The Lord our Righteousness Yahweh Tsidkinew

Deep in the dust before the throne

Our guilt and our disgrace we own;

We know from whence our natures came

And reckon why we bear the shame;

The first Adam, at his fall,

Death like a conqueror seized us all

Held captive by chains of the grave

Bound to the stuff our hard hearts crave

But when our spirits, filled with awe,

Behold the terrors of God’s law,

We’ll sing the glories of the Grace

You sent to save our ruined race.

For our sake the righteous Son

God made to be sin ,who knew no sin,

So that in him we might become

the righteousness of God in Him!

We sing the everlasting Son,

Who joined our nature to his own:

The second Adam, from the dust

Raises the ruins of the first.

With the rebellion of one man

Through all his seed the disease ran;

So by One man's obedient deeds

Made righteous now are all his seed.

Where sin did reign, and death abound,

There have the sons of Adam found

Abounding life; there glorious grace

Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.

And now, subdued by sovereign grace,

Our spirit longs for his embrace;

Our beauty this our glorious dress,

Jesus the Lord our righteousness.

After Isaac Watts and CH Spurgeon

2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 5:12

Anthony Foster

July 9, 2018