Holy Father, we adore Thee

Holy Father, we adore you. Your loving heart made us righteous in every way. Thank you Father we have been sanctified with the blood of Christ our Lord. What wondrous grace: Jesus’ holy life now lives in us. Praise the Lord! 😀

Amen Kuya Elmer. Holy Father, we adore Thee,
Rev'rent song to Thee we raise;
Thou art holy, Thou art lofty,
“Holy is Thy Name, ” we praise.

By the Father’s Life

In John 17:11 the Lord said, “I am no longer in the world; yet they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given to Me, that they may be one even as We are. ” To be kept in the Father’s name is to be kept by His life, because only those who are born of the Father and have the Father’s life can participate in the Father’s name. The Son has given the Father’s life to those whom the Father has given Him (v. 2). They share the Father’s name by being kept in it, and they are one in it. Hence, the first aspect of oneness is the oneness in the Father’s name by His divine life.

By the Holy Father

In verse 11 the Lord addressed His Father as “Holy Father. ” The Father’s life is a holy life, a life that is separated from the world. Although we have this life, if we stay far away from the holy Father, we will have problems. We all need to be kept in the Father’s name by the life of the holy Father.

Life-study of John

Message 39 (LSM)

Oh how WE adore thee!

The hymn "Holy Father, We Adore Thee" by John Bacchus Dyke expresses deep reverence and adoration for God. The lyrics highlight God's holiness, righteousness, and the transformative power of Christ's sacrifice. The hymn beautifully reflects on the sanctification of believers through Christ and anticipates a future in the holy city where they will declare God's holiness forever.

John Bacchus Dykes wrote the music for this hymn. He was born March 10, 1823, Kingston upon Hill, England in the “Old Ivy House, ” and was baptized on the same day in Old Sutton Church, Kingston upon Hull, by his grandfather Thomas Dykes. His middle name,

Bacchus, was originally a surname, from his maternal ancestors. John died January 22, 1876, Ticehurst, Sussex, England and buried at the Saint Oswald’s Church, Durham England.

John was the son of William Hey Dykes, a ship builder, later banker, and Elizabeth Huntington; husband of Susanna Kingston; and brother of Eliza Alderson who was a hymn writer.

Around age 12, he became assistant organist at St. John’s Church in Hull, where his grandfather was a vicar. He studied at Wakefield Yorkshire and Saint Catherine’s hall, Cambridge, where he was a Dykes Scholar, president of the Cambridge University Musical Society, and earned a BA in classics.

In 1848, he became a curate at Malton, Yorkshire. For a short time, he was a canon of Durham Cathedral, then precentor (1849-62). In 1862 he became vicar of Saint Oswald’s Durham (he named a son St. John Oswald Dykes and one of his tunes Saint Oswald).

Dykes published sermons and articles on spiritual matters but is best known for composing over 300 hymns. In his music, as in his ecclesiastical work, he was less dogmatic than many of his contemporaries about the theological controversies of the day-– he often fulfilled requests for tunes for non-Anglican hymns. In addition to his gift for writing music he played the organ, piano, violin, and horn.