Chapter 5 of 18

Section 4

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

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