ZACHARY'S NOTES:
Stanza 1 // On this final Sunday of Easter, the “vault of heaven resounds now” - today! - with the good news of Jesus’ “triumph” over death! We join in singing not only with the [now smaller] crowd of Christians gathered to worship, but with the “choirs of angels” who sing a song of glory around the throne of the Risen One.
Stanza 2 // The gift of Easter is not simply to repeat the blessings of the empty tomb, though this hymn certainly accomplishes the task! It also tells us Christ comes to us “now” that “all strife” might be stilled by His presence - that we might have abundant life today.
Stanza 3 // Just as Jesus prays for His disciples who are in the world, so this stanza itself is a prayer to God. “Grant grace sufficient for life’s day that by our lives we truly say: ‘Christ has triumphed! He is living!’” God knows we need God’s grace and favor in the difficulties life will bring, the promise of Christ’s presence in the midst of these, and the good news that the Risen Christ rules over the most difficult days the world will bring.
Stanza 4 // Christ says those He has given His word “do not belong to the world.” In this way, we sing the “never-ending” glory with the “blessed heavenly” saints of God! God has given us to know the blessings of heaven today, that we might sing together in this life and forever in the life to come.
OTHER SUGGESTIONS
ELW 322 - O Love, How Deep - DEO GRACIAS
ELW 367 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
ELW 655 - Son of God, Eternal Savior - IN BABILONE
ELW 657 - Rise, O Sun of Righteousness - SONNE DER GERECHTIGKEIT
LBW 88 - O Love, How Deep - DEO GRACIAS
LBW 143 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN\
LBW 364 - Son of God, Eternal Savior - IN BABILONE
LSB 465 - Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
LSB 544 - O Love, How Deep - DEO GRACIAS
LSB 842 - Son of God, Eternal Savior - IN BABILONE
RH 159 - Now Let the Vault of Heaven Resound - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
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