Justification Joys : Galatians Series:1

orchidee



Tune: Slane

('Be thou my vision')

Galatians 2 v.16-21

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Know this, that mankind is not justified

By the works of the law, not in them confide

To bring about salvation, cannot be done

'Tis only through Christ, He the Father's own Son

 

So even we have believed in Him true

That we might be justified, and so be you

By faith in Christ and not by works of the law

So is our salvation secured evermore

 

For by the works of the law shall flesh none

Be justified, no sinners, not even one

But if while we seek by Christ our state to be

Justified, though sinners, how is it here, see?

 

Is therefore Christ the minister to sin?

God forbid, for it is from our sin within

For if I do build again what I destroyed

I make myself a transgressor thus employed

 

For I through the law am to the law dead

That I might live unto God, he be my Head

I am crucified with Christ, and yet I live

But 'tis Christ lives in me, an did His life give

 

The life I now live in the flesh I live

By faith in the Son of God, He does em give

His life to me, for He loved me, and He gave

Himself for me and for all sinners to save

 

I do not then the grace of God frustrate

Do not cancel it out nor abbreviate

For if righteousness comes by the law, here, see

Then Christ died in vain and it was needlessly

 

 

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 15th, 2018 03:02
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 10.11.11.11. metre in a short series. I have started at Chapter 2, as Chapter 1 is mostly autobiographical of St Paul, not lending itself to a hymn-poem format.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 21
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  • BRIAN & ANGELA

    Thanks STEVE for sharing "BE THOU ............." always one of my faves ! Love the pathos in this version and the visual ! Love your take on GALATIANS 2 ~ Not so much a Poem ~ more a Talking Blues ! I recited it out loud with one hand on my ear ~ PERFECT ! Yours BRIAN

    • orchidee

      Thanks Brian. What's that 'one ear thing' again? The clip has a 'shortened' version - misses out some words. Some get in a tangle over the line: 'Be all else but naught to me, save that thou art'!

    • Goldfinch60

      Good one once more Orchi.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Gold.



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