When Jesus died upon the cross

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Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Deuteronomy 13:4
  • 1 Samuel 15:22
  • Psalms 19:11
  • Psalms 34:22
  • Matthew 27:50
  • Matthew 27:60
  • Matthew 28:5-6
  • Mark 15:37
  • Mark 15:46
  • Mark 16:6
  • Luke 23:46
  • Luke 23:53
  • Luke 24:34
  • Luke 24:6
  • John 14:15
  • John 19:30
  • John 19:42
  • John 20:9
  • Acts 10:47-48
  • Acts 19:5
  • Acts 22:16
  • Acts 26:23
  • Romans 6:3-11
  • Romans 7:1-6
  • Romans 8:1-2
  • Galatians 2:20
  • Ephesians 1:22
  • Colossians 1:18
  • Colossians 2:12-13
  • 1 Peter 1:22-23
  • 1 John 2:3
  • Revelation 1:5-6
Book Number:
  • 639

When Jesus died upon the cross,
when he was buried in the grave,
he bore the judgement I deserved,
that he, by death, my life might save.

2. When Christ was raised from that same tomb
he rose as firstborn from the dead:
he broke the powers of sin and hell
and lives for me, my risen head.

3. And here I also die and rise,
baptized into his holy name;
with him I’m judged, with him I die-
on me the law has no more claim.

4. With Christ I’m raised up from the dead
to live for ever with my Lord;
alive to God, with this desire,
to be obedient to his word.

5. Now I am yours, O sovereign Lord:
now come, and by your Spirit’s power
help me, with all your people here,
to serve and please you from this hour.

© Author/Praise Trust
Peter Misselbrook

The Church - Baptism

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Tune

  • Dunedin
    Dunedin
    Metre:
    • LM (Long Metre: 88 88)
    Composer:
    • Griffiths, Thomas Vernon

The story behind the hymn

Peter Misselbrook’s hymn, drawing like the previous item on Romans 6 among other Scriptures, is his first to be published, and has not featured in any previous book except local church compilations. He wrote it c1987 while serving as the Pastor of Church Hill Baptist Church, Walthamstow, NE London, where it was first sung at a baptism service that year. It was partly influenced by James Deck’s Around thy grave, Lord Jesus (which narrowly missed inclusion in Praise!) and prompted by the perceived lack of good hymns on believers’ baptism with a firm biblical content. Following a classically simple and clear opening its theme is strongly theological, also shared in part with 420.

For notes on Vernon Griffiths’ tune DUNEDIN, see 70.

A look at the author

Misselbrook, Peter Mark

b Epping, Essex 1951. Wellingborough Grammar Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford 1970–73 (MA Physics and Philosophy); Trinity Coll Bristol 1974–77 (London BD) and a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch, Bristol. MSc in IT; MBCS. From 1980 to 1988 he was Pastor of Church Hill Baptist ch, Walthamstow (Grace Baptist); then working with the Bible Society and now in Bristol, a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch. He has written on the Lord’s Day as the Christian Sabbath; his articles have appeared in various journals, hymns and songs in privately published collections, and widely used teaching notes on the Gk NT via the internet. He is an occasional contributor of reviews and other items in Evangelicals Now. No.639.