Four singers perform a poetic meditation on Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection at Compass Church Wheaton's Good Friday service. The lyrics move from Christ's betrayal and suffering through personal testimony, weaving biblical imagery with declarations like "You love me as I am" and "Thanks, Daddy."
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Oh, troubled Messiah, you prayed through the night. Unbearable sorrow devoured on your mind. Betrayed by the kiss of a friend, you were taken. By your own free will, rejected and disowned, but lo, redeemed today. Stripped of your clothes, you were mocked, you were beaten, made a king of fools. A crown of thorns they put into your brow. And yet you made no sound. What you went through to love me, I'll never understand. What moment I believed you loved me and I did.
They call for ribbons, a king for a thief, parading your kindness like rags on the street, draped with the weight of the world on your shoulders.
As you cry out here, a perfect love to break the fellowship long to be repaired.
You stretch out your arms as you welcome the broken hands.
You bind with prayer the very hands that shaped the world.
I love you, believe. Lifted on high, crucified, renewed, ascended. The Mary, the Son of Mary, Lamb of God, Emmanuel.
Thanks, Daddy.
You love me. I'll never understand what blows my mind the way it is. You love me as I am. Precious Redeemer, Lamb that was slain, hope for the hopeless, lifter of shame, friend to the sinner, grace to my soul. Death is defeated. Now my sin is gone, and now no way, now no way.
Washed by the weight of the world that you came to take.
You took my place. You battled the evil —go and preach to the proud.
Yielding your spirit, you heard our holy cry. As you gave your life, I will lay it all on the altar of the Lamb of God. Oh, my Jesus Christ. Why would you love me?
I'll never understand. What possible kind of ways you do it all again?
