21ST FEBRUARY, 2023
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
OBTAINING A BETTER RESURRECTION
Hebrews 11:35 KJVR
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
It is vital for us as Christians to understand that the degree of the purity of our Christian lives in this life, will determine the order and the glory of our resurrection.
1Corinthians 15:22-23 ESV ..for as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
1Corinthians 15:41-42 ESV There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
Now the measure of the life of God that was sown into our hearts (will, mind and emotions) and our physical bodies in this life time, will determine the order and the measure of the glory of our resurrection (2Cor. 4:10-11).
In fact, the resurrection is simply a harvest of the seed of the measure of the life of God that is in our physical bodies when it is buried, or raised from the dead (for those who are physically alive (1Thess. 4:17) at the time of the resurrection):
John 6:40 ESV
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.“
John 6:54 ESV
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Consequently, what we do each day in prayer and walking in the Spirit, is either adding to, or taking away from the order and the glory of our resurrection.
So we should live each day to obtain a better resurrection than we would have had the day before. Our endeavouring to obtain a better resurrection should be a daily, present continuous effort!
We should live daily with eternity in view.
Colossians 3:1-5 ESV
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Philippians 3:14-21 ESV
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us…But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, and who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
So, let us daily seek to obtain a better resurrection by praying, walking in the Spirit and doing the good, great and greater works of God!
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