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Song: Blessed assurance
1. Song: Blessed assurance
This is hymn #67 in the hymnal.
2. Song: Blessed assurance
Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. [kjv]
προσερχωμεθα μετα αληθινης καρδιας εν πληροφορια πιστεως ρεραντισμενοι τας καρδιας απο συνειδησεως πονηρας και λελουσμενοι το σωμα υδατι καθαρω [gnt]
The popular hymn "
Blessed assurance", by Fanny Crosby, talks of how we are "
blessed" by the information that we have the full assurance of salvation from our "
evil conscience" (guilt and shame) and of the rapture (in verse 2).
3. Verse 1
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
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.
4. Philippians 1:21
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. [kjv]
εμοι γαρ το ζην χριστος και το αποθανειν κερδος [gnt]
Words by Paul inspired many songs by this author.
5. Philippians 1:21
KJV: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Greek: εμοι γαρ το ζην χριστος και το αποθανειν κερδος
Latin: mihi enim vivere Christus est et mori lucrum
Wycliffe: For me to lyue is Crist, and to die is wynnyng.
Gothic: aththan mis liban xristus ist jah gaswiltan gawaurki.
Luther: Denn Christus ist mein Leben, und Sterben ist mein Gewinn.
Slavonic: Мне бо еже жити, Христос, и еже умрети, приобретение (есть).
6. Hebrews 10:22
KJV: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Greek: προσερχωμεθα μετα αληθινης καρδιας εν πληροφορια πιστεως ερραντισμενοι ρεραντισμενοι τας καρδιας απο συνειδησεως πονηρας και λελουμενοι λελουσμενοι το σωμα υδατι καθαρω
Latin: accedamus cum vero corde in plenitudine fidei aspersi corda a conscientia mala et abluti corpus aqua munda
Wycliffe: neiye we with very herte in the plente of feith; and be oure hertis spreined fro an yuel conscience, and oure bodies waischun with clene watir,
7. Information and assurance
8. Words: Fanny Crosby
Words by Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), blind at the age of six weeks, a lifelong Methodist.
She wrote more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs.
Fanny Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, with more than 100 million copies printed, despite being blind from shortly after birth. She is also known for her teaching and her rescue mission work. (Wikipedia)
9. Music: Phoebe Knapp
Phoebe Knapp (1839-1908) wrote the music (to which Fanny Crosby wrote the title and words ) for "
Blessed Assurance" in 1873. She wrote over 500 hymn tunes.
Born in New York City.
She married Joseph Fairchild Knapp, one of the founders and the second president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He had a pipe organ installed in their apartment. (Wikipedia)
10. Mother of Phoebe Knapp
Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874) was the mother of Phoebe Knapp.
She
was a Methodist evangelist and writer who promoted the doctrine of Christian perfection. She is considered one of the founders of the Holiness movement within Methodist Christianity. (Wikipedia)
11. Song origin: Blessed Assurance
Crosby was visiting her friend Phoebe Knapp as the Knapp home was having a large pipe organ installed. The organ was incomplete, so Mrs. Knapp, using the piano, played a new melody she had just composed. When Knapp asked Crosby, "What do you think the tune says?", Crosby replied, "Blessed assurance; Jesus is mine." (Wikipedia)
12. Second verse
The second verse of Blessed Assurance talks of the rapture of which Paul talks in his first letter to the Thessalonians.
13. Crying wolf for the search and seizure of the rapture
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [kjv]
προσεχετε απο των ψευδοπροφητων οιτινες ερχονται προς υμας εν ενδυμασιν προβατων εσωθεν δε εισιν λυκοι αρπαγες [gnt]
… falsis prophetis … vestimentis ovium … lupi rapaces [v]
The phrase "
to cry wolf" is used to indicate the proclamation of a "
false alarm".
The rapture is the "
snatching up" of believers (
rapiemur in Latin). The word is not in the Bible because the word "
rapture" is from the Latin and not the English or Greek.
The ancient Greek word
"ἁρπάζω" ≈ "snatch away, carry off" and is found in various places in the Bible but translated using many different words.
14. Verse 2
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels, descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
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.
15. Verse 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.
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.
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