By Grace Alone

I came across this song as I am preparing for our worship service tomorrow and I think it is very appropriate to post the lyrics for all Christ followers…

When it’s all been said and done
There is just one thing that matters
Did I do my best to live for truth
Did I live my life for You

When it’s all been said and done
All my treasures will mean nothing
Only what I’ve done for love’s Reward
Will stand the test of time

Lord Your mercy is so great
That You look beyond our Weakness
And find purest gold in miry clay
Making sinners into saints  

I will always sing Your praise
Here on earth and ever after
For You’ve shown me Heaven’s my
True home

When it’s all been said and done
You’re my life when life is gone

Lord I’ll live my life for You

— By Jim Cowan

Pauls tells us the very words of God when he puts to parchment ”But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57, ESV). In this we see that God get all the thanks and all the glory for everything, our salvation, our victory, our very lives. As we close out this Easter let us give thanks to the one who made it happen and rejoice in the fact that because He lives, we shall live also. 

Happy Easter 2008

 

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Sermon Notes

Today starts the three days Christians have set apart to worship our Lord’s resurrection. Our Faith hinges upon this one fact - He lives! This event is a call to worship Christ Jesus our Lord, worship through the death, burial and a glorious resurrection (not a resuscitation).

“When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”" (1 Corinthians 15:54-55, ESV)

Will you worship? I urge you brothers and sisters to set apart time each day privately and worship our God in each of these aspects for what He has done:

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-58, ESV)

This was encouraging to see…