Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Song
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This documentary, produced by Emblem Media LLC, focuses on the person John Newton, and the experiences that inspired his words to what has become one of the world’s most beloved hymns, Amazing Grace. For more information Emblem Media LLC visit: www.emblemmediallc.com
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As I write this, I find myself crying. I cannot help but cry. It reaches down deep inside me, reminding me that I am a wrenched,, sinful man, unworthy of God's mercy, love, compassion and forgiveness, knowing that I could never ever be worthy.. This is one of the most wonderfully moving piece of music has ever been written.
You are certainly not the only one.
I have watched an amateur singer in front of a theatre bring lumps to their throats and tears to many of the eyes.
They mostly lived comfortable lives but, they understood.
working people...dont you mean slaves
@@massashredda7637 They are a part of it.
I know Lord that your mercy never fails me. I love you for helping me in life's journey.Save my soul from sin.
It's a song of all times that will ever remind us how unworthy we are and how gracious God has been and calls to follow God with godly fear as He leads us Home to sing the song the holy angels can not sing - Amazing Grace
"I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior." - John Newton
What a testimony of God's Grace!
I am in agreement with your comment, "I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior" ... quoting John Newton as illustrated by the following prayer using caps as emphasis to help others find THE WAY AT GOD'S MERCY.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏻👏🏾👏🏻👏🏾 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏻👏🏾👏🏻👏🏾 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned in order for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌🏻🙌🏾
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their door until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌🏻🙌🏾
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY C UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
Amen Daniel. 2Tim.4.22
amen brother
Newton copied the music from an African slave and never have him any credit. Demons gone be demons.
1 John 3: 4-9
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
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John 9 :31
Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.
18 years ago I heard the gospel for the first time in my life. Drug addiction almost killed me, He saved me at my lowest point ever and raised me up. If God did not intervened in my life and opened my heart 18 years ago, I'd be dead. Indeed, I am a depraved and wretched sinner, saved by His amazing grace
I LOVE it that you wrote, "I AM a wretched sinner..." I have noticed that many of the modern versions of this great hymn change the word "wretch" to some less insulting term. Back in the 90's, one of the Friday night sitcoms showed the family in church singing this hymn. I was glad to see that they showed the family in church and that they were singing Amazing Grace. But they changed it: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a soul like mine. They couldn't say it; they could not admit it - wretch.
You mention your drug addiction. That is certainly a destructive form of sinfulness. I never did any of the things that the church of my childhood always told us young people was evil. (Well, I did listen to the Beatles, but that is another story!) But I was considered a good kid. I cannot recall a time when I did not go to church. I avoided the more "serious" outbreaks of sin as man (and most of religion) perceives sin. But for all the "goodness" of my outward appearance, I was a wretch. Like Saul of Tarsus, I had a good pedigree and record (so far as men could see) but was still "the chief of sinners."
And so far as my natural self is concerned, I am still a wretch. But just as the Lord Jesus was a sufficient Savior for wretches and chiefs of sinners when I first came to Him, so He is now, many years later.
Blessed be HIS name both now and forever more!
@@RVGrace Amen!!
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@@RVGrace Amen
That so rocks! I am so happy for you, friend, and that you received the wonderful gift of faith. Aren't we lucky? Blessed be!
I sang this song to my daddy as he transitioned into the next life. He responded by having tears coming down on his cheeks. This song will forever be special. You see we had a very strained relationship and yet the spirit urging me to sing to him brought the healing I so needed.
Wow Sharon that's amazing to that after singing this song as he transit into after life he responded by having tears coming down his cheeks that's most be a special moment in his life knowing how much heaven loved him 😭😭😭what a beautiful moment that's was Sharon
What a beautiful testimony 🙏
That made me cry Sharon. I’m sorry for your loss. 🙏🏼
Powerful
This post has me bawling like a baby, I miss my daddy so much.. We weren’t strained, but he was only 49 when he died on Christmas morning 1986…Oh I miss him so.. I was an only child and definitely a daddy’s girl, I played ed this song, Peace in the Valley, and a closer walk with thee, daddy’s 3 favorite gospel songs, these songs make me cry every time I hear them, they’d make daddy cry too.
" To those who believe, no proof is necessary. To those who do not believe, no proof will work".
Such a great and powerful statement
Another way to express the truth that the faith of the gospel is not so much a natural or intellectual thing, but a spiritual thing. It is impossible for the natural man to believe, thus the need for the New Birth.
@@RVGrace faith comes by hearing and hearing by the WORD OF GOD. The word is God and is the activator of faith in us is His Spirit whereby we can believe and THEN be born again.
@@marionchase-kleeves8311 According to the Lord Jesus, a person cannot see (in the sense of perceive or understand) or enter the kingdom of God unless he is born again. Paul said that the natural man does not does not receive the things of the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him. He also said that the fleshly mind is enmity with God. We are born flesh; we are born "natural," thus we cannot see or enter the kingdom of God unless we are "born again." This is the work of the Spirit of God who, like the wind, "goes wherever he wants to." He regenerates the dead spirit of man, and once He does, that man believes.
You are correct is saying that the word is God, got John says so clearly in the opening verse of his gospel. But when Paul wrote that faith comes by hearing nd hearing by the word of God, he was speaking of the preached word. In Romans 10, beginning in verse 14, we read,
14 "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.18But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
In 1 Peter 1, beginning in verse 22, we read,
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Here, Peter identifies "the Word of the Lord which endures forever" with the gospel. I preach from the NIV, but so far as I know, only the KJV has found a way to communicate one of the most important features in verse 25. Peter does not use the normal Greek word for preach. The Greek word for gospel is "euaggelion," and means "good message." When transcribed into English, it becomes "evangel." (In Greek, two g's make an "ng" sound.) You can see that it is our source for the word "evangelize." Peter took that noun and made it into a verb. So it could have been translated, "And this is the word that was evangelized to you. But it is good they didn't translate it that way for most English speaking people, when they hear the word "evangelize" think of special "evangelistic meetings" or door-to-door witnessing. But the word means simply to declare the good news. When I teach from that text, I generally re-translate it is, "And this is the word that was gospel-preached to you." So this "word of the Lord," is the good news.
Seeing that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, and the Word of God (the Lord) is the gospel, we conclude that the word of God, as a message to be preached (Paul told Timothy to preach the word), is the good news concerning Christ.
I 1 Peter 1 22, 23, Peter said that his readers had purified themselves by obeying the truth, having been born again. This is the same word the Lord, Himself used to describe the new birth in John 3. It is written in the "perfect" tense, a tense that refers to something already accomplished. So, they believed, having been born again. In other words, their being born again had already happened before they believed, and in truth, was the cause of their believing.
Actually, this is what John Newton believed and he implied it in this hymn. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see." He considered himself a wretch that God saved. He did not say, "I found Christ," but "Christ found me." He says that, though he had bee taught the gospel in his youth, "he was blind," so could not see it. But now he does see. How is that? A blind man cannot see until he has been given sight. He cannot be given sight because he sees. According to Jesus, the Kingdom of God is right here in front of us, but we cannot see it unless we are born again. But, when the Spirit of God is pleased to join His power to the preaching of the gospel, men are given spiritual life - are born again - and that revived spirit can and does see the Kingdom of God and, thus, believes the gospel.
@@RVGrace God's grace be with you. Faith comes by hearing ànd hearing by the word of God. It is a beautiful thing that the word is the living Christ Jesus. How did faith and salvation come
before Jesus ascended and the Spirit came later? Through faith in ,by, from, through the Word, our LORD, Jesus. The spirit is a helper sent by God after we believe
You know I'm a grown man and I'm not ashamed to say when I hear Amazing Grace I have tears come to my eyes..It's so heart felt and touches your Soul..Amen
This is the kind of story America needs right now
Yes I can’t agree more!
This is not just a song .
It is the testimony and declartion of faith by every believer in Christ.
I am certain this song, with other songs of Praise , will be sung by us the saints in Heaven for ten thousand years!
10,000 X 10,000 X10,000…………….
it was a cry,a praise wrung from the deepest part of a redeemed soul.HALLELUJAH.
U don’t need to be a Christian to love the song. I have a different spiritual path.
Hallelujah, yes!!! Praise our loving and forgiving God!!!
@@janetpattison8474 there is only one way to the Father. I pray you will know this love.
Lesson here is that as a parent it your duty to introduce your children to the Lord
They will cry out to him when the time comes
Thank you. That resonates with me.
Snopho Snopho the time is obviously now for my son and I. Pray for us please. We are loving people. Just a bit lost. My favorite song, I always cry.
Zach_ Honger tyr
Best hymn ever
@delonix regia your children still have to make that choice on their own
I am a Muslim but I find its meanings for every Faith. I listen it often nd it brings tears always. May Allah swt bless us all .
Be yee saved my brother
Jesus went to hell to preach to the ones whom haven't heard of him before Jesus Christ was born he was. Every religion has their own thing and all religion says about the same . Their are many religions on this earth . Only one sin that isn't forgiven is the rejection of the holy Spirit. In time we will know which God is
Their been a lot of books in religion saying the same thing no matter area one lives . The only sin that's not forgiven is the rejection of the holy Spirit. From any religion in earth
Nurun Nahar so you will kill those who doesn't believe in your religion? Answer back .
May eshua elilion elshadai Emanuel one more is one of God's sacred name . Eli Eli mama sabacthani . What that read? Eli Eli lama sabacthani?. . Still not his sacred name but do tell me what that means Eli Eli lama sabacthani?
