Христос Воскрес — Christ is Risen

Группа Мелодия sings in Ukrainian.  Olga Androshchuk also provided the lyrics in Russian which I could translate far more easily.


Радостным утром не таким как всегда
Radostnym utrom ne takim kak vsegda
Happy morning, not such like always

Расцветало все Божье Творенье
Rastsvetalo vse Bozh'ye Tvoren'ye
Flourished all God's creation

Мы пришли поклониться и прославить Христа
My prishli poklonit'sya i proslavit' Khrista
We have come to worship and to glorify Christ

За надежду что дал, за Его Воскресенье.
Za nadezhdu chto dal, za Yego Voskresen'ye.
For [the] hope that [He] gave, for His Resurrection.


       Припев
Христос воскрес
Khristos voskres
Christ is risen

Христос воскрес
Khristos voskres
Christ is risen

Всё торжествуй земля и люди
Vsyo torzhestvuy zemlya i lyudi
All celebrate/triumph (imperative) earth and peoples

Настанет день и скоро с Ним
Nastanet den' i skoro s Nim
Will come [the] day and soon with Him

Воскреснем и мы и радость будет.
Voskresnem i my i radost' budet.
will be raised up as well we and joy [there] will be.


Божья любовь нас спасла от греха
Bozh'ya lyubov' nas spasla ot grekha
God's love us saved from sin

Он весь мир держит крепко в ладонях
On ves' mir derzhit krepko v ladonyakh
He [the] whole world keeps/supports firmly in [the] palms [of His hands]

Он послал для нас Сына Иисуса Христа
On poslal dlya nas Syna Iisusa Khrista
He sent for us [the] Son Jesus Christ

Чтоб Он умер, воскрес и исполнилось слово.
Chtob On umer, voskres i ispolnilos' slovo.
So that He died, rose again, and fulfilled [the] word. 
                    (ie, and the word be fulfilled)



---------- English translation following better syntax -------


Happy morning, unlike any other:
All God's creation flourished.
We have come to worship and to glorify Christ
For the hope that He gave—for His Resurrection.

       Chorus
Christ is risen!
Christ is risen!
All earth and peoples celebrate!
The day will come and soon with Him
We also will be raised up; and joy there will be.


God's love us saved from sin;
He keeps the whole world firmly in the palms of His hands.
He sent for us His Son Jesus Christ
So that He died, rose again, and the word be fulfilled.

      Chorus

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On Easter

I want to consider three verses that usually are not read together at Easter.  But hopefully, you will eventually see why I chose these.

"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
Luke 2:7

"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
Phil 2:8

"And Joseph bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre."
Mark 15:46

These three verses are the three pivotal points in Christianity.  Christ came; Christ died; and Christ was buried.  —That's not the end of the story—more in a moment.  But consider these three events.  Christ did not choose the most glamorous or the most popular or the most expensive items to mark the stations of His life.  He started His earthly life in a feeding trough.  He ended His life on the most despised and loathsome symbols of execution.  His body rested in a hole in a rock. 

Yet, God chooses things that are not important in the world's eyes.  He uses weak and frail things to accomplish His mighty purposes.

I said that those three points were not the end of the story.  There is Easter.  After the Cross, there is Resurrection.  After the suffering, there is triumph.  Paul writes that Christ, "having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Col. 2:15).

Now the days of humility are gone.  Instead, Christ is glorified:
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.  (Phil. 2:9 - 11)


And for those who trust in Him, believing in all that He did for us, there is victory too.  For us, death, while still unknown and perhaps foreboding, no longer holds the sting and the dread of eternal punishment.

 “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. 15:54 - 57