His Resurrection

There are those who have experienced death and who have come back to life again, either through God's miraculous power, or by direct medical intervention. However, their lives have been once more subjected to the weaknesses of sin, aging and eventually death just as all other human beings die.

When Jesus the Messiah rose from the dead he became the 'first-fruits' (1 Cor.15:20,23) of a new kind of human life, a life in which His body was made perfect, no longer subject to weakness, aging or death, but able to live eternally. In a perfected physical body Jesus rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven, and will return to take us to be with Himself forever.

  • Both the Father and the Son Participated in the Resurrection
  • Jesus' resurrection insures our Regeneration
  • Jesus' resurrection insures our Justification before a Holy God
  • Jesus' resurrection insures that we will receive perfect resurrection bodies as well
  • Jesus' resurrection has application to our obedience to God in this life
  • Through the resurrection we are encouraged to focus on our future heavenly reward
  • The resurrection brings with it the obligation to stop yielding to sin in our lives
  • We have a new resurrection power within us over the domination of sin in our lives
The power of God which raised Jesus from the dead is the same power that is at work within us - 'as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life - therefore consider yourself as dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord'