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\u201cIn Christ Alone: Hymns\/Songs that Give Us Life”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0The story behind the hymn<\/h4>\n

Since the song we are considering is only 20 years old rather than 200 like some of our other hymns, the story behind the song doesn\u2019t have nearly the mystique and intrigue that the other ones did. We can relate to it much more because it is set in a contemporary context. The lyrics were written by Stuart Townend; the melody was written by Keith Getty.<\/p>\n

Townend grew up as the youngest of four children in a Christian family in West Yorkshire, England, where his father was a vicar in the Church of England. The Townend family always enjoyed music, and young Stuart began to play the piano at the age of seven. Townend had already written another of our favourite songs \u2013 \u201cHow Deep the Father\u2019s Love\u201d \u2013 before he was 30. \u201cIn Christ Alone\u201d was written about 10 years later.<\/p>\n

Townend explains: \u201cKeith [Getty] and I met in the autumn of 2000 at a worship event, and we resolved to try to work together on some songs. A few weeks later Keith sent some melody ideas, and the first one on the CD was a magnificent, haunting melody that I loved, and immediately started writing down some lyrical ideas on what I felt should be a timeless theme commensurate with the melody. So the theme of the life, death, resurrection of Christ, and the implications of that for us just began to tumble out, and when we got together later on to fine tune it, we felt we had encapsulated what we wanted to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Townend and Getty both admit they are motivated by the idea of capturing biblical truth in songs and hymns that will not only cause people to express their worship in church, but will build them up in their Christian lives.<\/p>\n

Getty and Townend have co-authored some other songs that we sing and love here at Hope Lutheran: a soft Christmas song \u2013 \u201cJoy has Dawned Upon the World;\u201d a powerful Good Friday song \u2013 \u201cThe Power of the Cross;\u201d and a majestic resurrection song \u2013 \u201cSee What a Morning!\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s lots to talk about in \u201cIn Christ Alone,\u201d and lots and lots of Biblical references, so\u2026 here we go\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 v.1\u00a0 – In the love of Christ I stand<\/h4>\n

In Christ alone my hope is found\u00a0 He is my light, my strength, my song<\/p>\n

This Cornerstone; this solid Ground\u00a0 Firm through the fiercest drought and storm<\/p>\n

What heights of love What depths of peace\u00a0 When fears are stilled When strivings cease<\/p>\n

My comforter, my All in All\u00a0 Here in the love of Christ I stand<\/p>\n

The first verse of this song especially describes the character, the nature, the attributes of Jesus Christ, and what blessings He brings to my life, to your life. (For a few of these, they might fit equally into Christ\u2019s character and His blessings, so I have quite arbitrarily set them in one category.)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Character<\/h4>\n

Townend calls Jesus \u201cmy light.\u201d He is the one who illumines our spiritual lives, helping us to see things and to see our own lives from God\u2019s perspective. Whether we take the words of Psalm 27 \u2013 \u201cThe Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?\u201d – OR the words of Jesus in John 8 \u2013 \u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.\u201d OR the testimony of John the Gospel writer \u2013 \u201cIn [Jesus] was life, and that life was the light of men\u2026 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.\u201d \u2013 they all point to Jesus as the source of spiritual light and understanding. We \u201cget\u201d life on earth and in heaven more clearly when we see it through the lens of Jesus\u2019 teaching, His life, death and resurrection.<\/p>\n

Townend calls Jesus \u201cthis cornerstone, this solid ground.\u201d I\u2019ll save \u201csolid ground\u201d for the blessings category. Several times in the New Testament \u2013 from the lips of Jesus, Himself, and from the pens of Paul and Peter and Luke \u2013 we hear Jesus referred to as the cornerstone, the most important rock in the building of a house. The person of Jesus, the saving work of Jesus is the most important piece of the building of our lives of faith. If we don\u2019t have Jesus, we don\u2019t really have anything of value at all. My hope is built on NOTHING LESS than Jesus!!<\/p>\n

Townend describes Jesus\u2019 character using contrasting images \u2013 the heights of love and the depths of peace. The \u201cheights of love\u201d reminds me of what Paul wrote to the Ephesian believers, praying that they would grasp how wide, and long, and HIGH, and deep is the love of Christ. Because we are sinful, and because of the unimaginably great love of God for us, Jesus went to the darkness of the cross and the depths of hell to demonstrate that love\u2026 but that\u2019s really jumping ahead to a theme that is more prominent in verses 2 and 3.<\/p>\n

The depths of peace is described by Jesus in a John 14 conversation with His disciples on the night before He died. He told them, \u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.\u201d Then later in the chapter, \u201cPeace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give [peace] to you as the world gives.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know exactly what thoughts troubled the disciples that night. Did they have an inkling of what might happen? Were they feeling anxious and afraid? Whatever it was, Jesus was giving them His peace\u2026 not just \u2018saying\u2019 it, but actually imparting it to them. I don\u2019t know what thoughts might be troubling you right now, but please know that Jesus\u2019 peace is just a prayer away. He promises the same, \u201cMy peace I give you\u2026 do not let your hearts be troubled.\u201d<\/p>\n

