Galations 1 (Thursday)

Grace and peace from God the Father
Comes by Jesus Christ our Lord,
Christ, who offered up Himself when
Our deliv’rance he secured.
By the will of God the Father
We escape this evil age,
Only through the Savior’s mercy:
Christ forever we shall praise.

Though the devil may conceive of
“Gospels” seeming to be true;
Painting Christ as partial savior
Helped along by what we do.
Let us not confuse our standing
Owing merit to our deeds,
For to do so is distortion
Of the gospel Jesus preached.

Let no angel come from heaven
Nor a teacher from the earth
Preach a gospel that would lead us
From the gospel we have heard:
By the law no man is righteous
But by faith we’re justified.
All our sin and guilt was carried
To the cross when Jesus died.

Circumcision has no value,
Nor the keeping of the law:
If you fail to keep one mandate
Then you’ve failed to keep them all.
But the law was just a guardian,
We’ve no reason for dismay:
Jesus Christ is our redeemer
And has saved us by his grace.

Knowing that we’ve been entrusted
With the pow’r of God to save
We must preach no other gospel
Then the one God’s Word proclaims.
We must not desert our calling
Doubting Christ’s all-saving grace!
Our new life came by the Spirit
Perseverance from the same.

[We have nothing good to offer,
Only punishment is due.
All our hope is in the gospel:
Christ has been our substitute.]