 Good morning everyone and good to see five of you join this morning. We begin class, so can I ask Paul to lead us in prayer please? Paul, would you lead us in prayer? Father, Almighty God in the name of Jesus, we thank you for yet another day. We thank you for another week. We thank you for your divine protection. Father, Lord, we commit this class now into your hand. May the Holy Spirit come and lead us. May you just use all of us as a vessel and may your word bear fruit in us. May your word enrich us. May it take us far, may it make us pray the gospel to the whole world for you have called all of us to be ministry. We are your disciples, Lord. We now say, Lord God, come and be amidst us. We commit the proper ground into your hand. We pray and declare all these in Jesus Christ's name, Son of the Living Good. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Paul. So today this morning we'll continue looking at lesson 11 where we're talking about Christ's resurrection and his exaltation. We had looked at the notes that was given there. We basically looked at a few scripture passages that spoke about Christ's resurrection, which was foretold. We also looked at the verses that spoke about where Jesus himself is talking about his resurrection, foretelling his resurrection. So we read those verses and we looked at where Christ is seated now after his ascension. So since the notes were very, very brief, I've kind of added in a little more content to the notes and so I talked about the nature of Christ's resurrection and this is not there in your notes. So if you would like to, I said if you'd like to take down some points you could do so. So we looked at the nature of Christ's resurrection and we said that Christ's resurrection was not simply a coming back from the dead as was experienced by Lazarus and others whom Jesus raised himself, but rather when Christ rose from the dead, we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 20 and 23. We read those verses. We see Paul writing there to the church at Corinth and saying that when Jesus rose from the dead, he was the first fruits of those who have resurrected from the dead. So he is unlike the others whom Christ himself raised. So but Jesus was the first fruits of those who came back to life or resurrected from the dead. That means he had a life and a body that was made perfect, which was no longer subject to weakness, aging or death, but he's able to live eternally. So Paul writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 53 that the new resurrected bodies are bodies that put on immortality and he also mentions in verses 42 to 44 that Christ's resurrected body is raised, or he says the resurrected body is raised imperishable in glory, in power. It's no longer a natural body, but it is a spiritual body. We're basically doing a recap of what I had mentioned the last class, Monday, just kind of reviewing all the points that we had looked at. So that was about the nature of Christ's resurrection. It was not like, you know, last this and the others were raised from the dead. When they were raised back, they had the same bodies that were subject to weakness, aging or death, but when Christ was raised back from death to life, we see that his body was made perfect, was no longer subject to any weakness, aging or death. And he's the first fruits of those who have risen from the dead. And I said that first fruits means there are more fruits, the same kind, the same harvest to follow or the following harvest is the same kind of fruits. And hence that when we are raised from the dead, you know, when you know, we receive our immortal bodies when we are raised imperishable in glory, in power, when we receive our spiritual bodies, it will no longer be subject to weakness, aging or death, and we will live eternally. And then I spoke about the doctrinal significance of the resurrection. Again, these points are not there in your notes. So the first thing I said under the doctrinal significance of the resurrection is that Christ's resurrection ensures our regeneration, a renewing of our own bodies, our souls, our mind, and our spirit. We read 1 Peter chapter one, verse three where Peter says that we have been born anew into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. So in Christ's resurrection, what Jesus earned for us is a new life just like his. So we do not receive all of this, this new resurrected life when we become Christians, because our bodies remain as they are still subject to weakness, aging and death. But in our spirit man, we are made alive with the new resurrection power. And we see that Paul connects this, the resurrection of Christ with the spiritual work or the spiritual power that is at work within us when he explains in Ephesians chapter one, verses 19 and 20. And he's praying for the church at Ephesus. And he's saying that, you know, what the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe according to the working of his great might, which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in heavenly places. So we had read this verse in Ephesians chapter one, verses 19 to 20. So what Paul is basically saying here is that the power by which Jesus Christ, or the power by which God raised Jesus Christ from death is the same power at work within us. And Paul sees or further sees us as raised in Christ when he says in Romans chapter six, verses four and 11, he says, can somebody read that, please? We have already read it, but we're just doing a review. But if somebody can read Romans chapter six, verses four to 11. Our chapter six, verse four to 11, we were therefore buried with him through baptism into death. In order