No condemnation now

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  • 1013

No condemnation now,
with Jesus Christ within,
the Spirit’s law of life
has conquered death and sin;
and so my song shall ever be
that Jesus Christ has set me free.

2. God sent his only Son,
made like our sinful flesh,
to meet the law’s demands
for perfect righteousness,
and by his death condemned in man
the sin that kept us from God’s plan.

3. All those he chose and called
he’ll freely justify
to be made like his Son,
in glory when they die.
We know he works all things for good,
for those who know and love their God.

4. We know our present pain
with glory can’t compare;
our hope is not yet seen,
so we shall persevere;
in all these things his grace we prove
and more than conquer through his love.

5. If God is on our side,
from all our foes we’re free;
not death, nor life, nor powers,
things now, nor yet to be,
nor things below, nor things above,
can keep us from our Saviour’s love.

© Author
Jim Sayers

The Christian Life - Suffering and Trial

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Tune

  • Adoration
    Adoration
    Metre:
    • 66 66 88
    Composer:
    • Havergal, William Henry

The story behind the hymn

‘…through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.’ So writes the apostle Paul in Romans 8:2, a stanza which was used by the Holy Spirit to effect the conversion of hymn writer Jim Sayers. Wishing to express the significance of the whole chapter as the bedrock of his assurance in Christ, Jim Sayers wrote this hymn in 1997 at Kesgrave, near Ipswich, where he served as pastor. Although the first stanza ‘wrote itself’, the second required some reworking in an effort to communicate the theology of Romans 8 more clearly. The third stanza reflects upon the assertion in Romans 8:28 that ‘God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose’.

A look at the author

Sayers, James (Jim) David

b Epsom, Surrey 1966. Ashcombe Sch Dorking, Univ Coll of Wales, Aberystwyth (LL.B) and Edinburgh Theological Seminary (DipTh, M.Th). After two and a half years as assistant to Brian Edwards at Hook Evangelical Ch (FIEC), Surbiton, he became Pastor of Kesgrave Grace Baptist Ch, Ipswich, Suffolk, from 1995. Then in 2009 he moved to Abingdon to become Communications Director of Grace Baptist Mission. In 2020 he moved to Didcot to lead a church-plant, Grace Church Didcot. He chaired the team selecting versions of the 150 Psalms for Praise! He became a trustee of Praise Trust in 2016, and chairman in 2018.

He has 10 published texts, as here, of which the first he wrote (1994) was based on Ps 30. Nos.2B, 30A, 39, 59, 69A, 71, 86, 719, 1013, 1249. He also wrote the revised version of O Holy Night CP47