This is my favourite version of this hymn. Thank you for your beautiful video footage of Ireland. It's wonderful. The voice is mine, recorded when I was much younger. Glad to find such a lovely video that also carries the anointing, that sense that God is with you as you listen. Thank you again. Blessings.... Wendy
It is so encouraging to read your comment! You're very welcome! It is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Your voice is heavenly! Truly anointed and timeless. Thank you for using your gift to bless my life and multitudes of others, to the glory of God. May grace and peace continue to be multiplied to you in the knowledge of our glorious Saviour. ~ Alexander
I woke up this morning with this song and couldn't get it out of my SPIRIT. When I was a child found I found comfort in this song,we sang it in church maniely at prayer time .
Anointing is a very beautiful and wise way to put it. Basically you transcended in your art through cooperation with and inspiration by the Holy Spirit. And your (joint) work changes others too. What intrigues me is that this can sometimes happen with non-hymns (Bruce Hornsby's "The Way it is" being but one example - that song too carries enough love and truth, meaning and beauty to achieve a transcending divinity). Wondrous stuff, and so good to see, and "see". As the divine movie "Signs" reminds us, we are NOT stuck alone and without meaning in this "dark world" you sing of...
I baptized yesterday and I'm listening to this hymn from yesterday and not getting tired i love this hymn so much,the voice of this sister is heavenly praise the lord.
Beginning with the Holy Spirit! Working through Horatius Bonar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and those who first sang the folk song. "In 1904, shortly before Christmas, Vaughan Williams visited The Wheatsheaf in Kingsfold (Sussex) and heard a folk-song being sung by a Mr Booker. The tune that Mr Booker sang is very old. It has been used for many different words, and the tune itself is found in many different variants. The words that Vaughan Williams heard were The Ballad of Maria Martin, telling the true story of a grisly murder that happened in Suffolk in 1827." Such a tune should not be wasted on evil things... and so it was not.
And the other tune that these words are frequently set to is Thomas Tallis' 3rd mode melody, which was the basis for RVW's "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis".
This song is actually beautiful... it makes me forget about my negativity and anger filled life... thank you for uploading this, please keep praying for me as I change into a better person 😉
You can and will change, dear friend and brother in our precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Just call His name over and over again and I guarantee you that all darkness will be lifted. Praying for you dear Doc.
Being negative is a good thing in some cases. 'You tested negative for a virus.' When you meet God, may you test negative for sin, not because you are perfect, but because you believed in Jesus and received His perfect forgiveness, gift of righteousness, and new life (see John 1v12; 2 Corinthians 5v17; 2 Corinthians 5v21). Grace and peace.
I found this Hymn in an old Methodist book. I needed to find a tune to help memorise it. This was the first one that came to hand. Thank you for posting it Alexander McConnell. Your video was a divine appointment for me. It’s my theme song for this time of my life. May all who post, sing and share it be blessed. All praise and honour and glory be to our God. Thank you Jesus for Your love for us all.
Yes I will pray for you.Jesus loves you.I too had a lot of justified anger in my life and through counseling and prayer ,it has gone.Nothing is impossible for God.
Thank you for commenting. This verse sums it up for me: 'The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven' (Heb. 1v3).
Beautiful - thank you so much for doing this and sharing it with us! Praise the God of Heaven - the King of kings! Look to Jesus He is coming soon! And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17
Truly you hear His voice. The Lords beauty, His magnitude just runs through you like gushing waters - hearing this hymn. The power of the hymn is such, you never want to go away from Him - never......
'Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right' (Song of Solomon 8:4). Guard your imagination, keep your eyes on Jesus, and know there is grace any time you stumble. Keep going the right direction. It's not easy for any of us. But it's worth it. Grace & peace.
This beautiful hymn, angelic voice and stunning video has really got my Sabbath morning off on the right foot. Thank you so much for your compilation which I pray blesses many more people.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video - it's so great to have this beautiful arrangement with lyrics - I am sharing it with my church family (and beyond) to encourage them to remember how our great God choose to become human, frail and suffered and understands all our griefs and sorrows (Hebrews 4:14-16).
It wants more of itself Part 1 Now in my 63rd year, I have seen a great many ideas of my youth fall to the reality and truth of this life while searching to understand my own humanity. Plagued by a few traumatic brain injuries as a baby, youth and even more head injuries as a young adult I quickly fell behind my age group’s normal development while developing unhealthy ways of compensating for my deficits. I remember thinking, about 30 years ago, how I got such a raw deal in life. My younger brothers had families of their own. Many of my childhood and young adult friends had moved on while I was still stuck in a world that made little sense to me. I felt hopeless and just wanted it all to end. Much like everything else I wanted; however, I was even denied a speedy dispatchment from this world regardless of my many attempts to get someone pissed off enough to do me in. I became stuck in a hopeless cycle of hatred for myself. That cycle would see me through years of self-mutilating debauchery by day, and pitiful sorrow while bitterly weeping in my bed at night for the end. No one understood my suffering because on the surface it looked as though I was insane. Those still close to me, and claimed to love me, could not help either because people simply don’t help the insane, they only try to manage them. I had no idea that I was all alone back then. Was not until all my real family died did I begin to understand I was truly alone. Those that still claim to love me only do so as one might expect someone to love a still insane sibling. This stigma still follows me to this day. Now-a-days, I am nearly 8 years sober. Many of the insane behaviors have succumb to more wholesome behaviors. I have had the time to catch up, in a way, to my contemporaries. At the beginning of my sobriety, I was offered a promising career at my local VA hospital, a wonderful job with the local establishment that has been a cornerstone of my sobriety, opportunities that promised management, and a variety of other positions that could raise me from a lower to a higher socioeconomic status as well as become an esteemed member of my community. All attempts failed because they all had one thing in common. I would need to, at some point, make my happiness by confiscating the happiness of others. The cruelty of this world is something I thought I knew. For me; however, the cruelty became my inability to tear down anyone else for my better income or higher esteem in my community. This had been done to me my whole life and I would be damned for sure if I did this to another simply because I now had the tools to do so. All those years behind my age group has given me something many of my contemporaries have failed to see. A thing begets more of itself. My desire for a higher status in life is my desire for equality; yet I must also seek that equality at all cost to anyone that may get in my way. Those that hold the keys to raise me to that higher position will not let it be any other way. I am still stunned by that revelation. So many years running in place and going toward nowhere had caused a form of weariness I had never known; yet, it has also given me a form of strength not yet expressed. Simply stated; there is nothing I could have ever done to change my life that could not have easily been undone by those that see me as a threat to their way of life. The higher socioeconomic status as well as being an esteemed member of my community would have always fallen to the waist side because this is who I was meant to be. It just took all these years to find me in the mess and I am grateful it took so long because I now have all these years of experience that now make sense. I was guarded from the rat race for a purpose that is yet to be defined while having no memories of legally getting what I want at another’s expense. This process I went through has excluded me in many ways so I don’t claim some higher morality because if I had been caught up with or even surpassed my age group, who knows how I might have taken advantage of that luxury. And please don’t get me wrong. I did, and still will, infringe on someone elses happiness when they try to infringe on mine; so, I am no saint. I’ve just learned that my early head injuries, supposed insanity, underdeveloped cognitive, social, moral and communication skills were just part of the process that make me the man I was always meant to be. And with that, I have great insight to the human condition which also includes the idea that a thing begets more of what it is. Power begets power, control begets control, hubris begets hubris. A thing begets more of its self. I really don’t know why this