Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever lives and believeth in me shall never die. Believes thou this? John 11:25-26.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sit on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hiding with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4.
According to the scripture, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus from the dead was (a) for the justification of believer (delivered for our offenses, but raised for our justification. Romans 4:25) that we might escape the condemnation of the eternal vengeance of God – passed from eternal or second death unto eternal or everlasting life: (b) to receive grace and divine power for regeneration and renewing through the Holy Ghost to live and walk in the newness of life (for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Galatians 5:15): if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 1 Corinthians 15:17.
We can also concludes from our second text in the book of Colossians Chapter 3 that the resurrection of Christ from the dead (a) is the present spiritual resurrection of a believer from his state of spiritual death by which he came into the world at birth from his mother’s womb (Psalms 51:5) when he was without God in the world, being alienated from the life of God through spiritual ignorance and blindness of his mind as the result of the universal sin and generalize fall from the Garden of Eden into a new spiritual life in union or fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Son of God: Jesus says, I am the way, and the truth and the life: no man come to the Father except by me John 14:6: (b) that without this present spiritual resurrection with Christ (buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened – made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. Colossians 2:12-13) through the new birth into the kingdom of God, there is not a single chance or hope for anyone to partake in the first – better resurrection which is the resurrection of the just – blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Revelation 20:6.
In the book of revelation chapter 5, verses 1 – 14, we are given the picture of what happened in heaven before the throne of God when none was found in heaven or on earth to open the scroll which was seen on God’s hand and to read it. But Christ, being presented to us as a Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world emerge on the scene as the representative of human race (and one of the elders says unto me, weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to lose the seven seals thereof. Revelation 5:5) stand before the throne of God to receive, open, to read and to fulfill those things that are written inside the scroll by the sacrifice of his life given as a ransom to redeem all that would believe so that they should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16.
I am the resurrection and the life: whosoever believes in me, though he were died, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me shall not die. Christ is the bridge between life and death, having abolished death (spiritual and eternal death – conquered the sting and power of death and grave for believers) and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10.
This is one of the reasons we called to live for Christ that died for us and rose again (for the love of Christ constraints us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15) in the acknowledgement of understanding for the appreciation of his priceless sacrifice to bring us back to God, having begotten us back into a lively hope by his resurrection from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us (1 Peter 1:3-4): for ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Peter 2:25.
Christ love for us is beyond understanding on this side of our existence, but it suffices us acknowledging and believing in his love and to abide in it by our reverence adoration in faithful stewardship before our eternal and faithful high priest. For the Father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which hath sent him. John 5:22-23.
Just as Samuel’s mother begged and borrowed him of the Lord and vowed to lend him unto him as long as he lives, so Christ made supplication in favor of the fallen man that he might come down from heaven to earth (Hebrews 2:14) to save us as he continues doing the same on the behalf of the redeemed to make intercession for the transgressors, pleading the merits of his suffering, blood, righteousness, death and resurrection from dead as the first fruits of the dead in heaven where is now seated at the right hand of God. Isaiah 53:12. Hebrews 7:25.
When Christ who is your life shall appear…. thus, you’ll simply understand that a believer is living in a borrowed life of Christ from God whom he’s made his righteousness, wisdom, sanctification and redemption. It is written that a borrower is a servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7) by the reason of the benefits of Christ life and righteousness imputed to believer to stand just, upright and acceptable before God if he will continue to live the life in the spirit (1 Peter 4:6) as it should be (therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Romans 8:12-13), even as the truth is in Christ, that he should put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of his mind; and that he put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24: that as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity in times past; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when we were the servants of sin, we were free from righteousness. What fruit had we then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have our fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Romans 6:19-22.
