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Love Prevails
03:45
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If I speak in tongues of men
And angels that are heaven sent
To treasure gifts this child enjoyed
Without love, I only pass
As clanging cymbals and sounding brass
To give a sound, yet life devoid
If by prophecy I'd share
Mysteries sages would declare
All my knowledge won't compare to love
For only love prevails
Love, love, love prevails
Whether tongues will cease or knowledge fails
We know in part what will be unveiled
God is love, and only love prevails
Love prevails
Only Love prevails
If my faith makes mountains move
And loveless works my power prove
Would it ever mean a thing?
If I dole out all I own
To feed the hungry in lands unknown
Would my boast a profit bring?
Love is patient; love is kind
Jealous boasting, love declines
On account of evil, love is blind
For only love prevails
Love, love, love prevails
Whether tongues will cease or knowledge fails
We know in part what will be unveiled
God is love, and only love prevails
Love prevails
Only Love prevails
Love, love, love prevails
Whether tongues will cease or knowledge fails
We know in part what will be unveiled
God is love, and only love prevails
Love prevails
Only Love prevails
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2. |
Who Shall Separate us
04:10
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Long before His eternal plan
Long before anything else, God loved man
Love to us, He imparts
This love is His heart
Who shall separate us from His love?
Shall anything God’s love deter?
I'm persuaded none can sever us
From the love that makes us more than conquerors
Love is in Christ Jesus our Lord
Nothing can separate us, we’re assured
In the Son, love insures
God's love is secure
Who shall separate us from His love?
Shall anything God’s love deter?
I'm persuaded none can sever us
From the love that makes us more than conquerors
Love was the fountain, love was the root
Love was the source before me and you
Love eternal never fails
Love always prevails
Who shall separate us from His love?
Shall anything God’s love deter?
I'm persuaded none can sever us
From the love that makes us more than conquerors
Who shall separate us from His love?
Shall anything God’s love deter?
I'm persuaded none can sever us
From the love that makes us more than conquerors
Ooh, God is love
His love makes us more than conquerors
Ooh, God is love
His love makes us more than conquerors
Ooh, God is love
His love makes us more than conquerors
Ooh, God is love
His love makes us more than conquerors
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3. |
The Greatest of These
02:54
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Based on 1 Cor 13, 14:1; Heb 11:1, Rom 13:8, Eph 4:16, and The Vital Groups, ch. 8 by Witness Lee
Music and lyrics by Matthew David Fritz
Pursue love as the greatest virtue
Behold the most excellent way
Where talents and gifts will fail you
Love never falls away
What nullifies natural jealousy
And quells all our selfish pride?
Of all of the virtues only
Three abide
Hope will reap what faith believes
But love enjoys what these receive
Of virtues that we partake of
The greatest of these is love
One counting another’s failures
Unwritten yet in the mind
Uncovering one's behavior
Forgetting that love is blind
Exchanges provoke us easily
When short of the loving cure
When filled with divine love then we see
Love endures
Stumbling ends where love begins
For love covers another’s sins
Of virtues, even the best thereof
The greatest of these is love
Our loving one another
Will God’s own law fulfill
Then of itself the body in
Love will build
Hope will reap what faith believes
But love enjoys what these receive
Of virtues that we partake of
The greatest of these is love
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4. |
Love Becomes Us
03:12
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Something that wants to love
Desire without reality
The very expression of
An attribute that’s all divine
A virtue shown in man
Then God infused Himself as love
According to His plan
When love is perfected in us
We are perfected in love
We love because He first loved us
For we become the love
And the love becomes us
We’re born to be His species
Born to be God’s kind
Since God is love, we should be love
For love is God’s design
It's not the tender feeling
Nor what love compels
It’s not just merely that we love
But we are love itself
And we know
Perfect Love casts out all fear
In His love, love perfectly appears
Perfect Love casts out all fear
In His love, love perfectly appears
When love is perfected in us
We are perfected in love
We love because He first loved us
For we become the love
And the love becomes us
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5. |
A Spirit of Love
04:35
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Based on 1 Timothy 1:6-7, and The Vital Groups, ch. 8 by Witness Lee
Music and lyrics by Matthew David Fritz
A spirit of love fanned into flame
Love will prevail more than any word in power proclaimed
Things that we do, words that we say
When in a spirit of love, how love prevails in this way.
The spirit in man, where our God lives
Greatest of gifts we could e’er receive, freely He gives
By His great love, God is so known
Only a spirit of love in man makes His love shown
If my own desires
Quench the Spirit within
Remind me to fan it again
Powerful will, sober in mind
Yet without love only threatening words other souls find
To overcome, for this we yearn
Oh may a spirit that’s fanned into flame increasingly burn
If my own desires
Quench the Spirit within
Remind me to fan it again
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6. |
The Most Excellent Way
03:42
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When I’m strong I need no physician
No healer I’d know
When I’m weak in my ill condition
The healer’s balm flows
Loving not just the lovely ones
Is the Son of His perfect love
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you
Where are they who would condemn you?
Have stones yet been thrown?
When this love comes to my rescue
Will mercy be shown?
Who is weak, and yet I am not?
This the spirit that love begot
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you
And to be anything and do anything
For the building up
The only way is love
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you a most excellent way
I will show you a most excellent way
The excellent way
The excellent way
The excellent way is love
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7. |
The Third Day
06:31
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Based on Hosea 6:1-3; Romans 8:21; and The Life-Study of Malachi, chapter 4 by Witness Lee
Music and lyrics by Matthew David Fritz
Torn from our land
Torn like a garment from His hand
Our seams that were rent are now tattered fray
Torn hearts will be healed on the third day
Stricken with despair
Stricken by the One whose grief we share
Our scattered dry bones on the ground now lay
Stricken souls He’ll bind up on the third day
From it’s slavery
All of creation longs to be freed
He will enliven after two days
And on the third day He will raise us up
And we’ll live in His presence
In the reality
Of the third day
Of the third day
Rain, come as rain
Water my heart’s parched and dry terrain
As sure as the dawn, going forth, display
How morning has come on the third day
Let us pursue
Knowing the One in whom we’re renewed
He will enliven after two days
And on the third day He will raise us up
And we’ll live in His presence
In the reality
Of the third day
Of the third day
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Chords of a Man Centerville, Ohio
Chords of a Man is a husband and wife duo comprised of Leslie Fritz and Matthew David Fritz. Focusing on Biblical themes,
they write and produce illustrative original songs that draw upon deep scripture passages.
Their complimentary voices and pristine 2-part harmonies form the hallmark of their enchanting sound and diverse, Americana style musical arrangements.
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