happens save that people are hopelessly flawed when it comes to perceived self-preservation. However, love begets love, freedom begets freedom and humility begets even more humility which tends to also attach itself to the idea of our collective humanity being an expression of perceived self-preservation as well. I have seen good things grow as well as bad in our society; and, through it all, the bad is winning simply because the bad is more prevalent. We are taught, from a very young age, that to stay in control of our own life we must seek an education, we must find a good job, we must seek the group of higher esteem and the list goes on. And if we are successful in our pursuit for independence it will help keep us in control of our own destinies. This process lends itself to the idea of accumulating more knowledge, wealth and self-esteem; which in turn, lends itself to the idea of a class system of who and what group is better than the next. We live in a society that frowns on the open expression of the class system for we have come to learn that it is not congruent with our ideas of freedom and fair play here in the United States. However, that expression is alive and well and mostly expressed covertly making it unseen as it continues to grow in epic proportions while demanding more of itself to continue to live. This process affects us all and without this process seeing the light of day it has grown darker throughout the generations. This is nothing new, however. Every generation throughout the history of societal control has some form of expressing their lack of empathy for those of a lower class. I am simply saying that, in our times, we have mastered the process by keeping it silent and just provide for those not able to survive in our shark tank any other way. I am not saying that are desire of accumulation of wealth or greatness is wrong. I am simply saying that the things we do to continue in our pursuit of self-preservation feeds on itself and is growing unchecked in the dark place in which we now find it living. Without full disclosure of this process, it becomes perverted, actually suppressing our desire for self-preservation for which that process first attended. We are destroying ourselves in our pursuit of more because a thing seeks more of what it is. There is nowhere in our collective history of our desire for more that can better illustrate our current dilemma but in those corporate bodies of the authorities that helps keep everything on an even keel to ensure the status quo. No one is perfect and no man an island so regardless of our stand as individual Christians we fall into this same process if we desire to keep up with all others trying to acquire more. This desire to keep up with others make us rife for gleaning by the current corporate bodies of the Church as well as all the other authorities that have say in how the collection of taxes and donations are used. These benefactors of our taxes and donations tend to present themselves as our servants; yet, they are truly our masters. Most of them; yet not all of them, have found ways to remove themselves from oversight these days as they reside, on varying levels, in clandestine alternate realities we commoners are only aware of on a near subconscious level. This out of sight out of mind proposition will prove to be our complete undoing and it has happen in the past as our Holy Scriptures tend to support. Even our most cherished characters in the Scriptures were hopelessly flawed and they all fall to their own selfish desires sooner or later. We identify with them as being chosen by God, and they are, however some are also discarded by God when God is doing something new in their generation. Looking at a few of these spiritual giants and the corruption of the authorities in their times can provide a better understanding of how the darkness is growing in our own generation. But before getting deeper into the past generations, we will take a good look at one flaw we have in common concerning God’s Creation.
I wouldn't worry about other people's responses. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The way to Heaven is very much open. Jesus, God the Son, died for our sins, rose from the dead, and whoever believes that has eternal life (see John 1v12-13; John 3v16). Hope to see you there!
I also appreciate your putting video in the video as I have gotten to the point where I click out of just audio tracks and I would have missed this great song.
Finally!!!! God bless you ❤️🙌✝️ I have been looking for music for our King in this style for sooooooo long...Anyone know similar songs, but possibly a bit more upbeat? I love this music that praises our Lord 🌈❤️
I love "Great is Thy Faithfulness". A beautiful melody and a beautiful sentiment, not unlike this hymn, about the sufficiency of Jesus for all our needs.
ua-cam.com/video/aDTKTyOYqIw/v-deo.html I sing the lyrics for “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” to the more upbeat version of this tune. It’s called “Star of the County Down” and basically the same melody! Both versions are beautiful and sometimes I do them back to back when playing them at church. ❤️
I just love this hymn I first heard it in my childhood I just love the words and I havnt heard it for a long time it came into my head this morning I became a Christian in the year 2000 I truly love God through his spirit the love of jesus and I know I can trust my God with my life that's who comes 2st in my life family 2nd and friends 3rd love I xxx
Part 2A AMOS 8:11 “ Yes, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.” We share a common belief that God has endowed us with choice. The idea that we must first turn our lives over to Jesus is so empowering to the believer and the idea is handed down through the generations. This idea gives us the ability to see the nonbeliever as stubbornly rejecting the truth that we Christians have chosen to believe. Our stand on this idea of choice is reinforced by many of St. Paul’s writings and is also preached in all the local congregations. Not to get too deeply into St. Paul’s writings, but we will look at a few to give us clarity for the reasons St. Paul made so many statements concerning choice in believing in Jesus. And, the reasons will point to our faulty thinking concerning choice in our current beliefs. Saint Paul is one of our most celebrated Saints and a great many of the secondary teachings hallmark within the many denominations of today are a direct result of the dogmatized indoctrination of the Saint to the Gentile. Saint Paul, however, is at times very difficult to understand, as a great many of his ideas were a direct result of his intense desire to uplift a leadership class from the Hebrew Christian ranks so that he might then regain his ethnic identity lost to him by way of his Conversion Event. This is not to say that his desire for being part of a Hebrew leadership class was not scripturally sound. Yet, he became obliged to try and enact that leadership position through deceptive means when his initial ideas were rejected making him, at times, very difficult to understand. Saint Paul’s writings are difficult to understand. Even our most celebrated Saint, Saint Peter, the leader of our Holy Catholic Church, admits Saint Paul is difficult to understand (2Peter 3:16). Saint Peter says: “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” Yet, Saint Paul’s difficulty lies in his inability to understand himself and the motivating forces behind many of his writings. He very simply desired to enact a Royal Priesthood through his understanding of Scripture. When his ideas concerning the Royal Priesthood were initially rejected, he started down a path of subterfuge to try and achieve his initial mission, which led him to try and achieve that end through deceptive means: even if his deception was perceived by him on a near subconscious level. He will further become confusing as he begins to fall under the spell of his own subterfuge: a thing for which he is not totally aware as his selfish desires blind him to that reality while pushing him onward to achieve his personal agenda. This highlights a process of self-affirmation for which Saint Paul’s desires becomes the hinge pin to his subsequent discernments of his Lost Powerful Kinship, the reevaluation and inaccurate usage of old testament Scriptures, the purpose of past covenants, the redefinition of his Hebrew ancestry and how the Gentile now fits within the new family of God through Christ. Saint Paul’s self-affirming and self-edifying righteousness comes through by way of his evaluation of the wrath earned through his Lost Powerful Kinship’s rejection of Christ. Romans 1:18-32 talks about those that reject Christ: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Paul reveals his truer target group, his lost powerful kinship, by the time we get to chapter 2. Romans 2:5-11 shows Paul favoring and admonishing the Jew over the Gentile. But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism. However, in Paul’s vainglory, he does show favoritism. Paul clearly points to the Jew as being more important in Christ than the Gentile because he identifies with the Jew, as he is a Jew, he raises himself up over the Gentile as being in the group that will be either admonished or favored first and the Gentile will be added as an offering of grace by God. By his writings in chapter 1 and 2 of Romans it is clear that the Jew was chosen through heritage whereas the Gentile were added through an undeserved gift of God.
Beautiful! I needed this for a group to join in with online and this is easy to do that with even though the interpretation is so beautifully Celtic!! I love the accompaniment.. beautifully done!! Thankyou!!