Who am I LORD that you have brought me here. Forgive me LORD for my sins. Thank you for YOUR MERCY and DELIVERANCE
Amen
You are his child :) Amen.
We are the lord child Amen
Thank you Jesus!
John Newton’s story is similar to my story but different types of battles.jan 24-2021. I had a turning point. That was the day I ask Jesus to come back in my life& he did but really he was already watching over me for bears. The things that are happening in my life can be explained no other way, he is real and I trust in him completely,
I'm currently trying to turn my life around. This was beautiful! Christ is my savior!!
Me too brother!
Good luck through this awful fight you have to endure. My sister fought it for years but didn't keep Christ in her life and I truly believe that would have saved her life as she gave into her addiction and ended up dying while still trying to get sober and get her life together. Keep Christ in your life and anything is possible. Love and prayers from me to you. Xo
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Amazing Grace is not only a song, it is a statement of great faith. One if my favorite memories of singing this song in church was of seeing my Dad raising his hands and singing this song from his heart. My dad had a wonderful singing voice but would not always sing out. When Amazing Grace, that changed. His entire being was praising the LORD!!
Stephanie Torres is
it expresses a gratitude I couldn't have without this song channeling a higher power expressed however failingly now in my life.
Amen, your dad obviously had an amazing connection with the Lord.
@@poppytw583 yes. In later years he did. Praying the same for my husband.
@@kobesan42 Kobe....evidently you know nothing about God and His forgiving Grace and nothing about the man, John Newton, who wrote the song “Amazing Grace”
. Do yourself a favor and read the Holy Bible and the words to the song. Hopefully you will experience God’s AMAZING GRACE !!
THIS is my favourite song of all time, I shall treasure it the rest of my Earthly days, may God bless us all !!!
I love music that brings out strong emotions in me and this song will forever give me goosebumps and make me cry. Not only because I had it played at my father's, sisters, and father-in-laws funerals but because of the amazing lyrics and meaning.
I don't know what I was looking for, but I found this story, Thank you Father. To remind me of the Amazing Grace that saved Even me.
Please bring our Nation together Dear Lord. Amazing Grace
Amen sister Peggy!
Amen
The story of John Newtown, William Wilberforce and William Pitt is, amazing. The Godly love they had for all people, regardless of colour or class, changed the world.
Nice one
I believe the message of the song is this: Grace can redeem even the seemingly irredeemable.
That same grace that transformed a sailor who worked to enslave men into a preacher who fought to set men free.
FinalLugiaGuardian Ahmein!
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I wonder since John Newton so called, saw The Light did he/she freed those he/she enslaved did he give them the wealth he gained by trading and selling people. Was he pennyless. Just pondering.
THE CREATOR BLESS
i know that is true FLG.
@@thecreatoristhetruth5623 who cares troll
I had no idea of the meaning of this song until my co worker told me about it and now I have so much respect when I listen to it.
It was one man's near death experience that gave birth to the lyrics of this song. Not just grace, but amazing grace 🙏. I love the story by John Newton. It makes me remember my own wretched life and how God has brought me thus far. And God's grace will lead me on.
I can't hear this hymn without crying. The very first time I heard it as a child was with bagpipes. Now knowing the history of Amazing Grace makes it that much more meaningful to me. In Scotland we heard it played on the top of a cliff over the water.....simply beautiful. I named my daughter Grace. 🙏🏻🤗💖
I was in a chapel at a men's retreat when Almighty God crashed into my self-imposed prison of disbelief that I deserved forgiveness. It was an awakening that changed my heart from that moment in time and that still keeps me moving forward regardless of what happens in my life. It happened in the spring of 1994. It still bring me tears of unspeakable joy even to this day. I also don't ever apologize to anyone for being so moved by a song.
I somewhat understand. I always choke up and can NEVER get through the song with crying. I think of how the LORD didn't say no to me. You see Paul says he was the chief of sinners, but I have done so much filth that to this day I can't fathom the LORD wanting me. I do hope at the end of my life the LORD won't look on me with shame. GOD bless you sir and I hope to meet you in the presence of the Almighty. In Jesus name.
We were all once wretched sinners before the eyes of the Almighty till He forgave us, cleansed us and restored us to Himself. Once forgiven, we are His children. No more guilt, no more shame. That is the starting point of our transformation into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.
This song still changes lives today
What a blessing, almost 50yrs old and just found out the history behind GODS amazing grace. Thank u Christ Jesus, sinner to Saint. Blessed not Oppressed.
AMEN, We all ARE sinners, I being the worst, need the grace of Jesus THE CHRIST the most, and like wise pray for our country to turn back to the LORD GOD, accepting Jesus asa LORD and SAVIOR.
You know, God works in such amazing ways. Watching these videos has been quite a humbling experience.
