? Because I live, will you live too?
It is to this resurrected life that faith has united us from the moment we believed in the One who died and was resurrected, so look at things like this:
- 1.
- La safety of this resurrected life.
- It is not a simple life out of nothing.
- As in the case of the first Adam.
- But a life of death.
- And it is this life that the scriptures present to us as the most sublime.
- Complete.
- And sure.
- Of immortality springs is not the common soil of the earth.
- But the mold of the cemetery.
- The dust of the tomb.
- This much safer life.
- This life that no death can touch.
- Comes to us through the resurrected life of the One who died.
- And was resurrected.
- The faith that unies us to him makes us partakers of his resurrected life; and not only this.
- But he does so fully that his resurrection becomes ours: we are resurrected in him and with him we clothe divine immortality.
2. The power of this resurrected life. It is like the Risen One who says, “Every authority has been given to me. “He was as the possessor of this authority that he left the tomb; an authority like the one with which he conquered death: “the power of an indissoluble life. “This grain of wheat fell to the earth and died, though sown in weakness, it was raised in power. It was with this power of resurrected life that he ascended to heaven, holding captivity captive. It is in this power of resurrected life that it now reigns on the throne. It is in this power of resurrected life that He will return with power and glory. Is this resurrected power of life what He shows in His Church?that exercises to regenerate ourselves to a living hope and to support each regenerated in a world of hostility and death, in the midst of struggles, without internal fears. It is to this power of this resurrected life that we submit in the days of weakness and conflict, that, strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power, we may be more than victors.
3. The love of this resurrected life. The resurrection was a new and higher phase of existence, and with the perfection of life came also the perfection of love; first, the instrument was perfectly tuned and suitable both to contain and to express a new measure of love. of resurrected life is the most abundant and highest of all, it is of this love that we become participants, a love that transcends all the earthly and human, a love that goes beyond all understanding.
4. La affinity of resurrected life. The resurrection does not form an abyss or build a wall between us and the Risen One. She is not the shepherd who moves away from her flock at an inaccessible height. It is the foundation of all the chasms, the collapse of all the walls; she is the shepherd who approaches for a more intimate and more complete affinity with her flock. That’s right, they’re bad and He’s good; they are worldly and He is heavenly. But what the resurrection rejected was nothing of true humanity. It was only weaknesses that oppressed their true humanity and prevented the affinities of this humanity from achieving its full development and activity. The resurrected life is therefore the life of the greatest and trueest affinity. In its perfection is the perfection of affinity, the development of the full expression of the feeling of solidarity existing in the Being of the Word made flesh.
5. The relationships of this risen life. The resurrection does not break any bonds except those of mortality. It is the strengthening and not the weakening of the ties that bind us to the Son of God and the Son of God. The ties of resurrection are the strongest of all. The risen life of Christ does not alter any of the relationships between him and his saints; the number of times we were in contact with him did not decrease; that did not make him less human; Nor has he canceled certain channels of communication between us and him, his immortality has not disconnected him from those who are still in the flesh. His risen life has not shaken or eliminated the relationship he has with those who have not yet risen. It remains everything it was before, with something else added: new love, new power, new perfection, new glory. The difference between your resurrected and un-resurrected life is the same between that of the dawn sun and that of the noonday sun. May we rejoice in the memory of his risen life as the truest, most appropriate, and most blessed for us. The more we perceive our own mortality, the more we can feel the preciousness and adequacy of His immortality as the Risen One; and that we can see even more the identification between us and Him, by virtue of which we will not only be resurrected, but we would already be resurrected with Him.
6. The joys of this resurrected life. In the grave, the man of pain left all his pains, as he left all our sins. There they were buried with him, in the resurrection began his joy; in the Psalms this link between his resurrection and his joy is proclaimed more than once. In Psalm 16, these two things come together exceptionally, because after you have said, “Will you not let your Saint see corruption?”, It is added: “You will show me the ways of life (resurrection). , is there a fulness of joy in your presence? (see Psalm 30. 3-5; 116. 3-7). For him, the resurrection was joy, not only because he ended his connection to death, but because he presented it to the fulness of joy. A peculiar joy of resurrected life, which only a resurrected man can have. By faith we also enter into this resurrected joy of your life to some extent, but the fulness of this resurrected joy is always reserved for us, who await the resurrection of the righteous, when body and head have exterminated tribulation and death for now.
7. Have we been regenerated to a living (or living and invigorating) hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead?(1Pe 1. 3). Is our hope related to Christ’s Resurrection and his resurrected life?, a hope that contains and gives life?a hope that, like a floral button, opens to the fullness of glorious future life; the hope in which we participate through the resurrected life of the second Adam and which transcends by far any hope of unsuscitated life that the first Adam could grant. It is the hope of a legacy, a kingdom, a city, a glory, like those belonging only to the descendants of the second Adam; like those who can only be possessed by the one who has been redeemed and resurrected. For us, the resurrection of the Son of God is a guarantee and guarantee of this blessed hope. Therefore, our motto is: “Christ in us, the hope of glory. “
This classic of Christian literature, written by 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian Minister Horatius Bonar, better known for his excellent hymn compositions, exposes the doctrine of justification by grace by faith. With great clarity, biblical precision, and devotion, Bonar addresses this important subject of Scripture, clarifying the only way man can stand right before God.