This is my story, this is my song

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phil36

phil36

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I love modern hymns, but sometimes you just can't beat the old ones either, especially for their teaching content. Anyhow, get your singing heads on and sing a long with this Classic!

Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 )


1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
(Refrain)

3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
(Refrain)
 
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Crazy4GODword

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We sing this from the hymnal book at church, good song :)

God bless
 
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Scotth1960

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phil36 said:
I love modern hymns, but sometimes you just can't beat the old ones either, especially for their teaching content. Anyhow, get your singing heads on and sing a long with this Classic!

Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 )


1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
(Refrain)

3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
(Refrain)
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I do not like this hymn. It seems to have a proud spirit too it. Jesus is not "mine". I am His. I belong to Him; He is Sovereign; He doesn't belong to me. I think the theology of this song is all wrong, and it was written by a woman, by the way. So much for men not letting women have authority over them. I am already proud; I need to become humble before God. A hymn like this doesn't free me from the limitations of my own pride.
As logic tells us, "people who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." This hymn is not but emotionalism. Our confidence is in God, and we should not despair, but this song seems to exhibit a spirit of presumption. I don't know. Maybe the person who wrote it was okay: it is for God alone to judge that. I just don't like this song. It's got things backwards. It is rather better to use the Psalter and not man-made hymns, unless the hymns are truly spiritual songs and not egocentric nonsense like this modernistic "hymn".
Some of you may strongly disagree with my opinion, but I'm not worried about that. I reject entertainment as worship. I can accept entertainment, but too much of Protestant and Catholic hymn writing is lacking in proper criterion of Orthodoxy.
 
jonathanbchristian

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phil36 said:
I love modern hymns, but sometimes you just can't beat the old ones either, especially for their teaching content. Anyhow, get your singing heads on and sing a long with this Classic!

Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 )


1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
(Refrain)

3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
(Refrain)
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Me and my wife love old hymns; my wife collects hymn books from Christian stores.
 
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Lad

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Scotth1960 said:


I do not like this hymn. It seems to have a proud spirit too it. Jesus is not "mine". I am His. I belong to Him; He is Sovereign; He doesn't belong to me. I think the theology of this song is all wrong, and it was written by a woman, by the way. So much for men not letting women have authority over them. I am already proud; I need to become humble before God. A hymn like this doesn't free me from the limitations of my own pride.
As logic tells us, "people who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." This hymn is not but emotionalism. Our confidence is in God, and we should not despair, but this song seems to exhibit a spirit of presumption. I don't know. Maybe the person who wrote it was okay: it is for God alone to judge that. I just don't like this song. It's got things backwards. It is rather better to use the Psalter and not man-made hymns, unless the hymns are truly spiritual songs and not egocentric nonsense like this modernistic "hymn".
Some of you may strongly disagree with my opinion, but I'm not worried about that. I reject entertainment as worship. I can accept entertainment, but too much of Protestant and Catholic hymn writing is lacking in proper criterion of Orthodoxy.
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yeesh calm your farm bro, i think the reason why it says 'Jesus is mine' is in reference to "I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine."
 
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NoahsMom

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LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Scotth1960

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Lad said:
yeesh calm your farm bro, i think the reason why it says 'Jesus is mine' is in reference to "I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine."
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Dear Lad, That is Scripture, yes? Song of Songs? And thus inspired. Truly. Are we going to claim the same inspiration for the hymn of some Evangelical woman thousands of years after Christ? Inspiration comes from Jesus Christ, and Christ works most of all inside of His Orthodox Church, not so much outside of it. His activity outside of the OC is all geared to lead people back into the "pillar and ground of the truth", His Church (1 Tim. 3:15). There is only one Body, the Church (Ephesians 4). Outside, we are left alone, with our fallible private interpretations. I'm sure I'm not infallible. I can be corrected only as I listen to what Orthodox Christians tell me I should believe. We need a connection with Ancient Christianity, not a Reformation of the Papacy or a Papacy. In Erie Scott
 
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Lad

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um yeah i never said the hymn was inspired, i was just saying it was based on scripture, as all hymns and praise should be
 
pickles

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phil36 said:
I love modern hymns, but sometimes you just can't beat the old ones either, especially for their teaching content. Anyhow, get your singing heads on and sing a long with this Classic!

Blessed Assurance (Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 )


1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
(Refrain)

3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
(Refrain)
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Good song, thankyou phil, for bringing this song to my day! :)

in Jesus, God bless.
pickles
 
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