The Resurrected Life

 THE RESURRECTION LIFE

FROM THE GRAVE TO THE KINGDOM WITHIN**

Primary Theme:
Resurrection is not only a future event at the Second Coming—it is the present life of Christ in the believer through the New Birth.

OPENING DECLARATION

Beloved, Christianity is not a religion of postponed life.
It is resurrection life now.

Too many believers are waiting for the resurrection,
while the Bible declares we are already raised.

I. MAN’S PROBLEM: DEAD WHILE LIVING

Before we talk about resurrection, we must define death.

Death in Scripture is not first physical—it is spiritual separation from God.

Ephesians 2:1 (KJV)

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;”

Man was alive physically, but dead spiritually.
That is why Jesus did not come merely to fix behavior—
He came to raise the dead.

II. JESUS ANNOUNCED A PRESENT RESURRECTION

1. Resurrection Begins When the King Speaks

John 5:24–25 (KJV)

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.”

Jesus said “now is.”
Resurrection is not postponed—it is proclaimed.

When a sinner believes, a resurrection takes place.

III. NEW BIRTH IS PARTICIPATION IN CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

2. We Were Buried—and We Were Raised

Colossians 2:12–13 (KJV)

“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;”

Salvation is not forgiveness alone—
It is resurrection union.

3. Raised to Walk a New Kind of Life

Romans 6:4–5 (KJV)

“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”

Resurrection is not just about rising up later—
It is about walking differently now.

IV. CHRIST IS NOT ONLY RISEN—HE IS THE RESURRECTION

4. Resurrection Is a Person Living in You

John 11:25–26 (KJV)

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”

If Christ lives in you, resurrection lives in you.

5. The Same Spirit That Raised Jesus Lives in Us

Romans 8:10–11 (KJV)

“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

That power is not waiting for heaven—
It is dwelling inside the believer.

V. RESURRECTION PLACES US IN THE KINGDOM

6. Raised and Seated with Christ

Ephesians 2:4–6 (KJV)

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”

You cannot be seated unless you are first raised.

7. Translation into the Kingdom Is Present

Colossians 1:13 (KJV)

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:”

The Kingdom is not entered by death—
It is entered by resurrection life.

VI. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS RESURRECTION LIFE

8. Christ Lives His Life Through Us

Galatians 2:20 (KJV)

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Christianity is Christ expressing His resurrected life through human vessels.

9. Resurrection Produces a New Creation

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Resurrection creates a new species of humanity.

VII. FUTURE RESURRECTION IS THE COMPLETION, NOT THE START

10. We Have the Firstfruits Now

Romans 8:23 (KJV)

“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

We are alive now—
We will be glorified later.

11. God Has an Order

1 Corinthians 15:22–23 (KJV)

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”

Spirit first.
Body later.

CLOSING DECLARATION

Beloved,

• You are not waiting to be raised
• You are not trying to get life
• You are living resurrection life now

Romans 6:11 (KJV)

“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”