Chords for Isn't That Why He Came? | The Collingsworth Family | Official Performance Video

_ _ _ Recently I read a story that a guy named Philip Yancey told. _
_ Philip Yancey is a speaker and an author and he told about one Christmas that he
decided he wanted to spend it in London.
_ So he went to London and one particular
morning he got up and he said I just wanted to see some of England's glory.
_ So
he said I decided I was gonna tour the city. _ _
He said I went through there and I
looked at different things.
He said I saw the mayor's gilded carriage.
It was so
ornate and gorgeous.
_ He said I saw a golden scepter.
I saw the crown jewels.
_ _ He
said I just saw how they did things and how they gave treatment to royalty.
_ _ He
said even down to the guards every detail of their uniform was precise.
_ _ Nothing left to chance.
Everything.
_ _ And he said while I was touring that morning he
said it reminded me of a recent trip that Queen Elizabeth had taken.
She'd
come to the United States and he said I had seen it on the news.
He said she came
to the USA and he said they rolled the red carpet out for her.
_ _ _ And he said I
heard in the news that she came with 4,000 pounds of luggage.
Ladies did you
hear me?
_ _ 4,000 pounds.
They allow us 50.
_ _ Just get this in perspective here.
_ _ _ She
came with her own personal hairdresser, _ bodyguards, and attendants to meet every
need she would ever have.
I personally became curious and did a little more
research to see how she really would travel and when I did the research they
said it's not uncommon for her to travel with six secretaries, eight bodyguards,
_ two hairdressers, and two ladies-in-waiting and the list went on and
on and on.
_ _ _ Royal treatment _ made me start thinking _ of God's visit to this earth. _ _ _
_ He
came to this earth and used a borrowed animal shelter. _ _
There were no attendants. _ _ _ _
He was dependent upon a teenage couple for food and shelter and clothing.
_ _ There
really wasn't a, well there was an announcement definitely.
The angels lit
up the sky but who does the Bible say saw it? _ _ _
_ Some shepherds on a hillside and
one commentator said they were illiterate harlequins who just watched
the flocks of others. _
_ Some people would classify them as nobodies and that's who
saw the announcement. _ _ _
I don't know why Jesus chose to come that way.
I think in
the human [C] if any of us had the chance and had the power that God had we'd come
out and show it off _ but not him.
_ _ Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote a lyric
that says he was just an ordinary baby.
That's the way he planned it maybe so
that we could come to him and not be afraid.
With no air of condescension he
became God's pure extension giving you and me the chance to be remade.
_ And he
came to us with eyes wide open _ knowing we were hurt and broken _ but still choosing
to partake of all our joy and pain.
Oh he was just an ordinary baby.
That's the way
he planned it maybe so that we could come to him and not be afraid.
Listen, _ this
king, this God _ who could order armies around, _ he can put up kings when he wants
to and take them down when he wants to, can move them around like pieces on a
chessboard.
_ This God _ chose to come wearing the glory of humility _ and he
came for you and he came for me.
_ _ Is it any wonder that the songwriter many
years ago penned how silently, how silently the wondrous gift was given?
But God imparts to human hearts the message of his heaven.
No ear may hear his
coming but in this world of sin where meek souls will receive him, the dear
Christ enters in.
Aren't you glad he came?
_ Aren't you glad he came and today, this
day, he still is making an eternal difference in all of our lives that will
let [Ab] him.
_ I'm so thankful that Jesus came _ and he truly has made all [Db]
the difference.
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_ Born in _ [Gb] _ [Ab] Bethlehem's tiny crowded [Db] _ town, _ _ _ raised in [Gb] Nazareth, a king without a
[Db] crown. _ _ _ _
He sat [Gb] with _ sinners, [Ab]
the lowly [Bbm] _ and the lame.
_ Some [Ebm] didn't understand but he
was not [Eb] _ _ ashamed.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Db] Isn't that [Ebm] why he [Ab] came?
A poor lost world to [Db] save, to carry _ [Ebm] all our shame [Eb] and heal the hurt [Abm] away. _
Bring [Db] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
hope to the [Eb] hopeless, _ _ [Db] shield them from the [F] _ _ blame.
[Ebm] Oh, _ isn't that [Eb] why he [Db] came?
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ Dressed [Gb] in tattered clothes, [Ab] homeless _ _ [Db]
and abused.
_ _ [Gb] Only heaven knows the things that
[Db] she's been through.
_ [Abm] _ It would [Gb] have been easier _ [Eb] to turn and [Bbm] walk.
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ Oh, but [B] _
cavalry
_ [Gb] compels our hearts [Ab]
to _ _ stay.
[Gb] Isn't that why he came?
[Ab] A poor [Db] lost world to save, [Bbm] to carry [Ebm] all our shame [Eb] and heal the [Abm] hurt away.
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Gb] Bring hope to [Eb] the hopeless, _ _ [Db]
shield them from [F] the _ [Bb] blame.
Oh, [Ebm] _
_ isn't that [Ab] why he [Db] _
came?
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Db] For the [Ab] rich man in a mansion, [Gb] _ [Gbm] for the beggar on the [Db] street, [Bbm] for the [Ab] one who needs compassion, [Gb] _ for the strong and for the [B] _ weak.
[Ab] _ _
_ [Cm] Isn't [Fm] that why he [F] came?
[Bb] A poor lost world to [Eb]
save, [Cm] to carry [Fm] all our shame [Bb] and heal [Bb] the hurt [Bbm] away.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] Bring hope to [Abm] the hopeless, _ _ [Eb] shield them from the [G]
blame.
[C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ Isn't that [B] why he [Cm] _ _ [C] came?
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
isn't that why _ _ [Bb] _ _
he [Eb] came? _ _ _ _ _
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