Author: Charles Wesley 1707-88
‘Christ, the Lord, is risen today!’
Hallelujah!
All creation join to say:
Hallelujah!
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Hallelujah!
Sing, you heavens, and earth reply:
Hallelujah!
2. Love’s redeeming work is done!
Fought the fight, the battle won:
see, our Sun’s eclipse has passed;
see, the light returns at last!
3. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal:
Christ has burst the gates of hell;
death in vain forbids him rise-
Christ has opened paradise:
4. Lives again our glorious King;
where, O death, is now your sting?
Once he died, our souls to save;
where’s your victory, boasting grave?
5. Soar we now where Christ has led,
following our exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise;
ours the cross, the grave, the skies:
6. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to you by both be given;
every knee to you shall bow,
risen Christ, triumphant now!
Scriptures: Ephesians 1:22, Hosea 13:14, Psalms 69:34, Psalms 96:11, Colossians 3:1, Romans 6:4-6, Malachi 4:2, Luke 24:34, Psalms 24:7-10, Ephesians 1:3, 1 Corinthians 15:55-57, 1 John 3:2, Colossians 1:18, James 1:21, Isaiah 44:23, Matthew 28:1-10, 1 Peter 1:9, Philippians 2:10, Acts 2:36, Acts 2:33, Matthew 16:18, Acts 5:31, Mark 15:46, Luke 23:43, Romans 6:8, John 19:30, John 20:1-10, Mark 16:1-8, 1 Timothy 2:11, Luke 24:1-9, Isaiah 49:13, Matthew 27:59-66, Matthew 28:6, Luke 23:45, Luke 24:6, 2 Corinthians 4:10, 2 Corinthians 4:14, Revelation 2:7
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