Friday | 18 June 2021
As His physical blood was shed through the wounds that He suffered, Christ was being made alive from the death of sin as a corporate New Creation. Heb 13:20. He was pioneering the pathway of every person’s salvation, and He was fulfilling the works of their sonship. Heb 5:8. Isa 26:12. Furthermore, the resurrection life in Christ’s blood was being multiplied and given to be the life of those who would receive His word and accept their participation in the fellowship of His offering. 1Jn 5:12.
When the Son of Man’s offering journey was complete, exanastasis had attained a full perfection and expression in Him. Joh 19:30. His Spirit had gone to the Father, yet His physical body remained on earth, where it lay for three days and three nights in a tomb. The reason why Christ’s body did not decay during this time was because the exanastasis life of the Father had already been perfected in His physical body through His offering on the cross. On the day of resurrection, three days and three nights following His death, His body did not need to be changed into a spiritual body. It had already become spiritual through the power of exanastasis. When He returned to His body, it was as spiritual as it was material.
Through His offering journey from Gethsemane to Calvary, Jesus brought an end to ‘the belly’ as being the principle of life for mankind. 1Co 6:13. His physical body was raised to immortality. It is now a spiritual body that is sustained by a different principle; He now lives only by the power of an endless life. Heb 7:15-16. This reveals anastasis in an immortal body. He is still able to eat and drink natural food; however, His body is no longer mortal and sustained by the principle of biological life. Luk 24:41-43.
Further Study:
LUKE 24
Daily Proverb:
References:
Heb 13:20
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.
Heb 5:8
Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Isa 26:12
LORD, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works for us.
1Jn 5:12
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Joh 19:30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!’ And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
1Co 6:13
Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Heb 7:15-16
And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
Luk 24:41-43
But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, ‘Have you any food here?’ So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. And He took it and ate in their presence.