that just as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin, because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. Death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all. But the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Thank you. So we're just basically looking at how Paul is connecting the resurrection of Christ with the spiritual power that is at work within us. So that's what he talks about, or he writes the Church of Ephesus in Ephesians chapter 1 verses 19 and 20, where he's saying that the power by which God raised Christ from the dead is the same power at work within us. And I will tell you what is the use of this power. And Paul also talks about this power in Romans chapter 6, verse 4, the whole of chapter 6 in fact, but verse 4 and verse 11 he says, we were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. And in verse 11 says, you must consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. So this new resurrection power that is at work within us, the same resurrection power that God used to raise Christ back from death to life is the same power that is in us. And this resurrection power is in us, enable us to walk in newness of life in the God kind of life that God wants us to live in more Christ likeness, so that our lives can manifest the glory of God. And also this power that is in us, you know, gives us the victory over the sins that are remaining in our bodies or the tendencies that we have to give into our carnal fleshly nature once in a while. So this new resurrection power in us, you know, gives us the power to gain more and more victory over the sin or the remaining sin in our lives. And that's what Paul says that sin will have no dominion over you. Why will sin have no dominion over you? Because Paul says we are dead to sin and he compares this with the baptism, you know, going under the water that, you know, we are dead to sin. Sin has no power over us. We are no longer slaves of sin. And that talks that when we come out of the water in baptism, it says that we receive the newness of life. That means we have, we are resurrected into the newness of life. We have the resurrection power in us. And this, this resurrected power that is in us, you know, gives us more and more strength and grace and mercy and the power to overcome or to be victorious over the remaining sin in our lives. And Paul says that sin will have no dominion over us. So even though we will never live a perfect life, you know, in this body, because we are so subject to weakness and aging and, and, you know, death, but it's, but Paul is assuring us that Christ's death and his resurrection, his resurrection power in us gives us the power to gain more and more victory over sin and a sin will have no dominion over us. And that is what Paul talks about in Romans chapter six in verse six and seven. Can somebody read that please? Again, verse six and verse seven. Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Thank you, John Paul. So these are some things what I'm sharing now is not in your notes. If you notice, it's a, it's a very concise notes that we have very little. So I'm just adding a few more points about the resurrection of Christ. So what the resurrection of Christ means to us or the doctrinal significance or importance of the resurrection of Christ. So if you like to take down notes, you could do so. When we read about this in Romans chapter six, Paul is saying here that the old man was crucified with Christ. That means he's talking about our old sinful nature that was nailed on the cross. It was crucified on the cross. The old man is the old, Adamic sinful nature that is in our, in our bodies, in our spirit man. And the human spirit has a nature. Okay. By nature, we mean that who we are in our heart, who we are in our soul, in our very core being, our essence, our character. So the human spirit or the nature of the old man has a tendency or an inclination to sin or to give in to sin. But the nature of the born again human spirit Paul is referring here to as a new man. And this nature of the new man has a tendency or an inclination not to yield to sin, but to live a holy and righteous life. So one way that you can really know if you have truly, you know, have committed your life and to God, it was a true sense of repentance, salvation, experience that you have is when you can see for yourself that your new man that is created in the likeness of God has no tendency or inclination to yield to sin, but has a tendency and inclination to live a holy and a righteous life. Okay. So when we are born again, Paul is saying that, you know, that born again experience or, you know, being a new person in Christ, the old man has been bought to an end. So when you're talking about the old man, it's talking about the old sinful, atomic nature that is born to an end, it's dead. The old man is destroyed. And Paul is saying that the body of sin that is representing the power of sin has been done away with, it has been destroyed, it has surrendered inoperative. The power of sin has to be, is already broken. And we no longer have a sinful nature in our inner person. But you know, you know, we have a righteous standing. We have an inclination or a tendency to live a holy and a righteous life. And we have no longer a sinful nature in our inner person that is exerting its influence inside out. That means, you know, there is sin that is in us, is not exerting itself and it's not showing forth outside. But the holiness, the righteousness of God that is our new nature, our new character in Christ, even as we are born again, that is exerting itself from inside out. And hence, we are