Raised From The Dead
I think as we look at these verses we can come to an understanding as we go along, that a past resurrection of the dead is much more important than a resurrection in the future. Whether I have a new resurrected body at some point in the future is not of any importance to me. What is important is having a bit of an understanding as to what the resurrection of Jesus from the dead means in our lives. I leave the future things up to God and I am satisfied with Him revealing an understanding of what transpired at the cross and what it was that happened there.
All of us have experienced a resurrection, if we are to believe what the Bible says about the resurrection of Christ. We were dead in trespasses and sins and now we are alive and seated in Heavenly places with Christ. So we know the Bible says we have already been resurrected. A resurrection of the dead has already taken place.
I think the fact we have been raised from being dead in trespasses and sins is a very important thing to grasp and understand. Maybe a future resurrection is important as well, and I am not sure the bible even mentions this or not, but to me it is not important as I have said before. What is important is knowing that a very important event has already happened when Christ rose from the dead because we were raised together with Him.
I guess we have to make assumptions if we believe there is going to be a future resurrection. However, in order to believe there has already been a resurrection, we do not have to make any assumption as the Bible is clear there has already been one and the entire human race was raised up together with Christ. We were all raised up together with Him and we were raise up when we were dead in trespasses and sins.
That is the resurrection that interests me to know and understand as compared as to whether there will be a future one or not, which to me becomes irrelevant. If there is one that is fine, if there isn’t one that is fine too because I know I was part of the first resurrection and I am already seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The important thing is to know we were raised up from being dead in our trespasses and sins.
If Christ has not risen then the preaching Paul was doing was false because there can be no true preaching if we do not believe Christ was raised from the dead with the entire human race being raised from being dead in trespasses and sins. Paul makes this plain in verse 15 as he was dealing with those that said they believed in Christ but didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead. I think it’s also clear who the dead are that is mentioned. Those that were dead in trespasses and sins.
I think you are talking about spiritual death brought about by the first adam here roy.this chapter does speak of it .this was pauls whole point here in this chapter.Unrighteousness kept us all from life the life of God roy.It was the righteousness of God being wittnessed by the law and the prophets that brought us all life from the dead.No righteousness no life.We had to have the righteoueness of God to recieve from God our Father everything freely from him.That is why the testater had to die first.For you know you and i could not rcieve our in heridence until he died.And part of that inhridence was the imputted righteousness of christ.We had to be one with God to recieve all his riches.Christ made us one with God our father by his will and grace alone so that he could give us all everything for life and godliness i him.Now w are trees planted by the living waters of the life of God our Father full of grace and truth like our savior.
Roy as i said before their is much more to our freedom in chist that we will ever comprehend in this life.
G&p Roy
kenneth
Amen Roy. We have truly already enjoyed the only resurrection that matters.
When I think back to all I heard in the past according to a future resurrection, what came out of it was always more questions than answers. If only I had of heard more on the past resurrection then I would have profited much more for sure. The past shows our identity in Christ and this ought to be our focus.
Thanks Roy for bringing clarity and attention to what matters most.
thank you for your blog.It’s helpful for me.