him as well
All who hear, believe and tell
Of His victory over hell

Know the power of the cross
How His victory swallowed loss
How He paid the priceless cost
Of our sin when we were lost

Only He is lovely
But we may catch a glimpse
Of that which is most comely
His glory raised within

Revealed by His Spirit
Foretaste of Life divine
For all those who can hear it
His glorious light will shine

We're raised with Him in glory
We're seated on the throne
And this completes the story
We'll know Him as we're known

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