Robert T. Young - "What Does It Mean to Say 'He Has Risen'" (April 19, 1981)

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-	Hallelujah, Christ the Lord is risen.	0:16
	(congregation murmurs)	0:21
	And a voice from the throne said,	0:25
	"Behold, I make all things new."	0:27
	(congregation murmurs)	0:32
	Let us rejoice and exalt and give God the glory, amen.	0:37
	(uplifting organ music)	0:43
	(liturgical choral music)	1:28
	(bright music)	4:44
	(liturgical choral music)	4:55
	As the congregation remains standing,	8:49
	would you please move toward the center	8:51
	where you are seated, so that others	8:54
	in the aisles may fill in the pews.	8:57
	Will you join with me now in the call to confession.	9:02
	If there is no resurrection of the dead,	9:11
-	Then Christ has now been raised.	9:15
-	If Christ has not been raised.	9:18
	(congregation murmurs)	9:20
	But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.	9:26
-	So in Christ shall all be made alive.	9:30
	Let us worship the Lord our God.	9:34
-	Let us confess our sin.	9:37
	Let us pray.	9:40
	(soothing organ music)	9:52
	Let us pray.	10:32
	Oh God, who raised Jesus Christ	10:34
	and made him Lord of all time,	10:37
	forgive us for the ways we have	10:39
	treated the time given to us.	10:41
	We have wasted time, considering our lives	10:44
	to be of little worth.	10:48
	We have marked time, seeing life itself	10:50
	as a threat, rather than as a gift.	10:53
	We have been nostalgic for a past that never was,	10:56
	selfish in the present, and fearful of the future.	11:00
	We give thanks that in the power of the resurrection,	11:05
	Jesus is the Lord of past, present and future.	11:09
	Redeem our time, oh Lord.	11:14
	Forgive us our past sins.	11:17
	Renew our present lives.	11:20
	Restore our confidence in your future.	11:22
	We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.	11:26
	(soothing organ music)	11:33
	May almighty God, who caused light	12:14
	to shine out of darkness, shine in our hearts,	12:16
	cleansing us from all our sins,	12:21
	and restoring us to the light of the knowledge	12:23
	of his glory, in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	12:26
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	12:34
	and God's love is everlasting.	12:37
	Thanks be to God, by whose love we have been made.	12:40
	Thanks be to God, by whose grace we have been made whole.	12:45
	Thanks be to God, by whose resurrection of Christ	12:50
	we are promised life everlasting.	12:55
	Amen.	12:58
	On this beautiful Easter day, we welcome you to our service	13:01
	of worship and celebration in the Duke University Chapel.	13:06
	We are glad that you have chosen to come and celebrate	13:10
	the fact with us that our Lord is risen indeed, Hallelujah.	13:14
-	Let us pray.	13:32
	Almighty God, in whom are hid all the treasures	13:36
	of wisdom and knowledge, open our eyes	13:39
	that we may behold wondrous things out of your word.	13:42
	And give us grace that we may clearly understand	13:46
	and heartily choose the way of your love.	13:48
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	13:51
	The epistle lesson is from First Corinthians,	13:56
	chapter 15, verses 12 through 26.	13:58
	Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead,	14:04
	how can some of you say that there is	14:07
	no resurrection of the dead?	14:08
	But if there is no resurrection of the dead,	14:11
	then Christ has not been raised.	14:13
	If Christ has not been raised,	14:16
	then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain.	14:18
	We are even found to be misrepresenting God.	14:22
	Because we testified of God that he raised Christ,	14:25
	whom he did not raise if it is true	14:29
	that the dead are not raised.	14:31
	For if the dead are not raised,	14:34
	then Christ has not been raised.	14:35
	If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.	14:37
	And you are still in your sins.	14:40
	Then those also who have fallen asleep	14:43
	in Christ have perished,	14:45
	if for this life only we have hoped in Christ,	14:47
	we are of all men most to be pitied.	14:50
	But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.	14:55
	The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.	14:58
	For as by a man came death, by a man has come	15:01
	also the resurrection of the dead.	15:05
	For is in Adam all die, so also in Christ,	15:08
	shall all be made alive, but each in his own order.	15:11
	Christ, the first fruits, then at his coming,	15:16
