Christ’s Resurrection should be the Focus of our Testimony as we Propagate Christ

The Christ revealed in the book of Acts is in resurrection, for through death He entered into the realm of resurrection; Christ’s resurrection was the focus of the apostles’ testimony, and the resurrection of Christ should also be the focus of our testimony today. Amen!

This week, we come to a new topic, The Resurrected, Ascended, and All-inclusive Christ.

When we speak of propagating Christ or preaching the gospel so that the kingdom of God may spread and increase on the earth, what are we propagating?

We are not propagating a movement or just some kind of religious cause. We are propagating a resurrected Christ.

The book of Acts shows us that the disciples of Christ, His followers who were regenerated by Him through His breathing into them and were clothed by Him as the Holy Spirit, did a work of propagating Christ. They propagated the resurrected Christ in His ascension by the Spirit.

Today, many Christians do many works for God, and they seem to be distracted by all the activities; many times, they propagate or preach a way, a movement, or a doctrine instead of propagating the resurrected Christ. Christ today needs to be propagated, for He is in His resurrection.

The propagation of the resurrected Christ is still continuing, for He is still going forth!

The apostles and the early disciples did their duty and accomplished what the Lord had measured to them.

Now here we are, as the continuation of the book of Acts; we are not continuing some kind of movement or religious group, but we are continuing the propagation of Christ.

We are propagating the Christ who has gone forth from eternity and is still going forth until we reach the New Jerusalem. In the four Gospels, Christ came as God incarnate, lived a lowly life, and expressed God on earth.

At the end of His journey on the earth, He went to the cross to be crucified and accomplish a marvellous redemption.

Praise the Lord for this. But the story did not end here; three days after His crucifixion and death, He rose from the dead. He was resurrected.

Christ is alive and living forever! Hallelujah, our Christ is a living Christ and we serve a living Saviour! We do not only have a crucified Christ but even more, a resurrected Christ!

He is now even ascended to the heavens, carrying out His heavenly ministry, being much more involved and much more extensive than when He was on the earth.

May we be enlightened by the Lord to see and enter into an appreciation of Christ as the resurrected, ascended, and enthroned One so that we may propagate Him!

The Christ Revealed in Acts is in Resurrection: He Entered the Realm of Resurrection after His Death

The Christ we see in the book of Acts is in resurrection (see Acts 1:3; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33). Jesus is not dead; He is not still hanging there on the cross, but rather, He is alive! He is living today!

The Saviour we serve today is not a dead Saviour who preached a dead gospel of some kind of history that happened two thousand years ago.

We serve a living Saviour who presented Himself alive after His sufferings by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to certain people for a period of forty days and speaking to them concerning the kingdom of God.

This One who is now alive is no longer only in the physical state; He is now in another state. Through His resurrection, He has been transferred into the state of being the Spirit.

On the evening of the day of His resurrection, He came back to the disciples who were in a closed room, and He breathed into them, saying, Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:22).

The Holy Spirit is Christ in another form – the pneumatic Christ. He promised His disciples that He is going but He will come back, and His coming back will be in another form, as the Spirit. He came to breathe Himself as the holy breath.

Now the One who was once walking among them, in their midst, for three and a half years, this One was in them; He entered into them as the Spirit, and He could never leave them.

Wherever they went, He went with them. At the beginning of the book of Acts, the Lord Jesus appeared to these disciples for forty days. Because He became the Spirit, He is invisible; yet He still appeared to them in a visible form.

He used these forty days before His ascension to train His disciples to live not by His visible presence, His physical presence, but by His invisible presence, by Him being the Spirit.

What we have today is not the physical presence of Jesus but His invisible presence as the Spirit. Today Christ is in resurrection to be the life-giving Spirit.

As the Spirit, He is much more precious, intimate, and closer to us than when He was with the disciples physically in His ministry on the earth.

Many Christians, ourselves included, might have wished we were born at the time of the Lord Jesus to walk with Him, eat the bread and the fish, and participate in the miracles; we think this is the best thing.

But we need to realise that today we have something better; we no longer have Christ among us in the flesh but Christ as the life-giving Spirit within us, and we can enjoy His invisible presence.

On the one hand, we can’t see Him; on the other hand, we know He’s here with us. This is the resurrected Christ. Through death, Christ entered into another realm, the realm of resurrection.

Resurrection is not just an event or a fact but a person; Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life (John 11:25). Through His death, Christ was ushered into resurrection, and now He is in the realm of resurrection.

Because Christ is the living One with an indestructible life, death is not able to hold Him (Heb. 7:16; Acts 2:24). God loosed the pangs of death, for it was not possible for Christ to be held by it.

When He was in the flesh, He was restricted by time and space. But now He has been transferred into the realm of resurrection, for He has an indestructible life, and death cannot hold Him! Praise the Lord!

Christ delivered Himself to death, but death had no way to retain Him; rather, death was defeated by Him, and He rose up from it. All we can say is Hallelujah!

Death defeats every human being; eventually, death will defeat all powerful people. But Christ defeated death and subdued it. We need to ask the Lord to open our eyes for us to see the resurrected Christ.

We need to see Christ in the realm of resurrection and enjoy Him as such a One, even propagate the resurrected Christ!

