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If Not for Love

'If Not for Love" reminds us the reason for celebrating Christmas: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). The Apostle Paul gives us this comforting promise: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8, 35-39).

Lyrics

Text: Toni Thomas  Music: Diane Tuiofu

CHORUS

If not for love,
what then would send

The Son of God to dwell with men?

To leave His Father’s gracious throne

And wander earth without a home?

 

If not for love,
why then would He,

The Lord of all, become a baby

And walk among the sons of men?

If not for love what then?

 

Verse one

A manger in a cave,

The King of Kings
no castle knows.

Swaddling rags
for royal robes,

While at the inn the people sleep.

While shepherds guard their sheep

A sudden glory breaks the night

Fills the air with song and light

"The child is born; Immanuel!"

 

REPEAT CHORUS

Verse two

One newly shining star

Summons wise men who will bring

Gifts to crown the baby king

Of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

And while the weary world

Winds its way without a pause

In their midst the Son of God;

His life a sacrifice for love.

 

REPEAT CHORUS

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