no longer slaves of sin, but God has set us free from the power of sin when he crucified the old man and destroyed the body of sin on the cross. And then Paul goes on to connect this to baptism where we are, you know, when we go under water, we are considered dead to sin. When we come up, we are considered as, you know, having the being resurrected back from death to life, having the life of God, the fullness of life and walking in that newness of life. And Paul says here in this verses that this is a completed act which is already done for us on the cross, Christ has crucified our old man on the cross. So it's a completed thing. It's a present tense spiritual reality in Christ. And that is why if you see what Paul, how Paul begins this verse, he says, knowing this, okay, in verse six of Romans chapter six, he says, knowing this. So it's important for us to know what Christ has done on the cross. Why is it important for us to know so that we can walk in what Christ has done, what Christ has completed. So the whole concept of us being born again is not just that we have been forgiven of our sins. Yes, that is one aspect. There's so many facets to that. We looked at it in sozo as well, the term sozo. There's so many different aspects in about salvation, what we have received, what it means to be a new creature in Christ. And so he says it's important for us to know this that our old man is crucified. And he says when we, the old man is crucified, we would not have a tendency or an inclination to yield to sin, but to live a holy and a righteous life. So it's very important for us to know this and to live this that the old man has, our old sinful nature has been destroyed. It's rendered inoperative. And so we need to declare this over our lives as well that whatever challenges in the area of sin that we have, the weaknesses that we have, an inclination to give into sin, we need to declare this. We need to know this for ourselves that that power of sin to keep on committing that same sin or indulging in the same thing over and over again, the same sinful patterns is broken. It's rendered inoperative because of what Christ has done on the cross. He has crucified our old man. And the new man that we have is yielding not to sin, but to live a life that is holy and righteous. And so we need to declare that. We need to know it and we need to know that we have the resurrection power in us and what the resurrection power in us has, what Christ that on the cross has already accomplished and what Christ's resurrection power in us can do. So Christ's resurrection power in us helps us to gain more and more victory over sin that is remaining in our body. And we no longer have to be slaves of sin or keep on yielding to our old man. So the believer once he is born again a new creation, he no longer has the old man. He's created a new creation, a new man, that's what Paul says, new man. And the new man is born, is a born again man born from above, like John says in Jesus mentions and John writes in John chapter 3 verse 3 that we are born from above and 1 John chapter 5 verse 1. Can one of you please read that please? 1 John chapter 5 verse 1. 1 John chapter 5 verses 1, everyone who believes that Jesus is Christ is born of God and everyone who loves the Father loves the child as well. Thank you. So here we see that whoever is born again a new creation is born of God. That means we have the life of God, we have the nature of God, we have the tendency to please God and to manifest his glory. 1 John chapter 3 verse 9 says that we have the seed of God in us. Can one of you please read 1 John chapter 3 verse 9? 1 John chapter 3 verses 9. No one who is born of God will continue to sin because God's seeds remain in him. He cannot go on sinning because he has been born of God. Thank you. So those who are born again cannot keep on sinning because they are born of God, they have the seed of God. The Greek word here is perma, but it talks about in the translation it is a seed of God. That means we are like God, his children, his generation, so to say, belonging to him. We also have the nature of God in us. 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 4. Can one of you please read 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 4 please. By which we have been given, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through this you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Thank you. So here we see that we have been given the divine nature. So once we are born again, we have the nature of God that is there in our spirit. Man, it's been born again. And isn't it wonderful to know that we have the life of God, we have the nature of God, we have the seed of God and hence we can live like Jesus lived. We can do greater things than what Jesus has done. We can pursue and live a life that is holy and righteous because God has made everything available for us. He's given everything that we need for life and godliness. He has even put His nature in us but it's important for us to know and acknowledge what we have received and to appropriate that in our lives. One way Satan tries to get us from hiding the truth is for us not to know what Christ has done for us on the cross, what He has accomplished and what His resurrection power in us that is there available in us, what it can do in us, what it can empower us to do. So it's very important for us to meditate on all of these scripture verses. I hope you're taking down notes and please read them and also know for yourself so that you can walk in the newness of life that Christ has given you and you can live in a resurrected power that is in us as Paul writes in