Question 50: What does Christ’s Resurrection mean to us?
Christ has triumphed over sin and death by physically resurrecting, so that all who trust in himself may resurrect a new life in this world and eternal life in the world to come. Just as one day we will be resurrected, this world will be resurrected, one day it will be restored, but those who do not trust in Christ will be resurrected to eternal death.
- So I do not want.
- Brethren.
- To ignore those who already sleep.
- Unless you are saddened like others.
- Who have no hope; because if we believe that Jesus has died and been resurrected.
- As well as those who sleep in Jesus.
- God will bring them back with him.
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MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
All creation will be liberated from the bondage of corruption and enjoy the “Glorious Freedom of God’s Children”. (Rom. 8. 21). Everything will be glorified, even nature itself. It seems to me to be the biblical teaching about the eternal state: what we call paradise is life in this perfect world as God wanted humanity to live it. When he put Adam in paradise, in the beginning, Adam fell, and all men fell with him, but men and women are made to live with the body, and each will live with a glorified body in a glorified world, and God will be with them.
A. CARSON
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ has wonderful implications, the first is that it justifies Jesus, in other words, some people thought that if Jesus died on the cross, it could only be because he deserved it, he was convicted by a Roman court. The Old Testament itself insists that whoever hangs from the wood is under the curse of God, but did not die as a curse because of his own sins (which he did not have); He died because he carried the sins of others, and this sacrifice was so pleasant that God raised him from the dead. His resurrection is a form of justification. It is a positive proof that when Jesus said, when He died, “It is over,” God accepted. Your father agreed. The work of redemption has been fulfilled and the Father confirms Jesus with the Resurrection.
The resurrection also demonstrates the gospel’s concern for the bodies of human beings. In other words, some people see our final state as some kind of ethereal spirit beings unrelated to the body. A basic and foundational part of Christian truth is that in the new heaven and new earth, the ultimate goal, the house of justice, there will be no only heavenly existence. It will also be an earthly existence. It is a new heaven and a new earth, where we will have resurrected bodies like those of Christ. This is one of the great arguments of 1 Corinthians 15. Paul argues that what if Christ rose from the dead in a resurrected body? this, strange and surprising as it was, could be touched and felt, was it possible to talk to it, see it and even eat human food? then we, when we are finally resurrected on the last day, will enter the final state and will have resurrected bodies like his. It is our destiny. So his resurrection is the first of what we often call the general resurrection at the end of time. Every human being will be resurrected, either for life or for damnation, because we are essentially people with bodies.
Com isso, vem a visão da vida e da existência além desta vida. Não devemos pensar que o cristianismo resolve apenas alguns problemas de nossa vida aqui. Pelo contrário, o último alvo vai além desta vida. Quando envelhecemos e mais cabelos caem de nossa cabeça e a artrite nos invade, de repente a ressurreição nos parece algo bom, porque nossa esperança não é sobreviver até os 70, 80 ou 90 anos. Nossa esperança é finalmente ter um corpo como o corpo ressurreto de Cristo. O dele é a primícia; o nosso foi assegurado por ele, e estamos indo atrás dele para nos juntar na existência da ressurreição: existência de corpo inteiro da ressurreição no novo céu e na nova terra, no lar da justiça. Por isso 1 Tessalonicenses 4, o grande capítulo da ressurreição, termina com as seguintes palavras: ?Consolai-vos, pois, com essas palavras?.
Deus ressurreto, torna-nos conscientes de que a morte não é nosso fim. Salva-nos do juízo que merecemos, a fim de insistirmos com outros para que fujam da ira vindoura. Olhamos com esperança para a alegria que será nossa quando, salvos da ira pelos merecimentos de Cristo, seremos revestidos de corpos ressurretos para reinar sobre uma terra renovada. Amém.
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