Thine Is the Glory

Thine Is the Glory

Thine is the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;
Endless is the victory, Thou o’er death hast won;
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
Kept the folded grave clothes where Thy body lay.

Refrain

Thine is the glory, risen conqu’ring Son,
Endless is the vict’ry, Thou o’er death hast won.

Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;
Lovingly He greets us, scatters fear and gloom;
Let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing;
For her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.

No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life;
Life is naught without Thee; aid us in our strife;
Make us more than conqu’rors, through Thy deathless love:
Bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above.

—Edmond L. Budry

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• See What a Morning at Biblical Christianity
• Look, Ye Saints at Hiraeth
• I Know That My Redeemer Liveth at Jam and Books
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today at threegirldad
• See What a Morning Gloriously Bright at The Key to the Door
• Uprising from the Darkest Tomb at Tried With Fire
• Christ Is Risen at Rosemary at Home
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today at The Happy Wonderer
• How Calm and Beautiful the Morn at Field Stone Cottage
• Jesus Christ Is Risen Today at Whatever Things
• Lord’s Day 17, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• The Resurrection of Our Lord at Daily on My Way to Heaven
• The Lord’s Day: He Is Risen! at Theology for Girls
•  Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Grove Farms

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Can God Die?

From God Who Is There, The: Finding Your Place in God’s Story by D. A. Carson:

By and large, the New Testament does not talk of God dying. It speaks of Jesus being the God-man, and it speaks of Jesus dying. Never is there a hint that the Father dies. Of course not: he is not a human being that he could die. Only the Son can die, only the “Word made flesh.” Jesus can die because he is a human being, a man. But if he is also confessed to be God and worshiped as God (see for example John 20:28), is there not a sense in which we may speak of God dying?

By and large the Bible avoids such choice of words. Once in a while, however, we find passages that come so close to this. When the apostle Paul gives a speech to some church elders from Ephesus, he says, “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood” (Acts 20:28, emphasis added). Isn’t that remarkable? “God … with his own blood”? Now, of course, if pressed, Paul could parse that a bit. He could say, “Of course, the person I have in mind is not God the Father but the Son of God, Jesus, who is himself God and because he is God and because he does give his life and shed his blood, therefore, it is appropriate to say that God sheds his blood .” If you want to unpack it, that is what Paul means.

Nevertheless, do not let the shock of the language stop you. This is God’s action in Christ Jesus, the man who is also God. This is not the death of one human individual and no more. It is a human individual who is also the living God who hangs on that cross, not because he is forced to do so by circumstance but because he is fulfilling in himself all the strands of the Old Testament’s sacrificial system, the temple system—all the strands from the fall and the promise of the seed of the woman coming to crush the serpent’s head by his own death. Elsewhere Paul can write, “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8, emphasis added).  As the old hymn says,

Bearing sin and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned he stood.
Sealed my pardon with his blood!
Hallelujah, what a Savior!

Philip P. Bliss

It is appropriate to speak of the God who dies.

Round the Sphere Again: For Good Friday

Not the Stations
of the cross (The Gospel-Driven Church).

Three Enemies
of the cross (Against Heresies).

A Hymn
of the cross (Leslie Wiggins).

A Poem
of the cross (The Upward Call)