Man has come a long way in his acquisition of knowledge and power. From the horse and buggy to the space shuttle and from the flintlock rifle to the atomic bomb, we’ve made progress. There is always a cost attached to man’s progress however. The cost seems to always be in damage to the environment or through death itself.
The strongest power that has ever been experienced on earth is not through mankind’s doing however, but through the resurrection of Christ. Unlike man’s power, Christ’s power does not result in destruction, but rather in victory over death and in eternal life. Far more powerful than a nuclear reaction, Christ had the power to raise His own bloody, unrecognizable, lifeless body from the grave in perfect form. Now that is power!
That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 1:19Ephesians 1:19
English: Contemporary English Version (1999) - CEV
19 I want you to know about the great and mighty power that God has for us followers. It is the same wonderful power he used
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Because Jesus said “I and my Father are One” we can know that the God who raised Christ through the power of the Spirit are all the same person. That in itself staggers the mind, so brace yourself for this next part.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead is within us if we have accepted Him as our Savior!
There is no more beautiful example of this than the one we see exemplified through believer’s baptism. The plunge underneath the water represents our burial with Christ and death of our old life. The resurrection of Christ is represented as we emerge from the water to a new life of service for Him.
If we truly understood that the power that raised Christ from the dead is residing within us, there would be nothing we would ever need fear. This same power not only empowers us for daily living but will some day raise us from physical death into eternal life with Him. Grasping that, we can join Paul in saying,
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His suffering, becoming like Him in death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:10-11Philippians 3:10-11
English: Contemporary English Version (1999) - CEV
10 All I want is to know Christ and the power that raised him to life. I want to suffer and die as he did, 11 so that somehow I also may be raised to life.
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