Power. Ability.
Having power - we all have power to a degree.
Our Savior's resurrection power - decided life for mankind, in eternity.
We have the power of choice over our eternity. Unless we are mentally incapacitated in some manner we are able to choose salvation in Christ, or not.
Christ's power gives us this power.
Excerpt- E.J. Waggoner
Power by the Resurrection.
Although Jesus Christ was of lowly birth, he was "declared to be the Son of God WITH POWER, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Rom. 1:4.
Was he not the Son of God before the resurrection? and was he not so declared to be?
Certainly; and the POWER of the resurrection was manifested in all his life. To speak of nothing else, the POWER of the resurrection was shown in his raising the dead, which he did by the POWER dwelling in him. But it was the resurrection from the dead that settled the matter beyond all doubt for men.
After his resurrection he met the disciples, and said unto them, "ALL POWER is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Matt. 28:18.
The death of Christ shattered all the hopes that they had centered in him; but when he "showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days" (Acts 1:3), they had ample proof of his POWER.
Their sole work thenceforth was to be witnesses of his resurrection and of its POWER. The POWER of the resurrection is according to the Spirit of holiness, for it was by the Spirit that he was raised. The POWER given to make men holy is the POWER that raised Jesus from the dead.
"His divine POWER hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness."
Having power - we all have power to a degree.
Our Savior's resurrection power - decided life for mankind, in eternity.
We have the power of choice over our eternity. Unless we are mentally incapacitated in some manner we are able to choose salvation in Christ, or not.
Christ's power gives us this power.
Excerpt- E.J. Waggoner
Power by the Resurrection.
Although Jesus Christ was of lowly birth, he was "declared to be the Son of God WITH POWER, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Rom. 1:4.
Was he not the Son of God before the resurrection? and was he not so declared to be?
Certainly; and the POWER of the resurrection was manifested in all his life. To speak of nothing else, the POWER of the resurrection was shown in his raising the dead, which he did by the POWER dwelling in him. But it was the resurrection from the dead that settled the matter beyond all doubt for men.
After his resurrection he met the disciples, and said unto them, "ALL POWER is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Matt. 28:18.
The death of Christ shattered all the hopes that they had centered in him; but when he "showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days" (Acts 1:3), they had ample proof of his POWER.
Their sole work thenceforth was to be witnesses of his resurrection and of its POWER. The POWER of the resurrection is according to the Spirit of holiness, for it was by the Spirit that he was raised. The POWER given to make men holy is the POWER that raised Jesus from the dead.
"His divine POWER hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness."