FAULTLESS LAMB
I Peter 1:18–20
Not with things that pass away
Like silver or gold
Were you redeemed from the empty way of life.
But by the precious blood of Christ,
A lamb without fault.
He was chosen before the world began.
Not with silver, not with gold.
A higher price was paid to redeem your soul.
It was a treasure greater than
Anything conceived by man;
It is the blood that flowed
From the faultless Lamb.
When shepherds keeping watch were told
A child is born. They could not know
That they would leave their sheep to kneel before a Lamb.
That the baby on the straw
Would someday die to save us all.
That was the meaning of his birth in Bethlehem.
Not with silver, not with gold.
A higher price was paid to redeem your soul.
It’s nothing we do on our own;
Only one thing can atone:
It is the blood that flowed
From the faultless Lamb.
Not with silver; not with gold.
A higher price was paid to redeem your soul.
Not with any earthly thing,
But a costly offering.
Forever we shall sing
Of the blood that flowed
From the faultless Lamb.
© 2011 by Dennis Dale Kemper
