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See the Conqu’ror mount in triumph,
See the King in royal state
Riding on the clouds His chariot
To His heav’nly palace gate;
Hark! The choirs of angel voices
Joyful hallelujahs sing,
And the portals high are lifted
To receive, to receive, to receive
their heav’nly King.
See the King in royal state
Riding on the clouds His chariot
To His heav’nly palace gate;
Hark! The choirs of angel voices
Joyful hallelujahs sing,
And the portals high are lifted
To receive, to receive, to receive
their heav’nly King.
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Who is this that comes in glory,
With the trump of jubilee?
Lord of battles, God of armies,
He has gained the victory;
He who on the cross did suffer,
He who from the grave arose,
He has vanquished sin and Satan,
He by death, He by death, He by
death has spoiled His foes.
With the trump of jubilee?
Lord of battles, God of armies,
He has gained the victory;
He who on the cross did suffer,
He who from the grave arose,
He has vanquished sin and Satan,
He by death, He by death, He by
death has spoiled His foes.
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While He lifts His hands in blessing
He is parted from His friends;
While their eager eyes behold Him,
He upon the clouds ascends;
He who walked with God and pleased Him,
Preaching truth and doom to come,
He, our Enoch, is translated
To His home, to His home, to His
everlasting home.
He is parted from His friends;
While their eager eyes behold Him,
He upon the clouds ascends;
He who walked with God and pleased Him,
Preaching truth and doom to come,
He, our Enoch, is translated
To His home, to His home, to His
everlasting home.
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Now our heavenly Aaron enters,
With His blood, within the veil;
Joshua now is come to Canaan,
And the kings before Him quail;
Now He plants the tribes of Israel
In their promised resting-place;
Now our great Elijah offers
Of His grace, of His grace,
double portion of His grace.
With His blood, within the veil;
Joshua now is come to Canaan,
And the kings before Him quail;
Now He plants the tribes of Israel
In their promised resting-place;
Now our great Elijah offers
Of His grace, of His grace,
double portion of His grace.
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He has raised our human nature
On the clouds to God’s right hand;
There we sit in heav’nly places,
There with Him in glory stand.
Jesus reigns, adored by angels;
Man with God is on the throne;
Mighty Lord, in Thine ascension
We by faith, we by faith, we by
faith behold our own.
On the clouds to God’s right hand;
There we sit in heav’nly places,
There with Him in glory stand.
Jesus reigns, adored by angels;
Man with God is on the throne;
Mighty Lord, in Thine ascension
We by faith, we by faith, we by
faith behold our own.
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DYING AN ALL-INCLUSIVE DEATH
After thirty-three and a half years of living as a God-man, Jesus went to the cross to die. It is important to realize that the One who died on the cross was a God-man, and that the blood shed on the cross was the blood of a God-man. Two verses, 1 John 1:7 and Acts 20:28 , give us the biblical ground to say that the blood shed on the cross was the blood of a God-man. First John 1:7 says, “The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin. ” Jesus no doubt refers to man, and His Son refers to God Himself. This verse shows us that the very blood shed on the cross was the blood of Jesus the Son of God. This blood is exceedingly precious
(1 Pet. 1:18-19). Because Jesus died for man, the blood that He shed had to be the blood of a genuine man. The blood that washes away our sins must be the genuine blood of a genuine man. Only man’s blood can wash away man’s sins. Yet, if it is only man’s blood, it does not have the guarantee of eternal efficacy. In the One who died on the cross and shed His blood, there was the divine nature. When Jesus died on the cross, He died not only in the human nature but also in the divine nature. Therefore the blood that He shed was not merely the blood of a genuine man; the divine nature was also involved. The divine nature ensures the effectiveness of that human blood.
Jesus is God, but the Jews arrested Him and condemned Him to be crucified because they thought He blasphemed by saying that He was God. In Matthew 26 , when Jesus was judged by the Sanhedrin, the highest council of the Jews, the high priest said to Him, “I charge you to swear by the living God to tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God”
(v. 63). The Lord Jesus did not deny that He was the Son of God. When He was asked about other things, He did not say anything, but when He was asked whether He was the Son of God, He said, “You have said rightly. Nevertheless I say to you, From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven” (v. 64). The Jewish high priest asked the Lord Jesus whether He was the Son of God, but the Lord answered that He was not only the Son of God but also the Son of Man. If He were not the Son of Man but merely the Son of God, how could He be judged by them? Jesus could be judged by the Jews only because He was the Son of Man. Moreover, the Lord’s response indicated that not only was He the Son of Man on that day as He stood before them, but after they put Him to death, and after He rose from the dead, He would still be the Son of Man in the heavens. Furthermore, they would see Him as the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven.
