Mark No.15 Jesus as never seen before

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. We're seated and sing, Jesus. Yes, the instruments.

One lady who needs prayers, and you'll be increasingly benefiting by her ministry, is Chris, Chris Howey. She's come along to take on the role. Historically filled by Dorothy Fares of blessed memory, years ago, somebody will remember this diminutive little lady who packed so much dynamic energy into such a frail body, and eventually went to be with the Lord.

She was my first secretary. Then Joyce Dyer came along and tried to do the impossible, fill in Dorothy's shoes, but she made an excellent job. Joyce was eventually helped by Beryl, Beryl Lure, who came in as General Secretary.

Now Joyce was not very well incidentally, do remember her in your prayers. Joyce has gone into full-fledged retirement, and Beryl is looking after family responsibilities, and Chris Howey has moved over from the University of Sussex in Brighton, and she's become secretary to us, to myself particularly, and Tim, and she's going to keep the office happy. So if you believe in signs and wonders, pray for her, because it's going to take one of that quality.

Chris, come and read the scriptures to us. We're reading from Mark, chapter 9, and commencing at verse 1. Jesus has been teaching the crowds along with his disciples. And he said to them, I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.

After six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them.

And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

He didn't know what to say. They were so frightened. Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud.

This is my son, whom I love. Listen to him. Suddenly, when they looked round, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.

As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what rising from the dead meant. And they asked him, why did the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first? Jesus replied, To be sure, Elijah does come first and restores all things.

Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him. We thank the Lord for his word. Thank you, Chris, and we thank the Lord for you.

Will you keep your Bibles open at that spot, please? It's our practice at the tab to let the Word of God, the Bible, control what is the subject matter for us to reflect on as folk, as we gather together on a Sunday morning and evening. And particularly now, as we're making our way through Mark's Gospel and have more than gone halfway, we're looking at this passage that's just been read. If you take another little reading at the end of the 13th chapter, the Lord talks about his return, and says in the 32nd verse, No one knows about that day, or are not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Be on guard, be alert. You do not know when the time will come. The end verse 35, Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back, whether in the evening or at midnight.

And the reference is made to our Lord Jesus sending his emissaries into the world, in order to bring to himself those who have been saved by his grace. More about that in a moment or two, and you'll see where all this adds up. I had a card sent me a little while ago.

It's a little girl who I'll be seeing. Well, she's not so little now. Little girls get bigger every day.

I'll be seeing her in India in a couple of weeks' time. Her name, surprisingly, is Rowena, because I named her. She has a twin, or she had a twin.

This was 13 years ago when she was born, when I was out in that subcontinent. Her twin, Ruth, she went to be with the Lord just a few weeks ago. Ruth had a brain disorder.

The cavity of her brain never expanded, with the net result that she was always handicapped. She never got off her bed at all. She lived in a house which some friends helped me to be able to provide for them in North India.

So I used to go and see her and pray with her. Little Rowena, just a year or so ago, wrote me a letter as though she was Ruth. I'll read an extract.

My loving uncle and aunt, it is Ruth's letter to you. I am unable to write, but Rowena is helping me to write. I am thankful to you for your visit to our home.

Whenever you come, you always spend some time with me. How I wish to talk to you. Your presence and your loving touch, I feel in them the touch of my Heavenly Father.

Do you know, uncle, how much I am encouraged and comforted through your fellowship? I am grateful for your remembrance and prayers and helping my parents on behalf of me. I have a nice home to lay down. I am thankful to God for that.

When I reach my Heavenly home, do you know what I'll do? I'll rush to my Heavenly Father, bow down at His feet and worship Him. Thank Him for all His help and grace in my life on earth. The next person I would like to meet is my uncle and aunt.

I will put my glorified arms around you and tell you how much I appreciate your prayers and help. I'd also like to meet all my uncles and aunts, those who pray for me in your country. Uncle, please give my love to them.

My bedsore is causing me much trouble, uncle. Please do not be sorrowful for my physical condition. It is only a short, slight affliction when compared with my future in Heaven with my Heavenly Father.

