Resurrection

Resurrection and Redemption

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Salvation includes the bodily resurrection of the saints and life in the New Creation, which will occur when Jesus arrives.

Central to the doctrine of salvation is the promise of redemption. God will not abandon what He first created, and both the term and the concept mean the recovery of what was lost. The universe is enslaved by sin and condemned to decay and death. In God’s redemptive plans, the end state of redeemed things and persons is vastly superior to their original state, and this principle is epitomized in the promises of bodily Resurrection and New Creation.

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The Decisive Day

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The arrival of Jesus will be an event of great victory and finality that will result in the resurrection and the New Creation.

The return of Jesus at the “end of the age” will be a singular event of utter finality. His “arrival” or ‘Parousia’ will be accompanied by celestial and terrestrial upheaval, the installation of the New Creation, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment of the godly and the ungodly, the “gathering of Christ’s elect,” and the end of Death. Decay and mortality will be replaced by immortality. Nothing will ever be the same again!

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Redeeming our Bodies

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Paul links the bodily resurrection of believers to the New Creation. Both events are vital for our complete redemption – Romans 8:1-23.

There is “now no condemnation” of anyone who is “in Christ Jesus.” This happy condition exists because the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.” In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul links our salvation to the inheritance of Christ and the coming redemption of our bodies and creation itself.

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Resurrection and Completion

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Paul expresses his goal of going on to completion, a process that will culminate in bodily resurrection when Jesus arrives in glory.

Paul instructed the congregation of Philippi to go on to “completion” in Jesus. Bodily resurrection must take place for the consummation of this process and the completion of our salvation. This will occur when Jesus appears “on the clouds of Heaven.” God will continue to perform what He began with our conversion until “the Day of Christ.” Salvation is a process throughout our lives.

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Mes Témoins

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Le Don de l’Esprit équipe l’Assemblée pour rendre témoignage à Jésus, en particulier en ce qui concerne sa Résurrection d’entre les morts. 

Au début du Livre des Actes, Jésus dit aux disciples qu’ils seront “baptisés dans le Saint-Esprit dans peu de jours” et qu’ils “recevront une puissance” leur permettant de devenir “Mes Témoins à Jérusalem, dans toute la Judée et la Samarie, et jusqu’aux extrémités de la Terre.” Recevoir le Don de l’Esprit équiperait ses saints pour proclamer son message “à toutes les nations.”

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