January
3
I
want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection (Philippians 3:10 NIV).
Resurrection always
means that we are outside of the world. After His resurrection the Lord Jesus
never again appeared to the world. He never manifested Himself personally to
the world after His resurrection. The resurrection means that He had passed, in
that sense, out from the world and stood apart, and His power over the world
was His apartness from it. His ability to deal with the situation is because He
is no longer involved in the situation. Resurrection Life means that we are
outside of the world spiritually, and in a superior position....
We have to learn how to
live by the power of Christ's resurrection, so that the death around us is not
able so to impinge upon us as to bring us into its grip. Resurrection union
with the Lord Jesus means that we are not involved in the death that is all
around us. We can move in scenes of death and not be touched by death. This is
a very important lesson to learn, how to be in Life in the midst of death....
In the resurrection of the Lord Jesus we are delivered from the curse – that
is, from the death which works vanity – and we have been brought into the place
where we can go right through to the Divine end, the full realization that
vanity no longer rests upon us. We are no longer held up; no longer in the
position that we live and come to a point and that is the end, and we can go no
further. We can go right on now! The fruit of Life can come to perfection
because the power of death in the curse has been canceled in the power of His
resurrection. The condemnation has been removed.
This photograph is by Charlie Burnell.
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