	those that belong to Christ.	15:18
	Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom	15:20
	to God the father, after destroying every rule	15:22
	and every authority and power.	15:25
	For he must reign until he has put	15:29
	all his enemies under his feet.	15:30
	The last enemy to be destroyed is death.	15:34
	Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson, amen.	15:38
	(liturgical choral music)	16:06
-	Will the congregation please stand	22:49
	for the reading of the gospel lesson.	22:51
	Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day	23:00
	of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary	23:03
	went to see the sepulcher.	23:06
	And behold, there was a great earthquake.	23:08
	For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,	23:11
	and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it.	23:13
	His appearance was like lightning,	23:17
	and his raiment white as snow.	23:19
	And for fear of him the guards	23:22
	trembled and became like dead men.	23:23
	But the angel said to the women,	23:25
	"Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus,	23:27
	"Who was crucified.	23:30
	"He is not here for he is risen, as he said.	23:32
	"Come, see the place where he lay.	23:36
	"Then go quickly and tell his disciples	23:38
	"That he has risen from the dead.	23:40
	"And behold, he is going before you to Galilee.	23:43
	"There you will see him.	23:47
	"Lo, I have told you."	23:49
	So they departed quickly from the tomb	23:51
	with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.	23:53
	And behold, Jesus met them and said, hail.	23:57
	And they came up and took hold of his feet,	24:00
	and worshiped him.	24:02
	Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid.	24:05
	"Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee.	24:08
	"And there they will see me."	24:11
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson.	24:14
	Amen.	24:16
	("Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee")	24:18
-	Grace to you and peace,	25:21
	from our risen Lord, even Jesus the Christ,	25:24
	on this beautiful, beautiful blessed Easter day.	25:29
	My friends,	25:35
	something absolutely incredible happened	25:37
	on that first Easter morn,	25:43
	almost 2,000 years ago.	25:46
	Something incredible, something unbelievable,	25:52
	something unimaginable, incomprehensible.	25:57
	But thank God God is not bound by our sense	26:04
	of what is credible or believable	26:09
	or imaginable or comprehensible.	26:11
	God's doings always exceed	26:15
	the boundaries of our imaginations.	26:18
	God's actions always go beyond	26:21
	the limits of our understandings.	26:24
	For God was God,	26:27
	and God is God,	26:29
	and God will be God.	26:31
	It's like Gunther Bornkamm says	26:35
	in his book, "Jesus of Nazareth:"	26:37
	"The dead one is now the living one."	26:40
	The angel, that is the messenger,	26:47
	the word which came from God on that morning	26:51
	was he is not risen, he is not here, for he has risen.	26:54
	As he said.	27:00
	He has risen means that Jesus is Lord.	27:03
	He has risen means that evil will not win out.	27:07
	He has risen means that the eternal is now.	27:11
	He has risen means that death shall not hold its prey.	27:16
	He has risen means that Christ is alive.	27:21
	He has risen means that there is life	27:24
	for every child of God.	27:27
	He has risen means that love is victorious.	27:29
	He has risen means that love is stronger than death.	27:33
	He has risen means that we are not only observers of,	27:38
	but are participants in, the greatest three-day drama	27:42
	that this world has ever, ever known.	27:47
	"He has risen" became the victory cry	27:50
	of a scraggly, struggling, broken and beaten	27:53
	little band of disciples, and with that cry,	27:57
	with that message, and with the living presence	28:00
	of Christ with them, they proceeded, they began, at least,	28:03
	to turn the world right side up for God.	28:08
	But my friends, in spite of the sheer unutterable beauty	28:13
	and the glory of this blessed resurrection morn,	28:18
	and in spite of the unspeakable wonder	28:22
	of Christ's living presence, as the noted Roman Catholic	28:25
	theologian Hans Kuhn has reminded us,	28:29
	"nothing compels us to believe."	28:33
	Nothing compels us to believe.	28:38
	It's just that there is much that invites us to believe.	28:43
	Jesus' words, Jesus' behavior, Jesus' fate,	28:49
	Jesus' life all invite us and welcome us,	28:54
	but there is nothing, absolutely nothing	28:58
