Section 4
resurrection is Jesus, the Son of God! As long as we have Jesus Christ, we have resurrection, no matter where we may be.
What a difference there is between the doc trinal teaching regarding resurrection and the subjective revelation of Christ as resurrection! What we need today is not the objective teach ing about resurrection, but the subjective, living, up-to-date experience of Christ as resurrection.
CHRIST AS LIFE-POWER
To say that Christ is resurrection means that Christ is the life-power. Resurrection is lifepower. With life there are the life-essence, the life-shape, and the life-power. First we have the life-essence, and then we have the life-power. Following this, we have the life-shape, the lifeform. Resurrection is Christ being the life-power to us. This is a very significant matter.
In 1936 I paid a visit to one of the leading universities in China. One of the students spoke to me about his difficulty in believing in resur rection. He told me that due to his modern sci entific knowledge he could not believe. To him, resurrection was against scientific truth. Out side of the room where we were meeting there was a wheat field. Drawing his attention to the