I love that my parents Baptist me and call me Grace true blessing.
Grace Clermont ♥️
the lady narrating this story does it with so much clarity, peace, and sweetness. it's contagious ! :)
Well said I thought the same way 🙏🙏🙏🙏💕🇦🇺
@@anandaabey7237 Too right! G'day from a Perth girl.
@@JennyJeong425 Good day from Melbourne 💕
Search for a BBC Sounds Podcast episode on Amazing Grace. She was wonderful in it. She has an amazing grasp of the history of the hymn.
@@kevinngoya5 thank you, kevin, for this practical suggestion. ✔
A slave master,convicted of his evil deeds,got a spiritual awakening from a forgiven God as he repent of his sins for being a cruel slave master. Thank God for freedom 🙏🙌
God truly is Lord and is good. Amen
This maybe an old song, but today it’s still played world wide. Anyone who hasn’t heard this song, please listen to this. I grew up with this song and never get tired of hearing it. It’s beautifully done and who actually made this song.
Amen and amen because of the sin in the garden of Eden man kind was seperated from is maker, then the creator God Himself killed a lamb and rapid Adam&Eve. Remember it was a bleeding lamb,that is why the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross to pay the price of death that he gave Grace to you and me. Truely it is Amazing Grace.
The most touching song the earth has ever withnessed. God bless His words
@queenofmeanest meanie it's hard to imagine how someone so disgusting and brutal could be honored as a minister and hymn writer...
But that's the theme of Amazing Grace. He was a wretch, a worm, worthy of hell only, and if God could forgive someone as lowly as him, then then there is no one on this earth that God can't set free from the bondage of sin.
"Who God has set free is free indeed."
I'm nobody wretch, I owned no slave. I raped nobody, I beat nobody. Nor held anyone against their will. So I will not say wretch, some say wrench.. I have a problem with that word had he said a sinner, I'd accepted that. This. 2020. That word do not apply to a song or words written over200 years ago,.my children know the truth about, Santa Claus, the easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. I won't lie to my children and claim to be a child of God and lie to them every year. I teach them john 3:16..if um going sing a song then I better know what it mean. Even the bible on DVD now so if I couldn't read I d know what the word say.I'm just saying .I'm all for truth. But do any of you know what you are singing..then change that one word.unless you lived in that or those years. I doubt any of you was wretches or wrenches. A lie is a lie.but God forgive. All y'all wretches. N.a.JJ, neita j.:-)
@For in Your sight no man living is righteous. I guess you know the bible was written in three languages, Hebrew, Chaldean, and Greek, sometime Arabic. Funny how people over look john 3:16.how we not suppose to judge. How thy shall not kill translated mean thy shall not committee criminal homicide. Take your strings and translate for yourself. Not forget he forgives 70times 7 a day. Also the translators apologize saying they might got some things wrong. There's no mention of apple in the bible. How we are taught Satan gave eve a apple she gave it to Adam. Nobody teach us how Satan beguiled eve translated wholly seduced eve..how Cain was Satan child..yet you go on and on.the bible is on DVD now so people who can't read can know what the word of God is saying. One more thing. King James version is the only true version. God said not to add or takeaway from his word. And before one of his words fail, heaven and earth will pass away.God bless. . let's continue to pray for one another. Ace, neita, the Jackson family.
@queenofmeanest meanie God forgive you by The Amazing Grace that Newton wrote about.
God loves him and you
@queenofmeanest meanie I also find it painfully difficult, sometimes impossible to forgive someone when they've hurt someone else. I feel like they owe something to the person/people they hurt.
It's hard to imagine being off the hook like that. Maybe bc I don't let myself off the hook when I hurt someone.
Salvation isn't an act of service to make reparations though. We could never do enough good in our lives to be perfect. We could spend life trying to make up for everything we've messed up, and it would never balance out.
Salvation is forgiveness for all of the garbage we've done. Not the mistakes- but the ways we've hurt people and guilt we all carry around for it. Salvation is complete forgiveness. Someone else takes the blame. Someone else takes the shame, the responsibility, the guilt.
If I was on death row, someone else would take my spot, and I would go free. That's salvation, but it's your soul- and Jesus is the one who sat in the electric chair for everyone so we could go free.
One of the loveliest song, ever made on earth.
The memory of Newton, will never die.
I couldn’t hold my tears, wen i looked at the fantastic video.
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This song always always bring tears to my eyes and a greatful heart for the grace of Jesus Christ.
It was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
How precious did that Grace appeared
This song never get old, never, alot of churches still sing it.
John Newton is my Ancestor, we found out a few years ago. Super cool for my nan to find out by doing her family tree. What an amazing person to be related to. He helped abolish slavery, well done John Newton.
