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It Is Well With My Soul

It Is Well With My Soul. A Closer Look. What are You Feeling?. Your Pre-School child dies in an accident Your business gets wiped out in a hurricane You decide to go to Disney World You send your wife and daughters ahead

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It Is Well With My Soul

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  1. It Is Well With My Soul • A Closer Look

  2. What are You Feeling? • Your Pre-School child dies in an accident • Your business gets wiped out in a hurricane • You decide to go to Disney World • You send your wife and daughters ahead • The plane crashes you get a text from your wife that says “Saved Alone”

  3. Meet Mr. Spafford • Horatio Spafford’s 4 year old son dies in 1871 • Practice destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire • Family takes a trip to Europe in 1873 • He stays behind because of a zoning issue • The ship sinks, 4 daughters drown, his wife sends a telegram “Saved Alone”

  4. A closer Look at Lyrics When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrow like sea billows roll The first line, life is good, life is going well. The second line is born out of the pain of his personal tragedy. Billow is an old word for wave.

  5. A closer Look at Lyrics Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul “My lot”, it is the hand you have been dealt, your circumstances. Thou- fancy way of saying you. Notice he isn’t naturally like this, he has been taught to say, “It is well with my soul”

  6. A closer Look at Lyrics Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come Buffet- to lash or batter repeatedly especially with wind or waves This is the bad stuff happening over and over

  7. A closer Look at Lyrics Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate Blest- fancy way of saying blessed. The lyric is saying no matter how bad it gets the assurance that Christ knows all this, He knows all the garbage that is happening...

  8. A closer Look at Lyrics And hath shed His own blood for my soul Hath- fancy way of saying has. Christ shed his blood for YOU personally, not just all of humanity but for you.

  9. A closer Look at Lyrics My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought, My sin, not in part but the whole. The rhythm of the lyric almost cuts of the excitement, the urgency of this line. He can’t contain himself, not just part of his (your) sin but ALL OF IT

  10. A closer Look at Lyrics Is nailed to the Cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord Oh my soul! ALL of your sin is on the cross, through Christ you no longer carry it, you are no longer accountable for it (eternally). PRAISE GOD!

  11. A closer Look at Lyrics And Lord haste the day, when my faith shall be sight. He is longing for the day when the things believe in faith are in plain sight. When we see God in His glory in Heaven.

  12. A closer Look at Lyrics The clouds be rolled back as a scroll I believe this to be a metaphor to represent the separation between our world and heaven. He is longing for the second coming.

  13. A closer Look at Lyrics The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, Even so it is well with my soul. The second coming, the new heaven and the new earth. He gets to see his kids again, but I think more importantly he acknowledges the joy of being with God in perfect relationship with Him.

  14. The rest of the Story • Spaffords would have three more children • One died in infancy • Spaffords moved to Israel in 1881 • Started a mission called “American Colony”

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