Christ the Lord is ris'n indeed

Haahh Ahhh Laayy Luuh Yahh!!!!! 😤🫁🪟✈️

Hallelujah! ‼️❣️😇

Love’s redeeming work is done,
HALLELUJAH!
Fought the fight, the battle won,
HALLELUJAH!
Death in vain forbade Him rise,
HALLELUJAH!
Christ ascended o’er the skies,
HALLELUJAH!

THE SIGN OF THE LORD’S BROTHERS

In verse 17 we have the sign of the Lord’s brothers: “Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God. ” The sign of the Lord’s brothers signifies His multiplication as His glorification in resurrection. This is the crucial point in this chapter.

Recently in a meeting we sang the hymn, the first line of which is, “Christ the Lord is ris’n indeed. ” Although this is a good hymn on the Lord’s resurrection, and everything in it is true, it is very objective. In this hymn we do not have anything concerning the multiplication and glorification of the Lord Jesus. This hymn says that Christ “has met His people’s need. ” But what exactly is our need? In what matters do we need the Lord’s resurrection? We need to answer such questions according to our actual experience. One line of this hymn goes on to ask the question, “Where, O Death, is now thy sting? ” Can we say that in our daily living we do not suffer from the sting of death? We must admit that in our practical experience death is still powerful. In our family life, for example, we may be stung by the power of death. Another line of this hymn asks, “Where thy victory, O grave? ” Many Christians cannot sing this with any sense of reality. The last lines of this hymn say that now we soar where Christ has led, following our exalted Head, and that like Him we rise, “free from all the earthly ties. ” However, in our experience are we rising and soaring? Are we truly free from all the earthly ties? Not many of us can answer these questions in a positive way.

Although this is a good hymn on certain objective aspects of Christ’s resurrection, it does not express what the Gospel of John reveals to us regarding the resurrection of Christ. In John’s Gospel the resurrection is divine and mysterious, for it is related to Christ’s multiplication and glorification. According to this book, we have become the many brothers of the resurrected Christ. This means that we are His multiplication, His glorification, in resurrection.

Oh Christ! He is risen. He has met his people’s need. Hallelujah! Now he is living in us as the Life Giving Spirit!

RESURRECTION

We now come to the third major step of Christ: His resurrection. After His death, Christ was resurrected. What was the divine thought in this? God had planned that all creation should both be created through Christ and cohere in Him (Col. 1:16-17). Christ must be the means of creating and the center of the creation. Then, at a certain point, God’s thought was to bring all things to an end by putting them to death in Christ. But that is not the end, because God in Christ could never be conquered by death. Death can never hold Christ (Acts 2:24), for He is the fountain of life. He went into death willingly, and He stepped out of death boldly. Even as all things were created through Christ and brought to death in Christ, so now all things are resurrected in Christ. This is the divine thought: to create all things in Christ, to bring all things to death in Christ, and then to resurrect all things in Christ.

How should we deal with people? It is simply by taking Christ as life. Christ is risen to be our life. May we realize this positively in our daily lives. Listening or reading is not enough. We must put this into practice. We must take Christ as our life for every occasion. How very real and practical it is. If we do this, we will very quickly be filled with Him in our spirit (Eph. 5:18). We will be full of Christ, and our whole being will be saturated with the Spirit. The Lord is seeking this kind of people today. To live by Christ is true spirituality.

The Four Major
Steps of Christ:
Chapter 3 (LSM)

Amen free from all earthly ties

Made like Him like Him we rise! Thank you Lord for the indwelling spirit.

Just sang this in the recent Easter service. The exultant, soaring notes of this hymn mirror our Lord's triumphant resurrection and ascension. Glory Hallellujah!

Hallelujah!!

What a wonderful hymn of praise. We sang this at brother Allen Bayes’ Memorial and were all enjoying as one Body. Praise the Lord for His resurrection life! Thank you for this life and testimony of Jesus!

Soar we now where Christ hath led,
Hallelujah!
Following our exalted Head,
Hallelujah!
Made like Him, like Him we rise,
Hallelujah!
Free from all the earthly ties,
Hallelujah!