NOW IS THE VICTOR'S TRIUMPH WON / IJA D' OPIN, OGUN SI TAN

MEETING THE BODY AT THE ENTRANCE

            SENTENCES WITH PROCESSIONAL HYMN

                                                                       

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we shall depart this world with nothing; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

 

Hymn EMHB 215  -    YMHB  133

 

1.    The strife is o’er, the battle done;

Now is the Victor’s triumph won;

Now be the song of praise begun:

Alleluia!

 

1.    Alleluya! Alleluya! Alleluya!

Ija d’ opin, ogun si tan;

Olugbala jagun molu:

Orin ayo l’a o ma ko,-

Alleluya.

 

 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

 

2.   The powers of death have done their worst,

But Christ their legions hath dispersed;

Let shouts of holy joy outburst:

Alleluia!

 

2.    Gbogbo ipa n’ iku si lo;

Sugbon Krist’ fun ogun re ka;

Aiye! E ho iho ayo, -

Alleluya.

 

 

The hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.  I am the good shepherd.  My sheep hear my voice and I know them and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

 

 

 

3.   The three sad days have quickly sped;

He rises glorious from the dead;

All glory to our risen Head:

Alleluia!

 

3.    Ojo meta na ti koja,

O jinde kuro n’nu oku;

E f’ ogo fun Olorun wa!

Alleluya.

 

 

 

Because, I live, you will live also in the world you have tribulation, but be of  good cheer, I have overcome the world.

 

4.    Lord, by the stripes which wounded Thee,

From death’s dread sting Thy servants free,

That we may live and sing to Thee:

Alleluia!

 

4.    Jesu, nipa iya t’ O je,

Gba wa lowo oro iku,

K’a le ye, k’a si ma yin O.

Alleluya.

 

                       

If we live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord,  so then whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s, for to this end Christ died and lived again; that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living.  Our Saviour Christ Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light, through the gospel.