PRAISE THE NAME OF JESUS Tune to: "AT CALVARY" 9.9.9.4. W/CHORUS Words by: JIM BYRD 1. Long before the world was ever made, Or the earth’s foundation had been laid; Then was grace in Christ for us displayed Chosen in Him.
Chorus: Jesus lived in righteousness for me, Then He bore my sin on Calvary; By His grace He saves eternally, O praise His Name.
2. Jesus came, O what a wondrous birth, God in flesh upon this sinful earth; Who can tell of all His matchless worth? The Son of Man! Chorus
3. On the cross He bore our misery, Died from sin to set His people free; By Himself He won the victory, Christ paid our debt! Chorus
4. Now for us the Savior intercedes, Unto Him the Holy Spirit leads; Every blessing from His throne proceeds, O precious Christ! Chorus
5. Soon will come the long-awaited day, Christ will come and take His bride away; Never from His blessed side to stray, We’ll be with Him. Chorus
6. Then together in a perfect place, All the ransomed shall behold His face; Evermore to sing of sovereign grace, And praise His Name! Chorus *****
Daily Readings - April 5-11 Sunday - 1Samuel 17-18 Monday - 1 Samuel 19-21 Tuesday - 1 Samuel 22-24 Wednesday- 1 Samuel 25-27 Thursday - 1 Samuel 28-31 Friday - 2 Samuel 1-2 Saturday - 2 Samuel 3-5
Accepted in Christ "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Ephesians 1:5-6). The resurrection of Christ indicated our acceptance with God. When God raised Him from the dead, He thereby gave testimony that He had accepted Christ’s work, but the acceptance of our Representative is the acceptance of ourselves. When the French ambassador was sent away from the Court of Prussia, it meant that war was declared, and when the ambassador was again received, peace was re-established. When Jesus was so accepted of God that He rose again from the dead, everyone of us who believe in Him was accepted of God too, for what was done to Jesus was, in effect, done to all the members of His mystical body. With Him are we crucified, with Him are we buried, with Him we rise again, and in His acceptance we are accepted. –Charles Spurgeon *****
Because He Lives, We Shall Live "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead" (Isaiah 26:19). When Jesus died on the cross, not as a private person, but as the public head of His church, then He paid the full debt of sin, and when He arose from the dead, the full release was given to our whole nature in Him. Jesus received the discharge; the bond He had entered into for His people was cancelled, and His resurrection became the proof of their’s also. But as the justification of all the persons of His redeemed is in Him, and by Him, so another sweet confidence is in Him also: Jesus is not only the cause of their being justified, but of their being glorified also. In these precious words we have, first, God the Father’s promise to His dear Son: "Thy dead men shall live:" first in grace, and then in glory. How shall this be effected? Christ then takes up the subject in answer; "Together with My dead body" (saith He) "shall they arise:" or it is possible the words may be still the words of the Father; for the body of Christ is said to be given of the Father: "A body hast Thou prepared Me" (Heb 10:15). But in either sense, the doctrine is the same; the resurrection of the believer is assured from its union with Christ. Jesus is the head of His body, the church. "Your life" (saith the apostle) "is hid with Christ in God" (Col 3:3). And so again: "If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Romans 8:11). Lastly, to crown all, as Jesus is the whole cause, both in justifying, and in glorifying, so is He the pattern, in His resurrection, how they shall arise. "As the dew of herbs" casteth out the same from the earth every year, so shall the earth cast out her dead. Christ’s body was in substance the same, and so must be His people. "This corruptible," saith the apostle, this very identical body, "must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." Not another body, for then it would be another person; and this, instead of a resurrection, would be a creation. But the identical person that was buried, shall arise with the same identity. Well might the prophet, when giving this blessed promise, at the command of Jehovah, close it with that delightful injunction: "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust." And what a song to God and the Lamb will burst forth at once from millions of the redeemed, when rising to all the wonders of futurity, in, and through, and from a personal union with the Lord Jesus Christ! –Robert Hawker
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