One with Jesus, loved and cherished

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Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Genesis 2:24
  • Isaiah 61:10
  • Isaiah 62:5
  • Hosea 2:19
  • Mark 2:19-20
  • Luke 5:34-35
  • John 3:29
  • 1 Corinthians 15:24
  • Ephesians 3:3-6
  • Ephesians 5:18-19
  • Ephesians 5:23-32
  • Ephesians 6:10
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23
  • Revelation 21:2
Book Number:
  • 719

One with Jesus, loved and cherished,
chosen as his holy bride;
all our sins in him have perished;
for his church the Saviour died;
gave himself to make her holy,
washed with water through the word,
to present her in his glory,
pure and blameless like her Lord.

2. As his body we have union
with our Saviour’s risen life;
joined in intimate communion,
two made one-like man and wife-
fulness of his Spirit giving;
all his word to guide our way;
strength for battle, power for living,
grace to keep us night and day.

3. See the radiant bride of heaven,
dressed in glory not her own;
sadness banished, sins forgiven,
knowing fully, fully known;
there revealed the gospel mystery;
all the church in Christ made one,
at the end of human history
in the kingdom of the Son.

© Author
Jim Sayers

The Christian Life - Union With Christ

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The story behind the hymn

In 1998 Jim Sayers preached at Beresford Road FIEC Church in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on ‘The Church as the bride of Christ’ in Ephesians 5. He was a visitor supplying one of a series by request, and writes, ‘There are very few hymns dealing with Union with Christ, and none that I know of which draw the connection Paul describes as the “profound mystery

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