Pascua 2026 | Crossroads en Español

Well, hello. It's incredible to see the baptisms. I don't know about you, but I'm a fan of the families that get baptized. For example, do you know what would make me cry bitterly? Like when I see parents with their children. It's simply wonderful to witness that. And speaking of life, this week a vital milestone occurred to me. So before I tell you my age, I have a question for you. How old do I look? Thirty-nine. Thirty-nine. I take thirty-nine. I accept that. Absolutely. I accept that. Well, actually, I turned fifty this week. It was a blessing, a celebration. I am very, very happy about it. And one of the things I learned is that when you turn fifty, these people find you. I wasn't looking for AARP, but they were looking for me. I received this by mail. It's as if the first line said, Welcome to the club of the fifties. So I'm in the club of the fifties. You know, it's funny, however, it offended me a little. I have to be honest, just a little offended by it. Because I say, look, I don't need discount pancakes. I can run. Well, I can run, but only with these shoes, Brooke, and only after a significant stretch, and preferably with a day in between to rest and recover. But you know, I can still run. But another thing I realized is that my wife, I'm married to an incredible Puerto Rican woman. I love her, Maria. And she has many affectionate terms for me. But the one who has recently adopted is old. It sounds sweet until you realize that it means little old man in Spanish.

And I don't know if I'm more offended by the part of little man or old man, but you know, AARP is looking for me. My wife confirms it, that maybe I'm not as young as before. But I have to tell you, I don't feel like I'm 50. I don't know how it feels to be 50, but I don't feel like I'm 50. I have energy. There are things that make me more excited to fight in my 50s, even more than in my 20s and 30s. Or even 40. There are reminders, right? There are reminders that you're aging. You receive an unwanted email. You receive a nickname from your wife that feels a little too right. Or this, you know, there are people in our church, some of you here, who are not even 25 years old. Maybe you think, how do you know that you have aged? I will give you an infallible proof to know when you are aging, when you sit in a chair. But then when you get up from the chair, you hear the sounds that used to belong to your grandfather. Oh, yes. That's how you know. That maybe you're not as young as you used to be. But there's something human in this tension of aging. Right? We all know how our story ends. We all know

that we will die someday. My data suggests that the mortality rate is 100%. And if that's true, then we will all die someday. But am I the only one who doesn't feel that I was made for death? It doesn't feel that way. Something in me says, not yet. We keep loving, building, and creating. There's something in our soul that says I was made to live. And what I want you to focus on today is that. Yes, you were made to live. You were made to live forever. That longing is not crazy. It's a clue to why we celebrate Easter and why it's important. Friends, I have good news for you today. Because there is an empty tomb. Death has lost its stinger. Death has lost its stinger. And that has an implication in your life. Not only in the afterlife, but right now, if you choose to believe it and if you choose to celebrate it. That's why Easter matters. Because for 2,600 million people

who identify as followers of Jesus on this planet, that's the key point of our story. Resurrection is not just a religious tradition. It's a declaration that in Jesus death will not have and never has the last word. That's what we celebrate today. It's a wonderful story. Jesus rising from the dead. The empty tomb and its meaning. Can you trust it? And if you trust it, what difference does it make? We will explore that. Let's pray. God, I pray that you continue to do what you have done all weekend, to help us see things in this story. For some of us, we are too familiar with this story. And there are some things that maybe we have minimized or forgotten that are implications of what happened. In that tomb, you have opened our eyes. Give us something new today. And there are others here. Maybe we are here because someone invited us.

