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.
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