He Is Risen! So Are You!
You likely shared in the traditional Easter greeting a few times this past week.
“He is risen.”
“He’s risen indeed!”
The Bible indicates that Christians add another greeting.
“He is risen.”
“I’m risen, too!”
Resurrected with Christ
The Apostle Paul says it plainly.
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above” (Colossians 3:1).
In Ephesians, Paul goes even further in applying Christ’s resurrection to the Christian. He prays that we might know:
“His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him the dead” (Ephesians 1:19-20).
The same power that resurrected Christ is in every Christian.
And in Romans 6:4-ll, Paul develops this co-resurrection theology even further:
“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old
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