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Jesus’ Resurrection and the New Life, February 14
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I
am come that they might have life, and that they might have it
more abundantly.
John 10:10
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The resurrection of Jesus was a type of the final resurrection of all
who sleep in Him.
He who had said, “I lay down my life, that I might take it again,”
came forth from the grave to life that was in Himself. Humanity died:
divinity did not die. In His divinity, Christ possessed the power to break
the bonds of death. He declares that He has life in Himself to quicken
whom He will....
He is the spring, the fountain, of life. Only He who alone hath
immortality, dwelling in light and life, could say, “I have power to lay
down my life, and I have power to take it again.”
Christ was invested with the right to give immortality. The life which
He had laid down in humanity, He again took up and gave to humanity.
“I am come,” He says, “that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly.”
Christ is life itself. He who passed through death to destroy him that
had the power of death is the Source of all vitality. There is balm in
Gilead, and a Physician there. Christ endured an agonizing death under
the most humiliating circumstances that we might have life. He gave up
His precious life that He might vanquish death. But He rose from the
tomb, and the myriads of angels who came to behold Him take up the
life He had laid down heard His words of triumphant joy as He stood
above Joseph’s rent sepulcher proclaiming: “I am the resurrection, and
the life.”
The resurrection and ascension of our Lord is a sure evidence of the
triumph of the saints of God over death and the grave, and a pledge that
heaven is open to those who wash their robes of character and make
them white in the blood of the Lamb. Jesus ascended to the Father as a
representative of the human race, and God will bring those who reflect
His image to behold and share with Him His glory.
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