♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THE TABERNACLE CHOIR, ORCHESTRA, AND BELLS AT TEMPLE SQUARE PRESENT A MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD EASTER SPECIAL, "BECAUSE OF HIM" ♪ AHH ♪ >> CONDUCTING TODAY'S PROGRAM IS MACK WILBERG, WITH ORGANIST RICHARD ELLIOTT, GUEST ARTIST MADISON LEONARD, THE GABRIEL TRUMPET ENSEMBLE, AND THE SPOKEN WORD BY LLOYD NEWELL. ♪♪ ♪ TRUMPETS AND DRUMS ♪ ♪♪ ♪ CHRIST THE LORD
IS RIS'N TODAY, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ SONS OF MEN
AND ANGELS SAY, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ RAISE YOUR JOYS
AND TRIUMPHS HIGH, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ SING, YE HEAV'NS,
AND EARTH REPLY, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪♪ ♪ LOVE'S REDEEMING
WORK IS DONE, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ FOUGHT THE FIGHT,
THE VICT'RY WON, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ JESUS' AGONY
IS O'ER, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ DARKNESS VEILS
THE EARTH NO MORE, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪♪ ♪ LIVES AGAIN
OUR GLORIOUS KING, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ WHERE, O DEATH,
IS NOW THY STING? ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ ONCE HE DIED
OUR SOULS TO SAVE, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ WHERE THY VICTORY,
O GRAVE? ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ALLELUIA! ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪♪ ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: EASTER SUNDAY IS THE DAY WHEN CHRISTIANS COMMEMORATE JESUS CHRIST RISING FROM THE GARDEN TOMB. AND IT'S ALSO A SEASON WHEN PEOPLE OF FAITH ACROSS THE WORLD CELEBRATE CHANGE AND RENEWAL, NEW LIFE AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES. WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE, TODAY WE WISH YOU THE JOY AND PEACE OF EASTER--GOD'S LOVE FOR YOU AND ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ COME, ALL PEOPLE,
LOOK AND WONDER, ♪ ♪ SEE THE PLACE WHERE
JESUS LAY; ♪ ♪ HE HAS BURST HIS
BANDS ASUNDER; ♪ ♪ HE HAS BORNE OUR
SINS AWAY; ♪ ♪ JOYFUL TIDINGS!
JOYFUL TIDINGS! ♪ ♪ YES, THE LORD HAS
RIS'N TODAY; ♪ ♪♪ ♪ JESUS TRIUMPHS!
SING ALL PRAISES; ♪ ♪ BY HIS DEATH
HE OVERCAME; ♪ ♪ THUS THE LORD HIS
GLORY RAISES, ♪ ♪ THUS HE FILLS HIS
FOES WITH SHAME. ♪ ♪ SING ALL PRAISES!
SING ALL PRAISES! ♪ ♪ PRAISES TO THE
VICTOR'S NAME. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ JESUS TRIUMPHS!
COUNTLESS LEGIONS ♪ ♪ COME FROM HEAV'N TO
MEET THEIR KING; ♪ ♪ SOON, IN YONDER
BLESSED REGIONS, ♪ ♪ THEY SHALL JOIN
HIS PRAISE TO SING; ♪ ♪ SONGS ETERNAL,
SONGS ETERNAL, ♪ ♪ SHALL THROUGH HEAV'NS
HIGH ARCHES RING, ♪ ♪ SONGS ETERNAL,
SONGS ETERNAL, ♪ ♪ SHALL THROUGH HEAV'NS
HIGH ARCHES RING ♪ ♪ SHALL RING,
SHALL RING. ♪ ♪ SHALL RING. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ THAT EASTER DAY WITH
JOY WAS BRIGHT ♪ ♪ THE SUNSHINE BID WITH
FAIRER LIGHT ♪ ♪ WHEN TO THEIR LONGING
EYES RESTORED ♪ ♪ THE APOSTLES SAW
THEIR RISEN LORD ♪ ♪♪ ♪HI RISEN FLESH WITH
RADIANCE GLOWED ♪ ♪ HIS WOUNDED HANDS AND
FEET HE SHOWED ♪ ♪ THAT SCARS THEIR
SOLEMN WITNESS GAVE ♪ ♪ THAT CHRIST WAS RISEN
FROM THE GRAVE ♪ ♪♪ ♪ O JESUS KING
OF GENTLENESS ♪ ♪ DO ALL OUR
