Unity of LO Lesson
The Prospering Power of Love
By Catherine Ponder
The Resurrecting Power of Love
The word resurrect means "to bring to view again..... to restore to life." The resurrection of Jesus Christ was for the purpose of bringing to view again the divine nature of all mankind.
Man was created with a divine nature, in the image of God. But man misused his divine nature by turning his attention to a belief in evil, and so man forgot about his divinity or how to use it.
Some of the great characters of the Old Testament tried to bring back to notice, to use, the divine nature of man. David sang of man's divinity:
"Yet thou has made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor." "You are gods, Sons of the Most High, all of you."
Job realized, "It is the spirit in a man."
Spiritual man has always been crowned with glory and honor, though mankind lost sight of its glorious divinity for many centuries. In order to bring to view again to restore to life, man's divinity, a loving Father sent a Savior, a Redeemer--One who would resurrect the divinity of all mankind.
The raising up of the Christ nature in the man Jesus symbolizes the resurrection of the Christ nature in all mankind. Jesus described man's divinity when He said, "The kingdom of God is in the midst of you." What theology calls a "lost soul" is merely a soul that has lost sight of its divinity. When our divine nature is brought back into view, into use, it can lift us out of all kinds of limitation.
A statement I have used many times over the years, one that has helped lift me out of limitation, is this: "Christ in me now frees me from all limitation. I am the resurrection and the life."
Paul said that this resurrected Christ nature in man is the mystery that has been hid for generations, and he described it as man's hope of glory. He reminded the early Christians of their divinity: "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?.... So glorify God in your body."
Charles Fillmore described resurrection as the "raising up of the whole man---spirit, soul, and body---into the Christ consciousness of life and wholeness." He wrote in Keep a True Lent:
"The time is ripe for the advent of a new race, the advent of the spiritualized man. This will be brought about not by a miracle or the fiat of God, but by the gradual refinement of the man of the flesh into the man of Spirit. The true overcomer is qualifying himself to become a member of the new spiritualized race."
Just as Jesus, through His resurrection of His spiritual nature, brought back into notice this spiritualized man, so we can bring alive the divinity within us, and in other people. As we do, we become a part of the spiritualized race which overcomes or "comes up over" the negative experiences of life.
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