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He Lives I Serve a Risen Savior
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HE LIVES …… In over 50 years of leading congregations in worship …….. The song of choice to commence every Easter Sunday morning service in the 20th Century…….. was this dynamic, uplifting and Jesus glorifying hymn of of the Christian Faith! ...... Here broadcast on Television in the 1980s. • Written by Presbyterian minister Alfred H. Ackley, both text and tune were published in the Redemption Hymnal #631 (1951). • According to a hymnal editor George Sanville, the following incident provided the spark for Ackley's inspiration: • A young Jewish man asked evangelist/musician Ackley, Why should I worship a dead Jew? To which Ackley replied, • But Jesus lives! He lives! I tell you. He is not dead, but lives here and now. Jesus Christ is more alive today than ever before. I can prove it by my own experience, as well as by the testimony of countless thousands. • Sanville goes on to explain, • Mr. Ackley's forthright, emphatic answer, together with his subsequent triumphant effort to win the man for Christ, flowered forth into song and crystallized into a convincing sermon on He lives! . . . The scriptural evidence, his own heart, and the testimony of history matched the glorious experience of an innumerable cloud of witnesses that He lives, so he sat down at the piano and voiced that conclusion in song. • -Forty Gospel Hymn Stories, 1943 • Ackley wrote the words and/or tunes to at least a thousand gospel songs and hymns in collaboration with his brother Bentley. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was an accomplished cellist. Ackley graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and served Presbyterian churches in California and Pennsylvania. In addition to writing his own hymns, he edited hymnals and gospel song¬books for the Rodeheaver Publishing Company • 1. I serve a risen Savior • He’s in the world today. • I know that He is living, • Whatever men may say. • I see His hand of mercy; • I hear His voice of cheer; • And just the time I need Him • He’s always near. • • He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! • He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way. • He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! • You ask me how I know He lives? • He lives within my heart. • 2. In all the world around me • I see His loving care, • And though my heart grows weary, • I never will despair; • I know that He is leading, • Through all the stormy blast; • The day of His appearing • Will come at last. • 3. Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian, • Lift up your voice and sing • Eternal hallelujahs • To Jesus Christ the King! • The Hope of all who seek Him, • The Help of all who find, • None other is so loving, • So good and kind.
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