![]() ![]() The last stanza says, "Her local gatherings model / The New Jerusalem / Its aspects and its details / Must show in all of them. ![]() We need to sing this hymn and read this hymn, and we also need to learn this hymn. Thus, we are waiting to be raptured we are in hope awaiting the Lord's coming. We lack nothing because we are joined to everything positive and cut off from everything negative. This cutting off results in a separation from every negative thing. If we have been cut off from the world, the old creation, the self, and everything natural, we surely have been cut off from sinfulness and Satan. Furthermore, we have been cut off from the flesh, the self, and everything natural. The second half of stanza 4 says, "The triune God is in her, / One Body members own, / By faith they are united, / In hope of glory shown." Through baptism we have been cut off from the world and the old creation. The Body and the new man need to grow, whereas the building needs transformation. Wood, grass, and stubble can be transformed and built up as gold, silver, and precious stone. Although stanza 3 does not have the term transformation, transformation is truly included in it: "Christ is her one foundation, / None other man may lay / All that she has, as Christ, is / Divine in every way / Her members through the Spirit / Their death on Calv'ry own / They're built in resurrection- / Gold, silver, precious stone." Natural things must go through the killing of the cross and then be built up in resurrection. All buildings require a foundation, and Christ being the head of the corner in God's building is the foundation (Matt. The first stanza is on the Body and the dwelling place the second stanza is on the new man the third stanza is on the foundation and its emphasis on building. It contains a very deep mystery, but the saints do not sing it very often.įurthermore, the emphasis in every stanza is very clear. ![]()
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