This song guides to God. Thanks so much for sharing it. Definitely, it´s a beautiful song and difficult to find. If you have more information about the album, please tell us. Also, I´d like to know what celtic musical instruments were used.
You're welcome. I uploaded the entire album recently. If you go to the videos on my channel or search for 'Celtic Source Vol. 2 - Worship On Ancient Soil (Full Album)', you'll find it. Instruments mentioned in the album's booklet are as follows: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, low whistles, Uillean pipes, tin whistle, violin, hand drums, marching snare, bones, sistrum, crotale, tambourines, shakers, gong, chimes, rainbells, cymbal gongs.
Wonderful! I love this song. I appreciate the beautiful voice and some instruments are new for me. I´ll go to your channel. Thanks. God bless you so much.
This is such a beautiful rendition of this hymn I find myself playing it over and over and singing with it--Thank you. Can I purchase a copy of the "Celtic Source" cds??
The CD's sometimes appear on Amazon, but they're difficult to come across these days unfortunately. When I realised how hard they were to find, I uploaded my copies to UA-cam so more people could listen.
@@AlexanderMcConnell Thank you so much for your reply. I will keep trying to find a copy for myself, and as a gift. I am however loving your posting of this beautiful and moving recording of these songs. "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" is hauntingly beautiful and such a tribute to the music of Ireland. I listen to it and can't help but imagine this was how this song was always supposed to sound.
Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the specific sheet music for this tune. However, I found out 'it's linked with the successful The Source songbook'. It may be on there, but I don't know. That's as much as I can help I'm afraid.
Please, could you supply a link from where you downloaded the vol.2 album or tell us where you found it. I have searched and searched. All I can find is a CD from another country. - Thank you for your help. Debbie
Hi Debbie. I have the CD, which is how I uploaded it. I don't think it's available for download anywhere. I've searched too. I uploaded the full album to my UA-cam channel if you want to listen to the full album there.
@@AlexanderMcConnell I found a similar CD on amazon "Celtic Season of Worship Vol.2. It is the same music just published a few years later by another label. I ordered it. I need to download to my computer for a memorial video. Thank you
It wants more of itself Part 1 Key points. 1. Personal story. 2. Our class system. 3. Societal controls is nothing new. 4. The problem with wealth without full disclosure. 5. Todays Christians riff for gleaning by the authorities and the Church. 6. Authorities in clandestine alternate realities hidden form our view. 7. Cherished characters in the Scriptures were hopelessly flawed like everyone else. 8. One flaw we have in common concerning God’s Creation. Part 2 A and 2 B Key points. 1. The lie in choosing to be Christian. 2. Saint Paul’s writings mostly misunderstood. 3. Saint Paul’s anger towards his lost powerful kinship. 4. Saint Paul’s vanity in God’s election process. 5. Saint Paul’s frailty misunderstood throughout the Generations. 6. Saint Paul’s anger causes him to make faulty statements concerning God’s election process. 7. Saint Paul understanding his human frailty is used by God. 8. Mistakes of our Biblical Commentators and Scholars. 9. Why choice in Christ makes dead the part grace plays in God’s election process. 10. No one can resist the will of God! 11. The Church’s persistence in saying choosing Jesus in part of the process of salvation. 12. My broken-hearted loss of my Church. 13. The mass exodus of Jesus’s true sheep for all the Churches in our times. Part 3 A Powerful people tend to do whatever it takes to remain powerful. We see this as acceptable behavior because certainly we all have the right to defend what we have, what we say is the truth, and what we will accomplish in the future by way of our power in this life. It is no different for Hebrew, Atheism, Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christians or any other group of people. Powerful people will simply do whatever it takes to remain powerful. Us humbler people whether Hebrew, Atheistic, Agnostic, Buddhist, Christians or any other group of people would like to believe that those powerful ones in our groups, political, religious and so on, will do what is good for the good of us all. However, even with the powerful ones best intentions they will at some point fail. This is true in our generation as well as generations of the past. Our celebrated biblical characters will show their human frailty in a variety of ways just like the powerful ones we find in our current generation. Sarah was the wife of Abraham. Abraham is the widely accepted progenitor of the Hebrew people. God would use Abraham’s offspring to build a holy nation. Yet, before God spoke that to Abraham, he and his wife Sarah were very old and without children. Sarah came to Abraham and said: “….The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” (Genesis 16:2). Abraham agreed and laid with Hagar Sarah’s Egyptian slave. After Hagar becomes pregnant, Sarah tells Abraham:…. “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.” (Genesis 16:5). Abraham tells Sarah to do what she wants with Hagar so “…. Sarah mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her”. (Genesis 16:6). Now Sarah would later give birth to Isaac and demand that Abraham send Hagar and her son Ishmael away because she did not want Ishmael to share in her son’s inheritance (Genesis 21:8-10). Even though Sarah is one of the bible’s celebrated women, she was not void of her human frailty. She would wrong Hagar out of jealousy for becoming pregnant and later would have Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away to greedily keep all of her husband’s holdings for her own son Isaac. This does not mean that Sarah was a bad person. This only means that Sarah is given to desire to keep her and her own children above all other children fathered by Abraham. I don’t believe any other women, then or now, and in this same situation would do much different. It is just in our nature to defend what we see as ours and ours alone. The things we may do to defend our powerful stations may come into question; however, doing what it takes to remain powerful, it would seem, is as universal as taking our next breath. Though, however good and humble those with power may start out in their powerful positions, the powerful in this world are given to fall eventually with very few exceptions. This eventuality is seen in the life of Solomon, King of the united kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
@@AlexanderMcConnell looking to use this version during this weekend's online service. Is this copyright free? Or am I able to purchase this one song so we are not infringing copyright rules and regulations? Thank you .
Unfortunately it's not on Spotify, and I don't have the rights to put it on there. I posted it on UA-cam because it is such a hard album to find online. I had a hard copy from years ago.
Part 2 B The favoring of the Jew over the Gentile is not the important part. Showing that Paul is just like everyone else is; because, it shows his very human response to rejection by his powerful kinship. He is hurt and wants to strike out at them and in doing so uses scripture as a smoke screen to get it done. There are many scriptures covertly showing Saint Paul’s frailty; yet, some Scripture point directly at his powerful kinship. Acts 23 to Acts 24 shows Paul’s affiliation with the Jews. In Acts 22:3-5 Paul says: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.” Paul is trying to tell the Jew that he understands their problem as he once worked as a high official sent to bring the Christian to justice before his conversion event. This speech will get him arrested and the next day he will face the Sanhedrin. In Acts 24, Paul sees that the ruling bodies of the Jews are about to have him killed so he started a little ruse to get them arguing among themselves to take the focus off of him. Acts 24:6-8 Paul says: Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.” When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.) Paul tried his best to testify about Jesus to the Jews in Jerusalem as a man of authority in that group. This nearly got him killed. They plotted to kill him but he managed to escape to eventually preach the word about Jesus in Rome. The time in between his preaching in Jerusalem to Rome he became hardened against the Jew. It is my opinion that this is where the idea that choice in choosing Jesus was born onto this world when the truth is clear. Paul chose nothing. He was knocked off his ass to the ground, blinded and told to wait for further instructions. Acts 9:1-6 clearly shows he had no choice. Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The Lord said to Paul “you will be told what you must do” not what you can do if you want to be in my club. You see, Paul is just like any other man full of pride. He created an illusion of choice in choosing Jesus: a choice even he did not have. Paul will come to understand his own weaknesses concerning the flesh as we see in Romans 9: 19, 24 and 25. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Here Paul is describing salvation through Grace not choice; a grace he would write time and time again that would be denied to those who did not choose to be converted. He was God’s man, but still a man given to the full array of human frailty. Our Biblical Commentators and Scholars have simply confused content with the context for which it was originally used. Saint Paul was simply trying to win a battle and confused easily understood ideas to get it done. We have taken Saint Paul’s battle out of contexts and given it completely over to the content for which we find it has been used even to this day. So why do we continue in another man’s battle with his powerful kinship as though the bad fruit of that battle is the very truth? How can we understand that God created all things and all things from the beginning while also believing we can change any part of that creation by a choice we can make concerning Jesus as the Lord? The answer is simple. The Church continues in this bad teaching to hold us hostage to grow more powerful. Power begets power. It is just that simple. More to come!
