Lesson 53 Warring Against the Flesh: Living in Resurrection Power
Questions 6 and 7
This is the power of the resurrection: it not only raises us from the dead, lifts us out of sin and draws us up to Jesus, but it also shields us, protecting us from the evil one!
The evil one shoots a fiery arrow at us in the form of a lustful image or thought. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead now shields us from the arrows of the enemy. God uses His power to protect us, which means that Satan’s attempt to set our flesh ablaze with lust fails! This is resurrection power at work!
Question 6. According to 1 Peter 1:5, how do we access resurrection power?
Yes, “through faith” we are shielded by God’s power. This means that you believe God raised Jesus from the dead, so He must be able to raise you, too! This is why God gives us evidence of the resurrection throughout His Word so that we might believe it and look to Him to work His power and His protection in us.
Consider some of these evidences of the resurrection, as told to us in story form:
The earth rose up from its watery grave on the third day (Genesis 1:9-13). Abraham received his son back, “as from the dead,” on the third day. Jonah was raised out of his watery grave on the third day (Genesis 22:4, Genesis 22:19, Hebrews 11:19). Hosea said we would be raised up and restored to live in God’s presence on the third day (Hosea 6:1-2).
God revealed this pattern of life on the third day, repeatedly, for a reason. He wants us to believe in the resurrection and experience His power. For when we believe in the cross/resurrection event, and look to God for this same power, we, ourselves, are raised out of our grave of sin, and we begin to experience God’s power as a protective shield.
So believing in the resurrection, and looking to God for resurrection power, fills us with a living hope, and protects us with a divine shield.
Question 7. How does believing in the resurrection give us the power to overcome impurity?
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