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title: The Great 50 Days of Easter- Day 05
description: The Great 50 Days of Easter- Day 05
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# [The Great 50 Days of Easter- Day 05](https://www.new-covenant-church.com/blog/50-days-of-easter/2014/05/23/the-great-50-days-of-easter-day-05)

 Written by [Christopher Caudle](https://www.new-covenant-church.com/blog/author/christopher-caudle) | May 23, 2014

**Scriptures for today.**  
** Psalm 146, 147 · Exodus 13.3-10 ·1 Corinthians 15.41-50 ·Psalm 148, 149 · Matthew 28.16-20 **

**Prayer for today. **

Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity.

**Question for today.**

The song says “When at last it came to choices, I denied I knew His name. Even if He was alive, It wouldn't be the same” How does a resurrected Christ reframe our interactions with him? Name one place where you tend to treat him as just an honored person, and press on to worship him as the Risen Lord. How does the Lord’s embrace of his betraying and abandoning disciples reshape your own view of confession and restoration? For you and others?

Watch this video clip of Don Francisco as he sings his 1977 Easter anthem, He’s Alive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIndrry40Ks

The gates and doors were barred  
 All the windows fastened down  
 I spent the night in sleeplessness  
 And rose at every sound

Half in hopeless sorrow  
 And half in fear the day  
 Would find the soldiers breakin' through  
 To drag us all away

And just before the sunrise  
 Heard something at the wall  
 The gate began to rattle  
 And a voice began to call

Hurried to the window  
 Looked down into the street  
 Expecting swords and torches  
 And the sound of soldier's feet

There was no one there but Mary  
 So I went down to let her in  
 John stood there beside me  
 As she told us where she'd been

She said they've moved Him in the night  
 And none of us knows where  
 The stones been rolled away  
 And now His body isn't there

We both ran toward the garden  
 Then John ran on ahead  
 We found the stone and the empty tomb  
 Just the way that Mary said

But the winding sheet they wrapped Him in  
 Was just an empty shell  
 And how or where they'd taken Him  
 Was more than I could tell

Well, something strange had happened there  
 Just what I did not know  
 John believed a miracle  
 But I just turned to go

Circumstance and speculation  
 Couldn't lift me very high  
 'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him  
 Then I saw Him die

Back inside the house again  
 The guilt and anguish came  
 Everything I'd promised Him  
 Just added to my shame

When at last it came to choices  
 I denied I knew His name  
 Even if He was alive  
 It wouldn't be the same

Suddenly the air was filled  
 With strange and sweet perfume  
 Light that came from everywhere  
 Drove shadows from the room

Jesus stood before me  
 With His arms held open wide  
 And I fell down on my knees  
 And just clung to Him and cried

He raised me to my feet  
 And as I looked into His eyes  
 Love was shining out from Him  
 Like sunlight from the skies

Guilt in my confusion  
 Disappeared in sweet release  
 And every fear I'd ever had  
 Just melted into peace

He's alive, He's alive  
 He's alive and I'm forgiven  
 Heaven's gates are open wide

He's alive, He's alive  
 He's alive and I'm forgiven  
 Heaven's gates are open wide

He's alive, He's alive  
 He's alive and I'm forgiven  
 Heaven's gates are open wide  
 He's alive, He's alive, He's alive

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