Tune: Nun Danket
('Now thank we all our God')
Galatians 3 v.10-16
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Those who do follow law
Who seeks by works to assure
Themselves of salvation
Whoe'er from any nation
They are under the curse
Their situation worse
For listen, and this hear
Draw near in lowly fear
For so it is written
Cursed each one that does therein
Not continue to do
All things of the law, e'en you
But this we surely fail
To do, 'tis mankind's tale
But none is justified
By law, 'tis not denied
In God's sight it shall be
We justified by faith, see
And so we then shall live
By the faith He does us give
But the law it is not
Of faith, not of that lot
But law says, All obey
And find your life that way
Christ has us redeemed sure
From curse of the law e'ermore
Became for us a curse
In human life did immerse
Himself, and did fulfil
Prophecy, that from ill
We should be delivered
His grace on us conferred
For cursed is every one
That hangs on a tree (cross), bar none
To Abraham and seed (descendant)
Were promises made, now heed
Christ is that seed, so we
Blessed are through Him, we see
Promise of the Spirit
Given through faith each whit
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Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
Orchi,
A fine Sunday share!
~Laura~
THANKS STEVE ~ Another great HYMN that can be sung with Gusto and Inner Blessing anytime anywhere ! Doctors should prescribe singing these robust hymns instead of PARACETAMOL ~ they will cure anything just as long aS BROTHER ORCHII is playing the Organ & not singing ! Love the TRUTH expressed in the Poem "It is by GRACE we are saved ~ through FAITH ~ not of our paltry Good Works ~ lest any Man should boast ~ It is the Gift of God. The LAW while it lasted was just a stop gap ~ a Schoolmaster ~ to bring us to CHRIST ~ AMEN ! Your NEPHEW BRIAN !
Thanks Brian. Erm, they can tend to be rather sloooowwly sung! Even more slowly in Cathedrals it seems! Well, I suppose it goes at a pace everyone can cope with, or else we all just bumble along and ruin the songs!
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