Lord Jesus, on this wonderful day, we want
to praise your holy name.
Indeed, the grave is empty, and you have
arisen, and you are alive.
And that we can live with you and
you in us, how can we appreciate such
a miracle?
Please be with us and reveal your power
to us today.
We ask it for your namesake and to
the glory of your holy name.
We ask it for your namesake and to
the glory of your holy name.
Amen.
Some might say, we would expect you to
read from one of the gospels, reading about
the woman who went to the tomb and
found it empty.
Why then is it possible that one could
also read from a different text?
Your boasting is not good.
Don't you know that a little yeast works
through the whole batch of dough?
Get rid of the old yeast, that you
may be a new batch without yeast, as
you really are.
For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Therefore, let
us keep the festival, not with the old
yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but
with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity
and truth.
I'd like to speak about three points here.
That what does the risen Christ say to
us today?
Secondly, we have Christ, our Passover lamb, that
has been slain and sacrificed.
Thirdly, about sincerity and purity and cleansing us.
The first point contains
sorrow.
Can we be sorrowful concerning this first day?
Pointless mealy.
Secondly, the second point, our joy.
And thirdly, our sanctification.
Today is the resurrection day of our Lord.
We Germans call it Easter, that it's the
festival of Easter.
In English it's called Easter.
It has nothing to do with the Easter
rabbit, Easter bunny and Easter eggs.
But it's Easter.
Now I'm sorry, I couldn't find any similar
word in the Zulu language that compares to
that word in German, Austen, and in English,
Easter.
I also searched in Afrikaans.
What is Osten?
Easter?
I suggest, if there is no word for
Osten, that your Afrikaans speaker will create a
new word for Osten.
You know, Afrikaans consists of 70% Dutch,
20% German, 10% French.
Now, maybe there is a word for Osten.
Easter.
If there is no Easter, we will create
a new word in Afrikaans.
Osten in German.
What does Osten mean?
Osten in German.
Is Osten fierce?
What does Osten mean?
We celebrate Osten.
What does that word Easter mean?
I said nothing to do with a bunny,
with Easter eggs.
Easter means, Osten, Sonnenaufgang.
That means, it means
the sunrise.
Afrikaans?
Sonnenaufgang.
What does Osten mean?
This day surpasses any other day that exists.
There is the birth of Jesus.
There is Easter or Passover.
There is the death of Christ.
But the day which surpasses any other day
is the resurrection of Christ.
Even though that day when Christ was born
was a great day, but if He hadn't
risen from the dead, would it all have
been in vain?
The death of Christ on the cross, that
was a great event, but if Jesus hadn't
risen from the dead, would it all have
been in vain?
There wouldn't have been a hallelujah.
But His resurrection is the greatest day.
On the day Jesus was born, I don't
know if there was any angel, anybody who
remained in heaven, I'm sure they were all
there witnessing it.
I presume heaven was empty on that day.
They were all here on earth.
There was a great multitude of heavenly hosts
that were there proclaiming this message to the
angels that a child is born.
Even though it was pitch dark, it was
during the night, it shone, it was radiant
all round about them because of their appearance
and speaking.
The angel wanted to remain in heaven with
such a great event taking place on earth.
They wanted to be there witnessing it, even
though they had no room for them there
in the end.
They said, we want to be there, oh
God, and speak about this great event.
And once again, at the resurrection of Christ,
the same thing happened again, where they were
present here on earth.
The angels in heaven said, we can't but
be there at such a great event, at
the resurrection of the Son of God and
His conquering, Him having the keys to life
and death, we need to be there.
Some angels stood at the entrance to the
grave.
Some angels came and they rolled that great
stone, which was like a big wheel, which
weighed, some say, maybe three up to five
tons.
They rolled that away and they cast it
to the side.
That's right, I don't think they rolled it,
they just took it and threw it there.
Some angels sat there where His head was,
in the grave.
Some said, at His feet side, read your
Bibles and you'll find it.
And those that sat on the stone, their
clothing was radiant, like lightning.
Oh, that was a great event, and the
angels came down to celebrate that, the resurrection
of Christ.
And they came to worship Him, the one
who triumphed, the hero of God, the hero
of all heroes.
And
they
came to worship Him, the one who triumphed,
the hero of all heroes.
Even though the body of Christ was there
in the grave, but His spirit went down,
and His soul went down into hell, into
the depths.
