RESURRECTION POWER
 
We should be a people who walk in Overcoming Power, defeating every foe which comes our way.
We do have Power today.
It's called Resurrection Power.

Acts 3:26 tells us exactly what this Blessing is - "...in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
 
Psalm 67:6 tells us that - "...God, even our own God, shall bless us."
Ephesians 1:3 says - "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings..."

One of them is the turning away - from us - of all depravity, malice, wickedness, and evil purposes and desires. How is this possible?
 
1 Peter 1:3 gives us the answer - "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
 
Through the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, we are given "a lively hope" for our lives that were once dead in trespasses and sins. God made a way out of the death of sin. It's called Resurrection.
 
Acts 3:26 says it this way - "...having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you..."
 
The Lord Jesus was sent on a mission. This mission was to offer hope to every sinner who is dead in his sins. He designed to bless everyone by saving their souls and by turning them from their iniquities.
 
The Scriptures abound with promises from God, illustrating His overwhelming desire to bless us by turning us from all iniquity.
 
Jeremiah 32:39-40 says - "And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me for ever...I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me."
Jeremiah 33:8 says - "And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against Me."
In Ezekiel 36:25, God says - "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you."
In Ezekiel 36:29, He adds - "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses..."
 
Romans 8:11 assures us that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead can raise our bodies to the service of God - which by nature were under the reign of death and subject to carnal desires and propensities - "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 8:13 further states that, through this Quickening Power of the Holy Spirit, we are able to put to death the deeds of the body so that we may live unto God - "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live."
Ezekiel 36:27 - The Prophet Ezekiel also spoke of the Energizing Power of the Holy Spirit to keep us out of the death of sin and in the new life of God - "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them."
 
So we see that - wherever the Holy Spirit is present - there is the Quickening Power to give life and to overcome the death of Sin.
 
2 Corinthians 3:17 says - "...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
Said another way - Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Resurrection - the Resurrection from Death unto Life.
 
No one brings this concept forth more thoroughly than the Apostle Paul. By using comparative clauses and showing the Believer's Identification with Christ in His Death and Resurrection, we are made to see that we are products of Resurrection.
 
Romans 6:4 says - "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
 
Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father. This Glory is explained as the glorious energy - the glorious display of His omnipotence - or as already mentioned, the quickening power of the Holy Spirit. Just as it required the Glory of the Father to raise Christ's body from death, even so it is required to raise the dead soul of the sinner from death unto newness of life.
 
Each believer had a death in the likeness of Christ's physical death. They were once dead in sins. But just as Jesus experienced Resurrection to a new manner of life, even so have they experienced Resurrection to "newness of life."
 
"Newness of life" is a Hebraism denoting New Life. We, as believers, are now dead to Sin. We have risen with Christ to "newness of life" - a life of holiness and obedience, a life pleasing unto the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:14 - To the various churches to which he ministered, the Apostle Paul continuously emphasized the Resurrection Power of the believer - "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by His own power."
Ephesians 2:5-6 - "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ...And hath raised us up together..."
2 Corinthians 4:14 - "Knowing that He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus..."
Colossians 3:1 - "If ye then be risen with Christ..."
 
In referring to the topic of Resurrection, so many emphasize the Past Resurrection - the Resurrection from the death of sin of the soul. Or many will emphasize the Future Physical Resurrection of the body. But what about the Present Resurrection Power - whereby we are to conduct ourselves and regulate our lives - that is available to all believers?
 
The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:19-20 made it his earnest prayer for all saints to know this power - "And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead..."

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us "old things" like old desires, rules, ends, principles, choices, perspectives, mannerisms, and companions will have "passed away." All things will be new and changed.
Colossians 3:2  describes a believer walking in Resurrection Power as one whose "affection" or mind is on "things above, not on things on the earth."
Colossians 3:5 - He is one who is mortifying his bodily members of such sins as "fornication," "uncleanness," "inordinate affection" or passion, "evil concupiscence" or desires, and "covetousness."
Colossians 3:8 - He has laid aside all "anger," "wrath," "malice," "blasphemy," and "filthy communication out of his mouth."
Colossians 3:9 - He is one who speaks the Truth and does not lie.
1 John 2:6 - He walks even as Jesus walked - worthy of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way.
Colossians 1:9-12 - He is filled with the knowledge of God's will "in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," "being fruitful in every good work," "increasing in the knowledge of God," and continuously "giving thanks unto the Father."

Colossians 1:11 tells us that he is "Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power..."
 
"According to His glorious power" -
This is none other than the Glory of the Father that raised Christ from the dead.
It is none other than the Quickening Power of the Holy Spirit.
It is none other than the Resurrection Power.
The believer's Strength is this Resurrection Power.
 
Because of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, we are brought into the fullness of God's Blessings - one of which is turning us from our iniquity and bringing us into newness of life.
 
1 Peter 1:3,5 - Resurrection Power raised us from the Death of Sin.
Resurrection Power is what keeps us from the Power of Sin - "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...Who are kept by the power of God..."
 
Philippians 4:13 encourages all believers with this Promise -"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

1 Corinthians 15:23 - We are products of Christ's Resurrection - "...Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's..."
 
Resultantly, we should walk in newness of life.
We should be a people who walk in Resurrection Power, overcoming every enemy.

Indeed it's true - We Can Do ALL Things Through Christ Which Strengthens Us.

May God Bless His Word.
Connie