Poetry

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WHEN THE SABBATH DAY WAS OVER
THESE WOMEN CAME TO THE TOMB.
TO ANOINT WITH SPICE ALL OVER
CHRIST'S BODY WITHIN THE TOMB.

VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
THEY CAME TO THE TOMB WONDERING
WHO CAN MOVE THE STONE? WE'RE WEAK.

2.
BUT WHEN THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW IT
THAT LARGE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY.
THEY WENT IN, SAW A YOUNG MAN SIT
DRESSED IN WHITE, AND HEARD HIM SAY-

DON'T BE ALARMED, YOU ARE LOOKING
FOR JESUS THE NAZARENE.
HE DIED, BUT HE'S OVERLOOKING
RISEN! HE WILL SOON BE SEEN..

3.
HE IS NOT HERE IN THIS PRISON
SEE THIS PLACE WHERE HIM THEY LAID.
TELL HIS DISCIPLES HE'S RISEN
TELL THEM NOT TO BE AFRAID,

HE IS GOING TO GALILEE
JUST AS HE TOLD YOU BEFORE.
THERE YOU YOUR LORD WILL AGAIN SEE
HE AGAIN YOU WILL ADORE.

4.
TREMBLING AND BEWILDERED THEY FLED
THEY SOUGHT NO ONE TO PERSUADE.
THEY DID NOT ANY GOOD NEWS SPREAD
THEY WERE ALL JUST TOO AFRAID.

WHEN JESUS ROSE ON THAT FIRST DAY
THIS IS HOW THINGS CAME ABOUT.
MARY MAGDALENE'S IN DISMAY
HER DEMONS HAD BEEN CAST OUT.


5.
TO HER FIRST JESUS DID APPEAR
SHE TOLD THOSE WHO'D BEEN WITH HIM
THEY WERE MOURNING AND FILLED WITH FEAR
ALL THEIR HOPE HAD GROWN TOO DIM.

WHEN THEY HEARD JESUS WAS ALIVE
AND THAT MARY HAD SEEN HIM.
BELIEF IN THEM DID NOT SURVIVE
THEY REMAINED DOUBTFUL AND GRIM.

6.
JESUS APPEARED IN A CHANGE FORM
TO TWO AS THEY WALKED ALONG.
BUT WHEN THEY THE OTHERS INFORM
THEY IN UNBELIEF STAYED STRONG.

LATER JESUS AGAIN APPEARED
AS THE ELEVEN DID EAT.
IN FIRY REBUKE THEY WERE SEARED
THEIR STUBBORNNESS WAS COMPLETE..

7.
IN THEIR LACK OF FAITH THEY REFUSED
TO BELIEVE ALL WHO HAD SEEN.
YET JESUS SAID YOU WILL BE USED
TO CONVEY TO ALL, THIS SCENE.

GO TO ALL THE WORLD AND THERE PREACH
THIS GOOD NEWS TO EVERYONE.
THEY WHO BELIEVE ALL THAT YOU TEACH
AND TO BAPTISM ARE WON.

8.
WILL BE SAVED AND LIVE FOREVER
BUT OTHERS WILL BE CONDEMNED.
THESE SIGNS FOLLOW YOUR ENDEAVOR
DEMONS FROM LIVES YOU WILL REND.

YOU ALSO WILL SPEAK IN NEW TONGUES
PICK UP SNAKES IN YOUR BARE HANDS.
DRINKING DEADLY POISON WON'T PLUNGE
YOU INTO DEATH, BUT YOU'LL STAND.



9.
YOU WILL PLACE YOUR HANDS ON THE SICK
AND THEY ALL WILL THEN GET WELL.
AFTER THIS JESUS THEN ROSE QUICK
UP TO HEAVEN THERE TO DWELL.

HE THEN SAT DOWN AT GOD'S RIGHT HAND
THEY WENT AND PREACHED EVERYWHERE.
THEIR WORK CONTINUED TO EXPAND
GOD CONFIRMED WITH SIGNS OF CARE.

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