Rise Up (Lazarus)
CAIN · CAIN - EP
A bold, joyful call to resurrection living
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Take Caution: Leans toward what could dull or mislead. Approach carefully.
- Consider Avoiding: Celebrates what Scripture warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
The song's central image comes straight from this passage, where Jesus calls Lazarus by name out of the tomb. The lyric 'can't you hear the voice of Jesus calling us' is a direct echo of that moment.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
The idea of walking in newness of life after being raised with Christ is exactly what the bridge describes: new resurrected hearts, leaving the old behind.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
'You're brand new, the power of death couldn't hold you' maps closely to the promise that the old has gone and the new has come in Christ.
Drawing on the story of Lazarus in John 11, this song uses physical resurrection as a picture of what Jesus does for anyone buried under shame, fear, or spiritual deadness. The core claim is simple and bold: the same voice that called Lazarus out of the tomb is still speaking, and you do not have to stay in the dark. It is less a worship meditation and more a direct, almost urgent address to the listener, which gives it real pastoral energy.
Entirely clean. The imagery is vivid and grounded in Scripture, with no concerning language.
Points directly to Jesus as the one who calls the spiritually dead back to life. The song is saturated with resurrection hope and the language of new creation.
CAIN wrote this as an explicit encouragement to believers and seekers who feel stuck or spiritually buried. The intent is clearly to stir faith and hope.
Is there an area of your life where you have grown comfortable in the tomb, and what might it look like to actually walk out of it?