The Resurrection

Was It Bodily Or Spiritually?

When Jesus died the spirit of God lifted from Him. Mark 15:34; Luke 23:46. The Son, or body, died, the spirit of God that filled that body did not die. James 2:26. The body without the spirit is dead. The sonship is merely the fleshly body of Jesus Christ and when the spirit of God lifted from that body the son of God was dead, but God was not dead. The spirit merely lifted from that body. When Jesus said, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me. The spirit of God was being lifted from that body. On the third day Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus said destroy this temple and I will raise it up in three days, meaning, the spirit of God that dwelt in Him, would raise His body from the dead. Jesus was raised from the dead by His own power. In John 14 Jesus said I am in the Father and the Father is in me. The Father, or the spirit of God, raised the son, or body of Jesus Christ from the grave. Acts 1:1-4, this was Jesus in His resurrected body. Verse 3, Jesus showed Himself alive, after His passion, or just as they had known Him, or remembered Him, alive after His passion, with many infallible proofs. In other words, no doubt about it. This is Jesus, and He is alive. John 20:1-9, they found the empty tomb. Luke 24:1-12.

John 20:11-17 Mary Magdeline met Jesus and talked to him. Verse 17 Jesus as the son of God. I Ascend unto my Father, or spirit of God, and your father, and to my God and to your God, because He had a human body just like theirs. But all of God dwelt in that body. John 20:19-24 He appears and talks to all disciples except Thomas. This was Jesus in his resurrected body. John 20:25-31 He appears to all the disciples including Thomas. Verse 28 Thomas calls Jesus My Lord and My God.

John chapter 21 the disciples had gone fishing, and Jesus appeared to them and performed a miracle, the great drought of fishes. He ate with them and talked with them.

Luke 24:13-32 Jesus appeared to two of His disciples and talked with them, and expounded the scriptures unto them. He opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. 

Luke 24:33-51, He visited with His disciples, ate with them and instructed them, and gave them the promise of the Holy Ghost, and while He blessed them, He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. Verse 39, a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. See Mark 16, the whole chapter. Matt. 9 the whole chapter. When Jesus was resurrected His body was the same as it was before the crucification - a resurrected body.

Proof

Luke 4:29,30 This was before the crucification. They were going to throw Him off the brow of the hill and kill Him, but He passed through the midst of them. This was before the crucification and resurrection.

 John 20:19,20 He appeared in the midst of the disciples, the doors being shut. This is after His resurrection. 

God Raised Him Up

  1. Acts 2:24 - God raised Him up. The spirit of God, or the Father, raised Jesus from the dead. John 4:24 - God is a spirit. The spirit of God reentered the body, or son, of God. Romans 8:11 But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His spirit that dwell in you. Here in this verse in Romans 8:11 Paul is saying that the spirit of God and the Holy Ghost is the same.
  2. Acts 3:15 - God raised Him from the dead. 
  3. Acts 3:26 - God raised up His son.
  4. Acts 4:2 - God raised Him from the dead. 
  5. Acts 5:30 - the God of our Fathers raised up Jesus.
  6. Acts 10:40 - Him God raised up the third day.
  7. Acts 13:30-37 He saw no corruption.
  8. Acts 24:24,25 - God raised up Jesus.
  9. Romans 6:4-9 - Raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.
  10. Romans 8:9-11 - the spirit raised up Christ from the dead.
    1. Notice in verse 9 that the spirit of God and the spirit of Christ are the same.
  11. Romans 10:9 - believe that God raised Him from the dead.
  12. I Corin. 6:14 - God raised Him up.
  13. I Corin. 15:15 - God raised Him up.
  14. I Corin. 15.20 - the first to rise of His own power. John 2:19-21 - Jesus said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up, Jesus had all of God in Him Col. 1:19; Col. 2:8,9. I Corin. 5:19 - to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
  15. II Corin. 4:14 - He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus. So the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of Christ or the spirit of God are the same. Romans 8:11.
  16. Galations 1:1 - God the Father, who raised Him from the dead. John 14:1-11 - Jesus said I am in the Father and the Father in me.
  17. Ephesians 1:19-23 - God raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand, meaning He gave him all power in heaven. Right hand always means power Matt. 28:18. Jesus said all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
  18. Col. 2:6-12 - self explanatory,
  19. II Timothy 2:8 - remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.
    1. Jesus was of the seed of David through Mary. His body came from the seed of David. He got His life from the spirit of God John 4:24. God is a spirit.   The  Holy Ghost, or spirit of God overshadowed Mary, Matt. 1:18.
  20. I Peter 1:21 - Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and  gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
    1. Isaiah 42:8 - God said, I am the Lord, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another.
    2. If Jesus were not God in the flesh, Matt. 1:23, He would not have any glory, because God will not give His glory to another.
  21. Jesus went away in a body and He will return in a body. Acts 1:9-11. I Thess. 4:16.
    I John 3:2. 
  22. When Jesus came out of the grave He had a resurrected body of flesh. Luke 24:39,40.  Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bone as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, He showed them his hands and his feet. 
  23. Luke 24:41-43 - He ate with them.

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When He ascended into Heaven, He went away in a glorified body, because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. I Corin. 15:50; I Corin. 15:35-55 - Raised a spiritual body. I Corin. 15:51,52 - We shall not all sleep - or die, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. I Corin. 15:44 - It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. So Jesus went away in a spiritual, or glorified body.

 

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