You may want to do a little more research and YOUR ancestors. Just listen to the carefully chosen contradicting words of this piece for a start. 👌🏾
@@ronbass2272 Hi! Can you elaborate? Please?
@@ronbass2272 go on.. explain yourself. Seeings as you know so much and I clearly so little.
What's the point in highlighting YOUR? Are you annoyed he has a family tree that ties in with mine?
a friend of mine wrote this book ...if you have never read it ...you might enjoy it: www.amazon.com/Infidel-Novel-Based-Life-Newton/dp/0805424806
I cried when I first heard the song "Was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see" it made me realize how much time I spent in sin and disgracing God.
God is alive, may God be with you .
This song has been my favorite for as long as I can remember, from being a very young child. For some reason it made me cry....and still does every time I hear it, even before I found out that the abolition of the slave trade was deeply connected to it. I love it so much that I chose it as the song I wanted to get married to but I was told it was a funeral song and not for a wedding. I personally feel that it depends upon how you view the song and it’s background. The Padre wouldn’t allow it but gave in to the music being played to a different hymn. Just watching this and sitting in Scotland listening to the amazing yet so familiar sound of the bagpipes it still makes me cry.🙏
It was none of the padre's business which song you wanted, hope you went somewhere else. Yes the bagpipes are the best....
this song is all about hope forgiveness redemption and grace. wonderful amazing wonderful saving grace.
No, it's about an old slave ship captain that wants forgiveness
Communist In Action NO! It’s about how all of us are sinners, yourself included, and we all need hope, forgiveness, redemption and grace!
F S B No, it's about a man that called out to God and experienced God's Grace, despite being a wretched man.
It we living right now, covi19!
@@mariaespinoza363 Yes, and after yet another Black Man being murdered on the streets for no reason. If his skin was white, he'd be alive.
When I watched the movie "Amazing Grace," and Albert Finney uttered that quote, "My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great savior." I nearly jumped out of my seat with joy. I felt like shouting "Amen." I recommended the movie to others telling them, It is well worth the price of admission just to hear Albert Finney say those words!"
The first song I heard after I was Born Again. Saved at Guantanomo Bay Cuba, while serving in the Marine Corps. My eyes filled with tears. Has always been my absolute favorite hymn. As David did say, who am I...?
do you know CS Lewis book "Mere Christianity"
“Amazing Grace” is sung in my church - Roman Catholic. Amen! 🛐
What a paradox! Hopefully, many Romanists will sing and understand. ¡May their eyes will be opened to see that the gospel is about grace not of works!
@@adrianvarela8890 “Catholics believe salvation is caused by our works” - Someone who doesn’t really understand Catholic theology.
Catholics believe that salvation is solely a grace and gift of God…not sure what point you’re trying to make.
@@ahappynigerian Your name? I have brothers in Christ in Nigeria. To be a brother you must have the same Father. And the NT way is to be born of the Spirit and of the water. For that to happen we must believe in the Son of God and receive Him as life. John 3:3-6 & 1:12-13.
@@ahappynigerian We can see later a bit of Catholic theology. For now, let us get into Scripture and look for the truth. John 8:32 / 17:17
Amazing Grace is an Anglican hymn! ❤
Sheila Ayers is correct about Newton's conversion; few know that Newton was also the pastor of WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, who fought for 40 years in Britain for the abolition of slavery. That's a Gospel transformation with a lasting effect.
Amen!
They named a road after him Wilberforce Rd..Just off Blackstock Rd lol
I think he used to live there..solicitors live there now..I love them both Wilberforce and Newton and all the others that fought for abolition black and white!
Wow!
I own the movie Amazing Grace
Howard Bartlett Thank you for sharing that. I didn’t know. 🤗
vote please everyone lucky enough to still live in a democracy, before it's stolen away.
Yes Amazing Grace, Amazing Love, Amazing victory for all who belive in Amazing resurrection.
I have performed this song in church. I performed it solo and a cappella. I have heard different stories about the origins of this song. I believe this story is, by far, the most factual. If I ever perform this song again I will perform it with a far greater understanding than I ever had in the past. Thank you for a fine presentation. May God bless.
Incredibly powerful story and the most beloved song in the Christian church.
How wonderful that it touches people all over with the Grace of God- even outside the church. It's a gift to all from where it came, to wherever a soul is.
I needed this song today, again... still.
I was in the King Dome in Seattle for the International AA convention. I looked around as this was sung through tear-filled yes to see EVERYONE crying.
I'm crying now, 35 years to the good. Tears dropping. And I'm not a cryer. I used to race motocross, crash and break bones and get up and ride. I worked construction many years. And yet this makes me stop everything and cry like a Girl Scout who just had her cookies stolen.
"Thank you God, for giving me another day"
-Milagro Beanfield War
This song along with How Great Thou Art were my grandmother favorite songs.
Mine too
Those are my favourites too. You can feel the song in your soul.
