Throwback to Godspell - God Save the People

     Last evening I grabbed my old Bible and remembered I've had this index card tucked in the pages since I was a kid:

     Before we had Internet and phones to pull up any video or song, we had movies and soundtracks. I got the album for Godspell and the piano/guitar music and listened and played and practiced and sang. I decided to figure out what verses the songs had come from. I knew the script followed the Gospel of Matthew. It didn't take too long to write out the songs and scripture in which they were rooted. This was my first independent Bible study.

2. God Save the People

Matthew 1:21

"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." 
Jesus was Greek for Joshua which means - the Lord saves.