Easter wasn't just about Jesus being resurrected. It was about God getting his way with the world, God getting the last word in the story, and that word was life, not death, that word was large. Death is large. Easter is larger. Today we reach for our most extravagant song to sing of it.
Words seem inadequate.
The one who is raised from the tomb shall ascend to heaven, shall rule at the right hand of God, shall reign. He has put this day all things at his feet and the last enemy being destroyed is death. Titanic , the movie, took a huge tragedy and reduced it to a touching personal relationship. Easter takes an event where God vindicates dead Jesus by raising him to life and explodes it into cosmic triumph. The communist lecturer paused before summing up.