Lord Jesus, thank You for delivering Yourself to death and overcoming death! Hallelujah, death had no way to retain Christ, for He is resurrection and life! Praise the Lord, through death, Christ entered into another realm, the realm of resurrection! Amen, Lord, may we see the resurrected Christ today. May we have a clear vision of the resurrection of Christ so that we may be able to witness this and be those who propagate the resurrected Christ on earth today! Hallelujah, because Christ is the living One with an indestructible life, death is not able to hold Him! Praise the Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ went through death and walked out of death, entering into the realm of resurrection! Amen, Lord, may we have a fresh appreciation of the resurrected Christ so that we may enjoy this One, be filled with this One, and propagate this One! Hallelujah, death cannot hold the resurrection life! The resurrected Christ is in us, and we can enjoy Him and propagate Him! Praise the Lord!

Christ’s Resurrection should be the Focus of our Testimony as we Propagate Christ

We need to know Christ in the power, sphere, and element of His resurrection (Phil. 3:10-11).

Paul realised that the resurrection of Christ was not just an event that took place many years ago but that we need and should experience Christ’s resurrection today.

God wants us to know Christ, enjoy Christ, experience Christ, and express Christ.

We are now in the process of serving the Lord, and we may encounter many difficulties; in all things, we can experience Christ’s resurrection and remain in the realm of resurrection.

The One who is in us is the resurrected Christ, and death cannot hold this One.

No matter how difficult our environment can be, we can experience the resurrected Christ and break through. In Acts, we see that Christ’s resurrection was the focus of the apostles’ testimony (see Acts 1:22; 2:32; 3:13, 15, 26; 4:33; 10:39-40; 13:33; 17:3, 18).

What is our focus today? What is the focus of our testimony? Is it just the service in the church and the good coordination among the saints, or is it the resurrected Christ?

Our testimony should not be about our success, how many people we have gained, or what good arrangement we have in the church life. Our testimony should be the resurrected Christ.

We need to testify of Christ’s resurrection, for God raised Him up and we are His witnesses. God glorified His Servant Jesus through His resurrection and in His ascension (Luke 24:26, 46; Acts 3:13, 15, 26; 4:10, 33; 5:30-31).

To God, Christ’s resurrection was considered to be His glorification.

Christ prayed to the Father in John 17 to glorify Him so that the Son may glorify the Father; this was His final prayer before He departed from the earth.

That glorification referred to His imminent death and especially His resurrection, for as Rom. 1:3-4 tells us, Christ was designated the Son of God in power in His resurrection.

He was like a seed that fell to the earth to die, and in His resurrection, He was glorified, just as the seed is glorified by bringing forth fruit or a flower.

Through His death and resurrection, the Father was glorified in the Son’s being glorified in His resurrection. Hallelujah!

This One is now in us today, and He is glorifying us so that the Father may be glorified! For eternity, this will be fulfilled in the New Jerusalem!

The resurrection of the Lord Jesus points back to His incarnation, humanity, human living, and God-ordained death and points forward to His ascension, ministry and administration in heaven, and coming back (Acts 2:23; 1:9-11).

In other words, without His resurrection, His incarnation, human living, and crucifixion would be empty and amount to nothing!

What’s the point of someone dying for us if he was not resurrected? But Christ did resurrect, and God accepted His incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, and resurrected. God has approved all that this One has done.

His incarnation and His dying on the cross have been conformed and accepted by God through His resurrection. Hallelujah for Christ’s resurrection!

And His resurrection points forward to His ascension. His ascension was not just His going back to the Father, where He came from, in front of His disciples.

Rather, His resurrection refers to a resurrected God-man who ascended as a God-man after passing through incarnation, human living, death, and resurrection!

Now there is a God-man sitting at the right hand of God, for He is in ascension to be enthroned, to be made Lord and Christ!

Without resurrection, even ascension would not be that meaningful! Christ’s resurrection is a great matter. Christ’s resurrection is pivotal in the processes Christ passed through.

In His resurrection, Christ brought humanity into divinity, He was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God, and we were regenerated to be the many brothers of Christ. Hallelujah!

Through incarnation, He put on the human nature, and through death and resurrection, He brought His human nature into the divine nature to make it the Son of God! Wow!

Furthermore, in His resurrection we all were regenerated to be the children of God and members of Christ! Christ dispensed His resurrection life into us, the believers in Christ, to make us God’s children.

Now, we as the continuation of the book of Acts are propagating the resurrected Christ. We are serving a resurrected Christ.

He did not only die for us to shed His blood for our redemption; even more, He resurrected and is now enthroned in the heavens.

We are enjoying His invisible presence, we live in His presence, we are one with Him, and He lives in us.

We are now propagating the resurrected Christ and we are witnessing Christ’s resurrection to those around us! Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, we want to know You in the power, sphere, and element of Your resurrection! Amen, Lord, we praise You for not only being raised from the dead but even more, being resurrection and life! We come to You to enjoy You and experience You as resurrection and life. May we know, enjoy, and experience Christ’s resurrection, and may we be those who testify the resurrection of Christ! Hallelujah, God glorified His Servant Jesus through His resurrection and in His ascension! Praise the Lord for the resurrection of Christ. Amen, Lord, may we see the importance and preciousness of the resurrection of Christ and may this be the focus of our testimony today. Save us from focusing on anything else apart from Christ. May we be those who propagate the resurrected Christ today by testifying of His resurrection and living by His resurrection life! Praise the Lord, our Saviour is alive in resurrection, and He is in us as the life-giving Spirit to make us children of God and members of the Body of Christ for His glorious corporate expression!

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 the brothers, and portions from, Life-study of Acts, messages 3 and 37, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, One Accord and Crucial Aspects of the Book of Acts (2025 April ITERO), week 4, The Resurrected, Ascended, and All-inclusive Christ – day 1.
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