This pain is nothing. When I am glorified, I will have forgotten all about it. Well, not bad, really, is it, for a child at 12 years of age, writing as she was then, writing on behalf of her sister.

A child's fancy. The comedian whose wife, the comedian who died yesterday, Friday, Roy Castle, he died well. It's not often that the Daily Mirror entices me to purchase it, but I did.

The front page was marvelous. The second and third page was even more wonderful, as they told of not only his faith, but the gripping faith of his wife, who has said that this remarkable showbiz character, who is now no longer with us, should not evoke our sorrow and tears, but on the occasion of his memorial service, there's got to be a laughter and a lot of joy. Well, what's that got to do with our reading? I mean, after all, I just spent two minutes explaining that we work from the New Testament, and here I am taking you to a letter that came out of India and directing you to the Daily Mirror.

Well, actually, it's got a lot to do with the teaching of what is found in this ninth chapter of Mark's gospel, because here you see, you've got, if you like, several things coming together, and one is a little insight into what heaven will be like. You see, here's the transfiguration of our beloved Lord, and we'll go into what that means in a moment or two, but alongside him, at this point, as he's standing on this mountain, appear two personalities from the Old Testament, Elijah and Moses. They're not dead, in the sense that they no longer exist.

Jesus, on one occasion, as I was trying to remind friends in my address last Sunday evening, spoke of God the Father, and God makes reference to his relationship with Abraham. I am the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and Jesus says this. When God makes this reference to, I am the God of, he is not speaking of those who no longer exist.

He's speaking of the living, because fundamental to the Christian gospel is this fact, that when corporeally you die, that means your body will no longer sustain life. Your spirit goes on. It's not blown out like you blow out a candle flame.

And here, in the pages of the New Testament, you've got just a little cameo. Not only of our beloved Lord, in a glorified state, but of two personalities from the Old Testament, who are visible, who can converse, who have got memory, and who are recognized by the disciples, Peter, James, and John, who are privy to what goes on in this remarkable incident. So you see, my sweet little Rowena, out there in India, as she writes on behalf of her sister, has not got fancy to promote the eloquence with which she writes.

She has got the word of God. So, here for starters, and if we go no further than this, it doesn't really matter this morning, is the initial challenge of this word. To what degree, when you're facing the tremendous hour of death, will you be able to say, as Fiona Castle did, don't grieve for my husband, don't grieve for myself, he's slipping out into eternal bliss, and therefore it is a day of rejoicing, even though at the human level, you miss the companionship of your husband, or your wife, or your kid, as the case may be.

You see, the prime spin-off of the gospel is, it abolishes the fear of death. Not the problem of dying, Castle's death was a very horrible death, it was a cancer that affected his brain, and at the last moment, it was awful. I happened to know the Castle family indirectly, and I got that information via Fiona.

But here is the great joy, that on dying, one moves into the immediate presence of God, and consciously enjoys an eternity that is so wonderful, it beggars the language of Mark, when he's trying to describe what happens to Jesus on this mount, in order to put it across with accuracy. So let's home in on the passage, specifically. And notice that Jesus is directing his attention, especially to three disciples.

Look at verse one, he's got the whole bunch in front of him, but there are three that he takes with him, particularly, I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death, before they see the kingdom of God come with power. What does he mean? Well, he's before, if you remember those of you who were in last week, otherwise get the tape if it interests you, and go through the context of what precedes this incident. Before Jesus has been predicting that to be a Christian, will bring you into the rough and tumble of persecution.

You have to take up your cross, you have to follow me, as I have predicted that the end of my life at the human level is going to be unpleasant, so it may well be with some of my followers. When Mark's gospel is being read, because obviously it's written ten years or so after the events, there are Christian people who are going through the harrowing experience of seeing their beloved people and facing themselves the most awful death. So what does Jesus do here? Well, he gives three of his disciples a little insight as to what will happen when men and women physically die.

