The resurrection life

The resurrection life is very much the way the apostle Paul describes the New creation, the risen life, the born again life. Paul relates our conversion experience to being directly joined to Jesus' physical resurrection from the dead. In Ephesians 2:5 Paul speaks of us who were dead in our sins and trespasses, have been raised "together" with Christ, and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Paul is directly linking what has happened in the believers conversion experience into life, resurrection life. To the physical resurrection of Christ Jesus. He explains that by us being joined together with Christ. in vs6 we sit in heavenly places with him even now. This language describes us as already partaking of the powers of the age to come, Now!!!, Because we are in Christ Jesus. So us partaking of the resurrection life is in a sense a 1st fruit and shows that to be raised from death, is for us the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead, to be at work in the lives of those who have been joined to Jesus, by grace through faith. If we are partaking of the powers of the age to come then we are in the time of the Kingdom. So to be born again and partake of the resurrection life means we are partaking of Kingdom life now.

Romans 6:4 is another place where Paul describes the New man in Resurrection language. 1: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2: God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? 3: Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4: We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5: For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; 6: knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; 7: for he that hath died is justified from sin. 8: But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; 9: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him. 10: For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11: Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. What we read here in Romans is how the resurrection of Jesus from the dead relates to his people been raised from the death of sin into newness of life. What we're seeing here is the demonstration of the resurrection power being translated into the believers life.vs4 says We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
vs 5 builds on vs 4 and says if we are united(joined) to Jesus in his death, we will also be united to him in his resurrection. In otherword if we are joined to his resurrection life, then we are new people not just in name but in resurrection power.
Vs6 says knowing that our old nature was crucified with Jesus...we are no longer in bondage to sin. Simply put it means we are not under the power of sin to do its will. Rather it is the otherway around that we have dominion and power over sin. This means we are truly delivered from the sin that held us and humiliated us. Having established the reality of what happens when a believer is baptised with the Spirit of Christ and so been joined to his resurrection. God has triumphed over sin in Jesus Christ, that his people are no longer slaves to sin, but instead slaves to righteousness.. Paul now moves on and says if you've tasted of this 1st resurrection then because you are alive to God then live for Him.In this passage the promises of the New Covenant are being applied.
These verses have nothing to do with water baptism.It is Holy Spirit baptism that enables us to walk according to Gods law.In chapters 1-5 Paul has already spelled out how we are justified in Christ alone by faith alone in the cross of Christ.He would be shooting himself in the foot if he were now to say this happens when you are water baptised. We must be careful of reading water baptism into all occurences of the word baptism. Romans 6 doesn't say it is water baptism, but from the context it is clearly the Spirit of Jesus who God promised to put in men to cause them to walk in obediene to him that is been spoken of. This is the greatest miracle of all miracles is for the wicked to be made in the likeness of Gods own son. The transforming of wretches into treasures. The taming of wild beasts into the obedience of a good soldier ready to do his masters will. This is the transforming power of the gospel. This is the victory of God over the powers of sin and death and the devil!!!!!!!!!!Hallelujah!!!!!!!! what Paul is saying to be joined to Christs resurrection means you are raised as a new creature. You can't be the same again, because you have ben raised out of the grip of sin. In otherwords if you aren't changed then it hasn't happened to you. For vs 9 says just as Christ can't be raised from the dead again because death has no power over him,the same is true for us of being raised from the death of sin. We are raised just like Christ now and in the future resurrection.. Praise His name forever!!! Hallelujah!!! Next we'll look at the victory of God and how Paul expands on this framework of Jesus' death and resurrection