Walk in Wisdom Toward Outsiders

“Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.

“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” (Colossians 4:2-6 ESV)

We who believe in Jesus Christ with genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ should be people of prayer. And we should be sensitive to the Spirit’s voice prompting us to pray for certain people at particular times when God knows that those people need prayer. For prayer is really two-way open communication between us and our Lord to where we can hear from him at any time of day or night, and to where we can speak to him about whatever is on our hearts and minds at any time.

Prayer does not have to be formal or with a written list, and it doesn’t have to be at a specific time of day or a routine we follow. We can talk with the Lord while we are cleaning house or washing the dishes or driving a vehicle or cooking a meal or while we are exercising or taking a walk, etc. For we are to continually be in a state of prayer (pray without ceasing), not that we are always verbalizing prayers to the Lord, but to where we have that open communication to where it is just natural to talk with him at any time.

Now I hear people talking about how we should pray for pastors of churches, and for missionaries, and for evangelists, and that we should pray for those who are sick or who are in physical need of some kind. But we should pray for anyone who is a follower of Christ who asks for prayer, and in the same way we would pray for a pastor or for the sick. For we all need prayer. And all who are following Jesus with their lives are ministers of the gospel and they are missionaries, because they are sharing the gospel with others.

And we should pray for people’s emotional and spiritual needs, too, and not just for their physical needs. For there are a lot of hurting people out there who need prayer and encouragement and who are laboring for the Lord much like Paul did, but without credentials, and without a title, and without recognition that what they are doing is as important or more important than many who have credentials and titles. For a title of “missionary” does not make us a “missionary.” We are missionaries if we are spreading the gospel.

And we should be praying in general for the truth of the gospel of our salvation to get out to as many people as possible so that they will hear the truth and turn their hearts and lives over to Jesus Christ, die with him to sin, then live to him and to his righteousness in the power of God. And we should pray that more people professing faith in Jesus Christ will share the message of the gospel of our salvation with other people, like on social media or in person, or over the phone, or via a letter or whatever means possible.

And when I say “truth,” I mean the truth that Jesus Christ and his NT apostles taught, if read and understood in context, and not from Scriptures removed from their context and then twisted to say what they do not say. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience, we have the hope of eternal life with God (Luke 9:23-26).

And then we are to walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. We should not be allowing ourselves to get trapped into worldly living and into doing what the ungodly do because we are following the wrong crowd or because we are wanting to “fit in” and be accepted. And we should also seek the Lord for opportunities to share his gospel message with the people of the world in person or on the internet or via letters, or via whatever means we have available to get the good news out to people.

And when this says to let our speech be gracious, this is not talking about us watering down the truth of the gospel so that we don’t offend people with the truth of what the Scriptures teach. For if we lessen the power of the gospel message, we have won no one for genuine faith in Jesus Christ. For grace is kindness, and God’s grace to us instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return (Titus 2:11-14).

And this word “grace” means “leaning towards to share benefit,” the kind of benefit that Jesus provided for us via his death on that cross. For us, we share that grace (favor) via the message of the gospel of our salvation. For in Jesus’ death on that cross he freely gave himself away on our behalf in order that we might have the benefit of deliverance from slavery to sin and the empowerment of God to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in walks of obedience to his commands in daily living (Romans 6:1-23; 1 Peter 2:24).

And if our speech is seasoned with salt, metaphorically speaking, salt signifies purification. In a figurative sense, it can mean wisdom or prudence (good sense). So, if we preserve the word of God, we maintain, uphold, obey, continue in, protect (safeguard) and defend it. And so if our words are seasoned with salt, we speak with pure words and with godly wisdom and with good sense in safeguarding and protecting the truth of the gospel. And this is what we all should be doing who love and serve Jesus Christ.

[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18; Acts 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Php 2:1-8; Col 3:16; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6]  

A Believer’s Prayer 

An Original Work / July 31, 2012

With my whole heart, Lord, I pray 

To be Yours, and Yours always.

