Brought into the Realm of Resurrection: Christ broke through the Barrier of Death

Resurrection means that a man – our Lord Jesus – has broken through the barriers, even through death, and has overcome death to enter into resurrection; now we can live in the realm of resurrection by allowing everything that is natural to pass through death and enter into resurrection. Amen!

As believers in Christ, we want to know Christ and experience Christ, and in particular we want to experience Christ and the power of His resurrection.

This power is the greatest power that there is, for the greatest thing that overcomes man all the time is death.

Man thinks he can do this and that, and he may do either much good or much damage; however, eventually, man dies, and after that, he is forgotten and everything is gone.

Death puts an end to everything that man is and can do. However, there was a man, the God-man Jesus Christ, who lived daily under the cross, putting Himself to death and living by another life.

This One went to death willingly, and He died on the cross; however, after He died and took a tour of death and Hades, He walked out of death in resurrection, taking with Him the keys of death and Hades.

Death could not hold Him.

Christ is resurrection and the life; He is not only life but also resurrection.

Resurrection means that something went through death and came out of death successfully, for death could not overcome it.

We human beings cannot overcome death, for death is more powerful than us.

But praise the Lord, we can know Christ and the power of His resurrection, and we can experience the power of Christ’s resurrection.

When we speak of the power of His resurrection, we need to realize that this power is not like the atomic bomb or much horsepower; it is much more powerful.

No atomic bomb can bring a man back from the dead, but the power of Christ’s resurrection can.

This power is not a “Pentecostal power” that causes man to do this and that supernatural thing in God’s name; it is the power of the divine life in us.

Every believer in Christ has the divine life of God in him, and this life is the resurrection life of Christ.

The more we spend time with the Lord to enjoy Him, the more we enjoy the divine life growing and spreading in us, and the more the power of resurrection operates in us.

The earth may not shake and the mountains may not move, but as the resurrection life operates in us, we are inwardly changed and transformed until we are conformed to the image of Christ in all things.

May we know the resurrection life of Christ with its power in every kind of situation!

A Man – Jesus Christ – Broke through the Barrier of Death and entered into Resurrection. Hallelujah!

Resurrection is not something many people talk about because it is outside of the natural realm, outside of the realm that we men can do.

Resurrection means that a man has broken through the barriers, even the greatest barrier of all – death; this man is Jesus Christ (Acts 2:24; Eph. 1:19-20).

It is not difficult for God to break through death and overcome death, because He is God.

However, there is a man, Jesus Christ, who has broken through all the barriers, including death, and overcame death.

Jesus Christ was a man, a God-man; He was God who became man, God incarnated in the flesh to live a human life.

As a man, Jesus lived on earth for thirty-three and a half years, and as a man, He was crucified and put to death.

He entered into death, the ultimate barrier which no man can break; yet He broke through, He overcame death, and He entered into resurrection.

We human beings are all subject to death; whether we are the president of the greatest country or the janitor in a school, we are all subject to death, and when death comes, we succumb.

But here we have a man, the Lord Jesus, who broke through the barrier of death and entered into resurrection.

The Lord’s resurrection broke through all the barriers of the natural realm; thus, Jesus is no longer bound by anything, including space and time (John 7:6-8).

Our biggest limitations are space and time, but these two things cannot limit the resurrected Christ.

Death is the greatest limitation, but resurrection has conquered death; therefore, resurrection is the greatest power of all. Hallelujah!

We want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings so that we may be conformed to His death and express Him corporately.

Paul wanted to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.

And he experienced Christ with the power of His resurrection, for he lived in the realm of resurrection.

He allowed the death of Christ to operate in him and he lived in the realm of resurrection.

Today we can see the power of Christ’s resurrection being manifested in the saints.

Many times when we go to a memorial meeting of a brother or a sister, whether they have passed because of cancer or at an old age, we can see the resurrection life in his or her experience.

Instead of those present mourning and feeling sorry about the person who just passed, everyone is filled with gratitude and appreciation to the Lord because of their testimony while they were on earth.

Some may go through great suffering as they are approaching the end of their course on earth, but what is manifested out of them is resurrection life.

Even on their deathbed, when they are suffering immensely, they minister life to others.

Resurrection life is real (John 6:40; 1 Cor. 6:14; Rom. 6:4).

We believers in Christ are not afraid of death, for death is the ultimate barrier for man but the Lord Jesus in us is resurrection life!

Death is just a passageway; we enter into death and remain in Hades for a while, but we know that the resurrection life of Christ operates in us and will bring us through.

On earth all around us we see death, and death is the end of everything; but with Christ and with us as believers in Christ, there is resurrection.

Death is just a door for us to be ushered into another realm, the realm of incorruption.

The Lord’s resurrection broke through the barriers of time and space.

Today we are in the physical realm, limited by time and space, not being able to be in two places at once.

But when we are in resurrection, we are no longer limited by time or space.

When we are in our spirit, we meet with the saints in oneness, and in spirit, we’re one with all the saints on the earth, even with all the saints throughout space and time.

Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, we praise You for Your resurrection! Hallelujah, the man Jesus Christ has broken through all the barriers, even through the barrier of death! Praise the Lord, He has resurrected from the death and has overcome the power of death! Hallelujah, the Lord’s resurrection broke through all the barriers of the natural realm and He is no longer bound by anything, including space and time! Wow, Lord, we praise You for Your resurrection! We praise You for what You are and what You have accomplished! We testify of Your resurrection life today. We believe that You are in us as resurrection life and You are operating in us all the time. Hallelujah, death cannot hold the resurrection life! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ have Christ living in us and resurrection life operates in our being to bring us fully into resurrection!

Our Living, Speaking, and Working need to be brought into the Realm of Resurrection

Resurrection is not just an event that took place two thousand years ago.

Resurrection is not just a power that operated in Christ to raise Him from the dead.

Resurrection is not just something that operates in the saints who are about to die or are suffering, to empower them to overcome death.

Resurrection is also a realm, a realm in which we all need to live, work, speak, and have our being.

Our living, speaking, and working need to be brought into the realm of resurrection.

In our daily living, whether we are suffering or not, whether we are persecuted or not, and whether we are going through trials or not, we need to be, live, and do all things in the realm of resurrection.

Resurrection is something that comes out of death; it is something that is beyond the natural realm.

Everything that is pleasing to God is in resurrection, but everything that is in the natural realm is displeasing to Him.

Our eloquence, our speaking, our doing, and our behaviour, everything needs to pass through death and enter into the realm of resurrection.

Everything that we are, have, can do, and can speak, has to pass through death and enter into resurrection.

We have inherited from our parents the realm of ordinary living; the realm of resurrection, however, is what we receive from God.

We see this with the life and work of Moses; he was a naturally gifted, educated, and smart person, and even had a heart to deliver God’s people.

However, he had to pass through death and resurrection in order to be useful to the Lord.

After forty years of being in death, in a realm of doing nothing outwardly but being operated on by God inwardly, he was prepared to serve God and lead His people out of Egypt.

We may not be those who do a great work for God like Moses did, but the Lord wants all our speaking, our wisdom, our eloquence, and our doing to pass through death and enter into the realm of resurrection.

We may have our natural wisdom and eloquence, and we may think that we now can use these for the Lord to “glorify God.”

Much such service and declaration has been done in Christianity today.

But the Lord doesn’t need our natural eloquence, natural abilities, and natural wisdom; He needs and can use only what goes through death and into resurrection.

We need to experience going through death and resurrection with all that we are and can do so that we may be and live in the realm of resurrection.

For us to experience resurrection is to let go of everything that is natural through death, not trusting in them any longer and not glorifying ourselves in them.

Everything we have is gone and we no longer can use them or do them; after some time, which is up to the Lord, we can regain what has gone through death and entered into resurrection, but this time everything has changed.

We no longer have a natural goodness or wisdom; these are now through the cross and in resurrection.

We no longer dare to use our natural eloquence or wisdom, for they went through death and are now useful to the Lord in resurrection.

Our experience of death and resurrection is a cycle; death puts everything that we have in the natural man to death, and then some things come out in resurrection.

As we pass through the process of death, we can enter into resurrection and live in the realm of resurrection.

May we learn to live in the realm of resurrection by allowing the death of Christ to operate in us to put to death anything of the natural man so that resurrection may also operate in us.

May we not be afraid to allow our speaking, our work, and our wisdom to pass through death to be brought into the realm of resurrection.

All we need to do is remain one spirit with the Lord. We need to contact Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him as resurrection life.

He will arrange all situations, persons, matters, and things for us to go through the process of death and resurrection, death and regaining, so that we may be in the realm of resurrection to be qualified to express the power of the Holy Spirit.

May we simply remain open to Him as vessels that seek to be filled with the Lord and emptied of ourselves.

Lord Jesus, bring our living, our speaking, and our working fully into the realm of resurrection. We do not want to live, speak, or work in the natural man. We love You, Lord, and we open to You. We allow You to operate in us to put to death anything of the natural ability, wisdom, eloquence, and work. We open to Your working within us; operate in us to bring our being fully into the realm of resurrection. May we remain in the experience of death and resurrection until everything we have, are, and can do is brought into resurrection to be useful to You. Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You. Work in us and on us. We want to be qualified to express the power of the Spirit and manifest Christ in our living. May our living, speaking, working, eloquence, and everything in us and about us be brought through death into the realm of resurrection!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 42, ch. 37, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Knowing, Experiencing, and Enjoying Christ as Revealed in Philippians (2023 Memorial Day Weekend Conference), week 4, entitled, Knowing Christ and the Power of His Resurrection.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Death cannot hold the resurrection life, / The life of God eternal manifest; / ’Tis uncreated, indestructible, / ’Tis Christ Himself, unconqu’rable, expressed / Death cannot hold the resurrection life, / Though all its force against it may combine; / Death only gives it opportunity / To show the boundless pow’r of life divine. (Hymns #639 stanzas 1-2)
  – ’Tis not hard to die with Christ / When His risen life we know; / ’Tis not hard to share His suff’rings / When our hearts with joy o’erflow. / In His resurrection power / He has come to dwell in me, / And my heart is gladly going / All the way to Calvary. (Hymns #481 stanza 2)
  – Thou art all my life, Lord, / In me Thou dost live; / With Thee all God’s fulness / Thou to me dost give. / By Thy holy nature / I am sanctified, / By Thy resurrection, / Vict’ry is supplied. (Hymns #841 stanza 1)