KenH
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A hymn written by Isaac Watts. (in common meter)
2 Corinthians 5:1-8 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight
we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
"Death and Immediate Glory"
1. There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal and on high;
And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.
2. Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, O my soul! with joy obey
Thy heav'nly Father's call.
3. 'Tis He, by His almighty grace,
That forms thee fit for Heav'n;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Hath His own Spirit giv'n.
4. We walk by faith of joys to come,
Faith lives upon His Word;
But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.
5. 'Tis pleasant to believe Thy grace,
But we had rather see;
When would be absent from the flesh
And present, Lord, with Thee.
2 Corinthians 5:1-8 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight
we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. "Death and Immediate Glory"
1. There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal and on high;
And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.
2. Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, O my soul! with joy obey
Thy heav'nly Father's call.
3. 'Tis He, by His almighty grace,
That forms thee fit for Heav'n;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Hath His own Spirit giv'n.
4. We walk by faith of joys to come,
Faith lives upon His Word;
But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.
5. 'Tis pleasant to believe Thy grace,
But we had rather see;
When would be absent from the flesh
And present, Lord, with Thee.