How great thou art is such a good song! I love those two songs.
I remember the first time I heard this song. I cried and felt such loneliness and sadness. That was the time when I started looking for something I didn't k no ow what. Then I found my Lord y savior the lord Jesus Christ. Ever since I have been on a journey that have no stop.
I like to think that every day is like a new adventure.
I only have praises for the amazing grace goodness and loving kindness of the great God and his son Jesus of Nazareth. Blessed be his name for ever and ever
It's so powerful to know and keep the origin of the Lord saving us hymn.🙏🏾🎶🎵🌅 Stay safe and encouraged everyone!
A song that has meant and continues to mean so much to my husband, Gene Paul Moore, he and I still get chills up and down our spines we when hear Amazing Grace sung, played on an instrument or sing it ourselves. This is one of most moving pieces of music ever sung or played on an a instrument. The lives this piece of music has saved is truly amazing !!
The storm and destruction of sin on my life ship wreaked my life Amazing grace reached down from heaven reached down into the swirling gore of my drowning life grabbed hold of me and pulled me out and set me on firm ground o amazing grace
Joseph scriven(what a friend we have in Jesus) and John Newton (amazing grace),greatest hymns of all time,it's amazing how they found the love for Jesus Christ at their lowest moments.in lufe
Yeah it is but I have wondered about songs never published well never know
I always felt the song was divinely inspired, but I never knew just how much God's hand was on Mr. Newtons pen. I found myself moved to tears watching this. God has a habit of transforming the worst of us into the best of us for his glory. We truly serve an amazing God.
I am putting this hymn into my funeral ceremony/wishes - it is a beautiful song and I once was lost and felt abandoned by my fellow human beings but through prayer feel God has saved me - I have felt love and fear and abandonment. My Father saw active service during world war 11 in the royal navy and this hymn reminds me of this.
This is my best song and i known it not only me but anybody who has understand the meaning. Every song has a stroy meaning over it but this is the best. Best song ever listen understand and spreed it during this hard time of covid-19 . Amazing grace
Thank you for a piece of history that many may have forgotten !
...and like me, never knew.
And many still need.
Many who didn't know until today
Speaking of History I saw the exact words of this hymn in a book wrote by a lady hymnist years before Newton ever claimed and fooled History to think he wrote it. He was never found out but the lady had passed away so she could not dispute it and her book did not gain a lot of national attention so her being the writer it was missed. I hope the world will soon realize John Newton did not write Amazing Grace ONLY THO I SAY if He did since both were led by the Spirit perhaps by coincidence both wrote the same hymn word for word thus Newton claims it. This does happen rarely yet does with some poets.
This hymn is about you. its about you arriving at the point in life where you receive grace within your-self, this grace is from God.. it is your faith, love and trust in God. with understanding your salvation is from your almighty creator. .
dale cannings : AMEN.
Yes, amen🙌
This hymn is not about us. It's about God. How God did the active part in Salvation. The sinner is the passive part in this hymn.
Dale....Excellent....and may I add to that brilliant comment? Grace does it’s work when we come to the realization of our helplessness to save/help ourselves.
@@Ramon-kw2rh Ramon...the sinner has to do the calling out for help/salvation....THAT is the active part.....WE do the calling...God does the saving...
We also had this song for my great grandmother’s Funeral Rest In Peace Grandma I love so much and I miss you so much I will always love you
My Granny's favourite and I had it played at my wedding for her. It was played at her funeral and will be played also at mine.
Something about every word in this masterpiece, so much praise to our Redeemer Jesus Christ🙏. Amazing grace to all.
Correction: John Wilberforce was a contemporary abolitionist to John Newton.
Truly one of the greatest Hymns. It always stirs my spirit when I sing it at church or hear it being sung.
The Amazing Grace changes the impossible to "I'm possible"!!!
The song that speaks to me, I sang this song alot when I first came to Christ .
Jade empress. Me also..xx
Thank you Lord for your amazing Grace🙏🏻🙏🏻💖💖
Truly this is the story of repentance a man or not only change its heart change the direction of a nation and a people powerful testimony I’m thankful
Wintley Phipps tells of this history and his version of Gods Amazing Grace is the best I have ever heard.
Beautiful. Out of intense pain grows the realization in the human mind of ever increasing Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Let us continue to grow in Faith and Grace.
I'm a sinner but Christ is my great Saviour he truly saved me from oppression thank you Jesus until now I can't believe that I accept you as my Lord and Saviour 🙏🙏
I'm an adoptee, and unabashedly grateful for the gracious Hand of God moving through Time, through the sin of many, to PROVE that we are deeply loved. And, through the BLOOD of His Son, we are connected to His Hand - His Plan - to be His Restored, Blessed, and Forever FAMILY. OUR Races don't matter when we Intimately Know that Grace; and Assurance through our life is Built, Encouraged, and Strengthened by the Choice of Forgiveness and Love for - and through - One Another.