And there He took the keys of hell,
and He came up with the keys of
death.
The keys of hell first.
He had the keys of hell and the
keys of death.
Oh, great is this matter, so great that
we need the languages of angels to explain
it and express it.
Oh, death, where is your sting?
Oh, hell, where is your sting?
For Christ has overcome it.
Death, where is your victory?
He is the one who said, I have
died, but now I live.
Can you blame the heavenly Hirsharen?
What's that in English?
The heavenly hosts.
That they came down, heaven came down, to
have part in the greatest event that ever
could take place on this planet and all
planets in the world.
He is
the
one who said, I have died, but now
I live.
There in the garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus
was sorrowful unto death, He had asked His
three most trusted disciples to be with Him,
to pray with Him, to support Him in
that hour of sorrow.
And they became drowsy, they fell asleep.
And one angel couldn't contain himself and he
went down to strengthen Jesus.
And so when Jesus conquered, they were there,
they wanted to be there to witness that
which happened when their hero overcame.
It's just so troublesome that we do not
see.
That which happens in the unseen world, in
the spiritual world.
But there when Jesus was in the garden,
no human came to support Him and to
comfort Him and to say, Oh Lord, even
though it's difficult, persevere, go through with it.
There was no one that stood with Him.
The eyes were heavy, full of sleep.
Oh, it troubles, it's terrible when you are
cold and you know that you are cold,
but you are not there where God has
called you to be.
You are somewhere else, your eyes heavy with
sleep.
What a great tragedy if you know you
are cold.
Or maybe you're not conscious of it.
You are called to a task, to do
something.
You're getting older, gray hairs, sheep, the Zulu
say, sheep are coming on your head.
And you are not there where you're supposed
to be.
What a tragedy.
May God grant that you won't die there.
But before you die, you get back to
the place where you ought to be.
It's not just a tragedy, it's a scandal,
when a Christian is not there where he
ought to be.
And you know, God has called you, God
has sent you.
But you are busy with other things.
How will you stand before Him, when you
stand before Him on the Day of Judgment?
You are bound with chains of hell and
of sin.
And Jesus came to set you free.
But until now, you still continue in your
life of sin, unconfessed sin.
Those chains should be broken, and you should
have come for them to be broken, to
be snapped to pieces.
And that you then proclaim this message above
all other messages.
And the angel said, we want to be
there.
Austin, Easter is the rising of the sun.
We want
to
be there.
And so, when the sun came up on
that day of resurrection, and it brought daybreak,
at the same time, the sun, the eternal
sun, arose to bring us light, so that
in his light, we may see the light.
The eternal sun arose and appeared.
It's always a blessing to me when a
brother, Mandakwela, says, He's
blind, but it's such a blessing to me
when he shares concerning his life, when he
read there in Isaiah, when God spoke to
him through his word, that they won't need
the sun, the light of the sun, or
the light of the moon, for he will
be their light.
And so, when the sun came up on
that day of resurrection, and it brought daybreak,
at the same time, the sun, the eternal
sun, arose to bring us light, so that
in his light, we
may see the light.
The eternal sun arose and came up, never
ever to be extinguished again.
He had been extinguished.
He had died.
He went down to hell, and there he
wrestled with the forces of hell, and he
came up victorious, coming out with the keys
to death and the keys to hell.
He conquered hell.
He conquered death.
He conquered sin.
He conquered Satan.
He
conquered
sin.
The sun has come up, the eternal sun.
And if that wouldn't have happened, then we
wouldn't have been here today, and we wouldn't
have gone otherwise.
Sunrise, has that sun risen in your life?
Hast du das erlebt?
In German they say, he lives.
And when you combine those two words, it
makes the word experience.
Have you experienced that?
He lives.
Erlebt.
And then you say, hast du das erlebt?
Have you experienced that?
That he lives.
In every language you get some wonderful shades
of meaning.
Even in German.
The Germans are not like other people.
I'm a German.
They've got different manners, different ways.
When I've had a row with my wife,
and somebody visits me, then I'll greet him,
I've just had a row with my wife.
You English speaking people, Africans, would you do
such a thing?
He's a German, that's how he is.
I've had a row, and I was angry
with my wife, or my wife was dead.
You wouldn't say that.
Good Africans.
That's why my daughter said, Papa, you shouldn't
be sad.
