ZACHARY'S NOTES:
Stanza 1 // The “divine love” of Christ exceeds all love we can imagine - a love and joy that must “come down from heaven.” It is the crown of all God’s “faithful mercies” because it is the commandment Christ says will grow out of faith in our Lord! Christ’s love, which knows no boundaries, can enter even the “trembling hearts” of sinners, that we might be given salvation.
Stanza 2 // When Christ enters the human heart, we are given new hearts “set at liberty” by the freedom of God’s “loving Spirit.” This again is God’s love - not our own - by which our “love of sinning” is removed, as we inherit the promised rest Christ promises to give.
Stanza 3 // In what can sound like a prayer for Christ’s final return, this is perhaps best understood and sung as what our Lord does each week we gather in worship. Christ is present where He promises to be - He will not leave His temple! The latter half of this stanza is a picture of what it means to “abide in Christ’s love” - where God’s people praise Christ “without ceasing” and “serve thee” and thy neighbor in the glory of Christ’s “perfect love.”
Stanza 4 // In Christ’s “perfect love” we are made a “new creation” - “pure, spotless, and continually restored” in our Lord’s forgiveness! Heaven is to be “lost” or living daily in the “wonder, love and praise” of Almighty God - the same life to which our Lord invites us today as we abide in His love as His people!
OTHER SUGGESTIONS
ELW 367 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
ELW 385 - Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing! - GELOBT SEI GOTT
ELW 631 - Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - HYFRYDOL
ELW 637 - Holy God, Holy and Glorious - NELSON
ELW 836 - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - HYMN TO JOY
ELW 863 - My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - DUNDEE
LBW 143 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
LBW 144 - Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing! - GELOBT SEI GOTT
LBW 315 - Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - HYFRYDOL
LBW 551 - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - HYMN TO JOY
LBW 524 - My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - DUNDEE
LSB 465 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
LSB 475 - Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing! - GELOBT SEI GOTT
LSB 700 - Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - HYFRYDOL
LSB 803 - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - HYMN TO JOY
RH 2 - My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - DUNDEE
RH 14 - Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - HYFRYDOL
RH 36 - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - HYMN TO JOY
RH 158 - Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing! - GELOBT SEI GOTT
RH 159 - Now Let the Vault of Heaven Resound - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
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