One thing about Celtic hymns that I'm learning is they aren't judaized. There's a lot of the new testament that's written in a Jewish context. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's what the Bible says. I guess there was the judaizers in Galatians that Paul condemned. But Paul wrote quite a few things that were in a Jewish context almost for a Jewish audience.
Paul condemned some Jews for adding law/self-righteousness to the gospel. But Paul was of course Jewish and salvation is of the Jews. The New Testament is written by Jews (Luke may have been a Gentile). 'First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God' (Romans 3-2b). As a Gentile, I learn a lot from Jewish believers because they have an excellent understanding of the Scriptures. Arnold Fruchtenbaum is a perfect example. Much of the NT requires an understanding of the Old Testament to understand it. Matthew, Hebrews, and Revelation are good examples. The entire early church was Jewish until Acts 10. So I definitely believe that a lot of the NT has a Jewish context.
@@AlexanderMcConnell the Jews in the second temple period that opposed Christ had rigorously followed the law. But yet many of them were on the path of destruction into hell. So it's not easy reading the new testament in a Jewish context. It takes a skilled person to know how to do that. But there were Jews who had come to Christ and they had to learn how to be a Christian. Because regardless of how rigorously they followed the law there was something that seriously needed to be adjusted in their own hearts. They were not like Moses and the prophets who lived under the law but yet their hearts were right. And Paul was a Jew who had to learn how to do that. He had to draw the sharp contrast of what it means to be a Jew or a Christian, or what it means to be under the law or grace. And when you learn the Bible in more of a Jewish context and you get it all right. You wonder if it's just a blur? For a Jew it might be but there was a massive overhaul done to the law after Christ atoned for sins. But the Jews didn't carry on with Christianity like the Gentiles did. The Gentile gets to boast of that. If you can rightly divide the word of God you don't need to know every aspect of the law like a prophet to receive Christ as Lord and savior. Nor do you need to know every aspect to walk with Christ. He gives us his Spirit to indwell us. But naturally orthodox Jews do learn the old testament. There's still synagogues around. So if they come to Christ they'll possibly need an adjustment just like the ones in the Bible. No reason for a professing Gentile to go back and learn the law like a Jew and start from there and then get saved. That's dangerous and Paul called that in Galatians falling from grace. The law teaches what is sinful in the new testament. The question is how do you remedy that? I know Jesus said you can't stone an adulterous like it says in the law. The Jews that opposed Jesus were condemned as hypocrites. These Celtic hymns are good.
@@jeffchapman9382 it's certainly a topic that every believer would do well to study to gain clarity on. I personally value Dr Michael Eaton's work: Living Under Grace: Romans 6: 1-7: 25 (Preaching Through Romans). It gave me a lot of clarity. I'm glad you enjoy the Celtic hymns. Blessings.
Depends how strictly you define Celtic. Here is one definition: 'If you describe something as Celtic, you mean that it is connected with the people and the culture of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and some other areas such as Brittany.' - Collins Dictionary
@@spmoran4703 To be honest, that is not quite so. The "Star of County Down" is surely very similar, but not exactly the same, even though that song and tune are old. This one comes directly from "Dives and Lazarus" - a carol whose tune was called "Kingsfold" by Ralph Vaughan Williams - this being the name of the Sussex town where he found it. That story takes us back to the Gospel of Saint Luke.
This is my favourite version of this hymn. Thank you for your beautiful video footage of Ireland. It's wonderful.
The voice is mine, recorded when I was much younger. Glad to find such a lovely video that also carries the anointing, that sense that God is with you as you listen. Thank you again. Blessings.... Wendy
It is so encouraging to read your comment! You're very welcome! It is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Your voice is heavenly! Truly anointed and timeless. Thank you for using your gift to bless my life and multitudes of others, to the glory of God. May grace and peace continue to be multiplied to you in the knowledge of our glorious Saviour. ~ Alexander
I woke up this morning with this song and couldn't get it out of my SPIRIT. When I was a child found I found comfort in this song,we sang it in church maniely at prayer time .
Dear Wendy, Thank you indeed for sharing the love of GOD through your gift of singing from HIM. THE LORD BLESS YOU
Anointing is a very beautiful and wise way to put it. Basically you transcended in your art through cooperation with and inspiration by the Holy Spirit. And your (joint) work changes others too. What intrigues me is that this can sometimes happen with non-hymns (Bruce Hornsby's "The Way it is" being but one example - that song too carries enough love and truth, meaning and beauty to achieve a transcending divinity). Wondrous stuff, and so good to see, and "see". As the divine movie "Signs" reminds us, we are NOT stuck alone and without meaning in this "dark world" you sing of...
the best vocal version in my opinion, Wendy
Such a BEAUTIFUL VERSION!
WELL CARRIED BY THESE GLIMPSES OF THE SURREAL EMERALD ISLE
A beautiful young woman with a beautiful voice sang this song at my Uncle’s funeral. He lived to be over 100 years old. This song reminds me of him.
One can get much inspiration from Derek people that are wise. May he rest in the love of Our Lord Jesus .
I baptized yesterday and I'm listening to this hymn from yesterday and not getting tired i love this hymn so much,the voice of this sister is heavenly praise the lord.
Congratulations on your baptism.
Beautiful song, beautiful voice, wonderful Savior
Jesus used this to open and speak straight to my heart when all I had was my old school hymn book. ❤
Praise God! Thank you for sharing!
May God bless everyone involved with making this beautiful hymn available to us.
Beginning with the Holy Spirit!
Working through Horatius Bonar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and those who first sang the folk song.
"In 1904, shortly before Christmas, Vaughan Williams visited The Wheatsheaf in Kingsfold (Sussex) and heard a folk-song being sung by a Mr Booker. The tune that Mr Booker sang is very old. It has been used for many different words, and the tune itself is found in many different variants. The words that Vaughan Williams heard were The Ballad of Maria Martin, telling the true story of a grisly murder that happened in Suffolk in 1827."
Such a tune should not be wasted on evil things...
and so it was not.
The music is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ”Dives & Lazarus”.
And the other tune that these words are frequently set to is Thomas Tallis' 3rd mode melody, which was the basis for RVW's "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis".
Gorgeous - I have to play this at Church tomorrow - very inspirational, like water washing over me :)
Just how the Holy Spirit can be experienced as He strives to raise our Discipleship...
It is the best hymn to start the day the lyrics are simple and yet profound
This song is actually beautiful... it makes me forget about my negativity and anger filled life... thank you for uploading this, please keep praying for me as I change into a better person 😉
Dear Doc, praying for you
Drink in......keep playing this song over over again Doc..repetition is a powerful tool to permanently drive out away darkness.
