Jesus the Conqueror Reigns

Jesus the con­quer­or reigns

In glo­ri­ous strength ar­rayed

His king­dom ov­er all main­tains

And bids the earth be glad:

Ye sons of men

re­joice

In Je­sus’ migh­ty love

Lift up your heart

lift up your voice

To Him who rules ab­ove.

Extol His king­ly pow­er

Kiss the ex­alt­ed Son

Who died

and lives

to die no more

High on His Fa­ther’s throne;

Our ad­vo­cate with God

He un­der­takes our cause

And spreads through all the earth abroad

The vic­to­ry of His cross.

That bloody ban­ner see

And in your cap­tain’s sight

Fight the good fight of faith with me

My fel­low sol­diers

fight!

In mighty phal­anx joined

To bat­tle all pro­ceed;

Armed with the un­con­quer­able mind

Which was in Christ your head.

Urge on your ra­pid course

Ye blood be­sprin­kled bands;

The heav­en­ly king­dom suf­fers force

’Tis seized by vio­lent hands;

See there the star­ry crown

That glit­ters through the skies!

Satan

the world

and sin

tread down

And take the glo­ri­ous prize.

Through much dis­tress and pain

Through ma­ny a con­flict here

Through blood

ye must the en­trance gain;

Yet

O dis­dain to fear!

Courage! your cap­tain cries

Who all your toil for­eknew;

Toil ye shall have; yet all des­pise

I have o’er­come for you.

The world can­not with­stand

Its an­cient con­quer­or

The world must sink be­neath that hand

Which arms us for the war;

This is the vic­to­ry!

Before our faith they fall;

Jesus hath died for you and me;

Believe

and con­quer all!

Satan shall be re­pelled;

The world’s im­pe­ri­ous god

Shall fly before our sac­red shield

Our trust in Je­sus’ blood:

Jesus hath cleft his crown

Of old from glo­ry driv­en

And cast the bold as­pir­er down

As light­ning out of Heav­en.

Him

and his pow­ers be­low

He bound

and cap­tive led

Our ris­ing Lord in op­en show

His hell­ish spoils di­splayed;

O’er all the in­fer­nal host

He more than con­quer­or was

And dragged them at His wheels

the boast

And tri­umph of His cross.

’Twas there our peace He bought;

Though nailed to yon­der tree

His hands have our sal­va­tion wrought

And got the vic­to­ry;

He felt the mor­tal dart

The hor­ror breath­ing king

Shot all our sin in­to His heart

And death hath lost his sting.

Death is all swal­lowed down

Our sins are washed away

The guilt

the guilt of sin is gone

The pow­er can nev­er stay.

Our worst

our in­bred foe

By Je­sus is sub­dued

Our mount­ain sins melt down

and flow

And sink in­to His blood.

We now shall more than win

The fight through Je­sus’ name

Conquerors o’er hell

and earth

and sin

In the vic­tor­ious Lamb;

The Lamb a li­on is

And all His foes shall slay

And fly up­on the spoil

and seize

And take His law­ful prey.

The spir­it of His pow­er

Into our souls shall come

And all our foes de­stroy

de­vour

And all our sins con­sume:

The jea­lous Lord of hosts

Shall full do­min­ion have

Shall all

who in His mer­its trust

Even to the ut­most save.

Then let us all pro­ceed

In Je­sus’ con­quest share

Boldly march up with Christ our head

That thun­der­bolt of war;

Jesus hath all broke through

Hell

earth

and sin

and death

And we shall more than con­quer

too

Who Je­sus’ Spir­it breathe.

Through faith in our dear Lord

We sure­ly shall ob­tain

The pro­mise of a full re­ward

And here with Je­sus reign;

We with­out sin shall live

Before we hence re­move

Our heav­en­ly call­ing’s prize re­ceive

The crown of per­fect love.

Our souls like God raised up

Shall live no more to die

Our flesh dis­solved shall rest in hope

Of im­mor­tal­ity:

Jesus shall soon ap­pear

With roy­al glo­ry crowned

Our dust the trump of God shall hear

And kin­dle at the sound.

Quickened by pow­er di­vine

We all shall see

and know

The Son of Man’s tri­umph­ant sign

The cross we bore be­low;

Caught up we all shall rise

Our mas­ter’s glo­ry share

And take our seats ab­ove the skies

And reign for ev­er there.