👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽A Lesson on the #Resurrection
Grace and peace be multiplied to you, beloved in Christ, you who thirst for the truth and long for the imperishable crown! Let us now speak of the most wondrous and glorious mystery the Resurrection, the hope of our faith, the light that shines beyond the grave, the triumph of the Second Adam over the curse that befell the first.
“You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.” (Genesis 3:3)
Behold the beginning of death, O children of Adam! Because of disobedience to the divine command, death entered the world like a shadow trailing the fall. From that hour until the day of judgment, all mankind has walked the valley of the shadow of death, blind to the true condition of their souls, unaware of the living death that clung to them.
But what man ruined by pride, God restored through humility.
The Word became flesh, the incorruptible entered corruption, the immortal took on mortality. The curse brought death; the Cross brought life. Just as sin entered through one man, so also the Resurrection life from the dead entered through one Man: our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As the Apostle testifies, “Since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead came also through a man.” (1 Corinthians 15:21)
Christ is the firstfruits of our resurrection.
He rose not only to live again, but to defeat death by death. His Resurrection is not a return to the same life, like Lazarus who rose only to die once more. No, Christ rose with power by His own authority, never to die again!
“I am the resurrection and the life.” (John 11:25)
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John 2:19)
He spoke this not of stone and timber, but of His own body, the living temple.
He laid it down, and He raised it up by His own divine authority. (John 10:18)
This is the victory that overturns the grave! This is the resurrection that confounds death!
“Why do you seek the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5)
So said the angel to the holy women, who came with spices for the lifeless. But lo! He was not there. “He is risen!” (Luke 24:6)
Mark this, O faithful: the Resurrection of the Lord is no myth, no dream, no symbolic act it is the very axis of creation, the event by which all time and eternity are judged.
And who raised Him? The Scriptures declare:
The Father raised Him – Acts 4:10
He raised Himself – John 10:18
The Holy Spirit raised Him – Romans 8:11
Shall we then be troubled by these differences? By no means! For though three speak, one voice is heard. “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30)
The Resurrection, like all divine acts, is a work of the One undivided Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Two Resurrections to Come
When the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise incorruptible, there shall be two resurrections—one of glory, and one of eternal death.
1. The Glorious Resurrection – For the righteous, who obeyed the commands of God, whose lives were marked by repentance, virtue, and love. These shall shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father, and enter into eternal joy.
2. The Resurrection of Judgment – For the wicked, who despised the law of the Lord and rejected His grace. These shall be raised to face eternal punishment.
“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46)
The Nature of Our Resurrected Bodies
Our resurrection shall not restore to us bodies as we now know them—weak, corruptible, hungry, and tired. No, we shall rise imperishable, filled with grace, lacking nothing, needing no food or drink.
The flesh shall be glorified, the soul illumined, and the whole person raised in joy.
But let us not wait passively for that final trumpet. Let us arise now from the tomb of sin. Let us tear off the graveclothes of iniquity, and clothe ourselves in the garment of repentance. This is the resurrection of the heart the beginning of eternal life within us even now.
Continues 👇🏽