INMOST HEART POSSESS ♪ ♪ AND WE TO THEE
WILL EVER RAISE ♪ ♪ THE TRIBUTE OF
OUR GRATEFUL PRAISE ♪ ♪ THE TRIBUTE OF
OURGRATEFUL PRAISE ♪ ♪♪ ♪ FROM EVERY WEAPON
DEATH CAN WIELD ♪ ♪ THINE OWN REDEEMED
FOREVER SHIELD ♪ ♪ O LORD OF ALL
WITH US ABIDE ♪ ♪ IN THIS OUR
JOYFUL EASTERTIDE ♪ ♪♪ ♪ O LORD OF ALL
WITH US ABIDE ♪ ♪ IN THIS OUR JOYFUL
EASTERTIDE ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ SOFTLY AND TENDERLY
JESUS IS CALLING, ♪ ♪ CALLING FOR YOU
AND FOR ME; ♪ ♪ SEE, ON THE PORTALS
HE'S WAITING AND WATCHING, ♪ ♪ WATCHING FOR YOU
AND FOR ME. ♪ ♪ COME HOME,
COME HOME, ♪ ♪ YE WHO ARE WEARY,
COME HOME; ♪ ♪ EARNESTLY, TENDERLY,
JESUS IS CALLING, ♪ ♪ CALLING, O SINNER,
COME HOME. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ WHY SHOULD WE TARRY
WHEN JESUS IS PLEADING, ♪ ♪ PLEADING FOR YOU
AND FOR ME? ♪ ♪ WHY SHOULD WE LINGER
AND HEED NOT HIS MERCIES, ♪ ♪ MERCIES FOR YOU
AND FOR ME? ♪ ♪ COME HOME,
COME HOME, ♪ ♪ YE WHO ARE WEARY,
COME HOME; ♪ ♪ EARNESTLY, TENDERLY,
JESUS IS CALLING, ♪ ♪ CALLING, O SINNER,
COME HOME. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ O FOR THE WONDERFUL LOVE
HE HAS PROMISED, ♪ ♪ PROMISED FOR YOU
AND FOR ME! ♪ ♪ THOUGH WE HAVE SINNED,
HE HAS MERCY AND PARDON, ♪ ♪ PARDON FOR YOU
AND FOR ME. ♪ ♪ COME HOME,
COME HOME, ♪ ♪ YE WHO ARE WEARY,
COME HOME; ♪ ♪ EARNESTLY, TENDERLY,
JESUS IS CALLING, ♪ ♪ CALLING, O SINNER,
COME HOME. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ EARNESTLY, TENDERLY,
JESUS IS CALLING, ♪ ♪ CALLING, O SINNER,
COME HOME, ♪ ♪ COME HOME,
COME HOME, ♪ ♪ COME HOME! ♪ ♪ COME HOME! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THANK YOU, MADISON, CHOIR, AND ORCHESTRA. TODAY, I'M HERE WITH CONLON AND RACHEL BONNER. RECENTLY, THEIR BEAUTIFUL 9-MONTH-OLD SON JOSHUA DIED UNEXPECTEDLY. RACHEL, CONLON, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US ON THIS EASTER SUNDAY. >> CONLON AND RACHEL: THANK YOU. >> LLOYD NEWELL: HOW HAS YOUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST HELPED YOU OVER THESE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS? >> CONLON: YOU KNOW, WHEN WE REALIZED THAT HE HAD PASSED AWAY, THAT HE WAS GONE THAT MORNING, WE IMMEDIATELY KNEW THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE AS MUCH OF THE LORD AS WE CAN GET, AND TRYING TO SEEK AS MUCH ACCESS OF THE LORD'S HEALING AS HE COULD GIVE US. >> RACHEL: BECAUSE OF HIM WE KNOW THAT OUR JOSHUA IS IN A GOOD PLACE, YOU KNOW, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIM. WE JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THESE YEARS OF MISSING HIM AND THEN WE'LL GET TO BE WITH HIM AGAIN. BUT IT WILL BE A BITTERSWEET CELEBRATION, I THINK, EVERY EASTER OF MISSING JOSHUA, BUT SO GRATEFUL, SO GRATEFUL THAT MISSING IS NOT ETERNAL. THAT WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER AGAIN BECAUSE OF JESUS. >> CONLON: THERE ARE SOME SAD MOMENTS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME I LOOK AT PICTURES OF JOSHUA AND I SMILE, I LAUGH, I REMEMBER THOSE MOMENTS. I CLOSE MY EYES AND I PICTURE HIS FACE RIGHT CLOSE TO MINE AND THAT GETS ME EXCITED ABOUT THE RESURRECTION, ABOUT WHAT JESUS CHRIST HAS DONE. BECAUSE WE'LL EMBRACE, WE'LL EMBRACE OUR LITTLE BOY AGAIN; AND THEN TURN TO JESUS CHRIST AND EMBRACE HIM FOR PROVIDING THAT