SPEAKER_00: Good morning and welcome to your daily walk.
SPEAKER_00: I'm Dan Stevens.
SPEAKER_00: Over the years, I've led music in several Easter services.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful we have a great many contemporary Christian music composers reflecting on the meaning of the resurrection and providing new music all the time that continually reminds us not only of Christ's miracle of rising from the dead, but that we too will one day rise from the dead if we put our hope and faith in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Today I want to just remind you of some of the inspiring lyrics on the resurrection that have come down to us through the generations.
SPEAKER_00: Bill Gaither wrote, Because he lives, I can face tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: Because he lives, all fear is gone.
SPEAKER_00: What powerful imagery and comforting words.
SPEAKER_00: I preach a lot of funeral services and have provided words of comfort to so many families in their time of loss.
SPEAKER_00: I can only hope that when my time comes, I will remember the words I've preached so many times and not fear, but place my hope in the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: The final verse of Charles Wesley's Christ the Lord is risen today says, Soar we now where Christ has led, hallelujah, following our exalted head, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Made like him, like him we rise, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: My goodness, what poetic, rhapsodic language to convey the hope of Easter.
SPEAKER_00: Lastly, the song we sang on Easter Sunday, Phil Wickham's Sunday's Comin', has the lyric Devil, you're done.
SPEAKER_00: You better start running.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, I giggled a little when I heard it for the first time.
SPEAKER_00: But it's so true, and it reminds me of our scripture for today, Hebrews 2, 14 and 15, which says that Christ shared in our humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope everyone had a happy Easter.
SPEAKER_00: Have a great day.