For now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I
know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12
Looking for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:13
Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:12
Virgil Prentiss Brock - Lyrics
1887-1978
Born: January 6, 1887, Mercer County, Ohio.
Buried: Warsaw, Indiana.
Blanche Kerr Brock - Composer
1888-1958
Born: February 3, 1888, Greens Fork, Indiana.
Died: January 3, 1958, Winona Lake, Indiana.
Buried: Warsaw, Indiana.
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HYMN
HISTORY:
One of the best-known and widely-used
songs in the entire field of gospel hymnody is �Beyond the Sunset.� Mr. Brock has
left the following account of its writing:
This song was born during a
conversation at the dinner table, one evening in 1936, after watching a very unusual
sunset at Winona Lake Indiana, with a
blind guest�my cousin Horace Burr�and his wife Grace. A large area of the water
appeared ablaze with the glory of God, yet there were threatening storm clouds
gathering overhead. Returning to our home, we went to the
dinner table still talking about the impressive spectacle we had witnessed. Our
blind guest excitedly remarked the he had never seen a more beautiful
sunset.
�People are always amazed when you talk about seeing,� I told him, �I can see,�
Horace replied. �I see through other peoples eyes, and think I often see more; I see
beyond the sunset.�
The phrase �beyond the sunset� and the striking inflection of his voice struck me so
forcibly, I began singing the first few measures. �That�s beautiful!� his wife
interrupted, �Please go to the piano and sing it.
We went to the piano nearby and completed the first verse. �You should have a verse
about the storm clouds,� our guest urged, and the words for this verse came quickly
as well. Recalling how closely our guest had walked hand in hand together for so
many years due to his blindness, the third verse was soon added. Before the evening
meal was finished, all four stanzas had been written and we sang the entire song
together.
Dear Brothers
and Sisters in Christ,
Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father
is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John
2:15-17
The things of the world may be desired
and possessed for the uses and purposes which God intended, and they are to be used
by his grace, and to his glory;
but believers must not seek or value them for those purposes to which sin abuses
them. The world draws the heart from God; and the more the love of the world
prevails, the more the love of God
decays.
The things of the world quickly fade
and die away; desire itself will ere long fail and cease, but holy affection is not
like the lust that passes away.
The love of God shall never fail. Many vain efforts have been made to evade the
force of this passage by limitations, distinctions, or exceptions. Many have tried
to show how far we may be carnally-minded, and love the
world; but the plain meaning of these verses cannot easily be mistaken. Unless this
victory over the world is begun in the heart, a man has no root in himself, but will
fall away, or at most remain an unfruitful professor.
Yet these vanities are so alluring to the corruption in our hearts, that without
constant watching and prayer, we cannot escape the world, or obtain victory over the
god and prince of it. -
Matthew
Henry
For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave
himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Titus
2:11-14
As believers we are to look for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing:
1. With Prayer.
(Luke 21:36; Ephesians 6:18)
2. With Thanksgiving
(Colossians 4:2)
3. With steadfastness in the faith
(1 Corinthians 16:13)
4. With heedfulness
(Mark 13:33)
5. With sobriety
(1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Peter 4:6)
6. At all times
(Proverbs 8:34)
7. In all things
(2 Timothy 4:5)
Those that wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
will be kept by him to the end; they will be blameless in the day of Christ, and will receive a crown of
righteousness.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:8
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