The Same Power
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11
You arrive home from work on a Friday evening and carelessly leave the car door ajar, so the interior courtesy lights remain on. You don’t drive the car on Saturday, but Sunday morning you discover a dead battery. Only one thing will help: an infusion of electrical power from another source—provided by your neighbor with his jumper cables.
Our life is somewhat analogous to the dead-battery situation. Paul writes that before knowing Christ we were “dead” in our sins (Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13). But then he writes that the same God that raised Jesus from the dead “will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” That will surely happen at the resurrection, but it also happens now as our spiritually dead bodies are given an infusion of God’s power to bring us to new life (Romans 8:10-11). Depend—believe, trust—that you have power from God today, by His Spirit who dwells in you, to overcome every challenge. Christianity is not merely a program of conduct; it is the power of a new life. Benjamin B. Warfield
Turning Point Ministries
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11
You arrive home from work on a Friday evening and carelessly leave the car door ajar, so the interior courtesy lights remain on. You don’t drive the car on Saturday, but Sunday morning you discover a dead battery. Only one thing will help: an infusion of electrical power from another source—provided by your neighbor with his jumper cables.
Our life is somewhat analogous to the dead-battery situation. Paul writes that before knowing Christ we were “dead” in our sins (Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13). But then he writes that the same God that raised Jesus from the dead “will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” That will surely happen at the resurrection, but it also happens now as our spiritually dead bodies are given an infusion of God’s power to bring us to new life (Romans 8:10-11). Depend—believe, trust—that you have power from God today, by His Spirit who dwells in you, to overcome every challenge. Christianity is not merely a program of conduct; it is the power of a new life. Benjamin B. Warfield
Turning Point Ministries
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