Section 8
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (lit.). The new creation had its beginning when the Lord Jesus began to live another life, a crucified life. He lived the life of the new cre ation while in a body belonging to the old crea tion and in the environment of the old creation. As He lived in this way, He was continually dying to everything of the old creation.
One day, with the help of Satan and his fol lowers, the body of the Lord Jesus was put to death actually and absolutely. Then His old cre ation body was buried in a tomb. After three days this body was resurrected. However, there was a great difference between the resurrected body of Lazarus and the resurrected body of Jesus Christ. The resurrected body of Lazarus was unchanged; it still belonged to the old cre ation. But the resurrected body of Jesus Christ was changed both in nature and in form. As a body in the old creation, it was a body of flesh and blood, but as a body in the new creation, it became a spiritual body.
KNOWING CHRIST IN RESURRECTION
This incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Christ has become a seed sown into us. The