Black Creek Baptist Church
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Black Creek Baptist Church
504 Black Creek Rd.
Birmingham, Alabama  35217
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8

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Love, Grace and Assurance
19
I Know Whom I have Believed

Music by McGranahan, James
Lyrics by Whittle, Daniel W.

1
I know not why God’s wondrous grace,
To me He hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love,
Redeemed me for His own.

Refrain:
But “I know Whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able,
To keep that which I’ve committed,
Unto Him against that day.”

2
I know not how this saving faith,
To me He did impart,
Nor how believing in His Word,
Wrought peace within my heart.

3
I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing men of sin,
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him.

4
I know not what of good or ill,
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days,
Before His face I see.

5
I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I walk the vale with Him,
Or meet Him in the air.
American evangelist Daniel Webster Whittle (b. Chicopee Falls, MA, 1840; d. Northfield, MA, 1901) wrote this text based on 2 Timothy 1:12, which is quoted in the refrain (King James Version). It was published with EL NATHAN in Gospel Hymns No.4 (1883).

The text contrasts the "I know not" stanzas with the certainty of the "I know" refrain We cannot understand God's saving grace to us (st. 1); we cannot explain our spiritual birth (st. 2); we are unable to comprehend the work of God's Spirit (st. 3); and we do not perceive clearly the future of our earthly lives (st. 4). But we do know by faith that God is true to his word!

Whittle was a bank cashier, Civil War soldier, and company treasurer before he became an evangelist. Earning the title of major during his military career, he was called Major Whittle throughout his life. Because of the influence of Dwight L. Moody whom he met during the war, Whittle became an itinerant evangelist in 1873. He conducted evangelistic campaigns in North America and Great Britain, often accompanied by popular gospel singers such as Philip P. Bliss (PHH 482), James McGranab and George Stebbins (PHH 63). These men not only sang at Whittle’s evangelistic meetings but also set to music many of his two hundred hymn texts (which he usually wrote under the pseudonym "El Nathan"). (from Hymnary.org)

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