Romans 8:11

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

a. Dr. Terry Wise: (The Evangelist) How sure are we that we will receive a glorified body and be resurrected to a new life in Christ? In Romans 8:11, we find the contractual agreement given us by God that we will be a part of the rapture of the Church.

1). raised up [1453 * egeiro] [Dr. Terry Wise: “is a verb pointing to a particular time in the past when this action took place and was completed. Notice, it was the Spirit that provided the action of raising Jesus from the dead.”][Thayer: to arouse, cause to rise,

to arouse from sleep, to awake, to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life.]

2). dwell [3611 * oikeo][Dr. Terry Wise: “is a present tense verb which means continuous action. In other words, the Spirit must dwell in us continuous in order for the total contract of the resurrection to be valid in our lives. “Dwells” is a word which means to live with or be one’s habitation.”] [Thayer: to dwell in.]

3). shall quicken [2227 * zoopoieo] [Dr. Terry Wise: “is a verb in the future tense with continuous effects. By virtue that the Spirit is already dwelling in us as Christians, this quickening cannot refer only to a spiritual quickening now, but also is referring to the quickening which we, as His Church, will receive at His rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18).”][Thayer: to produce alive, begat or bear living young, to cause to live, make alive, give life, by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate, to restore to life, of the spirit, quickening as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life]