Hymns, #735

Various Aspects of the Inner Life - The Law of Letters

Eng/Kor:735  Chin:531  Span:307  Rus:-  Tag:735  Fra:-  Por:338

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:William Knapp
Meter:8.8.8.8.

Hymns using same tune:

#32, #100 (Tune 2), #774 (Tune 2)

 
 1 

The law of letters God defines,

It is His testimony true;

It shows how loving, holy, just,

Is God, with whom we have to do.

 
 2 

According to His nature shown

God's law requires that we must live,

That He our souls may justify

And unto us His blessing give.

 
 3 

The law can never give us life,

Nor any strength to us supply,

But doth its full demands exact

And all our weakness show thereby.

 
 4 

It was not for God's final plan,

But for man's sin was introduced,

That man by breaking it might know

Himself, his sin to him adduced.

 
 5 

'Tis by the law all mouths are stopped

And all are shut up under sin;

It brings us to the Christ of God

That God may bless us all in Him.

 
 6 

The law is but a type of Christ,

Who God's full testimony is,

Who fully has expressed His love,

His holiness and righteousness.

 
 7 

'Tis Christ, God's testimony real,

Who doth with life divine supply,

That with the law's demands we may

Be more than able to comply.

 
 8 

God's living testimony, He;

By whom God's potent life we share;

Thru Him we're dead unto the law,

And in His Spirit fruit we bear.

 
Hymn #735