Don't be sad.
With African speaking people, everything is much better
than the Germans.
Now we'll have to see, because the last
two are getting married to Germans, and we'll
see what they are like, those sons-in
-law.
The Germans are just straightforward, blatant, they don't
know how to put something discreetly.
And if you want to put something discreetly,
then they say, those are lies.
You're lying.
Well, there is a distinction between being discreet
and lying.
Sometimes the Zulus will speak green lies, and
then they say, no, we're just being discreet.
No, those are lies.
But the Holy Spirit is also the Spirit
of wisdom.
Rahab hid those spies from Israel, the Lord's
children.
She hid them away, and she protected them
through wisdom, and they were saved, and she
as well.
Abraham said of Sarai's wife that she was
his sister, and in that way he protected
or hid her.
And some say, well, he lied.
No, that was the truth.
She was his sister.
She was his half-sister.
She was as much his sister as his
wife.
Don't tell everybody just everything.
If you go to the toilet, you close
the door.
You needn't expose your nakedness.
But to the Europeans, that has gone lost.
On Easter, Christ arose, the Eternal Son, bringing
light to everybody.
This physical Son which we have only gives
light to half the earth.
The other half of the globe is in
darkness.
But Christ brought light to everyone.
And this light only shows you that which
you can see on the outside, the leaves
and the trunk of the tree.
But the light of Christ exposes everything, even
the very roots of that tree.
Even though those roots might go under a
rock, but the light of Christ reveals even
those.
There is nothing hidden before Him that is
not revealed.
These were still just words of introduction.
I haven't yet started with my three points.
Now I'm speaking like Nonter yesterday.
Now I haven't forgotten my promise of yesterday
that I'm going to try and attempt to
make it shorter.
I'm stopping now with my introduction.
I could still continue on that and preach
a whole sermon from A to Z.
That was just the introduction.
Now to the first point.
What does Jesus say to us on His
resurrection day?
In this text.
He reprimands us saying that which breaks one's
heart.
Your boasting is not good.
Don't you know that a little yeast works
through the whole batch of dough?
Get rid of that old yeast that you
may be a new batch without yeast.
We are celebrating the
resurrection of
Christ.
Easter and Jesus says your celebration is not
good.
You haven't yet got rid of that old
yeast.
That breaks one's heart that you celebrate the
resurrection of Christ and yet there is still
of the old yeast in your life.
Paul reprimanded the church of Corinth very harshly.
He spoke hard words to them.
He said you have sinned grossly.
Why?
Did they commit adultery?
No.
Did they steal?
No.
Did they tell lies?
No.
So why did he criticize them?
Why did he find fault with them?
It was because in the church there was
one pair, a man and a woman that
were living in immorality.
And they did it.
They didn't say no, brother, we will cut
your head off.
And sister, we can't do such a thing
in the church of God.
No, they closed their eyes.
They kept their mouths shut.
Why did they do it?
The whole community was guilty before God.
Because there were two people among them.
One was not married, but they lived together.
They sinned before the holy God.
And Jesus, the risen Lord, found fault with
them and said don't you realize, don't you
know that a little yeast works through the
whole batch of dough?
In the same chapter, verse 11, we read,
But now I'm writing you that you must
not associate with anyone who calls himself a
brother, but a sexually immoral or greedy, an
idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a
swindler, with such a man.
Do not even eat.
A person who calls himself a believer, a
brother, but he's a slanderer, speaking evil of
the gospel and of the truth.
And you give that person a position.
And you are friends with that person.
The Bible says don't even eat with such
a person.
The Bible says don't eat with such a
person.
And the Lord says your boasting is not
good.
And you say we are believers, we are
Christians.
You boast about that.
And Jesus says one who walks in that
way, don't even associate with that person.
You make a lie to yourself.
God hates sinners.
This is a treason.
This is a hellish love.
God hates sinners.
And if someone says, I am a Christian,
I was born again, I am a child
of the Lord.
And he is a sinner.
He does not live for the sin.
The Bible says you can not even eat
with him.
He does not speak of the outsiders, of
the unbelievers, you can go with them, but
not with someone who says, I was raised
in the precious blood of Jesus, I am
a child of the Lord.
You can not do that.
The Bible says you can not even eat
with him.
He does not speak of the outsiders, of
the unbelievers, you can go with them, but
not with someone who says, I was raised
in the precious blood of Jesus, I am
a child of the Lord.
