495--Christ is God' centrality

Christ is God' centrality

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	1.	Christ is God' centrality
		And His universality;
		He is God's delight and joy
		Throughout all eternity.
	2.	He's th' embodiment of God,
		In Him all God's fulness dwells;
		His unique supremacy
		And His Godhead none excels.
	3.	All God's purpose is for Him,
		That He might be all in all'
		All the things in heav'n or earth
		With Himself are made withal.
	4.	All creation is for Christ,
		Everything was made by Him;
		'Tis by Him all things subsist,
		He's the hub and He's the rim.
	5.	In redemption He is all,
		All through Him is reconciled;
		By His blood all things with God
		Now in peace are domiciled.
	6.	He the great beginning is,
		And the Church's living Head;
		He her life and content too,
		And the firstborn from the dead.
	7.	In God's Kingdom He's the King,
		All the pow'r to Him is giv'n;
		In His glory He shall rule
		Over all in earth and heav'n.
	8.	In new heaven and new earth
		Center of all things He'll be,
		For the Godhead and for man
		Throughout all eternity.
	9.	God intends in everything
		Christ should have preeminence,
		And that such a Christ of all
		We should now experience.