As we celebrate Resurrection Sunday, from the lips of every believer should come "Christ Our Lord is Risen. There is no other day in the life of a Christian as important as this day.
Sing to the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord, all the earth-
Sing to the Lord, praise his Holy Name…
Psalm 96:1-2
The God of Creation – Our Personal Shepherd
1 Come,
let us sing for joy to the Lord
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let
us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3 For
the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4 In
his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The
sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come,
let us bow down in worship—
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For
he is our God and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
8 Today, if you hear his voice, do
not harden your hearts as you once did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
9 Where
your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that
generation.
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”
11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”
From Death to Life
When we read the story of
this glorious event in the Gospels, it should stretch us as it did those who
visited the empty tomb of the LORD that glorious morning. How can a dead man live? But they saw it for themselves by irrefutable
truths. A great crowd of witnesses saw
him later walking about in Galilee . When those
first disciples obeyed Jesus command to stay in a certain spot—until the Holy Spirit
would come upon them—fifty days later they were ALL filled with this ‘‘new
[spiritual] life.” They had a 'new song' in their heart and became an unstoppable force.
This changed the course of history with this resurrection story and the course of anyone’s life who
heard and believed.
The Apostle Paul writes,
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised
from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the
dead? If there is no resurrection of the
dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised,
our preaching is useless and so is your faith... But Christ has indeed been
raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep… But
thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let
nothing move you. Always give yourselves
fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is
not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:12-14, 20, 57-58)
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