http:\/\/www.cyberhymnal.org\/htm\/j\/o\/joyworld.htm<\/a><\/p>\nWords: Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 1719
\nMusic: Antioch (George Frederick Handel, 1685-1759, arranged Lowell Mason, 1792-1872)<\/p>\n
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Joy to the world! the Lord is come<\/strong>:– [present tense, now: we are not waiting for the Lord Jesus to Come Back]
\nlet earth receive her King; ——— <\/strong>[but King Jesus is waiting for you to receive Him now through personal faith]
\nlet every heart prepare him room<\/strong>,–[He is waiting for you to prepare Him room now by obeying His words – the Good News]
\nand heaven and nature sing,
\nand heaven and nature sing,
\nand heaven, and heaven and nature sing.<\/p>\nJoy to the world! the Savior reigns<\/strong>;—[present tense, now: the Savior reigns over the affairs of men, not the devil]
\nlet us our songs employ,
\nwhile fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
\nrepeat the sounding joy,
\nrepeat the sounding joy,
\nrepeat, repeat the sounding joy.<\/p>\nNo more let sins and sorrows grow,—-<\/strong>[He has already Come Back with Salvation to put a stop to each of our sins & sorrows]
\nnor thorns infest the ground; ———–<\/strong>[He is blessing us now with the ability to make all things truly productive]
\nhe comes to make his blessings flow—<\/strong>[His blessings are available to us via faith here and now – not in the sweet by-n-by]
\nfar as the curse is found<\/strong>,—————[There is no place where His blessings are not prepared to flow by faith now]
\nfar as the curse is found,
\nfar as, far as the curse is found.<\/p>\nHe rules the world with truth and grace,-<\/strong>[present tense, now: He rules the world right now – not Nazi’s, Communists nor savages]
\nand makes the nations prove——-<\/strong>[He works through history to teach governments lessons]
\nthe glories of his righteousness,—<\/strong>[And those that are learning His righteousness are experiencing glories]
\nand wonders of his love,———–<\/strong>[Is it any wonder that Christianized nations are the most desirable in which to live?]
\nand wonders of his love,
\nand wonders, wonders of his love.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since I was an 8-year old boy, this has been my favorite Christmas song. Let’s take a second look at Isaac Watts’ stalwart Church standard. Just what message does this hymn guide The Church to express? <\/p>\n
If you forgot how the music goes, you can refresh your memory here http:\/\/www.cyberhymnal.org\/htm\/j\/o\/joyworld.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}