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  (THE SELF LIFE AND THE CHRIST LIFE) 2. RESURRECTED NOT RAISE
  by A.B. Simpson
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THERE is a great difference between risen and resurrected. One may rise
from one level to another; but when one is resurrected he is brought
from nothing into existence, from death to life, and the transition is
simply infinite. A true Christian is not raised, but resurrected. The
great objection to all the teachings of mere natural religion and human
ethics is that we are taught to rise to higher planes. The glory of the
Gospel is that it does not teach us to rise, but shows our inability to
do anything good of ourselves, and lays us at once in the grave in utter
helplessness and nothingness, and then raises us up into new life, born
entirely from above and sustained alone from heavenly sources.

The Christian life is not self-improving, but it is wholly supernatural
and Divine. Now, the resurrection cannot come until there has been the
death. This is presupposed, and just as real as the death has been, will
be the measure of the resurrection life and power. Let us not fear,
therefore, to die and to die to all that we would leave behind us and
detach ourselves from, nay, to die to ourselves and really cease to be.
We lose nothing by letting go and we cannot enter in \

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