Hymns by Witness Lee and Watchman Nee

 

Hymn 742  

SUBJECT: VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE INNER LIFE-THE TRIPARTITE MAN
METER: 8.8.8.8.
AUTHOR: Witness Lee
COMPOSER: Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1774

1Man is a being of three parts,
 The body, soul, and spirit too,
 Th’ eternal purpose to fulfill
 With God’s inheritance in view.
2The body is the outward part
 That man a world-sense may possess;
 Thus he may touch the outward things
 And bodily himself express.
3The soul within-the inward part-
 Is but the very self of man;
 The sense of self it gives to him
 To touch the psychic world of man.
4The spirit is the inmost part
 With which the Lord he may receive;
 The sense of God it gives to man
 That he the spirit-world perceive.
5Within the soul of man there are
 The mind, emotion, and the will;
 These are the functions for the man
 His human nature to fulfill.
6Within the spirit of the man
 Are found the conscience, fellowship,
 And intuition, which thereby
 The man to worship God equip.
7The man must exercise his soul
 To choose that God he may possess,
 And by his spirit God partake,
 And thru his body God express.
8Man’s spirit has to be reborn
 With life divine to him conveyed;
 His soul must be transformed by God,
 His body like Christ’s body made.
9’Tis by these steps of work divine
 In each of man’s three separate parts
 That man is mingled with the Lord
 And His expression full imparts.

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