November 16, 2011

• Wake up and tremble, rightly ascribe

  Grace for grace, glory to glory
  Who penned your salvation story

  On the dunghill, ashes and dust
  Who was it that lifted you up?

  While you were God's enemy
  Hostile and filled with enmity

  A sheep who had wandered far away
  Who found you on that dark, cloudy day?

  Born in Adam, sin and death reigned in the pit
  Mired and sinking, apart from God's free gift

  Drinking of death, under the devil's sway
  Till the veil was lifted by bright Gospel ray

  Of Adam's seed, a prodigal from day one
  Did your own wisdom lead you to God's Son?

  Gospel salvation: Christ and Him crucified
  To the world, foolishness, low and despised

  How could you see unless it were revealed?
  Who is your sun, and who is your shield?

  When you were naked, polluted and bare
  Who else showed compassion or care?

  How could the filthy make purification?
  Who but Christ our peace and propitiation

  A child of wrath and cold in death's tomb
  Will you upon God's fervent love presume?

  Condemned, alienated, and vile
  Was it you who worked to reconcile?

  Was it you who hung on Calvary?
  Apart from Jesus, what would you be?

  Lamb bore our sins in His body on the tree
  While we were sinners, Christ died for the ungodly

  Who rendered Himself for your just punishment
  Was it your blood shed? Was it your body rent?

  Wake up and tremble, rightly ascribe
  To God be the glory: He made you alive

  Boast in the cross, in nothing except
  Christ our redeemer, His righteousness

  God forbid your boasting centers on yourself
  Covenant blood sprinkles all spiritual wealth

  To you who believe, if He is indeed precious
  Why then do you glory in self-righteousness?
   
  All you have you have surely received
  Give God the glory, be not deceived

  * * *

  In ministry, is it God's glory you're seeking
  Is your offering sweetness, or is it reeking?

  Pride of life creeps, taints charity's deeds
  Good works done on the busiest streets

  Putting yourself on center stage
  Provokes the LORD's jealous rage

  Is your soul's desire to hallow His name,
  Or is your heart lusting for your own fame?

  Run from the devil, flee to your closet
  Rend your heart and not your garment

  When you choose the place that is low
  Refreshment will follow, His wind will blow

  As you decrease and ever decline
  The Spirit pours out a feast of fine wine

  As Christ be lifted and you daily die
  Rejoicing will flow, O, bliss so divine!

  In doing God's will, may He be your delight
  Surely His yoke is easy and His burden light

  Grace for grace, glory to glory
  Who penned your salvation story

  Bow down and tremble, rightly ascribe
  To God be the glory: He keeps you alive

  Boast in the cross, in nothing except
  Christ our redeemer, His righteousness

  God forbid your boasting centers on yourself
  Covenant blood sprinkles all spiritual wealth

  To you who believe, if He is indeed precious
  Why then do you glory in self-righteousness?
   
  All you have you have surely received
  Give God the glory, be not deceived

  
  Isaiah 42:8a
  
  I am the LORD; that is my name;
  my glory I give to no other...

  Matthew 6:1
  
  Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them,
  for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

  Psalms 68:34-35
  
  Ascribe power to God,
  whose majesty is over Israel,
  and whose power is in the skies.
  
  Awesome is God from his sanctuary;
  the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people.
  Blessed be God!

  John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

  I Corinthians 4:7

  For who sees anything different in you?
  What do you have that you did not receive?
  If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

  Galatians 6:14
  
  But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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  Letter 7 on assurance and fighting for joy (remember His love for us while we were sinners)
  If I be not given spiritual sight ~ "with unveiled face" (letter 127 on assurance & joy)
  Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Why the Cross? Part 1-The Exceeding Sinfulness of Sin
  A belated Valentine from God
  Bible Reading: Lamentations 1:12-Is His Sacrifice nothing to you?
  How could we? (Bible Reading - Leviticus 22)
  knowing mercy ~ reflections on Osama Bin Laden's death
  All ye who hear ...  Lazarus, come forth! Lazarus, take heed!
  I am a leopard - Christ is a lion ~ The Resurrection Celebration

  the servant's evaluation: What do you have that you have not received?
  My love affair . . . whose trumpet, whose glory & incomplete joy
  but made Himself of no reputation ~ O, for grace to be a doorkeeper! (Philippians 2, Psalm 84)
  Surely none is righteous, no, not one ~ The Pharisee's Warning (Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:9-10)
  the parable of Jesus and the Pharisee
  1st Sunday after Epiphany: Characteristics of false religion, # 1-Hypocrisy
  4th Sunday after Epiphany: Characteristics of false religion, # 4-Self-righteousness
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  Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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