You can and will change, dear friend and brother in our precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Just call His name over and over again and I guarantee you that all darkness will be lifted. Praying for you dear Doc.
Being negative is a good thing in some cases. 'You tested negative for a virus.' When you meet God, may you test negative for sin, not because you are perfect, but because you believed in Jesus and received His perfect forgiveness, gift of righteousness, and new life (see John 1v12; 2 Corinthians 5v17; 2 Corinthians 5v21). Grace and peace.
Use God's Word dear one. It will quench the fire of anger. Psalm 37 is just one example of the life transforming power of God's Word. 📖
This will be one of my funeral hymns for sure. Beautiful message.
This was requested for my aunt’s funeral. She died 2/7/22 .
I found this Hymn in an old Methodist book.
I needed to find a tune to help memorise it.
This was the first one that came to hand.
Thank you for posting it Alexander McConnell.
Your video was a divine appointment for me.
It’s my theme song for this time of my life.
May all who post, sing and share it be blessed.
All praise and honour and glory be to our God.
Thank you Jesus for Your love for us all.
This hymn is a regular at our Sunday Mass at St. Rose of Lima parish.
For me, the tune was different more Prayerful and slower
I will use this in my prayer time each morning.THANKYOU
Thank you for sharing this❤ what a beautiful version of this hymn, and it stirred many emotions.
Beautiful song.❤
Yes I will pray for you.Jesus loves you.I too had a lot of justified anger in my life and through counseling and prayer ,it has gone.Nothing is impossible for God.
My beautiful Ireland, thank You Lord Jesus
Aye it's true.
Very meaningful and beautifully rendered song. Great footage of Ireland.
Absolutely: beautiful footage of Ireland
Your morn shall rise and all your day be bright...wonderful JESUS
I really like the singing,I think it's from Clare, Ireland
She has a beautiful voice,
It makes me feel at home 🏡😅 Katie
I heard a song very similar to this in the car today, so I needed to hear this version. It's so beautiful as is the scenery in the video.
Pray that we will listen, hear, and heed what this loving human being faithfully, fully represents.
Thank you for commenting. This verse sums it up for me: 'The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven' (Heb. 1v3).
God is there, have faith.
It is beautiful to see the country that is home
This is one of my favorite hymns. I sang in the choir at St. Christophers in Houston Texas. I loved singing this at mass.
Beautiful - thank you so much for doing this and sharing it with us!
Praise the God of Heaven - the King of kings! Look to Jesus He is coming soon!
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17
You're welcome, and Amen. Beautiful truth!
Isaiah 55: 1-8
Truly you hear His voice.
The Lords beauty, His magnitude just runs through you like gushing waters - hearing this hymn.
The power of the hymn is such, you never want to go away from Him - never......
Beautifully said.
I purchased this CD in Paris, August 2007...
Beautiful, in sight and sound!
Lovely song, I teared up....thank You, Beautiful Savior JESUS. Thank You LORD.
Great voice. Lovely hymn. Many thanks for sharing. ❤️✝️❤️
Brilliant. Sometimes one forget the relief and joy of salvation but this reminds one strongly.
Beautiful song..
How beautiful! I could sense speaking these words to be directly...such peace He gives to His children!
This was played at my grandparents funeral it’s so lovely❤
Lovely voice.
Please pray for my Chastity brothers and sisters. Thank you!
'Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right' (Song of Solomon 8:4). Guard your imagination, keep your eyes on Jesus, and know there is grace any time you stumble. Keep going the right direction. It's not easy for any of us. But it's worth it. Grace & peace.
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Amen! This song is truly beautiful, it touches the deep place of my heart. God bless 🙏
Many thanks, this is a great version, to our great God, all Glory, Praise and Honour to Him who has called His people.
This beautiful hymn, angelic voice and stunning video has really got my Sabbath morning off on the right foot. Thank you so much for your compilation which I pray blesses many more people.
Tears For Precious Beautiful 🙏💗
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video - it's so great to have this beautiful arrangement with lyrics - I am sharing it with my church family (and beyond) to encourage them to remember how our great God choose to become human, frail and suffered and understands all our griefs and sorrows (Hebrews 4:14-16).
It wants more of itself
Part 1
Now in my 63rd year, I have seen a great many ideas of my youth fall to the reality and truth of this life while searching to understand my own humanity. Plagued by a few traumatic brain injuries as a baby, youth and even more head injuries as a young adult I quickly fell behind my age group’s normal development while developing unhealthy ways of compensating for my deficits. I remember thinking, about 30 years ago, how I got such a raw deal in life. My younger brothers had families of their own. Many of my childhood and young adult friends had moved on while I was still stuck in a world that made little sense to me. I felt hopeless and just wanted it all to end. Much like everything else I wanted; however, I was even denied a speedy dispatchment from this world regardless of my many attempts to get someone pissed off enough to do me in. I became stuck in a hopeless cycle of hatred for myself. That cycle would see me through years of self-mutilating debauchery by day, and pitiful sorrow while bitterly weeping in my bed at night for the end. No one understood my suffering because on the surface it looked as though I was insane. Those still close to me, and claimed to love me, could not help either because people simply don’t help the insane, they only try to manage them. I had no idea that I was all alone back then. Was not until all my real family died did I begin to understand I was truly alone. Those that still claim to love me only do so as one might expect someone to love a still insane sibling. This stigma still follows me to this day. Now-a-days, I am nearly 8 years sober. Many of the insane behaviors have succumb to more wholesome behaviors. I have had the time to catch up, in a way, to my contemporaries. At the beginning of my sobriety, I was offered a promising career at my local VA hospital, a wonderful job with the local establishment that has been a cornerstone of my sobriety, opportunities that promised management, and a variety of other positions that could raise me from a lower to a higher socioeconomic status as well as become an esteemed member of my community. All attempts failed because they all had one thing in common. I would need to, at some point, make my happiness by confiscating the happiness of others. The cruelty of this world is something I thought I knew. For me; however, the cruelty became my inability to tear down anyone else for my better income or higher esteem in my community. This had been done to me my whole life and I would be damned for sure if I did this to another simply because I now had the tools to do so. All those years behind my age group has given me something many of my contemporaries have failed to see. A thing begets more of itself. My desire for a higher status in life is my desire for equality; yet I must also seek that equality at all cost to anyone that may get in my way. Those that hold the keys to raise me to that higher position will not let it be any other way. I am still stunned by that revelation. So many years running in place and going toward nowhere had caused a form of weariness I had never known; yet, it has also given me a form of strength not yet expressed. Simply stated; there is nothing I could have ever done to change my life that could not have easily been undone by those that see me as a threat to their way of life. The higher socioeconomic status as well as being an esteemed member of my community would have always fallen to the waist side because this is who I was meant to be. It just took all these years to find me in the mess and I am grateful it took so long because I now have all these years of experience that now make sense. I was guarded from the rat race for a purpose that is yet to be defined while having no memories of legally getting what I want at another’s expense. This process I went through has excluded me in many ways so I don’t claim some higher morality because if I had been caught up with or even surpassed my age group, who knows how I might have taken advantage of that luxury. And please don’t get me wrong. I did, and still will, infringe on someone elses happiness when they try to infringe on mine; so, I am no saint. I’ve just learned that my early head injuries, supposed insanity, underdeveloped cognitive, social, moral and communication skills were just part of the process that make me the man I was always meant to be. And with that, I have great insight to the human condition which also includes the idea that a thing begets more of what it is. Power begets power, control begets control, hubris begets hubris. A thing begets more of its self. I really don’t know why this happens save that people are hopelessly flawed when it comes to perceived self-preservation. However, love begets love, freedom begets freedom and humility begets even more humility which tends to also attach itself to the idea of our collective humanity being an expression of perceived self-preservation as well. I have seen good things grow as well as bad in our society; and, through it all, the bad is winning simply because the bad is more prevalent. We are taught, from a very young age, that to stay in control of our own life we must seek an education, we must find a good job, we must seek the group of higher esteem and the list goes on. And if we are successful in