resurrection_awake_to_righteousness_4.mp4

Yet, future resurrection denies present righteousness. Since resurrection is the awakening to righteousness, if it were yet future and not already realized, we could not be righteous until the resurrection occurred. We have to understand that. You see, I know all of those out there who are listening to me who believe that the resurrection is yet future, have not yet understood the connection of resurrection with righteousness. Let's look at a couple of scriptures. In Galatians chapter 5 and the verses 5, the Bible says, For we through the Spirit do wait for the hope of righteousness, which is by faith. What were they doing? They were waiting for the hope of righteousness, which is by faith. So righteousness was the hope, but wasn't resurrection the hope as well? And isn't there only one hope in the gospel? So you see, righteousness was their hope, resurrection was the hope, and those are equal to one and the same thing. If the resurrection, therefore, is future, if it has not yet occurred, then righteousness has not yet come into being. It is not yet a present reality, and men still live and labor under the power of sin. That's why Peter said in 2 Peter chapter 3 and verse 13, Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, there's the promise, the promise of whom? The promise of the Spirit, just as Paul said in Galatians 5 and verse 5, those passages are parallel, for we through the promise of the Spirit do, or rather look for a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness. You see, resurrection belongs to the new heavens and new earth. And if we do not have the new heavens and new earth, if it is still future, if resurrection is still future, then where's the righteousness that is found within the new heavens and the new earth? David said, I will be satisfied when I awake in your righteousness, when I awake in your likeness. And so to awake or rise from the dead is to arise into the righteousness of Christ. Again, in Romans chapter 6, Paul said, Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. The future life of that text is precisely the life or resurrection affirmed in 1 Corinthians 15. They're not different. You see, everyone understands that the life in 1 Corinthians chapter or rather in Romans chapter 6 is spiritual and not physical. They get it, but they don't understand that Romans chapter 6 is directly parallel to 1 Corinthians 15. Both of them are talking about a future life in the text, and it is the spiritual life of Romans that is identical to the spiritual life of 1 Corinthians 15. That's why Paul said awake to righteousness and sin not. Now, how would they sin? They would sin by going back under the law. That's why he tells them in Romans chapter 6 for sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the law, but under grace. You see, they were under the grace of the gospel. It is no more physical than the death that the saints died with Christ. It is all about leaving a body of sin and entering a body of righteousness where they're or where they yield their lives to righteousness. Sin cannot reign and dominate their lives anymore because they are no longer under the law. Also notice the following verses in Romans chapter 6 verses 13 through 19, and you will see where Paul is simply talking about yielding up their members and their lives to righteousness as opposed to living in sin. You see, resurrection is all about living within the state and practicing righteousness.