Today's hymns

[Invicta]

In this instance, it was because I was responding to the phrase: 'inspired hymnbook of the church'. Blessings.

Of course the church is not the same as unbelieving Jews, but the church is graffed into the beliveing Jewish congregation.

[Covenanter]

For a sermon tomorrow on Isaiah 40:12ff
Psalm 96 - O sing a new song
I sing the almighty power of God
Have you not known, have you not heard?
and for communion:
Behold the Lamb of God

[farouk]

Of course the church is not the same as unbelieving Jews, but the church is graffed into the beliveing Jewish congregation.

I:

What is meant by 'the believing Jewish congregation?'

The church is an extension of the synagogue?

:huh:

[Invicta]

I:

What is meant by 'the believing Jewish congregation?'

The church is an extension of the synagogue?

I mean no more and no less than Paul when he says:

Ro 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Ro 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Ro 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Ro 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? Edited August 14, 2011 by Invicta

[farouk]

I mean no more and no less than Paul when he says:

Ro 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Ro 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Ro 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Ro 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

Great and searching verses, indeed.

I'm not sure that the olive tree is the main analogy in Scripture for the church, though.

[Covenanter]

Should Protestants be singing Townend's hymn:especially the chorus ?

Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away
Slain for us and we remember
The promise made that all who come in faith
Find forgiveness at the cross
Chorus
So we share in this bread of life
And we drink of His sacrifice
As a sign of our bonds of peace
Around the table of the King

[Invicta]

Should Protestants be singing Townend's hymn:especially the chorus ?

Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away
Slain for us and we remember
The promise made that all who come in faith
Find forgiveness at the cross
Chorus
So we share in this bread of life
And we drink of His sacrifice
As a sign of our bonds of peace
Around the table of the King

Do you think we should sing it? I had never heard of that song before.

In fact should we sing any Townend or Kendrick songs.

My objection to such is that we would not have them preach in our church, yet by singing their songs we are letting them in by the back door.

[Invicta]

I Will Sing of My Redeemer

I will sing of my Redeemer,
And His wondrous love to me;
On the cruel cross He suffered,
From the curse to set me free.

Refrain:
Sing, oh sing, of my Redeemer,
With His blood, He purchased me.
On the cross, He sealed my pardon,
Paid the debt, and made me free.

I will tell the wondrous story,
How my lost estate to save,
In His boundless love and mercy,
He the ransom freely gave.

Refrain

I will praise my dear Redeemer,
His triumphant power I'll tell,
How the victory He giveth
Over sin, and death, and hell.

Refrain

I will sing of my Redeemer,
And His heav'nly love to me;
He from death to life hath brought me,
Son of God with Him to be.

Refrain

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.” (Galatians 3:13)

I prefer it to the tune "My Redeemer"  but at our church we sing it to "There's a light upon the mountains."

[Invicta]

ALL you that pass by,
to Jesus draw nigh;
to you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Your ransom and peace,
your surety He is,
come, see if there ever was sorrow like His.

2 He dies to atone
for sins not His own;
your debt He has paid, and your work He has
done.
You all may receive
the peace He did leave,
who made intercession, ‘My Father, forgive!’

3 For you and for me
He prayed on the tree:
the prayer is accepted, the sinner is free.
That sinner am I
who on Jesus rely,
and come for the pardon God cannot deny.

4 His death is my plea;
my Advocate see,
and hear the blood speak that has answered for
me;
He purchased the grace
which now I embrace;
O Father, You know He has died in my place.
Charles Wesley, 1707-88