By his resurrection Christ broke apart the gates of death and opened to us the way of life, announced victory to the women and apostles and brought salvation to the whole world, annihilated the power of death and renewed the entire creation, gave us the promise of resurrection so that we might rise with him in new life. We proclaim and affirm that, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, “Death is swallowed up in victory.” And so we cry out: “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.

[FROM THE WCF 20.1; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:55-57] 

In Christ alone my hope is found 

He is my light, my strength, my song 

This Cornerstone, this solid Ground 

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm 

What heights of love, what depths of peace 

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease! 

My Comforter, my All in All— 

Here in the love of Christ I stand 

In Christ alone, who took on flesh 

Fullness of God in helpless babe! 

This gift of love and righteousness 

Scorned by the ones He came to save 

Till on that cross as Jesus died 

The wrath of God was satisfied 

For ev’ry sin on Him was laid— 

Here in the death of Christ I live 

There in the ground His body lay 

Light of the world by darkness slain 

Then bursting forth in glorious Day 

Up from the grave He rose again 

And as He stands in victory 

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me 

For I am His and He is mine— 

Bought with the precious blood of Christ 

No guilt in life, no fear in death— 

This is the pow'r of Christ in me; 

From life's first cry to final breath, 

Jesus commands my destiny. 

No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man, 

Can ever pluck me from His hand; 

Till He returns or calls me home— 

Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand. 

[KEITH GETTY AND STUART TOWNEND]