Lead me in Your truth today.

May I love You, and obey.

Lead me in Your righteousness.

When I sin, may I confess;

Bow before You when I pray;

Live for You and You always.

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.

Life with You will never end.

You are with me through each day,

Giving love and peace always.

You will ne’er abandon me.

From my sin You set me free.

You died on that cruel tree,

So I’d live eternally.

Soon You’re coming back for me;

From this world to set me free;

Live with You eternally.

Oh, what joy that brings to me.

I will walk with You in white;

A pure bride, I’ve been made right

By the blood of Jesus Christ;

Pardoned by His sacrifice.

https://vimeo.com/114796263

The Body of Christ

 

Teaching and Admonishing One Another

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colossians 3:16-17 ESV)

The words spoken here were written to the collective body of Christ, not just to pastors, evangelists, or missionaries. This applies to us all. As members of the body of Christ, we are to be ministering to one another. We are to be speaking the truth in love to one another so that none of us will be easily persuaded by the cunning and craftiness of human beings in their deceitful scheming, and then end up chasing after false doctrines of faith. And we need to speak the truth in love to one another, as well, to help one another to grow to maturity in our walks of faith in Christ.

And we are to be being filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. And this is not talking about us attending a song service at a local gathering of the church (or what is called “church”). This means I have a song to share with you for your encouragement in the Lord, given to me by God, and so I share it with you for your strengthening in your walk of faith. And then you share a song or a poem or a psalm with me for my encouragement and for my strengthening in my walk of faith in the Lord, whenever God puts this on our hearts.

And we are to be letting the word of Christ dwell in us richly, which means we are dedicating time to the study of God’s word (in context), and that we are sitting at the feet of Jesus, drinking in his Word, praying for him to teach us what he wants us to learn and to apply to our own lives. And then we need to be putting those things into practice in our own lives so that we set the example for how to live those things out in our daily lives, and so that we are not trying to teach others what we ourselves are not living. And then we need to be teaching and admonishing (warning) one another in the faith.

Also, we are to exhort (insist on with a holy urging) one another every day so that none of us will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. And we are to stir (spur) up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, but encouraging (inspiring, urging) one another, and all the more as we see the Day (of judgment, of our Lord’s return) drawing near. And meeting together can be anywhere, any day of the week, any time of day or night, and in person or over the phone or on the internet, wherever other believers in Christ are gathered where we can encourage one another.

And if a brother or sister in Christ has been caught (trapped) in sin, we who are spiritual (who are walking in obedience to the Lord in holy living) should restore him or her (put back in proper working order what is out of joint) in a spirit of meekness (in gentle strength, not in weakness). But this engages the cooperation of the one who sinned. And then we need to keep watch over our own lives so that we aren’t tempted to sin. And if a brother or a sister should wander from the truth, whoever brings back that sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and he’ll be forgiven his sins.

And we, as the body of believers in Jesus Christ, if we are of genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord, which dies to sin and lives to righteousness, then we have all been gifted of the Spirit of God with spiritual gifts which we are then to put into practice, by the Spirit, for the mutual encouragement and edification of the universal body of Christ. And we are to be serving the Lord and one another in the specific areas of ministry assigned to us by God as he has chosen and has called us to do. And we are not to neglect our gifts nor our callings, but we are to be faithful to God.

[Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Colossians 3:16; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; Galatians 6:1; James 5:19-20; Titus 2:11-14; Philippians 2:1-8; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31] 

“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

My Heart’s Desire  

An Original Work / June 29, 2013

Based off Rm. 10; Lu. 9:23-26; Ep. 4:20-24

Loved Ones, Oh, my heart’s desire

Is that you might come to Jesus.

Many appear zealous for God,

But they do not trust in Him.

They have not submitted to the One

Who saved them from their sins;

Not forsaken their sins,

Nor have they obeyed their King.

The word of the Lord is near you:

The word of faith we’re proclaiming:

That you must confess your faith

In Jesus as your Lord and King:

Believe in Him as your Lord, 

And follow Him where’er He leads.