I love another verse about peace from Philippians 4. Paul wrote, \u201cThe peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, WILL guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.\u201d That\u2019s the depths of peace that Townend knows \u2013 a peace that enables us to say \u201cwhatever my lot\u2026 it is well with my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Blessings<\/h4>\n

We need to touch on the blessings in that first verse. \u201cIn Christ alone\u201d \u2013 the title of the song \u2013 is a truth that we hear again from multiple sources in Scripture. Also in John 14, Jesus said, \u201cI am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.\u201d \u201cIn Christ alone\u201d we hear the truth, we see the way, we experience the life. Peter said the same thing in Acts 4, \u201cSalvation is found in no one else\u201d \u2013 in Christ alone. Townend translates that into the blessing of hope \u2013 \u201cIn Christ alone my hope is found.\u201d That\u2019s basically like we heard from Edward Mote last week \u2013 \u201cMy hope is built on NOTHING LESS\u2026 than Jesus Christ, than Christ alone!\u201d Our hope to get from earth to heaven is not found in the security of money, the flimsy bridge of our selves and our good works, or the shaky teachings and religions that have no basis in truth. It\u2019s Christ alone!! And so, besides being our cornerstone, he is also our solid ground \u2013 taking its imagery again from that story about the men who built their houses on a rock and on sand. Jesus is our solid ground when drought and storm and fears and strivings relentlessly attack our little lives. It\u2019s only and always because Christ is my everything that we sing \u201cHere, in the love of Christ, I stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0v.2 – In the death of Christ I live<\/h4>\n

In Christ alone! Who took on flesh\u00a0 Fullness of God in helpless babe<\/p>\n

This gift of love and righteousness\u00a0 Scorned by the ones He came to save<\/p>\n

Till on that cross as Jesus died\u00a0 The wrath of God was satisfied<\/p>\n

For every sin on Him was laid\u00a0 Here in the death of Christ I live<\/p>\n

As Stuart Townend moves into verse 2, he takes us into the incarnation and death of Jesus. \u201cIn Christ alone who took on flesh.\u201d This is a reference to John 1:14 \u2013 John\u2019s one verse account of the Christmas story. There we read that \u201cThe Word [of God] became flesh and made His dwelling among us.\u201d We might also be reminded of the angel Gabriel\u2019s message to Mary that the child she would bear would be called the Son of the Most High God. When we as a human race, and when we as individuals, strayed and rebelled and turned against God in our sinfulness, this loving and gracious God was not content to leave us at arm\u2019s length nor to condemn us to our deserved eternity apart from Him. So, as Paul wrote in Philippians 2, Jesus, though He had equal status with God didn\u2019t think so much of Himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, He set aside the privileges of deity and, became\u00a0human<\/em>, taking on the nature of a servant!<\/p>\n

When Townend uses the phrase \u201cFullness of God in helpless babe,\u201d it is from two verses in Colossians that tell us that \u201cin Christ the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form.\u201d So\u2026 fullness of God in helpless babe laid in a manger in Bethlehem, but also fullness of God as an adult bringing the Kingdom of God \u2013 the love and righteousness of God \u2013 into the lives of the people of Israel.<\/p>\n

Those people, His own ethnic group of people scorned Him, rejected Him. John\u2019s Gospel tells us that when Jesus came to His own people they did not receive Him, and Luke\u2019s Gospel tells us that the people of Jesus\u2019 home-town of Nazareth also rejected Him and were going to throw Him off a cliff. They weren\u2019t successful at that time, but it was only a matter of time until the Jewish religious leaders \u2013 out of jealousy \u2013 did take Jesus to the Roman governor and then eventually to the cross to silence Him and His unwelcome-to-them teachings and practices. But Jesus on the cross wasn\u2019t only the desire and the relief of those religious leaders, it was also the redemption \/ salvation plan in the very heart of God. And so Townend describes it: \u201cWhen Jesus died God\u2019s wrath [over our sin] was satisfied.\u201d God\u2019s justice required that sin be paid for by the shedding of blood \u2013 that\u2019s what all the Old Testament sacrifices were about. Because Jesus was the perfect, sinless, innocent sacrifice, every sin of ours, every LAST sin of ours, was laid on Jesus with the result that, when Jesus said, \u201cIt is finished,\u201d the debt for our sin had been fully paid. That\u2019s why we can humbly, softly, and genuinely say, \u201cThanks be to God!\u201d That\u2019s why we can \u2013 as Townend wrote \u2013 live in the death of Christ. He must have gotten that thought from Paul in Romans 6 when he wrote about being united with Christ in His death \u2013 dead to sin but alive in Christ. OR maybe Paul\u2019s profound truth in Galatians 2: \u201cI have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.\u201d \u201cHere, in the death of Christ, I live\u201d indeed!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0v.3 – Bought with the precious blood of Christ<\/h4>\n