	that forces us or compels us to believe.	29:01
	But we do have to stake our commitments,	29:04
	our beliefs, our very lives on something or on someone.	29:07
	So Michael Quoist tells us either life	29:11
	has no meaning, or it is sacred.	29:14
	And we happen to believe that life is sacred.	29:19
	And so we stand this morning before mystery,	29:24
	before the incredible and the incomprehensible,	29:27
	but maybe that's okay.	29:30
	I happen to believe that it is okay	29:32
	to stand before some things, even some persons	29:34
	who are mysterious and who are incomprehensible to us.	29:38
	It's just as CS Lewis said, as he reminisced	29:41
	and reflected on his beloved wife	29:45
	in the book "A Grief Observed."	29:47
	And he said, "The best is perhaps	29:50
	"what we understand the least."	29:53
	So it is before this mysterious crucifixion, resurrection	29:59
	that we stand this morning, and we become aware	30:03
	all over again of how very, very much	30:06
	God loves each one of us.	30:09
	Like the poet says,	30:13
	I am loved by God.	30:15
	Since the beginning of time, infinitely,	30:19
	the word was made flesh.	30:22
	There is someone among you whom you do not know--	30:24
	that one is called love.	30:28
	That's the Easter message.	30:33
	There is someone among us, and we do know who he is.	30:35
	And that one is called Christ.	30:39
	That one is called Love.	30:42
	Surely he has risen.	30:45
	And what happens on Easter morning is precisely	30:48
	what all of us want to have happen.	30:51
	Easter morning is God's way of saying something	30:54
	that desperately needs to be said	30:57
	about this world in which you and I live.	30:59
	Because Friday,	31:04
	Friday was very, very awful.	31:08
	It was awful in the sense of being	31:14
	dreadful and horrible and terrible.	31:17
	But it was awful also in the sense of being awe-filling,	31:20
	inspiring, moving, stirring, deepening.	31:24
	Friday, my friends, was absolutely awful.	31:28
	Saturday was so very, very lonely.	31:35
	Oh how our hearts ached.	31:40
	Oh how we longed to see Jesus.	31:42
	To walk and talk with him again.	31:44
	To hear him, see him, touch him.	31:47
	To have him as that kindling spirit	31:49
	that drew all of us together, come once again	31:53
	and stand in our midst, and not only draw us closer	31:56
	to him but also once again draw us back	31:59
	together as his disciples.	32:02
	We all seemed so lost and helpless and hopeless on Saturday.	32:03
	He was in the grave	32:08
	but it was we who were dead.	32:09
	Saturday was so lonely.	32:14
	Sunday?	32:19
	The first day of the week.	32:20
	Can it be true?	32:23
	Is the tomb really empty?	32:25
	Has someone not stolen his body?	32:28
	Is Christ really alive?	32:30
	Will he truly come again?	32:32
	Can we believe what the angel,	32:34
	the messenger of God, says to us?	32:36
	Was that really Jesus who stood beside us?	32:38
	Or was that really the gardener?	32:42
	Was that Jesus who spoke and told us to Galilee?	32:45
	Is life possible after death?	32:48
	Is life possible after birth?	32:51
	Is life possible in the midst of our living?	32:54
	Can Sunday really be true?	32:58
	Friday was awful, Saturday was empty,	33:04
	Sunday is glorious.	33:08
	Friday to Saturday to Sunday is a paradigm for life.	33:12
	From agony to death to life.	33:18
	This is life in microcosm.	33:23
	This is life in pattern and in design.	33:26
	As Jesus knew it and as you and I know it,	33:28
	the real problem for any of us, however,	33:31
	is that many of us spend much of our lives in Saturday.	33:35
	In the loneliness and the emptiness of Low Saturday.	33:40
	Between Good Friday and Easter morning.	33:44
	Between agony and life.	33:48
	Now I know as well as you do that there are some people,	33:52
	indeed this morning, there are absolutely millions	33:55
	and millions and millions of people on the face	33:58
	of this earth who absolutely have to live in Low Saturday.	34:00
	Because of the nation in which they were born,	34:05
	the condition with which they were born,	34:07
	because of where they were born or who they are,	34:09
	they have no escape, they have no way out.	34:12
	They must live in Low Saturday	34:15
	all of the days of their lives.	34:17
	But that is not true for many,	34:25
	I would dare to say, if any of us here this morning.	34:28
	I doubt that there are many of us gathered here this morning	34:35
	who have to live in Low Saturday.	34:38
	And yet some people seem to like the misery	34:42
	and the emptiness and the loneliness of the day between.	34:44
	Some seem to want to stay between	34:48
	crucifixion and resurrection.	34:50
	And these are the times, these times in between,	34:53
	are the times that wear us down and almost wear us out.	34:56
	It's the in-between times.	35:00
	It's the time in between Friday and Sunday,	35:02
	between crucifixion and resurrection.	35:04
	Between question and answer, between darkness and light.	35:07
	Between, between darkness and light,	35:10
	between death and life, it's those times in between	35:13
	that get to us and that almost get us sometimes.	35:15
	that get to us and that almost get us sometimes.	35:19
	Since last Easter, I'll bet you that you have had	35:26
	a Good Friday and a Low Saturday.	35:32
	I'll bet you you've had a death, hell and the grave	35:38
	of someone perhaps very close to you has had that.	35:41
	of someone perhaps very close to you has had that.	35:45
	You may have lost by death or by estrangement	35:49
	someone very, very special to you.	35:52
	You may have suffered agony on the tree	35:56
	of some struggle, of rejection, or betrayal.	35:58
	You may have had some dark night of the soul,	36:03
	when you felt bitter, felt forsaken,	36:06
	or broken or beaten,	36:10
	or felt that you had failed.	36:12
	Since last Easter, there may have been	36:17
	some moments when you felt that you had had	36:20
	your fill of the dregs of life.	36:22
	When the blows of life really had battered you down.	36:25
	But my friends, the glorious news of this Easter morning,	36:30
	the secret that we have to share with one another	36:35
	and with the whole world is that we don't	36:37
	have to stay down on Low Saturday.	36:40
	You remember how Jesus responded	36:45
	one time when he was betrayed?	36:47
	Judas came up and identified Jesus	36:50
	as the one by planting a kiss on the side of his face.	36:53
	And the men who were with Jesus knew	36:57
	who he was just by that kiss of betrayal.	36:59
	Jesus didn't bow and act as if he were beaten.	37:04
	Jesus said rise, let us be up and going.	37:07
	We don't have to stay in our Low Saturdays, my friends.	37:12
	We can rise and be up and going.	37:16
	"He has risen" means that we have a continuing presence	37:24
	of our risen Lord with us.	37:29
	It means that Christ is in the real world of our lives,	37:32
	that he is indeed not separated from life.	37:35
	He was in life, he went through life,	37:38
	he went through death, and he was raised to new life	37:41
	to be in the midst of life with you and me, even now.	37:44
	Raised to life again not for his own sake	37:47
	but for the sake of those who loved him.	37:51
	He went back to those who loved him,	37:53
	to reassure them and to give them a word of hope.	37:55
	But the beautiful thing about the appearances of Jesus	38:00
	is that there is no one way to meet our risen Lord.	38:03
	We may meet him, as some did, beside the tomb.	38:06
	We may meet him, as some did, at a meal.	38:09
	We may meet him on the beach as Peter did.	38:12
	We may meet him as Thomas and others did, in an upper room.	38:15
	Or we may find him walking along	38:19
	the road to Emmaus, as two disciples did.	38:21
	Translated, my friends, I think that that means	38:24
	that the risen presence of Christ may find you	38:26
	in the pits, in the CI, in a conversation on the quad,	38:31
	in your dorm room, in a classroom,	38:36
	if you're working outside this university,	38:38
	and not here as a student, it may find you where you work.	38:40
	It may find you where you shop.	38:44
	It may find you where you buy	38:46
	your groceries or buy your gas.	38:48
	It may even find you where you break bread	38:50
	with those who love you.	38:54
	There is no one place or one way	38:59
	that the risen presence of Christ comes.	39:02
	Let me put it in some other words.	39:09
	What I think "he has risen" really means,	39:12
	when it tells us that there is a presence with us,	39:15
	it means that our deaths can have life.	39:19
	Our graves can be overcome.	39:21
	Our Low Saturdays can become high holy days.	39:24
	Our valleys can be exalted.	39:28
	Our miseries can be relieved.	39:30
	Our despair can know hope.	39:32
	Our wounds can be healed.	39:34
	And our scars can become symbols of love.	39:36
	"He has risen"	39:46
	means that we are to hear the words of our Lord.	39:49
	We're to hear words from our Lord like "be not afraid,"	39:54
	like, "peace be with you,"	39:59
	like, "feed my lambs,"	40:03
	like, "go, tell the disciples,"	40:06