Share the gospel; be a witness,

And meet others’ needs.

Beautiful are the feet of those

Who bring the good news of Jesus:

Anyone who would come to Him

Must deny himself today;

Die to sin and self, and

Let the Spirit transform you in heart;

Put on your new self in Jesus,

Yielding to the cross. 

https://vimeo.com/115643303 

So You Also Must Forgive

“Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (Colossians 3:12-14 ESV)

Believing in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives is to make a difference in our lives. We are not supposed to be like we were before we believed in Jesus. That doesn’t mean that we will be instantaneously perfect in every way, but that we should have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin reign any longer in our mortal bodies to make us obey its passions, for if we do, we will not inherit eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And as we read the Scriptures, book by book, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse, in context, we realize that the New Testament is filled with instructions to us on what we are to put out of our lives – like sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, lying, and slandering, and the like – and on what we are to put on in our lives – like compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, truth telling, and moral purity, and the like. For Jesus Christ died on that cross to free us from our slavery to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives and honor him with our bodies.

But we need to understand here that compassion and kindness are to be according to the Word of God and the will of God, and as demonstrated to us by the life of Jesus and by the lives of his NT apostles. And they are not to be determined by human thinking, reasoning, philosophy, and psychology. For we humans don’t think like God thinks, for many humans think that lying to people is both kind and compassionate. Now this doesn’t mean that you are hateful or nasty to anyone in order to tell them the truth, but that telling people lies is not kind. Speaking the truth in love to them is kind.

Now when it says here to bear with one another, this is not about tolerating deliberate and habitual sin in the lives of those professing faith in Jesus Christ within the gatherings of the church. This has more to do with differences of opinion and personality, I believe. Instead we are to speak the truth in love to one another, and exhort one another so that none of us are hardened by sin’s deceitfulness, and so that none of us are led astray by those who in their cunning, craftiness, and deceitful scheming, are leading many people to follow after a false and distorted “gospel of Christ.” 

[Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

And we need to be those who do not hold grudges, and who do not feel the necessity to “get even” with others who we believe have wronged us in some way. But we need to be those who make it our practice to forgive, but with the same message that Jesus gave, which was “go and sin no more.” For forgiveness is not to be with the intention of tolerating and accepting deliberate and habitual sin within the gatherings of the church (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-13). For it does not excuse away willful sin, but it confronts it, just like the Scriptures do. We just don’t retaliate. We love our enemies!

And the love that we are to put on is not human love, which is subject to fail, and which is based in our emotions and in the one being loved as being lovable. But we are to love one another with agape love which prefers to live through Christ, obeying his will, and choosing his choices. And it prefers what Christ prefers which is what is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. And so when we love with this love we will treat others as God treats us and we will do for them what is for their good and not do evil against them.

Jesus, Lead Me  

An Original Work / July 22, 2011

Jesus, lead me all the way.

Be my hope and be my stay. 

Gently lead me where I should go,

So Your Spirit, I want to know.

Open up my heart to You.

Fill me with Your love and truth.

Make my heart want to obey.

Be my Lord today. Gently lead always. 

Jesus, lover of my soul,

Cleanse my heart, and make me whole;

Be transformed in my heart today,

As I turn from my sin and pray.

Make Your will known to my heart.

May I not from You depart.

How I long to hear You now,

As I humbly bow. Jesus, hear me now.

https://vimeo.com/113559147

Jesus, Lead Me

I have known the Lord Jesus Christ since I was a young child. I was convicted of my sin, and I wept in repentance as I called out to my Lord in prayer, accepting him as my Lord and Savior, believing in him to cleanse me of my sins and to make me a new person in Christ Jesus. I continued to get to know him as I sat daily at his feet, praying and reading his word, listening to him speak to my heart, and as I followed him in obedience to what his desire was for my life. 

This has been a work in progress, though. And that is why the Bible describes our salvation in this way – I am saved, I am being saved, and I will be saved. Some call this the process of sanctification. 

