For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures… (1 Cor. 15:3-4)

Christ the Lord is risen! And because He lives, so also do we have the promise of life. Once we were dead, but in His death our sinful natures and the decays of this world were put to death. Once He was raised, and in His resurrection we have the life of the ages, a share in the World-to-Come! His glory and life is for our good, as it says in 1 Cor. 15:51-55.

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. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

Praise God and give Him glory for once we were dead, once we were blind, once we were without God in the world, but now we are alive, now we see and now we are children of God!