PPORNITYFOR US. >> RACHEL: WE TRUST HIM. WE TRUST WHAT HE HAS SAID TO US, AND WE CLING TO HIM. WE CLING TO THOSE PROMISES. AND THROUGH THAT WE CAN TAKE ANOTHER STEP, ANOTHER STEP, AND ONE MORE DAY, YOU KNOW, UNTIL FINALLY WE'RE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN. >> CONLON: THIS EASTER MORNING, BECAUSE OF HIM, EVERYTHING IS MADE RIGHT. THOUGH I CRY IN THE NIGHTTIME, JOY COMES IN THE MORNING. >> LLOYD NEWELL: CONLON AND RACHEL, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS EASTER MORNING. WE'VE BEEN UPLIFTED BY YOUR FAITH. THANK YOU. YOU MAY KNOW THE STORY OF JOB, A GREAT MAN WHO ALSO SUFFERED TERRIBLE LOSS AND TRAGEDY; HE ASKED THIS QUESTION LONG AGO: "IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN?" EASTERIS TIME TO REMEMBER THAT THREE DAYS AFTER JESUS DIED, HIS FOLLOWERS DISCOVERED THAT HIS BODY WAS GONE AND HIS TOMB WAS EMPTY. AN ANGEL ASKED THEM: "WHY SEEK YE THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD?" AND THEN EXPLAINED: "HE IS NOT HERE, BUT IS RISEN." BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST, THERE IS A RESURRECTION. BECAUSE OF HIM, LIFE IS NOT A DEAD END. EVERY TOMB IS TEMPARY. WE HAVE A PURPOSE THAT WILL NOT END, AND THE BEAUTY AND MEANING OF OUR LIVES WILL GO ON FOREVER. THIS DAY, MAY YOU BE FILLED WITH THE HOPE FOUND IN CHRIST, AND FIND "THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH SURPASSES UNDERSTANDING." ALL BECAUSE OF HIM. ♪ ALONE HE KNEELS
IN ROBES TURNED RED ♪ ♪ ASCENDS THE HILL
AND BOWS HIS HEAD ♪ ♪ TO CLAIM ALL MERCY
FOR GOD'S OWN KIN ♪ ♪ AND I AM SAVED
BECAUSE OF HIM ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ALL NIGHT I WEEP
AND WATCH AND PRAY ♪ ♪ THAT LIFE BE MORE
THAN THIS BRIEF DAY ♪ ♪ THOUGH DEEP IN SORROW
OF DREAMS NOW DIM ♪ ♪ LET ME YET RISE
BECAUSE OF HIM ♪ ♪♪ ♪ WHEN DAWN'S FIRST LIGHT
FILLS HEAVEN'S DOME ♪ ♪ HE CALLS MY NAME
THEN TURNS FOR HOME ♪ ♪ AND I AWAKENED
BORN NEW BEGIN ♪ ♪ TO LIVE AND LOVE
BECAUSE OF HIM ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ TO LIVE AND LOVE
BECAUSE OF HIM ♪ ♪♪ ♪ OF HIM ♪ ♪ OF HIM ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ TRUMPETS ♪ ♪ TRUMPETS AND DRUMS ♪ ♪♪ ♪ HE IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN! ♪ ♪ TELL IT OUT
WITH JOYFUL VOICE. ♪ ♪ HE HAS BURST
HIS THREE DAYS' PRISON; ♪ ♪ LET THE WHOLE WIDE
EARTH REJOICE. ♪ ♪ DEATH IS CONQUERED,
MAN IS FREE. ♪ ♪ CHRIST HAS WON
THE VICTORY. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ HE IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN! ♪ ♪ HE HATH OPENED
HEAVEN'S GATE. ♪ ♪ WE ARE FREE
FROM SIN'S DARK PRISON, ♪ ♪ RISEN TO A
HOLIER STATE. ♪ ♪ AND A BRIGHTER
EASTER BEAM ♪ ♪ ON OUR LONGING
EYES SHALL STREAM. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ AND A BRIGHTER
EASTER BEAM ♪ ♪ ON OUR LONGING
EYES SHALL STREAM. ♪ ♪ A-MEN! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE TABERNACLE CHOIR, ORCHESTRA, AND BELLS AT TEMPLE SQUARE FOR THIS EASTER SPECIAL, ORIGINATING FROM HISTORIC TEMPLE SQUARE IN SALT LAKE CITY. PLEASE JOIN US AGAIN FOR MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU... THIS DAY AND ALWAYS. ♪ TILL WE MEET
TILL WE MEET ♪ ♪ GOD BE WITH YOU
TILL WE MEET AGAIN. ♪♪ CLOSED CAPTIONING BY
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