Once We Stood

1. Once we stood in condemnation,
Waiting thus the sinner's doom,
Christ, in death, has wrought salvation,
God has raised Him from the tomb.

2. Now we see in Christ's acceptance
But the measure of our own;
Him Who lay beneath our sentence
Seated high upon the throne.

3. Quickened, raised, and in Him seated,
We a full deliv'rance know:
Ev-'ry foe has been defeated,
Ev'ry enemy laid low.

4. Now we have a life in union
With the risen life above:
Now we drink in sweet communion,
Some sweet foretaste of His love.

5. Soon, O Lord, in brightest glory,
All its vastness we'll explore:
Soon we'll cast our crowns before Thee,
While we worship and adore.