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| Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 |
This great 19th century hymn,
written by the blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby, is still sung frequently
wherever Christians gather together to proclaim their faith in Christ.
Words: Fanny Crosby, 1873:
My
friend, Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, composed a melody and played it over to me two
or three times on the piano. She then asked what it said. I replied,
“Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!”
Music:
Phoebe P. Knapp,
1873
This
hymn was sung in the 1985 Academy Award winning movie, “Trip to Bountiful.”
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“During
the recent war in the Transvaal,” said a gentleman at my meeting in Exeter
Hall, London, in 1900, “when the soldiers going to the front were passing
another body of soldiers whom they recognized, their greetings used to be,
‘Four-nine-four, boys; four-nine-four;’ and the salute would invariably be
answered with ‘Six further on, boys; six further on.’ The significance of this
was that, in ‘Sacred Songs and Solos,’ a number of copies of the small edition
of which had been sent to the front, number 494 was ‘God be with you until we meet again;’ and six further on than
494, or number 500, was ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine.’”
My
Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns, by Ira D. Sankey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Sunday
School Times Company, 1907), p. 122
Here are two video recording of this great song
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchase of God
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Praising my Saviour all the day long,
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love
I in my Saviour am happy and blest
Watching and waiting, looking above
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
Verse
1
(a) Do I understand the meaning
of all the words?
blessed, assurance, foretaste,
divine, heir, salvation.
(b) How can we be sure that we
are really saved?
See John 10: 27-30, 2 Corinthians
5: 5, Ephesians1: 13-14.
(c) What does it mean to be an
“heir of salvation”?
See Hebrews 1: 14, Titus 5: 7,
Romans 8: 16-17.
(d) What does it mean to be a
“purchase of God”?
See Acts 20: 28, 1 Corinthians 6:
20, 1 Peter 1: 18-19.
(e) What does it mean to be “born
of His Spirit”?
See John 3: 5-8, Titus 3: 5, 1 John
3: 9-10.
(f) What does it mean to be
“washed in His blood”?
See 1 Corinthians 6: 11, Revelation
1: 5, 7: 14.
Chorus
(a) Is “praising my Saviour” the
most important thing in life to you?
Verse
2
(a) Do I understand the meaning
of all the words?
submission, rapture, mercy.
(b) What kind of submission is
“perfect submission”?
(c) See Genesis 28: 10-15. This
may be what the writer had in mind.
Verse
3
(a) Watching and waiting for
what? See Luke 12: 37, 1 Corinthians 1: 7, Romans 8: 23.
(b) Where does His goodness come
from? See Philippians 3: 9, Galatians 5: 5, 5: 22.
(c) Explain 1 John 4: 15 - 21.
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