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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine;
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
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Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
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Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
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If we come to the Bible in the spirit expressed in this hymn, we shall be nourished and refreshed. However, many times we do not come to the Word in this way. We neither pray nor aspire to contact the Lord. Instead, we just read the words of the Bible with our eyes and try to understand them with our mind. We have no heart or spirit to contact the Lord. In such a case, the more we read the Word, the more exhausted we become. We need to exercise our spirit in reading the Word, and we need to aspire to contact the Lord. Psalm 119 is filled with such an aspiration. This was the reason that to the psalmist the law was God’s living word. His way to contact the Word of God and God Himself was to exercise his whole being as an expression of his intimate sentiment and deep aspiration. As he read the Word, he cried out to God, earnestly seeking Him.
As we read the Word of God, we should not only pray, but also sing to the Lord. This is to read the Word by psalming. (In ancient times the Psalms were sung and not merely read or spoken. ) Praying requires more exercise of the spirit than speaking, and singing requires even more exercise than praying. By singing we can truly get into our spirit. We need more singing both in the meetings and in our daily life.
The chorus of the well-known hymn “Blessed Assurance” says:
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Many Christians have sung this hymn, but not many praise their Savior all the day long. What do you think would happen if we praised the Lord all day long? No doubt, we would be utterly immersed in the Lord.
Life-study of Exodus
Message 58 The function of God's
Law as His Living Word
to His loving seekers (LSM)
... As Christians, we need to be like the little babes and care only for Christ.
We all need to say happily, triumphantly, and rejoicingly, “Jesus is mine! ” We all know the familiar hymn that says, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; / Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! ” The chorus of this hymn says, “This is my story, this is my song, / Praising my Savior all the day long” ( Hymns, #308). We are not praising the Lord all the day long for a good house, for an expensive car, or for a heavenly mansion with golden streets and pearly gates. We are praising the Lord all the day long for the fact that Jesus is ours. We are those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is theirs and ours. To fully understand 1 Corinthians 1:2 , we need John 1:1 , 14 , and 17 ; John 3:16 and 34 ; and John 15:26 . Also, 1 Corinthians 1:9 tells us that we have been called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. The Greek word for fellowship means “joint participation, common participation. ” God has called us into the participation in His Son. We could even say that God has called us into the enjoyment of His Son.
God's New Testament Economy
Chapter 17 (LSM)
CWWL, 1984, vol. 3
I. FORGIVENESS OF SINS
1) “Everyone who believes into Him receives forgiveness of sins”( Acts 10:43 ).
Forgiveness of sins is the first part of our redemption, and it is received by us at the moment we believe. Our first problem before God is that there is a record of sin because of our sinful deeds. Only when our record is cleared can the righteousness of God release us. Unless our sinful deeds before Him are eliminated, the righteous God cannot grant us the remaining items of His redemption. Therefore, we first need to have God’s forgiveness of our sins.
A. The Significance of Forgiveness of Sins
1) Being delivered from the penalty of God’s righteousness—“He who believes into Him is not judged”( John 3:18 ).
First, forgiveness of sins means the elimination of our record of sin before God that we may be delivered from the penalty of God’s righteousness. Because we had a record of sin before God and were condemned, we should have suffered God’s righteous punishment. But when God forgave us, He delivered us from His righteous penalty and condemned us no longer.
2) Causing the sins to leave the forgiven ones—“Give... forgiveness of sins”( Acts 5:31 ); “The Lord hath laid on him [Christ] the iniquity of us all”( Isa. 53:6 ); “Himself [Christ] carried up our sins in His body onto the tree [the cross]”( 1 Pet. 2:24 ).
In the New Testament the Greek word for forgiveness means “causing (it) to leave” and “sending away. ” When God forgives us of our sins, He not only eliminates our record of sin before Him but also causes the sins which we have committed to depart from us. This is because, when God made the Lord Jesus our offering for sin on the cross, He laid all our sins on Him that He might carry them for us. Furthermore, when God caused the Lord Jesus to carry our sins on the cross to suffer God’s judgment and punishment in our place, He also caused all our sins to be laid on Satan that he should bear them forever. This is revealed in type in the atonement recorded in Leviticus 16 . Sin came from Satan and was passed on to us, resulting in our having a record of sin before God. God put all our sins on the Lord Jesus that He might carry them all to suffer God’s punishment for us and cancel our record of sin before God. Having done this, God gave all our sins back to Satan that he might bear them himself. In this way, God is able to forgive the sins of the forgiven ones and cause their sins to leave them. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” ( Psa. 103:12 ).
3) Forgetting the sins of the forgiven ones—“I [God] will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I will by no means remember anymore”( Heb. 8:12 ).
When God forgives the forgiven ones of their sins, He also forgets their sins. When God forgives our sins, He not only cancels our record of sin and causes our sins to depart from us, but in Himself He also forgets our sins. Once He forgives us, He erases our sins from His memory and will by no means remember them anymore.
B. The Basis for Forgiveness of Sins
1) “Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness”( Heb. 9:22 ).
God’s forgiveness of sins is based on the shedding of blood for redemption. Because He is righteous, God cannot forgive men’s sins without a cause. His righteousness requires that all who sin must die ( Ezek. 18:4 ). Unless His righteous requirement is satisfied, His righteousness cannot allow Him to forgive sinners of their sins. But since the Lord Jesus died and shed His blood on the cross according to the righteousness of God, thus satisfying God’s righteous requirement, God can legally forgive men of their sins according to His righteousness. The Lord Jesus said, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins” ( Matt. 26:28 ). Since the blood of the Lord Jesus was shed for men according to God’s righteousness, thus fulfilling God’s righteous requirement, it has become the basis upon which the sins of those who believe in Him may be forgiven.
Life Lessons, Vol. 4
Lesson 38 (LSM)
Rusorela, Uganda
It gives me peace joy and hope. It also treasure my heart
Opelousas, Louisiana, United States
This is a great song and Jesus will always be my Lord and Savior. I have a good singing voice and do recording and stuff so this is a good song to sing. Also I’m only 15 so having a good singing voice is a talent the Lord gave me.
Makurdi, Benue, Nigeria
Praising my saviour. All the day long
Chuka, Kenya
What a great assurance this is. Am so happy to know Christ and be His. Amen
Jalingo, Taraba, Nigeria
This is the testimony of my daily encounter in the glorious living in Christ Jesus my LORD so help me GOD JEHOVAH JARE amen
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
How wonderful it is to know that blessed assurance is always with us that believe in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, no matter the situation.
Ikotun, Lagos, Nigeria
This is my story this is my song, praising my savior all the day long