With High Delight Let Us Unite

"With High Delight Let Us Unite" (LSB 483) tells of the exuberant joy of the resurrection! With the Jerusalem of Isaiah 52, Christians are invited to break forth into singing because Jesus Christ is our salvation! Everyone in Christ is set free from sin and death through faith in the Good News of salvation found only in Jesus Christ!

As true God, Christ is the firstborn of the dead, who "by His death has destroyed death, and by His rising to life again has restored to us everlasting life." The second stanza reflects the description of the resurrection of the dead in 1 Corinthians 15. God's Word gives the promise of victory over death and the grave that belongs to us by His grace through faith in the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ's death and resurrection are ample reason to give Him thanks, praise and adoration!

1 With high delight
Let us unite
In songs of great jubilation.
Ye pure in heart,
All bear your part,
Sing Jesus Christ, our salvation.
To set us free
Forever, He
Is ris’n and sends
To all earth’s ends
Good news to save ev’ry nation.

2 True God, He first
From death has burst
Forth into life, all subduing.
His enemy
Doth vanquished lie;
His death has been death’s undoing.
“And yours shall be
Like victory
O’er death and grave,”
Saith He, who gave
His life for us, life renewing.

3 Let praises ring;
Give thanks, and bring
To Christ our Lord adoration.
His honor speed
By word and deed
To ev’ry land, ev’ry nation.
So shall His love
Give us above,
From misery
And death set free,
All joy and full consolation.

Text: © 1969 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: CPH Limited Promotional License no. 119000000