Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Perhaps the greatest of all Resurrection hymns is Charles Wesley’s 11-verse classic “Christ the Lord is risen today”, written back in 1739, but still sung around the world today to celebrate the risen Jesus. Discover the story of his hymn and why it wasn’t popular until long after the Wesley’s were gone.
LYRICS
Christ the Lord is risen today
Sons of men and angels say
Raise your joys and triumphs high
Sing ye heav’ns, and earth reply
Love’s redeeming work is done
Fought the fight, the battle won
Lo! Our sun’s eclipse is o’er
Lo! He sets in blood no more
Vain the stone, the watch, the seal
Christ has burst the gates of hell
Death in vain forbids His rise
Christ has opened paradise
Lives again our glorious king
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once He all doth save
Where thy victory, O grave?
Soar we now, where Christ has led
Following our exalted head
Made like Him, like Him we rise
Ours the cross—the grave—the skies
What tho’ once we perished all
Partners in our parents’ fall
Second life we all receive
In our heav’nly Adam live
Ris’n with Him, we upward move
Still we seek the things above
Still pursue, and kiss the Son
Seated on His Father’s throne
Scarce on earth a thought bestow
Dead to all we leave below
Heav’n our aim, and loved abode
Hid our life with Christ in God
Hid till Christ our life appear
Glorious in His members here
Joined to Him, we then shall shine
All immortal, all divine
Hail the Lord of earth and Heaven
Praise to Thee by both be given
Thee we greet triumphant now
Hail the resurrection Thou
King of Glory, Soul of Bliss
Everlasting life is this
Thee to know, Thy power to prove
Thus to sing, and thus to love
