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Friday, September 05, 2003 ResurrectionLast night, I listened to the 4th talk by West Australian bible teacher, David Boan, in a series on Discipleship. The talks are at St Luke's Anglican Church in Vermont, Melbourne.This was on the resurrection. I hope to add a little more, but time is scarce today so just a few brief notes to make a start. - David told us that the resurrection is at the centre of Christian belief, and indeed was always a significant part of the gospel preached by the Apostles (he gave an excellent overview of Paul's preaching to Jews and "others (ie. Greeks) who feared God" in Acts 13 - note significance of the resurrection!) - the early church, when they met, welcomed each other with the exclamation "Christ is risen!" which was met with the reply "He is risen indeed!!" - the dilemma of the Christian life is how do we live in a body which is not redeemed when you already are? - there is absolute and insepparable continuity between the resurrection of Christ (the "first fruits") and our resurrection (the rest of the crop!) - indeed, everyone will be raised, in the order first Christ, then all who are in Christ at his coming, then at the end of the age, everyone else. - death for the Christian is simply like going to sleep tonight; we are confident we will awake tomorrow! (1Cor15) - no more fear than we have when we put our head on the pillow for sleep; just as Jesus said about Lazarus "he's asleep, and I'm going to wake him!" - the significance of the resurrection is such that time is split in two by the event - before the resurrection (in Adam, all die), and post-resurrection (the era of the second Adam - Christ the life-giving Spirit). Here, Adam and Christ are being compared as federal men, and we choose with which to be associated. - since the resurrection, Christ's kingdom has been established on earth (those who recognise him as Lord are to be found everywhere on earth) - relevance to the second psalm (which Paul refers to in Acts 13). I hope to develop that last point further, as time permits! Enjoy the weekend, all... # posted by geoff @ 4:08 pm 0 comments
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