Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
The Power of Forever
The resurrection of Jesus changes everything. Danny Mac explores Kerry Jobe's powerful worship anthem "Forever" on this special Easter Monday episode, diving deep into the theological richness behind this beloved song that declares the complete victory of Christ. When we truly grasp what happened when that stone rolled away, it changes how we approach every relationship, challenge, and opportunity before us.
Here is the youtube link to Forever.
https://youtu.be/huFra1mnIVE
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax and let me help you start your day right. Good morning everybody, and welcome to Easter Monday. Yesterday we celebrated that Jesus is alive, he rose from the grave and he now is alive in heaven forever. He has defeated sin, he has defeated death and he offers the gift of eternal life to anyone who wants to receive it. That's what yesterday was all about, and today, in our Music Monday, we're going to talk about a really fabulous song from Kerry Jobe called Forever. Revelation, chapter 5, verses 12 to 13 says Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing forever. And that's what this song declares that God is worthy of our praise forever.
Speaker 1:When talking about the writing process of the song with fellow musician Brian Johnson, kerry said as he and I wrote on that first day, we locked down the melody and the theme of forever. We knew we wanted the song to reflect, remind and portray Jesus' death on the cross as a once-and-for-all thing giving us victory forever. We wanted to paint it in a poetic way. That hasn't necessarily been said before. We worked on the song for a few months and then pulled in four other people along the way. I'm thankful we took our time to pour our hearts out in this song. I believe it is strong and complete, just like the cross.
Speaker 1:The song is a clear depiction of the cross and the price that Jesus paid. My favorite part of the whole song is Our resurrected King has rendered you defeated. When Jesus died on the cross, he paid the penalty for our sin. He ransacked hell, defeated Satan and took the keys. Colossians 2, verses13-15 declares Jesus canceled the record of the charges against us. He took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
Speaker 1:By Jesus' resurrection on the third day, we now have access to his spirit, who takes residence inside of us when we get saved. This massive revelation of the cross is completely life-changing. Not only do we have entrance to heaven, but we can have a life of authority over Satan as overcomers and conquerors, because Jesus has already won and now heaven is going to be a beautiful place of worship for us, his redeemed people, as we forever glorify the one who loved us so much. He gave his life for us. Hallelujah, the Lamb has overcome.
Speaker 1:The song opens up this way the moon and stars, they wept. The morning sun was dead. The Savior of the world was fallen. His body on the cross, his blood, poured out for us, the weight of every curse upon Him. One final breath he gave as heaven looked away. The Son of God was laid in darkness. A battle in the grave. But then the song picks up.
Speaker 1:What happened next? The war on death was waged. The power of hell forever broken. The ground began to shake. The stone was rolled away. His perfect love could not be overcome.
Speaker 1:Now, death, where is your sting? Our resurrected King has rendered you defeated. He is alive. Yes, jesus is alive. His power and victory over death and sin is available to every one of us.
Speaker 1:Jesus' resurrection was an absolute, incredible miracle. He defeated death and he defeated the lies of Satan. For you and for me. What an incredible, powerful, beautiful thing God has done for us. We need to thank Him for it every day, we need to embrace it every day and we need to search out the life that God has for us. Let the light of God shine through you to your friends and family this week and decide to be a blessing wherever you go at work, at home, with your friends, wherever it is. Be a blessing on the people that you are working with and let God use you to encourage them and to show His life and light to them. I'm going to leave you with a clip of Kerry Jobe singing Forever and in your show notes. Today there will be a YouTube link that you can click on and you can watch and listen to the entire song. I hope you'll take advantage of that.
Speaker 2:So have a great day, my friends. Keep the faith. Here's Kerry Jobe, and Forever. His perfect love could not be overcome Now that there is your King. Our resurrected King has arrived and you've defeated.
