Hymns, #840

The Church - Her Building

Eng/Kor:840  Chin:606  Span:358  Rus:333  Tag:840  Fra:-  Por:384

Lyrics:Witness Lee
Music:Arr. from Emmelar
Meter:8.7.8.7.D.

Hymns using same tune:

#403, #635

 
 1 

Freed from self and Adam's nature,

Lord, I would be built by Thee

With the saints into Thy temple,

Where Thy glory we shall see.

From peculiar traits deliver,

From my independent ways,

That a dwelling place for Thee, Lord,

We will be thru all our days.

 
 2 

By Thy life and by its flowing

I can grow and be transformed,

With the saints coordinated,

Builded up, to Thee conformed;

Keep the order in the Body,

There to function in Thy will,

Ever serving, helping others,

All Thy purpose to fulfill.

 
 3 

In my knowledge and experience

I would not exalted be,

But submitting and accepting

Let the Body balance me;

Holding fast the Head, and growing

With His increase, in His way,

By the joints and bands supplying,

Knit together day by day.

 
 4 

By Thy Spirit daily strengthened

In the inner man with might,

I would know Thy love surpassing,

Know Thy breadth and length and height;

Ever of Thy riches taking,

Unto all Thy fulness filled,

Ever growing into manhood,

That Thy Body Thou may build.

 
 5 

In God's house and in Thy Body

Builded up I long to be,

That within this corporate vessel

All shall then Thy glory see;

That Thy Bride, the glorious city,

May appear upon the earth,

As a lampstand brightly beaming

To express to all Thy worth.

 
Hymn #840