Sinner Saved By Grace

Album: The Cathedrals: A Farewell Celebration (1999)
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  • if you could see what I once was
    if you could go with me
    back to where I started from
    then I know you would see
    a miracle of love that took me
    in its sweet embrace
    and made me what I am today
    just an old sinner saved by grace

    Chorus
    I'm just a sinner saved by grace
    when I stood condemned to death
    he took my place
    now I live and breathe in freedom
    with each breath of life I take
    I'm loved and forgiven
    back with the living
    I'm just a sinner saved by grace

    how could I boast of anything
    I've ever seen or done?
    how could I dare to claim as mine
    the victories God has won?
    where would I be
    had God not brought me
    safely to this place?
    I'm here to say I'm nothing but
    an old sinner saved by grace

    Chorus:
    I'm just a sinner saved by grace
    when I stood condemned to death
    he took my place
    now I live and breathe in freedom
    with each breath of life I take
    I'm loved and forgiven
    back with the living
    I'm just a sinner saved by grace

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Comments: 3

  • Keith from Folkston, Gajust the title puts everything in perspective!
  • Homer from Versailles, IlI'm glad to see that this song has touched someone else besides me. It's a very profound but simple statement of faith.
  • Orlando Richards from Jamaica, United StatesThe song Sinner Saved by Grace is a wonderful song i hope some day i will join you in heaven where we will all sing together on the see of glass. Continue to sing this song because we wre all sinners save by grace.God love you all.
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