Resurrection Power

“…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection…” (Philippians 3:10)

It was not enough for Paul to know Jesus the man who walked among men, became tired, went to sleep in a boat on a stormy sea and wept at the tomb of a friend. He not only wanted to know His need for food and water and His ability to teach as no other man taught, he also wanted to know the power of our Lord’s resurrection.

It was the resurrection power of God that raised Jesus from the dead. In the First Corinthian letter we read, “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept…But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming.” (I Corinthians 15:20, 23) The bible says, “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.” (Revelation 20:6)

The life of the child of God is to experience the power of the resurrection in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in service and to know resurrection power either at the resurrection of the saints when the Lord returns, or immediately afterward, at the rapture, to“be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.” (I Corinthians 15:52-53) It’s a “win, win” situation.