Ephesians. We also see that the resurrection power gives us the power for ministry to be able to further God's kingdom, to build God's kingdom and to do the work in God's kingdom. After His resurrection and just before His ascension, you know we already looked at this verse in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 where Jesus said, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. What I'm just doing basically now is just doing a recap or a review of what I did last Monday. So we see that Christ also promised them what the Father had promised to give them a send after Jesus goes back to the Father that there was the power of the Holy Spirit in them and the power the Holy Spirit will enable the believers to be witnesses in every place. So this new resurrected power, the intensified power is for us to proclaim the gospel, to do works of miracles, triumph over every work of the enemy and this was given to the disciples, given to us as well as a promise for us as well and was given to them after Christ was resurrected from the dead and was part of the new resurrection power that characterized the believer's life or a Christian's life. And then we also saw in the doctrinal significance of Christ's resurrection, we saw that Christ's resurrection ensures our justification and I said that there's only one passage that talks about this explicitly and where Paul connects Christ's resurrection with our justification. This is in Romans chapter 4, verse 25. We read this, can somebody still read Romans chapter 4 verse 25 please. Romans chapter 4 verse 25. Who was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification. Thank you Zilatoli. So Paul says here that Jesus was put to death for our trespasses and he was raised for our justification. So when Christ was raised from the dead, you know, it was God's declaration of approval of Christ's finished work of redemption. So by raising Christ from the dead, God the Father was in effect saying that he approved of Christ's work of suffering, of Christ dying for our sins and that work was completed. So hence there is no more penalty left for the payment for sin. There's no more the wrath of God to bear no more guilt or liability to punishment. All has been completely paid for and no guilt remains. And hence this explains how Paul can say that Christ was raised for our justification. Which means that if God raised us up with him or God raised us up in Christ, like Paul writes in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6 where he says we are raised up with him. Him here means Christ. So even as we are raised up in Christ then because you know, we are united with Christ in his death, in his resurrection, in his burial, in his resurrection, even as we are united with Christ, therefore God declares us as approved because he has already declared Christ's work as approved, as completed as finished. So God's declaration of approval of Christ is also his declaration of approval of us. Why? Because Christ has completed everything. There's no more penalty for sins that has to be paid for, no more wrath of God that needs to be paid for, no more wrath of God to bear, no more guilt. Christ has completed everything. So even as God has approved what Christ has completed on the cross and by resurrecting him back from death to life and even as we when we believe in Christ, you know, we are united with him, united with him in his death because we consider ourselves dead to sin. We've received forgiveness. You know, we identify with his his burial with his resurrection. Like I spoke about how Paul connects that with baptism. So even as we are united with Christ, you know, God also declares us or approves of us because of Christ's approval, because of what Christ has done, you know, we are also being justified. That means Christ's righteousness has been imputed upon us. That means Christ's righteousness has been put into our account and God declares or approves of us and hence we are justified. We have a righteous standing with God or with Christ. Okay, so when the Father said to Christ, all the penalty of sins has been paid and I find you not guilty but righteous in my sight. He was thereby making the declaration that would also apply to us. Once we have accepted Christ as our personal savior, we have received his salvation. So we see that in this way Christ's resurrection also gave final proof that we have earned our justification because when we accept Christ, we are united with him and hence we are also seen as approved in God's sight because of Christ's approval of what he has done on the cross. The next doctrinal significance of Christ's resurrection is that Christ's resurrection ensures that we will receive perfect resurrected bodies as well. So I mentioned that when Paul writes and calls Christ as the first fruits, it shows what our resurrected bodies would be like when God finally raises us from the dead and brings us into his presence. We see that when Christ had a body that was not subject to weakness, aging, death anymore, but it was a glorious, resurrected, a spiritual body, imperishable, incorruptible and that is a kind of bodies that we will receive as well. But having said that, we read in several passages in the Gospels when Jesus makes himself known after his resurrection, he still has the nail pin prints on his hand, on his feet, the mark of the spear on his side and he shows it to his disciples and they are able to acknowledge the fact and testify to the fact that it is the same Jesus who was resurrected. It's not his ghost but it is he himself. And so we see that Christ bore the marks of his injuries or wounds that he received on