Key Verse: "And you, being dead in
your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;"
- Colossians 2:13 KJV
Christ's resurrection was the sure pledge and meritorious
cause of the Church's regeneration. The whole body of the elect was
"quickened together with Christ," as well as raised up together with him;
that is, mystically quickened, as they were mystically raised, quickened in
a mystical regeneration of soul, as well as raised up in a mystical
regeneration of body. How wonderful is this, that every soul quickened into
divine life in time is so because mystically quickened as a member of Christ
when he was raised from the dead.
View the whole body of the elect as dead in sin. Then
view them quickened, one by one, in all their countless multitude, during
the whole stretch of time. Consider the power put forth in the regeneration
of each individual. Then take a view of the quickening of the dead body of
Christ, as prior to the resurrection, and the whole body of the elect
mystically quickened together with him. Do you see no act of infinite power,
and power in harmony with love and grace here? Where are the eyes of your
faith, if you see not this? Where your admiring love, if you do not adore
this act of love to the Church, as in union with her covenant Head? Was not
that a mighty act of power and love which, at one moment, and by one and the
same act, mystically quickened millions of souls which shall live forever in
the presence of God?
Are you Saved?
