Sunday's Hymn: Romans 8: 31-39

For the next few Sundays, the featured hymns will either be a paraphrase of, or make an allusion to, this passage.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Let Christian Hope and Faith Dispel

Let Christian faith and hope dispel
The fears of guilt and woe;
The Lord Almighty is our Friend,
And who can prove a foe?

The Savior died, but rose again
Triumphant from the grave:
And pleads our cause at God’s right hand,
Omnipotent to save.

Who then can e’er divide us more
From Jesus and His love,
Or break the sacred chain that binds
The earth to Heav’n above?

Let troubles rise, and terrors frown,
And days of darkness fall;
Through Him all dangers we’ll defy,
And more than conquer all.

Nor death, nor life, nor earth, nor hell,
Nor time’s destroying sway
Can e’er efface us from His heart
Or make His love decay.

Each future period that will bless
As it has blessed the past;
He loved us from the first of time,
He loves us to the last.

---Anonymous, from Scott­ish Par­a­phras­es, 1781 (Listen.)

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Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• More Love to Thee, O Christ at Seasonings of the Heart
• Revive Us Again at IMD 2.0.
• Toplady's The Method of Salvation and more at Thirsty Theologian
  
• The Collect for Septuagesima at Magic Statistics
• Hymn for Septuagesima at John Dekker's Journal
  
• You'll find a link to a hymn that's a collaborative effort between John Newton and Bob Kauflin at New Lumps.
• All Creatures Of Our God And King at Hiraeth
  

Have you posted a hymn for Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar, and I'll add your post to the list.