He says, there are some of you here who will not see the kingdom of God, who will not die physically until you get this little testimony. And don't you see that if you were in the circumstances that these early Christians were in, when you read this incident, how wonderful, how pertinent it would be to you. So it doesn't matter that Brother Benjamin is facing death by being gored by some ferocious animal in the amphitheater.

I have got an example in the ministry of our Lord Jesus as to what happens at the point of death. You see, Mark is writing very pastorally to his readers. So here is our Lord, and he takes with him verse 2, Peter, James, and John, and they go up to a high mountain where they are alone with him.

And for them to give three men an experience of what life after death is like, what it is going to be like at the end time when Jesus comes again. We have this remarkable incident recorded, the transfiguration of our beloved Lord Jesus. Listen to one commentator.

Before the eyes of the most intimate disciples, the human appearance of Jesus was perceptibly altered in accordance with the splendor of the transfigured world. For a brief moment, the veil of his humanity was lifted, and Jesus' body presented itself in the form of material light in the Old Testament. The glory of God is always conceived as shining bright, as a revelation of the hidden quality of Jesus' life.

The transfiguration was an anticipation and a guarantee of all that will happen at the end time when he comes in great glory. Let me just unpack that for a moment. You see, our Lord has been telling his disciples that the Son of Man must suffer.

He's going to be brought face to face with the horrors of death. Now when Jesus died, how did they see him? I mean the Roman soldiers, the high priests and what have you. This bloody, bedraggled figure as he carries that torture rack up Calvary's hill.

This is the Son of Man that they contemptuous of. If you be the Christ, the Son of God, come down from the cross, show yourself. How can you be who you are when you're dying in the way that you do? Do you know what they say of grapefruit? There's more in it than meets the eye.

You try half a grapefruit and just put your spoon carelessly into it and the juice will hit you unless you're very careful. When you see the Lord Jesus and when he speaks in terms of his death and indeed when you picture him being so badly treated, there's more in him than meets the eye. He's the Son of Man.

But within his manliness, within his humanity, there is that which is distinct from anything that you and I have. There is the quality, there is the characteristic of God himself. So what you're finding here is this beloved Lord Jesus displaying to his disciples not just his humanity but also his divinity.

And our Lord is transfigured. His garments become so white that even the fuller, the man whose craft is bleaching garments to the whitest that he can possibly get to them, even he has got nothing to compare with the brilliance and the glory of the Lord Jesus. Now in the Old Testament when God appears to Israel, always you find that it is with the association of light and brilliance.

And here is our Lord demonstrating to his disciples that there is more within him than they could conceivably imagine. He's not just the Son of Man, he's also the Son of God. Interesting, isn't it? That Jesus takes his disciples up a mountain after six days, reveals himself in all this splendor, and you read in Exodus that Moses did exactly the same.

I mean by that he went up into a mountain and after six days the glory of God was revealed to Moses. And here is someone greater than Moses. Moses was to be influenced by the glory of God, but here is our Lord Jesus Christ and he is God himself.

And the veil of his humanity is dropped. And he stands there in all his power, in all his glory. And alongside him come these two personalities from the Old Testament.

Moses, the one who has been used by God to contract, to make a promise with Israel. The man who brings the law and the testimony. And alongside him is placed Elijah, the first and the greatest of all the prophets.

So if you like you have these two men who summarize the Old Testament scriptures, the giver of the law and the bringer of prophecy, and they stand alongside this resurrected Jesus. And if you read Luke's gospel you discover that the course of their conversation concerns the death of our Lord, his exodus. Now the word exodus, for those of you who are familiar with the Bible, is an easy one to grasp.

Genesis Exodus, the second book of the Bible, the exodus refers to the Israelites leaving Egypt and going eventually to the promised land. Now interesting isn't it that that one word is used to describe not the physical moving of one person from one land to another land, but death itself, exodus. Moving from one state of being to another state of being.

Now how will Jesus die? He will die horribly. He will die on a cross. Now remember, when Jesus predicted this to his disciples a week before the event on the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter took him on one side.

You recall I gave you this last week in terms of illustration and with a degree of humor, because I see myself with Peter, I see yourselves. Hey Jesus, you've got it wrong. You know, not you to the cross.

