He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. Colossians 1:18
Raised from the dead.
What is more amazing?
Dead. Then alive.
Jesus died and rose again.
Because He lives we too can live.
If we die, we are raised again in Him.
His resurrection marked the beginning of a new thing.
There has never been a group, a family, a body
All joined together because they have been raised from the dead.
We think of firstborn literally.
The eldest.
Paul means more.
Paul means the preeminent.
The highest ranking.
The most glorious.
He raised Himself.
Eternally. Incorruptible.
Destroying the power of death.
Because He was the first
The firstborn from the dead,
We can be raised.