In the bosom of the Father

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In the bosom of the Father,
  Ere the ages had begun,
Thou wast in the Father’s glory,
  God’s unique begotten Son.
When to us the Father gave Thee,
  Thou in person wast the same,
All the fulness of the Father
  In the Spirit to proclaim.
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By Thy death and resurrection,
  Thou wast made God’s firstborn Son;
By Thy life to us imparting,
  Was Thy duplication done.
We, in Thee regenerated,
  Many sons to God became;
Truly as Thy many brethren,
  We are as Thyself the same.
3
Once Thou wast the only grain, Lord,
  Falling to the earth to die,
That thru death and resurrection
  Thou in life may multiply.
We were brought forth in Thy nature
  And the many grains became;
As one loaf we all are blended,
  All Thy fulness to proclaim.
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We’re Thy total reproduction,
  Thy dear Body and Thy Bride,
Thine expression and Thy fulness,
  For Thee ever to abide.
We are Thy continuation,
  Thy life-increase and Thy spread,
Thy full growth and Thy rich surplus,
  One with Thee, our glorious Head.

Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.

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三月 25 2018
Amos Kimani

Naivasha, Nakuru, Kenya

Amen we are Lord’s increase, we are proud of calling Him our Father.

一月 7 2018
Ogunseye Olatunde

Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan

I Love this hymn... The words are so strong in my heart... Praise the Lord for His Redemptive Plan.

九月 30 2017
Anonymous

Praise the Lord!

十一月 27 2016
Dick Milwick or Richard Milwick

Praise the Lord that we were brought forth in Thy nature. And the many grains became.

八月 28 2014
Saint

Tema, Ghana

The Lord is the Unique begotten Son of God, The Firstborn Son of God from resurrection making us the many sons of God, He is also the One Grain falling to the earth to die making us the many grains.

All that the Lord is in His Uniqueness He is making us the same through His death and resurrection. We must spend more time with Him in secret receiving Him into our being so we can become more like Him in the church to become His spotless Bride and consummate in the New Jerusalem. Amen. Hallelujah praise the Lord Jesus Christ our Unique Head.amen.

"We’re Thy total reproduction,

Thy dear Body and Thy Bride,

Thine expression and Thy fulness,

For Thee ever to abide.

We are Thy continuation,

Thy life-increase and Thy spread,

Thy full growth and Thy rich surplus,

One with Thee, our glorious Head"

六月 22 2014
E. C.

5. Lord Thy human shell was broken.

Life and glory Thou released

That at Thine own incorporation

With Thy chosen be increased.

We with Thee incorporated

Thou in us and we in Thee

Here we eat the hidden manna

New Jerusalem to be.

九月 16 2012
Joanna Smathers

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

I like this song because it makes me love the Lord afresh and new as His expression, total reproduction and bride, the New Jerusalem to be. All of this was in the bosom of our Father ere the ages had begun!

五月 13 2011
Anthony Calamaya

Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines

O LORD JESUS. While I'm listening this song my heart is musing and my spirit searches. It makes me cry "Abba Father". Amen, Amen, Amen. ^_^

十月 14 2008
Nathan Anderson

United States

Wonderful song!

八月 15 2008
Isaiah Tor

Sydney, NSW, Australia

This hymn begins with the bosom of the Father where in eternity past Christ resided as the centre and focus of the Father's love and affections. The following stanzas and verses portray the working out of the Father's heart in and for Christ through us His predestinated ones, firstly in incarnation where Christ fully declared in His living the Father's life, nature and purpose. Secondly, through death and resurrection, Christ became the Firstborn Son of God and we through regeneration by His resurrection, the many sons of God. Verse 3 fully explains the implications of such a regeneration where we become Christ's very reproduction, as His own Body. Lastly in verse 4 we see the full development of God's heart to have the Bride, the fullness for Christ as the Head. The vast panaroma is presented to us of God's eternal economy, and we would do well to prayerfully muse on this hymn with a joy that is surpassing and full of glory.

