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Grace Has Come

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About this songIsaiah's courtroom invitation — “come now, let us reason together” — over a barn-dance shuffle: though your sins are scarlet, grace has come through the Son.
Big ideaIsaiah’s courtroom invitation — “come now, let us reason together” — turns the sinner’s scarlet to snow: grace has come through the Son who bore our straying.
Doctrine
Justification · Grace
Anchor text
Isaiah 1:18 · Isaiah 53:6
Form
Barn-dance shuffle
Voices
The prophet Isaiah
Intro

Come now and reason with me,
come now and reason with me —
that’s what the Holy One’s broadcasting.

Verse 1

Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be white as snow;
though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.

Come now and reason with me —
are you hearing what He’s saying?

Verse 2

All we like sheep have gone astray,
each of us turned to his own way,
but the Lord — oh, the Lord —
but the Lord — oh, the Lord —
did send the Son to pay.

Chorus

Grace has come, through the Son.
Grace has come, through the Son.
Grace has come, through the Son.
Grace has come, through the Son.

Coda — Spoken Word

Someone once said that God is more ready to forgive than you are to be forgiven — and the cross proves it. Come now, let us reason together… Grace has come. Through the Son…

Scripture References

  1. Isaiah 1:18
  2. Isaiah 53:6
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Study this song

Teaching aids drawn from the song — for personal study or group discussion.

How the song moves

1
Come and reason
The Holy One’s courtroom summons isn’t to condemn but to cleanse: “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).
2
Scarlet to snow
Though sins are scarlet and crimson, they’ll be white as snow and wool — a permanent dye undone (Isaiah 1:18).
3
The straying laid on Him
“All we like sheep have gone astray… the Lord did send the Son to pay” (Isaiah 53:6).
4
Grace has come
The verdict — through the Son; the cross proves God’s readiness to forgive (2 Corinthians 5:18–21).

Key terms & allusions

  • “Come now, let us reason together” — Isaiah 1:18 (KJV cadence) — a legal “let’s settle this in court” summons that ends not in sentence but in pardon.
  • “scarlet… crimson… snow… wool” — Isaiah 1:18’s color imagery; scarlet and crimson dyes were famously permanent, which makes the whitening a miracle.
  • “all we like sheep” — Isaiah 53:6 — the Suffering Servant bearing the iniquity of the strays (the line Handel’s Messiah made famous).
  • “God is more ready to forgive than you are to be forgiven” — A sentiment common in Puritan devotion; the song’s spoken coda adds, “and the cross proves it.”

Discussion questions

  1. Isaiah frames forgiveness as a courtroom “reasoning.” How does picturing it as a legal settlement — not just a feeling — change the gospel for you?
  2. “God is more ready to forgive than you are to be forgiven.” Do you actually believe that? Where do we resist being forgiven?
  3. Scarlet dye was permanent. What “permanent” stain do people assume is beyond grace?

For contemplation

  1. What scarlet are you carrying that you doubt can become snow?
  2. Are you more reluctant to be forgiven than God is to forgive you?
  3. Sit with “the Lord did send the Son to pay.” What does that cost say about the love?