Do you see yourself in this light, or
do you run away from it and hide?
Out, with
that old yeast, get rid of it, sweep
it out.
Now the second point, the joy of this
day, for
Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
Our Passover lamb, who is without spot, who
is without a cross, who is without a
cross, who is without a cross, who is
without a cross, who is without a cross,
who is without a cross, who is without
a cross, who is without a cross, who
is without a cross, who is without a
cross, who is without a cross, who is
without a cross, who is without a cross,
who is without a cross, who is without
a cross, who is without a cross, who
is without a cross, who is without a
cross, who is without a cross, who is
without a cross, who is without a cross,
who is without a cross, who is without
a cross, who is without a cross, who
is without a cross, who is without a
cross, who is without a cross, who is
without a cross, who is without a cross,
who is without a cross, who is without
a cross, who is without a cross, who
is without a cross, who is without a
cross, who is without a cross, who is
without a cross, who is without a cross,
who is without a cross, who is without
a cross, who is without a cross, who
is without a cross.
O God, give me the strength to move,
move, move, move, God.
Cospar.
The Cospar of Blut.
Who requested the Cospar of Blut?
Who can say what is a Cospar of
Blut?
Who can say what is a Cospar
of Blut?
We read a book, The Chemistry of the
Blood, by Dr. Tehan.
Where he says, he speaks about the blood,
the chemistry of the blood, he says when
a child is born, it hasn't got one
drop of blood from the mother's veins.
Has only got the father's blood.
The rest is from the mother.
But the blood, from the father.
Now, the father passes on the blood to
the child.
The life is in the blood.
That's why we are all sinners.
After, just because of our fathers, we were
born in sin.
We are not sinners because we have sinned.
We sin because we are sinners.
The blood in us, the blood of our
fathers, sinful blood, Adam's blood.
That's why so many South Africans have got
something of the Germans in them.
Our old president, P.
W.
Botha, said the white South Africans, 30%
of them, not just the Africans, the whites,
have German blood.
That's why we are all sinners because we
have sinned.
Dear lady, if you can't always understand your
husband, maybe now you will.
Maybe this is the German good in him.
Jesus was born of Mary in an unusual
way.
Children are born into the world because of
men and women coming together.
But Jesus wasn't born in that manner.
The Holy Spirit overshadowed her.
God's power came upon her.
There was no sex involved.
Jesus came down from heaven and miraculously went
into her womb.
With her being a virgin, had nothing to
do with any sex.
If Jesus would have had an earthly father,
he could not have been spotless.
He couldn't have been perfect.
He would have been a sinner like you
and me.
His body was like yours and mine, from
Mary.
But he didn't have human blood.
He would have been a sinner like you
and me, which he inherited from his fathers.
What a mystery!
His blood was divine.
In telling you that, I don't hope that
I take pearls and throw them before the
swine and the dogs.
But if you trade on this blood with
your feet, you know what you are in
for and what you are asking.
If you trample it underfoot, I feel sorry
for you, for your death will be the
worst of all kinds of deaths.
Death of all mankind.
We need to
honor and respect that blood.
It ought to be precious to us.
It ought to be the most precious blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He bought us, not with silver or gold,
but with the precious blood of Christ.
In that blood is the life of God.
And when you are washed in that blood,
you become a child of God.
You are saved through that.
We too have our Passover lambs.
The Jews had their Passover lambs.
They had their Passover lambs.
We too have our Passover lambs, which is
Christ.
And that is what causes us to rejoice
and gives us joy, that when you walk,
it is as if you are walking on
air.
Let us look at the Jews.
For 40 years, 400 years, they were oppressed
by Pharaoh and the Egyptians.
Enslaved in Egypt.
And they suffered and cried out because of
their suffering, being in chains, being enslaved in
Egypt.
Eventually, God heard their crying out.
And God said, I will save them now.
And he came and spoke to Moses.
And he said to Moses, God
did many miracles, but everything didn't work.
Until he came with the last blow and
hit the devil and Pharaoh and knocked him
out.
And that night, when they were commanded, slaughter
that lamb, they all had to do that.
And slaughter that lamb and take its blood
and put it on the doorposts of their
doors.
Because the angel of death was to pass
through and it would come and destroy every
firstborn, right from Pharaoh's household to the household
of the girl working in the garden.
