The Process Of Resurrection
THE PROCESS OF RESURRECTION
The resurrection of the Man-Savior was a process. This process began immediately after the Lord's birth. We should not think, there fore, that His resurrection began on the third day after His crucifixion.
If we consider the New Testament thoroughly, we shall realize that resurrection begins with death. For the thirty-three and a half years of the Lord's human living on earth, He experi enced death—death to Himself and to all things other than God. Hence, the life He lived was a life under death.
In Luke 12:50 the Man-Savior indicated that He was very constrained and desired to be re leased: "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed until it is accomplished!" The Greek word translated "pressed" may also be rendered "constrained." The Man-Savior was constrained in His flesh, which He had put on through incarnation. Therefore, He needed to die, to be baptized in physical death, so that His un limited and infinite divine being with His divine