There in the ground His body lay,\u00a0 Light of the world by darkness slain<\/p>\n

Then bursting forth in glorious Day\u00a0 Up from the grave He rose again<\/p>\n

And as He stands in victory\u00a0 Sin\u2019s curse has lost its grip on me<\/p>\n

For I am His and He is mine\u00a0 Bought with the precious blood of Christ<\/p>\n

The third verse of Stuart Townend\u2019s beautiful story of the life of Christ continues with the events that follow His crucifixion. \u201cThere, in the ground, His body lay.\u201d This is a reference to the fact that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus received Pilate\u2019s permission to hurriedly take down the body of Jesus from the cross and to bury Him before the darkness of twilight and the beginning of the Sabbath rest. They buried His body in a new tomb in which no body had ever been placed before. And then, with the stone rolled down into the entrance of the tomb, Jesus\u2019 body lay in its own Sabbath rest.<\/p>\n

The next line in the song describes the implications of Jesus\u2019 death on a spiritual plane, rather than a physical one. \u201cLight of the world, by darkness, slain.\u201d We already heard about Jesus being our light, and the light of the world. In Ephesians 6, St. Paul uses darkness as a metaphor for the devil and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, and darkness came over the whole land for three hours, it was a picture image of Satan\u2019s darkness snuffing out the life of the light of the world. And when Jesus breathed His last, those demonic forces must have shouted with glee \u2013 the light slain, defeated, expired.<\/p>\n

The following words turn the tables: \u201cThen bursting forth in glorious day Up from the grave He rose again.\u201d This is the wonderful Easter message \u2013 light conquering darkness, life conquering death, good conquering evil, God conquering the devil. Jesus\u2019 resurrection is the theological and musical climax of Townend\u2019s and Getty\u2019s song. \u201cHe stands in victory!\u201d At the end of 1 Corinthians 15, the great resurrection chapter, St. Paul chimes in: \u201cThanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!\u201d Yes, indeed!! His victory is also ours for just as death lost its grip on Jesus on that glorious Sunday morning, so sin\u2019s curse loses its grip on you and me, and Jesus\u2019 grip on us is found to be the strong and solid and secure one. As Peter writes in his first letter, it is the precious blood of Christ that has bought us, and that\u2019s why we belong to Him, and He to us.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0v.4 – Jesus commands my destiny<\/h4>\n

No guilt in life, no fear in death\u00a0 This is the pow\u2019r of Christ in me<\/p>\n

From life\u2019s first cry to final breath\u00a0 Jesus commands my destiny<\/p>\n

No pow\u2019r of hell, no scheme of man\u00a0 Can ever pluck me from His hand<\/p>\n

Till He returns or calls me home\u00a0 Here in the pow\u2019r of Christ I\u2019ll stand<\/p>\n

The last verse of this song lands where the last verses of many of the other hymns we have looked at did \u2013 at a consideration of the last day \u2013 whether that is our final breath, or Christ\u2019s return\u2026 till He returns or calls me home. But it starts out with a boat load of confidence \u2013 no guilt in life, no fear in death. No guilt in life because we live in the grace of God. Psalm 32 and Jeremiah 33 both affirm that God forgives the guilt of our sins.\u00a0 \u201cWe have been justified through faith,\u201d writes Paul. \u201cChrist redeemed us from the curse of the law,\u201d writes Paul. \u201cBy grace you have been saved,\u201d writes Paul. Our sins and the guilt that is associated with them\u2026 all covered by the sacrifice of Jesus and the grace of God.<\/p>\n

No fear in death\u2026 we might fear dying and the pain and suffering that may be associated with it, but we need not fear death itself because there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. If you are in Christ, if you have faith in Christ, then know, really KNOW that death has been defeated. That is the life-giving power of Christ in each one of us. Jesus gave us life \u2013 we are fearfully and wonderfully made \u2013 right from that first cry when the doctor gave us a slap on our new-born bottom, to the final gasp of air as we leave this earthly life. Jesus controls all of that, all of life. Jesus is sovereign over all of creation, but personally we recognize that He is sovereign over us. He commands our destiny, what happens in our lives. He determines our eternal future, and nothing can change that!!<\/p>\n

Nothing \u2013 no human force, no spiritual force \u2013 can separate us from God. With the armor of God clothing us, with the power of Christ enveloping us, we will be able to stand in the day of evil when the very powers of hell come against us and attack us. Paul had that as his very confidence as he concluded Romans chapter 8: \u201cI am CONVINCED that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any power, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

This song points us to a tiny Baby in a manger. It calls us to look up at the cross. After the dark hours of the cross, the song shouts of victory. Triumphantly, the song comes full circle by returning to our relationship with Christ. It conveys the deep freedom, joy, and power we find in Christ. And so let\u2019s stand, and boldly, confidently, passionately sing – \u201cIn Christ alone!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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