Regeneration And Renewal

Tune: Erie

('What a friend we have in Jesus')

Titus 3 v.3-7

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We ourselves were sometimes foolish

Disobedient, selfish

Serving diverse lusts and pleasures

Sated with earthly treasures

Living in malice and envy

Hateful, and hating were, see

But after that grace to us shown

We God's salvation have known

 

For the kindness and love appeared

Of God, Our Saviour, He neared

To us in our state, he our Lord

He came unto us, toward

Not by our works of righteousness

Not our own efforts to bless

Not what we have done, but what He

Has done for us in mercy

 

For He saved us by the washing

Of new birth, He did us bring

We regenerated, renewed

By His Spirit He endued

Which he shed on us, not meanly

But poured out abundantly

All through Jesus Christ our Saviour

Share everlasting life here

 

This, so we being justified

By His grace, was not denied

To us, but that we should heirs be

Made, His promise does agree

Heirs according to the hope sure

Of eternal life, the door

God has opened through His Son for

Us to be saved evermore