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"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these
things and to enter into His glory?" — Luke 24:26
Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life. His resurrection means that He
has the power to convey His life to me. When I was born again, I received the
very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
Christ’s resurrection destiny— His foreordained purpose— was to bring “many sons
to glory” (Hebrews 2:10 ). The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to
make us sons and daughters of God. We never have exactly the same relationship
to God that the Son of God has, but we are brought by the Son into the relation
of sonship. When our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life—
a life He had never lived before He was God Incarnate. He rose to a life that
had never been before. And what His resurrection means for us is that we are
raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we will have a body like
His glorious body, but we can know here and now the power and effectiveness of
His resurrection and can “walk in newness of life” ( Romans 6:4 ). Paul’s
determined purpose was to “know Him and the power of His resurrection” (
Philippians 3:10 ).
Jesus prayed, “. . . as You have given Him authority over all flesh that He
should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him” ( John 17:2 . The
term Holy Spirit is actually another name for the experience of eternal life
working in human beings here and now. The Holy Spirit is the deity of God who
continues to apply the power of the atonement by the Cross of Christ to our
lives. Thank God for the glorious and majestic truth that His Spirit can work
the very nature of Jesus into us, if we will only obey Him.
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