Amazingly comforting hymn in times of personal grief and crisis and reminds me of God's Grace
Amazing Grace, Thank You, Lord Jesus, For Save A Siner Like Me, Thank You My Heavenly Father.
I love this song, and sing it especially in times of need for us all, which at this time we need more than we could ever imagine. Thank you for educating me today the meaning of this beautiful song, God bless John Newton, and God bless us all. Please pray for the end to this horrific crona virus to end soon, and save many life's.
How sad that we in America have given up on people seeking second chances! That is what the Gospel is all about!!!! Please Lord get America back to honoring second chances before we meet our end on earth... I beg you Jesus
we'ĺl step up our game
Amen!
Grace will save you and set you free.
I was baptized with the Holy Spirit while listening to a rendition of this song done by a group called Selah
Cephas Laryea ♥️🙌🏼
love Selah...when my husband died...I listened to their song Draw Me Lord over and over...I used to host a Christian TV show and interviewed them many times...they are wonderful humble Christians.
Thank You FATHER ADONAI for forgiving and giving us REDEMPTION ,STRENGHT . To endure our walk from sin to grace love and acceptance. To give back from the wisdom of our path that leads us to you.
Amazing Grace song history.
When I first became a Christian this as teenager this song was being played on radio as a pop song it became a pact song to remind me of God's love for me, and it still means the same to me today, thank you God my saviour and friend
I sing this for masses and funerals and it still touches those that hear it. Truly a gift from God Himself using that former slave trader, and what a story of redemption!
Love this song. Makes me tear up every time I sing it or heart the song.
This is a song that will never pass to the Christian history for it is from a heart of a true believer. Blessed be the name of the Lord!!
One of my most favorite hymns!
God's forgiveness is greater than our sins
Our sins put the stripes upon Jesus Christ
Our sins jammed the crown of thorns into his head
Our sins hammered the nails into his legs and wrists
Our sins dropped the cross into the ground with him upon it
He came to shed His blood for our sins
He resurrected to redeem us.
Let he that has no sin cast the first stone
Amen!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
Amen
"Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God." 1 John 3:9
Mikayla--Yes-Man can Sin-this is the Reason that God's Word says to Keep the Faith that You had from the Beginning to the End as Satan Goes about as a Roaring Lion Seeking Whom he May-God is telling this to the Saved as Satan Already has the Unsaved. God's Tells All the Saved to put on the Whole Armor of God because Satan does not Play by Honest Rules. God's Word Tells you in Revelation that your Name can Removed from the Lamb's Book of Life--Eternal Security is a False teaching and Many will be Lost Believing this....
You religious people need to chill out
@@somerandomdumbass7433 communism never saved anyone. Only Jesus the Christ saves.
@@littlewhitepetals8790 the heck you on about? When did I say communism saved?
@David Gefrovich We continue in faith, the faith that comes from Jesus. The faith we have is in him, it is from him and by him the mighty Lord and our saviour Jesus who is Christ The son of God. He is the author and the finisher of this faith. When Christ Jesus is preached it is faith that is preached, and grace is offered. Through faith by grace was the turning point in the life of Luther. Grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, by the scripture alone and to the glory of God alone.
John
8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
beautiful with the Bag Pipes.... Awesome Story..
Have you heard Eritha Frankling?
Amira willighagen, amazing grace with bagpipes
made for each other, somehow
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Who would know that a song would be born out of so much chaos. A song like this. Only God can do this.....
it feels so good to have god intervene in your life by his grace, my story is not as cool, but i had to go clean my gutter, and my ladder wasn't long enough to reach the gutter, so i was planning on using very unstable, blocks of wood, and just as im about to finish preparing the wooden blocks, my neighbor, who never comes, came, said hi, and offered me his ladder which was much longer, ill never forget that, but it felt so good and i felt like praising god forever because of his mercy upon my sinful soul, i cant imagine how John Newton must have felt after facing certain death for 11 hours straight.
His grace hath brought me safe this far his grace will lead me home heaven I hope
What do you mean.."I hope". ?? Jesus Christ is THE way, THE truth and THE life. Turn your life over to Him. Let Him control you. He loves you. He died for you. We are great sinners.. He is the great Saviour! Come and join the family of God.🎼
An Amazing song thst was so inspired. My late husbands favorite as it is one of mine.
One of the most beautiful hyms ever ❤️
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a retch like me
My story is somewhat like John Newton's. I was rescued, saved, in 1980 and had two good years and then my flesh stepped in and I make a HUGE 'marital' mistake. I sinned. I will say I didn't KNOW it was sin, I just wanted what I wanted, but the Lord told me "It's a mistake" and I refused to believe that. I wanted to believe I could make it work, so I tried. It was not meant to be so it failed. I wasted eight years of my life, and will not do that again. I will listen to the voice of our King. If we are His, He will speak to us and we will hear Him. The hardest part is actually listening, believing and then OBEYING. God help us all.
