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“But God, rich in mercy, for the great love with which he loved us, 5 and while we were dead in our crimes, gave us life with Christ,” by grace you were saved, 6 and with him he was resurrected. Made us sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; 7 To show, in the coming centuries, the supreme richness of his grace, in goodness unto us, in Christ Jesus. ?(Ephesians 2: 4-7)
- One of the great truths of the scriptures is that when Christ physically rose from the dead.
- He gave power and made sure that all who trusted Him were spiritually resurrected from the dead.
- Not only that.
- But his resurrection is the beginning of the universal bodily resurrection for all creation.
- When the risen Jesus Christ came out of His grave on Sunday morning.
- The new creation arose.
- The final resurrection had begun.
- Just as the first outbreak of a tree is a sign that rest is coming.
- Just as the first rays of the sun assure us that the day is near.
- The resurrection of Jesus is a sure promise that all who trust in it will be resurrected.
- For a glorious new body life? and with them will also resurrect all fallen creation.
This image was designed to be associated with the previous one (in fact, the mountains in the background were designed to fit together). In this image, Christ’s feet are represented as skeletal to reverse the emphasis on the Image of Good Friday. He wanted us to feel the horror of his true death. here I want us to felt the miraculous and winning reality of his resurrection from the dead.
As in the previous image, the person that Christ saves is a woman to represent all the people of God of all times and nations, the Bride of Christ. When Jesus rose from the dead, he did everything necessary for the salvation of all his wife. , made up of people of all times and places.
Finally, the likeness of the Appearance of the Church with Christ (same garment, even halo) shows that, through the work of redemption, Christ ensures that his people will finally be presented to him – holy and unspotted?(Ep 1. 4, 5. 25-27), washed from sin by his redeeming blood (Apoc 7. 14), and clothed in the splendour of his righteousness (2C 5. 21) What unwavering hope and certainty of the exponential joy we have in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ!