I'll Have a New Life

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On the resurrection morning when all the dead in Christ shall rise,

I'll have a new body, praise the Lord, I'll have a new life (eternal)

Sown in weakness, raised in power, ready to live in Paradise,

I'll have a new body, praise the Lord, I'll have a new life (oh yes)

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Free from ev'ry imperfection, youthful and happy I shall be...

Glorified with Him forever, death will be lost in victory...

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What a hallelujah morning when the last trump of God shall sound...

Graves all bursting, saints a-shouting, heavenly beauty all around...

CHORUS

(Glory, glory, never sad)

I'll have a new home of love eternal with the redeemed of God to stand;

There'll be no more sorrow, no more pain, there'll be no more strife;

(In His likeness, I'll be glad)

Yes, raised in the likeness of my Savior, ready to live in gloryland,

I'll have a new body, praise the Lord, I'll have a new life (eternal)

Songwriter: Marion Williams

A lot of gospel songs feature an alto or bass lead on the chorus. This is a good example. When I was a child, we had a man in our congregation who had one of those extra-deep resonant voices. I loved to hear him sing. (Chet Linville).

This is not the best quality video I could find, but this one sounds the most like what we really sounded like when we sang it (except for the instruments). And it shows how much fun it is to sing songs like this. I don't remember if we ever sang this in church or if we just sang it at home with the family. This is the Kingsmen, the Segos, and Willy Wynn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzfBobCD8Y

1 Corinthians 15

35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.