The text is:

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for ev'ry sinner slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

Ev'ry eye shall now behold him
Robed in glorious majesty;
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall their true Messiah see.

Those dear tokens of his Passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshipers.
With what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, amen, let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou a lone!

From the Sermon:

This hymn just won’t let us get away from the cross. Those dear tokens of his Passion are the wounds in His hands, feet and side. These are the marks of His crucifixion for our sin. It is exactly what God had done to redeem us, to set us free from the sin that would condemn us. You see, without the bleeding and dying that the marks remind us of the Christmas story would be an empty celebration. Jesus comes as a baby to die, and that’s why the joy. We are the ransomed worshippers who see those marks as our Salvation.

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