Lo, the conflict of the ages

Lo

the conflict of the ages

Is upon us today

And the forces of rebellion

Are in total array.

The humanity of Jesus

Now the saints must possess

His true image and dominion

On the earth to express.

Let us stand up in Jesus

In His full human life

Human virtues prevailing

’Gainst corruption so rife;

In this wickedness concerted

In this age perverse

perverted

The humanity of Jesus

Must the church now display.

Lo

how Satan came to damage

Human life on the earth;

But the Lord in all this ruin

Raised a man full of worth!

From the seed of the woman

God incarnate became

The man Jesus—the last Adam—

To destroy Satan’s aim!

It’s by calling

drinking

eating

The man Jesus today

His humanity enjoying

Bruises Satan each day.

To the Lord we must be turning

All our soul life deny

To destroy all Satan’s working

And the new man supply.

See the ruin of a nation

Going downward in sin;

All humanity is fallen

And corrupted within.

But as children of the kingdom

We are salting the earth;

His humanity preserves us

In the midst of such dearth.