Sunday's Hymn

Jesus Lives, And So Shall I

Jesus lives, and so shall I.
Death! thy sting is gone forever!
He who deigned for me to die,
Lives, the bands of death to sever.
He shall raise me from the dust:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and reigns supreme,
And, his kingdom still remaining,
I shall also be with him,
Ever living, ever reigning.
God has promised: be it must:
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and by his grace,
Vict’ry o’er my passions giving,
I will cleanse my heart and ways,
Ever to his glory living.
Me he raises from the dust.
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, I know full well
Nought from him my heart can sever,
Life nor death nor powers of hell,
Joy nor grief, hence forth forever.
None of all his saints is lost;
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.

Jesus lives, and death is now
But my entrance into glory.
Courage, then, my soul, for thou
Hast a crown of life before thee;
Thou shalt find thy hopes were just;
Jesus is the Christian’s Trust.

—Christian F. Gellert (1715-1769), Translated by Philip Schaff (1819-1893)

Listen here.

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

• Be Still, My Soul at threegirldad
• Hark My Soul! It Is the Lord at Tried With Fire
• O That I Had a Thousand Voices at Hiraeth
• More Love to Thee O Christ at Rosemary at Home
• Behold the Lovely Springtime at The Happy Wonderer
• Who Hath Believed at Field Stone Cottage
• Where High the Heavenly Temple Stands at Whatever Things
• It Can Never Grow Old at Conjubilant with Song
• Lord’s Day 12, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Voices of the Past - March 20, 2011 at The Upward Call
• The Lord’s Day at Everyday Mommy
• A Word of Forgiveness at Daily On My Way to Heaven
• Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Cove Farm

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.

This Week in Housekeeping

Recently updated Theological Term of the Week posts:

legalism

• Updated the definitions to add a slightly different kind of legalism: “the inclination to regard things that Scripture has not commanded or prohibited as God’s precepts.” This addition was suggested in the comments by Kane Augustus.

worldview

• Added links to a series of posts from Al Mohler: The Christian Worldview As Master Narrative: Creation; Sin and its Consequences; Redemption Accomplished; The End That Is a Beginning.

inclusivism

• Added a link to Robert Reymond’s The “Very Pernicious and Detestable” Doctrine of Inclusivism.

God Simply Is

From The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God’s Story by D. A. Carson, on one thing about God that we are told in the first two chapters of Genesis, or at the very beginning of the Bible:

God simply is. The Bible does not begin with a long set of arguments to prove the existence of God. It does not begin with a bottom-up approach, nor does it begin with some kind of adjacent analogy or the like. It just begins, “In the beginning God” (Gen. 1:1). Now, if human beings are the test of everything, this makes no sense at all because then we have the right to sit back and judge whether it is likely that God exists, to evaluate the evidence and come out with a certain probability that perhaps a god of some sort of another exists. Thus we become the judges of God. But the God of the Bible is not like that. The Bible begins simply but dramatically: “In the beginning God.” He is. He is not the object whom we evaluate. He is the Creator who has made us, which changes all the dynamics.

…Right through the early part of the Renaissance (roughly fourteenth to seventeenth centuries) and down through the time of the Reformation (sixteenth century), most people in the Western world presupposed that God exists and that he knows everything. Human beings exist and because God knows everything, what we know must necessarily be some small subset of what he knows. In other words, all of our knowledge—because he knows everything—must be a subset of what he knows exhaustively and perfectly. In this way of looking at reality, all of our knowledge must come to us in some sense by God disclosing what he knows—by God disclosing it in nature, by God disclosing it by his Spirit, or by God disclosing it in the Bible. That was simply presupposed.

Then everything changed—in Western historical thought, that is. I’ll post what follows on Monday.