Poetry

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THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL
ABOUT JESUS CHRIST THE SON.
THE PROPHET ISAIAH DID TELL
A MESSENGER TOO WOULD COME.

HE WILL GO AND PREPARE THE WAY
LIKE A LONE VOICE CALLING OUT.
FOR THE LORD NOW PREPARE THE WAY
MAKE HIS PATH STRAIGHT, HE WILL SHOUT.

2.
AND SO JOHN THEN CAME BAPTIZING
IN THE DESERT REGION THERE.
PREACHING SO MEN REALIZING
IN GOOD NEWS THEY HAVE A SHARE.

A BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
TO THE JUDEAN CROWDS MADE SENSE
SO CONFESSING THEIRS, BEGINS.

3.
THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN
BY JOHN WHO WORE CAMELS HAIR.
A LEATHER BELT FOR A WAIST BAND
HONEY AND LOCUSTS HIS FARE.

HE PREACHED THAT AFTER ME WILL COME
ONE MORE POWERFUL THAN I.
I AM NOT WORTHY TO STOOP DOWN
AND HIS TWO SANDALS UNTIE.

4.
I NOW BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER
BUT HE WHO COMES AFTER ME.
WILL BAPTIZE EACH SON AND DAUGHTER
IN HIS HOLY SPIRIT FREE.

JESUS THEN CAME FROM NAZARETH
AND IN JORDAN WAS BAPTIZED.
WHEN HE CAME UP TO GET HIS BREATH
HE WAS BY THIS SCENE SURPRISED.


5.
HE SAW HEAVEN THEN TORN OPEN
AND DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE.
THE SPIRIT CAME, I HEARD SPOKEN
YOU ARE MY SON WHOM I LOVE.

WITH YOU I AM WELL PLEASED GOD SAID
YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL GRACE.
THE SPIRIT TO THE DESERT LED
WHERE HE MUST TEMPTATION FACE.

6.
FORTY DAYS HE THERE WAS TEMPTED
BY SATAN THE ENEMY.
FROM NO PAIN WAS HE EXEMPTED
WHAT ALL MEN FACE SO DID HE.

WHILE ANIMALS WERE WITH HIM
BUT OUR LORD WAS NOT AFRAID.
ANGELS DID NOT LET HIS HOPE DIM
AS HE ALL GOD'S WILL OBEYED.

7.
AFTER JOHN WAS PUT IN PRISON
JESUS WENT TO GALILEE.
PROCLAIMING GOD'S GOOD DECISION
TO LET HIS KINGDOM NEAR BE.

RESPECT AND BELIEVE THIS GOOD NEWS
TIME IS NOW, THE KINGDOM'S NEAR
HE GAVE FAR MORE THAN JUST GOOD VIEWS
IN HIM GOD'S KINGDOM WAS HERE.

8.
JESUS WALKED BESIDE GALILEE
SIMON AND ANDREW WERE THERE.
CASTING THEIR NETS INTO THE SEA
JESUS SAID COME, IF YOU DARE.

FOLLOW ME, BE FISHERS OF MEN
AND AT ONCE THEY LEFT THEIR NETS.
JAMES AND JOHN TWO MORE FISHERMEN
WHO SEEMED WEALTHY WITHOUT DEBTS.




9.
THEY LEFT THEIR FATHER ZEBEDEE
WHO HAD MANY HIRED MEN.
THEY BEGAN DISCIPLES TO BE
THUS DID CHRIST'S KINGDOM BEGIN.

THEY ALL WENT TO CAPERNAUM
AND WHEN THE SABBATH DAY CAME.
INTO THE SYNAGOGUE THEY COME
JESUS TAUGHT AND MEN EXCLAIM.

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WE ARE AMAZED AT HIS TEACHING
HE HAS SUCH AUTHORITY.
TEACHERS OF THE LAW ARN'T TEACHING
WITH SUCH CONVICTION AS HE.

JUST THEN A MAN WHO WAS POSSESSED
BY AN EVIL SPIRIT CRIED.
JESUS WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH US
HAVE YOU COME FOR HOMICIDE?

11.
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, HOLY ONE
COME FROM GOD TO US DESTROY.
BE QUIET AND OUT OF HIM COME
CEASE THIS BODY TO ANNOY.

THE EVIL SPIRIT SHOOK THE MAN
VIOLENTLY HE CAME OUT.
JESUS PUT UPON HIM A BAN
AND HE LEFT WITH SHRIEK AND SHOUT.

12.
THE PEOPLE WERE ALL SO AMAZED
THEY ASKED OTHERS WHAT IS THIS?
A NEW TEACHING HAS BEEN HERE RAISED
EVIL ONES HE CAN DISMISS.

THEY OBEY HIS AUTHORITY
QUICKLY NEWS OF HIM DID SPREAD.
THE WHOLE REGION OF GALILEE
HEARD JUST WHAT HE DID AND SAID.


13.
THEY LEFT AND WENT TO SIMONS' HOME
HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS SICK.
SHE COULD NOT OUT OF HER BED ROAM
SHE A FEVER COULD NOT KICK.

WHEN THEY TOLD JESUS ABOUT HER
HE WENT IN TO HELP HER UP.
THE FEVER SO QUICKLY LEFT HER
SHE JOINED IN AS THEY DID SUP.

14.
THAT EVENING AFTER SUNSET
THE TOWN GATHERED AT HIS DOOR.
PEOPLE SICK, WITH DEMONS UPSET
HE TO GOOD HEALTH DID RESTORE.

JESUS HEAL'D MANY DISEASES
DROVE OUT MANY DEMONS TOO.
THEY HAVE TO DO WHAT HE PLEASES
KEEP SILENT OF WHAT THEY KNEW.

15.
VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING
EVEN WHEN IT WAS STILL DARK.
JESUS PUT ON THIS ADORNING
BY PRAYER HE WOULD MAKE HIS MARK.

IT WAS QUIET ALL AROUND HIM
HE HAD THE PEACE HE WAS DUE.
BUT SIMON AND OTHERS FOUND HIM
EVERYONE'S LOOKING FOR YOU.

16.
JESUS REPLIED LET'S GET AWAY
GO TO SOME NEARBY VILLAGE.
I HAVE COME THIS GOOD NEWS TO SAY
PREACHING IT'S A PRIVILEGE.

SO HE TRAVELLED THROUGH GALILEE
PREACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES.
DRIVING OUT DEMONS SO ALL SEE
AND HEED HIS GREAT MONOLOGUES.



17.
A LEPER CAME TO HIM ON KNEES
IF YOU WILL I CAN BE CLEAN.
COMPASSION IN JESUS HE SEES
JESUS SAYS I WILL, BE CLEAN!

JESUS CURED HIM AND HE SENT HIM
WITH THE WARNING NOT TO TELL.
BE A TESTIMONY TO THEM
OBEY THE LAW, DON'T REBEL.

18.
GO AND TO THE PRIEST YOUR SKIN SHOW
AND OFFER THE SACRIFICE.
LET ALL THE AUTHORITIES KNOW
LET MY POWER THEM ENTICE.

BUT HE WENT AND FREELY DID TALK
CAUSING PROBLEMS, SUCH A SHAME.
JESUS COULD IN TOWN NOT THEN WALK
BUT OUTSIDE PEOPLE STILL CAME.

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