the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 1 Corinthians 6:14. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:10-11.
You believe that Christ is risen from the dead; you believe that you also shall arise; but do you have the Spirit that raised up Jesus? Do you have the testimony of the Spirit of Christ to the fact that you are quickened and raised up from the grave of sin? Is the risen Christ in you? Has He quickened, animated and inspired you? Does your spirit live because of His righteousness? If so, then let your body die: you shall rise, nevertheless, as Christ arose. But to believe on Christ, on His resurrection and our resurrection, without having the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, is hopeless. To comfort ourselves with the coming Resurrection and yet to be dead, without that Spirit which alone can quicken us and make us partakers of the first resurrection in the life in Christ, is a self-delusion from which we, the sooner the better, should suffer ourselves to be healed. If, on the other hand, Christ be in us (and we know that He is in us by the Spirit He has given us, by the unction and the incomparable and incomprehensible peace, by the love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts), and if we are truly quickened and alive in Christ, living Christians, who walk aright, the Lord will no more suffer us to remain in the grave than He suffered Himself to remain there. Where the Head is, there must also the living members be.
He lives, and grants me daily breath;
He lives, and I shall conquer death;
He lives, my mansion to prepare;
He lives, to bring me safely there.