Maybe we feel forced to come to church. But God, there is something for all of us here. So I pray that you speak. And do with them what you always do, a demonstration of your spirit and power. Take my humble words. Let it happen in our time. In the name of Jesus. Amen. And I pray that you speak. And I pray that you speak. And I pray that you speak. So let's start with some history. And I pray that you speak. It is widely accepted that Jesus of Nazareth lived, lived in the first century in Judea And I pray that you speak. And I pray that you speak. and that he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of the time. So you really don't need a leap of faith to believe that. Both Christian historians and non-Christians agree on that. You have Jewish historians like Flavio Josefo, who lived in the time of Jesus, who write about his life. You have Tacitus, a Roman historian, who wrote about Jesus in his time. They are contemporaries of Jesus. So you really don't have to leave your brain at the door to believe that. And I want you to know, Crossroads is a place where you never have to leave your brain at the door. If you're new, you just need to know that I don't assume that you believe everything I believe about the resurrection. You might say, do you really think that happened? Last year, on Easter, I think we did a very good job presenting the case of the resurrection, the many proofs of it. And so if you go to crossroads.net and look for Easter, if you want to go deeper after today, I just want you to know that this is available to you and you can belong to this church before you believe. And wherever you are, I am very happy that you are here. And I want to talk today about what drives me to firmly believe

that Jesus literally and physically resurrected from the grave. And it has to do with the idea that this was not something that the Christians added to history later in the game because it was advantageous. This was part of the faith from the beginning. In fact, one of the oldest writings about the resurrection is what we are going to be looking at today, 1 Corinthians chapter 15. It is a section of a letter from Paul, who founded churches in Greece and Turkey, helping people to understand the resurrected Jesus and to follow Him. He wrote these words about the resurrection, starting in verse 3, where he says, I want to stop right there. When you hear the first importance, you must understand that it is the basis. Nothing that I am going to say, nothing that Paul is going to say, matters if what I am about to say now is not true. This is the basis of not passing, not charging 200 dollars of our faith in today's celebration. What is the first importance? It is that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. That He was buried, resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas after the twelve. Then He appeared to more than 500 brothers at the same time. The majority still lives, although some have died. Then He appeared to Jacob, then to all the apostles. Finally, as to one born out of time, He also appeared to me. Today I will use the phrases, the good news or the gospel. They are interchangeable. Gospel is a Greek word for good news. What is the good news of our faith? I will start by saying something that could sound shocking in a church. It is not good news if Jesus only died on a cross. That is not good news, because guess what? There were other people in the first century who claimed to be the Messiah,

who also died on Roman crosses, and we do not celebrate them. Time is not measured by His name. Many people died on the cross claiming to have saved humanity in the time of Jesus. You can investigate it. In fact, there are a handful of them that you can investigate and understand a little more about their movements and how their movements died. No, it is not good news that Jesus simply died on a cross. The good news is that He died on a cross and resurrected. That is the good news. We need both things. We need both. In fact, Paul is so clear about this that he puts it this way. And if Christ has not risen, vanna is your faith and you are still in your sins. Then those who have also died, who have died in Christ believing this, have perished because they believed the lie. That is basically what he is saying. If in Christ we have hope only in this life, we are of all people worthy of pity. This is an early anchor in the church. These words of Paul were not written 50 years after the resurrection. They were not written 100 years after the resurrection. These words were written 20 to 25 years after the resurrection. That is why Paul says, If you do not believe me, the blacksmith on the street saw Jesus resurrected. You can visit these people who were literally among the 500 people who saw Him at the same time. 500 people do not have a massive hallucination. You can ask them. I believe this because Paul wrote these words very close to when they happened. But I also believe because he says that Jacob also appeared. This Jacob whom he is talking about is the brother of Jesus, the brother of Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, after Mary and Joseph had Jesus, what we celebrate at Christmas,

Mary had other children and Jacob is one of them. And can you imagine how it would be to grow up in a house where your older brother says to be divine? Some grew up in that house. At least my parents thought my brother was divine, right? And it's so interesting because you can imagine that Jacob, during the life of Jesus, in fact, we have the story. He did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah before he died on the cross and resurrected. In the biography of Jesus, his brothers make fun of him. And they say to him, aren't you the doer of miracles? Why don't you show yourself in Jerusalem and do magic tricks? They did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. And yet, Jacob saw his brother die on the cross. A bloody death with 100% effectiveness. Jesus was really dead. He saw his brother buried. I don't know if it was 3, 4 or 7 days later, but the resurrected Jesus appeared to Jacob and that changed his heart. And the story tells us that Jacob became the leader of the church of Jerusalem. And in fact, he died for the faith that his older brother was actually God. Now, let me tell you something. No one is going to die for something they think is a lie. In the mouth of a lion, at the risk of a sword about to pierce your heart, no one at that moment has a problem saying, wait a second, I resurrected from among the dead. Maybe, maybe, maybe his ideas were alive. No, no, no. But even facing death, person after person, he believed, no, I have to tell you what I saw. Something changed in his calculation about the sting of death. Listen, maybe today you are not in that situation. Maybe you don't believe in the resurrection like me. Nothing happens. Historically speaking, although you must consider why the first Christians believed so intensely. They were willing to die for it. And here is something that I don't think any of us have problems believing.

