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There are a few topics about which it is hard to find an abundance of truly good quality hymns. The Lord’s Supper is one of those topics and this song is one of the true gems of hymnody that combines doctrine with delight, teaching with thankfulness. This song is rooted in the gospel of grace; that God invited us to His table, enabled us to hear His voice and respond, and now calls us to dine on the peace and pardon available to us through Jesus’ blood. The second verse calls to mind the parable of the marriage feast in Matthew 22. The reminder that thousands would “rather starve than come” to Christ reminds us that without God’s enabling grace we would still be stubbornly hungry as well. When we gather as a church family around the Lord’s Supper we experience a foretaste of the marriage supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19) May God be glorified as we remember His grace in saving us and bringing us to His table!

Lyrics

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Verse 1:
How sweet and awesome is the place, / How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.
Here all the mercy of our God / Here every bowel of our God
With vast compassion rolls; / With soft compassion rolls;
And peace and pardon through His blood, / Here peace and pardon bought with blood
Is food for ransomed souls. / Is food for dying souls.

Verse 1:
Chorus:
How sweet is the place / (new)
You remind us of grace.
See this bread and this wine –
You have called us to dine.

Verse 2:
While all our hearts in prayer and song / While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each wonders now with thankful tongue, / Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why am I a guest? / “Lord, why was I a guest?
Why was I made to hear Your voice, / Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there's room;
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

Verse 3:
Show mercy to the nations, God! / Pity the nations, O our God!
Constrain the earth to come;
Send Your victorious Word abroad, / Send Thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
We long to see Your churches full, / We long to see Thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May with one voice and heart and soul
Sing Your redeeming grace.

Alternate Chorus:
(used before a sermon)
How sweet is the place
You remind us of grace.
On Your Word we will feast
Where delights never cease.

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