I grew up with Southern gospel all around me! My uncle was in a quartet and we followed them to each place they sang! My father had,still has at 83,a beautiful voice and sang in our church choir! When I was about 10yrs old our church received a new music minister and he brought the full Gaither experience to us and their music has stayed in my life ever since! I love ministry through music and have seen many a hard man weep and drop to his knees after hearing this song and many more! Through my 20s and 30s I drifted away from the church and God knows the path I took and here I am in my late 50s and at many times I should have been dead,but God loves me and with the love of Jesus I’m still here! What is that saying,”If you want to know if God laughs,just tell him your plans”!! I still fight some battles and some days I win and some days I don’t,but I know God’s not through with me yet! “Because He lives,I can face tomorrow” I hope everyone can find many blessings through this difficult time we are facing right now and I know many more are going to be blessed because of this pandemic! Miracles are happening all around us! When I was a nurse I always told the new nurses,fresh out of school,that nursing will make you question your faith,but it will also make you embrace your faith! Let’s all pray for our President and for each other! Seems crazy that when Bill and Gloria wrote this song 50yrs ago they saw a world in chaos,and here we are today facing another battle! I hope that many people are witnessing the many lives that are being changed through this and seeing many turning to God right now! Faith,hope and love is on our side! The stone has rolled away! Love and hugs to you all!
Thanks for sharing- and well said. That caught my attn also,how crazy is that-he thought it was chaotic then?😳 But praise God- we have a Savior who is " the same yesterday,today and forever".The "Alpha and Omega". And He is the Living God! Many blessings to you
Because He lives is still the greatest truth this side of Calvary! This song says it all! This world has always been in chaos but the good news is unique to Christianity and gives Believer's hope every day!
"God sent His son, they called him Jesus He came to love, heal and forgive He lived and died to buy my pardon An empty grave is there to prove my Saviour lives Because he lives, I can face tomorrow Because he lives, all fear is gone Because I know he holds the future And life is worth the living, just because he lives" Amazing grace. .......Hallelu Yah.
Hi Bill. I have a little story for you. When I became a Christian in 1975 your “Because He lives” was such an encouragement to me. You see my husband left while I was pregnant because I became a Christian. I left our drug filled horrible lifestyle behind. It was a cruel world. It was tough for a long time. Some time later I took my little girl, then about four years old to the Puyallup Fair. Trying to bring some joy to her life we went to the rides and got in line. I was as poor as a church mouse so picked a ride out carefully to spend what little we had on. The line was long and I was weary and worn. There were four guys in front of me and one turned, smiled and said, “You go ahead of us.” When the man taking our tickets took ours, he said, “ You know who that is don’t you?” I did not know. He said, “That is Alabama.” I had no idea who they were but was so grateful for the smile and kindness, I never forgot. So when I saw the video of them singing “Because He Lives.” Of course I had tears. Please tell them thank you for me, I am 70 now. Life is good with Jesus. Even in sorrow, pain and struggle, there are some very interesting meetings along the way. Bless their hearts. 💕Now “Because He Lives” my daughter, grandson and great granddaughter have a future. My family has many battles still, but Jesus lives! We have a future and hope beyond this world and while we are here.
Hi Bill and Gloria! Happy Easter!🌸🦋🌷As a 13 yr old in 1969, My mom, sister and I sang in the choir of the Billy Graham Crusade in Portland Oregon. I will never forget singing “Because He Lives “ for the very first time. It so presents such a wonderful and beautiful message of God’s unconditional love of sending His Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross, be buried and rise so that we might live eternally! It is such a great favorite of mine my whole life long, and I am grateful and thankful that the Lord inspired the two of you to write it, for it has blessed my heart and life through the triumphs and tragedies that the Lord has faithfully brought me and my family through. So, God bless you and your family for Easter and Always...Because He Lives! Lori Ann Wetmore from Washington state 💖🌸🦋🌷💕
Hi Esther, 🌷🦋🌸 It truly was a memorable time in my young life . Such a beautiful song, that I have cherished for 50 years and has had such an impact on my walk with the Lord! God Bless You and your family during these challenging times.
Hallelujah "how sweet to hold a new born baby and feel the pride and the joy he gives" Thanks Bill for the music. Keep on uplifting the songs of our redemption
This song “fills my soul” every time I hear it! Very moving. This was written so many years ago..and yet it applies to what we are going through right now. God is right beside us. Amen!
He is the only reason I face tomorrow, without him, I would still be so lost, but he loved me enough to redeem me.... "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you by name, you are mine" Isaiah 43:1.... Thank you God for my life and everything that you do, have done and are still doing, I would be nothing without you..
Because He lives, He is coming to take us to be with Him in heaven. John 14, He has been preparing our heavenly homes. The saints (many from the Gaither's ministry over the years) will rise from their graves first, and then we who are alive will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air. We will be transformed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. So encourage each other to abide IN CHRIST, praying and reading your Bible, and of course, SINGING PRAISES to the Lamb of God. Blessings.
In Hindi, Yeshu jeevit hai, main kal dekh sakta hoon. Wo jeevit hai, har daar samapt Aur mera kal, Uske haathon mein hai Aur ye jeevan ashishit, wo jeevit hai. Thanks Bill & Gloria. God bless you both.
A brother in Christ Mark Miller mentioned your music and talent bestowed by the Lord, may our Heavenly Father, and his righteous, holy, and Redeeming of Blood that is our mediator and Lordship, Jesus Christ be with you all, God bless. 🙏❤
Someday to sing this glorious song, around the throne, that will be Heaven for me .... God Bless you Bill, and Gloria, for giving us one of the most beautiful worship songs ever written ...
Anthony sure was tearing up that piano..... wow. Think of all the old phogies that were in this video from WAY back, are gone today (almost half) and yet we will see and hear again in THAT great choir! What a day THAT will be....
Thanks for posting this Bill- very nice and good to see those who have gone ahead already.Nice flashback. Yes,because He lives- we have a Living Hope. Amen
Verse 1 God sent His Son they called Him Jesus He came to love heal and forgive He bled and died to buy my pardon An empty grave is there to prove My Savior lives Chorus Because He lives I can face tomorrow Because He lives all fear is gone Because I know He holds the future And life is worth the living Just because He lives Verse 2 How sweet to hold our newborn baby And feel the pride and joy he gives But greater still the calm assurance This child can face uncertain days Because Christ lives Verse 3 And then one day I'll cross that river I'll fight life's final war with pain And then as death gives way to vict'ry I'll see the lights of glory And I'll know He reigns
This song along with the song Sinner Saved By Grace are just two of my favorite songs by the wonderful Bill Gaither. I miss George Younce , to this day i can't get over that he is gone. also Guy Penrod i miss seeing him sing with Bill , Mark and the other guys.
Trust God because He lives and He will carry you through! I know bc I’ve seen His goodness in times that were impossible like now, but just hold on, He is our Saviour and He will never leave you nor forsake you! He is the Risen King and He lives! Praying and praising Him are your greatest blessings yet to come!
부활이 우리에게 어떤 의미인지 원어가사가 너무 잘 알려줍니다. 그 어느 때보다 올해 부활절에 비로소 부활의 능력을 선포할 때인 것 같습니다. It needs to declare this song especially today 2020 against our fear and frustration
Thank you. My mother is close to going to going home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We have the hope that we will be together forever with Him.
I can hear in your voice the peace, humility, love and care you have in your soul and for others. I hope others can one sense that in the softness of my voice. I will always try to honor that.
A prayer to be a victor. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
Thank you for posting this beautiful song on this special day. I have shared it with my family and friends and hope that it will add to their celebration today. Happy Easter
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