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Amazing Grace
The Story Behind the Song
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Amazing Grace
• Amazing Grace is a song that we hear and sing often.
• But how many of us know the story behind that great song?
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Amazing Grace
• Amazing Grace dates all the way back to the 1700s.
• It was written by English poet and clergyman John Newton.
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Amazing Grace
• He delivers a message that forgiveness and redemption is possible regardless of the sins people commit.
• The soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God.
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• Newton wrote these words from personal experience.
• It was his autobiography in verse.
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• John Newton was like the words in the song - a wretch who needed to be saved.
• He was a mean-spirited man who treated people with contempt.
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• Not surprisingly, he participated in the slave trade.
• On night, the vessel he was on was battered by a terrible storm.
• It was so violent that he became frightened enough to call out to God for mercy.
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• That moment was the beginning of his spiritual conversion.
• One thing he did have, though, was a praying mother.
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• She died when he was only seven years old, but in those few years she taught him Bible verses and prayed fervently for him.
• Those prayers outlived her.
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Amazing Grace
• Romans 3:23 reminds us that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
• Our sins may be great and known by a lot of people, or they may be subtle.
• We may be lost and not know where to turn.
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• But take heart. This is why Jesus came to earth - to die for our sins.
• We can accept him as our personal Savior and that same "Amazing Grace" will be extended to us.
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Amazing Grace
• If you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, the Billy Graham website has easy information here:
• http://peacewithgod.jesus.net
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