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Joy To the World

ADVENT 2025 – Part 3

December 14, 2025

¹ Sing to the Lord a new song,

    for he has done marvelous things;

his right hand and his holy arm

    have worked salvation for him.

² The Lord has made his salvation known

    and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

³ He has remembered his love

    and his faithfulness to Israel;

all the ends of the earth have seen

    the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth,

    burst into jubilant song with music;

⁵ make music to the Lord with the harp,

    with the harp and the sound of singing,

⁶ with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—

    shout for joy before the Lord, the King.

⁷ Let the sea resound, and everything in it,

    the world, and all who live in it.

⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands,

    let the mountains sing together for joy;

⁹ let them sing before the Lord,

    for he comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

    and the peoples with equity.

Psalm 98

The Psalm

     Psalm 98

The Song

     Joy To the World

     Joy to the world; the Lord is come;

     Let Earth receive her King;

     Let every heart prepare him room,

     And heaven and nature sing. And heaven and nature sing.

     And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

     Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns;

     Let men their songs employ.

     While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,

     Repeat the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy.

     Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

     No more let sins and sorrows grow,

     Nor thorns infest the ground;

     He comes to make his blessings flow

     Far as the curse is found. Far as the curse is found.

     Far as, far as, the curse is found.

     He rules the world with truth and grace,

     And makes the nations prove

     The glories of his righteousness,

     And wonders of his love. And wonders of his love.

     And wonders, wonders, of his love.

Christmas Joy

       ⁸ And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. ⁹ An angel of the

     Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to

     them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. ¹¹ Today in the town

     of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign to you: You will find a

     baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

     Luke 2:8-12

An Outpouring of Praise

     The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they

     had been told.

     Luke 2:20