The Resurrection of Christ

 The following is from Arthur T. Pierson's excellent book Shall We Continue in Sin:

". . . Resurrection was to Christ deliverance from all further liability or possibility of death; death hath no more dominion over Him. And this constitutes our Risen Saviour the first begotten from the dead, and the first fruits of them that slept.

"There had been other revivals, resuscitations or restorations of the dead, but never a resurrection proper till He rose; for all others, such as Jairus's daughter, the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus, rose to die again--but Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more.

"We ought to get hold of this great thought, for the thought itself is a deliverance, that by faith united to Christ, I now partake in the power and privilege of His resurrection. The spirit of Holiness who raised Him from the dead, henceforth to be free of all dominion of death, dwells in and works in me as a believer, and assures to me deliverance from the power of the sin that works death and is death."