We could be at a different point in what we believe about the resurrection. But I don't think any of us fight with the idea of the sting of death. I think we all have felt the sting of death. I mentioned it and, you know, it's a little trivial, but it did hurt me a little when I received this from AARP. I mean, you know, it's like they offered me a free trunk organizer, by the way. So I'll do it, I'll get it. But that is, that is something quite minor. I think we face the sting of death in a more visceral and frankly painful way. Don't we feel the sting of death when we are in the grave of someone we love and have lost? Don't we feel the sting of death when we receive that call that no one wants, that cancer was what they found in the report? Don't we feel that sting of death when we lose someone we care about because of an overdose, because of an addiction that they couldn't overcome? Don't we feel the sting of death when we have a marriage that we thought would last forever, but ends in a painful divorce? We are familiarized with the sting of death. We feel the sting of death in the war. When I see the pictures of young people in their twenties who have lost their lives, we feel that sting of death for their families. We feel the sting of death in the face of injustice. We feel the sting of death in hospitals and hospices throughout the country. And Pablo is very clear, the sting of death is sin. The sting of death is sin. I think there is something in you and in me that knows that death is not how it is supposed to be. And I think that same part in you understands, and there are things in my heart that are not how they should be. This is the sting of sin, and I don't mean breaking spiritual rules. I mean the ways in which we choose against God over and over again. Which of us has not said words that we would like to be able to withdraw? Has not done things that we would like to be able to undo? Has not become a person in some way, form, or manner that we said we would never be? And yet here we are doing that over and over again, even if it is destroying us or destroying the people we care about the most. Do you know why that happens? It is because we have all been infected and affected by the sting of death, sin. The Bible says it like this in Romans 5, verse 12.

By means of a single man, sin entered the world. And by means of sin, death entered. And so death happened to everyone, because everyone sinned. And here is the point. If God is truly good, and He is perfect, and He is just, He cannot simply ignore your sin. He cannot turn a blind eye to my sin. What is the true sting of death? It is this. It is not just that we are going to die someday. It is that when we die, we will not be prepared to face a perfect God. Because His perfection has to deal with our sin. It has to judge our sin. And we cannot be in a relationship with God unless our sin is resolved. But God said, I have a plan to deal with your sin. The plan is that I will send my Son Jesus to live the perfect life that you will never be able to live. And for that, I will put all the consequences, all the guilt of your sin, I will put you on Jesus, and he will suffer a horrible death on a cross. A death that you and I deserve for the ways in which we have raped God. And here is the beautiful thing about the resurrection. If the cross is God saying, I have made the payment, then when Jesus came out of the tomb, it is the confirmation that the payment was accepted. That is what happened in the resurrection. That is why we need an empty tomb. That is what we need, an empty tomb. What is the gospel? In simple terms, it is that Christ died for your sins and rose again, and rose again. He has risen. Many people in Crossroads speak Spanish, and so in Spanish it is, Christ died for our sins and He rose again.

He has risen. He is our Savior and He has come. He has come and has delivered us in a way that we could not free ourselves. Pablo is very convinced of this. I love this. He is so convinced of this that he begins to despise death in the Bible. Look at what he says about death in verse 55. He says that death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O tomb, where is your nail? He is despising death. Now I must tell you, it is April now, but I saw a lot of basketball in March. My God, I still see a lot of basketball. I love March Madness. I love college basketball players. I am seeing men, women, it does not matter. I am seeing it all. I am seeing it all. And I had the opportunity to take my children to a NBA game last week. We went to see LeBron play in India and it was incredible. It was incredible. Thank God I saw it then because the Lakers are going downhill. If you are a fan of the Lakers, you know what I mean. But my God. But anyway, I realized while I was watching the game. And I made fun of my children for this, that since I am 50, that means that I grew up in the golden age of basketball. Yes, I did. Michael Jordan. I can have a man, someone, right?

