200. Once We Stood in Condemnation

8,7.
by G.W. Frazer
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Once we stood in condemnation,
 
Waiting thus the sinner’s doom,
 
Christ in death has wrought salvation,
 
God has raised Him from the tomb.
“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18)
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” (Romans 5:8-9)
“And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead.” (Acts 13:29-30)
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As strangers then to God we lived,
 
Filled with enmity and fear;
 
Our souls from death He has reprieved,
 
Love revealed and brought us near.
“That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.” (Ephesians 2:12)
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” (Ephesians 2:19)
3
Now we see in Christ’s acceptance
 
But the measure of our own;
 
Him who lay beneath our sentence,
 
Seated high upon the throne.
4
Quickened, raised, and in Him seated,
 
We a full deliverance know;
 
Every foe has been defeated,
 
Every enemy laid low.
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Now we have a life in union
 
With the risen life above;
 
Now we drink in sweet communion
 
Some rich foretaste of His love.
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3)
“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:3)
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Soon, O Lord, in brightest glory,
 
All its vastness we’ll explore;
 
Soon we’ll cast our crowns before Thee,
 
Whilst we worship and adore.
“The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Revelation 4:10-11)
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