Because He Lives
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Both life and death refer to two related but different modes of existence – physical and spiritual. This is because we are both physical and spiritual beings. It is possible to be alive in the physical sense but dead spiritually. This is the condition of all those who are not called to be God’s people.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
After His resurrection Jesus only appeared to His disciples. Then, later, He came to them through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is speaking here to His disciples, notice that He makes a distinction between them and the world. He is giving them a promise. A promise of life based on the reality of His life. In these words I believe He is including both sense of the word ‘life’.
Because of His resurrection He gives spiritual life to all who are united to Him in faith, and at His return they will be given a new physical life by their resurrection. At this service I wish to focus on the spiritual life which Jesus gives. This life belongs to all Jesus’ disciples because we all have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.
It begins at the moment of coming to faith in Him
It begins at the moment of coming to faith in Him
As the Holy Spirit comes to us and unites us with Christ, into His body
It is His life now being lived in us
It is His life now being lived in us
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
It results in our living new lives
It results in our living new lives
Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
As the Holy Spirit begins working in us, developing the fruit of the Spirit
As we begin to be transformed to be more and more like Christ
It gives us a new focus
It gives us a new focus
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.