our pursuit for independence it will help keep us in control of our own destinies. This process lends itself to the idea of accumulating more knowledge, wealth and self-esteem; which in turn, lends itself to the idea of a class system of who and what group is better than the next. We live in a society that frowns on the open expression of the class system for we have come to learn that it is not congruent with our ideas of freedom and fair play here in the United States. However, that expression is alive and well and mostly expressed covertly making it unseen as it continues to grow in epic proportions while demanding more of itself to continue to live. This process affects us all and without this process seeing the light of day it has grown darker throughout the generations. This is nothing new, however. Every generation throughout the history of societal control has some form of expressing their lack of empathy for those of a lower class. I am simply saying that, in our times, we have mastered the process by keeping it silent and just provide for those not able to survive in our shark tank any other way. I am not saying that are desire of accumulation of wealth or greatness is wrong. I am simply saying that the things we do to continue in our pursuit of self-preservation feeds on itself and is growing unchecked in the dark place in which we now find it living. Without full disclosure of this process, it becomes perverted, actually suppressing our desire for self-preservation for which that process first attended. We are destroying ourselves in our pursuit of more because a thing seeks more of what it is. There is nowhere in our collective history of our desire for more that can better illustrate our current dilemma but in those corporate bodies of the authorities that helps keep everything on an even keel to ensure the status quo. No one is perfect and no man an island so regardless of our stand as individual Christians we fall into this same process if we desire to keep up with all others trying to acquire more. This desire to keep up with others make us rife for gleaning by the current corporate bodies of the Church as well as all the other authorities that have say in how the collection of taxes and donations are used. These benefactors of our taxes and donations tend to present themselves as our servants; yet, they are truly our masters. Most of them; yet not all of them, have found ways to remove themselves from oversight these days as they reside, on varying levels, in clandestine alternate realities we commoners are only aware of on a near subconscious level. This out of sight out of mind proposition will prove to be our complete undoing and it has happen in the past as our Holy Scriptures tend to support. Even our most cherished characters in the Scriptures were hopelessly flawed and they all fall to their own selfish desires sooner or later. We identify with them as being chosen by God, and they are, however some are also discarded by God when God is doing something new in their generation. Looking at a few of these spiritual giants and the corruption of the authorities in their times can provide a better understanding of how the darkness is growing in our own generation. But before getting deeper into the past generations, we will take a good look at one flaw we have in common concerning God’s Creation.
Most Beautifull song Like my own story !! Thanx and lots of love & Blessings from 🇳🇱🌅🙏🕊👍👑☀️🎺🙌💪
Thank you Roger that’s beautiful🙏❤️
thank you so much
Beautiful I love Jesus
This can be a very powerful hymn if the right singer is chosen
Just beautiful. Thank you.
How can there be any thumbs down? It's a bit of Heaven and inspires me to make it there.
I wouldn't worry about other people's responses. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The way to Heaven is very much open. Jesus, God the Son, died for our sins, rose from the dead, and whoever believes that has eternal life (see John 1v12-13; John 3v16). Hope to see you there!
Thank you Lord Jesus, I love you.
very beautiful music
I also appreciate your putting video in the video as I have gotten to the point where I click out of just audio tracks and I would have missed this great song.
So Beautiful...Heartwarming.
Absolutely beautiful 💛
Finally!!!! God bless you ❤️🙌✝️ I have been looking for music for our King in this style for sooooooo long...Anyone know similar songs, but possibly a bit more upbeat? I love this music that praises our Lord 🌈❤️
This is my mother's favourite hymn. I have come to love the voice of light in this beautiful song.
Emanuel
I love "Great is Thy Faithfulness". A beautiful melody and a beautiful sentiment, not unlike this hymn, about the sufficiency of Jesus for all our needs.
@Sealea Marie . There is Edens Bridge and Celtic Source you can find on UA-cam. A few are upbeat . K
ua-cam.com/video/aDTKTyOYqIw/v-deo.html
I sing the lyrics for “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” to the more upbeat version of this tune. It’s called “Star of the County Down” and basically the same melody! Both versions are beautiful and sometimes I do them back to back when playing them at church. ❤️
I was trying to find this version on spotify! so beautiful!!
Gave me goosebumps! Love it
Thank you, Alexander. This version is most beautiful. Brimming with Celtic mysticism.
Very beautiful! I've sung this song to at least 3 different tunes. They're all beautiful, and I'm not sure which I like the bedt.
Thank you. I needed to hear this tonight.
Haunting voice
Thank you so much for this.
I just love this hymn I first heard it in my childhood I just love the words and I havnt heard it for a long time it came into my head this morning I became a Christian in the year 2000 I truly love God through his spirit the love of jesus and I know I can trust my God with my life that's who comes 2st in my life family 2nd and friends 3rd love I xxx
Thank you, I was wondering more about the album this song came from. And beautiful video.
It gives me life
Beautiful! Thank you!!
Part 2A
AMOS 8:11 “ Yes, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.”
We share a common belief that God has endowed us with choice. The idea that we must first turn our lives over to Jesus is so empowering to the believer and the idea is handed down through the generations. This idea gives us the ability to see the nonbeliever as stubbornly rejecting the truth that we Christians have chosen to believe. Our stand on this idea of choice is reinforced by many of St. Paul’s writings and is also preached in all the local congregations. Not to get too deeply into St. Paul’s writings, but we will look at a few to give us clarity for the reasons St. Paul made so many statements concerning choice in believing in Jesus. And, the reasons will point to our faulty thinking concerning choice in our current beliefs. Saint Paul is one of our most celebrated Saints and a great many of the secondary teachings hallmark within the many denominations of today are a direct result of the dogmatized indoctrination of the Saint to the Gentile. Saint Paul, however, is at times very difficult to understand, as a great many of his ideas were a direct result of his intense desire to uplift a leadership class from the Hebrew Christian ranks so that he might then regain his ethnic identity lost to him by way of his Conversion Event. This is not to say that his desire for being part of a Hebrew leadership class was not scripturally sound. Yet, he became obliged to try and enact that leadership position through deceptive means when his initial ideas were rejected making him, at times, very difficult to understand. Saint Paul’s writings are difficult to understand. Even our most celebrated Saint, Saint Peter, the leader of our Holy Catholic Church, admits Saint Paul is difficult to understand (2Peter 3:16). Saint Peter says: “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” Yet, Saint Paul’s difficulty lies in his inability to understand himself and the motivating forces behind many of his writings. He very simply desired to enact a Royal Priesthood through his understanding of Scripture. When his ideas concerning the Royal Priesthood were initially rejected, he started down a path of subterfuge to try and achieve his initial mission, which led him to try and achieve that end through deceptive means: even if his deception was perceived by him on a near subconscious level. He will further become confusing as he begins to fall under the spell of his own subterfuge: a thing for which he is not totally aware as his selfish desires blind him to that reality while pushing him onward to achieve his personal agenda. This highlights a process of self-affirmation for which Saint Paul’s desires becomes the hinge pin to his subsequent discernments of his Lost Powerful Kinship, the reevaluation and inaccurate usage of old testament Scriptures, the purpose of past covenants, the redefinition of his Hebrew ancestry and how the Gentile now fits within the new family of God through Christ. Saint Paul’s self-affirming and self-edifying righteousness comes through by way of his evaluation of the wrath earned through his Lost Powerful Kinship’s rejection of Christ. Romans 1:18-32 talks about those that reject Christ: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Paul reveals his truer target group, his lost powerful kinship, by the time we get to chapter 2. Romans 2:5-11 shows Paul favoring and admonishing the Jew over the Gentile. But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism. However, in Paul’s vainglory, he does show favoritism. Paul clearly points to the Jew as being more important in Christ than the Gentile because he identifies with the Jew, as he is a Jew, he raises himself up over the Gentile as being in the group that will be either admonished or favored first and the Gentile will be added as an offering of grace by God. By his writings in chapter 1 and 2 of Romans it is clear that the Jew was chosen through heritage whereas the Gentile were added through an undeserved gift of God.
