The Resurrection in Bible Prophecy part 3 of 7 Spiritual
The Resurrection – Spiritual part three
The Spiritual resurrection is one referred to in John 5:24. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment but is passed from death unto life.” John 11:25. “I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Rom. 6:11. “Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.” Rom. 8:23. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.” Eph. 2:5. “Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together with Christ by grace ye are saved.” Eph. 5:14. “Wherefore, he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Rom. 6:16. “Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
As you can see by these Scriptures that to be unsaved is death. In order to pass from death to life one needs to be born again. Remember that a resurrection process is from death unto life. Some refer to this as regeneration. But this is not a reforming or change of the physical body itself, this is a creative act of the Holy Spirit to the spiritual body. John 1:13. “Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” In 2 Cor. 5:17-18 we find that once saved we are no longer to be known in the fleshly body, but the resurrected body. “Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God. . .”. Eph. 4:24 putting on the new man. Rom. Chapter 6 tells us how Christians being crucified with Christ are resurrected with Christ into a new body to a new life. Col. Chapter 3 tells of a new person in Christ.
Gal. 2:20. “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
I know that these are a lot of Scriptures, but there are really numerous others that will tell us how Christians are changed at the time of salvation. Christians now in this present world have two bodies, Paul tells us that we have the “old and the new” bodies. In Romans 6:6. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” More in verse 11, Eph. 4:22-24 and Col. 3:9.
John and Paul are telling Christians how we have been crucified and risen with Christ to a greater calling. Even though, by the people of this world, we are seen as being in the flesh because they are using a natural eye. The major difference and what is most important that we are not seen by God through a worldly eye. God being a Spirit views us through a spiritual eye. After salvation our worldly body is cloaked by Christ’s righteousness and this is what God sees when He looks at us. The righteousness of Christ give us a new appearance to God. And at the rapture our body will be permanently changed to that of a glorified righteous body.
