God’s Son was born and lived and died
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007- just to save this soul of mine!
“I was sitting in a room with Lowell Alexander and as we were goofing around we came upon this melody and I said something like ‘that sounds like a fairy tale.’ This song was born out of that feeling. Surely the story of the Gospel must be a legend or something. It is too good to be true but it really is true. I can’t believe the God who is bigger than the universe would care enough for me to send His only Son to die for me. We have so much to be grateful for.” - Greg Long
GREG LONG - ‘Once Upon A Time’ (MP3 clip)
Once upon a time
a Son lay in a manger
Gentle tiny precious gift
sent from Heaven’s hand
Mother’s baby boy
tender as the starlight
Born with wonder in His eyes
Once upon a timeOnce upon the sea
this Son walked on the water
And every eye that witnessed Him
witnessed miracles
He dared us to have faith
beyond imagination
To reach beyond humanity
Once upon the seaThis story that I’m telling you
Of love that never fails
May seem too good to be true
But it’s not a fairy taleOnce upon a tree
the Son became a Savior
A sacrifice of grand design
in the name of love
Hands nailed to the cross
with open arms to teach us
to reach out to humanity
Once upon a treeGod’s Son was born
And lived and died
Just to save this soul of mine
Once upon a time
My friends, I want you to remember the message that I preached and that you believed and trusted. You will be saved by this message, if you hold firmly to it. But if you don’t, your faith was all for nothing.
I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. That part is:
Christ died for our sins,
as the Scriptures say.
He was buried,
and three days later
he was raised to life,
as the Scriptures say.
