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2014/03

I am the Ressurrection

“I am the resurrection and the life…” John 11:25

Iam the Resurrection and the Life.What blessed words are these, spoken by One who, as the last Adam, came to raise the dead.  God said: “In the day thou eatest thereof; thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2: 17).  It was “by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12).

Since man was not created mortal, our mortality is not the necessary consequence of our original creation. Rather, it is the penalty for our transgression of God’s law.  As a result, man was under a three-fold death. He was cast into spiritual death, condemned to temporal death, and consigned to eternal death. The soul is dead to every emotion of love to God, the body is hastening to dissolution in the grave, and the future in eternity is just company for devils and fuel for the flames of Hell under the wrath of God.

While redemption by Christ brings deliverance from all three, let us think on the change from the death of sin to the life of holiness. Spiritually dead by nature, we are unable to bring forth life out of the midst of death.  The real life of every believer is Christ.  He is the beginning of the Christian’s life, being the Resurrection; and He is the continuance of it, as the Life.
Peter tells us: “We are begotten… unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). The hope God gives to regenerated hearts is a living one, because it deals with life. Observe the connection between a risen Saviour and our living hope. As in Adam all die who were in Adam, so in Christ shall all be made alive who are in Christ. Whatever happens to Christ happens to those represented by Him.

So then, the resurrection of Christ is virtually our resurrection. When we are quickened by the Spirit of life from Christ we arise and ascend to Him in our desires and affections. In union with Christ, we have the same life in us that is in Him. His life is put forth in us and we are to make manifest the resurrection life of Christ in our whole manner of living.

Resurrection and life are found wherever He is. He is the Power that can make dead souls live again and also the Power that maintains that life. His message is – I am myself the resurrection and I am myself the life. He is the author and sustainer of life and that life is Himself. He has come, not only that we may have life, but that we may have it more abundantly (John 10:10). We live for God only because of Him. There is not even one breath of spiritual life to be found, apart from union with Him. Touch Him by faith and He then is to you ‘the resurrection and the life’!

Rev Leslie Curran.