Every firstborn in Egypt will be strangled to
death.
Because of that lamb that has been slain
and that blood that has been applied to
our life, to our life, you can accept
Christ.
If you haven't confessed your sin and washed
with the blood, you are lost.
You will be strangled by that spirit that
kills all those Egyptians.
But those that have applied the blood, that
have come to the cross and have been
washed in the blood of Jesus, they rejoice.
And God says, again I say to you,
rejoice.
You can't be forgiven if you don't rejoice.
Those that are damned and doomed forever, suffer
of depressions, etc.
But you who have been forgiven, you rejoice,
you praise.
And when our lamb was slain, the angels
were there.
When he arose with the keys in his
hand, with that mighty shout of victory, the
earth trembled.
The earth danced, jumped for joy.
That was the greatest thing.
Dead people rose up from the grave.
Rots broke!
The greatest thing happened.
The resurrection of Christ caused the heavenly host
to rejoice.
They were there, sitting on that rock with
close shining light, lighting, and asking, Why are
we seeking the dead, the living, at the
dead, where the dead are?
Is there reality in your life?
Be glad that the man will ask, Madam,
what happened?
The woman, the man, the children, what happened?
Children, what happened?
He rose up, took us by the hand,
he rejoiced, our sins were forgiven, we were
cleansed, whiter than snow.
The resurrection of Christ caused the heavenly host
to rejoice.
They were there, sitting on that rock with
close shining light, lighting, and asking, Why are
we seeking the dead, the living, at the
dead, where the dead are?
Is there reality in your life?
Be glad that the man will ask, Madam,
what happened?
And then it comes to an end, when
people say, Jesus is the God of the
white, or he is a Jew.
But that Eternal Sun has come out to
bring light.
And yet, you are still in the darkness.
But, to us who have seen that light,
we rejoice because of it.
Now, I'm leaving that second point of rejoicing.
Remember the first one, of grief.
And the second one, of joy, and then
thirdly, sanctification, holiness.
Verse 8, Therefore let us keep the festival
not with the old yeast, the yeast of
malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast,
the bread of sincerity and truth.
Let us keep the festival not with the
old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
If you grieve and mourn over your sin,
then you confess it and God forgives it
and then you rejoice and He even forgets
that when He forgives.
Then He justifies you and it is as
if you've never sinned before.
Verse 9, And
then
it says, Let us keep the festival not
with the old yeast, the yeast of malice
and wickedness, but with the bread without yeast,
the bread of sincerity and truth.
The fruit of these two things is sanctification,
and if there is no sanctification in your
life, then it has no meaning for you.
Verse 10, And then it says, Let us
keep the festival not with the
old
yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but
with the bread without yeast,
the bread of sincerity and truth.
Don't leave one stone unturned, otherwise you'll regret
it at the end when you've lost, lost,
lost your life in precious time and people
have gone in the meantime to hell.
They would have been saved because of your
witness, as this little black girl told us
yesterday.
There was a German of old who preached
to our forefathers.
He said there was a woman, a widow,
who had four children.
She was a very diligent woman, she had
a home with her children, living alone with
them.
When the minister came there to visit her,
he found the home filthy, dirty, even last
week's nappy still lying around, stinking, wasn't swept
with a white person.
She was a diligent, hardworking woman and she
would cook for the children, do a lot
of things, but a very unclean person.
Her children were dirty, in rags, with lice
on their heads.
And she would also be dressed in a
very slothful way and not even having combed
herself properly.
The hay was pointing in all different directions
as if she slept in a bush.
When he came in, he was at a
loss as to where he would sit because
he looked around and on some of the
sofas and chairs there was wet washing, unironed
washing, other chairs or seats were wet, he
didn't know where to sit.
She was diligent, but very unhygienic.
She was a German, and he said, Mrs.
So-and-so, where will I sit?
After all, he was a German.
Where should I sit?
I see your chairs are dirty, full
of stuff all over, where should I sit?
And I see your children are so dirty.
And you, personally, aren't even afraid to shake
your hand to greet you because your hands
are dirty.
He said, you need to repent.
And he left her.
And that woman carried on like that.
And she would still attend church on Sundays,
but she carried on living an unclean life.
And her home was always topsy-turvy, untidy,
dirty, she herself in her own appearance was
untidy, with the collar one side sticking up,
the other side down, and so on.
