“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
This abundant life, we doubt not, is life in resurrection (John 20:22). Not only is the Christian a child of God, but he is said to be quickened together with Christ, raised up together, and seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Mark what scenes of blessedness this great truth, this union with Christ, introduces the believer into. United to Him, the risen Head, He communicates to him the privileges of His own position before God. He is the well-spring of the believer’s new life it is fed by Him every moment. Neither sin. Satan, nor death can ever touch it.
The Christian, by faith, has already begun his eternity with Christ. The foundation of all this great truth for the soul is the death and resurrection of Christ. He who knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. In the greatness of His love He bore the burden of our sins in His own body on the tree. Death in all its bitterness He tasted for us, to put away sin, the source and sting of death, by the sacrifice of Himself. But God raised up that blessed one, and quickened us together with Him.
And now, blessed be His name, we know of a truth that our evil nature has been judged, our sins all blotted out, that righteousness has been divinely accomplished, that our peace with God is made, and that we are one with the risen Christ, in an entirely new sphere where no evil can ever come, and where the light of God’s countenance shines on us perfectly, and forever.
(See 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; Heb. 2:9: 9:26; Col. 2:12, 13; Eph. 2; 1 Cor. 15).