I mean, I love you too much. You can understand Peter there. We wouldn't like Jesus to be bloodied on a cross.

But Jesus is serious and he seems as though he deals heavy handedly with Peter as he takes him on one side and he says, Peter, unless I go to the cross, then there can be no sins forgiven. And what you're getting here is an anticipation of all that Jesus achieves and will eventually one day make real for you and me who trust him as Lord and Savior as a result of his death. You see, the Transfiguration is an anticipation of what goes after the resurrection.

The Transfiguration gives you an insight, a cameo into the life of our Lord Jesus after he's been taken from this world and eventually he returns to his Father with great power and glory, sits at his Father's right hand. And then what will happen? Well, the time will come when this whole world cycle as we know it shall be brought to a conclusion and Jesus Christ shall return, incognito in Bethlehem, not a bit. Will he come as someone who's in poverty and obscurity to be reared again? Not a bit.

He will come in great power. He will come in great glory. He will send his angels to the furthest parts of the earth and gather to himself all those who have confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

This will be the end when time will be no more. This will be the present scene of time moving into the future scene of time. This will be the depiction of what the hymn writer tries to anticipate when he says, speaking personally, and that will be glory for me.

And more colloquially, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. Now you see what's happening? On the Mount of Transfiguration you're getting a little cameo. You're getting a little insight into what lies beyond the wonder of the gospel.

Men and women on death not moving into a state of annihilation, not moving into a sleep. Men and women at the point of death moving into the immediate presence of God. And when the Lord Jesus Christ returns in great power and glory, being part of the physical kingdom of God, which he shall establish on a renewed heaven and a renewed earth.

Ah, but wait. This cannot happen without the cross. Moses and Elijah are alongside our Lord Jesus, if you like, realizing that all that they came to predict and work for will be completed and taken unto perfection by him.

And Peter, true to character, he's got a little suggestion. Lord, it's good for us to be here. I like this.

Well, I mean, I would like it too, wouldn't you? I mean, to be in heaven with the Lord Jesus, to see little Ruth. I'm not being sentimental. I would like it.

You know, a wonderful moment. Let's stop the clock. Do you ever have that sort of experience? I don't want time to go on anymore.

I'm quite happy just now. Stop it. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

This is basically what Peter wants. It's a flash snapshot moment. Lord, it's good for us to be here.

Three boos. For you, for Elijah, and for Moses, and the three of us will enjoy eternity together. Well, he doesn't know what to say.

He's frightened. And there are those incidents here which would indeed bring fear as well as elation to your heart, a sort of mixed bag of emotion. Then what happens? Well, God, with maybe a little touch of humor, he drops a cloud on the scene and he envelops it.

Now again, in the Old Testament, the cloud when it's present signifies the presence of God. Sometimes it's called in the psalm, Psalm 24, the pavilion. And the one who is hidden in the pavilion of God has a special relationship with God.

And from the heavens itself comes a voice that has been heard at the beginning of Jesus' ministry, the voice of the Father. When John baptizes Jesus, the voice says, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Right, now, Jesus has moved on in the cycle of his ministry and he has told the disciples what is round the corner in terms of his death and resurrection and so forth.

So it is appropriate that at this particular time the divine voice is heard again. This is my Son whom I love. Punchline.

Listen to him. Listen to him. Peter, listen.

He's speaking about his death, Peter. He's speaking about what lies in front, Peter. He's speaking about the most crucial issue in his life.

He has come to offer himself as an atonement for the sins of men and women. Peter, listen to him. It's not a time for booths.

It's not a time for permanence. What you have seen is a little cameo into the yet not, into the future. But at the moment, Peter, there's a grisly business of how this glorious future is to be won.

Listen to him. And the cloud lifts. And Elijah has gone.

And Moses has gone. There is only Jesus. For what Moses and Elijah contributed towards can only be brought to its finality, are you hearing me, in the person of Jesus.

He alone can save. He alone can take the road to Jerusalem and eventually be led out to die. They saw no man save Jesus only.