Although we are forgiven of our sins when we believe in Jesus, and he cleanses us and he delivers us from the punishment and the control (power) of sin over our lives, the Christian walk of faith is a process of putting off the things of our flesh and putting on the things of God. It is a process of forsaking sin and walking by his Spirit in obedience to his commands and in his righteousness and holiness. And we need him daily to lead us and to guide us through this process so that we walk in his truth and in his ways and no longer in sin. For if we continue in sin, we will die in our sins.

Jesus, Lead Me  

An Original Work / July 22, 2011

Jesus, lead me all the way.

Be my hope and be my stay. 

Gently lead me where I should go,

So Your Spirit, I want to know.

Open up my heart to You.

Fill me with Your love and truth.

Make my heart want to obey.

Be my Lord today. Gently lead always. 

Jesus, lover of my soul,

Cleanse my heart, and make me whole;

Be transformed in my heart today,

As I turn from my sin and pray.

Make Your will known to my heart.

May I not from You depart.

How I long to hear You now,

As I humbly bow. Jesus, hear me now.

https://vimeo.com/113559147 

Set Your Minds on Things of God

“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

“Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” (Colossians 3:1-10 ESV)

And in Romans 6:4,6-7,12 we read that “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.” “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.”

So, faith in Jesus Christ, if it is genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith, will result in us dying with Christ to sin, us being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, and us now walking by the Spirit in holy living in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. But this passage in Colossians 3 brings into question if that has indeed taken place, and if it has, then what is described here is what our lives should look like as followers of Jesus Christ who have died to sin and who are now living to God to do his will.

Many people today, however, are skirting over these passages of Scripture, or they are twisting them to say something different from what they are saying. For they are not teaching that we must die with Christ to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. But they are teaching that a mere profession of faith in Christ is enough to secure heaven for us for eternity, but regardless of how we live.

But it is impossible for us to read such Scriptures as this, and in Romans 6, and in many other passages of Scripture in the New Testament, and to honestly walk away convinced that our sins no longer matter to God and so we can go on sinning, for his grace covers it all. For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives, for the glory of God, while we wait for our Lord’s soon return (see Titus 2:11-14).

So please know that the Scriptures do not teach what so many charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” are teaching today which is that once we “pray the prayer” or we make a confession of faith in Jesus Christ that heaven is now secured us regardless of how we live. For in Romans 6 alone it teaches us that if we present ourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, we are slaves of the one whom we obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which ends in eternal life with God (see Romans 6:16-23).

Therefore, as those of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with Christ to sin, and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, we are to set our minds on the things of God and not on the things of this sinful world. So, by the Spirit, we are to put to death what is earthly in us. And that is a lifetime process of sanctification whereby we die daily to sin and to self and we walk in holiness and in righteousness in walks of obedience and in surrender to our Lord Jesus Christ (see Luke 9:23-26).

But just because this is a process of sanctification that does not give us permission to keep on in deliberate and habitual sin while claiming, “It is a process.” For we are to die to sin, not continue living in it. We are to put to death sexual immorality, impurity, evil desire, idolatry, malice, slander, obscene talk, lying, cheating, stealing, and the like. For if we do not, and we continue in these, we will not inherit eternal life with God, but we will die in our sins (Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 5:3-6; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; etc.).

And then we are to be seeking the things that are from above, which are of God, and not of this sinful world. We should desire to obey our Lord and not to try to find wiggle room for getting out of having to obey him. He should now be our desire, and we should long to please him with our lives. And we should take his Word seriously and obey it in his power. For our lives should now be surrendered to our Lord to do his will, and we should want for him to lead us in his path of righteousness, for we love him.

A Believer’s Prayer 

An Original Work / July 31, 2012

With my whole heart, Lord, I pray 

To be Yours, and Yours always.

Lead me in Your truth today.

May I love You, and obey.

Lead me in Your righteousness.

When I sin, may I confess;

Bow before You when I pray;

Live for You and You always.

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.

Life with You will never end.

