The Resurrected Life

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. (Ro 6:4)

The resurrected life is a life that is lived towards God. It is a life that acknowledges Him, submits to Him, gets life from Him, and lives to please Him. We are no longer to submit to sin, but are to submit to God, we are no longer to obey sin but are to obey God. We are to offer the parts of our bodies to God as instruments of righteousness.

The resurrected life is new kind of life that we were unable to live before we knew God. It is a life that cannot be lived without the life of God inside of us. It is a life lived to God and for God. It is a life that offers itself to God to be an instrument of His righteousness, for His glory, to the accomplishing of His purposes in Christ Jesus.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Ro 6:11)

The resurrected life can not be lived out of our past, or even in identity with our past. It must be lived out of who we are now, not who we were before we knew Christ. It is a life that cannot be identified with sin, failure or what we can accomplish in our own abilities or own strength.

The resurrected life cannot be lived with out dying. We must die to sin, selfish ambition, soulish wisdom, and sensual pleasures. We have to identify with Christ’s in His death by being buried with Him in baptism. To be baptized into Christ is to baptized into His death. Everything before that burial is dead, is no longer the rule of our lives, is no longer the purpose of our living, and is no longer in control of our destinies.

The resurrected life is the life that is raised up out of the tomb of death. It is the life that is raised up in the same way that Christ was resurrected. It is no longer a natural life lived for natural purposes, it is a supernatural life, endowed with supernatural power, and lived for supernatural purposes. It is man-ward life laid down and buried, and then raised up a God-ward life.

The resurrected life is a life identified with the resurrected life of Jesus Christ. Its allegiance is not to self, the world, or the demonic, but its allegiance is to the Lord God Almighty. It is a life lived with the passion, purpose, and power of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the life Christ gives us. Let us not settle for the residue of what we have died to, but let us reach out and live the resurrected life by the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ, and let us live it for the glory of God our Father.

The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. (Ro 6:10)