Sing with all the Saints of Glory;
Sing the resurrection song.
Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story,
To the former days belong.

For over forty years now, I have been trying to preach that sermon and sing that song. Today I would like to try once more. I take for a text the words of Paul who said, “I want to know Christ, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection of the dead.” What a worthy goal for any life.

I. Consider With Me the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

“I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection.”

Jesus got up; He got up from the grave. Do you ever wonder how it happened? Was it like a sudden bolt of lightning that brought him back to life or was i…