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SONG STUDY 4 - BLESSED ASSURANCE


Fanny Crosby 1820-1915
Song Study (4) BLESSED ASSURANCE!
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.”
“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.

             This is my story, this is my song
              Praising my Saviour all the day long,
              This is my story, this is my song
              Praising my Saviour all the day long.

             Perfect submission, perfect delight
             Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
             Angels descending bring from above
             Echoes of mercy, whispers of love

             Perfect submission, all is at rest
             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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