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We are able to experience the power of Christ's resurrection.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed unto his death; (Phil 3:10)

When we have been redeemed completely, spirit, soul, and body, we will be living in the fullness of the power of Christ's resurrection life. Today we are bound by the limitations of flesh and blood. When we attain to the resurrection we shall be eternally alive in Christ.

Paul was seeking to know the fullness of the power of Christ's resurrection. Paul understood, however, that the power of the resurrection comes to us only to the degree we enter into the sufferings of Christ, into the death of the cross. The cross is the ultimate weakness, for there we lose everything we have desired-and gain everything that is of true worth.

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