Welcome to the Scripture Study Project.

We study together by investing our hearts into important questions,

discovering powerful truths from God and His Word,

and connecting meaningfully with others as we learn and teach together. Hey everyone, welcome back.

I want to start this week by reading one of our most beloved and favorite hymns and then

explaining just a little bit of the background of the hymn.

So this is 1001 one come now found of every

blessing. And you're probably familiar. This hymn has been kind of on and off in our hymn book.

It was not in our most recent printed one and the one from 1985. And at that time it was a lot of

people have wondered, well, why wasn't it there as such

a well-known and popular hymn?

Well, in 1985 it wasn't really.

And those that were putting that hymn book together, even though the hymn had been previously

in hymn books, they sense that church members were kind of unfamiliar with it.

It wasn't sung very often. And then in the

1990s, Mac Wilberg writes an arrangement for the tabernacle choir, which becomes just beloved.

And then we're all wondering for 30 years why it's not in the hymn book. So now it is. It's the

very first one that was put in in our new hymns for home and church and the

text is wonderful but I love it even more for two things I have come to learn about

it first the background of the hymn it was written by Robert Robinson who grew up

in the 1700s in poverty.

His father had passed away.

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