Our Christian gospel is Jesus-centric. Not Moses. Not Elijah.

Good men who made contribution. But the bottom line is Jesus. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene.

He loved me and he gave himself for me. You say, why at the tab do they sing so many songs about the Lord Jesus? He is our only hope. Take him away.

And castle cannot die with faith. Take him away. And little Ruth could never have injected into Rowena any thought of hope as to what her future would be.

The Christian gospel, it stands or it falls on the person of our Lord Jesus. So our Savior is there on his own. Suddenly, verse 8, they look round.

They see no one with them except Jesus. Oh, my friends. I wish I could tell you that then they fully understood.

But they didn't. Because sometimes we're so dull in our thinking. You know, Peter and the disciples, they're just like the modernists.

How many times has it been spelled out to you? How often do you look in the mirror and you realize that the sands of time are running out? You go by a cemetery, you go past a crematorium, and somehow you believe that you're the odd one out. You know, you have tripped into eternal life. You are immortal.

You're not. You've heard the old hymns tell you that there is a green hill far away outside a city wall where the dear Lord was crucified, who died to save us all. But that lovely poetry, moving, sentimental, and so on and so forth, it has never called you or caused you to respond in a personal fashion to those sentiments.

You've never fully got down and began to grasp the significance, the mega significance, of the death and the resurrection of Jesus. So verse 9, these three men come down from the mountain. Jesus tells them not to say anything about the transfiguration.

Why not? Well, they're not going to fully understand, actually. You've got the advantage. You know what happened.

You know the end of the story about our Lord Jesus. They don't. They've got some anticipation in terms of information that he's given, but they haven't fully come to grips with the thought of his death.

So they kept discussing the matter amongst themselves. Verse 10, wondering what he meant by the raising from the dead. Then they put a question.

Look, Jesus. And it's a brighter question than most that they put at the moment, so they're moving to a state of greater spiritual sensitivity. Look, you keep talking about the end and so forth and your death and resurrection.

Look, Elijah. Now, Elijah has to come before before all these remarkable things happen. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? Jesus agrees.

Elijah must come. I tell you, Elijah has come. Now, again, it's like a clue in the Jewish chronicle telegraph.

A crossword puzzle, isn't it? What does he mean, Elijah has come? Ah, the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. You remember, Mark smuggles it in at the beginning of his gospel. There's a character who's very much like Elijah.

You don't call him Elijah. You call him John the Baptist. But the similarity in temperament between Elijah and John the Baptist are so close that if they were together, you would think they were twins.

John the Baptist, Elijah? How was John the Baptist stroke Elijah of the New Testament treated when he came on earth? Did he have a ball? All right, how was the first Elijah treated? Well, you remember that wimp Ahab? The domineering Jezebel? I mean, if ever a man jumped when his wife coughed, it was Ahab. And eventually, Elijah is dealt a bitter blow by Jezebel. You remember? History teaches us that history teaches us nothing.

In other words, some of us can't even see history being replayed. Here's John the Baptist. There's another woman.

She's a Jezebel. Her name is Herodias. Here's another Ahab.

He's a wimp. His name is Herod. Herodias, what do you want for your daughter to dance in a seductive fashion before me? The head of John the Baptist.

Now listen. When these Christians were reading Mark's account after the event, they, too, were going through great difficulty. They, too, were knowing utter persecution.

The significance of the ministry of John the Baptist, like the significance of the ministry of Jesus Christ, was only grasped fully after the death and the resurrection of our Savior, not so? John, we realize, was the forerunner of our beloved Lord. He's dealt with in such a damnable fashion. He's butchered, too, like our Lord Jesus is butchered.

But what happened after the death of Jesus? He's raised again in the power of an endless life. Here's an anticipation in the transfiguration. He's going to come in great power and great glory.

Here's an anticipation in the transfiguration. And what did John do in his ministry? Well, he was the Elijah who pointed the way, who cleared the way, who preached repentance so that people might be prepared for the coming of Jesus. And as our Lord was damnably treated, so his emissary, John, was treated so badly.