You are with me through each day,

Giving love and peace always.

You will ne’er abandon me.

From my sin You set me free.

You died on that cruel tree,

So I’d live eternally.

Soon You’re coming back for me;

From this world to set me free;

Live with You eternally.

Oh, what joy that brings to me.

I will walk with You in white;

A pure bride, I’ve been made right

By the blood of Jesus Christ;

Pardoned by His sacrifice.

https://vimeo.com/114796263 

Not According to Christ

“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 

“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.” (Colossians 2:8-14 ESV)

[NT stands for New Testament and NC stands for New Covenant]

We have many people today within the gatherings of what are called “churches” who are teaching what is “not according to Christ,” and which is not according to the teachings of his New Testament apostles, but which is according to human tradition and according to the thinking of human beings. Some of them want us to be more like Jews and to follow some of their customs and ceremonies. And some are legalists who want to put on us requirements that are not of God but are of the traditions of humans.

Yet others, and this is the most critical of all, are diluting and altering the gospel that Jesus taught, and that his NT apostles taught, in order to make the gospel and Christ more appealing and acceptable to human flesh and to the people of the world they are trying to attract to their gatherings. So they aren’t so much adding on to the gospel additional requirements, like others do, but they are pretty much removing most all of God’s biblical requirements for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God.

But genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ results in us dying with Christ to sin and being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to continue living in sin. We are no longer to let sin reign (be in control) in our mortal bodies to where we obey its passions and desires. For if sin is what we obey, it will lead to death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, its end is eternal life (Romans 6:1-23).

For Jesus did not die that horrible death on that cross just to forgive us our sins so that when we die we get to go to heaven. For coming to faith in Jesus Christ means that we are circumcised spiritually of Christ in the putting to death of our sins so that we might now live for him and for his will and purpose for our lives, in the power of God. And we were raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, not like our old lives of sin, but now as followers of Christ in holy living and in obedience to his NC commands.

Therefore, see to it that no one takes you captive by human philosophy and empty deceit and trickery and the twisting of the Scriptures to make them say what they do not say if taught in their appropriate context. See to it that you don’t get trapped into thinking that you have to follow after others’ human traditions which have been passed down from generation to generation. Die with Christ to sin that you might live to him and to his righteousness in the power of God, in holy living, and in obedience to God.

And be students of the Scriptures who study them in their full context so that you don’t end up misinterpreting them, but so that you can see the truth that they are teaching. For if we are going to be those who are obeying the truth of the Scriptures which are taught to those who are of faith in Jesus Christ, then we need to know what they teach, in truth, and in their context, so that we are not being led astray to false doctrines being taught by people in their deceitful scheming. So know the truth! Obey the truth!

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15] 

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The Lord’s Anointed  

An Original Work / December 16, 2011

Based off Isaiah 61

The Spirit of the Sov’reign Lord on me;

Anointed to preach the Good News;

Sent me to bind up the brokenhearted;

Proclaim freedom for the captives.

He sent me to preach release for pris’ners

Who are walking in sin’s darkness;

Proclaim God’s grace to all men who’ll listen;

And tell them about God’s judgments;

Comfort all who mourn;

Give crowns of beauty;

Oil of gladness and thanksgiving. 

They will be called oaks of God’s righteousness,

A planting of our Savior, God,

For the display of our Lord’s splendor, and

They will rebuild God’s holy church.

God will renew them, and will restore them,

And you’ll be called priests of the Lord.

You will be ministers of our God, and

You will rejoice in salvation.

The Lord loves justice;

He is faithful to 

Reward those who are seeking Him.

I delight greatly in the Lord;

My soul rejoices in my Savior, God.

He has clothed me with His salvation,

And in a robe of His righteousness.

He has given me priestly garments to wear, 

As the bride of Jesus Christ.

As the garden of our Lord and Savior, 

He causes us to grow in Him.

He makes righteousness, 

Praise, and thanksgiving

Spring up before all the nations. 

https://vimeo.com/114836524