If Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

 

 

If it is by the sign of the Cross and by faith in Christ that death is trampled underfoot, it is clear that it is Christ himself and none other who is the Archvictor over death and has robbed it of its power. Death used to be strong and terrible, but now, since the advent of the Saviour and the death and Resurrection of his body, it is despised. When the sun rises after the night and the whole world is lit up by it, nobody doubts that it is the sun which has thus shed its light everywhere and driven away the dark. Equally clear is it, since this utter scorning and trampling down of death has ensued upon the Saviour’s manifestation in the body and his death on the Cross, that it is he himself who brought death to nought and daily raises monuments to his vic­tory in his own disciples. How can you think otherwise, when you see people naturally weak hastening to death, unafraid at the prospect of corruption, fearless of the descent into Hades, even indeed with eager soul provoking it, not shrinking from tortures, but preferring thus to rush on death for Christ’s sake, rather than to remain in this present life?

 

If, as we have shown, death was destroyed and everybody tramples on it because of Christ, how much more did he himself first trample and destroy it in his own body! How could the destruction of death have been manifested at all, had not the Lord’s body been raised?

 

People who are dead cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave. Deeds and actions that energise others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Saviour is working might­ily among us every day. He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over the world to accept his faith and be obedient to his teaching. Can anyone, in face of this, still doubt that he has risen and lives, or rather that he is himself the Life? Does a dead man prick the consciences of men, so that they throw all the traditions of their fathers to the winds and bow down before the teaching of Christ? If he is no longer active in the world, as would be the case if he were dead, how is it that he makes the living to cease from their activities, the adulterer from his adul­tery, the murderer from murdering, the unjust man from avarice, while the profane and godless become religious? This is the work of One who lives, not of one dead; and, more than that, it is the work of God.

 

 

 

Thoughts of love surround you

Everywhere around you

May your heart discover

All the magic and the wonder

 

Inside every moment

Deeper than the ocean

I just want to show you

All the beauty and the glory

 

In this clear eternal light

This miracle of light

You will never lose your way

Because the eternal light will find you

And guide you

 

Life is but a journey

Tides are always turning

Seasons come and go here

But you'll never be alone here

 

In this clear eternal light

This miracle of light

You will never lose your way

Because the eternal light will find you

And guide you every day

 

Ahh, ahh, ahh

 

There are times of long and sleepless nights

But I will bring you peace and hope

Shining like a rainbow

 

In this clear eternal light

This miracle of light

You will never lose your way.

This eternal light will find you

To shine its guiding light on you.

 

In this clear eternal light

This miracle of light

You will never lose your way

This eternal light will find you

And guide you in all life

 

Ahh, ahh, ahh