Christ risen from the dead establishes, as the great fact presented by God to faith, victory over evil in Him who bore its consequences in the righteous judgment of God, that He might deal in sovereign grace with man, give the believer power morally by the Holy Spirit, and associate him openly and triumphantly with Christ in the same risen condition ere long and forever.

We can understand, then, the effort of Satan to bring in among the Christians doubt and denial of the resurrection of the dead. As the seal of Christ’s grace and glory, of the miracles He wrought, and of the truth He taught, His resurrection is all-important; no less is it the proof of Satan vanquished, of redemption accepted, of God glorified, even as to sin and sins borne in Christ’s body on the tree. It is the power of the new and inner life, and it is the object and spring of the most glorious hope, in which the Christian and the Church look to be blessed with Christ in heavenly places—and this as a tangible fact, just as it is now in position, Christ having already borne God’s judgment for the believer, who has passed from death into life.