the cross but this is because he chose to do so as an eternal reminder of his sufferings and death for us. But when we are raised up in our glorious, incorruptible, imperishable bodies, spiritual bodies, we will not have any scars or marks like Jesus had but Jesus chose to have it because he wanted that to be as an eternal reminder of his suffering and his death for us. So that is where we had completed last Monday in our class where we were doing a review. The other next doctrinal significance or importance of Christ's resurrection that we receive, it has ethical significance of the resurrection. There is ethical significance of the resurrection. So we see that Paul also sees that the resurrection has application to our obedience to God in this life. So in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, when he's at length discussing about the resurrection, he concludes by encouraging his readers in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 58. So can one of you please read 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 58 please. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 58. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm, let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Thank you. So Paul is talking in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 about how we will be resurrected, our resurrected bodies, how it will be. And then after discussing at length about resurrection in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, he ends this chapter by encouraging his readers to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor in the Lord is not in vain. So what is Paul really saying here is because when Christ was raised from the dead, he's saying we too shall be raised from the dead, we too shall have the glorious spiritual bodies. But Paul is saying, you know, but continue to be steadfast in the work of the Lord. Okay. Because everything that we do, you know, the work of the Lord is basically talking or preaching or sharing about Christ, what he has done on the cross, the gospel and assuring people back from darkness into light, bringing them into the kingdom of God. He says everything that we do to bring people into the kingdom of God and build them up in God's ways has eternal significance. Okay. Because when we are raised back to life on the day when Christ returns, when we will receive our spiritual glorious bodies, we shall live with him forever. So you know, the reason why, one of the reasons, you know, for us to receive salvation is not just a privilege, but it's also a responsibility. It's a responsibility that now since we enjoy this privilege or the status of where we are, our right standing with God, that we have become friends with God, not enemies with God and all of the benefits that we enjoy as a result of what Christ has done on the cross and his resurrection power that is working in us is for us to share it with others, is for us to make it known to others so that they can also receive Christ. They can also enjoy what he has completed on the cross. And he says that this has eternal significance because when we are raised back to life and we have that spiritual bodies that he's been talking about in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 all along, he says we will live with him forever. So, you know, it's important for us to, you know, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. Yes, we are made new in our spirit man, but we are not perfectly made new. We still have our own struggles, our challenges that we face, but there will be a lot of temptations. There will be a lot of, you know, hindrances that the enemy can put in our way, but we need to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labor is not in vain because we would see each one that we have ministered to, we would see all of them, you know, being raised back to life and living with him eternally for ever. And second Paul encourages us when we think about the resurrection to focus on our future heavenly reward as our goal. He sees resurrection as a time when all our struggles of this life will be repaid. He says that because Christ has been raised and because we have been raised with him, we are to seek for a heavenly reward and set our mind on things of heaven. That's what he writes in Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 to 4. Can one of you please read that? Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 to 4. Colossians chapter 3 verse 1 to 4. Since then you have been raised with Christ. Set your hearts on things above. Where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Amen. Thank you. So here he says since you have been raised with Christ, so what do you do now since you have this new, you're born again, you have the new man in the likeness, the nature, the seed of God, you're born of God. What do you do? You need to seek the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God or set your mind on things above. Like that phrase set your mind on things above. So easy for us to set our mind on things of the earth to get entangled with the things of the earth. And that's what Paul says, don't get entangled with the things but rooming every hindrance that is there, continue to run your race with perseverance. So set your mind on things above. That means focus on building God's kingdom and spreading his gospel, getting more into the kingdom God and we know that we are living in very difficult times and we do not know when Christ is going to come back again. So the importance of or the urgency as never before to share the gospel with everyone and anyone we meet and pray that people will with