![]() ![]() Let us set our mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth, for we have died and our life is hidden with Christ in God and when Christ our life, is revealed, then we also will be revealed with Him in glory.” (Col 3:1-4- note) “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. ![]() His works, His gifts, His love to us, and His glory in all His purposes, and in all His actions, these shall make an eternal theme which will be ever new.” (Spurgeon) Therefore let us even now “since we have been RAISED UP WITH CHRIST (speaking of our present spiritual resurrection, Ro 6:4- note, Eph 2:6- note, Col 2:12- note), keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. All His attributes shall be subjects for contemplation, and as He is infinite under each aspect, there is no fear of exhaustion. It is but one Source of delight, but that Source is infinite. Think not that this will be a narrow sphere for the mind to dwell in. For believers death is not a period, but only a comma! David believed this truth writing “I will be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake.” (Ps 17:15- note, cf Ps 49:15- note) Job believed this truth declaring “Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God.” (Job 19:26- note) Indeed, we shall SEE GOD! “Christ shall be the object of our eternal vision and we shall we never want any joy beyond that of seeing Him. When we take our last breath and leave our loved ones, we can be comforted by the certainty that our grave is but a gateway to His glory (1Th 4:18, 13-17- note). We can rest assured that one day soon, He will “transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory” (Php 3:21- note). He who believes in Me will live even if he dies.” (Jn 11:25- note) The resurrection is not an “IT” but an “I”, but too often we stop at “IT.” Jesus said “Because I live, you shall live also.” (Jn 14:19- note) The resurrection of believers is guaranteed by Christ’s own resurrection. Why? Because they knew the scarab's larva buried itself in the earth and later emerged as a mature insect which to them symbolized "resurrection." Socrates and the Egyptians held a false hope, but Sir Walter Raleigh held fast to a sure hope which served as an anchor for his soul (Heb 6:19- note) and prompted him to write the following words in his Bible the night before he was beheaded: “From this earth, this grave, this dust, my God shall raise me up!” Hallelujah! Martha also believed in the hope of the resurrection, but Jesus moved her from the doctrinal to the personal when He declared “I AM the RESURRECTION and the LIFE. ![]() When Socrates lay dying, he was asked “Shall we live again,” to which he replied “I hope so!” Ours is not a dead hope but “A LIVING HOPE” (1Pe 1:3- note), not a “hope so,” but a “hope sure!” The Egyptian belief in a resurrection from the dead led them to call the mummy case the "chest of the living" and to place a scarab beetle in the corpse's heart. THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST – Every saint’s great “hope is in the resurrection of the dead!" (Acts 23:6- note).
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