The Cross of Barabbas
Jeff Strite
1 Corinthians 11:26
(This devotion was given in preparation for the communion service at our Candle-light worship. I sat in front of a crude manger holding my guitar and alternately speaking and singing verses from the song).
Christmas Eve 1932, Robert McGimsey attended midnight church service in New York City and then headed back to his one-room apartment. As he walked the final blocks, he passed the open doors of private clubs where people - shouting and singing and swearing. Others were so drunk they passed out on the sidewalk. He thought to himself: ''What a strange way to celebrate the birth of the most perfect Person who ever lived on this earth. We seem to have missed the whole significance of His life.''
That night McGimsey wrote his thoughts on back of an envelope that became the basis for this famous song:
(SING - guitar chords in parenthesis)
''(C) Sweet little Jesus boy (G) born in a (C) manger
Sweet little holy child we (G) didn't know who you (C) was
(G) Didn't know you'd come to (Am) save us Lord... to (G) take our sins (F) away
Our (Am) eyes were (Em) blind, we (F) could not see - we didn't know (G) who you (C) was''
(Speaking) In the first chapter of the gospel of John we read this words: ''The true light which gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own did not receive him.''
Later, when Jesus was talking to His disciples He said this: ''If the world hates you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: 'A ...
Jeff Strite
1 Corinthians 11:26
(This devotion was given in preparation for the communion service at our Candle-light worship. I sat in front of a crude manger holding my guitar and alternately speaking and singing verses from the song).
Christmas Eve 1932, Robert McGimsey attended midnight church service in New York City and then headed back to his one-room apartment. As he walked the final blocks, he passed the open doors of private clubs where people - shouting and singing and swearing. Others were so drunk they passed out on the sidewalk. He thought to himself: ''What a strange way to celebrate the birth of the most perfect Person who ever lived on this earth. We seem to have missed the whole significance of His life.''
That night McGimsey wrote his thoughts on back of an envelope that became the basis for this famous song:
(SING - guitar chords in parenthesis)
''(C) Sweet little Jesus boy (G) born in a (C) manger
Sweet little holy child we (G) didn't know who you (C) was
(G) Didn't know you'd come to (Am) save us Lord... to (G) take our sins (F) away
Our (Am) eyes were (Em) blind, we (F) could not see - we didn't know (G) who you (C) was''
(Speaking) In the first chapter of the gospel of John we read this words: ''The true light which gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own did not receive him.''
Later, when Jesus was talking to His disciples He said this: ''If the world hates you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: 'A ...
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