“The power of his resurrection.” 
              — Philippians 3:10

The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The
resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of
Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It
would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which
flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that he has risen, and to have
fellowship with him as such-communing with the risen Saviour by
possessing a risen life-seeing him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb
of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious. The
doctrine is the basis of the experience, but as the flower is more
lovely than the root, so is the experience of fellowship with the risen
Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I would have you believe
that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of it, and derive all the
consolation which it is possible for you to extract from this
well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not
contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see him
visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith;
and though, like Mary Magdalene, you may not “touch” him, yet may you
be privileged to converse with him, and to know that he is risen, you
yourselves being risen in him to newness of life. To know a crucified
Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is a high degree of knowledge;
but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me, and to realize that
he has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a new creature
through his own newness of life, this is a noble style of experience:
short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both “know him, and
the power of his resurrection.” Why should souls who are quickened with
Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for
the Lord is risen.

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