Just as Samuel fulfilled the purpose of his borrowed life blamelessly before God and man, in like manner should a believer triumph by grace in Christ Jesus to keep the temple holy in perfect obedience unto God (1 Samuel 3:19): to live and serve God as obedient children, living by every word that comes out of his heavenly Father’s mouth. This is God’s expectation of a fruitful branch of a profitable borrowed life of a believer to imitate Samuel of old in submission and obedience, and not to live unto himself like the two sons of Eli which were before Samuel did live unto debauchery, covetousness, violent and greediness to fulfill the lusts of their flesh in the temple, lest he should also perish or get lost throughout all eternity in the same way that God killed Eli with his two sons on the same day, expelled and disqualified with his generations after him from the priesthood. Note: it is required of a steward to be faithful: if we hope to serve Christ hereafter, we must faithfully serve him in whatsoever present occupation we are assign by him in those things which are not ours in future expectations of those things which shall truly be ours in times to come – our true riches. Luke 16:12.
According to the scripture, Christ will be selective of his bride (for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 2 Corinthians 11:2-4) because many are called, but few who have washed their robes and make them white in the blood of the Lamb shall be chosen to go into the banquet hall with him. If we have this hope, let us purify ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, even as he is pure.
If you are born again of water and of his spirit (John 3:5), then you are living in the spirit (Galatians 5:25) which means that you are a spiritual man because Christ has given you a new spiritual life (2 Corinthians 5:17), but you should be walking daily in the spirit if you are to fulfill one of the many purposes of your new birth lest you are like them who have a form of godliness, but are denying the power thereof, while assuming that you are following Christ, but walking down to hell through the wide gate and broad way. Matthew 7:13-14.
You should walk out your salvation with fear and trembling, so that by living and walking daily in the spirit, you are increasingly sowing daily into your future immortal life with Christ: do not be deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever a man sows, the same shall he also reap. If a believer keeps sowing to the flesh – he keeps re-building the body of sin (Romans 6:6), he is at a great risk to reap corruption – eternal death and separation from God (Galatians 6:7-8) contrary to the honor and immortality which is reserved for God’s obedient children (as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 1 Peter 1:14-15) for Christ became the author of eternal salvation unto all them who obey him. Hebrews 5:9. Note: the present salvation of a believer in Christ Jesus is to escape present corruption that is in the world through lusts, so that he may also escape the reaping or harvesting of eternal corruption of the second death if he keeps walking worthy of his calling according as his divine power has given unto us all things which pertains to life and godliness though the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue. Any future hope of glorification and reign (Christ in us the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning everyman and teaching everyman that we may everyman perfect in Christ Jesus. Colossians 1:27) with Christ is depending on the present mortification of his members which are upon the earth, that as Christ as suffered in the flesh, he should likewise arm himself with same mind to be made free from sin in all holy conversation and godliness, that he may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 1 Peter 4:1-2. 2 Peter 3: 10-14.
As the result of the universal fall in the Garden, the believer was once a child of wrath, perdition, and a child of Satan and a servant of sin. But now in Christ Jesus, he is an adoptive  child of God – an heir of God, and joint heir with Christ, being a servant of righteousness and of Christ. He is presently like a house tenant living in a rented apartment which belongs to another – the habitation through the spirit. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
There are certain terms of rental conditions to respect lest he should found troubles with the owner like Christ spewing him out, or he get destroys altogether by God as a branch in the vine without fruit. The house must be cleansed and kept holy because Christ lives through believer’s life because of latter crucifixion with him (Galatians 2:20), and there’s no way a believer can ever fully requite God for what he has done for him through Christ Jesus than to apply the knowledge of the scriptures to live daily in the consciousness of his new life by diligent bearing and demonstration of the fruit of the spirit – love, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperance, self-control and faith. This is the present bearing of Christ image in the believer’s life: this act is to be buried with Christ in the likeness of his death (they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Galatians 5:24) that he may also be like him in the likeness of his resurrection when the Lord shall descend from heaven to change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby God is able to subdue all things unto himself. Romans 6:5. Philippians 3:17-21.
I am the resurrection and the life: this declaration of Christ as his personal identity to Martha at Bethany to reveal Christ mission, operation and purpose on earth and beyond in a believer’s life of the continuation of his relationship with his Lord and service before him after his earthly tabernacle shall be dissolved when he will receive a building from God, house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:3-5.
I am the resurrection and the life: this signifies the very or immediate presence of Christ in the life of a believer, an ambassador of Christ, called and chosen to reproduce the resurrected Christ in his daily life and walk in the world. If Christ is his life, he should be Christ like. For as the Father raised up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens – gives life to whom he will. John 5:21.
Christ is the veritable life, the true life to live. If a believer’s life is from Christ or his life is found in Christ (when Christ who is your life shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory), it must be in total conformity, not to the world or any other thing, but as it become the gospel of Christ (Philippians 1:27), doing all things in word or deed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God for all things by him. Colossians 3:17.
I am the resurrection and the life: this speaks of God’s value, worth and the exalted state of a believer in Christ Jesus, that as his Lord birth and life was for the falling and rising of many in Israel (Luke 2:34), so his servants’ life is for the falling and rising of many in the world as a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one he is the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. 2 Corinthians 2:15-16.
I am the resurrection and the life… this is very implicating for false professors of religion of faith in Christ Jesus because of the standard of life set by God; the expectations of the visible and increasing proven fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, lest he should become as one that is blind, and cannot to see afar off, (gaze through eternity) having forgotten that he has once been purged from his old sins, lest he fail to make his calling and election sure in his preparation for his future life with Christ. 2 Peter 1:3-9.
I am the resurrection and the life….to the young disciple who was strongly – emotionally attached to his earthly father and found himself in a spiritual crisis of affection warfare between Christ and his unsaved father, Christ response was that none can live by himself, for we all live unto him, even Christ: and none can die except from him in whom are the issues of death, even God. Christ response to let the dead bury their dead to go and preach the gospel shows that the spiritually living (believer) and the spiritually dead (unsaved relatives or parents) have nothing in common: the Lord has come to set a man at variance against his neighbor – father against his son, and mother against her daughter. Genuine and mature believer cannot give room to sentiment feelings, desire, request or suggestion to hinder or stop him from going about the Lord’s business to rescue the perishing by taking the gospel of life to the dying world – souls.
Believer’s present life in Christ is a life of sacrifice and separation from the world unto Christ, not to be conformed in any way to the fashion, mentality, customs and other ungodly and unholy associations with the world or the people in it. Because Christ is not of the world, his servant should also come out of the camp to meet his Lord outside the gate, bearing his reproach: for here he has no continuing city, but he seeks one to come. Hebrews 13:14. Note: unless a believer separate himself from the present evil world without equally yoked with unbelievers or spotted with the world in consecration unto Christ to live as  stranger and pilgrim, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:15-17) which constantly wages deadly war against his soul (1 Peter 2:11) there shall be no entrance made ready unto him into the new heavenly and eternal city than for him to expect to be punished and condemned for his part in the iniquities of Babylon before the Lord – come out from among them and be ye be separate, says the Lord. Should the Lord spare any believer in judgment for the same iniquity the unbeliever shall be judged and condemned hereafter? Certainly, God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses. Psalms 68:21.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1): to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; but glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good; to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God. Romans 2:7-11.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: whosoever lives and believeth in me shall never die. This could be divided into two parts, namely, that as Enoch and Elijah was taken alive to heaven without seeing death, some of us in Christ Jesus, as the scripture says, shall not sleep (die), but we shall all be changed. The rapture of the living saints may not take place in our time just as the birth of Christ which was prophesied by many prophets many years before his birth was not fulfilled in our days: even so shall the Lord make good of his past, present and future promises in his time when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise up from their grave, and we that are alive and remain shall be changed to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so shall we ever be with him. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: whosoever lives and believeth in me shall never die. Thus, Martha found comfort and consolation in the word of Christ by her response that she knows that her brother shall arise up again in the resurrection day. John 11:24. Christ word is our confidence (therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him 2 Corinthians 5:6-9) that we shall hear his voice from the grave in the future resurrection of the saints, though worms destroy the physical body at death, yet in our spiritual body shall we see him (Job 19:26): for we shall be like him and we shall see him as he is. And so, it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is. But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.