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Lingering Could Be Your Doom
The Gospel According to Brother Claude Ely
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t begins like a rumbling storm. Brother Claude Ely, surrounded by a gathering of the Pentecostal-Holiness faithful who have come to hear the traveling preacher lead a revival meeting at the Letcher County courthouse in Kentucky, gently plucks the guitar strings and intones the first three syllables: “There . . . ain’t . . . no . . .” And then the flood: The word “grave” drags and rattles in Ely’s throat as he slaps out percussive chords on his acoustic guitar, “an up-and-down, up-and-down-type rhythm like you’re painting a house” as a musician who played with him would later put it. Backup singers—likely young women from Ely’s family and followers of his ministry—join in the frenzy. To say they’re singing doesn’t do justice to the noise they’re making; they sound like pilgrims in distress. Ely, a former coal miner, sounds like he’s hollering from the bottom of a cave. The assembled worshipers begin to clap, on the off beat in the Pentecostal way, punctuated by the yips and whoops of the faithful. More than six decades later, cooped up in my house in the midst of a plague, I am yipping and w
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Video Illustration: What Easter is All About – Skit Guys!
Life can begin again is the truth shouting from the empty tomb of Jesus today. Jesus’s resurrection proves that life can begin again and that your seemingly dead or lifeless life can be brought back to life. Easter is all about Jesus ability to bring the dead back to life! The truth of Easter is there - aint no grave that can hold Jesus down and if He walked out of the grave so can we walk out of the grave!
Series: Breakthrough 2020
Sermon: Breakthrough from the Grave - Easter
Tag line: “Jesus - The Grave Robber”
Easter Song: “Ain’t No Grave!”
History of the song:
Claude Ely, a songwriter and preacher from Virginia, describes composing the song while sick with tuberculosis in 1934 when he was twelve years old. His family prayed for his health, and in response he spontaneously performed this song. Originally recorded by Bozie Sturdivant in July 1942 (and released in 1943 as "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down") in a slower, African American gospel style and in 1946-7 by Sister Rosetta Tharpe with barrelhouse piano; the song in Ely's version was recorded in 1953 but composed in 1934 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_No_Grave)
Words:
Aint No Grave – Bethel Music – Molly Skaggs!
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