[UntoHim]

The promise:
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. (John 14:19)

The fulfillment:
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

The way we "experience" the cross is the very same way we "experience" the resurrection - it is in and through "the life I now live", and the life I now live begins when we get out of bed in the morning. Yes, to be sure, there is a battle to be waged between the old man and the new man, between the old creation and the new creation, and between the kingdom of this world and the Kingdom of God. There is the cosmic war without, and there is a cosmic war within.

The simple fact is that our Lord Jesus has actually won the cosmic war without - he did this through his all efficacious death on the cross. But the story did not end there: "Because I live, you also will live". He experienced death - He tasted death, so that we could experience life. The life that is really life.
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