He Is Risen!

Today’s song: The Victor by Jamie Owens-Collins, from her 1973 album, Laughter In Your Soul, re-released on Legacy in 2008.

On this Easter Sunday 2011, we again remember and celebrate the empty cross, the empty tomb, and the promise of a new life. All of this accomplished by the sacrifice and death of Jesus on that cross, and His resurrection from the dead on the third day.

He is risen indeed!

Swallowed into earth’s dark womb
Death has triumphed
That’s what they say
But try to hold him in the tomb
The Son of Life
Rose on the third day

Look! The gates of hell are falling
Crumbling from the inside out
He’s bursting through the walls with laughter
Listen to the angels shout

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it!

His plan of battle fooled them all
They led him off to prison to die
But as he entered Hades hall
He broke those hellish chains with a cry

Listen to the demons screaming
See him bruise the serpent’s head
The prisoners of hell redeeming
All the power of death is dead

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it!

Look! The gates of hell are falling
Crumbling from the inside out
He’s bursting through the walls with laughter
Listen to the angels shout

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it!