It's like he was saying, "OK, I'm done...time to get up"
Of course, it was much more than that. He was done -- with the dying. Now came the living; but not like before. Before, to be with him you had to follow him, or find him, over the hill in Bethany or across the lake, or in the morning off by himself praying. If you couldn't find him or catch up with him, you couldn't be with him.
But now, the living was to no longer be in his own body. It was to be in (gulp) ours -- wherever we were. Christ in you, the hope of glory. I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. United with him in everything that has just happened: his death, his burial, and now, his resurrected life, that we too may live a new life. His life flowing thru you just like a tree's life energy flows thru a branch producing fruit.
He can't do that if he's dead.
"Calvary is the secret of it all. It is what the Lord Jesus Christ did there that counts, and what He did becomes a growing force in the life of the believer when it is seen, and rested in by faith. This is the starting point from which all godly living must take rise.
We shall never know the fact of the Lord Jesus' victory in our lives until we are prepared to count upon His work on the cross as the source of our personal freedom from the dominion of sin and the old man within. There is no liberty for us that was not first His. The beginning of spiritual growth is faith in that fact." -- Hungry Heart #9–11
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