The Hymn of the Month

"Water, Blood, and Spirit Crying"

LSB, 597

Who is it that over comes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?  This is he who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood.  And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.  For there are three that testify:  the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.  I John 5:5-8

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.  I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.  John 10:10

1.  Water, blood, and Spirit crying, 

     By their witness testifying

     To the One whose death defying

     Life has come, with life for all.

2.  In a wat'ry grave are buried

     All the sins that Jesus carried;

     Christ, the Ark of Life, has ferried

     Us across death's raging flood.

3.  Dark the way, yet Christ prececdes us,

     Past the scowl of death He leads us;

     Spreads a table where He feeds us

     With His body and His blood.

4.  Though around us death is seething,

     God, His two-edged sword unsheathing,

     By His Spirit life is breathing

     Through the living, active Word.

5.  Spirit, water, blood entreating,

     Working faith anbd its completing

     In the One whosr dfeath defeating

     Life has come, with life for all.