Reckoning our co-ressurection

When Paul says that he might attain to the resurrection of the dead, he’s not saying, “I’m hoping that I’ll be in the resurrection.”

By the way, some (Bible scholar) types that like to dither around with the Greek words there take that word resurrection and retranslate it as the “out resurrection.”

The problem with that is all resurrections, except the resurrection of the lost, are “out resurrections,” explains Richard Jordan.

What they’re trying to say is, “There’s a special resurrection that you can be a part of.” But Paul’s not saying there’s any special resurrection you can work your way into.

Mark 9: [9] And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.

That’s pretty straightforward, right? Verse 10: [10] And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

They knew about the resurrection OF the dead. They’re saying, “What do you mean about the resurrection FROM the dead?”

If you’re resurrected from the dead, the implication is you’re leaving some people behind; still dead. With the resurrection OF the dead, all the dead come up. You follow that?

They knew about the resurrection. Daniel 2 says, [2] And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Jesus told them in Matthew 5, “There’s a resurrection of life and a resurrection of damnation.”

Revelation 20 talks about the resurrection and he calls it “the first resurrection.” Because 1,000 years later there’s another resurrection of the damned with the Great White throne Judgment.

There’s a timing issue. The first resurrection, by the way, has several parts to it. There’s a resurrection FROM the dead that leaves some people already in the grave still down there. They’re not resurrected until later.

But everybody in the first resurrection is raised FROM the dead because they’re going to leave some people dead after they’re raised. Who do they leave dead? Well, if nobody else, they leave the lost dead.

So, at the end of the first resurrection, there’s still people in the grave who don’t come up until the Great White Throne Judgment, in what I guess you can call the “second resurrection.”

In Philippians, Paul isn’t talking about an “out resurrecton from the dead,” because the Rapture’s going to be one, with some dead people left behind after we leave.

What’s he talking about? I think verse 10 clears up any questions about it: [10] That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

I’ll put the ellipsis at the end there: “from the dead.”

Romans 6: [3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
[4] 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.
[5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
[6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Verse 11: [11] Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Take your faith and reckon what God says is true of you in your co-crucifixion and co-ressurection with Jesus Christ. You are dead with Him, you’re alive to God.

You died with Him at Calvary, you came to life with Him in His resurrection. That’s your position; that’s your identity. Now bring it into your experience.

Reckon the Cross to be the finality of sin, and the resurrection to be, “You’re alive unto God.” Put that into the practice of your thinking and your life and let that be the way you calculate life.

Romans 6:13: [13] Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

He says, “You go out and live right now as those that are alive from the dead. You live right now as though you’re already resurrected.”