Resurrection
The power of resurrection is in Jesus Christ. He received this power from His Father. Jesus rose from the dead and appeared unto many. Likewise, because of His resurrection, all will be resurrected; thus, death and the grave shall have no victory. Death is swollowed up in Christ. “For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:20-21).
Resurrection is when a person’s spirit is reunited with his/her physical body, never to be separated again. The righteous, Celestial spirits, will come forth in the morning of the First Resurrection and will inherit eternal life, exaltation, in the highest heaven of the celestial world. This is where one experiences “a state of never-ending happiness” (Mosiah 2:41). Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). He was resurrected to give us life, even life after death.
Following Jesus’ resurrection, He appeared to His apostles and others in the Upper Room. They thought He was a spirit, but He assured them that He wasn’t just a spirit. In Luke 24:36-39 we learn:
“36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Thus we see that Christ had a resurrected body of flesh and bones, and we likewise will have a body of flesh and bones when we are resurrected. Because of Christ’s resurrection, all will be resurrected, a precious gift from God.
