Christianity's Difference: Jesus Christ is Raised from the Dead! And He Will Come Again; TO RAISE ALL WHO CALL ON HIM BY FAITH AND REPENTANCE! GLORY TO HIS NAME!!
- Dr. Roger D Duke
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A Devotional for Wednesday June 10, 2026
From the Pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress
Sharers in His Resurrection
“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” Romans 6: 11.
By this . . . we have now escaped death. “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto,” or for, “sin once; but in that he lives, he lives unto God” (Romans 6: 9-10). Now in all this . . . we that are of the elect are privileged. For that we also are raised up by the rising of the body of Christ from the dead. And thus, the apostle bids us reckon: “Likewise reckon . . . also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ” (Romans 6: 11). He says, “I am the resurrection and the life.” For all his are safe in him . . . [by His] suffering, dying, and rising. He is the life, “our life.” Yea . . . that by him the elect do live before God, even . . . when as to themselves they yet are dead in their sins. Wherefore . . . it is that in time they partake of quickening grace from their Head to the making of them also live by faith to their living hereafter with him in glory. For if Christ lives, they cannot die that were sharers with him in his resurrection. Hence, they are said to “live,” being “quickened together with him.” [And] . . . from that day to this, all that . . . were in him at his death and resurrection, are already in the “dispensation of the fulness of times,” daily “gathering to him.” For this he hath purposed [and] none can disannul— “In the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth; even in him"(Ephesians 1: 10).
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