And our Lord says, John has come. They did to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him. So was John's life so horrific in the end you rule it as being a failure? Not a bit.

He gave his life in exchange for his soul. He gave his life in order to prepare the way for the Lord Jesus. He confessed the Lord Jesus on earth.

And he's amongst the number, in verse 38 of the previous chapter, who Jesus, as Son of Man, will not be ashamed to confess. When? When he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels. Quod erat demonstrandum.

He's proved the point. Why the transfiguration? Why is it occupied, Mark, as he's written it, as he's had this dictated to him by Peter? Well, you see, this is so wonderful. Here is our Lord in the middle of his ministry and he's showing what it's going to be like at the end.

Not only his resurrection, but at the end of time. And he's showing that when people like John Baptist and Old Testament personalities like Elijah and Moses have done their best and lived for God the end they will join in the blessings that have been heaped upon the Christ because he was obedient to the Father's will. Jesus had this accolade from God when he's immersed in water.

Do you remember my beloved son? I mentioned that. In whom I'm well pleased. Now significantly the same endorsement.

This is my beloved son. In the name of God. Hear him.

Because that's all that you've got from God to go on. And if you hear him and respond to the significance of his life and his death and his marvelous resurrection when he too comes, when he comes in glory you will be glorified. The molecules that formed your body on this earth will be raised and repatriated with your spirit which has been locked up in the presence and the safety of God during the time between your death on this earth and his return.

And then you'll know what it is, as John Wesley put it Charles Wesley put it to be changed from glory into glory. One experience of delight after another not only for a year or ten years but for an eternity. But the entry into that only through what he has to say.

Listen to him. Respond to him. Let us pray.

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the simplicity of its truth locked in profound thought. And yet when excavated and laid out easy for us to assimilate.

Father, there are folk here for whom perhaps this word has been unusual but we ask that it may have come to you come across with some degree of clarity. We pray that the offer of salvation through our Lord Jesus may be something that is greedily, readily accepted. Holy Spirit, you alone who can illuminate the mind and buckle the will work upon this congregation, we pray and get from these people the response that is your due and as far as they're concerned represents the moment of sanity.

Lord, bring to yourself those for whom Jesus died and those who will be in the glory with our Saviour. How do you become a Christian? Simply a prayer like this. Say it in your mind.

Heavenly Father, thank you for sending the Lord Jesus into the world to die for me. Lord Jesus, come into my heart cleanse my sins away fill me with your Spirit and make me one of yours. Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, would you like to have a word with me or one of our elders in the foyer? Just go to the foyer and get a little welcome pack from the desk there. There's my name and address and Tim's and the other staff. We'd be glad to talk to you now or later on.

I don't really know why we bother putting the scoreboard up because I rarely stick to it, I'm afraid. I want to move to Love Divine or Love's Excelling but I like the old tune because I'm an old man. If anyone would like to object to that statement, they're very welcome to do so.

Four hundred and forty-nine. Four hundred and forty-nine. Love Divine or Love's Excelling.

Joy of heaven to earth, come down. Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless. Let us be, let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in the change from glory into glory till in heaven we take our place till we cast our crowns before thee lost in wonder, love and praise.

We don't mind what tempo or what volume you sing that verse at. Joy of heaven to earth, come down. Finish then thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful blessings now.

Jesus, now our hope of pasture, Lord of love and love divine. Visit us with thy salvation, answer every trembling heart. Read, O read, thy God in spirit, things to every troubled breast.

Let us love and be in heaven, let us find thy promised rest. Take away, O God, our sin. While the wrath of Heaven be, let the faith that leads thee be.

Set our hearts at liberty, deliver, let us all thy grace receive. Suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Flee before me, always bless me, serve me as thy hosts above.

Pray and praise me, pray and please me. Glory in thy perfect shame, thy new creation. Pure and spotless let us be, let us seek thy great salvation.

Perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory. Till then we take our place, till we cross the cross before thee. He is Lord, He is Lord.

He is risen from the dead and He is Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. He is Lord, He is Lord.

He is risen from the dead and He is Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.