Michael Jordan. Charles Barkley. Yes, you know. Magic Johnson. How about this one? Larry Bird. Yes, I grew up in an era of basketball that is epic. And so I was thinking about this because Larry Bird is one of the best people who has ever caught a basketball. The guy was just incredible. He was also a prolific fan. Fan. An example. They played against the Knicks. They were losing little by little and the Celtics coach asked for time. Xavier McDaniels, a defensive specialist, scored for Larry Bird. That was his thing. Before the coach asked for time, Larry Bird approached Xavier McDaniels and said to him on the line of three, Xavier, after this time, I'm going to score this shot. I'll shoot and we'll win. Then he goes to the bench. Xavier McDaniels says, I don't know what my coach said. I only heard Larry Bird. Out of the blue, the Celtics prepare a play. Larry Bird receives the ball just where he said he was going to receive it. He shoots the ball and wins the game. You're a crack if you back your bluff. Another example.

An epic three-pointer. He participated in the three-pointer competition and entered the locker room. They are the best shooters in the NBA. They are the best shooters in the world. He enters the locker room and tells the others, Who is ready to be second today? Then he goes out and wins the three-pointer competition. He backed his bluff. Well, I want you to know that I think Paul is right when he starts talking bad about death. I think he understands the type of arrogance that Jesus had when he defeated death. So I want you to accompany me with your imagination right now. And there is a place, I think there is a place called hell. There is a place where we go if we don't trust Jesus. It is not a pleasant place. And it is where Satan, sin, and death live and reign. And you can imagine that Holy Friday, after Jesus died on that cross, that somewhere in hell there was a locker room and Satan, sin, and death had their drink of choice because they were sitting there saying, Can you believe that this Jesus thought he could really beat you to death? That he thought he could beat you? Where is he now? He is in hell with us. Why do I say this? One of the first affirmations of our faith is the creed of the apostles that includes these lines. He suffered under Pontius Pilate. He was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell. Jesus descended into hell. It is a whole message for another time. Imagine that locker room. They were celebrating. They started on Friday. They did everything they wanted to celebrate. I think the celebration continued on Saturday, looking around and saying, Where is Jesus? He is in the grave with us, in hell with us. And then something happened on Sunday morning that they did not expect because Jesus entered that locker room and looked at hell, and looked at Satan, and looked at sin, and said, Who is ready to be second today? It is not Holy Friday. It is Sunday morning. Later, Jesus would say, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. I have the keys to life and death. I believe that Jesus showed them these keys and said, I will tell you what I will do. On Sunday morning, I will leave this tomb at this time, and I will leave with victory over life, victory over sin, victory, victory over hell, and not only me, but all those who trust in me, because I am. You can support your fanfaronadas, oh death, where is your victory? Oh tomb, where is your aguijon? Wow, I don't know if you saw this or not, I've been watching basketball so much, I've really been watching basketball so much. A couple of weeks ago, last week, something happened, I call it the scene of the world header. If you are a fan of Yukon, remember that Yukon had this incredible victory going up against Duke. Incredible, and Dan Hurley, his coach, coming out of his shirt, coming out of his coat, and there he comes. There he comes with all the arrogance of a coach who has just won. He gives a header to a referee. I don't know why they didn't give him a technique for that. But I tell you, that is chulería. That is the chulería that Jesus had when he came out of the tomb.

