Now we confess that in the incarnation the Son of God took humanity into himself, without ceasing to be God. Though he was without sin, we saw something on Friday that you should stop and ponder: Jesus Christ was mortal - he was “killable.” And the Romans used a cross to do just that. On Easter Jesus rose from the dead. But this was no mere returning to the same existence he had lived before – a human existence once again plagued by mortality. Instead, Jesus Christ was raised by the Spirit with a body that was transformed so that it can never die again. This is what the resurrection of the Last Day is all about. Easter declares that it has already begun in Jesus. Just after our text Paul writes, “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 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.”
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:07:27 +0000
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