You are CORRECT!
Absolutely beautiful ♥
This is beautiful
This is indeed, very beautiful, I just wish I could buy the album, but it appears not to be possible. Thank you.
Thank you!
thank you
Beautiful! I needed this for a group to join in with online and this is easy to do that with even though the interpretation is so beautifully Celtic!! I love the accompaniment.. beautifully done!!
Thankyou!!
Beautiful ❤❤❤
This gorgeous voice belongs to Wendy Ritchie, who has a UA-cam Channel. Love your video it's so beautiful.
Beautiful ❤️
Wow 🥰 🎶👍💖🙏
Star of the County Down
...the Kine-ty Dine! Yes, a straight adaptation of a great tune. It works well slow too
Aye your right .
Pentatonic. Always very reliable.
This song guides to God. Thanks so much for sharing it. Definitely, it´s a beautiful song and difficult to find. If you have more information about the album, please tell us. Also, I´d like to know what celtic musical instruments were used.
You're welcome. I uploaded the entire album recently. If you go to the videos on my channel or search for 'Celtic Source Vol. 2 - Worship On Ancient Soil (Full Album)', you'll find it.
Instruments mentioned in the album's booklet are as follows: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, low whistles, Uillean pipes, tin whistle, violin, hand drums, marching snare, bones, sistrum, crotale, tambourines, shakers, gong, chimes, rainbells, cymbal gongs.
Wonderful! I love this song. I appreciate the beautiful voice and some instruments are new for me. I´ll go to your channel. Thanks. God bless you so much.
This is such a beautiful rendition of this hymn I find myself playing it over and over and singing with it--Thank you. Can I purchase a copy of the "Celtic Source" cds??
The CD's sometimes appear on Amazon, but they're difficult to come across these days unfortunately. When I realised how hard they were to find, I uploaded my copies to UA-cam so more people could listen.
@@AlexanderMcConnell Thank you so much for your reply. I will keep trying to find a copy for myself, and as a gift. I am however loving your posting of this beautiful and moving recording of these songs. "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" is hauntingly beautiful and such a tribute to the music of Ireland. I listen to it and can't help but imagine this was how this song was always supposed to sound.
This song is almost/or is 200years old. It is written by Horatius Bonar.
Horatius Bonar 1846, (1808, Edinburgh,-1889) ( 531 текст)
1 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
does anyone know the location of the opening cliff-top scenes, please?
Wendy could u please tell me where i can purchase a copy of this CD. I would really love to have it.
Where can I get the sheet music for this tune?
Unfortunately I don't know where you can find the specific sheet music for this tune. However, I found out 'it's linked with the successful The Source songbook'. It may be on there, but I don't know. That's as much as I can help I'm afraid.
This may be of some help: chordify.net/chords/celtic-source-vol-2-i-heard-the-voice-of-jesus-say-lyric-video-alexander-mcconnell
Please, could you supply a link from where you downloaded the vol.2 album or tell us where you found it. I have searched and searched. All I can find is a CD from another country. - Thank you for your help. Debbie
Hi Debbie. I have the CD, which is how I uploaded it. I don't think it's available for download anywhere. I've searched too. I uploaded the full album to my UA-cam channel if you want to listen to the full album there.
@@AlexanderMcConnell I found a similar CD on amazon "Celtic Season of Worship Vol.2. It is the same music just published a few years later by another label. I ordered it. I need to download to my computer for a memorial video. Thank you
It wants more of itself
Part 1
Key points.
1. Personal story.
2. Our class system.
3. Societal controls is nothing new.
4. The problem with wealth without full disclosure.
5. Todays Christians riff for gleaning by the authorities and the Church.
6. Authorities in clandestine alternate realities hidden form our view.
7. Cherished characters in the Scriptures were hopelessly flawed like everyone else.
8. One flaw we have in common concerning God’s Creation.
Part 2 A and 2 B
Key points.
1. The lie in choosing to be Christian.
2. Saint Paul’s writings mostly misunderstood.
3. Saint Paul’s anger towards his lost powerful kinship.
4. Saint Paul’s vanity in God’s election process.
5. Saint Paul’s frailty misunderstood throughout the Generations.
6. Saint Paul’s anger causes him to make faulty statements concerning God’s election process.
7. Saint Paul understanding his human frailty is used by God.
8. Mistakes of our Biblical Commentators and Scholars.
9. Why choice in Christ makes dead the part grace plays in God’s election process.
10. No one can resist the will of God!
11. The Church’s persistence in saying choosing Jesus in part of the process of salvation.
12. My broken-hearted loss of my Church.
13. The mass exodus of Jesus’s true sheep for all the Churches in our times.
Part 3 A
Powerful people tend to do whatever it takes to remain powerful. We see this as acceptable behavior because certainly we all have the right to defend what we have, what we say is the truth, and what we will accomplish in the future by way of our power in this life. It is no different for Hebrew, Atheism, Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christians or any other group of people. Powerful people will simply do whatever it takes to remain powerful.
Us humbler people whether Hebrew, Atheistic, Agnostic, Buddhist, Christians or any other group of people would like to believe that those powerful ones in our groups, political, religious and so on, will do what is good for the good of us all. However, even with the powerful ones best intentions they will at some point fail. This is true in our generation as well as generations of the past. Our celebrated biblical characters will show their human frailty in a variety of ways just like the powerful ones we find in our current generation.
Sarah was the wife of Abraham. Abraham is the widely accepted progenitor of the Hebrew people. God would use Abraham’s offspring to build a holy nation. Yet, before God spoke that to Abraham, he and his wife Sarah were very old and without children. Sarah came to Abraham and said: “….The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” (Genesis 16:2). Abraham agreed and laid with Hagar Sarah’s Egyptian slave.
After Hagar becomes pregnant, Sarah tells Abraham:…. “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.” (Genesis 16:5). Abraham tells Sarah to do what she wants with Hagar so “…. Sarah mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her”. (Genesis 16:6).
Now Sarah would later give birth to Isaac and demand that Abraham send Hagar and her son Ishmael away because she did not want Ishmael to share in her son’s inheritance (Genesis 21:8-10).