That is why they say in Colossians 1.18, He, Jesus, is the beginning. El primogénito de entre los muertos. What does that mean? The word primogénito is a financial term. It is a financial term. It means that the resurrection of Jesus was the final payment of your debt of sin. Has anyone ever made the last payment of a car? How does that feel? Has anyone ever paid a student loan? Can I have an amen? Someone? How does that feel? Has anyone ever paid a mortgage and now has a house that is free and clear? I haven't gotten there yet, but I want to get there. I know it feels great. Do you know what, friends? Speaking spiritually, because of the empty tomb, you have a zero balance. Don't miss that. You have a zero balance. Because Jesus paid that debt for you. That is why the resurrection means everything. Because it is the resurrection of hope. I know it is a difficult world to live in right now, but we have hope. Not only in the other life, but in this life. It is the resurrection of purpose, because Jesus did not die just so that your life would end one day. No, you will live forever with Him, having more joy and a more ecstatic purpose than you could ever imagine. It is the resurrection of power. It is the resurrection of perseverance. If Jesus came out of the tomb and that power is available, you can overcome anything. You can overcome that divorce. You can overcome that addiction. You can overcome your pain through the power of the resurrection that is available to you. I was asking God, I said, God, what do you want to say to our church? Is there something specific you want to say this Easter? And I feel that God gave me a word, and the word He gave me was, I want everyone here to know, this is God speaking to you now, I want everyone here to know that because of the resurrection, you can breathe deeply. You can exhale. I think we are all holding our breath right now. We are holding our breath because of the things that are happening in the world. We are holding our breath because of the things that are happening in our lives. And I think God just wants you to know today, because of the resurrection, you can let go. In fact, let's do that right now. Everyone inhale deeply. One, two, three.

And just let it go. Just let it go. Let it go. Do you hear that? Do you hear that? That is what is available for the resurrection. In fact, in the Old Testament, when Moses said, God, will you tell me your name? God said, my name is Yahweh. Literally, every time we breathe, we inhale and exhale the name of God. Friends, you can let go. You can exhale. So what does Easter Sunday have to do with your Monday? We see the answer in Romans 8 verse 11. It says that the spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. The one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit that lives in you. Did you catch that? That the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. When you trust your life to Jesus. The same spirit lives in you. I need some interaction of the crowd in this. Throw a number between 10 and 100. 50. I love that number. 50. 50. I love it. Very good. Listen. If you knew guaranteed that nothing would change it. That in three years you would inherit 50 million dollars. How would you feel?

50 million. Do you think that could affect the level of hope with which you live? Do you think it would be a little easier to be generous or to forgive if you knew that this was waiting for you? It would not immunize you from all suffering. But do you think it could help you to have a different perspective on difficulties and suffering? Do you think it could become the thing that drives your selection? to think not only in the next three years, but in the next 30 years? Well, friends, what I want to tell you is that because of the emptiness, you have something that comes to you that is worth much more than 50 million dollars. It is much more than 50,000 million. 50 billion, as far as you want to go. Your eternal future is assured. And that should change the level of hope with which we live. That should change how generous we can be. That should change how we can love and how we think about the future because our future is assured. And I wonder, if you are here today but you have never received that life of Jesus, it would be a mistake on my part to share this good news with you and not give you the opportunity to receive it. Not give you the opportunity to put your faith in Jesus. So I want everyone here to close their eyes because I want you to have a moment between you and God. And maybe you are here today and something clicked for you. The penny dropped and you said, oh, I'll go. I did not know. I did not know that this is what it means to follow Jesus. I did not know what Jesus did for me. And I want it. If you are here today and you say today, I want to put my faith in Jesus for the first time. I'm going to ask you to do something bold. Just raise your hand while all eyes are closed. Just between you and God, raise your hand.

If you said today, I want to receive Jesus for the first time. I see those hands. I see those hands. And more importantly, God sees those hands. And I just want to invite you to say a few words after me. It is not that there is magic in these words, but today you can mark a moment of faith. And I want to guide you to that. You can just repeat these words. Jesus, I think you died for my sins. And Jesus, I think you rose from the grave. So I want your life to be my life. Please forgive my sins and give me your life so that I can follow you. You will fill me with your spirit that gives life. So that my life is safe. Both now and forever. Amen. Amen. Praise God. If you just prayed that prayer, praise God. Praise God. Welcome. Welcome. What you received cannot be taken away from you. Very good. And now Easter becomes an anniversary so that you remember that that was the day. That marks the day I received and entered into this life that Jesus has to offer me. Very good. Very good. I have something not only for you if you just prayed that prayer, but for all of us. Because we were talking about how it would be for us to bring this power of resurrection to our lives beyond this meeting at this moment.

