{"id":2381,"date":"2013-01-19T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2013-01-19T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T07:55:42","slug":"consider-jesus%e2%80%93-in-the-power-of-his-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"Consider Jesus\u2013 in the Power of His Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider Jesus\u2013 in the Power of His Resurrection<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat I may know him, and the power of his resurrection.\u201d \u2013Phil. 3:10<\/p>\n

Is there not some danger of lingering too exclusively at the cross, to the exclusion of the grave of Jesus? In other words, do we give the subject of Christ\u2019s RESURRECTION that place in our faith and meditation which we give to His Death, and which God gives it in the great scheme of our salvation? Essential and precious as the atoning Death of Jesus is, it had availed us nothing apart from His Resurrection. We needed more than death\u2013we needed life! We needed more than the bond presented by Divine justice, and paid\u2013we needed the seal of its acceptance on the part of God. This was given when God raised up Jesus from the dead, \u201cwho was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christ\u2019s Resurrection from the grave by the power of God was the Father\u2019s attestation to the completeness of the Son\u2019s work, and His public acknowledgment of its acceptance. Thus the Resurrection of Christ is to us what a legal acknowledgment is at the hands of a creditor whose claim has been met, whose bond is cancelled. The believing soul sees in the emptied tomb of Jesus the evidence and the acknowledgment of his full discharge from all the demands of Law and all the threatenings of justice. Now, it is the power of this truth in our souls that more immediately concerns us. The Resurrection of Jesus is an accomplished fact\u2013what we want to experience is, His Resurrection-life in our heart. This was Paul\u2019s prayer\u2013\u201dThat I may know Christ, and the POWER of His Resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

We first feel this when we realize our mystical union with Jesus. There can be no experience of the power of anything apart from a personal contact with it. Let us first settle the question, \u201cAm I one with Christ?\u201d Have I a vital and spiritual union with the Savior? If so, then I am risen with Him, as the apostle says\u2013\u201dIf you be risen with Christ.\u201d O my soul, consider into what an exalted and blessed state your union with Christ places you, making you, through free and sovereign grace, a partaker of all that He was, of all that He now is, and of all that He will be when He comes with all His saints in majesty and glory.<\/p>\n

By the power of Christ\u2019s Resurrection, we enter into a new, or resurrection-life\u2013\u201dQuickened together with Him.\u201d Our blessed Lord, when He rose from the dead, rose with a new-born life. Leaving in the tomb the grave-clothes\u2013the napkin and the shroud\u2013He came back clad with His resurrection robes\u2013a new and wondrous life! Of this resurrection-life all are partakers who know the POWER of His Resurrection.<\/p>\n

O my soul, fear not, then, that anything shall ever separate you from Christ. This cannot be, since your spiritual life is bound up and hidden with the Resurrection-life of Jesus.<\/p>\n

The power of Jesus\u2019 Resurrection is experienced by us when by it we rise above earth, and \u201cseek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.\u201d Has Jesus risen? Then we, also, must rise. As He left death and earth behind Him, so we, if we be risen with Him, \u201cthrough faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead,\u201d must rise superior to the deadly pomps and vanities of this poor world, and walk with God in \u201cnewness of life.\u201d Oh to feel the \u201cpower of His Resurrection,\u201d in a life dead to sin and the world, but living to holiness and God!<\/p>\n

We wait to know yet more of the \u201cpower of Christ\u2019s Resurrection,\u201d when the trumpet of the Archangel shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. The slumber of the grave gently broken, the glorified spirit returns to its awakened dust\u2013then both ascends into the air to meet the descending Lord. O blessed, glorious consummation of the power of Christ\u2019s Resurrection!-Winslow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider Jesus\u2013 in the Power of His Resurrection \u201cThat I may know him, and the power of his resurrection.\u201d \u2013Phil. 3:10 Is there not some danger of lingering too exclusively at the cross, to the exclusion of the grave of Jesus? In other words, do we give the subject of Christ\u2019s RESURRECTION that place in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}