	like, "go to Galilee, and there you will find me,"	40:09
	like, "go, make of disciples the whole world,"	40:13
	like, "lo, I am with you always."	40:18
	Well, you see, we have a responsibility	40:24
	on this Easter morning, folks.	40:27
	There is something that you and I must do	40:30
	if we are to make Easter's resurrection	40:33
	mean anything at all to us.	40:35
	You have to hear the words of our Lord.	40:37
	You have to believe the risen Christ.	40:40
	You have to accept the living presence of the Christ.	40:42
	We have to believe, accept, trust	40:46
	and then go as the disciples did.	40:49
	As the women did at the tomb.	40:52
	Believing, hearing, seeing, believing, then they went.	40:55
	It seems to me that it really doesn't do any good	41:02
	to see the Christ or to hear that he is risen,	41:05
	or to know that the Lord is here,	41:08
	if we go on living as we have lived before.	41:10
	The thing that really made a difference	41:13
	that first Easter day was that some of the disciples	41:15
	saw and heard and believed,	41:19
	and then they went out to tell the good news--	41:21
	their lives were made whole and new again.	41:24
	We are to hear the word of Christ.	41:31
	So that it will make a difference in our lives.	41:36
	And then perhaps the most important word,	41:41
	at least in the ultimate sense,	41:45
	is that "he has risen" means that	41:50
	God does triumph over death.	41:53
	He really does.	41:56
	For some of us, that may not mean a whole lot right now.	42:00
	But there will come a point in every,	42:04
	in the life of every one of us when	42:06
	that will become very, very, very important.	42:08
	But perhaps it's because I am coming to believe	42:13
	the scripture in a new and different way.	42:16
	Or perhaps it is because I really do believe	42:20
	that Christ was raised from the dead by God.	42:23
	Or perhaps it is because I am getting older myself	42:26
	and getting closer, I know, day by day,	42:29
	to that moment of death for me.	42:32
	Or perhaps it is because some of my real heroes have died,	42:34
	some of my political heroes, and some of my athletic	42:38
	and intellectual and spiritual heroes have died.	42:41
	And I really do believe that they	42:44
	are not dead at this moment.	42:46
	Perhaps it is because some very dear friends of mine	42:48
	have died, or some members of my family.	42:52
	Because, maybe it's because I have stood and shared	42:56
	with some friends in this community	42:59
	some strange and mysterious deaths.	43:03
	And I do not want to believe	43:06
	that their loved ones are now dead.	43:08
	But for whatever reason, I stand here this morning	43:11
	to tell you that I believe in the resurrection of the body.	43:14
	What kind of body?	43:25
	I have no idea.	43:29
	And you don't either.	43:34
	But I believe just as God raised Christ	43:38
	on that first Easter morn,	43:42
	God through Christ can and will raise you and me,	43:47
	God through Christ can and will raise you and me,	43:51
	and every other child who belongs to God	43:56
	to new life, and to life eternal.	44:01
	For with Paul this morning,	44:06
	I am fully persuaded	44:10
	that there is absolutely nothing,	44:13
	neither life nor death, nor angels, nor principalities,	44:17
	nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,	44:22
	there is absolutely nothing which will	44:26
	separate us from the love of God	44:30
	in Christ Jesus our Lord.	44:33
	For Jesus said,	44:40
	lo, I am with you always.	44:43
	lo, I am with you always.	44:46
	He has risen.	44:50
	Amen.	44:57
	(triumphant orchestral music)	45:28
	(liturgical choral music)	45:54
-	As a people of the resurrection faith,	48:58
	let us unite in this historic confession	49:01
	of the Christian faith.	49:04
	I believe in God, the Father almighty,	49:07
	maker of heaven and earth,	49:10
	and in Jesus Christ his only son, our Lord,	49:13
	who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,	49:17
	born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,	49:20
	was crucified, dead and buried.	49:25
	The third day he rose from the dead.	49:28
	He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand	49:31
	of God the Father almighty.	49:35
	From this he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	49:37
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	49:41
	the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,	49:44
	the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,	49:49
	and the life everlasting, amen.	49:53
	The Lord be with you.	49:58
-	And also with you.