And so if you want, you can take out your phone. And I encourage you to do this. Take out your phone and send the word AWAKE to 313-01. The word AWAKE. And this is what you will register if you do. You will receive a series of seven texts this week. They will come at different times. They have different indications. And they are all destined to remind you that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available to you. And I pray that you find it. And I am praying that you find me in the moments of this week when I only need you to remember me. About Easter Sunday. So I pray that this encourages you and strengthens you. I have one more scripture to share with you. I love that after writing these broad words and challenging death and all things, this is how 1 Corinthians 15-58 ends with these words. He says, Because if this is real, people, silent Christianity does not make sense. Reserved Christianity does not make sense. If the resurrection is real. If the only time we celebrate it is when we stay very quiet and say, Oh God, thank you very much for your resurrection. No, no, no. If there is a day to make noise, if there is a day to get excited, it is this day. It is Easter Sunday. And do you follow me? Do you follow me? Therefore, I want to help you.

I want to help you to finish in a spirit of adequate celebration for Easter Sunday. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? Well, listen. I think we have a lot to learn from our brothers and sisters all over the world. Because there are some powerful Easter celebrations. and euphoric that we can learn from. I'll give you an example. In the Philippines last night and until the dawn of this morning they did what is called Salubong. And what Salubong means is a divine encounter with the risen Christ. Salubong begins at night with two separate parades that go through the streets. One parade is of all the women who walk and walk through the streets with a statue of the Virgin Mary. And Mary has a veil over her face because for her it is not yet Easter morning. And so she is in mourning for the loss of her son. And so the procession of the women is silent, merciful and even mourning to think of the tension in which Mary lived. While at the same time the men have their own parade. And the parade that the men carry out is with the risen Christ. And they march with the risen Christ celebrating that they have seen and lived the resurrection. And what I like about Salubong is that at the dawn of Easter morning the two processions meet. The two processions meet. They take off Mary's veil. And then they all begin to celebrate and dance because they have had a divine encounter with the risen Christ. It's great. And don't miss this. A Filipino friend told me about this. She said, Chuck, don't miss this.

The Philippines is a very matriarchal society. And there is a reason why Mary has the role that she fulfills when they take off her veil. And it is this. If someone had known that it was truly the risen Christ, it would have been his mother. And so the worship and celebration do not begin until the mother confirms that it is my baby. My baby was dead. My baby was buried. But my baby is alive. We can have that moment of Salubong with Jesus. Give me another. Give me another. In Greece and in the Greek Orthodox Church, this is how they celebrate Easter. It begins before midnight. So they would have started this night before midnight. And the church is dark and people gather in the dark church. And again, there is a nightmare because it is not yet Easter Sunday. But just after midnight, the priest comes in, lights a massive candle and shouts out loud, Christ has risen! And when they do that, everyone starts lighting their candles and respond, He has really risen. So I want us to take the example of our Greek brothers and sisters. I want you to take out your phones right now and I want you to turn on the lights on your phones. And I am going to teach you this call and response. And we will celebrate Easter in consonance with the way our brothers and sisters do it all over the world. So I will say, Christ has risen. And when I say that, you will respond, He has really risen. Are you ready? Christ has risen. Very good. That was it. I give you one more B.

