Hymns, #820

The Church - The Fullness of Christ

Eng/Kor:820  Chin:592  Span:349  Rus:330  Tag:820  Fra:-  Por:375

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:Charles Burney, from Psalmodia Evangelica, 1789
Meter:8.8.8.8.

Hymns using same tune:

#88, #233

 
 1 

Riches of Christ we should enjoy

And then His fulness we will be;

Partaking of His very self,

His testimony men will see.

 
 2 

Riches of Christ are what He is

To us who are His members true;

His fulness is what we become

As body doth to man accrue.

 
 3 

Riches of Christ are typified

By Canaan's produce rich and sweet,

With which the temple great was built,

The Church's greatest type replete.

 
 4 

As Eve to Adam fulness was,

So is the Church to Christ her Head;

As Eve from Adam's being came,

The Church by Christ's own life is bred.

 
 5 

Christ's riches are Himself within,

His fulness is the Church without,

As His expression, full of Him;

The Church with Christ is built throughout.

 
Hymn #820