This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus.

I've never done this before, but I want to read to you some prayers from the worship services of the early church.

And I just feel such authority on these. Do you feel the Lord in the room right now?

Today a tomb holds him

who holds the creation

and the hollow of his hand.

A stone covered him

who covered the heavens with glory.

Life sleeps, but hell trembles.

And Adam is set free from his bonds glory to thy dispensation whereby thou hast accomplished all things granting us an eternal sabbath thy most holy resurrection from the dead. He Christ gave himself as a ransom to death

in which we were held captive, sold as slaves under sin, and he descended into Hades

through the cross. He loosed the bonds of death.

Come, let us see our life who lieth in a tomb, that he might give life to those that in their

tombs lie dead.

Come, let us look today on the son of Judah as he sleepeth in the tomb and with the prophet let us cry aloud

thou hast laying down but thou hast oh god I feel this but thou hast slept as a lion who shall awaken thee

o king but of thine own free will, thou shall rise up.

Who willingly does give thyself for us, O Lord, glory to thee?

O happy tune.

It received within itself the Creator as one asleep,

and it was made a divine treasury of life. For our salvation we sing, O God, great deliverer,

blessed art thou. The life of all submits to be laid in a tomb according to the law of the dead

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