December 6, 2011

• Christ's Advent Hymn ~ "Trinity's Counsel, Divine Design"

   
  Hebrews 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

  Christ's Advent Hymn
  "Trinity's Counsel, Divine Design"
  
  Sacrifices Thou didst not require
  In burnt off'rings Thou took no pleasure

  In the scroll, of Me it was written
  The Lamb slain before world's foundation

  Trinity's counsel, divine design
  Incarnate God appointed to die

  Wise men carried a gift of myrrh
  A herald of death's suffering

  To drink the cup, tasting death for everyone
  On the cross to cry, "It is finished! 'Tis done!"

  For Me a body Thou hast prepared
  The God-man, the only Mediator

  Bowed to take a servant's form
  In likeness of men to be born

  By My poverty, worms made rich
  To the heavenlies the poor lifted

  In My people I joy and pleasure
  Adorn the humble with salvation

  My life an atoning sacrifice
  To deliver sinners from death's vise

  To bestow an eternal inheritance
  Through the new and living covenant

  The perfect tent, the great high priest
  From sin's curse to bring release

  All who drink My blood and eat My flesh
  Are cover'd with My robe of righteousness

  Your will alone is My heart's desire
  The incarnate God born to expire

  Though a Son, to learn obedience
  On the cross to become a curse

  Trinity's counsel, divine design
  Incarnate God appointed to die

  

  
  Psalm 40:6  Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7  Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

  John 12:23  And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26  If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
  
  

  John 12:27  Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 28  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29  The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30  Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33  This he said, signifying what death he should die.

  Philippians 2:3  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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