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    846-Fight The Good Fight

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    This hymn encourages believers to fight the good fight through trusting in God's promises. It tells them to run the straight race through God's grace, cast aside cares, and not faint or fear because God's arms are near. It says Christ is their strength and righteousness, and to seek God's face. It promises God's boundless mercy will provide, and that God does not change and sees believers as dear. It encourages holding onto life through believing, as Christ is the path and prize, and life and love.

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    846-Fight The Good Fight

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    This hymn encourages believers to fight the good fight through trusting in God's promises. It tells them to run the straight race through God's grace, cast aside cares, and not faint or fear because God's arms are near. It says Christ is their strength and righteousness, and to seek God's face. It promises God's boundless mercy will provide, and that God does not change and sees believers as dear. It encourages holding onto life through believing, as Christ is the path and prize, and life and love.

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    846-Fight the Good Fight

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    This hymn encourages believers to fight the good fight through trusting in God's promises. It tells them to run the straight race through God's grace, cast aside cares, and not faint or fear because God's arms are near. It says Christ is their strength and righteousness, and to seek God's face. It promises God's boundless mercy will provide, and that God does not change and sees believers as dear. It encourages holding onto life through believing, as Christ is the path and prize, and life and love.

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    846-Fight The Good Fight

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    This hymn encourages believers to fight the good fight through trusting in God's promises. It tells them to run the straight race through God's grace, cast aside cares, and not faint or fear because God's arms are near. It says Christ is their strength and righteousness, and to seek God's face. It promises God's boundless mercy will provide, and that God does not change and sees believers as dear. It encourages holding onto life through believing, as Christ is the path and prize, and life and love.

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    TRUSTING IN THE PROMISES OF GOD

    Fight the Good Fight 846


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    1 Fight the good fight with all thy might.
    2 Run the straight race through God’s good grace;
    3 Cast care a - side; lean on thy guide.

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    4 Faint not nor fear: God’s arms are near.

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    Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right.
    lift up thine eyes, and seek Christ’s face.
    God’s bound - less mer - cy will pro - vide.

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    God chang - eth not, and thou art dear.

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    Lay hold on life, and it shall be
    Life with its way be - fore us lies;
    Trust, and thy trust - ing soul shall prove

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    thy joy and crown e - ter - nal - ly.
    Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.
    Christ is its life, and Christ its love.

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    that Christ is all in all to thee.

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    The opening phrase here (based on 1 Timothy 6:12) is not a military image but an athletic one, from a Greek
    verb meaning “struggle” or “grapple” or “wrestle.” The sports context continues in later stanzas reflecting
    the experience of a runner (recalling Hebrews 12:1–2).
    _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    TEXT: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1863, alt. DUKE STREET
    MUSIC: Attr. John Hatton, c. 1793 LM

    6/7/13

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