Crown Him with many crowns

My hymnbook includes another verse as the third of five, maybe by Godfrey Thring:

Crown Him the Lord of life
Who triumphed o'er the grave,
And rose victorious in the strife
For those He came to saved.
His glories now we sing
Who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring,
And lives that death may die.

Christ in His people is enough. He comes and lives in us when He saves us. Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

THE MANIFESTATION OF THE ELECTRUM

The issue of the blowing of the wind, the covering of the cloud, and the burning of the fire is the radiant manifestation of the electrum. As we experience the burning of the consuming fire, God Himself is manifested in us. The more we pass through God’s wind, cloud, and fire, the more the Lord is manifested in us in a dignified and glorious way. When He is manifested in such a way, we sense that He alone is precious, lovely, bright, majestic, and glorious. Like the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration, we see “no one except Jesus Himself alone” (Matt. 17:8). The only one in view, the only one in the scene, is the lovely, precious, glorious Lord Jesus. Then we can do nothing other than bow before Him, worship Him, exalt Him, crown Him, and pour out everything to Him. In this way we gain the Lord, and He gains us.

May we all be deeply impressed with the picture in Ezekiel 1:4, and may our Christian life be a continual and inexhaustible experience of the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum.

Life-study of Ezekiel

Message 4 (LSM)

No angel in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye
At mysteries so bright.
This heavenly scene is sublime, so glorious!

"Creator of the rolling spheres,

Ineffably sublime."

I'm reading Psalm 19. The boiling sun with its solar flares is like your majesty and glory. Nothing is hidden from you. You are Lord over all. The sun is the great marker of time and space: exultant, magnificent, yet obedient, assigned its place.

Though he was born in England, Matthew Bridges lived a number of years in Canada, and then returned to England before his death. Raised in the Anglican Church, Bridges was part of a group, popular of the time, that sought to go back to the early church to investigate their traditions, liturgy, and ways of worship. In doing so, many of the folks in this movement, switched allegiances to the Roman Catholic church. Bridges himself was first a minister in the Anglican church, and then later became a priest in the Catholic Church. He wrote a number of hymns, and this one, which in his lyrics referred to the Virgin Mary, became accepted by the Protestant churches, after it was rewritten without references to Mary. Bridges’ hymn identifies Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and perhaps was in part motivated by the reference in revelation, 5:13 to the Lamb on the throne, as well as Revelation, 19:12, which speaks of many crowns.

L. Codington

Christ was made a little lower than the angels because of the suffering of death. God the Father crowned Him with glory and honor that He might taste death for every man. That is you and me! That surely was a bitter taste. Only Christ

Is worthy of such great glory and honor! Lord, we worship you! You died for us!

Yes, Rodney. There's a family that sings this hymn beautifully. Their YouTube channel is called "Sounds like Reign."

What a great old song, have you heard it any where recently

I hope to remember this hymn forever. Praise the Lord. ❤️