know Jesus Christ as their personal savior will not die in their own sinfulness. We've had the pandemic, we know so many of them died, many of them died not knowing Christ, not receiving Christ as their personal savior, lost for all eternity and we know that it just it kind of grieves the very heart of God because it is his good pleasure and his good will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Christ Jesus. So it's an urgency of a task for us to set our minds on things above, where Christ is seated and not on things on the earth. And I like also what Paul says you know when he says continue you know in first Corinthians chapter 15 he says be steadfast, immovable, let nothing move you because Paul himself writing this you know there were so many challenges that he faced but we see he went through shipwrecks, he was beaten, he was you know beaten so badly that he was left for dead, he was deserted by his own companions, his co-workers when he was in Roman imprisonment he writes about this in 1st Second Timothy Titus, he's mentioning about how people have deserted him and left him his own co-workers how they also were hand in glove with the Roman government to see that he was imprisoned but we see that he is so steadfast and immovable in the work that there's been entrusted to him and so it is so important for us to be steadfast and immovable because there are so many times when we don't receive appreciation from people, when we don't receive recognition for the work that we are doing you know when we are you know we have not looked at as important it can all kind of very subtly come into us and you know get us to a point where we can even give up ministry okay but here we need our focus should not be on earthly rewards whether we are not being appreciated, we are we have been spoken of well, we have you know we are given places of importance or even titles in church or position or whatever it is but we need to just serve in the areas that God has called us for, we see that Jesus never looked for title for position for appreciation Jesus himself says you know you can't expect this from man because I know what is in man he never expected them to come back and return to say thank you for the healing that they have received so when we get into ministry or when we're serving God I'm not just talking about full-time ministry you know whatever capacity we are working in church you know we just do it for the eternal significance that what I am doing is going to get somebody else ushering them into God's kingdom and looking for our eternal reward to hear from the master you know well done my good and faithful servant okay you know we can do so many things to get earthly rewards to be appreciated by people but what's to use if we stand before God and he says I do not know who you are or you know we are not given the reward for what we have worked for so don't get into the whole rut of or caught up into this whole system of position, honor, you know titles, you know being appreciated for what you have done even though you've really slogged and worked hard but you know just serve sincerely, serve faithfully, persevere, continue to run your race knowing that you know you will receive your reward in heaven that is what Paul writes when you know he's in his final days in Roman imprisonment and he's in Second Timothy he says you know even though I'm going through all of this and I know that is impending on me it's looming large over me staring at me in the face so to say Paul is saying that you know I have this assurance, this great hope that what I have entrusted to him he is well able to guard that means you know the salvation you know God has guarded that for me and I'm going to receive eternal rife I'm going to receive the crown because I have finished the race and there awaits for me a crown you know so let's focus on our heavenly rewards and not our earthly rewards and the third ethical application of the resurrection is you know an obligation to stop yielding to sin in our lives and we've also I've also spoken about this in what Paul writes in Romans chapter 6 in verse 11 he says Paul says consider yourself he says consider ourselves I like to make it personal for each one of us consider ourselves you know debt to sin and alive to God in Christ so by virtue of Christ's resurrection or the resurrection of Christ and his resurrection power in us you know we need to consider ourselves debt to sin hence we stop yielding to sin and then Paul goes on immediately to say let not sin reign in your mortal bodies so when the sin not reign in our bodies is when we don't feed our sinful carnal nature but we are feeding our spirit nature and he's writing in verses 12 to 13 he says don't yield your members of of your body to sin don't yield to sin don't give into sin so the fact that we have this new resurrected power that is innate in us that is in us the nature of God that is in us the minute that we are born again is over you know gives us the dominion over sin in our lives and then hence Paul is using that as a reason to encourage us to exhort us not to sin anymore okay so that is about the doctrinal significance of resurrection which is not there in your notes but I have just given you a little more about the nature of Christ's resurrection and the doctrinal significance of resurrection okay we'll take a break now and we'll come back and then we'll answer any of your queries your questions doubts or any comments you have and then we'll look briefly at chapter 12 which is very very brief just a few paragraphs not even paragraphs just verses and then we'll end class okay we'll go for a break now thank you