RISING FROM THE DEAD
After He died and was buried, on the third day He rose from the dead
(1 Cor. 15:3-4). In His resurrection He accomplished two main things: first, He imparted the divine life into His believers for their regeneration
(John 12:24; 1 Pet. 1:3), and second, He became a life-giving Spirit to impart the Triune God essentially into His believers as their life and life supply (1 Cor. 15:45b). This is a profound matter. After He completed everything through His death, in His resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit to enter into His disciples to bring the processed Triune God into them as their life and life supply. Hallelujah! Today the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit indwells us to impart the processed Triune God into our being as our life and our life supply.
ASCENDING TO THE HEAVENS
Forty days after His resurrection He ascended to the heavens (Acts 1:9-11). He died, He rose, and He ascended.
Being Made the Lord and the Christ
He ascended to the heavens to be made the Lord and Christ (2:36). He was made the Lord in His ascension to possess the universe. Jesus is the Owner of the entire universe. We all need to realize that He is our Lord. He is our Possessor, and He is our Owner. He is also God’s Christ to carry out God’s commission and to fulfill God’s purpose. Today in the heavens Jesus is the Lord of the entire universe, and there in the heavens He is carrying out God’s commission. He is the Lord, and He is the Christ.
Being Made Head over All Things to the Church
In the heavens Christ was also made the Head over all things to the church (Eph. 1:22-23). What He is as the Head over all things is for the formation of the church, which is His Body.
Vital Factors for the
Recovery of the Church Life
Chapter 1 CWWL, 1984, vol. 4 (LSM)
Regina, SK, Canada
Stanza 5
He has raised our human nature
On the clouds to God’s right hand;
There we sit in heav’nly places,
There with Him in glory stand.
Eph 2:6, And He raised us up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
Col 3:1, If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Col 3:4, When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.
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Christopher Wordsworth took after his father, a scholar, and his uncle, the famous poet William Wordsworth. Christopher became a school headmaster, church vicar, and eventually a bishop in the Church of England. As a Greek scholar, he wrote a commentary on the Bible. But his uncle's poetic spark was in him too, and he wrote more than 100 hymns for church use.
Wordsworth tried to combine teaching and poetry in his hymns. He wanted his hymns to teach about Jesus and to call those who sang them to praise Him. - Great Songs of Faith by Brown and Norton
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There are additional stanzas:
6. Holy Ghost, llluminator,
shed Thy beams upon our eyes,
Help us to look up with Stephen,
and to see beyond the skies,
Where the Son of Man in glory
standing is at God’s right hand,
Beck'ning on His martyr army,
succoring, succoring, succoring
His faithful band.
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7. See Him, who is gone before us,
heavenly mansions to prepare,
See Him, who is ever pleading
for us with prevailing prayer,
See Him, who with sound of trumpet,
and with His angelic train,
Summoning the world to judgment,
on the clouds, on the clouds, on the clouds,
will come again.
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8. Raise us up from earth to Heaven,
give us wings of faith and love,
Gales of holy aspirations
wafting us to realms above;
That, with hearts and minds uplifted,
we with Christ our Lord may dwell,
Where He sits enthroned in glory
in His heavenly citadel.
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9. So at last, when He appeareth,
we from out our graves may spring,
With our youth renewed like eagles,
flocking round our heavenly King.
Caught up on the clouds of Heaven,
and may meet Him in the air,
Rise to realms where He is reigning,
and may reign, and may reign, and may reign,
for ever there.
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10. Glory be to God the Father,
glory be to God the Son,
Dying, risen, ascending for us,
who the heavenly realm has won;
Glory to the Holy Spirit,
to one God in persons Three;
Glory both in earth and Heaven,
glory be, glory be, glory
endless glory, be.