The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ marks the end of the reign of sin and death in

this world.

As John Piper reminds us in his Easter sermon from 2005, in a sermon on Philippians 3

verses 20 and 21, here's what he said.

Christ came, he obeyed, he bore the wrath, he bore the curse, he bore our judgment,

he bore our guilt, he bore our sin, he died, he rose again and now he reigns and we have

this description of its implication in verses 20 and 21 of chapter 3.

Our citizenship is in heaven and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ and

now we know how he got to heaven, he got there because God raised him from the dead and

now he's a God man in heaven, he's not just an ethereal spirit, he's a man, a God man

in heaven who will transform our lowly body, our cancer-ridden body, our addicted body,

our depressed body into a body like his glorious body and now we know how he got that body

because of the assumption, he got that body because he obeyed the Father and he came

and he took human flesh on, he never laid it down, never, never, never does he cease to

be the man, Jesus Christ, he will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body

by the power that enables him to subject all things to himself and now I want us to marvel

at this, I want us to marvel at the one being spoken of here and I see three reasons to

marvel in these two verses. Number one, marvel at the power of the risen Christ to subject

all things to himself. Second, marvel that one day this very power by which he subjects

all the universe to himself will become employed, making your lowly body like his glorious body

and marvel thirdly that today your citizenship is in heaven where the king is. Let's take those

one at a time and marvel. Number one, marvel at the power of the risen Christ to subject

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