Prelude Timothy Renner, baritone

I Know That My Redeemer Lives arr. J. Marty Cope

I know that my Redeemer lives: glory, hallelujah! What comfort this sweet sentence gives: glory, hallelujah! Shout on, pray on, we’re gaining ground: glory, hallelujah! The dead’s alive and the lost is found: glory, hallelujah! He lives, He lives, who once was dead: glory, hallelujah! He lives, my everlasting Head: glory, hallelujah! He lives to silence all my fears: glory, hallelujah! He lives to wipe away my tears: glory, hallelujah! He lives to calm my troubled heart: glory, hallelujah! He lives all blessings to impart: glory, hallelujah! He lives triumphant from the grave: glory, hallelujah! He lives eternally to save: glory, hallelujah! He lives my mansion to prepare: glory, hallelujah! He lives to bring me safely there: glory, hallelujah! He lives, all glory to His name: glory, hallelujah! He lives, my Jesus, still the same: glory, hallelujah!

Call to Worship

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Doxology Old Hundredth

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer of Confession

O Divine Redeemer, great was your goodness in undertaking our redemption, in consenting to be made sin for us, in conquering all our foes. Great was your love in manifesting yourself alive, in showing your sacred wounds, that every fear might vanish and every doubt be removed. Great was your wisdom in devising this means of salvation; bathe our souls in rich consolations of your resurrection life. O God, pardon all our sins, known and unknown, felt and unfelt, confessed and not confessed, remembered or forgotten. Help us to be a holy, happy people, free from every wrong desire, from everything contrary to your mind. Grant us more and more of the resurrection life: may it rule us, may we walk in its power and be strengthened through its influence. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Invocation

Hymn 277: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Easter Hymn

“Christ the Lord is ris’n today,” Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say; Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high; Alleluia! Sing ye heav’ns, and earth, reply. Alleluia!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Alleluia! Christ has burst the gates of hell: Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids his rise; Alleluia! Christ has opened paradise. Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King; Alleluia! Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died, our souls to save; Alleluia! Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! Foll’wing our exalted Head; Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise: Alleluia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. Alleluia!

Hail, the Lord of earth and heav’n! Alleluia! Praise to thee by both be giv’n; Alleluia!
Thee we greet triumphant now; Alleluia! Hail, the Resurrection, thou! Alleluia!

Responsive Reading: Psalm 118:14–24

The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”
I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.
I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Gloria Patri Meineke

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.

Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us and our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered death and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayer of Intercession (concluding with the Lord’s Prayer)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Announcements

Hymn 295: Crown Him with Many Crowns Diademata

Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne;
hark! how the heav’nly anthem drowns all music but its own:
awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee,
and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity.

Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side,
rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified:
no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight,
but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright.

Crown him the Lord of peace; whose pow’r a scepter sways
from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise:
his reign shall know no end; and round his pierced feet
fair flow’rs of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.

Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time;
Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime:
all hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me:
thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity.

Offering Prayer

(Offerings may be given online at tenth.org/give or checks may be mailed to the church address: 1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: The Trumpet Shall Sound George Frideric Handel

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Timothy Renner, baritone

Eric Schweingruber, trumpet

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1–23

1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Sermon: “But Now Is Christ Risen” Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn 274: Thine Be the Glory Maccabaeus

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry thou o’er death hast won;
angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
kept the folded grave clothes where thy body lay.

Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry thou o’er death hast won.

Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb; lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom;
let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing;
for her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.

Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry thou o’er death hast won.

No more we doubt thee, glorious Prince of life; life is naught without thee; aid us in our strife;
make us more than conqu’rors, thro’ thy deathless love;
bring us safe thro’ Jordan to thy home above.

Thine be the glory, risen conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry thou o’er death hast won.

Benediction

Postlude: Toccata Charles-Marie Widor