I give you one more B. I think you can do it better. I think you have more potential. Honestly, sometimes it is not uncommon in these Greek churches after Easter, after Mass and everything, that they literally light fireworks. So I want us to have verbal fireworks while we do this. Are you ready? Very good. Christ has risen. Christ has risen. Christ has risen. Christ has risen. Yes, yes, get up from your seats. Get up from your seats. Get up from your seats. Crossroads. We will not end in silence today. We will not end in silence today. We will celebrate because Christ has risen. We will sing. We will sing about a name. We will sing about a name that conquered death. We will sing about a name that opened a tomb. We will sing about a name that breaks all chains. We will sing about a name that knows you and me and offers us life. We will sing about a name because there is a savior here. We will sing about a name because it gives us its spirit. We will sing about a name because there is freedom for us today. So come and let's sing this song together. Come on, let's sing it together. Come on, lift it up. Every time I call you Jesus, I call you, I call you Savior

Worthy of glory forever Something comes out of the grave Every time I call your name, yeah I have a kingdom It's opening over death He holds the key In his holy nail scars He is the King That has crushed the serpent For my resurrected great I am I call you Jesus, I call you, I call you Healer Risen and reigning in power Something comes out of the grave Every time I call you Jesus, I call you, I call you Savior Worthy of glory forever Something comes out of the grave Every time I call your name Chains break, dry bones break Every time I call your name The gates of heaven shake Every time I call your name Chains break, dry bones break Every time I call your name The gates of heaven shake Every time I call your name There's something about the name There's something about the name Come on, sing to death Oh, death is not your state Oh, great you're

Come on, sing it louder Oh, death is not your state Come on, tell it Oh, great you're Oh, great you're victory Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come Alive in the name sing it again Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come alive in the name I call you Jesus I call you, I call you Fear not Risen and reigning Oh, oh, oh Something comes out of the grave Every time I call you Jesus I call you, I call you

Savior Worthy of glories forever Something comes out of the grave Every time I call your name Chains break Troubles awake Every time I call your name Doors gate open Every time I call you Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus Dead things come alive Dead things come alive Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Dead things come alive Come on, come on Come on in the name of Jesus We're not done yet. I grew up in a small Afro-American Pentecostal church. And I want to set them free to be your best Pentecostal for a few minutes, if that's okay with you. So let's sing one more song. And here's the thing. I want you to get out of the corridors. I want you to get out of the corridors.

Look, I'm going to start a conga in this church. I'm going to start a conga in this church. Don't let me be the only person in the conga in this church. Do you follow me? Do you follow me? Come on, let's sing. Let's sing. Always. Alleluia. You get all the praise. We sing. Alleluia. You get all the praise. Always. I've got a God who is for me. He's known for making a way. He fought the battles so I wouldn't have to. All glory belongs to His name. I've got a God who's been faithful all year. Far more than I can explain. Through every season, in spite of my weakness, He gave me a song I could sing. And I came to praise. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. I came to praise. That's why I woke up today. Always. I came to praise. I came to praise. We say it out loud. We sing.

Alleluia. You get all the praise. We sing. Alleluia. You get all the praise. Always. I've got a King who is risen. And He put your shame in the grave. We do have it back. And now I never have to. And He did it all in three days. I came to praise. What did you come to do today? I came to praise. That's why I woke up today. That's why I woke up today. He gave me breath and I loved. I came. I came to praise. Oh, we sing. We sing. Alleluia. Come on. Alleluia. Alleluia. You get all the praise. All the praise. We sing. Alleluia. Alleluia.

You get all the praise. We sing. I'm singing in the morning. I'm singing at night. I'm singing in the battle. That's how I fight. I'm singing He's holy. I'm singing it twice. I'm singing He's holy for the rest of my life. I'm singing in the morning. I'm singing in the night. I'm singing in the battle. That's how I fight. I'm singing He's holy. I'm singing it twice. I'm singing He's holy for the rest of my life. I'm singing He's holy for the rest of my life. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. You get all the praise. We sing. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. You get all the praise. Raise. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

You get all the praise. We sing. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. You get all the praise. Alleluia. I'm singing in the morning. I'm singing in the morning. I'm singing at night. I'm singing in the battle. The battle. That's how I fight. I'm singing He's holy. I'm singing He's holy. I'm singing it twice. I'm singing it twice. I'm singing He's holy. I'm singing He's holy. The rest of my life. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. You get all the praise. All the praise. I came to praise. We say I came to praise. I came to praise. Devil ain't out of my way. Devil ain't out of my way.

We say it one more time. I came to praise. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. I came to praise. We came to praise. I came to praise. I didn't come to sit in my seat. I came to praise. I came to pray