Early that Sunday morning, suddenly the eyelids flutter. The brain waves begin. The heart starts

the beat. The blood starts to course through the veins of the slain Jesus. And in the

power of the Holy Ghost, he comes out of those grave clothes, out of the state of death,

and comes out alive. Victorious over death.

As Christians, we speak a lot about the death of Christ. Even the symbol of the cross is

universally linked to the Christian faith. Yet have you considered that Christians don't gather

together on Fridays, the day that Jesus died, we gather on Sunday, the day that He rose from the

dead? Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

The cross of Christ is essential to biblical Christianity, and so is the resurrection. The

Apostle Paul says that if Christ had not been raised, our faith is useless and we're to be pitted.

All week, RC sprawl is unpacking the work of Christ for us. We've seen that Jesus lived for

our justification. That He died for our justification. And today, that He also was raised for our

justification. Here's Dr. sprawl on the resurrection of Christ.

We continue now with our study of the work of Christ in our last session. We considered

briefly His atoning death on the cross. And today, we're going to look at the resurrection.

And it may seem a little bit strange to speak of the resurrection of Christ as part of His work.

Because the whole event of His resurrection was one in which Jesus was completely passive.

He didn't raise Himself from the dead, but rather He was raised by the power of the Holy Ghost

from the dead. Now, to understand what went on there in the resurrection, the first thing we have

to realize is that when Jesus died on the cross, He was really dead. And when He was buried in the

tomb, He was really dead. This was an occasion where the body of Jesus was now a corpse. His soul

had left His body and was with the Father, but His physical corpse was placed in the tomb.

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