Built On The Rock

	  		 
 

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Built on the Rock the Church shall stand 
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Even when steeples are falling. 
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Crumbled have spires in ev'ry land; 
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Bells still are chiming and calling, 
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Calling the young and old to rest, 
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But above all the soul distressed, 
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Longing for rest everlasting. 

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Surely in temples made with hands 
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God, the Most High, is not dwelling; 
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High above earth his temple stands, 
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All earthly temples excelling. 
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Yet he who dwells in heav'n above 
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Chooses to live with us in love, 
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Making our bodies his temple. 

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We are God's house of living stones, 
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Built for his own habitation. 
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He through baptismal grace us owns 
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Heirs of his wondrous salvation. 
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Were we but two his name to tell, 
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Yet he would deign with us to dwell 
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With all his grace and his favor. 

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Here stands the font before our eyes, 
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Telling how God did receive us. 
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Th' altar recalls Christ's sacrifice 
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And what the sacrament gives us. 
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Here sound the Scriptures that proclaim 
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Christ yesterday, today, the same, 
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And evermore, our Redeemer. 

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Grant then, O God, your will be done, 
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That, when the church bells are ringing, 
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Many in saving faith may come 
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Where Christ his message is bringing 
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"I know my own; my own know me. 
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You, not the world, my face shall see. 
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My peace I leave with you always."