Freed from self and Adam’s nature

Freed from self and Adam’s nature

Lord

I would be built by Thee

With the saints into Thy temple

Where Thy glory we shall see.

From peculiar traits deliver

From my independent ways

That a dwelling place for Thee

Lord

We will be thru all our days.

By Thy life and by its flowing

I can grow and be transformed

With the saints coordinated

Builded up

to Thee conformed;

Keep the order in the Body

There to function in Thy will

Ever serving

helping others

All Thy purpose to fulfill.

In my knowledge and experience

I would not exalted be

But submitting and accepting

Let the Body balance me;

Holding fast the Head

and growing

With His increase

in His way

By the joints and bands supplying

Knit together day by day.

By Thy Spirit daily strengthened

In the inner man with might

I would know Thy love surpassing

Know Thy breadth and length and height;

Ever of Thy riches taking

Unto all Thy fulness filled

Ever growing into manhood

That Thy Body Thou may build.

In God’s house and in Thy Body

Builded up I long to be

That within this corporate vessel

All shall then Thy glory see;

That Thy Bride

the glorious city

May appear upon the earth

As a lampstand brightly beaming

To express to all Thy worth.