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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (feat. JJ Heller)

Songwriters: Gerard Moultrie, Ben Shive, Keith Getty

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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (feat. JJ Heller)

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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (feat. JJ Heller)
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Song Lyrics

Let all mortal flesh keep silence
And with fear and trembling stand
Ponder nothing earthly-minded
For, with blessing in His hand
Christ our God to earth descendeth
Our full homage to demand

King of kings, yet born of Mary
As of old on earth He stood
Lord of lords, in human vesture
In the body and the blood
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heav'nly food

Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day
That the pow'rs of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away

At His feet the six-winged seraph
Cherubim with sleepless eye
Veil their faces to the Presence
As with ceaseless voice they cry
“Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, Lord Most High!
Alleluia, Lord Most High!”

 

John 1:4-5 (ESV):  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

 

Song Story

Light of Light

There is an old Irish Christmas tradition, brought by travelers across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. A candle would be placed at the window, a light to break through the dark of the winter night and guide family and guests safely inside. Even the smallest light can be seen for miles.

Light carries inside it the paintbox of all creation. All the colors our eyes can behold are brought to us in waves of light, giving shape and contrast and life to everything we see. When Jesus tells us, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12), he speaks not only of a rescue from darkness but of an invitation to life in full color, life that meets the soul’s deepest longings.

Each Christmas, around the winter solstice, God calls us to let the light of his truth into our hearts anew—and also to let it out. Our songs, our homes, our work, our lives can become an even brighter candle in the window, an invitation to others.

The hymn “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,” originally penned in the fifth century, speaks with ever fresh color into our moment in time:

Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way
As the light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day
That the pow’rs of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away

We can see the darkness pressing, pressing, pressing in all around this world. But the Light doesn’t just descend and make a little space in the shadows. He comes to clear the darkness completely away. We are small. Our flesh, our homes, our endeavors are so fragile. But the treasure Christ has placed within his people is an inextinguishable, ever-growing light. And each carol of Christmas joy we sing is a light dispelling the darkness of hell.

-Kristyn Getty

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Song Information
Songwriter: Gerard Moultrie, Ben Shive, Keith Getty
Year of release: 2023
Copyright: Arranged by Ben Shive and Keith Getty; Arr. © 2023 Getty Music Publishing (BMI) / Beehive Songs (BMI) (All adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com)
SKUs: H3270-ASIDL , H3270-AATDL , H3270-MCRDL , H3270-MCCDL , H3270-MHYDL , H3270-MLSDL , H3270-MORDL , H3270-MPNDL , H3270-MRHDL

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