Even though Sarah is one of the bible’s celebrated women, she was not void of her human frailty. She would wrong Hagar out of jealousy for becoming pregnant and later would have Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away to greedily keep all of her husband’s holdings for her own son Isaac. This does not mean that Sarah was a bad person. This only means that Sarah is given to desire to keep her and her own children above all other children fathered by Abraham.
I don’t believe any other women, then or now, and in this same situation would do much different. It is just in our nature to defend what we see as ours and ours alone. The things we may do to defend our powerful stations may come into question; however, doing what it takes to remain powerful, it would seem, is as universal as taking our next breath. Though, however good and humble those with power may start out in their powerful positions, the powerful in this world are given to fall eventually with very few exceptions. This eventuality is seen in the life of Solomon, King of the united kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
This is beautiful . Please could I use it as part of our online church service?
Yes, feel free to use it in your online church service! Grace and peace to you.
@@AlexanderMcConnell looking to use this version during this weekend's online service. Is this copyright free? Or am I able to purchase this one song so we are not infringing copyright rules and regulations? Thank you .
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Is this on Spotify
Unfortunately it's not on Spotify, and I don't have the rights to put it on there. I posted it on UA-cam because it is such a hard album to find online. I had a hard copy from years ago.
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There's a much better song out of New Orleans called "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say." (Sometimes called "Buddy Bolden's Blues")
Part 2 B
The favoring of the Jew over the Gentile is not the important part. Showing that Paul is just like everyone else is; because, it shows his very human response to rejection by his powerful kinship. He is hurt and wants to strike out at them and in doing so uses scripture as a smoke screen to get it done. There are many scriptures covertly showing Saint Paul’s frailty; yet, some Scripture point directly at his powerful kinship. Acts 23 to Acts 24 shows Paul’s affiliation with the Jews. In Acts 22:3-5 Paul says: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.” Paul is trying to tell the Jew that he understands their problem as he once worked as a high official sent to bring the Christian to justice before his conversion event. This speech will get him arrested and the next day he will face the Sanhedrin. In Acts 24, Paul sees that the ruling bodies of the Jews are about to have him killed so he started a little ruse to get them arguing among themselves to take the focus off of him. Acts 24:6-8 Paul says: Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.” When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.) Paul tried his best to testify about Jesus to the Jews in Jerusalem as a man of authority in that group. This nearly got him killed. They plotted to kill him but he managed to escape to eventually preach the word about Jesus in Rome. The time in between his preaching in Jerusalem to Rome he became hardened against the Jew. It is my opinion that this is where the idea that choice in choosing Jesus was born onto this world when the truth is clear. Paul chose nothing. He was knocked off his ass to the ground, blinded and told to wait for further instructions. Acts 9:1-6 clearly shows he had no choice. Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The Lord said to Paul “you will be told what you must do” not what you can do if you want to be in my club. You see, Paul is just like any other man full of pride. He created an illusion of choice in choosing Jesus: a choice even he did not have. Paul will come to understand his own weaknesses concerning the flesh as we see in Romans 9: 19, 24 and 25. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Here Paul is describing salvation through Grace not choice; a grace he would write time and time again that would be denied to those who did not choose to be converted. He was God’s man, but still a man given to the full array of human frailty. Our Biblical Commentators and Scholars have simply confused content with the context for which it was originally used. Saint Paul was simply trying to win a battle and confused easily understood ideas to get it done. We have taken Saint Paul’s battle out of contexts and given it completely over to the content for which we find it has been used even to this day. So why do we continue in another man’s battle with his powerful kinship as though the bad fruit of that battle is the very truth? How can we understand that God created all things and all things from the beginning while also believing we can change any part of that creation by a choice we can make concerning Jesus as the Lord? The answer is simple. The Church continues in this bad teaching to hold us hostage to grow more powerful. Power begets power. It is just that simple. More to come!
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I'm not sure where you acquired such knowledge, but you're free to your own opinion.
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@@carrotcommunist9216 I actually found that very interesting. Thanks.
@@AlexanderMcConnell No problem!!
One thing about Celtic hymns that I'm learning is they aren't judaized. There's a lot of the new testament that's written in a Jewish context. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's what the Bible says. I guess there was the judaizers in Galatians that Paul condemned. But Paul wrote quite a few things that were in a Jewish context almost for a Jewish audience.
Paul condemned some Jews for adding law/self-righteousness to the gospel. But Paul was of course Jewish and salvation is of the Jews. The New Testament is written by Jews (Luke may have been a Gentile). 'First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God' (Romans 3-2b). As a Gentile, I learn a lot from Jewish believers because they have an excellent understanding of the Scriptures. Arnold Fruchtenbaum is a perfect example. Much of the NT requires an understanding of the Old Testament to understand it. Matthew, Hebrews, and Revelation are good examples. The entire early church was Jewish until Acts 10. So I definitely believe that a lot of the NT has a Jewish context.
@@AlexanderMcConnell the Jews in the second temple period that opposed Christ had rigorously followed the law. But yet many of them were on the path of destruction into hell. So it's not easy reading the new testament in a Jewish context. It takes a skilled person to know how to do that. But there were Jews who had come to Christ and they had to learn how to be a Christian. Because regardless of how rigorously they followed the law there was something that seriously needed to be adjusted in their own hearts. They were not like Moses and the prophets who lived under the law but yet their hearts were right. And Paul was a Jew who had to learn how to do that. He had to draw the sharp contrast of what it means to be a Jew or a Christian, or what it means to be under the law or grace. And when you learn the Bible in more of a Jewish context and you get it all right. You wonder if it's just a blur? For a Jew it might be but there was a massive overhaul done to the law after Christ atoned for sins. But the Jews didn't carry on with Christianity like the Gentiles did. The Gentile gets to boast of that. If you can rightly divide the word of God you don't need to know every aspect of the law like a prophet to receive Christ as Lord and savior. Nor do you need to know every aspect to walk with Christ. He gives us his Spirit to indwell us. But naturally orthodox Jews do learn the old testament. There's still synagogues around. So if they come to Christ they'll possibly need an adjustment just like the ones in the Bible. No reason for a professing Gentile to go back and learn the law like a Jew and start from there and then get saved. That's dangerous and Paul called that in Galatians falling from grace. The law teaches what is sinful in the new testament. The question is how do you remedy that? I know Jesus said you can't stone an adulterous like it says in the law. The Jews that opposed Jesus were condemned as hypocrites. These Celtic hymns are good.
@@jeffchapman9382 it's certainly a topic that every believer would do well to study to gain clarity on. I personally value Dr Michael Eaton's work: Living Under Grace: Romans 6: 1-7: 25 (Preaching Through Romans). It gave me a lot of clarity. I'm glad you enjoy the Celtic hymns. Blessings.
There's nothing 'Celtic' about this hymn. It is English. 🏴
Depends how strictly you define Celtic. Here is one definition: 'If you describe something as Celtic, you mean that it is connected with the people and the culture of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and some other areas such as Brittany.' - Collins Dictionary
It's based around the tune Down County and is the tune used in the song the Star of the County Down. Now were is County Down I wonder?
@@spmoran4703 To be honest, that is not quite so. The "Star of County Down" is surely very similar, but not exactly the same, even though that song and tune are old.
This one comes directly from "Dives and Lazarus" - a carol whose tune was called "Kingsfold" by Ralph Vaughan Williams - this being the name of the Sussex town where he found it.
That story takes us back to the Gospel of Saint Luke.