Our Daily Team has taken a Sabbath from writing during Holy Week.
Please enjoy today’s reflection on a worship song we sang together on Easter Sunday.
May His praise ever be on our lips and in our hearts. Amen.
“Christ the Lord is Risen Today” [Charles Wesley (1739)]
Matthew 28:5-6
The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
Key Themes (from Generative AI):
Reassurance: The angel’s first words are “Fear not,” offering comfort to the women who are grieving and searching for Jesus’s body.
Jesus’s Resurrection: The angel declares that Jesus is not in the tomb because he has risen, fulfilling his own prophecy.
Call to Witness: The angel instructs the women to go and tell the disciples about the resurrection.
Empty Tomb: The angel tells the women to “Come, see the place where the Lord lay,” emphasizing the significance of the empty tomb as a symbol of
Jesus’s victory over death.
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
NCC Worship – Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (He Is Not Dead) [Lyric Video]
Christ the Lord is ris’n today, alleluia
Sons of men and angels say, alleluia
Raise your joys and triumphs high, alleluia
Sing ye heavens and earth reply,
alleluia
Lives again our glorious King, alleluia
Where O death is now thy sting, alleluia
Dying once He all doth save, alleluia
Where thy victory O grave,
alleluia
He is not dead, He is alive
We have this hope, in Jesus Christ
Love’s re – deeming work is done, alleluia
Fought the fight the battle won, alleluia
Death in vain forbids Him rise, alleluia
Christ has opened paradise,
alleluia
Soar we now where Christ has led, alleluia
Following our exalted Head, alleluia
Made like Him, like Him we rise, alleluia
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies,
alleluia
