 | Anonymous - Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending Sicilian Mariners Hymn Piano seul |
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| Compositeur : | Anonymous | ||
| Instrumentation : | Piano seul | ||
| Genre : | Hymne - Eglise - Sacre | ||
| Arrangeur : | Zisi, Matthew | ||
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| Droit d'auteur : | Copyright © Matthew Zisi | ||
| Ajoutée par crosby3145, 23 Oct 2018 Stirring arrangement of Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending perfect for prelude, offertory, or other special service music. If any of you have seen the movie The Bells of St. Mary’s, or even if you haven’t, then you might think of “O Sanctissima” when you hear this melody—indeed, it is the same tune. The Latin hymn “O Sanctissima” is a prayer to the Virgin Mary, imploring her to pray up in Heaven for those here on earth below. Yet, why is it that we need Mary to pray for us? Sure, she is in Heaven, but she is not herself a god (or goddess), merely the mother of Jesus Christ when He was made incarnate. The common response is that Mary, a very righteous person, enjoys a privileged place in Heaven, and that hearing our prayers, she can take them to Jesus and make intercession for us—serve as a mediator, if you will. After all, the Old Testament priests served a similar role. It was their job to bring the sacrifices for the people’s sin to God. They were appointed of God to be the mediator between man and God, since man, due to his sinful condition, could not have direct access to the sinless, holy Father—God cannot allow sin in His presence. The priests, however, were merely a signpost—a symbol—of what was to come. When Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us from our sins, He made the ultimate sacrifice of atonement. Matthew 27:51 tells us “the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” as Jesus died. What’s so significant about that? Well, the veil enclosed the Holiest of Holies, the part of the temple in which God made His presence, a place so sacred, the priest was only permitted to sacrifice within it once a year. When Christ died, however, He made the ultimate sacrifice. The shedding of His blood allows anyone to be saved, merely by trusting on Him. We still cannot go directly to God the Father because of our sin, but we can go to Jesus, and He can approach God the Father because He has paid our sin debt, making us blameless in the Father’s sight. Hebrews 7:17 reads, “For he testifieth, ‘Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” Christ is now our mediator. Similarly, are those saints—Mary, Peter, Paul, etc.—also mediators for us—standing in God’s presence and petitioning Him on our behalf? 1 Timothy 2:15 says, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Jesus and the saints are all in Heaven, but only Jesus has the ability to go before the Father and communicate with Him on our behalf. The saints themselves are not mediators between us and the Father, nor are they mediators between us and Jesus—that would be a mediator to a mediator, which equals two mediators. Let us instead come to Jesus with our prayers, the One Who by His power saves us from sin, the only One Who can approach the Father on our behalf, the One by Whom we can have the relationship we were meant to have with God! | |||
