Sometimes It Causes Me To Tremble

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

This is the sound and story of Good Friday.


Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?
Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?

Our Lord died not on steel, but on wood. Christ was humble in birth and in death.  The hammer pounds; the crowd jeers. "Come down from the cross!" they call. But Christ was obedient unto death, even death on a tree.

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?
Were you there when they pierced him in the side?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

Out of his side poured blood and water. At Cana the water became wine; at the Last Supper the wine represented Christ's blood. Water is baptism, a symbol that we are children of God, that we are within God's people. Blood is the new covenant by Christ's crucifixion, redeeming us, a symbol that we are within God's grace. By Christ's blood we live. By the living water Christ gives us we will never thirst.

Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when the sun refused to shine?

Christ is Lord of heaven and earth; Christ is the light of the world, and when Christ died, the light died also.


Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

But darkness has never overcome the light, and so we wait.