Resurrection

The message on May 4, 2025 was on “Resurrection” and specifically the “out-resurrection” associated with the calling of “The Mystery”. We opened up by looking at the eternal purpose from Ephesians 3:8-11 KJV. Wayne explained the balance from the six books of Ephesians. Chapters 1-3 are filled with dispensational truths that disclose new doctrine reveled for the first time because it was hidden in God, then chapters 4-6 being practical explaining how we should walk. We looked at Matthew 12:39-40 KJV, where Jesus gave a sign to Israel of the resurrection using the prophet Jonas. He then explains it in John 2:19-21 KJV where He says the Temple, which is His body shall be raised in three days. We looked at Mark 9:9-10 KJV where they were questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean? Wayne explained how the resurrection of Jesus was an “out-resurrection” in that the was raised before the first-fruits. Paul then writes about attaining to it in Philippians 3:11 KJV “If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead”. In the Greek, it says out from among the dead ones. In our calling of the mystery, we are instructing the principalities and powers, the manifold wisdom of God. It is pretty amazing that the church, which is His body, have been called to testify and will do so through this out-resurrection when we are raised first according to his purpose.

The scripture reading was from 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 KJV “20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”