Elise Weatherly Yes, God knows the best. The Bible says that he leads us into all truth. We’ve all made dumb mistakes! That’s your testimony! I love it. Sometimes we have to learn like that. I love him so much. He’s so wise
Elise Weatherly Ahmein! ~Ahmein!
When I lost my only love, oh how hurt I was. I prayed every day and night for God to let him come back.....but he never did. For years I continued to hold to the hope. We had been so strong...there just had to be a way. Years passed and life moved on. I married, had two children, but I never forgot my first love. After 31 years, we met again. It was then I realized God had actually protected me from this person. You see, the person I had so deeply loved had been for decades a hopeless drunk, womanizer, sexual pervert, and needless to say his once good name was in ruin. People even in other counties had heard of his exploits. I believe God spared me from the extra heartache I would have gone through had we ended up together. After all the past years of wondering why my eyes were suddenly opened. God knew what was best for me, and he protected me even though I could not foresee the future and what lay ahead.
*God Bless you John Newton...*
How hard the hearts of those who gave this video a thumbs down! Christ is coming back very soon to pick up His bride, I pray they repent.
When i listen to the history of this song it brings tears to my eyes
Tell me more !
@@jeffreytay466 : Blessings Jeffrey, There are MANY signs in the Bible that we are in the end-times and some more of Christ's second coming. His second coming won't be for at least 7 years (the 7-year Tribulation or the Time of Jacob's Trouble must come before His second coming) but the rapture of the church could happen at any moment. A lot of these signs may be found in Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, Joel. Other signs are all over the Bible.
The Bible relates these signs to birth pains which get stronger and more frequent as the birth approaches. Some of these signs occasionally occur, but the key is when all these signs converge and with greater intensity.
Matthew 24:3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen? What will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 Yeshua (Jesus)answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray! 5 For MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will lead many astray. 6 You will hear of WARS AND RUMORS (OR THREATS) OF WARS. See that you are not alarmed, for this must happen but it is not yet the end. 7 For NATION WILL RISE UP AGAINST NATION, and KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM. And there will be FAMINES and EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES. 8 But all these things are only the beginning of birth pains. 9 Then they will hand you over to PERSECUTION AND THEY WILL KILL YOU. You will be HATED BY ALL NATIONS BECAUSE OF MY NAME. 10 And then MANY WILL FALL AWAY AND WILL BETRAY ONE ANOTHER AND HATE ONE ANOTHER. 11 Many FALSE PROPHETS will arise and lead many astray. 12 Because LAWLESSNESS WILL MULTIPLY , AND THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Those are just the signs mentioned in Matthew 24. There are many more throughout the Bible. I believe that somewhere you asked about the Revelation 12:1 & 2 sign (actually the Bible calls it a GREAT SIGN). This sign is so exact and specific that many people thought Christ might rapture the church then, but the Bible calls it a "great sign".
Revelation 12:1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
2 She is pregnant-crying out in birth pains, in agony to give birth.
On September 23, 2017, in Virgo (The Virgin to the Jews) she normally has 9 stars at her head, but on that day 3 planets (wandering stars) filled in to make 12 stars. The sun went through her (clothed in the sun), the moon was at her feet. What was REALLY astounding was that Jupiter (the King Planet) was in her abdomen for 9 months (gestation period) and came out (she gave birth) at that time.
People checked back at least 6000 years using astronomy software and forward at least 1000 years and 9/23/17 was the only time this occurred. There were several times in these 7000 years where this alignment was not too far off, but that date was the only time that occurred exactly.
PLEASE Jeffrey, if you have any further questions, just ask. I will try to answer as best I can.
If you are not a born-again Christian, I urge you to become one, if you are, HalleluYAH we are going home soon. Please don't ask me how long is "soon", it could be tomorrow or 5 years from now, I do not know, but I strongly suspect it is on the shorter end of that time-frame. Blessings of God!
She can come to me by herself quite perfectly.
Beautiful, beautiful video or a film about “Amazing Grace” and John Newton who wrote it!!!! Thank you very much!
This song is so-so special to me as it brings to my mind my dad, who recently passed away as it was one of his favorite hymns too. How I miss him and how I wish he was still here. RIP dad.
2021, an amazing Grace that has saved me , thank you Lord
Powerful, encouraging, and yes, Amazing! The Gospel song that never ceases to speak to the hearts of the saved & those on their way. Thank you for posting.
THANKYOU JESUS CHRIST ❤
My favourite hymn. I never heard the history of this hymn before. It now gives it even more meaning. Amazing Grace is truly amazing!🛐🕆❤