JESUS CHRIST >> PRIESTHOOD
SDAH 177
Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
Text
1
Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
2
Bold shall I stand in that great day,
Cleansed and redeemed, no debt to pay;
For by your cross absolved I am
From sin and guilt, from fear and shame.
3
Lord, I believe your precious blood,
Which at the mercy seat of God
Pleads for the captives’ liberty,
Was also shed in love for me.
4
When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,
This then shall be my only plea:
Christ Jesus lived and died for me.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) 1 Cor 1:30; Ps 3:3 (b) John 8:10 (c) Rom 5:11 (d) John 5:25
Author
Nicholas L. von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
Translator
John Wesley (1703-1791) alt.
Hymn Tune
GARDINER
Metrical Number
L.M.
Tune Source
Wm. Gardiner’s Sacred Melodies, 1815
Alternate key
Higher key, SDAH 355
Theme
PRIESTHOOD
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Recommended Reading
Somehow I cannot relate to a filthy rag until I had to change a toddler’s diaper. Smelly, yucky and nasty. Ironically, that’s exactly how my righteousness look like. Maybe even worse. But what I cannot come to grasp with is God. Why in His High, Almighty, All-Powerful state would send His son –equally preeminent as He –would stoop down so low to clean me up. Take all my slime and grime and muck. And dress me in brand spanking new clothes called, His Righteousness. What I done to deserve it? Nothing.
For 38 years, the males of the Zinzendorf family bore the title “Count”, which denoted a high-ranking status among the nobility. Among many other responsibilities, they were mainly known to accompany the emperor or represent the emperor as a delegate to different parts of the country as well as foreign lands. Thus, when Nikolaus Ludwig was born, he inherited at birth the name Count Zinzendorf.
Notes
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