Wherever I went, I always preached Brother Nee's teachings. Some people considered this a shame, but to me it was a glory. At the beginning of my speaking I would tell people that what I was sharing was Brother Nee's message. I even learned to follow Brother Nee's gestures, posture, and accent. It was a glory to speak what he spoke. Before I began the work in the United States, I wrote Hymns, #203, which speaks of the one grain that became many grains to be the Lord's continuation. The Lord covers me to say that this is a very deep hymn. I also wrote "O glorious Christ, Savior mine" (#501) and "Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!" (#499). When I came to the United States, the first message of the first conference I gave in English was on the all-inclusive Christ, based on Deuteronomy 8:7-9. However, in all this I never changed. What I speak is still from Brother Nee.

The many grains produced by Christ's resurrection are His increase (John 3:30a). Farmers make a living by the increase of their seed. They sow a relatively small quantity of seed into the earth, and after three months they reap a large harvest. That harvest is the increase of the seed. When Jesus was on the earth traveling in the holy land, He was the unique grain. But today, consider how many "Christs" there are on this earth. There are not only thousands but millions around the globe. This is the vine mentioned in John 15. This great vine covers the entire globe. The church, which is Christ (1 Cor. 12:12) as His increase, is the true vine. This too is a product of Christ's resurrection. This is Christ's increase, propagation, and surplus.

The fourth stanza of Hymns, #203 reads:

We're Thy total reproduction,

Thy dear Body and Thy Bride,

Thine expression and Thy fulness

For Thee ever to abide.

We are Thy continuation,

Thy life-increase and Thy spread,

Thy full growth and Thy rich surplus,

One with Thee, our glorious Head.

In this verse a number of words are used to express the fact that the church is Christ's increase and expansion.

Isaiah 53:10b says not only that Christ will see a seed but also that He will extend His days. Today Christ is extending His days by living in His believers. His believers are His extension. Therefore, we may sing these words: "We are Thy continuation,/Thy life-increase and Thy spread" (Hymns, #203).

The entire book of Revelation, like the entire Bible, is a book of testimony. The entire Bible testifies concerning God first by Christ and then by us. We are Christ's continuation. Hymns, #203 says that we are Christ's reproduction, multiplication, duplication, and continuation. A person's body is a continuation of his head. The body and the head are not two persons, but one person. Our body is the head's continuation. In the same way, Christ's Body is the continuation of Him as the Head. The Head and the Body both bear the same testimony for God. With the Head it is subjective. With the Body it is objective.

This hymn says that once Christ, the only begotten Son, was the only grain. Through His death and resurrection He has made us the many grains. As such grains, we are the many sons of God (Heb. 2:10), Christ's many brothers, His many "twins." Now the many grains are blended as one loaf, which is Christ's Body, His reproduction.

In John 8 a sinful woman was brought to the Lord. Eventually, He said to her, "Has no one condemned you?" (v. 10). "And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more" (v. 11). This was also a sign. The Lord Jesus was God expressed, yet He would not condemn a sinner. Is this not something mystical? He was a divine and mystical person living in the divine and mystical realm, doing everything in a divine and mystical way. We should be such persons. If we are working in an office, those around us should have the feeling that there is something extraordinary about us. This extraordinary thing is divine and mystical. We all need to be discipled by the Lord to be divine and mystical persons.

By the Lord's mercy, I was able to write Hymns, #203 because of the Lord's discipling. Stanza 4 of this hymn says:

We're Thy total reproduction,

Thy dear Body and Thy Bride,

Thine expression and Thy fullness,

For Thee ever to abide.

We are Thy continuation,

Thy life-increase and Thy spread,

Thy full growth and Thy rich surplus,

One with Thee, our glorious Head.

I wrote this hymn in my sixties, after I had been discipled by the Lord for about forty years.

All of us need to be impressed with the revelation of the church in hymn #203. I wrote this hymn in 1963. During that time I realized there was a shortage of hymns on the deeper truths. This hymn says:

...

We must pay our full attention to stanza 4 of this hymn. This stanza reveals that the church is God's total reproduction, God's dear Body, God's bride, God's expression, God's fullness, God's continuation, God's life-increase, God's spread, God's full growth, and God's rich surplus. We may have sung this hymn many times without any impression of its significance. Stanza 4 of hymn #203 tells us what the church is. Have we ever considered that as the church we are God's total reproduction, God's continuation, and God's rich surplus? This is why we should pray, "Lord, give me a spirit of wisdom and revelation to sing such a song." We need to read and sing this song prayerfully until we really see what the church is in its highest sense. The church is the total reproduction of God!

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Praise of the Lord
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