-	Let us pray.	50:02
	Oh Lord our God, we come on this Easter day	50:14
	with the women at the tomb, with Peter, Thomas and the 12.	50:19
	We come to this Easter day with sorrows,	50:26
	with fear and with doubt.	50:31
	We come from a sense of an awful Friday,	50:34
	through a lonely Saturday.	50:37
	Oh God, we come in sorrow too deep	50:41
	for these beautiful lilies to comfort.	50:44
	Sorrow for the world whose weaponry	50:48
	grows ever more sophisticated.	50:51
	Sorrow for those shackled by chains that we cannot break.	50:55
	Sorrow for loved ones who have died,	51:02
	whose only memory is a cold stone,	51:06
	an empty chair, a lonely room.	51:10
	Oh God, we too come in fear.	51:16
	Fear that is too great for these trumpets to quiet.	51:19
	Fear that we are inadequate to feed	51:25
	a hungrier and hungrier world.	51:27
	Fear that behind our mask we will	51:32
	be discovered for who we are.	51:35
	Fear that after all, death may be the final word.	51:40
	Oh God, we too come in doubt.	51:46
	Doubt too troublesome for Handel's "Hallelujah"	51:50
	to dispel the doubt we have.	51:54
	Doubt that our way of life cannot sustain itself	51:58
	with energy in short supply.	52:03
	Doubt that we can be fully alive.	52:06
	Doubt that the story we hear today is really true for us.	52:11
	Oh God, now we offer up our sorrows,	52:19
	our doubts and our fears to you.	52:23
	And we pray that you will let us see them	52:27
	in the light of the stories we hear today.	52:30
	Help us hear the resurrection drama as our story,	52:34
	full of the perplexities of life which haunt us.	52:39
	Help us hear how you acted through these perplexities.	52:44
	And help us realize how we can live through	52:50
	our feelings and thoughts to give	52:54
	our world and ourselves resurrection hope.	52:57
	Oh God, now we come to thank you	53:03
	that the Easter hope is a real hope.	53:06
	Real to us because it was born of tears and empty hearts.	53:10
	Real because it begins at the moment when life is darkest.	53:16
	Real because the women at the tomb, Peter, Thomas and the 12	53:22
	shared the same perplexities and confusion as we.	53:29
	And yet somehow they believed.	53:34
	Come now and stir our minds to contrition.	53:39
	Purify our hearts with grace.	53:43
	And heal our spiritual bruises with your divine forgiveness.	53:46
	So that we may be prepared to meet	53:52
	our risen Lord with faith and hope.	53:54
	The one who came and lived among us,	53:58
	who died and was brought to life again,	54:02
	the one who taught us to pray, saying,	54:06
	Our Father, who art in Heaven,	54:10
	hallowed be thy name.	54:13
	Thy kingdom come,	54:15
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	54:17
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	54:21
	and forgive us our trespasses,	54:24
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	54:27
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	54:31
	For thine is the kingdom,	54:36
	and the power and the glory forever.	54:37
	Amen.	54:42
	(uplifting music)	55:17
	(singing in foreign language)
	(triumphant orchestral music)	1:03:22
	("Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow")	1:04:29
	♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪	1:04:52
	♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪	1:04:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:07
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪	1:05:12
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	1:05:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:34
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:37
	♪ Amen ♪	1:05:47
-	You, oh Lord, are always giving us more than we expect.	1:05:59
	On this day, we give more than is expected,	1:06:04
	to give for the joy that is in us,	1:06:07
	who have been brought from death to life,	1:06:11
	that all we have may praise you	1:06:14
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	1:06:16
	(uplifting organ music)	1:06:27
	(triumphant orchestral music)	1:07:04
	(bright choral music)	1:07:45
	(triumphant orchestral music)	1:08:25
	(uplifting organ music)	1:09:04
	(triumphant orchestral music)	1:09:43
	Today, since we are living in resurrection light,	1:10:34
	we will receive a blessing with eyes wide open and awake.	1:10:39
	Keep your eyes open, looking for signs of resurrection fear.	1:10:44
	For signs of resurrection doubt.	1:10:51
	For signs of resurrection hope.	1:10:55
	And for signs of resurrection living.	1:10:58
	And when you see it, let that moment be the blessing.	1:11:02
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:13
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:16
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:20
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:23
	(cheerful organ music)	1:11:37
	(audience applauds)	1:16:42

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Robert T. Young - "What Does It Mean to Say 'He Has Risen'" (April 19, 1981)

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Sermon start time: 25:21. Sermon end time: 45:02.
In this Easter sermon, the preacher speaks of what it means to say "He has risen." Young brings listeners into the depths of the sorry of "Low Saturday" in order to ultimately celebrate the gift of presence God has given us in Christ's resurrection. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "The glorious news of this Easter morning, the secret that we have to share with one another and with the whole world is that we don't have to stay down on Low Saturday. 'He has risen' means that we have a continuing presence of our risen Lord with us." (36:30)

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April 19, 1981

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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