And he said, Mrs. So-and-so, I
read you from your face.
I read from your clothing.
And I read from the lice on your
head.
And your dirty children.
And your home that's so untidy, that you
don't know the lamb that was slain.
And she said, Pastor, but I'm so busy,
I don't have time.
You know for yourself, I'm a widow, I've
got no husband.
I've got to look after these four children,
I've got so much to do, I just
don't get time to tidy up my house.
The reason why you don't wash, and why
you're so dirty, is because you hate water.
He said you need to get used to
water.
And he left.
And
he left.
And then one day, she arrived at the
service, and he was astounded.
Is this the same person?
Her whole appearance had changed.
She was neat, clean, her hair properly combed,
she had a decent dress on, her hands
were clean, even underneath the nails, and he
felt that he could even shake her hand.
And her children as well, they were clean
and tidy, with their clothing washed and white.
He said, I'll visit her.
And then after the service, not long after
that, the minister set off.
To her home, to go and visit her.
When he got there, the house wasn't smelling
badly anymore.
And he got in there, everything was in
its place, the chairs were in their place,
it was clean, there wasn't any dust all
over the show, and she herself was clean
and tidy in her appearance.
And he asked, what's happened here?
And he said, I don't know.
And she said, oh pastor, forgive me, I
excused myself, making excuses, saying I had no
time.
But when I made my life right with
Christ and I started sanctifying my life, then
I started cleaning my house as well.
And I had time for that and I'm
doing everything and I've got more than enough
time to do it all.
But it was Jesus who changed my life.
Easter arrived in her life, the sun, the
eternal sun had risen.
And she said, even as you see, my
house is being swept.
I first swept my own heart, I got
rid of all that old yeast, I went
to my neighbors, I went and I apologized.
The sun has risen.
That is the fruit of repentance.
Your clothing, your appearance, your dress, your home,
it all shows the fruit, or should show
the fruit of repentance.
And she said, oh pastor, forgive me, I
excused myself, making excuses, saying I had no
time rid of all that old yeast, I
went to my neighbors, I got rid of
all that old yeast, I went and apologized.
The sun has risen.
Your clothing, your dress, your home, it all
shows the fruit, or should show the fruit.
That is what you are like inside.
The outside shows what you are like on
the inside, I often have to apologize to
overseas visitors and say, excuse all the papers
lying around, that's our snow.
We had some snow and that's why it
looks like that.
But the outside shows what you are like
on the inside, therefore you need to clean
the inside, that the outside will become clean
as well.
John Bunyan said, God doesn't need the outside
to see what your heart is like.
But we need the outside to see what
your heart is like.
John Bunyan said, God
doesn't
need the outside to see what your heart
is like.
She didn't come to me and say, Father,
will you watch?
So they haven't learned from your father how
you help your husband.
Our hero has conquered.
The angels came down to observe how he
came up out of hell with the keys.
But it's heart-breaking that we have our
Passover land that was sacrificed, that we allow
sin in our midst, and we allow people,
we bear with people that are sinners in
our midst.
When you enter into that stream of blood
and water which flows from His riven side,
then your trail is washed out.
The hounds of your sin won't get hold
of you.
You are rescued.
And those hounds are blood hounds.
And you rejoice for you are forgiven.
And the fruit.
The fruit of that is sanctification in your
life, where you get rid of all that
which is unclean.
In your heart, and even outside in your
home, it will be seen where it will
be so clean you'll be able to eat
from the floor.
Let's bow our heads and pray.
Lord our hearts, shout hallelujah.
For you have conquered.
And beside death, where is your sting?
And hell, where is your victory?
Sin, lust of the flesh, the world, lust
of this world, death and hell, where is
your death, where is your sting, and where
is your victory?
Oh Lord, great is that which you have
done for us.
Now we can walk and live with you
day by day.
When death comes, we do not die, we
only fall asleep.
Close our eyes in this world to open
them.
In the world, on the other side, we
will be with you for all eternity.
Great Lord Jesus is that work that you
have accomplished for us, and we cannot fathom
it.
Lord let our lives, being sanctified and holy,
now bring glory to your name.
We understand that that angel which came down
from heaven, sitting on that stone, brilliant like
lightning, with brilliant white clothes on.
How could it have been otherwise?
How can it be different to us?
Amen.