Section 6
we were regenerated through His resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3). Hence, His resurrection is our ger mination and regeneration. In this way we have become the new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). We are regenerated people in His new creation.
PRODUCING THE CHURCH
Furthermore, Christ's resurrection produced the church as His Body, even as His reproduc tion (John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17). Therefore, the church is Christ's reproduction in resurrection. When the Lord Jesus was incarnated, He was an individual. But when He was resurrected, He became corporate, a corporate Christ (1 Cor. 12:12), the Christ who is both the Head and the Body.
We need to understand these seven aspects of Christ's resurrection. Resurrection was God's vindication of the Lord's life and work, resurrec tion was the Lord's great success in His universal achievement, resurrection was His victory over all enemies, resurrection was His glorification, resurrection was His transfiguration into the life- giving Spirit essentially, resurrection was the ger mination of the new creation, and resurrection produced the church, the Body, as Christ's repro duction. These matters are clearly revealed in the